Welcome to the School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' Electronic Theses & Dissertation site. These pages are dedicated to help you find all the information you might require in order to format and successfully submit your graduate thesis for examination and publication electronically.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are prepared as text-based PDF files. ETDs can contain non-text elements such as sound, video, and hypertext links. ETDs are available through Scholarship@Western, Western's digital library repository, and also released to the world-wide web with priority in many search engines, enabling scholars worldwide to locate, search, and download the University of Western Ontario's ETDs.
The most significant benefit is the dramatic increase (50-250%) in citation impact that results from electronic publishing. This leads to increased rewards from universities, in the form of promotion and increased salary, and from granting agencies.
Other benefits include:
- publicity for research - authors of electronic theses become more widely known and their reputations are enhanced
- easy worldwide access to your theses for colleagues and collaborators
- easy worldwide access to theses for job and grant applications
- a raised profile for research institutions
- reduced costs at the point of graduation since there is no need to have multiple copies printed.
For an overview of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation process at The University of Western Ontario, please refer to any area from our site dedicated to supporting ETD at Western:
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Engineering nanocomposites for antimicrobial application, Binyu Yu
In Situ High-Pressure Studies of Ammonia Borane Derivatives by Vibrational Spectroscopy, Zhihao Yu
Credibility theory for phase-type distributions, Yanyan Zang
Modelling Credit Value Adjustment Using Defaultable Options Approach, Sidita Zhabjaku
Marital Strategies and Elder Care Arrangements Among Single Men in Rural China, Kun Zhang
Investigations of the Crystallization Processes of Molecular Sieves, Lu Zhang
Metabolism and transcriptional responses to asparagine in Arabidopsis thaliana, Qianyi Zhang
Methods for Fabricating Printed Electronics with High Conductivity and High Resolution, Tengyuan Zhang
The Development of A New Dry Powder Inhaler, Xi Zhang
Semantics-based Automated Quality Assessment of Depression Treatment Web Documents, Yanjun Zhang
Computation Sequences for Series and Polynomials, Yiming Zhang
In situ High-Pressure Studies of Energetic Materials by Vibrational Spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, Liang Zhou
Examining population genetic structure of the pitcher plant mosquito (Wyeomyia smithii) across multiple spatial scales using AFLP markers, Kristina M. Zilic
Gene Repression and Cell Cycle Regulation by PU.1 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Rachel GH Ziliotto
Improving the Geotagging Accuracy of Street-level Images, Mehrnaz Zouqi
Detection, Receivers, and Performance of CPFSK and CPCK, Mohammed Zourob
Calibration of Fatigue Design Wind Pressure for Sign, Luminaire, and Traffic Signal Support, Guigui Zu
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
An Insightful Study of the Oppression Remedy under South African and Canadian Corporate Law, Natasha A. Abbey
Performance of Hollow Bar Micropiles Under Axial and Lateral Loads in Cohesive Soils, Ahmed Yehia Abd El-aziz
Controlled Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Methane Decomposition and Their Application as Heterogeneous Partial Oxidation Catalyst, Inusa Abdullahi
Toward a Dialogical Hermeneutic of a Hindu-Christian: A Socio-scientific Study of Nepali Immigrants in Toronto, Surya Prasad Acharya
Estimating Subsurface Anisotropy: Combining Waveform Tomography and Simulated Annealing, Michael Victor Afanasiev
Automatic Assessment of Cardiac Left Ventricular Function Via Magnetic Resonance Images, Mariam Afshin