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 2012
Involvement of Interleukin-33/ST2 in Myocardial Dysfunction in Murine Model of Sepsis, Yoonmi Choe
A Study for Detection of Drift in Sensor Measurements, Sungwhan Cho
Solar and Visible Light Driven Photocatalysis for Sacrificial Hydrogen Generation and Water Detoxification with Chemically Modified Ti02, Pankaj Chowdhury
Design of a Hand-held Seed Injection Device for Lung Brachytherapy, Paul M. Christiaans
Characterization of SLP-2 function in T lymphocytes, Darah Christie
Changes in the Mitochondrial Phosphoproteome during Mammalian Hibernation, Dillon J. Chung
Experimental and computational analysis of the structure and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins, Elio Anthony Cino
Loudness Perception and Speech Intensity Control in Parkinson's Disease, Jenna Paula Clark
Attracting and Retaining the Highly Skilled in Medium-sized City-regions of Ontario, Kyle Clemens
Does Empirical Moral Psychology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Theories About the Nature of Moral Judgment as Moral Propositions, Patrick Clipsham
The Role of Nodal in the Regulation of Bi-Potential Trophoblast Progenitor Cells, Alia Cloutier-Bosworth
Ion homeostasis and variation in low temperature performance in the fall and spring field crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), Litza E. Coello Alvarado
Syntheses, Hydrogen Bonding, and Metal Coordination Studies of New Ferrocene Peptide Conjugates, Craig D. Colquhoun
Telomere length dynamics in aging mice, Paul J. Comartin
Canada's Marihuana Medical Access Regulations: Up In Smoke, Carolynn Conron
Effects of Chemical and Mechanical Weathering Processes on the Degradation of Plastic Debris on Marine Beaches, David A. Cooper
Calcium Phosphate-Based Resorbable Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration, Daniel O. Costa
The Role of ALDHhiCD44+ Cells in Breast Cancer Metastasis and Therapy Resistance, Alysha K. Croker
Religious Rebels: The Religious Views and Motivations of Confederate Generals, Robert H. Croskery
The Development of Organometallic OBOC Peptide Libraries for use in Molecular Imaging, Dana R. Cruickshank
Production of Bio-coal and Activated Carbon from Biomass, Diana C. Cruz
Fast Absolute Quantification of In Vivo Water and Fat Content with Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Yifan Cui
Composing the Cities of Flow: Unitary Urbanism and the Ontology of Water Infrastructure, Angus R. Currie
KISS1R Induces Human Mammary Epithelial Cell Invasiveness and Promotes Breast Cancer Cell Migration and Invasion via IQGAP1, Donna Cvetkovic
Plasticity in Photosynthetic Performance and Energy Utilization Efficiency in Triticum aestivum L., Secale cereale L. and Brassica napus L. in Response to Low Temperature and Hig CO2, Keshav Prasad Dahal