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
Screening for Adult ADHD in Ontario: A Cross-sectional Study Examining Sex Differences, Mental Health Correlates and Substance Use, Deanne Daigle
Nrf2 Activation by Dimercaptopropanol Attenuates Mutant Huntingtin Toxicity, Kyle M. Dailey
A Critical Historical Analysis of the Public Performance Right, Louis J. D'Alton
Novel Control and Harmonics Impact of PV Solar Farms, Byomakesh Das
Cultural Connectedness as Personal Wellness in First Nations Youth, Ben Davis
Moral Revision in Latin Ethnography: A Reassessment of Tacitus’ Germania and Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum, Joseph D. Davis
A Taste for Distinction: Food Representations in Popular Canadian Magazines, Rory A. Davis
Statin Transport by Hepatic Organic Anion-Transporting Polypeptides (OATPs), Marianne K. DeGorter
Numerical Modelling of Transport in Complex Porous Media: Metal Foams to the Human Lung, Christopher T. DeGroot
Development of an Approach for Assessing the Combined Posture and Vibration Risks for Forklift Driving Tasks, Giselle P. Delgado
Upheaval Buckling of Offshore Pipelines in Homogeneous and Layered Soils, Porang Deljoui
Bacterial Cellulose Templates for Nano-Hydroxyapatite Fibre Synthesis, Jordan A. DeMello
Past Tents: Temporal Themes and Patterns of Provincial Archaeological Governance in British Columbia and Ontario, Joshua Dent
Applications of Rapid Cardiac Micro-CT, Sarah A. Detombe
Synthesis of Self-Immolative Monomers and Their Applications in Polymeric Materials, Matthew A. DeWit
Postzygotic isolation in Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana, Christopher T. D. Dickman
All Prejudices are not Created Equal: Different Responses to Subtle versus Blatant Expressions of Prejudice, Karen R. Dickson
Coherent Scatter Computed Tomography for Core Composition Analysis of Intact Kidney Stones - Prospective Clinical Study, Cristian Dihel
Outside Influences: Great War Experiences along the Canada-U.S. Border, Brandon R. Dimmel
Sexual Reward and Depression, Andrea R. Di Sebastiano
"Proving Yourself" in the Canadian Medical Profession: Gender and the Experiences of Foreign-trained Doctors in Medical Practices, Vanessa Noelle Dolishny
The Wounded Bricoleur: Adversity, Artifice and the Becoming of Street-Involved Youth in London, Ontario, Canada, Mark S. Dolson
Burying Dystopia: the Cases of Venedikt Erofeev, Kurt Vonnegut, and Victor Pelevin, Natalya Domina
High-Pressure Study of Molecular Solids and 1D Nanostructures by Vibrational Spectroscopy and Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, Zhaohui Dong