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
Self-Presentation and Social Physique Anxiety in Injury Rehabilitation Settings, Molly Driediger
Investigating Binding Partners of the Neuronal Adaptor Protein ShcC Involved in Learning and Memory, Kayla RM Driver
The Development of a Decision Aid for Patients with Ulcerative Colitis Deciding Between Ileostomy or Ileal Anal-Pouch Reconstruction, Luc A. Dubois
The Transformation of Conjugal Partnerships: Union Transitions and Trajectories in Canada, Ching Jiangqin Du
The Role of MicroRNAs in Cyclooxygenase-2 Mediated Breast Cancer Progression, Leanna R. Dunn
Seeing Again: Revision in the Grade Three Classroom, Jacqueline S. Ehrhardt
'Horae' in Roman Funerary Inscriptions, Simeon D. Ehrlich
Development of a Compact Piezoworm Actuator For Mr Guided Medical Procedures, Khaled El Bannan
Numerical investigation of highly curved turbulent flows in centrifugal compressors and in a simplified geometry, Kevin J. Elliott
Monotonic and Cyclic Behaviour of Steel Fibre-Reinforced and FRP-Steel Fibre-Reinforced Helical Pulldown Micropiles, Mahmoud Meckkey M. El Sharnouby
Identity Formation and Acculturation: The Case of Karen Refugees in London, Ontario, Secil Erdogan
Colonization of Zea mays by the nitrogen fixing bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, Nikita Eskin
Modulation of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Intracellular Trafficking and Signal Transduction, Jessica L. Esseltine
Real-time Prostate Motion Tracking For Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy, Mehdi Esteghamatian
Toward a Functional Characterization of Cognitive Control Networks, Frederick Ezekiel
Synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles and copper-polymer nanocomposites for plasmonic photovoltaic applications, Sabastine Chukwuemeka Ezugwu
The History Classroom as Site for Imagining the Nation: An Investigation of U.S. and Canadian Teachers' Pedagogical Practices, Lisa Y. Faden
Phase Field Crystal Approach to the Solidification of Ferromagnetic Materials, Niloufar Faghihi
Studies in shallow and thin-film flows, MD Mahmuder R. Faisal
Nano TiO2/Graphene Composites for Photovoltaic and Photocatalytic Materials, Nasrin Farhangi
Developing Novel Methods to characterize Liquid Dispersion in a Fluidized bed, Masoumeh Farkhondehkavaki
Enhancing Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopies with Nanosphere Lithography Platforms, Shabila Fayyaz
Uncovering Dual Roles for PERK Signaling During Experimentally Induced Pancreatitis, Elena Fazio
Create the Scene and Watch the Show Unfold: Following Vegetative to Embryonic Developmental Transitions by Over-Expressing LEC2 in Leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana, Mistianne Feeney