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
Top-Down Modulation of Category Specific Extrastriate Cortex in a Task-Switching Paradigm, Katie Knapp
The Role of Drug Transporters in Statin-Induced Myopathy, Michael J. Knauer
Recently Retired Varsity Female Athletes’ Intention to Coach: An Exploration of Continuity Theory and a Transition-Extension Hypothesis, Erin M. Kodama
The Changing Nature of Homicide and Its Impact on Homicide Clearance Rates: A Quantitative Analysis of Two Trends From 1984-2009, Lauren Korosec
Fatty Acid ω-Hydroxylases in Soybean, Jessica Koteles
Reactive and Regulatory Temperament Traits as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood, Yuliya Kotelnikova
Virtual Reality: Re-Introducing Anatomy to the 21st Century, Louis G. Kour
An Investigation of the Neural Mechanism by which the Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Anti-saccade Task Performance, Michael J. Koval
A New Web Search Engine with Learning Hierarchy, Da Kuang
Weight Status Underestimation among Canadian Adolescents: An Important and Frequently Overlooked Aspect of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic, Mary Ellen Kuenzig
The Role of Ca2+/Calmodulin Dependent Protein Kinase II Alpha in Group 1 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Endocytosis and Signalling, Stephanie C. Kulhawy
“We Should be Listening to Our Elders”: Evaluation of Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge between Anishinabe Youth and Elders, Kassandra Kulmann
The Effects of the Environment and Corporate Governance on Illegal Cartel Activity, David Kunsch
Democratic Opposition Parties and Democratic Outcomes in Hybrid Regimes, Jeremy M. Ladd
How do parents use health information with the aid of a knowledge broker when living with and caring for their young children with cerebral palsy?, Stephanie E. Lagosky
An Image-Based Tool to Examine Joint Congruency at the Elbow, Emily A. Lalone
Severity of Epilepsy and Parent-Perceived Cognitive Functioning in Children with New-Onset Epilepsy: A Prospective Study of Family Factors as Mediators and Moderators, Anastasia I. Lambrinos
From Mirror to Mirage: The Idea of Logical Space in Kant, Wittgenstein, and van Fraassen, Lucien R. Lamoureux
Augmented Image-Guidance for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, Pencilla Lang
Detection and Mapping of Phragmites australis using High Resolution Multispectral and Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery, Nicholas J. Lantz
Straight allies: Combating homophobia and interrogating heteronormativity 'straight' on, Alicia A. Lapointe
Gasification of Bio-oils to Syngas in Fluidized Bed Reactors, Mohammad Latifi
Generating Log File Analyzers, Ilse Leal Aulenbacher