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
Multi-Core Unit Propagation in Functional Languages, Jonathan Alexander Leaver
Thermal and Electrical Behaviors of Selected Geomaterials, Joon Kyu Lee
The Role of Religion and Spirituality in the Care of Patients in Family Medicine, Michael F. Lee-Poy
Modulatory Effects Of North American Ginseng Extracts On Human Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses, Holly Rebecca Lemmon
Biopolitics of Climate Change: Carbon Commodities, Environmental Profanations, and the Lost Innocence of Use-Value, Emanuele Leonardi
The Lived Experience of Anxiety Among Adolescents During High School, Diana R. Leone
The effect of multitalker background noise on speech intelligibility in Parkinson's disease and controls, Talia M. Leszcz
Evaluating the Rapid Divergence of Male Genitalia in Sibling Drosophila Species, Helene M. LeVasseur-Viens
Ionothermal Synthesis of High Silica Zeolites in Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES), Zheng Sonia Lin
A Study on the Turbulent Characteristics within the Hurricane Boundary Layer, Sunwei Li
Migration Behaviour of Discontinuous Buffers in Capillary Electrophoresis during Protein Enrichment, Ting Li
An Automated Lab-on-a-CD System for Parallel Whole Blood Analyses, Tingjie Li
The role of GRK2 in hypertension and regulation of GPR30, Bonan Liu
Multi-stage Wireless Signal Identification for Blind Interception Receiver Design, Gejie Liu
Volatility, Duration, and Value-at-Risk, Pujun Liu
Strategic Overpricing of Initial Public Offerings, Zheng Liu
Automatic Foreground Initialization for Binary Image Segmentation, Wei Li
Improvements on Seeding Based Protein Sequence Similarity Search, Weiming Li
Calclium-calmodulin regulation of TRPM2 currents, Brian M. W. Lockhart
Evaluation of Jarosite as a Biosignature: A Comparison of Biogenic and Synthetic Jarosites, Liane Loiselle