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
Reliability of flow-mediated dilation measures in the popliteal artery and implications for use in clinical and research practices, Kaitlin M. McLay
Transforming Growth Factor Beta Receptor Partitioning: Molecular Mechanisms and Functional Consequences, Sarah E.A. McLean
Regulation of the bacterial transposon Tn5, Crystal R. McLellan
Intellectual Property and Its Alternatives: Incentives, Innovation and Ideology, Michael B. McNally
The Impact of the Neuropeptide Y System on the Progression of Breast Cancer, Philip J. Medeiros
Controlled Degradation of Poly(ester amide)s via Cyclization of Pendant Functional Groups, Jose Samuel Mejia
Topographic Influences on Trends and Cycles in Nutrient Export from Forested Catchments on the Precambrian Shield, Samson G. Mengistu
System of Terrain Analysis, Energy Estimation and Path Planning for Planetary Exploration by Robot Teams, David C. Michel
Chronic North American Ginseng Administration Alters Metabolic and Cardiovascular Variables in the Rat, Megan J. Migchels
Development and Evaluation of a Real-Time Framework for a Portable Assistive Hearing Device, Aleksandar Dimitrov Mihaylov
Emotional Geographies of Home: Place Identities Among Senior Women Residing in a Long-Term Care Facility, Malgorzata M. Milczarek
Hazardous Experiments: The Elusive Prefaces of William Godwin, Mary Hays, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jeffrey W. Miles
The influence of habitat composition and configuration on the genetic structure of the pitcher plant midge, Katie Millette
Enabling Techniques Design for QoS Provision in Wireless Communications, Penghui Mi
Essays on Capital Gains, Household Consumption and Corporate Payout Policy, Chris Mitchell
Strength, Elasticity and Phase Transition Study on NaCl and MgO-NaCl Mixture to Mantle Pressures, Zhongying MI
Incomplete Market Models of Carbon Emissions Markets, Walid Mnif
Characterization of Cardiomyopathy in a Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Using Echocardiography, DCE-CT, and PET-FDG, Seyed Hamed Moazami
Revenue Management in Multi-Firm, Multi-Product Price Competition, Michael P. Moffatt
Stress Induced Protein 1 (STI1) protects neurons against Beta-Amyloid (Abeta) neurotoxicity, Amro Hasan Mohammad
Subsynchronous Resonance in Wind Farms, Akshaya Kumar Moharana
On the Distribution of Quadratic Expressions in Various Types of Random Vectors, Ali Akbar Mohsenipour
Error Correction in Next Generation DNA Sequencing Data, Michael Z. Molnar