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
Sequesteration of lead, cadmium and arsenic by Lactobacillus species and detoxication potential, Marc A. Monachese
Essays on Health Insurer and Provider Interactions, Daniel Montanera
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Microgrid in Island and Grid Connected Modes with a Fuel Cell Power Source, Andrew T. Moore
The Effects of Lubrication on Pharmaceutical Granules, Garett Morin
Synthesis of (±)-Quebrachamine, Tetrahydroisoquinocarbazoles, and Progress Towards Biselide A and E, Barbora Morra
Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Amphidinolide C, Nicholas A. Morra
A Modest Proposal: A Chamber Opera in One Act, Kevin Morse
A Convexity Theorem For Symplectomorphism Groups, Seyed Mehdi Mousavi
Complementary and Self-Complementary Hydrogen Bond Double Helical Complexes, Bhanu P. Mudraboyina
The Regulation of Prokaryotic Transposable Elements by the RNA Binding Protein Hfq, Brian J. Munshaw
The Construction of Edmond Halley's 1701 Map of Magnetic Declination, Lori L. Murray
Situation-Aware Rate and Power Adaptation Techniques for IEEE 802.11, Jay Nadeau
Stable Isotopes and XRD Investigation of Gold Mineralization at the Syenite-Hosted Young-Davidson Deposit, Matachewan, Ontario, Niloufar Naderi
Low Power AC-DC and DC-DC Multilevel Converters, Mehdi Narimani
Investigation of Bio-hydrogen and Bio-methane Production From Thin Stillage, Noha El-Sayed Nasr
In-Capillary Reduction and Digestion of Proteins at Nano-Liter Volume Using Capillary Electrophoresis, Thasneen Naina Nazeema
Targeted Intracellular Therapeutic Delivery Using Liposomes Formulated with Multifunctional FAST proteins, Rae L. Nesbitt
Speech Compensation to Formant Perturbations in English and Vietnamese Talkers, Linh L.T. Nguyen
Anatomy: The Relationship Between Internal and External Visualizations, Ngan T. Nguyen
New Paradigms for Active Learning, Ailing Ni