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
The Symptom of Fatigue in Primary Care: A Comparative Study of Health Care Utilization Patterns Using Electronic Medical Records, Kathryn A. Nicholson
Gait Initiation in Parkinson's Disease: The Manipulation of Cue Expectancy in a Dual Task Paradigm, Derrick Nield
Sensing Commute Spaces and Automobilized Places by Foot, Bike and Car in Vancouver, BC, Denver V. Nixon
Performance Analysis of Channel-Aware Media Access Control Schemes, Abdulfattah Noorwali
Mechanical Instability of Thin Solid Film Structures, Masoud Noroozi
Synthesis of silicide nanomaterials using chemical vapour deposition method, Hamid Norouzi Banis
Controlled Synthesis of One Dimensional Nanostructured Materials and Their Applications as Catalyst Supports in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, Mohammad Norouzi Banis
Context is Everything: Facilitating Fit When New Products are Ambiguous, Theodore J. Noseworthy
A Life Course Investigation of the Differences in Psychological Distress of Mothers by Family Structure Trajectories, Jason Novick
Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of the Properties of Conducting Polymers, Kevin D. O'Neil
Human Automata, Identity and Creativity in George Du Maurier's Trilby and Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus, Adrienne M. Orr
Ozone Measurements and Transport, Mohammed Kedir Osman
The role of cystic fibrosis conductance regulator in the clearance of Burkholderia cenocepacia by macrophages, Hanna Ostapska
Explanation in Science, James A. Overton
Investigation of the Use of Micro-Mechanical Testing to Analyze the Mechanical Anisotropy of the Zr-2.5%Nb Pressure Tube Alloy, Richard O. Oviasuyi
Quantitative Evaluation of Pulmonary Emphysema Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and x-ray Computed Tomography, Amir M. Owrangi
fMRI reveals the neural correlates of real and pantomimed tool use in humans, Joseph Umberto Paciocco
The genetic basis of cuticular hydrocarbon production in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans, Jessica A. Pardy
Investigation of Wireless LAN for IEC 61850 based Smart Distribution Substations, Palak P. Parikh
An Institutional Explanation of the Formation of Intergovernmental Agreements in Federal Systems, Jeffrey T. Parker
Involvement of Hexokinase1 in Plant Growth Promotion as Mediated by Burkholderia Phytofimans, Jae Min Park
Overweight in infants increases the chance of having a gross motor developmental delay at six months, Meredith Parkovnick
Topics in Field Theory, Alexander Patrushev