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 Embryonic Protein Nodal Supports Metastatic Phenotypes in Breast Cancer, Daniela F. Quail
The Reel Latina/o Soldier in American War Cinema, Felipe Q. Quintanilla
Rule-Based Category Learning in Children: The Role of Inhibitory Control, Rahel R. Rabi
Assessing the potential health risk of cyanobacteria harmful algal blooms and cyanotoxins in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, Melissa H. Raffoul
Performance of Data Transmission for mobile applications, Md Ashrafur Rahaman
Novel Controls of Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Farms, Shah Arifur Rahman
The eShift Model of Care: Informal Caregivers' Experience of Caring for a Family Member who Received Palliative Care at Home, Ashley Ralph
Nursing Identity and the Computer: The Impact of Care Realities on Information Systems Use, Hannah S. Rasmussen
An Investigation of Monotonic and Cyclic Behaviour of Leda Clay, Kimberly K. Rasmussen
Late Archean oceans: A laboratory model of oxygen oases, Maija J. Raudsepp
Born Again Hard : Transgender Subjectivity in Paul Chadwick's Concrete, Justin Raymond
Ordinary Empirical Judgments and our Scientific Knowledge: An Extension of Reformed Empiricism to the Philosophy of Science, Nicholas M. Ray
Social and Human Capital: The Determinants of Economic Integration of South Asian Immigrants in Canada, Muhammed M. Raza
Characterization of the Circadian Properties of Runt-related Transcription Factor 2 (Runx2) and its Role in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Meghan E. Reale
Parental Relocation: Factors Present In Judges’ Decisions, Emily A. Reddick
Directors' Duties to Creditors - Mapping the Twilight Zone, Mehreen Rehman
The effects of sprint interval training on endothelial function in young men and women, Stephanie M. Reid
Interpretation of the French and Spanish Subjunctive by L1, L2, and L3 Speakers: Contexts Where Mood Can Alternate without Ungrammaticality, Audrey K. Restorick Elordi
A Control Scheme for an AC-DC Single-Stage Buck-Boost PFC Converter with Improved Output Ripple Reduction, Kamran Rezaei
Architectures of the Veil: The Representation of the Veil and Zenanas in Pakistani Feminists' Texts, Amber Fatima Riaz
Communicating Crimes: Covering Gangs in Contemporary Canadian Journalism, Chris Richardson
Social Skill Development of Adults with Disabilities in a Community Drama Group, Jennifer E. Richardson