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
Comparison Between Three Types of Cable Stayed Bridges Using Structural Optimization, Olfat Sarhang Zadeh
Development of a Novel Handheld Device for Active Compensation of Physiological Tremor, Abhijit Saxena
Ethical Enigmas in Modern Water Policy: The Albertan Example, Jeremy J. Schmidt
The effect of an acute bout of exercise on smoking topography, Terri L. Schneider
Why Wait? The Effects of Waiting Time on Subsequent Help-Seeking Among Families Looking for Children’s Mental Health Services, Kyleigh E. Schraeder
Intestinal and hepatic drug transporters and their role in the disposition of lipid-lowering drugs, Ute I. Schwarz
Immune Responses to Homocitrullinated Protein/Peptide in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mathias J. Scinocca
On the Nature of Students' Digital Mathematical Performances, Ricardo Scucuglia Rodrigues da Silva
Interpretive Bias in the Context of Life Stress and Depression: An Examination of Stress Generation and Diathesis-Stress Models, Pamela M. Seeds
Effect of Menstrual Cycle Related Estrogen Fluctuations on Working Memory, Mia Segal
Oxygen Delivery Strategies in Tissue-Engineering Constructs, Dawit Gezahegn Seifu
Characterization of Solar Roadways Via Computational and Experimental Investigations, Rajesh Kanna Selvaraju
Understanding Teachers’ Information Needs, Perceived Competencies, and Information Seeking Behaviours for Special Education Information, Michelle M. Servais
Geometrical Analysis and Modeling of Craniosynostosis, Sahar Shahbazi
A Telerobotic Drilling Control System with Haptic Feedback, Faraz Shah
Preoperative Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor or Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Use and Acute Dialysis: A Population Based Cohort Study, Mitesh K. Shah
Metrics for Evaluating Surgical Microscope Usage During Myringotomy, Arefin M. Shamsil
The Contact Mechanics and Kinematics of Radial Head Implants, Hannah L. Shannon
The Research on the L(2,1)-labeling problem from Graph theoretic and Graph Algorithmic Approaches, Zhendong Shao
Structure-Property Relationships of Magnesium Alloys, Pouya Sharifi
Hairy roots as a model to investigate the role of suberin in the Phytophthora sojae-soybean pathosystem, Pooja Sharma
A total electron content receiver for the e-POP mission, Dmitry Shatskiy
A Phenomenology of Fall Prevention: Lived-Identity and Careful Practice in Community Outreach Care, James A. Shaw