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 Relationship between Diet Quality and Obesity in Canadian Adults: Evidence from the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey, Kalaivaani Sundararajan
Automatic Classification of Epilepsy Lesions, Junwei Sun
Dynamic Model Construction and Control System Design for Canadian Supercritical Water-cooled Reactors, Peiwei Sun
A Transaction Governance Perspective on Business Entertainment: A General Model and Evidence From China, Yonglin Sun
Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Studies of Nickel Surfaces and T24 Single Live Cells, Yu Sun
Structural Motifs of Novel Metallothionein Proteins, Duncan E K Sutherland
Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Unreceptive Quadrupolar Nuclei in Inorganic Materials, Andre Sutrisno
MMAsculinities: Spectacular Narratives of Masculinity in Mixed Martial Arts, Stephen L. Swain
Modeling sequential event times using family data, Balakumar Swaminathan
Exploring the Current Nature of a School Principal's Work, Donna Swapp
Relationships between Earthquake Ground Motions and Modified Mercalli Intensity, Andrea Sweny
Aesthetic Labour at the Coffee Shop: Exploring Young Workers' Perceptions of the Service Encounter, Diana Judit Szabo
Economic Development in a Changing Global Economy: Examining the Perspectives of Practitioners in Ontario, Canada, Maxwell Taabazuing
The Case for Quantum State Realism, Morgan C. Tait
Haptics-Enabled Teleoperation for Robotics-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery, Ali Talasaz
The cross talk between TrkB and NMDA receptors through RasGrf1, Asghar Talebian
Confidence Intervals for Comparison of the Squared Multiple Correlation Coefficients of Non-nested Models, Li Tan Jr.
Synergistic and Environmental Benefits of Using Cement Kiln Dust With Slag and Fly Ash in Cemented Paste Tailings, Amajd Tariq
Taking a Closer Look at Workplace Incivility: Dimensionality and Source Effects, Rima C. Tarraf
The Relationship Between Culture and Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis, Olusore Anita Taylor
Assessment of Wear in Total Knee Arthroplasty Using Advanced Radiographic Techniques, Matthew G. Teeter
Gender Neutral? An Empirical Test of Life-course Theories of Criminal Behaviour, Jennie M. Thompson
The influence of ambient environment on the growth and fitness of glyphosate-resistant and -susceptible giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.) biotypes, Julia A. Thompson
The Cleaving of House and Home: A Lacanian Analysis of Architectural Aesthetics, Sarah E. Thorne
Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis homolog of the yeast TREX-2 complex, Gang Tian