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
Applicability of the Eshelby Formalism to Viscous Power-Law Materials: A Numerical Validation, Zhenyu Zhong
To Leave or To Stay? The Decision Context, Self-Images, and Owner-Managers' Persistence Decisions, Fei Zhu
Investigation of histone lysine methylation in stem cell differentiation using inhibitor peptide, Wendy Zhu
Liquid Distribution from Industrial Scale Spray Jets in Fluidized Beds, MohammadAli Zirgachianzadeh
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Transactivation by human Adenovirus Early Region 1A-Conserved Region Three, Jailal NG Ablack
The HIV-1 Tat Protein and Adverse Drug Reactions: A model system utilizing Jurkat T cells and sulphamethoxazole-hydroxylamine, Kaothara Adeyanju
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Charged Nanodroplets, Elias Ahadi
Optical-WiMAX Hybrid Networks, Abdou R. A. Ahmed
Electronic and magnetic excitations in graphene and magnetic nano-ribbons, Maher Zakaria Ahmed Selim
Thermal and Mechanical Studies of Thin Spray-On Liner (TSL) for Concrete Tunnel Linings, Taesang Ahn
A System Dynamics Based Integrated Assessment Modelling of Global-Regional Climate Change: A Model for Analyzing the Behaviour of the Social-Energy-Economy-Climate System, Mohammad Khaled Akhtar
Fetal Growth Restriction: Molecular Mechanisms and Long-Term Outcomes, Caroline D. Albion
Trust-Based Service Selection, Zainab Aljazzaf
Acoustic Signal Encoding in Children with Auditory Processing Disorders, Chris M. Allan
Vibration Isolation Using In-filled Geofoam Trench Barriers, Ashref Mohamed A. Alzawi
Motherhood and Childbirth Experiences among Newcomer Women in Canada: A Critical Ethnographic Study, Fatmeh Ahmad Alzoubi
Biological Nutrient Removal from Municipal and Industrial Wastewater Using a Twin Circulating Fluidized Bed Bioreactor, Mehran Andalib
"Aren't They Keen?" Early Children's Food Advertising and the Emergence of the Brand-loyal Child Consumer, Kyle R. Asquith
The Impact of Climate and Transport on the Compositions and Textures of Heavy Minerals in Modern Rivers of New Zealand, Alexandre Aubin
Welfare Regimes: The Welfare of the Old in Comparative Perspective, Mehmet Fatih Aysan
High Speed and Low-Complexity Hardware Architectures for Elliptic Curve-Based Crypto-Processors, Reza Azarderakhsh