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 2011
Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Techniques with Applications in Minimally Invasive Therapy and Cell Biology, Mahdi Azizian
A Season in Town: Plantation Women and the Urban South, 1790-1877, Marise Bachand
Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction, Thomas J. Barnes
Does Anyone Really Like Horror Movies? Personality and Automatic Affective Reactions to Frightening Films, Michael E. Battista
Serum iron uptake and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus, Federico C. Beasley
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick: Strategies to Decrease Dynamic Knee Joint Loading, Daniel J. Bechard
Development of Single and Multimodality Imaging Probes for PET, SPECT and Fluorescence Imaging, Babak Behnam Azad
The Expression of Religious Bias in the Evaluation of Foreign-Trained Job Applicants, Caroline Bennett-AbuAyyash
Biological Inheritance and the Social Order in Late-Victorian Fiction and Science, Sherrin Berezowsky
Impact of Geomagnetically Induced Currents on Power Transformers, Jonathan E. Berge
Characterization of Quadriceps Neuromuscular Function in Knee Osteoarthritis, Michael James Berger
Time-Domain Macromodeling of High Speed Distributed Networks, Amir Beygi
Exemplary Practice: Inscribing Conduct Along Upper Canada's Early Frontier, Tim Bisha
Purine Transport and Metabolism in Microvascular Endothelial Cells, Derek B J Bone
Contributions of Signal-detection Mechanisms and Semantic Memory Representations to Famous Name Recognition, Ben P. Bowles
Strategies for Waveform Tomography of Long-Offset, 2-D Exploration Seismic Data, Andrew J. Brenders
The Prejudice Paradox (Or Discrimination Is Not Dead): Systematic Discrimination In Forced Choice Employment Decisions, Paula M. Brochu
Mitochondrial metabolic suppression and reactive oxygen species production during hypometabolism in mammals, Jason CL Brown
Mechanistic Mixed-Mode Failure Criterion for Continuous Fiber-Polymer Composites, Thomas P. Bruce
Life Among the Machines: James Joyce's Ulysses and Early Twentieth-Century Technology, Patrick Casey
Dissecting the molecular role of distinct binding interfaces on the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor in growth control and tumorigenesis., Matthew J. Cecchini
Exploring the Chemistry of Cyclopentadienyl-Cobalt-Cyclobutadiene (CpCoCb) Complexes and Synthesis of Side-Chain CpCoCb Polymers, Preeti Chadha
Bifurcations and Stability in Models of Infectious Diseases, Bernard S. Chan
Contextual control of orienting eye-head gaze shifts in the monkey, Brendan B. Chapman
Solving Polynomial Systems via Triangular Decomposition, Changbo Chen