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
Real Options Models in Real Estate, Jin Won Choi
Social Money: Literary Engagements with Economics in Early Modern English Drama, Myungjin Choi
Ergodicity and seismicity clustering with applications in statistical seismology, Nelson Cho
Heuristics, Concepts, and Cognitive Architecture: Toward Understanding How The Mind Works, Sheldon J. Chow
Mutant Cx43 in Skin Differentiation and Disease, Jared M. Churko
The Vatican, American Catholics and the Struggle for Palestine, 1917-1958: A Study of Cold War Roman Catholic Transnationalism, Adriano E. Ciani
Structural Characterization of HIP2 Enzyme Interactions in Ubiquitination, Benjamin W. Cook
The Effects of Low Protein during Gestation on Mouse Pancreas Development and Beta Cell Regeneration, Aaron R. Cox
Non-Quiet Listening for Children with Hearing Loss: An Evaluation of Amplification Needs and Strategies, Jeff Crukley
Some Single and Combined Operations on Formal Languages: Algebraic Properties and Complexity, Bo Cui
Magnetic diffusion in star formation: From clouds to cores to stars to disks, Wolfgang B. Dapp
Magnetic Excitations in Cylindrical Multilayered Nanostructures, Tushar K. Das
Immediacy and Aesthetic Remediation in Television and Digital Media: Mass Media’s Challenge to the Democratization of Media Production, Michael S. Daubs
The Research to Practice Gap in the Identification and Instruction of Students at Risk for Reading Disabilities: Teachers' Perspectives, Katherine Davidson
Energy Efficient Reduced Complexity Multi-Service, Multi-Channel Scheduling Techniques, Dan J. Dechene
Validation and Application of Wind Profiler Measurements of Atmospheric Turbulence, Armin Dehghan
Regional Specification of the Xenopus Lateral Plate Mesoderm, Steven J. Deimling
Advanced Islanded-Mode Control of Microgrids, Mohammad Bagher Delghavi
Advances in Graph-Cut Optimization: Multi-Surface Models, Label Costs, and Hierarchical Costs, Andrew T. Delong
Mexican Temporary Agricultural Workers in Canada: a Language and Migration Approach, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón
Acquisition de la liaison et de l'enchaînement en français L2 : le rôle de la fréquence, Nadine Odette de Moras
Arrangements of Submanifolds and the Tangent Bundle Complement, Priyavrat Deshpande
Optical Power Splitting Techniques Using Photonic Crystal Line Defect Waveguides, Rajat Dey
Geotechnique, Physico-chemical Behaviour and a New Erosion Model for Mine Tailings under Environmental Loading, Rozalina S. Dimitrova
Design and Syntheses of Fluorescent Cytosine Analogues, David W. Dodd