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
The effects of leg length discrepancy on gait and balance, Colin E. Dombroski
States of Insurgency: Dismemberment and Citizenship in the American 1848, David J. Drysdale
Aristotle’s Naïve Somatism, Alain E. Ducharme
Understanding the Roles of Physiotherapists Within Ontario Primary Health Care Teams: A Mixed Methods Inquiry, Sinead P. Dufour
Active Learning with Generalized Queries, Jun Du
An Observational Assessment of Peer Group Contributions to Adolescent Identity Development, Tara M. Dumas
Re-forging the smith: an interdisciplinary study of smithing motifs in Völuspá and Völundarkviða, Leif Einarson
Enhancement of Biohydrogen and Biomethane Production from Wastes Using Ultrasonication, Elsayed Elrefaey Elbeshbishy
Dynamic and Static Performance of Large-Capacity Helical Piles in Cohesive Soils, Mohamed A. Elkasabgy
Investigation of Hybrid Monopile-Footing Foundation Systems Subjected to Combined Loading, Mohamed El-Marassi
Experimental and Numerical Development of Anchor-Jointed Precast Structural Wall System and Optimum Design of Prestressed Slabs, Mohamed El Semelawy
Predicting Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions: Mechanistic and Clinical Implications, Abdelbaset A. Elzagallaai
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Electrostatic Precipitator Using Hybrid Finite Element - Flux Corrected Transport Technique, Niloofar Farnoosh
Aristotle's Concept of Nature: Three Tensions, W.W. Nicholas Fawcett
Development of an Active Elbow Motion Simulator and Coordinate Systems to Evaluate Kinematics in Multiple Positions, Louis M. Ferreira
Depressive symptoms in mothers of children with new-onset epilepsy: a prospective study, Mark Anthony Ferro
Constructing Categories, Imagining a Nation: A Critical Qualitative Analysis of Canadian Immigration Discourse, Andrea R. Flynn
Development and Testing of a Low Vision Product Selection Instrument (LV-PSI): A Mixed-Methods Approach, Daniel Fok
The Impact of Human Capital and Organizational Characteristics on the Business Value of Information Technology, Shady Fraiha
Stable isotope analyses of bat fur: Applications for investigating North American bat migration, Erin E. Fraser
Effects of methamphetamine on sexual behavior, Karla S. Frohmader
Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching: The Ethics of Touch in Victorian Literature (1860-1900), Ann M.C. Gagne
Rational Design and Advanced Fabrication of Metallic Nanostructures for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Betty Cristina Galarreta
Decoding motor intentions from human brain activity, Jason P. Gallivan