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
Characteristic Polynomial of Arrangements and Multiarrangements, Mehdi Garrousian
The Analysis of Extreme Synoptic Winds, David A. Gatey
Morpho-physiological analysis of interneuronal populations in the rat piriform cortex before and after kindling induced epilepsy, Cezar Gavrilovici
The Life Cycle of Pannexins: Trafficking, Cell Surface Dynamics, Turnover and Degradation, Ruchi Gehi
"Ça devient une question d’être maîtres chez nous”: The Canadiens, Nordiques, and the Politics of Québécois Nationalism, 1979-1984, Terry Gitersos
Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism, Philip Glennie
Descent Systems, Eulerian Polynomials and Toric Varieties, Letitia Mihaela Golubitsky
GKM theory of rationally smooth group embeddings, Richard P. Gonzales
In Vivo Cellular MRI In Experimental Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, Laura E. Gonzalez-Lara
Representation of Somatosensory Afferents in the Cortical Autonomic Network, Ruma Goswami
ATPase Regulation in the Maltose Transporter, Alister D. Gould
The importance of self-efficacy and basic psychological needs in children’s physical activity: Measurement, prediction and intervention, Casey E. Gray
Austerity in America, Stephen R. Gray Jibb
The Powered Generation: Canadians, Electricity, and Everyday Life, Dorotea Gucciardo
The Effect of Biomechanical and Biochemical Factors on Endothelial Cells: Relevance to Atherosclerosis, Qiuquan Guo
A Model, Leah K. Hamilton
Audible Acoustic Emissions for Monitoring High-Shear Granulation, Erin M. Hansuld
Mechanisms behind the success of exercise as an adjunct quit smoking aid, Therese M. Harper
The Power of Silence and the Price of Success: Academic Achievement as Transformational Resistance for Aboriginal Women, Dawn M. Harvard
Measurement of Dynamic Temperatures and Pressures in Nuclear Power Plants, Hashem M. Hashemian
The Moderating Effect of Reciprocity Beliefs on Work Outcomes, Stephanie Hastings
Quantum Coherence and Interference in Metallic Photonic Crystals and Hybrid Systems, Ali Hatef
High power systems for dynamic field control and shielding in the MR environment, Dustin W. Haw
Meta-heuristic Strategies in Scientific Judgment, Spencer P. Hey
Convection Due to Spatially Distributed Heating, Mohammad Zakir Hossain