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
Pushing the Boundaries in Gradient and Shim Design for MRI, Parisa Hudson
Structure and Strength: Anisotropic Polyvinyl Alcohol Hydrogels and Spider Mite Silk Fibres, Stephen Hudson
Trace metal limitation and its role in oxidative stress of coral algal symbionts; implications for thermally induced coral bleaching events., Katrina Lynn Iglic
Synthesis of One-Dimensional And Two-Dimensional Carbon Based Nanomaterials, Mihnea Ioan Ionescu
Fabrication, Modification and Application of Visible Light Responsive TiO2 Nanotubes, Tayirjan Taylor Isimjan
Strategies for the Thermal and Photochemical Modification of Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs) and the Fabrication of AuNP Hybrid Materials, Hossein Ismaili
Effects of Internals Configurations on Heat Transfer and Hydrodynamics in Bubble Columns - With and Without Solid Particles, Anil Kumar Jhawar
Nanoplasmonic Sensors based on Periodic Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles, Hao Jiang
Asymptotic Theory of General Multivariate GARCH Models, Weibin Jiang
Essays On Entrepreneurial Financing, Ye Jia
Elucidating the genetic determinants of the archetypal complex disease hypertriglyceridemia, Christopher T. Johansen
The Other Sides of Billy Joel: Six Case Studies Revealing the Sociologist, the Balladeer, and the Historian, A. Morgan Jones
Evaluation of Wind-Induced Resuspension on the Performance of a Mine Tailings Storage Facility, Laxmi Kant Kachhwal
Investigating Performance and Reliability of Process Bus Networks for Digital Protective Relaying, Mitalkumar Kanabar
Transition Metal Complexes with Reactive Trimethylsilylchalcogenolate Ligands: Precursors for the Preparation of Ternary Nanoclusters, Chhatra Bahadur Khadka
Noms composés en turc et morphème -(s)I, Volha Kharytonava
Bulk density of small meteoroids, Jean-Baptiste Kikwaya Eluo
Strategies for Reducing the Impact of Tumour Motion During Helical Tomotherapy, Bryan Kim
Fatigue and Mobility Post-Stroke, Svetlana Knorr
An Analytical and Numerical Treatment of Inclined Elliptical Orbits About a Kerr Black Hole, Peter G. Komorowski
Workflow-Net Based Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems, Yehia T. Kotb
Do I feel dissonance over you? Sex differences in the experience of dissonance for romantic partners, Sandra D. Lackenbauer
Corporeal Returns: Theatrical Embodiment and Spectator Response in Early Modern Drama, Caroline R. Lamb