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 Professional Practice Leader: The role of organizational power and personal influence in creating a professional practice environment for nurses, Sara L. Lankshear
The Utility and Feasibility of Metric Calibration for Basic Psychological Research, Etienne LeBel
The Structural Importance of Consumer Networks, Seung Hwan (Mark) Lee
A Self-Regulation Model of Depression: Content of Cognitive Representations and Prediction of Treatment Seeking, Catherine Leite
Exploring Bacterial Nanowires: From Properties to Functions and Implications, Kar Man Leung
Exploring Process Dissociation as a Tool for Investigating Discrimination in Hiring Situations, Rhys J. Lewis
Particle Attrition with Supersonic Nozzles in a High Temperature Fluidized Bed, Feng Li
Classic Mosaics and Visual Correspondence via Graph-Cut based Energy Optimization, Yu Liu
From Isolated Tumour Cells to Overt Lymph Node Metastases: Biological and Imaging Studies on the Development of Experimental Lymph Node Metastases, Michael M. Lizardo
Advances In Internal Model Principle Control Theory, Jin Lu
Innovation Practice Transfer and Capability Development within the Multinational Enterprise, Nathaniel C. Lupton
Generalized Exponential Models with Applications, Iman Mabrouk
Learning from the Enemy: Identity, Conflict, and Inter-Organizational Learning, Patricia Anne MacDonald
Metastatic Disease: Interactions Between Tumor Cells and Host Environment During Cancer Cell Spread, Jennifer M. MacLean
Diagnostic Checking, Time Series and Regression, Esam Mahdi
Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Point Cloud Data via Progressive Local Mesh Matching, Ji Ma
Workplace Commitment and Employee Well-Being: A Meta-analysis and Study of Commitment Profiles, Elyse R. Maltin
Emergence and Reduction in Science. A Case Study, Alexandru Manafu
Thermal Plume Transport From Sand and Gravel Pits Potential Thermal Impacts on Cool-Water Streams, Jeffrey M. Markle
Uncovering New Bonding Motifs: The Synthesis of Chalcogen and Phosphorus Complexes Supported by Nitrogen Based Ligands, Caleb D. Martin
Development of a Cohesion Inventory for Children's Sport Teams, Luc J. Martin
The Role of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor in the Intestinal Immune System and the Response to Probiotics, Andrew J. Martins
Interplay of masculinity and schooling in rural Zimbabwe, Alfred Masinire