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 Use of Capacity as an Indicator of Automatic Processing: Is Smoking Automatic?, Agnes A. Massak
Quantification of Pulmonary Ventilation using Hyperpolarized 3He Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lindsay Mathew
On the early onset of vascular stiffening and sexual dimorphism of sympathetic control in the spontaneously hypertensive rat, Louis Mattar
Analyzing Epidemics in New France: The Measles Epidemic of 1714-15, Ryan M. Mazan
The CEO Effect: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Analysis of the Relationship Between Executive Orientation and Corporate Social Strategy, Daina D. Mazutis
A Collection of Portfolio Management Issues, Mike McCausland
Investigation of Subchondral Bone Abnormalities associated with Osteoarthritis using Image-Based Biomechanics, David D. McErlain
Romantic Anarche: The Philosophical and Literary Anarchism of William Godwin, Jared M. McGeough
Prehabilitation for total knee arthroplasty: A patient-centred approach to maximizing surgical outcomes, Carly D. McKay
Ethical Challenges in Cluster Randomized Trials, Andrew McRae
Improving Search Engine Results by Query Extension and Categorization, Guo Mei
On Developing Novel Energy-Relates Nanostructured Materials by Atomic Layer Deposition, Xiangbo Meng
Late Pleistocene climate and proboscidean paleoecology in North America: Insights from stable isotope compositions of skeletal remains, Jessica Z. Metcalfe
Seismic Microzonation of Great Toronto Area and Influence of Building Resonances on Measured Soil Responses, Dimitar Genchev Mihaylov
Critical Stages in Viral Replication - Entry, Gene Regulation and Egress, Matthew S. Miller
Models, Techniques, and Metrics for Managing Risk in Software Engineering, Andriy Miranskyy
Vulnerability of Adolescents to HIV/AIDS in Malawi, Paul Mkandawire
Noncommutative complex geometry of quantum projective spaces, Ali Moatadelro
Authentic Occupational Therapy: A genealogy of normative technology in occupational therapy, Daniel K. Molke Mr.
Red de comunicación jesuita desde la Misión de Moxos, Carlos-Urani Montiel
Photocatalytic Degradation of Phenolic Compounds in Water: Irradiation and Kinetic Modeling, Jesus Moreira del Rio
New Synthetic Methodologies Directed toward Pharmacologically Active Compounds as well as Silole Based Chromophores for Analytical and Optoelectronic Applications, Mahmoud M. Abd Rabo Moustafa
Design and Syntheses of Novel Quenchers for Fluorescent Hybridization Probes, Mohamed Moustafa
Reliable and High-Performance Hardware Architectures for the Advanced Encryption Standard/Galois Counter Mode, Mehran Mozaffari-Kermani
Planar Photonic Crystal for Biosensor Applications, Anil Kumar Mudraboyina