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 2010
The Effect of Particle Size on Hydrolysis and Modeling of Anaerobic Digestion, Saad Aldin
Holomorphic k-differentials and holomorphic approximation on open Riemann surfaces, Nadya Askaripour
Cross-sectional Morphology and Mechanical Loading in Plio-Pleistocene Hominins: Implications for Locomotion and Taxonomy, Michele M. Bleuze Ms.
This Tract of Land: North Buxton, Ontario, 1873-1914, Claudine Y. Bonner
Graphomania: Composing Subjects in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction and Technology, Gregory D. Brophy
Outlawry and the Experience of the (Im)possible: Deconstructing Biopolitics, Mary J. Bunch
Mental Blocks: The behavioural effects and neural encoding of obstacles when reaching and grasping, Craig S. Chapman
Nickel-based Catalysts for Gasification of Glucose in Supercritical Water, Muhammad Badrul Islam Chowdhury
Kant and the Fact of Reason, Kenneth KH Chung
Descending Central Series of Free Pro-p-Groups, German A. Combariza
Parenting at Midnight: Measuring Parents' Thoughts and Strategies to Help Young Children Sleep Through the Night, Aimee J. Coulombe
Cambodian National Education Policy: Global Wants and/or Local Needs?, Kelly T. Crowley Dr.
Pharmacokinetics and Therapeutic Uses of Mesna, Murray J. Cutler
Surface Modifications of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) for Biological Application of Microfluidic Devices, Jessica M. Dechene
Mutations et glissements du roman francais au roman africain francophone., Ibrahima Bano Diallo
Wake Dynamics and Passive Flow Control of a Blunt Trailing Edge Profiled Body, Lakshmana Sampat Doddipatla
Credit Default Swaps - Essays on Model and Market Efficiency, Muhammad F. Farooqi
Object and Relations Uncertainty: Two Components of Perceived Environmental Uncertainty, Anthony Francolini
Advanced Topics on State Complexity of Combined Operations, Yuan Gao
Arithmetic Units for the Elliptic Curve Cryptography with Concurrent Error Detection Capability, Arash Hariri
Effects of acute synchronous whole-body vibration exercise, Tom J. Hazell
The Lotus japonicus cytokinin receptor gene family and its role in nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, Mark A. Held
Numerical Assessment of Roof Panel Uplift Capacity under Wind Load, Weixian He
The Holocene Paleolimnology of Lake Superior, Ayumi Hyodo