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
Part I: Synthesis of Pyrrolo[1,2-A]Indoles Part II: Studies Towards Arboflorine, Michael B. Johansen
The Professional Master's Occupational Therapist: Developing an Emerging Professional Identity, Bonny F. Jung
Simulation-based Valuation and Counterparty Exposure Estimation of American Options, Kin Hung Kan
Controlled Delivery of Serp-1 Protein from Poly(vinyl alcohol) Hydrogel, Karen L. Kennedy
Structural insights into DNA replication and lesion bypass by Y family DNA polymerases, Kevin N. Kirouac
Cross-Sector Models of Collaboration for Social Innovation, Marlene J. Le Ber
Options Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Investigation of Patterns of Commitment in Display Technologies in the Flat Panel TV Set Industry, Derek Lehmberg
A Stakeholder Generated Conceptualization for Successful Return to Work Outcome Evaluation: A Concept Mapping Approach, Rhysa Leyshon
Virtual and Augmented Reality Techniques for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Interventions: Concept, Design, Evaluation and Pre-clinical Implementation, Cristian A. Linte
Characterizing and Diagnosing Architectural Degeneration of Software Systems from Defect Perspective, Zude Li
Incentives for Optimal Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources, Monali M. Malvankar
Regulation of DNA Damage Processing by Covalent Modification of Thymine DNA Glycosylase, Ryan D. Mohan
Response of a Two-Story Residential House Under Realistic Fluctuating Wind Loads, Murray J. Morrison
The Evolution of the Retail Landscape, Mathew Novak
Causality and Similarity in Autobiographical Event Structure: An Investigation Using Event Cueing and Latent Semantic Analysis, Christopher M. O'Connor
Toronto the Green: Pollution Probe and the Rise of the Canadian Environmental Movement, Ryan Ernest O'Connor
The Information Practices of People Living with Depression: Constructing Credibility and Authority, Tami Oliphant
Feeling, Impulse and Changeability: The Role of Emotion in Hume's Theory of the Passions, Katharina A. Paxman
The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention, Amanda J. Porter
Collision Detection and Merging of Deformable B-Spline Surfaces in Virtual Reality Environment, Harish Pungotra
Improvements in Cardiac Spect/CT for the Purpose of Tracking Transplanted Cells, Eric Sabondjian
Occasioning Dialogic Spaces of Innovation: The pan-Canadian EHR, Infoway and the Re-Scripting of Healthcare, Akbar M. Saeed
Catalytic Steam Gasification of Biomass Surrogates: A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Approach, Enrique Salaices