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 2014
Investigating Teachers' Understandings of Gender Equity and Achievement in Postfeminist Times, Katee Joy Van Campen
Secondary Traumatic Stress and Alexithymia in High-Risk Professionals, Matthew R. J. Vandermeer
Characterization of Human 82-kDa Choline Acetyltransferase expression in a newly developed Transgenic Mouse Model, Silke M. Vanvaerenbergh
Biostimulation of Oil Refinery Soils, Thipphathong Vattaso
Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia, Ashleigh Vella
Escribir la propia vida: memoria, confesión y autobiografía en dos textos medievales, Maria Carmen Vera Lopez
Canadian Post-Secondary Students, Stress, and Academic Performance – A Socio-Ecological Approach, L. Nicole Versaevel
Psychometric evaluation of self-report pain and disability measures for elbow disorders, Joshua Vincent
Reporting Child Exposure to Domestic Violence: Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes and Behaviours, Katherine Vink
Examination of the Usability of the IPAD Among Older Adult Consumers, Mike J. Voumvakis
Computing Intersection Multiplicity via Triangular Decomposition, Paul Vrbik
More Than Just Sex: The Social Implications of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka, Zambia, Mbaka Wadham
Ghost number of group algebras, Gaohong Wang
Digestion of Municipal Wastewater Biosolids using an Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Bioreactor (AnFBR), Zhenqi Wang
Authority Migration and Accountability in Canadian Type II Multilevel Governance, Robert W. Waterman
Food Ontology and Distribution: Ethical Perception and the Food Object, Siobhan M. Watters
A Pseudo Non-Cartesian Pulse Sequence For Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Gas MRI of Rodent Lungs At Low Magnetic Field Strength, Krzysztof Wawrzyn
Releasing the self from the diagnostic straitjacket: Making meaning & creating understanding through dialogic autobiography, Marnie L. Wedlake
Development and Assessment of a Virtual Reality Forklift Simulator as a Research Tool to Study Whole-Body Vibration, Peter Wegscheider
Task-switching in oculomotor control: Systematic investigations of the unidirectional prosaccade switch-cost, Jeffrey Weiler
Quality of Life and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Yi Wei
Sacred Heart: A Stable Isotope Analysis of Childhood, Diet, and Mobility at a Nineteenth Century Ontario Cemetery, Emily Wells
A Cognitive Role Theoretic Approach to the Consumer Role, Jodie Whelan
A Philosophical Analysis of Ethics Education in the Canadian National Coaching Certification Program for Rowing, Mark M. Williams
Comparison of Housed and Homeless Patients with an Orthopedic Diagnosis, Susan M. Williams
The Christian as Witness in View of the True Witness, Emily Patricia Wilton
Somatic Copy Number Mosaicism Contributes to Genomic Diversity in Mus musculus, Andrea E. Wishart
Revisiting working memory: Are domain, process and global models mutually exclusive, nested or orthogonal?, Jeffrey P. Wong
Entrepreneurial Culture: Developing a Theoretical Construct and its Measurement, Matthew A. Wong
Three-dimensional Photoacoustic Tomography System Design Analysis and Optimization, Philip Wong
Evaluating Mental Health Training for Teachers: Identifying and Supporting Students with Mental Health Challenges, Jessica A. Woods
Sculpted Selves, Sculpted Worlds: Plasticity and Habit in the Thought of Catherine Malabou, Thomas Wormald
Gravity wave spectra morphology in the Arctic and non-Arctic lower atmosphere, Melanie C. Wright
Perfect and Nearly Perfect Sampling of Work-conserving Queues, Yaofei Xiong
The role of superantigens during Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and infection, Stacey Xu
Application of otolith increment analysis to the study of maturation timing in female kokanee salmon, Yelin Xu
Tilting Sheaves on Brauer-Severi Schemes and Arithmetic Toric Varieties, Youlong Yan
Investigation of Fracture Toughness Measurement for Pipeline Steels Based on SE(B) and SE(T) Specimens, Zijian Yan
Functional Imaging of Malignant Gliomas with CT Perfusion, Timothy Pok Chi Yeung
When Objects Become Part of Self: Effects of Ownership and Choice on Self-object Associations, Yang Ye
In Vitro Functional Analysis Of Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms In OATP1B1 And Potential Clinical Relevance, Zhiyuan P. Yin
Across Boundaries, Diana A. Yoo
Amyloid β Peptides, Signalling and Trafficking of the α7 Nicotine Receptor, Kirk Young
'What's in a List?' Cultural Techniques, Logistics, Poeisis, Liam Cole Young
Fatal Attraction: The Fetishized Image of the Fatal Woman as Gothic Double, Margaret Anne Young
Gamma-Radiolysis Kinetics of Liquid, Vapour and Supercritical Water, Nastaran Yousefi
The Role of Oxygen Tension and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Signaling in the Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate, Amer Youssef
Using Worked-Out Examples of Written Explanation for Writing-to-Learn in Evolutionary Biology, Amy M. Yu
Surfactant Assisted Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Polyvinylpyrrolidone Solutions, Tennison Yu
Examining Contextual Factors and Resilience in Adolescents who Faced Adversity as Children, Veronica Zapotoczny
Risk Scores for Predicting Mortality in Flail Chest, Meaghan Zehr
Automated Building Information Extraction and Evaluation from High-resolution Remotely Sensed Data, Chuiqing Zeng
Development and Integration of MEMS Based Inductive Sensors, Luyang Zhang
The Reciprocal Influences of the Old Order Mennonite Community and Tourism in St. Jacobs, Ontario, Mingyuan Zhang
Decision Theory Based Models in Insurance and Beyond, Raymond Ye Zhang
Development of Probabilistic Corrosion Growth Models with Applications in Integrity Management of Pipelines, Shenwei Zhang
Understanding Recurrent Disease: A Dynamical Systems Approach, Wenjing Zhang
Production and Applications of Formaldehyde-Free Phenolic Resins Using 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Derived from Glucose In-Situ, Yongsheng Zhang
Size-dependent Electroelastic Properties of Piezoelectric Nanoplates, Zhengrong Zhang
Intents-based Service Discovery and Integration, Cheng Zheng
Mechanical Pretreatment of Corncobs for Bioethanol Production by a Twin-Screw Extruder, Jun Zheng
Extracting Vessel Structure From 3D Image Data, Yuchen Zhong
Dissociating the Psychoactive Effects of Distinct Cannabis Compounds in the Mesocorticolimbic Circuitry, Jordan S. Zunder
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Numerical evaluation of aerodynamic roughness of the built environment and complex terrain, Daniel S. Abdi
Experimental investigation of wind effect on solar panels, Ayodeji Abiola-Ogedengbe
Cx43 Reduces Melanoma Growth Within a Keratinocyte Microenvironment and During Tumorigenesis in vivo, Mark J. Ableser
Static and Seismic Soil Culvert Interaction, Osama Salem A. Abuhajar
Decentralized Resource Scheduling in Grid/Cloud Computing, Ra'afat O. Abu-Rukba
Novel Control of PV Solar and Wind Farm Inverters as STATCOM for Increasing Connectivity of Distributed Generators, Mahendra AC
Assessing and Analyzing Bat Activity with Acoustic Monitoring: Challenges and Interpretations, Amanda M. Adams
Continuous Segregation and Removal of Biochar from Bubbling Fluidized Bed, Mary O. Adegboye
Study of Vertical Dense Jet Dilution in a Marine Environment, Nadeem Ahmad
Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy of Amorphous, Nanostructured and Nanocomposite Thin Films, Muhammad Shafiq Ahmed
Climate Change and Human Rights: A Case Study of Vulnerability and Adaptation in Coastal Communities in Lagos, Nigeria., Idowu M. Ajibade
From Nizam to Nation: The Representation of Partition in Literary Narratives about Hyderabad, Deccan, Nazia Akhtar
Emissions Trading: A Policy Option for Fighting Climate Change in Africa, Gbenga Akinwande
The role of choline acetyltransferase variants in Alzheimer's disease models, Shawn Albers
Catalytic Conversion of Benzothiophene Over a H-ZSM5 Catalyst, Reactivity and a Kinetic Model, Saad A. Al-Bogami
pH Responsive Hydrogen Bonding Motif to Improve the Sensitivity of Tumor Imaging, Fatimah Mohammed Algarni
Oxygen-Free Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation Over Vanadium Oxide Catalysts: Reactivity and Kinetic Modelling, Sameer Ali Al-Ghamdi
A Framework for Measuring the Usability Issues and Criteria of Mobile Learning Applications, Abdalha A. Ali
Application of Differential and Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry for Studying Natural Hazards, Samira Alipour
Localizing State-Dependent Faults Using Associated Sequence Mining, Shaimaa Ali
Patency and Complication Rates of the Arteriovenous Fistula: A Systematic Review, Ahmed A. Al-Jaishi
Treasuries of Subcultural Capital: Three Indie Institutions in the London, Ontario Independent-Music Scene, Samuel C. Allen
Sol-Gel Derived Biodegradable and Bioactive Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Biomaterials for Bone Tissue Engineering, Bedilu A. Allo
Reproductive Biology and Speciation in Drosophila pseudoobscura, Josh H.M. Alpern
The Effect of Glycan Linked to Cationic Peanut Peroxidase on its Activity, Maha M. Al-Subaie
Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy: Understanding Women's Decision-Making Process and Family Physicians' Views, Lemmese AlWatban
A Comparison of Speech Amplification Devices for Individuals with Parkinson's Disease and Hypophonia, Monika Andreetta
A Modular Approach to the Development of Interactive Augmented Reality Applications., Nelson J. Andre
Allostratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleogeography of the Cretaceous Upper Fort St. John Group (Upper Albian-Lower Cenomanian) in Northeastern British Columbia, Piotr Jan Angiel