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
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- 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 Other Sides of Billy Joel: Six Case Studies Revealing the Sociologist, the Balladeer, and the Historian, A. Morgan Jones
Evaluation of Wind-Induced Resuspension on the Performance of a Mine Tailings Storage Facility, Laxmi Kant Kachhwal
Investigating Performance and Reliability of Process Bus Networks for Digital Protective Relaying, Mitalkumar Kanabar
Transition Metal Complexes with Reactive Trimethylsilylchalcogenolate Ligands: Precursors for the Preparation of Ternary Nanoclusters, Chhatra Bahadur Khadka
Noms composés en turc et morphème -(s)I, Volha Kharytonava
Bulk density of small meteoroids, Jean-Baptiste Kikwaya Eluo
Strategies for Reducing the Impact of Tumour Motion During Helical Tomotherapy, Bryan Kim
Fatigue and Mobility Post-Stroke, Svetlana Knorr
An Analytical and Numerical Treatment of Inclined Elliptical Orbits About a Kerr Black Hole, Peter G. Komorowski
Workflow-Net Based Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems, Yehia T. Kotb
Do I feel dissonance over you? Sex differences in the experience of dissonance for romantic partners, Sandra D. Lackenbauer
Corporeal Returns: Theatrical Embodiment and Spectator Response in Early Modern Drama, Caroline R. Lamb
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
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
Development of a Novel TiO2-polymeric Photocatalyst for Water Purification both under UV and Solar illuminations, Debjani Mukherjee
Finding Faulty Functions From the Traces of Field Failures, Syed Shariyar Murtaza
Coupled heat and water transport in frozen soils, Ranjeet M. Nagare
Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vortices, Diwakar Natarajan
Motivational Coaching: Its Efficacy as an Obesity Intervention and a Profile of Professional Coaches, Courtney E. Newnham-Kanas
Client-Provider Relationships in a Community Health Clinic for People Experiencing Homelessness: A Critical Ethnography, Abram Oudshoorn
Thermodynamics, Hydrodynamics and Critical Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories, Christopher Pagnutti
Algorithmic Contributions to the Theory of Regular Chains, Wei Pan
Structure and Dynamics of the Membrane Protein Bacteriorhodopsin Studied by Mass Spectrometry, Yan Pan
A phenomenological inquiry into the embodied nature of occupation at end-of-life, Anna Park Lala
Structure-Function Analysis of Enzymes of the Polyisoprenyl-Phosphate Hexose-1-Phosphate Transferase family, Kinnari B. Patel
Title, Joanne Paterson
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies on the Oxidation Processes of Nickel, Chromium and their Alloys, Bradley P. Payne
El Gracioso en el Teatro de Calderón: Un Análisis desde las Humanidades Digitales, Miriam A. Peña-Pimentel
An Investigation of Masked Priming Mechanisms in Binary Classification Tasks, Jason Perry
Carving Cognition at its Joints: Insights from the Interaction between Explicit and Implicit Social Cognition, Kurt R. Peters
Assessing and Improving 4D-CT Imaging for Radiotherapy Applications, Greg Pierce
The Complex Paragenetic History of Basal Negaunee Iron Formation Iron Ores, Tilden Mine, Marquette District, Upper Michigan, Natalie J. Pietrzak
General Education Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Developing "Interventionist" Beliefs and Practices, Michelle Pompeo
Molecular Dynamics Studies of Interactions of Phospholipid Membranes with Dehydroergosterol and Penetrating Peptides, Amir Mohsen Pourmousa Abkenar
Model Socialist Town, Two Decades Later: Contesting the Past in Nowa Huta, Poland, Kinga Pozniak
Investigating Interfacial Reactions of Silver-Containing Films Using Novel Methods, Sarah Danielle Pretty
Seeking the Self in Pigment and Pixels: Postmodernism, Art, and the Subject, Selma Purac
Effects of Work Environments on Nursing and Patient Outcomes, Nancy M. Purdy
Brassinosteroid-mediated stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana, Tawhidur Rahman
Addressing Computational Complexity of High Speed Distributed Circuits Using Model Order Reduction, Ehsan Rasekh
A model system in landscape genetics – the insect inhabitants of pitcher plants, Gordana Gojko Rasic
A Usability Maturity Model for Open Source Software, Arif Raza
Structural Role of S100 Proteins in Membrane Repair, Atoosa Rezvanpour
The Olympic Games and the Secret Cold War: The U.S. Government and the Propaganda Campaign Against Communist Sport, 1950-1960, Toby C. Rider
The Regulation of Cell Division and Neurogenesis by the Chromatin Remodeling Protein ATRX, Kieran L. Ritchie
Attitude Estimation and Control of VTOL UAVs, Andrew D. Roberts
Magnetic Field Effects On The Neuroprocessing Of Pain, John A. Robertson
A Social Relations Analysis of Transactive Memory in Groups, Sarah J. Ross
Real-time Three-dimensional Photoacoustic Imaging, Michael B. Roumeliotis