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 2015
Limitation to Innovation in the North American Console Video Game Industry 2001-2013: A Critical Analysis, Michael Schmalz
Static and Dynamic Response of Silty Toyoura Sand with PVA Fibre and Cement Additives, Colin J.R. Schmidt
The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Changes and Board Independence Power on Selected Governance Practices at the Board Level, Karin L. Schnarr
Investigating The Regulation Of A Fatty Acid Efflux Pump In Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, James ET Schneider
Social Networking Sites and Personnel Selection: An Initial Validity Assessment, Travis J. Schneider
Morphology and Morphometry of Double Layered Ejecta Craters on Mars, Ryan Schwegman
The Relationship Between Violent Media, Pornography, and Cyber Dating Abuse Among Adolescents, Jessica Sciaraffa
Extensions of the Cross-Entropy Method with Applications to Diffusion Processes and Portfolio Losses, Alexandre Scott
Perception of Fatigue in Individuals Diagnosed with Head and Neck Cancer, Grace Scott
Acute Sprint Interval Exercise Induces a Greater FGF-21 Response in Comparison to Work-Matched Continuous Exercise, Blair M. Segsworth
Factors Associated with Success in PARE Testing Among RCMP Officers, Robert Andre Seguin
Planting the Chalcone Reductase Family Tree: Identification and Characterization of Chalcone Reductase Genes in Soybean, Caroline Julia Sepiol
Quantization of two types of Multisymplectic manifolds, Baran Serajelahi
Supplier social engagement, reciprocity of social practices and performance in supply chains, Asad Shafiq
Combinatorial Polynomial Identity Theory, Mayada Khalil Shahada
Methotrexate and cardiovascular events, Alpesh Shah
Advanced Compression and Latency Reduction Techniques Over Data Networks, Fuad Shamieh
Mathematical Modeling of Stress Management via Decisional Control, Matthew J. Shanahan
The Aesthetics of Romantic Hellenism, Derek Shank
Completely monotone and Bernstein functions with convexity properties on their measures, Shen Shan
Counteracting Bloom Filter Encoding Techniques for Private Record Linkage, Vasundhara Sharma
Fish Out of Salt Water: Smoltification in Subyearling Chinook Salmon from the Laurentian Great Lakes, Steve Sharron
Passive Acoustic Emissions Monitoring of Fluidized Bed Pellet Coating, Taylor Sheahan
Iron Acquisition Mechanisms and Their Role in Staphylococcus aureus Survival and Virulence, Jessica R. Sheldon
Chromite Crystal Structure and Chemistry applied as an Exploration Tool, Patrick H.M. Shepherd