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
Hydrogen Exchange Mass Spectrometry for Studying Protein-Ligand Interactions, Modupeola A. Sowole
Design of Novel Sensors and Instruments for Minimally Invasive Lung Tumour Localization via Palpation, Anish Srinivasan Naidu
Feasibility of using Arterial Spin Labeling for Detecting Longitudinal Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow, Tracy Ssali
Rob Zombie, the Brand: Crafting the Convergence-Era Horror Auteur, Ryan Stam
Perceiving Behaviors That "Push a Partner's Buttons": Biased and Accurate Trigger Knowledge, Attachment, and Relationship Dynamics, Sarah C. E. Stanton
Happiest People Alive: An Analysis of Class and Gender in the Trinidad Carnival, Asha L. St. Bernard
Agrarian Change and Peasant Prospects in Haiti, Marylynn Elizabeth Steckley
Investigation of flow and thermal behaviour in a pipe submerged in a hot fluid, Ben S. Steen
Design Wind Loads for Solar Modules Mounted Parallel to the Roof of a Low-rise Building, Sarah Elizabeth Stenabaugh
The Role of Connexins and Pannexins in Mammary Gland Development and Tumorigenesis, Michael K. G. Stewart
Stability and Activity of Naturally Occurring RGS2 Variants, Patrick Stockwell
Robot Navigation by Bending Forces and Torques, Matthew B. Stokes
Semantic Integration in Adults with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Influence of Word Knowledge and Gestalt Perception, Margot E. Stothers
The Role of Shroom3 in Kidney Development, Alexandra Sull
Novel Video Imaging to Examine Cardiac Function in Xenopus Embryos, Judith Sull
Pathophysiologic Mechanisms of Immune-mediated Drug Hypersensitivity Reactions to Sulfonamides, Elham A. Sultan
Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry to Study Protein Conformations in the Gas Phase, Yu Sun
Virú and Moche Textiles on the North Coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period: Material Culture, Domestic Traditions and Elite Fashions, Flannery K. Surette
Evidence Reversal: When New Evidence Contradicts Established Practices, Desiree S. Sutton
Pulmonary Imaging to Better Understand Asthma, Sarah Svenningsen
Mechanisms of ATF4-mediated neuronal apoptosis, Patrick Swan
An Ethnographic Study Examining Nurse-Client Relationships in a Jordanian Mental Health Care Setting, Wafa'a Falah Ta'an
Design and Fabrication of Integrated Plasmonic Platforms for Ultra-sensitive Molecular and Biomolecular Detections, Mohammadali Tabatabaei
Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Investigations of the Late Pleistocene Paleoecology of Eastern Beringia, Yukon Territory, Using Soils, Plants and Rodent Bones, Farnoush Tahmasebi