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
Miniature Cone Penetration Test on Loose Sand, Sepideh Damavandinejad Monfared
Regulation of IGFBP-1 Phosphorylation in Hypoxia Via mTOR Signaling, Ian Damerill
Algorithms to Improve Performance of Wide Area Measurement Systems of Electric Power Systems, Sarasij Das
The Stress Process Model for Community-Dwelling Adults with Mental Disorders, Samantha Davie
Mixed Methods Pilot Study of Peri-Diagnostic Exercise Behaviour Change Among Women With Suspected Breast Cancer, Amy L. Deckert
I. Accurate 50-200 keV proton stopping cross sections in solids II. Lateral growth of Si wires on Si (100) substrate, Sergey Dedyulin
Design of Analog CMOS Circuits for Batteryless Implantable Telemetry Systems, Kyle G. A. De Gannes
Surface Modification of Aluminum Alloys by Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Vahid Dehnavi
Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Enhanced Oxygen Delivery Using a Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complex, Tierney GB Deluzio
Deleuze's Apocalypse, Grant Dempsey
Maternal Control of Genomic Imprinting: Effects of Infertility and Ovarian Stimulation in a Mouse Model, Michelle M. Denomme
Image-based registration methods for quantification and compensation of prostate motion during trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy, Tharindu De Silva
The antisaccade task: Visual distractors elicit a location-independent planning 'cost', Jesse C. DeSimone
The X-ray View of Galaxies in Compact Groups and the Coma Cluster Infall Region, Tyler D. Desjardins
The Violence of Representation: The (Un) Narration of Palestine in Public Discursive Space in Canada, Peige Desjarlais
Observational Signatures from Self-Gravitating Protostellar Disks, Alexander L. DeSouza
Reactions to Refugees: Do Stronger Believers in a Just World Compensate, Dehumanize, and Perceive Refugees as More Responsible for their Status?, Amanda N. DeVaul-Fetters
Cultivating Better Brains: Transhumanism and its Critics on the Ethics of Enhancement Via Brain-computer Interfacing, Matthew Devlin
Cultural Resource Management and Aboriginal Engagement: Policy and Practice in Ontario Archaeology, Megan DeVries
Shear Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams at Elevated Temperatures, Mohamed Diab
siRNA Targeting of Thymidylate Synthase, Thymidine Kinase 1 and Thymidine Kinase 2 as an Anticancer Therapy: A Combinatorial RNAi Approach, Christine Di Cresce
Covers Uncovered: A History of the "Cover Version," from Bing Crosby to the Flaming Lips, Sean Dineley
Determinants of Health Insurance Enrolment in Ghana's Upper West Region, Jenna Dixon
Numerical Simulation on Dilute Phase Pneumatic Transport, Ethan T. Doan