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
Treatment of Synthetic Oil Sands Tailing Water with Activated Carbon, Alfredo Martinez Iglesias
Turning to see otherwise, Jennifer L. Martin
Improved Non-Local Means Algorithm Based on Dimensionality Reduction, Golam Morshed Maruf
The Effects of Ocean Acidification and Eutrophication on the Growth, Lipid Composition and Toxicity of the Marine Raphidophyte Heterosigma Akashiwo., Julia Rose Matheson
The effects of alcohol on different classes of motion perception, Steven J. Matson
Applications of Stochastic Control in Energy Real Options and Market Illiquidity, Christian Maxwell
Beyond the Neoliberal Imaginary: Investigating the Role of Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education, Melanie M. Mazier
Steam Gasification of Biomass Surrogates: Catalyst Development and Kinetic Modelling, A S M Jahirul Islam Mazumder
Mouse Models of Intervertebral Disc Development, Degeneration and Mechanical Loading, Matthew R. McCann
Thématiques dans les récits des enfants cachés dans l'univers catholique en France, Carmen P. McCarron
Graphic Drama: Reading Shakespeare in the Comics Medium, Russell H. McConnell
Fully Automated Segmentation and Quantification of Abdominal Adipose Tissue Compartments in Mouse MRI, Colin M. McCurdy
Motivation and the 40-hour community involvement program: Their relationship to identity status in first year university students, Michael A. McDonald
Come Together: An Exploration of Contemporary Participatory Art Practices, Karly A. McIntosh
Examining the Influence of Environmental Opportunities and Exposures on Children's Sleep Duration, Leanne B. McIntosh
Sox9 conditional knockdown reduces chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan expression, increases neuroplasticity, and improves motor function in a mouse model of spinal cord injury, William M. McKillop
Decreased Peak Muscle Power is Associated with Motor Unit Loss in the Lower Limb of Older Adults, Neal B. McKinnon
The Effects of Semantic Neighborhood Density on the Processing of Ambiguous Words, Mark J. McPhedran
Temperature and pH Imaging using Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI Contrast, Nevin Neil Campbell McVicar
The Role of the Media in the Automatic Dehumanization of Refugees, Stelian Medianu
On The Applications of Lifting Techniques, Esmaeil Mehrabi
Attachment and Attention: An investigation of biases in attention as they relate to attachment security in infancy and adulthood, Paul J. Meinz
Maternal Employment During Infancy and Toddlerhood: Mechanisms for Associations with Childhood Overweight/Obesity in Canada, Nathalie Victoria Metzer
Influence of Polycaprolactone and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor on Gingival Fibroblasts, Sarah Michelsons
Options Pricing and Hedging in a Regime-Switching Volatility Model, Melissa A. Mielkie