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
The adaptive capacity of thermal tolerance in chinook salmon, Nicolas Muñoz
Characterization of the anti-apoptotic function of the lysine demethylase plant homeodomain finger protein 8 (PHF8), Kimberly Muranko
Hearing Voices: Judicial Consideration of Ontario’s Social Assistance Legislation, Teri Muszak
Blood Conservation in Total Hip Arthroplasty: Interim Analysis of the Tranexamic Acid Comparison in Hip Replacement (TeACH-R) Trial, Richard P. Nadeau
Elemental Distribution in Bone Impacted by Bacterial Diseases, Steven J. Naftel
Beyond the Sports Page: Baseball, The Cuban Revolution, and Rochester, New York Newspapers, 1954-1960, Evan K. Nagel
Oriented Collagen and Applications of Waveguide Evanescent Field Scattering (WEFS) Microscopy, Qamrun Nahar
Design of a Haptic Interface for Medical Applications using Magneto-Rheological Fluid based Actuators, Nima Najmaei
Body Image and Quality of Life: An Exploration Among Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer, Melissa M. Nash
Diphosphine Carboxamide Ligands with Gold(I), Silver(I) and Platinum(II), Nasser Nasser
The Role of KIM-1 Mediated Efferocytosis by Cancer Cells in Blocking the Immunogenicity of Tumor Cell Death, Sahra Nathoo
Diffusion and Adsorption Coefficients of Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Gas Chromatography Capillary Columns, Gabriela Navarro Tovar
Glacial Stratigraphy of the Ridge River Area, Northern Ontario: Refining Wisconsinan Glacial History and Evidence for Laurentide Ice Streaming, Maurice Nguyen
The effects of target spectrum, noise, and reverberation on auditory cue weighting in sound localization, Tran M. Nguyen
Confronting Colonial Standard Making Practices: Environmental Governance and Invasive Species Management at Walpole Island First Nation, Kristy A. Nicholson
Verb Use in Parkinson's Disease, Swati S. Nikumb
The Relationship between Implicit and Explicit Processing in Statistical Language Learning, Nicolette B. Noonan
Pre-diabetes and sympathetic nervous system mediated microvascular dysregulation in skeletal muscle, Nicole M. Novielli
Morphologic and structural mapping of layered central uplifts on Mars, Anna M. Nuhn
Enhanced Dechlorination of 1,2-Dichloroethane by Coupled Nano Iron-Dithionite Treatment, Ariel Nunez Garcia
Hungry Farmers: A Political Ecology of Agriculture and Food Security in Northern Ghana, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
Dual energy imaging for determining urinary calculi composition: A theoretical and experimental study with computed tomography, Stephanie Nykamp