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
Scale-up and study of the BioGenerator, Victor Pupkevich
Characterization of Blood-Derived Human Progenitor Cells for Vascular Regeneration, David Putman
Protein-Protein Interaction Network Alignment, Yu Qian
Cohomology of Absolute Galois Groups, Claudio Quadrelli
Quantum Optics of Polaritonic Nanocomposites, Chris Racknor
Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums, Stephanie Karen Radu
Investigation of Techniques to increase the Field of View of a Staring Transducer Array for Photoacoustic Imaging, Avery Raess
The role of rotator interval closure in Bankart lesion repair, Lauren L. Rainsford
Rapid Segmentation Techniques for Cardiac and Neuroimage Analysis, Martin Rajchl
Structural Response Analyses of Piezoelectric Composites using NURBS, Vijairaj Raj
Regulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 activity by Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase IIα, Fitore Raka
Experiencing Nothing: Anxiety and the Philosophy of Alain Badiou, William E. Rankin IV
Two spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) selection to Arabidopsis thaliana, Huzefa Ratlamwala
Managing Uncertainty in Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease, Michael J. Ravenek
Investigation of β-Catenin-Mediated Regulation of IGFBP-6 and the Roles of IGFBP-6 and IGF-II in Dupuytren's Disease, Christina N. Raykha
Frontstage Dramaturgy, Backstage Drama: An Ethnographic Study of the Provision of Hotel Accommodation, Maziar Raz
Thinking Across Worlds: Indigenous Thought, Relational Ontology, and the Politics of Nature; Or, If Only Nietzsche Could Meet A Yachaj, Jarrad Reddekop
Physical Simulation of Tornado-Like Vortices, Maryam Refan
The use of technology and electronic media in adolescent dating violence, Katherine Reif
The Aricheng Basement-Hosted Albitite-Type Uranium Deposit, Roraima Basin, Co-Operative Republic Of Guyana, South America., Jim A. Renaud
Clyfford Still in the 1930s: The Formative Years of a Leading Abstract Expressionist, Emma Richan
Exploring the Association Between Commute to School Duration and Children's Physical Activity Level and Bodyweight Status, Lucie Richard
(Un)Covering Suicide: The Changing Ethical Norms in Canadian Journalism, Gemma Richardson