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
“Companions of the Flame”: Concealment and Revelation in H.D.’s Trilogy, Cam Riddell
The Role of Integrins in Support of Pancreatic Function, Survival and Maturation, Matthew Riopel
The Association Between Women's Autonomy and Women's HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes in Ethiopia, Fadumo Rirash
Women's Navigation of Maternal Health Services in Ghana's Upper West Region in the Context of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Andrea C. Rishworth
Perceptions about Equity in Public Health: A comparison between frontline staff and informing policy in Ontario, Katherine E. Rizzi
Genomic predictors of drug response to the alpha-specific phosphoinositol 3-kinase (PI3Ka-alpha) inhibitor BYL719 in head and neck cancers, Giananthony T. Rizzo
Cognitive Predictors and Behavioural Mediators of Vulnerability-Specific Stress Generation in Depressed Adults, Katerina Rnic
Characterizing Spoken Discourse in Individuals with Parkinson Disease Without Dementia, Angela C. Roberts
Protein Conformational Studies by Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry, Antony D. Rodriguez
Understanding the role of cholinergic tone in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, Kaie Rosborough
Realistic Dialogue Engine for Video Games, Caroline M. Rose
Boxing in the Union Blue: A Social History of American Boxing in the Union States During the Late Antebellum and Civil War Years, Greggory M. Ross
Hypothetical Necessity and the Laws of Nature: John Locke on God's Legislative Power, Elliot Rossiter
Host-imposed regulation of bacterial transposons Tn10 and Tn5, Joseph A. Ross
Struggling to Compete: Community-Based Research on Agrarian Change in the Caribbean, Karen A. Ross
The Implications of Altered Cholinergic Signaling in Cardiac Health and Disease, Ashbeel Roy
Body Mass Index Trajectories: The Effect of Fetal Size and Early Life Modifiable Factors, Mathew Roy
An Accurate Offline Phasor Estimation Technique For Fault Location In Series Compensated Lines, Rubeena Rubeena
Quantitative Susceptibility Imaging of Tissue Microstructure Using Ultra-High Field MRI, David A. Rudko
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Regulates miR-200b in Retinal Endothelial Cells: Possible Implications in Diabetic Retinopathy, Michael A. Ruiz
Protein Body Biogenesis and Utility in Recombinant Protein Production in Nicotiana benthamiana, Reza Saberianfar
A New Generation of Polymer/Ceramic Composite Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration, Mehrnaz Salarian
Prostate Tumor Volume Measurement on Digital Histopathology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mehrnoush Salarian
Curcumin-Loaded Magnetic Nanoaggregates Conjugated with Folic Acid for Targeted Cancer Treatment, Melessa Salem