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 Effect of Exercise on Cigarette Craving and Withdrawal Symptoms While Using a Nicotine Lozenge, Amelia Tritter
Mental Toughness Training Intervention for Collegiate Track and Field Athletes, Amanda A. Truelove
Les interactions morphosyntaxiques dans l’interlangue des apprenants: le cas de l'acquisition des pronoms clitiques en français L2, Kanstantsin Tsedryk
Presenting the Fashion Object: Analyzing the exhibition Fashioning the Object: Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund, Elyse N. Tsotsos
The Effects of Global Climate Change on Canadian Boreal Forest Collembola Communities, Matthew S. Turnbull
The Neural Correlates of Guilt and Restitution During a Social Decision Making Task, Ambrose Ty
Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of a Bog-Fen-Tributary Complex in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada, Thomas A. Ulanowski
Post Exercise Ingestion of Plant vs Animal Protein Enhances Exercise Performance Outcomes Similarly, Adam N. Upshaw
Sex Hormones and Sympathetic Nerve Activity, Charlotte W. Usselman
Effects of Surface Topographies on Heat and Fluid Flows, Hadi Vafadar Moradi
Studies of Anode Electrodes for the BioGenerator, Vahid Vajihinejad
Scale-Up Methodology for Bench-Scale Slurry Photocatalytic Reactors Using Combined Irradiation and Kinetic Modelling, Patricio J. Valades Pelayo
Validation of the multi-segment foot model with bi-planar fluoroscopy, Aïda Valevicius
Investigating Teachers' Understandings of Gender Equity and Achievement in Postfeminist Times, Katee Joy Van Campen
Secondary Traumatic Stress and Alexithymia in High-Risk Professionals, Matthew R. J. Vandermeer
Characterization of Human 82-kDa Choline Acetyltransferase expression in a newly developed Transgenic Mouse Model, Silke M. Vanvaerenbergh
Biostimulation of Oil Refinery Soils, Thipphathong Vattaso
Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia, Ashleigh Vella
Escribir la propia vida: memoria, confesión y autobiografía en dos textos medievales, Maria Carmen Vera Lopez
Canadian Post-Secondary Students, Stress, and Academic Performance – A Socio-Ecological Approach, L. Nicole Versaevel
Psychometric evaluation of self-report pain and disability measures for elbow disorders, Joshua Vincent
Reporting Child Exposure to Domestic Violence: Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes and Behaviours, Katherine Vink
Examination of the Usability of the IPAD Among Older Adult Consumers, Mike J. Voumvakis
Computing Intersection Multiplicity via Triangular Decomposition, Paul Vrbik
More Than Just Sex: The Social Implications of HIV/AIDS in Lusaka, Zambia, Mbaka Wadham