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
Perfect and Nearly Perfect Sampling of Work-conserving Queues, Yaofei Xiong
The role of superantigens during Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and infection, Stacey Xu
Application of otolith increment analysis to the study of maturation timing in female kokanee salmon, Yelin Xu
Tilting Sheaves on Brauer-Severi Schemes and Arithmetic Toric Varieties, Youlong Yan
Investigation of Fracture Toughness Measurement for Pipeline Steels Based on SE(B) and SE(T) Specimens, Zijian Yan
Functional Imaging of Malignant Gliomas with CT Perfusion, Timothy Pok Chi Yeung
When Objects Become Part of Self: Effects of Ownership and Choice on Self-object Associations, Yang Ye
In Vitro Functional Analysis Of Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms In OATP1B1 And Potential Clinical Relevance, Zhiyuan P. Yin
Across Boundaries, Diana A. Yoo
Amyloid β Peptides, Signalling and Trafficking of the α7 Nicotine Receptor, Kirk Young
'What's in a List?' Cultural Techniques, Logistics, Poeisis, Liam Cole Young
Fatal Attraction: The Fetishized Image of the Fatal Woman as Gothic Double, Margaret Anne Young
Gamma-Radiolysis Kinetics of Liquid, Vapour and Supercritical Water, Nastaran Yousefi
The Role of Oxygen Tension and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Signaling in the Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate, Amer Youssef
Using Worked-Out Examples of Written Explanation for Writing-to-Learn in Evolutionary Biology, Amy M. Yu
Surfactant Assisted Dispersion of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Polyvinylpyrrolidone Solutions, Tennison Yu
Examining Contextual Factors and Resilience in Adolescents who Faced Adversity as Children, Veronica Zapotoczny
Risk Scores for Predicting Mortality in Flail Chest, Meaghan Zehr
Automated Building Information Extraction and Evaluation from High-resolution Remotely Sensed Data, Chuiqing Zeng
Development and Integration of MEMS Based Inductive Sensors, Luyang Zhang
The Reciprocal Influences of the Old Order Mennonite Community and Tourism in St. Jacobs, Ontario, Mingyuan Zhang
Decision Theory Based Models in Insurance and Beyond, Raymond Ye Zhang
Development of Probabilistic Corrosion Growth Models with Applications in Integrity Management of Pipelines, Shenwei Zhang