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 2013
Traumatic Injury in vitro Elicits JNK-mediated Human Astrocyte Retraction, but Spares Cerebrovascular Endothelial Cells, Claudia Augustine
Thermal adaptation of life history traits in the Drosophila melanogaster group, Christopher James Austin
Variability in Characteristics of Ground Motions Across North America, Alireza Babaie Mahani
Ratio-based Edge Detection Inspired Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion, Asaduzzaman Babu
An Exploration of the Relationships between Markers of Social Status and Position and HIV Risk Behaviours in African, Caribbean, and Other Black Populations, Shamara M. Baidoobonso
The atmospheric chemistry of magnetic Bp stars, Jeffrey D. Bailey
Core Formation in Partially Ionized Magnetic Molecular Clouds, Nicole D. Bailey
Somatosensory stimulation modulates heart rate variability changes induced by isometric handgrip exercise, Jacquie Baker
The Ontario Leadership Framework and Leadership Interactions in a Sustained Working Group in Ontario Education, Daniel Ballantyne
Circadian rhythms in reward and underlying neural circuits, Ricardo M. Baltazar
Resolving the Genetic Etiology of Hypercholesterolemia in Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia, Mary A. Bamimore
Enunciation and Plurilingualism in the Francophone and Anglophone African Novel, Ndeye F. Ba
Process-Structure Relationships of Magnesium Alloys, Arindam Banerjee
Precast Deck Joints using FRP and Ultra-High Performance Concrete, Augustine K. Banson
Effects of Additive Modification on Flow Properties of Fine Coating Particles, Danni Bao
Numerical Evaluation of Community-Scale Aquifer Storage, Transfer and Recovery Technology, Jessica Barker
Spanish and Polish Heritage Speakers in Canada: The Overt Pronoun Constraint, Ewelina Barski
Neural circuits involved in mental arithmetic: Evidence from Customized Arithmetic Training, Christian Battista
Investigation of Auditory Encoding and the Use of Auditory Feedback During Speech Production, Laura E. Beamish
De-Essentializing the Past: Deconstructing Colonial Categories in 19th-Century Ontario, Matthew A. Beaudoin
Energy Intake Over Two Days is Unaffected by Acute Spring Interval Exercise Despite Increased Appetite and Energy Expenditure, Kristine Beaulieu
Essays on Mechanism Design and the Informed Principal Problem, Nicholas C. Bedard
Treatment of Aqueous Biomass and Waste via Supercritical Water Gasification for the Production of CH4 and H2, Izad Behnia
A Defence of Anti-Psychologism About Reasons, Alex Beldan
Investigating Immersive Augmented Reality as a Rehabilitation Tool for Parkinson disease, Danielle M. Bell Boucher