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
The role of IL-22 produced by Th17 cells in Type 1 Diabetes, Stacey M. Bellemore
Exploring Attachment and the Transition to Motherhood for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Laura E. Bellhouse
Origins of stable isotopic variations in Late Pleistocene horse enamel and bone from Alberta, Nicolle S. Bellissimo
Skin Diseases and Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss Linked to Cx30 Mutations Arise Through Several Distinct Mechanisms, Amy C. Berger
Development and Applications of a Novel Intermittent Solids Feeder for Pyrolysis Reactors, Federico M. Berruti
InterNAV3D: A Navigation Tool for Robot-Assisted Needle-Based Intervention for the Lung, Srikanth Bhattad
Reassembling Knowledge Translation Through a Case of Autism Genomics: Multiplicity and Coordination Amidst Practiced Actor-Networks, Julia J. Bickford
Approaches Toward Combining Positron Emission Tomography with Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Geron A. Bindseil
Aristotle on the Good of Friendship: Why the Beneficiary is Not What Matters, Kristina L. Biniek
An Ethical Justification for Research with Children, Ariella Binik
Distinguishing the 'Vanguard' from the 'Insipid': Exploring the Valorization of Mainstream Popular Music in Online Indie Music Criticism, Charles J. Blazevic
"Oh, so we're not insured?": Exploring the impact of Ontario's Health Insurance Plan on new permanent residents and healthcare providers, Andrea Bobadilla
ER stress coupled pannexin channel activation via STIM proteins, Ankur Bodalia
Effects of Excitation Pressure on Variegation and Global Gene Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana, Rainer Bode
Secular Trends in Ischemic Stroke Subtypes, Chrysi Bogiatzi
Regulation of Lipid Homeostasis, Inflammatory Signalling and Atherosclerosis by the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Delta, Lazar A. Bojic
A Baseline Assessment of University Students’ Vitamin D Knowledge, Shaunessey Boland
Transforming growth factor-beta receptor signalling is modulated by integrin-linked kinase, Stellar H. Boo
Nurses’ Learning and Conceptualization of Technology used in Practice, Richard G. Booth
Measuring the sixth vital sign: A descriptive analysis of distress in individuals with head and neck cancer and their caregivers, Catherine C. Bornbaum
Mitigating Risk Factors for Disease Progression in Patients with Varus Gonarthrosis, Angelo Boulougouris
The Social Life of Metaphor, Andrea Bowes
Multimodal Noncontact Tracking of Surgical Instruments, Tara Bracken
The Plastic and Evolutionary Responses of Fish to Anthropogenic Stressors, Ross D. Breckels
Assessing Multi-Unit Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity Across Groups: A Multivariate Approach to a Multivariate Concept, Danielle N. Brewer