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
Feeling With Imagination: Sympathy and Postwar American Poetry, Timothy A. DeJong
Exploring the Iranian-Canadian Family Experience of Dementia Caregiving: A Phenomenological Study, Sevil Deljavan
How Age Friendly is This City? Strategies for Assessing Age-Friendliness, Michelle Dellamora
Governing Occupation Through Constructions of Risk: The Case of the Aging Driver, Silke Dennhardt
Staging Sacrifice: Knowledge Mobilization and Visitation at Huacas de Moche, Peru, Alison K. Deplonty
Organization of Human Auditory Cortex: Responses to Frequency Modulated Sounds, Diedre D. Desouza
An Investigation Into Identity, Power and Autonomous EFL Learning Among Indigenous and Minority Students In Post-secondary Education: A Mexican Case Study, Colette Despagne
Improving Acute Stroke Management with CT Perfusion Imaging: Approaches to Treatment Guidance and Brain Tissue Salvage, Christopher D. d'Esterre
Extra-Capitalist Thought, Karen Dewart McEwen
The Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Cerebrovascular HSP70, HSP90, INOS and ENOS Expression in Type 1 Diabetes, Adwitia Dey
Green Glass for Orchestra, Carolann K. DeYoung
Study of Stability Analysis of a Grid-Connected Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG)-based small Wind Farm, Baishakhi Dhar
Computational Molecular Coevolution, Russell J. Dickson
Testing the Template Hypothesis of Vocal Learning in Songbirds., Adriana Diez
The Impact of Lateral Electron Disequilibrium on Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy of Lung Cancer, Brandon Disher
Fostering Creativity: Ontario Teachers’ Perceptions, Strategies, and Experiences, Catharine M. Dishke Hondzel
Characterization of a Putative Activation Domain in the Hulk Gene Family, Christopher Doan
Exploring the Movement of People in Postclassic and Historic Period Lamanai Using Stable Isotopes, Alicia E. Donis
An Architecture for Believable Socially Aware Agents, Arvand Dorgoly
Gender and Grade Differences in How High School Students Experience and Perceive Cyberbullying, Jeremy D. Doucette
Detection, prioritization and analysis of variants of unknown significance in familial breast cancer genes, Eddie A. Dovigi
The Methodological Roles of Tolerance and Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics: Reconsidering Carnap's Logic of Science, Emerson P. Doyle
Subordinate Ratings of Supervisor Performance: Balancing Accountability and Anonymity, Kevin Doyle
Cortical Cannabinoid Modulation of Subcortical Dopamine Activity: Implications for Emotional Processing, Brittany Draycott
Investigation of Hollow Bar Micropiles in Cohesive Soil, Osama F. El Hadi Drbe