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
Genetic approaches to studying complex human disease, Joseph B. Dube
Elucidating the Role of Menin During Islet Cell Development in the Human Fetal Pancreas, Jessica L. Dubrick
Imaging Breast Cancer Progression and Lymph Node Metastases in Murine Models Using MRI and Magnetic Nanoparticles, Vasiliki Economopoulos
The Role of Humor as a Character Strength in Positive Psychology, Kimberly R. Edwards
Channel Flow Behaviour During Mixed Convection at Low Reynolds Numbers, Ahmed Elatar
Biofilm Control in a Fludized Bed Bioreactor (FBBR) Treating Municipal Wastewater: Optimization, Modeling, and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions, Ahmed Eldyasti
Simplified Tools for Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Frames Exposed to Fire, Salah El-Din F. El-Fitiany
Manufacturing Legitimacy: A Critical Theory of Election News Coverage, Gabriel N. Elias
Evaluation of matricellular proteins as potential therapeutics for the treatment of human chronic skin wounds, Christopher G. Elliott
On The Development of a Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Near-Infrared Technique to Measure Cerebral Blood Flow in the Neurocritical Care Unit, Jonathan T. Elliott
Understanding what would make children want to attend a bicycle safety training program, Cassandra L. Ellis
Cyclic and Post-Cyclic Response of Silt and Sandy Silt Soils, Ali El Takch
Uncovering the Molecular Link Between miR156.SPL15 and Carotenoid Accumulation in Arabidopsis, Davood Emami Meybodi
Structure of an Ensemble of Insectivorous Bats, Matthew A. Emrich
Trophic Level Influence on Stable Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Bat Fur, Leslie M. Erdman
Fabricating Cost-Effective Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications, Erden Ertorer
The Synthesis and Evaluation of Peptide-Based Probes for the Imaging of RHAMM Expressing Carcinoma and GLP-1R on Pancreatic Beta Cells, Ashley Esarik
Photocatalytic Water Splitting using a Modified Pt-TiO2. Kinetic Modeling and Hydrogen Production Efficiency, Salvador Escobedo Salas
Progress Toward Synthesis of Molecular Beacons Incorporating DABCYL Analog Quenchers, Christie M. Ettles
Sexual Differentiation of the Prefrontal Cortex in Humans: Examining Behavioural Sex Differences and the Modulatory Role of Androgens, Kelly L. Evans
The Violence of Aesthetics: Benjamin, Kane, Bolaño, Nicholas A. Fagundo
Characterization of the Corrosion and Oxide Film Properties of Alloy 600 and Alloy 800, Melissa Faichuk
Expression analysis of histone acetyltransferases in rice under drought stress, Hui Fang