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 Effects of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors on the Reproductive Biology of Male Western Bean Cutworm Moths, Striacosta Albicosta (Smith), Jasmine Farhan
Investigating The Role of Zoos In Primate Conservation: An Analysis Of Visitor Experience At The Toronto Zoo, Caleigh Ashton Farrell
Numerical Modeling of Solidification Process and Prediction of Mechanical Properties in Magnesium Alloys, Mehdi Farrokhnejad
The Effects Upon Students of Supplementing Aboriginal Post-Secondary Transition Programs With Traditional Cultural Activities, Karen Favell
Elementary Students' Beliefs About the Causes of Learning Difficulties: A Comparison Between Canada and Saudi Arabia, Huda Saleh Felimban
Exploring parental experiences and decision-making processes following a fetal anomaly diagnosis, Ramona L. Fernandez
Non-Neuronal Acetylcholine Secretion by Neonatal Murine Cardiomyocytes, William Fields
Spectrum Sensing and Multiple Access Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networks, Oscar G. Filio Rodriguez
Language contributions to health related quality of life in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Katie M. Findlater
Factors Affecting Music Education in Ontario Secondary Schools: Teachers' Perspectives, Laura E. Fitzpatrick
Multiple approaches for assessing mangrove biophysical and biochemical variables using in situ and remote sensing techniques, Francisco Javier Flores de Santiago
The effects of pre- and postnatal administration of propionic acid and lipopolysaccharide on the behaviour of adolescent male and female rats, Kelly A. Foley
The Effect of Exercise on Cravings and Ad libitum Smoking Following Concurrent Stressors, Angela J. Fong
Human Adenovirus E1A binds and retasks cellular hBre1, blocking interferon signalling and activating virus early gene transcription, Gregory J. Fonseca
Reinforcement learning with motivations for realistic agents, Jacquelyne T. Forgette
Characterizing Stomatin-like Protein 2 and its Role in Neuron Survival, Lisa A. Foris
Studies of the Charge Storage Properties of Poly(bithiophene) and Amorphous Carbon Nitride, Timothy Adam Forristal
Clash of the Industry Titans: Marvel, DC and the Battle for Market Dominance, Caitlin Foster
UTIL-DSS: Utilization-Based Dynamic Strategy Switching for Improvement in Data Centre Operation, Graham Foster
A Physical and Geochemical Characterization of Southwestern Ontario's Breathing Well Region, Candace N. Freckelton
"Sit-still and Shut-up": The Construction of Childhood and Classroom Management Pedagogies in a Preservice Education Textbook, Marlene P. Frederick
Structure-Function Analysis of UDP-Sugar: Polyisoprenyl Phosphate Sugar-1-Phosphate Transferases, Sarah E. Furlong
Theory of Model Kohn-Sham Potentials and its Applications, Alex P. Gaiduk