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 Public School Washroom as Heterotopia: Gendered Spatiality and Subjectification, Jennifer C. Ingrey
Characterization of the Alternative Oxidase from the Psychrophilic Green Alga Chlamydomonas sp. UWO241, Michael SJ Inman
Exploring the Structure and Biochemistry of Oxidation-Mediated Inhibitation of the Peptidyl-Prolyl Isomerase PIN1, Brendan T. Innes
Prenatal Programming of Hepatic Glucose and Cholesterol Regulation in Male Rat Offspring by Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia, Waseem Iqbal
He Says, She Says: A Dyadic Approach to Understanding Safer Sex Behavior in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships, Corey Isaacs
Dual-Task Effects of Walking on Rate of Speech, Dayna Kathleen Jablecki
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Retrofit System for Light-Framed Wood Structures Under Wind Loading, Ryan B. Jacklin
The impact of Protection Motivation Theory grounded messaging on diabetes prevention behaviours following Gestational Diabetes, Jennifer M. Jacob
A Hybrid Visual Control Scheme to Assist the Visually Impaired with Guided Reaching Tasks, Duane Jacques
The Interaction of the Human Adenovirus E1A Protein with the Human DREF Transcription Factor, Kris M. James
Functional characterization of the HUA2 gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana, Preetam Janakirama
Magic(infra)realism: Jetztzeiten of Believability and Latin American History in García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad and Otoño del patriarca., Katarzyna Jasinski
Web 2.0-based Collaborative Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System: A Case Study of Human-Computer Interaction Patterns, Mohammadreza Jelokhani-Niaraki
Implementation,Validation and Application of an Automated Motion Correction Algorithm in Hepatic Perfusion CT for Image-Guided Radiotherapy, Nikolaj KG Jensen
Communicative Methodologies and Mechanisms in Public Art, Jeremy P. Jeresky
Sensitivity Analysis of Minimum Variance Portfolios, Xiaohu Ji
Numerical Modelling of Downburst Interaction with Bluff Body, Aditi Jog
Numerical Modelling of Species Exchange in a 3D Porous Medium: Modelling Exchange Within the Human Lung, Chelsea E. Johnson
Regulation of TRPM2 channels by Fyn kinase, Matthew L. Johnston
Placed-Based Rural Public Health Policy, Angela M. Jurich
Approximation of Exchange-Correlation Potentials for Orbital-Dependent Functionals, Alexei Kananenka
Abortion and Crime in Canada: A Test of the BMDL Hypothesis, Timothy Kang
Reproducibility of Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nikhil Kanhere
Functionalized Polyisobutylene: From Synthesis to Properties and Applications, Solmaz Karamdoust