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People from around the world are increasingly taking advantage of the free access to theses and dissertations via Western’s hugely successful Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (ETDR). The ETDR was designed to provide a simple way to view a variety of current, academic information created or endorsed by the Western community.

Top 10 Most Popular Theses for 2014

1. Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Gold Nanoclusters
   (12.04 downloads per day; 3,649 downloads to date)
   Mahdi Hesari, Chemistry, PhD
   
   
2. Women's Stories of Breast Cancer: Sharing Information Through YouTube Video Blogs
   (5.19 downloads per day; 1,936 downloads to date)
   Jenna Kressler, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, MSc
   
   
3. Knowledge Translation and the Governance of Health Research in Canada:  A Critical Discourse Analysis
   (3.97 downloads per day; 1,205 downloads to date)
   Kathleen S. Ellis,  Health and Rehabilitation Sciences,  PhD
   
   
4. Structural and Durability Performance of Precast Segmental Tunnel Linings
   (3.81 downloads per day; 1,985 downloads to date)
   Safeer Abbas, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD
   
   
5. The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media
   (3.33 downloads per day; 17,56 downloads to date)
   Jason R. D'Aoust, Theory and Criticism, PhD
   
   
6. Deep Learning via Stacked Sparse Autoencoders for Automated Voxel-Wise Brain Parcellation Based on Functional Connectivity
   (2.98 downloads per day; 1,255 downloads to date)
   Céline Gravelines, Computer of Science, MSc
   
   
7. Surface Functionalization and Bioconjugation of Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
   (2.63 downloads per day; 1,261 downloads to date)
   Longyan Chen,  Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,  PhD
   
   
8. Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Conical Tanks under Hydrostatic Loading
   (4.42 downloads per day; 1,161 downloads to date)
   Tareq M. Azabi, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MESc
   
   
9. The Evolution of Indifference: Locating Stoic Influence in Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Du Dandysme et de Georges Brummell" and Charles Baudelaire's "Le Peintre de la vie moderne"
   (2.21 downloads per day; 1,152 downloads to date)
   Aurie Zeran,  Comparative Literature,  MA
   
   
10. Estimation of Hidden Markov Models and Their Applications in Finance (Synthesis, Testing and Modeling)
    (2.01 downloads per day; 589 downloads to date)
    Anton Tenyakov, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, PhD

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