preliminaries.tex

\newcommand \thesistitle{Title of my Thesis}

\newcommand \degreename{Master of Science}

% Use the wording given in the official list of degrees awarded by UCI:
% http://www.rgs.uci.edu/grad/academic/degrees_offered.htm
\newcommand \degreefield{eHealth}

% Your name as it appears on official UCI records.
\newcommand \authorname{Firstname Lastname}

% Use the full name of each committee member.
\newcommand \committeechair{Dr. First Supervisor}
\newcommand \othercommitteemembers
{
  Dr. Second Supervisor\\
  Dr. Third Supervisor\\
  Dr. Fourth Supervisor
}

\newcommand \degreeyear{YEAR}

\newcommand \degreemonth{MONTH}

\newcommand \univname{McMaster University}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}

\newcommand \copyrightdeclaration
{
  {\copyright} {\Degreeyear} \Authorname
}


% The dedication page is optional.
\newcommand \dedications
{
  This is dedicated to http://nuchange.ca
}


\newcommand \acknowledgments
{
  Foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to the person who created this LaTeX template. 

\noindent
My teachers 

\noindent
My friends 

\noindent
My batch mates 

\noindent
My survey participants

\noindent
My colleagues 

\noindent
My parents 

\noindent
My wife 


\noindent
And to all others .


}


% Some custom commands for your list of publications and software.
\newcommand{\mypubentry}[3]{
  \begin{tabular*}{1\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}p{4.5in}r}
    \textbf{#1} & \textbf{#2} \\ 
    \multicolumn{2}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}p{.95\textwidth}}{#3}\vspace{6pt} \\
  \end{tabular*}
}
\newcommand{\mysoftentry}[3]{
  \begin{tabular*}{1\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}lr}
    \textbf{#1} & \url{#2} \\
    \multicolumn{2}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}p{.95\textwidth}}
    {\emph{#3}}\vspace{-6pt} \\
  \end{tabular*}
}

% Include, at minimum, a listing of your degrees and educational
% achievements with dates and the school where the degrees were
% earned. This should include the degree currently being
% attained. Other than that it's mostly up to you what to include here
% and how to format it, below is just an example.
\newcommand \runninghead
{
Running head here.
}

\newcommand \thesisabbr{
	%\Huge
%List Of Acronyms	\\
%\normalsize
\textbf{DAD} - Discharge Abstract Database \\
\textbf{HMDB} - Hospital Morbidity Database  \\

}

% The abstract should not be over 350 words, although that's
% supposedly somewhat of a soft constraint.
\newcommand \thesisabstract
{
  This is my abstract. Please visit http://nuchange.ca for more details

 

}