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Depositing Your PhD Thesis in ARAN
1. Discuss with your supervisor whether an embargo period to withhold access to your thesis is necessary and, if required, request this using the Library Submission form EOG051 which you you submit with your hardbound thesis.
2. Check whether you need to obtain permissions to include any third party copyrighted material such as illustrations or tables from other sources that you have reproduced. Your ethesis will be available on open access so if you do not have permission you must replace this content in the electronic version with a placeholder that states the content has been removed due to copyright restrictions. You can find further information on third party copyright here and adapt the template permission request letter
3. The electronic version of your thesis may require editing to indicate third party copyright permissions or you should replace third party material with a placeholder where copyright permission was not received before deposit. The thesis should be saved as a PDF and the recommended file naming convention is yearnamedegree.pdf (e.g. 2011smithphd.pdf).
4. When ready to upload the electronic version of the thesis, email aran@nuigalway.ie to request a password for your ARAN account to be created. Please provide your name, school, supervisor and email address in this email.
5. On notification that an account has been created, you should log on to ARAN at http://aran.library.nuigalway.ie using your email address.
- Complete stub metadata: Name, Title, Year, Supervisor, etc.
- Upload the third party copyright cleared version of your thesis as a PDF file.
- Sign off the deposit agreement electronically, including the declaration that third party permissions have been received to complete the deposit.
6. ARAN staff will verify the metadata and will check the status of any embargo request before committing your thesis to ARAN, thus making it available via the Web. [NOTE: Where an embargo has been granted, only the descriptive information will be displayed in ARAN for the duration of the embargo period.]
7. If an embargo period was granted, ARAN staff will lift the access restriction when the embargo period expires.
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Linking microbial community structure and function to process performance and reactor configuration during high-rate low-temperature anaerobic treatment of dairy wastewater
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-14)Anaerobic digestion is a sustainable and attractive option for the treatment of wastewaters. It allows the recovery of energy from waste - in the form of biogas - and is more cost-efficient than aerobic biological treatments. ... -
Building educational partnerships: An illustration of the disparities between policy and practice of the Home, School and Community Liaison Programme through an exploration of the challenges that HSCL Coordinators experience in its implementation
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-20)Poverty inhibits pupils from reaching their full educational potential. A body of literature exists which suggests that pupils experiencing financial deprivation or who have parents with lower levels of education are more ... -
Energy recovery and pathogen inactivation with dry co-digestion of food waste and pig manure
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-14)Anaerobic digestion is one of the best available technologies for food waste (FW) and pig manure (PM) management by producing methane-rich biogas. However, mono digestion of FW or PM is easily inhibited by high volatile ... -
A study into two pillars of staphylococcal pathogenicity: biofilm and antibiotic resistance
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-22)Biofilm formation on inserted medical devices by the opportunistic pathogen, Staphylococcus epidermidis, continues to be constant threat in clinical health-care settings. Once established, biofilms are almost impossible ... -
Magnetotelluric research of the Rathlin Basin
(NUI Galway, 2018-12-24)The IRETHERM Project was funded under SFI PI Grant 10/IN.1/I3022, with the aim of addressing uncertainties and gaps in the knowledge of potential geothermal resources within Ireland. This thesis presents geophysical ... -
Metal-based dithiocarbamato glycoconjugates: a suitable strategy to target tumour glycolysis?
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-11)Rapidly dividing tumour cells require higher amounts of nutrients and energy for their fast proliferation, and glucose is no exception (the so-called “Warburg effect”). Consequently, such increased demand of glucose by ... -
Genomic and transcriptomic investigations into the feed efficiency phenotype of beef cattle
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-06)Improving the feed efficiency of cattle is a method to increase profits while simultaneously reducing the environmental impact of beef production. Residual feed intake (RFI) is a measure of feed efficiency, calculated as ... -
Thinning instabilities in biological and electroactive membranes
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-31)This thesis addresses several problems in the mathematical modelling of biological and electroactive membranes. We begin with a review of the necessary scientific background of biological and electroactive membranes. ... -
An edition of Cath Cairn Chonaill with full apparatus and translation, together with a detailed study of its literary and cultural context
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)The aim of my research has been to edit to modern standards the important Old and Middle Irish king-tale Cath Cairn Chonaill. The editorial work is accompanied by full transcripts of the manuscript witnesses on which it ... -
Conscientiousness and cardiovascular reactivity to recurrent acute psychological stress
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-27)Introduction. Conscientiousness is a personality construct encompassing the trait of being careful, vigilant, dutiful, and concerned about the implications of one’s actions. It is a core trait within the five-factor ... -
Development and characterisation of compressed, macro-porous and collagen-coated poly-ε-caprolactone electrospun meshes
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-25)Electrospun scaffolds are utilised in a diverse spectrum of clinical targets, with an ever-increasing quantity of work progressing to clinical studies and commercialisation. However, the very dense architecture and the low ... -
Irish seagrass ecology and habitat mapping in the context of climate change
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-28)Seagrasses play an important ecological role worldwide, providing numerous ecosystems services. Zostera marina is a dominant meadow-forming seagrass in temperate regions in the northern hemisphere, including Irish coasts. ... -
Factors influencing diagnosis and outcome in HER2 receptor positive breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-22)Introduction About 30% of breast cancers are HER2 receptor positive, these breast cancers traditionally had a poor prognosis but the introduction of targeted anti-HER2 therapy (Trastuzumab) has resulted in a vast improvement ... -
Sex, stigma and silence: the discursive construction of HIV in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-11)Improvements to treatment mean that HIV is now a chronic, manageable illness. People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a life expectancy on a par with HIV negative individuals, and are non-infectious once the treatment goal of ... -
Flashes of modernity: stage design at the Abbey Theatre, 1902-1966
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)Responding to Guy Julier’s call for a “knowing practice” of design studies, this doctoral thesis reveals Ireland’s negotiation with modernity through stage design. I use historian T.J. Clark’s definition of modernity as ... -
Suggestion mining from text
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)With the ever growing availability of opinions on the web, opinion mining has become a popular area of research in the fields of natural language processing and applied machine learning. We argue that opinion summaries ... -
Towards improved breast cancer diagnosis using microwave technology and machine learning
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)Today, the early detection of breast cancer for asymptomatic women primarily relies on generalised screening programmes with x-ray mammography. However, the long-term value of screening mammography has been questioned due ... -
Characterisation of histone variants in the cnidarian Hydractinia
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)Hydractinia is a marine hydrozoan cnidarian that has been a model organism for developmental biology for over a century. Very few studies have been carried out on chromatin biology in cnidarians. To date, there is no ... -
Landscape legacies: the renegotiation of the Irish west in contemporary visual culture
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)This thesis examines the cultural legacy of the landscape of the West of Ireland and its lasting impact on the contemporary visualization of the region. Through a critical examination of the historic underpinning and ... -
Developing a behavior change intervention for physical activity during pregnancy
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-20)Background: Although the benefits of physical activity during pregnancy are well documented in the literature, women’s activity levels often reduce or cease during pregnancy. Moreover, adherence to physical activity ...