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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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The Bangladesh National Blindness and Low Vision Survey - Identification of prevalence, causes and the need for eye care services
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-15)Background: Bangladesh is a densely populated, impoverished country in South Asia with inadequate health service provision for a variety of diseases including treatable ocular conditions. The aims of this comprehensive ... -
Piezoelectric scaffolds: Mediating tendon regeneration by activation of piezosensitive receptors
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-15)Tendon disease caused by trauma, illness or age-related degeneration constitutes an unmet clinical need. Tendon repair using different pharmacological and engineering strategies based on both synthetic and biological grafts ... -
Re-directing George Bernard Shaw: Exploring the staging of Shaw's play-texts for contemporary audiences through practice as research
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)At the convergence of performance studies and Shavian studies, this thesis explores the staging of Shaw’s play-texts for contemporary audiences through Practice as Research (PaR). This document charts and analyses three ... -
The application of a conceptual model of school-based implementation to the Relationships and Sexuality Education programme at Irish post-primary level
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-07)Purpose – The purpose of this study was to explore the practice of Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in-service training and subsequent RSE delivery in schools. This involved examining the implementation process ... -
Development and evaluation of an online version of the Feeling Better pain management programme for children and their care-givers
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Abstract Background: Reasons for poor management of paediatric chronic pain include lack of access to psychological support for pain management. Research evidence is increasingly focused on online interventions as a ... -
Improving flow in large software product development organizations: A sensemaking and complex adaptive systems perspective
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-23)Software development organizations operate in an environment of ever-increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. The pace of change is accelerating, business and technology complexity is growing, and ... -
Assessment of the consequences of gestational SSRI antidepressant exposure in the rat
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Although the most common psychotropic drugs prescribed in pregnancy are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants, their health impact on the resultant offspring is largely unknown due to the ethical ... -
The role of social marketing in behavioural change for a circular economy: Exploring the value-action gap for routine purchases in a competitive retail setting
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)This research extends the social marketing agenda into the area of pro-environmental behaviour addressing the ultimate behavioural change challenge of achieving a circular economy. The successful transition to a circular ... -
Triple negative breast cancer: outcomes, subtypes and implications for treatment
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-30)Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous subtype representing 15-20% of all breast cancers and is associated with a poor prognosis, despite the advances made in other breast cancer subtypes. TNBC is defined ... -
Design thinking capability model: A management framework to support design thinking implementation for product development
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Design thinking is lauded to reduce cost and redesign work in the new product development process and shorten lead time to development. Because of that, researchers are investigating how to use using design thinking as ... -
Magnetic and interpolation techniques in the identification and analysis of metal contaminants In urban soils
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-28)Soil pollution has been identified as the third most important threat to soil quality in Europe. There are an estimated ~2,000 potentially contaminated sites in Ireland alone. Metal contamination has been identified as one ... -
Knowledge extraction from simplified natural language text
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Knowledge base creation and population are an essential formal backbone for a variety of intelligent applications, decision support and expert systems and intelligent search. Although knowledge extraction from ... -
Towards improved treatment planning for head and neck microwave hyperthermia
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Hyperthermia is an emerging cancer treatment modality which involves applying heat to the malignant tumor. The heating can be delivered using electromagnetic energy, mostly in the radiofrequency or microwave range. Accurate ... -
A study into the practice of distributed leadership within the post-primary school sector in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-07)School leadership in post-primary schools in Ireland is in a state of flux. Since 2007, policy makers are advocating that school leaders should redesign their leadership practice to reflect a distributed style of leadership. ... -
Expansion and augmentation of social marketing theory and practice with systems science and mechanism, action, structure (MAS) theory to explore dynamic complexity and leverage points pertinent to the Galway cycling system
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-08)Social marketing is confronted by serious challenges of both endogenous and exogenous character. If these challenges are not properly addressed, social marketing risks entering into a deep, intrinsic and ontological crisis. ... -
On extending depth of field in fast photographic lenses
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-04)Modern smartphone cameras are equipped with multiple camera modules. These modules are typically five millimetres in length limiting the focal length of the lens. To preserve resolution the entrance pupil of these lenses ... -
A study of workers’ mobilization within the Irish supermarket sector
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-04)This thesis examines why workers in the Irish large supermarket sector acquire a sense of collective identity separate from their employer’s organization in response to perceived injustice and why they engage in collective ... -
Regulation of emotion and cholinergic system connectivity in bipolar disorder
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-04)Background: The human brain comprises distributed cortico-subcortical regions that are structurally and functionally connected into a network that is known as the human connectome. Understanding how connections between ... -
Elastin-based hydrogel as a treatment for critical limb ischemia, an insight into the glyco-host response
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-01)Critical limb ischemia (CLI) is severe impairment of the microcirculation resulting in inflammation, ischaemic pain, non-healing ulcers and gangrene. Over 20% of patients have no option but to undergo a major limb amputation. ... -
The utopics of improvement in eighteenth-century visual representations of Irish demesnes
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-03)Eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish society has been characterised as having a utopian structure of feeling, a common set of perceptions and values that grew out of the intellectual and pragmatic activities associated with ...