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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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Zhu reduction theory for vertex operator algebras on Riemann surfaces
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-21)In this thesis we first develop a recursive relation for $n$-point functions for Vertex Operator Super Algebras (VOSAs) on a genus two Riemann surface constructed by sewing two tori. This relation is used to develop formal ... -
Professional women’s entrepreneurship in Amman City, Jordan: Drivers and impacts
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-20)Women entrepreneurs took more than 30 years to be identified as an individual group. Yet, early work on women’s entrepreneurship can be branded as mostly descriptive, examining. Women’s entrepreneurship has been used as ... -
Development of drugs targeting the human tRNA ligase RtcB in breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-15)The RNA ligase RtcB has been shown to regulate RNA function by direct exon ligation of spliced XBP1 messenger RNA cleaved by the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress sensor IRE1α. Ligation by RtcB leads to the expression of ... -
The life-cycle of methanogenic granular biofilms
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-19)Anaerobic granules, sometimes referred to as methanogenic granules, underpin the sustainable treatment of wastewater in high-rate anaerobic bioreactors. They are spontaneously-forming self-immobilised biofilm aggregates ... -
The multi-spectral signal properties of multiple reference optical coherence tomography
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-05)Efforts to reduce the size and costs of optical coherence tomography systems (OCT) for consumer applications, in general, focus on Fourier-domain OCT, due to its potential to be integrated on an optical chip, implementing ... -
The application of machine learning to optimise live migration in cloud data centres
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-06)Cloud computing providers utilise large-scale data centres to provide computing resource to users’ worldwide. However, an ongoing challenge facing cloud providers is to ensure that the required resource is available to ... -
A new business model for cell-based therapeutics
(NUI Galway, 2011-06)Cell-based therapeutics have attracted large amounts of investment as they may offer effective treatments for a wide variety of health problems. In spite of extensive research relatively few examples of successful ... -
Nitrogen removal using partial nitritation-anammox process
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-26)The partial nitritation-anammox (PN-A) process is a promising biological nitrogen-removal process. Compared with the conventional autotrophic nitrification-heterotrophic denitrification process, it requires no organic ... -
Application of electrodialysis into nutrient recovery and antibiotics removal for pig manure management
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-25)Animal manure should be regarded as a resource rather than a waste as it contains abundant nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) available for plants. Land spreading of animal manure is a common practice while it has to be ... -
The influence of prior knowledge and distributional justice messaging on recipient cognition
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-18)This thesis examines how recipient cognition is influenced by prior knowledge when presented with a distributional justice message. It is hypothesised the cognitive response of high prior knowledge recipients to the advocacy ... -
Between authorities: Exercises and experiments in literary appreciation
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-16)Literary criticism, of the type that follows in this project, is a series of experiments with and about the matter of authority: about how much authority a critic should want to have or be willing to give up, and how much ... -
Students as creators: The impact of digital innovation on Irish-language learning
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-23)The overall aim of this study is to explore the possibilities for enhancing the Irish-language learning experience in English-medium primary school classrooms through students collaboratively constructing digital artefacts ... -
Biophysical and biochemical microenvironmental cues for tenogenic phenotype maintenance, differentiation and trans-differentiation in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-19)Tendon injuries affect tens of millions of people worldwide each year and as the average lifespan increases their occurrence also increases, Achilles rupture rates alone have increased by ≈ 1000% in the last 40 years. ... -
Vineta: the Vineta 'Sage' and its reception in German literary texts from the 1820s to 1989
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-21)The dissertation explores the myth of the sunken city of Vineta, supposedly destroyed in the twelfth century, and its reception in German literature from the 1820s to the late twentieth century. It analyses the reports in ... -
Cognition in two languages: bilingualism and second language competency as determinants of cognitive performance
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-15)Introduction. This project emphasises the importance of two aspects in research on bilingualism: (i) the inclusion of multiple language sets to reach generalisable results, which ensures that differences originate in changes ... -
Molecular investigation into the roles of Sigma B and the Stressosome in the response of Listeria monocytogenes to environmental stress
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-15)The alternative sigma factor, SigB, has been studied extensively in Listeria monocytogenes, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus, and is known to regulate the general stress response in these bacteria. The activation ... -
Independent living for people with disability and high dependency needs - Why we need a P.A. Act and what it might look like in the Irish context
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-26)This research examines the legislative context for Independent Living for people with disabilities and high dependency needs in Ireland. The CRPD provides the key platform for this and reaffirms the fundamental rights of ... -
Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship in an ageing population
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-24)Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health priority. This is primarily due to the rapid increase in AMR bacteria causing common healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and community-acquired ... -
Design and development of a performance evaluation framework for remote eye gaze estimation systems
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-02)In this dissertation, a comprehensive evaluation framework for remote eye gaze estimation systems that are implemented in consumer electronics applications is developed. For this, firstly, a detailed literature review ... -
Phosphorus and organic soils under grassland production: Assessment of phosphorus losses for a more sustainable agriculture
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-19)The intensification of agriculture in Ireland aims to increase the exports of dairy and beef products considerably in the coming years, which inevitably implies the expansion of grassland systems to areas that were ...