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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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Preventing violent radicalisation: An evidence-based approach to countering terrorist narratives
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-28)Since the start of the 21st century, understanding the process(es) by which an individual comes to perpetrate an act of terror has become a multidisciplinary pursuit, and a key focus of enquiry for those seeking to stop ... -
Chemical diversity of some benthic cyanobacteria from French Polynesia and New Caledonia
(NUI Galway, 2020-08-04)Cyanobacteria are often considered proliferative in relation with the global change affecting oceans worldwide and especially in the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean. The bloom of the cyanobacteria in the Pacific Ocean are ... -
Mesenchymal stem cell mediated delivery of Extracellular Vesicle (EV)-encapsulated microRNAs for the treatment of breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2020-08-04)Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) hold the ability to home to the site of the tumour and bypass the host immune system. Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are thought to be a fingerprint of the parent cell and therefore MSC-EVs ... -
Diffusion-based models for semantic relatedness
(NUI Galway, 2020-05-14)The assessment of semantic relatedness for a given pair of entities in a knowledge graph has become a critical step in a wide variety of artificial intelligence tasks, including but not restricted to fields such as machine ... -
Advancements in structural and functional imaging using Fourier domain optical coherence tomography
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-29)Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive optical imaging modality based on low coherence interferometry that enables high resolution, cross sectional imaging in biological tissues and materials. One major ... -
Léamh iarchoilíneach ar shaothair le Cathal Ó Sándair
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-29)Chuir mé romham sa tráchtas seo staidéar a dhéanamh ar theoiricí iarchoilíneacha i litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg agus na teoiricí sin a thagairt do shaothar Chathail Uí Shándair, an tsraith Réics Carló agus Réamonn Óg go ... -
Sufferin and smilin: A narrative study of the impacts of violence against women on the space for action of African migrant women in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-21)The literature on the impacts of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) details physical, reproductive and mental health impacts, and increasingly economic impacts; however less is known about the social impacts of VAWG. ... -
Leveraging orthographic information to improve machine translation of under-resourced languages
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-24)This thesis describes our improvement of word sense translation for under-resourced languages utilizing orthographic information with a particular focus on creating resources using machine translation. The first target of ... -
The expression of recombinant proteins with biomedical importance in Escherichia coli
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-30)Naturally-occurring peptides and proteins with diverse biological roles have enormous potential for use as therapeutics and biomaterials. While proteins of biomedical interest were traditionally isolated from their native ... -
An exploration of personhood in dementia in formal care in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-17)Personhood in dementia centres on recognising and treating the person with dementia as a person first and foremost. Supporting personhood is a key goal of person-centred care models and a key principle in Irish dementia ... -
Knowledge graph mining with latent shape graphs
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-21)Knowledge graphs are graph-structured knowledge bases that have shown to be of great value in many Artificial Intelligence applications in academia and industry alike. They are typically generated automatically from un-/semi- ... -
Environmental and genetic risk factors in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a stereological study
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)Autism spectrum disorders (ASD), include a group of heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) characterized by impaired social interaction, and communication with restricted patterns of behaviour. The aetiology ... -
Ireland’s agri-food and drink sector: The correlation between eWOM initiatives and employee brand advocacy
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-20)The Irish agri-food and drink sector has a rich heritage. It is Ireland’s largest indigenous industry, employing 8.4% of the working population and generating an annual turnover of €27.5bn. SMEs within the sector use social ... -
Economic essays on the impact of health insurance on healthcare utilisation and costs for older people in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)This thesis explores the drivers of healthcare utilisation and healthcare costs among older people in the Republic of Ireland, and, in particular, provides estimates for the impact of health insurance on utilisation, costs ... -
How research impacts on health policy in Ireland: A case study of alcohol and drug policy
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)Abstract The goal of public health and health promotion practitioners is to increase the health of populations through evidence informed health policy. Comparable to evidence-based medicine, public health advocates ... -
Macromolecular crowding alone or in combination with other in vitro microenvironment modulators to maintain tenogenic phenotype in vitro
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)Tendon injuries are very common among the different musculoskeletal disorders affecting millions of people annually. Given that current treatments have failed to restore injured tendons to the prior to injury state, ... -
Modelling of accidental radioactive releases for Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-14)This study analyses the findings of dispersion modelling comparisons to improve the understanding of uncertainty and to influence the development of Ireland’s operational Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident emergency ... -
An evaluation of the use and impact of health promotion competencies in Europe
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-29)Introduction -While competency-based approaches have been developed in Health Promotion over the past three decades there has been limited focus on the evaluation of their use and impact. Five years after publication of ... -
Social class and 'Becoming' a post-primary teacher in the Republic of Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-05-29)This dissertation is about widening participation (WP) in initial teacher education (ITE) and the teaching profession, from a social class perspective. Set in the Irish context, this in-depth qualitative study explores ... -
Estrogen withdrawal in osteocytes results in altered integrin function, primary cilium elongation, and increased pro-osteoclastogenic signalling
(NUI Galway, 2020-06-28)Osteocytes are the main mechanosensitive cells within bone. They detect changes in the mechanical environment and transduce them into biochemical responses (RANKL, OPG, and sclerostin) that regulate bone remodelling by ...