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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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Small-molecule-based crosslinking and bioconjugation of biomolecules
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-10)Chapter 1: The chemical modification and bioconjugation of proteins is an expanding yet challenging area of chemical biology. The superior nucleophilicity of cysteine presents it as a uniquely reactive bioconjugation handle. ... -
Principal investigator impact orientation in medical device public research
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-19)The aim of this study is to explore the impact orientation of principal investigators (PIs) of publicly funded medical device research projects. PI impact orientation can be defined as the awareness, attitudes and ... -
Spatial distribution patterns of chosen chemical elements with different spatial scales in London topsoils and Lake Taihu sediments
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-13)As geographical information system (GIS) and spatial analysis techniques have been widely used in soil contamination, the methodologies applied in urbanized area and submillimetre profiles widened their utility. In this ... -
Marine and freshwater influences on the hydrography, oxygen dynamics and ecology of an anoxic lagoonal estuary, Lough Furnace, Mayo, Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Estuarine and coastal water bodies are amongst the most productive and diverse habitats, providing crucial ecological and economic benefits. However, owing to their position at the interface between continents and the ... -
Hochschild (co)homology of two families of complete intersections
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-08)The thesis presents the original results on a description of the ring structure in terms of generators and relations of the Hochschild cohomology of the two families of complete intersections: the square-free monomial ... -
Making the most of multimedia learning: evaluating the impact of combined audiovisual translation tasks on the acquisition of L2 multiword expressions
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-16)The use of audiovisual material in the Italian L2 classes in the last decades has acquired an increasingly important role, especially since the communicative approach has identified spoken language as the main objective ... -
Spatial analysis of rare earth elements and lead in urban soils of Greater London Authority area and development of a new method for assessment of labile rare earth elements in soils
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-30)Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of seventeen elements, comprised of the fifteen lanthanides, yttrium (Y) and scandium (Sc), which have been known as ‘industrial vitamins’ due to their important roles in technical ... -
Novel approaches to the understanding and treatment of postoperative pain
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-06)Postoperative pain constitutes a significant medical need. Greater understanding of the mechanisms will allow for more effective treatments. The endogenous cannabinoid (endocannabinoid) and opioid systems play a key role ... -
Accurate dielectric characterisation of biological tissues in the microwave range using the open-ended coaxial probe technique
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-19)Accurate knowledge of the dielectric properties of biological tissue samples is fundamental in the design of novel electromagnetic-based medical devices. Biological tissue samples are typically characterised dielectrically ... -
Sparse surface graphs
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-20)This thesis is concerned with building certain classes of sparse and tight surface graphs via suitable sets of inductive moves from specified sets of irreducible surface graphs. In particular, we derive topological ... -
Enhancing the bioavailability of active pharmaceutical ingredients through cocrystallization and coamorphization
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-19)During drug research and development, improving the solubility of poorly water soluble drugs without chemically modifying the drug molecule is one of the biggest challenges for the pharmaceutical industry. Most medicines ... -
Progression of neuroanatomical abnormalities in psychosis
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-18)Background: Structural brain changes and their cross-sectional relationships with clinical and functional measures have been demonstrated several times using magnetic resonance imaging at the onset of first-episode of ... -
Exploring community living in Ireland: Experiences of ageing with and into disability
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-16)This research examines the topic of community living for older persons with disabilities. This group comprises people who are ageing with disabilities, either lifelong or earlier onset, as well as people who are ageing ... -
Elucidating levels and pathways of human exposure in Ireland to POP-BFRs and PFOS (ELEVATE)
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-17)BFRs such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were used as flame retardants (FRs) in soft furnishings, building insulation foams, electronic and electrical goods. Perfluoroalkyl ... -
Characterisation of three zinc finger proteins ZC3H8, ZC3H11A and ZC3H14, identified as new partners of ATM, the central regulator of biological response to DNA double strand breaks
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-16)The integrity of our genome is very important therefore, our cells have developed efficient DNA repair mechanisms to control this integrity and avoid mutations. Although the DNA double strand break response pathway is ... -
Strategic quality management in the single-terminal airport: An investigation with a focus on the passenger operational processes
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-13)Airport management in general, and the management of passenger operations in particular is a complex process, whether in the multi-terminal airport or in the single-terminal airport, although most of the services are ... -
Effects of exogenous B-cell immunoglobulin binding protein (BIP) and BIP protein inducer X (BIX) on myelination
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-12)B-cell immunoglobulin binding protein (BiP) is an essential endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone that belongs to the Hsp70 family, normally found in the ER lumen. However, BiP also has other extracellular and intracellular ... -
Farming in contemporary Irish fictional narratives: A critical, comparative and creative response
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-13)This practice-in-research dissertation combines creative writing and literary criticism to explore the farm narratives that arose in Ireland due to expansionist agricultural ideologies, and by extension considers what is ... -
Understanding port performance: An examination of challenges in the contextualisation of performance in support of policy design in the port sector
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-25)Owing to the prominence of maritime transport, the performance of ports as nodes in the maritime transport network is a critical enabler of a regions capability to trade internationally. Ensuring the performance of ports ... -
Supramolecular ‘Glues’ for protein recognition and assembly
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-06)Supramolecules such as calixarenes, cucurbiturils and foldamers are rapidly emerging as tools for protein assembly. This thesis builds on past successes with some of these scaffolds. Previously, sulfonato-calix[4]arene was ...