Welcome to ARAN (Access to Research at NUI Galway)
ARAN is the digital collection of open access scholarly publications from NUI Galway. ARAN collects, preserves and makes freely available scholarly communication, including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by NUI Galway researchers. Where material has already been published it is made available subject to the open-access policies of the original publishers.
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Open Access to Research Outputs
NUI Galway’s policy on Open Access to Research Outputs, adopted by the Academic Council in October 2015, aims to promote open access to the University’s publications. Authors of peer-reviewed articles and peer-reviewed conference papers resulting from research carried out at NUI Galway must deposit a copy in the ARAN (Access to Research at NUI Galway) repository. ARAN enables easy discovery of publications through global search engines such as Google and complements IRIS by linking from author profiles to the full text of University publications. See Help for information on how to submit your publications to ARAN.
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Social marketing: The role of Facebook as a digital technology for social mechanisms and behaviour change in the context of obesity and healthy lifestyles
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-15)Tomorrow’s world is radically different to the one that social marketing was born into over 50 years ago (Taubenheim et al., 2008; Galiano-Coronil and MierTeran-Franco, 2019). Social marketing is propelling forward ... -
Formality of financial reward management, availability of non-financial rewards and employee outcomes in SMEs: An investigation using psychological contract theory
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-13)This PhD study investigates whether the formality of financial reward management and the availability of non-financial rewards are associated with more positive employee outcomes in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). ... -
Linking soil pH and phosphorus management to potential N2O emissions and nitrogen cycling microbial communities
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-15)Greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere create the greenhouse gas effect, which allows maintenance of global temperatures. However, anthropogenic production of GHGs has caused dramatic increases of GHGs in the ... -
A longitudinal survey of antibiotic-resistant enterobacterales in the Irish environment, 2019–2020
(Elsevier, 2022-03-17)The natural environment represents a complex reservoir of antibiotic-resistant bacteria as a consequence of different wastewater discharges including anthropogenic and agricultural. Therefore, the aim of this study was to ... -
Models for computer science teacher preparation: Developing teacher knowledge
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-07-07)Across the globe, Computer Science Education has grown tremendously over the past decade to teach primary and secondary students computing ideas and tools. From integrating computational thinking in disciplines to teaching ...