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Fretting fatigue and wear of spline couplings: From laboratory testing to industrial application through computational modelling
(World Scientific Publishing Europe Limited, 2022-04)One of the major challenges for fretting fatigue design is the bridging of the gap between laboratory tests, including associated theoretical and computer models, typically constrained to simplified loading conditions, ... -
Fretting wear-fatigue study for tribologically-induced damage in simple and complex geometries
(2013-02-22)This thesis presents the development of a computational and experimental methodology for predicting fretting wear-fatigue interaction in simple and complex geometries, specifically targeting the taper-lock assembly in ... -
'Frictional' relationships tension in the camp: focusing on the relational in under-represented students' experiences in higher education
(2009)Drawing upon data collected as part of a research project exploring diversity in Irish higher education, this article focuses on the relational realm of under-represented students¿ experiences. It commences with a brief ... -
Friends or foes? Emerging insights from fungal interactions with plants
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-11-21)Fungi interact with plants in various ways, with each interaction giving rise to different alterations in both partners. While fungal pathogens have detrimental effects on plant physiology, mutualistic fungi augment host ... -
Friendships and perceptions of place among rural, farm and urban children and adolescents in Ireland.
(Institute of Public Administration, 2007)Some features of contemporary Irish life, such as the fast pace of (sub)urbanisation and the proliferation of scattered housing in the countryside (e.g. Corcoran, 2005; Peillon, 2005; Crowley, 2006) suggest that the ... -
From agonist to antagonist: structure and dynamics of innate immune glycoprotein md-2 upon recognition of variably acylated bacterial endotoxins
(Elsevier BV, 2011-10-01)The human immune response to an infection by Gram-negative bacteria involves detection of lipopolysaccharides (LPS), also known as endotoxins, which comprise the bacterial outer cell wall. Distinct from mammalian glycolipid ... -
From animal welfare to animal rights: Rethinking our legal paradigm
(NUI Galway, 2021-03)This thesis is a critique of the current welfare system of protection for nonhuman animals (hereafter, animals) and calls for a paradigm shift in the legal protection. It is argued that there needs to be a shift from a ... -
From Athens to Managua: Myth and sacrifice in Michele Najlis' Cantos de Ifigenia
(Liverpool University Press, 2012)Michele Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet whose work emerged alongside the Sandinista insurrection. The Sandinistas were removed from office in 1990, creating, in political and cultural terms, one of those 'boundary situations' ... -
From Babe Ruth to Michael Jordan: Affirming the American Dream via the Sports/Film Star
(University of Waterloo, Department of Fine Arts (Film Studies), 2014)In the United States, sport stars have provided crucial affirmation of the American Dream ideology despite the considerable evidence that questions the validity and appropriateness of this belief for understandings of ... -
From boom to bust? The financial performance of city and county councils
(2014)A framework to assess the financial performance of city and county councils in Ireland is applied to the recent boom and bust period. Based on previous work, our financial performance measurement framework assesses ... -
From Business Process Management to Business Process Ecosystem
(2006)New technologies, notably service oriented architectures and Web services, are enabling a third wave of business process management (BPM). Supporters claim that BPM is informed by complexity theory and ... -
From care packages to Zoom cookery classes: youth work during the COVID-19 “lockdown”
(Emerald, 2022-03-10)Purpose: This paper explores the experience of one large Irish youth work organisation, Foróige, to measures introduced during the initial phase of Covid-19 in 2020. In the face of the unprecedented crisis including the ... -
From Carnacon to Cape Town: An interpretive study of the transnational career of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore (1854-1939), soldier, diplomat and politician
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)In this thesis, the contextual, thematic, biography of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore, a Catholic member of the Irish Ascendancy is used as a prism through which to interpret and reflect on a military and political career ... -
From Connemara to Minnesota: The Nugent Emigration Scheme, 1880
(2016-05-10)Abstract This study examines an assisted emigration scheme undertaken by Father James Nugent of Liverpool in June 1880. With the support of Bishop John Ireland of St Paul, Minnesota, Nugent transferred thirty-five destitute ... -
From cooperative data collection to full collaboration and co-management: a synthesis of the 2014 ices symposium on fishery-dependent information
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014-12-03)In this paper, we synthesize information presented at the 2nd Fishery Dependent Information (FDI) Conference, held in Rome, Italy, from 2 to 6 March 2014. We review current issues and advances in the collection, interpretation ... -
From foreign technology dependence towards greater innovation autonomy: China's integration into the information and communications technology (ICT) global value chain (GVC)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-30)China s integration into the information and communications technology global value chain has taken place as global technology corporations outsourced and offshored an increasing range of functions, including manufacturing, ... -
From Gaelic lordships to English counties: the Tudor transition in Leix and Offaly, c.1547-1603
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-29)This study evaluates whether or not successive Tudor regimes effectively transformed the Gaelic lordships of Leix and Offaly into English counties and as a direct consequence, administered these territories through the ... -
From Galway Bay to Sydney Harbour: Joe Heaney's Concert at the Sydney Opera House in 1981
(An Cumann Le Béaloideas Éireann/Folklore of Ireland Society, 2013)Discussion of performance strategies of singer Joe Heaney's concert in the Opera House in Sydney in January 1981. -
From gendered organizations to compassionate borderspaces: Reading corporeal ethics with Bracha Ettinger
(SAGE Publications, 2014-12-04)In this article, we propose a new way of approaching the topic of ethics for management and organization theory. We build on recent developments within critical organization studies that focus on the question of what kind ...