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Constructing Englishness: War, race, and the empire in Enid Blyton's fiction
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-16)
This thesis studies the British children’s author Enid Blyton’s (1897-1968) writing from 1926 to twenty-first century modified editions of her books and series. I argue that Blyton’s twentieth-century fiction constructs a ...
Radiative transfer of star formation and destruction regions
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-14)
While star formation and destruction may lie at the opposite ends of a star's life cycle, they display remarkable similarities. Both star forming regions and pre-planetary nebulae can be detected by observing molecular ...
Metal removal and recovery from zinc refinery residue using microbiologically produced elemental chalcogen nanoparticles
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-20)
This research aimed at investigating the application of elemental chalcogen
nanoparticles for the removal of metals from wastewaters. In the first part of the study, biogenic
(Bio) selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) were ...
Food waste fermentation for lactic acid production and recovery
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-23)
This research aimed at optimizing the lactic acid production process exploiting the organic matter present in food waste. The objective was to investigate every aspect of the industrial lactic acid production and define ...
Generation of natural killer cell-mimic nanoparticles to target tumour cells
(NUI Galway, 2022-05-30)
Natural killer (NK) cells are effector immune cells in the innate immune system. It is increasingly recognised that NK cells play a crucial role eliminating emerging tumour cells. Some tumour cells however can escape and ...
A life course perspective: Life course learning for adult learners in Higher Education - an examination of the NUI Diploma in Applied Social Studies and the BA in Applied Social Studies
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)
This research study examines the concept of the life course and why it may be considered an issue of critical importance in the context of teaching and learning policy and practice for adult learners in higher education. ...
Building the evidence base for the development and implementation of an Irish national digital Type 2 Diabetes prevention programme
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-09)
Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) represents a major public health concern. Over one million annual deaths worldwide are attributed to the disease, making it the ninth leading cause of mortality. In Ireland, the ...
The role of cultural ecosystem services and community-based conservation in the collaborative governance of Irish peatlands
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-30)
Human societies face huge environmental and societal challenges including climate
change, biodiversity loss, and social unrest as intersecting crises and periods of rapid
change impact on people’s lives and livelihoods. ...
Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRFM) for studying protein-surface interactions
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-10)
Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) techniques play an important role in investigating phenomena which occur on transparent dielectric surfaces at nanometre scales in various research fields from ...
Improvement of sludge dewaterability using filamentous fungi and energy recovery from thermal treatment of sludge
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-20)
Nowadays, the increasing production of municipal sludge requires effective and suitable
disposal methods. The commonly used methods include thickening, dewatering, anaerobic
digestion, composting, and thermal treatment. ...