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Exploration algorithms for discoverable and undiscoverable decentralised online social networks
(NUI Galway, 2021-12-09)
Decentralised online social networks (DOSNs) are a solution to privacy and security problems encountered in online social networks. In DOSNs, a user controls their data and chooses personal storage for their social network ...
Monolingual alignment of word senses and definitions in lexicographical resources
(NUI Galway, 2022-07-31)
Dictionaries are fundamental resources for people to learn and document languages as well as for computers to process natural languages. A dictionary provides a fine-grained structure and description of the vocabulary of ...
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 ...
Anaerobic digestion of selenium-rich wastewater for simultaneous methane and volatile fatty acid production and selenium bioremediation
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-09)
This research aimed at investigating the anaerobic digestion (AD) of selenium (Se)-rich and lipid-rich wastewaters via evaluating the operational parameters in sequential and continuous bioreactors. In the first part of ...
Medical devices for the minimally invasive delivery of therapeutic cargo for the prevention of heart failure
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-10)
Therapeutic advances are increasing the number of patients that survive cardiac disease
such as a myocardial infarction, however, current treatments do not fully stop the
development of heart failure. Advanced therapeutic ...
Study of silyl protecting groups in anomerisation reactions: Total synthesis of a glycolipid from Plakortis simplex and its mimetics
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-04)
This thesis deals with anomerisation, which is, in other words, epimerisation at the anomeric centre, usually interpreted as being from the equatorial to the axial anomer. An objective was to enhance the knowledge of this ...
Exploration of the opioidergic system in the olfactory bulbectomized rat model of depression
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-27)
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in targeting the central opioid system as a novel strategy for the treatment of psychiatric disorders such as depression, due to its involvement in the regulation of mood, ...
User-centered innovation and localized rapid prototyping for agricultural technology co-development with women smallholder farmers In Malawi
(NUI Galway, 2021-02-03)
The current challenges and opportunities presented in the agricultural sector in “developing” countries continue to be a paradox. While agriculture forms the backbone of these economies, there are several external factors ...
An edition of Cath Cairn Chonaill with full apparatus and translation, together with a detailed study of its literary and cultural context
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)
The aim of my research has been to edit to modern standards the important Old and Middle Irish king-tale Cath Cairn Chonaill. The editorial work is accompanied by full transcripts of the manuscript witnesses on which it ...
Interrogating the call for more male primary school teachers as role models for boys: 'I don't care if it is male or female, I just want to learn!'
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-21)
Abstract
The education of girls and boys in Irish primary schools is one of the most imperative aspects of our children’s lives, yet it seems to be an area in which important focus shifts towards essentialist, simplistic ...