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Building educational partnerships: An illustration of the disparities between policy and practice of the Home, School and Community Liaison Programme through an exploration of the challenges that HSCL Coordinators experience in its implementation
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-20)
Poverty inhibits pupils from reaching their full educational potential. A body of literature exists which suggests that pupils experiencing financial deprivation or who have parents with lower levels of education are more ...
Representing experience - diversifying representation: blind and visually impaired men’s voice-centered narratives of self and identity in everyday life
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-11)
This research examines disabled men's identities and lived experiences from the perspective of blindness and visual impairment. The first objective is to represent disability, make it visible, with lived accounts that ...
Computational modelling of the coupled electro-mechanical behaviour of neurons
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-22)
Recent experimental evidence has uncovered complex biophysical phenomena accompanying the electrical activity of nervous cells. Now emerging theories refer to the electric pulse, i.e. the Action Potential (AP), as an ...
Development and characterisation of compressed, macro-porous and collagen-coated poly-ε-caprolactone electrospun meshes
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-25)
Electrospun scaffolds are utilised in a diverse spectrum of clinical targets, with an ever-increasing quantity of work progressing to clinical studies and commercialisation. However, the very dense architecture and the low ...
Sex, stigma and silence: the discursive construction of HIV in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-11)
Improvements to treatment mean that HIV is now a chronic, manageable illness. People living with HIV (PLHIV) have a life expectancy on a par with HIV negative individuals, and are non-infectious once the treatment goal of ...
Energy recovery and pathogen inactivation with dry co-digestion of food waste and pig manure
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-14)
Anaerobic digestion is one of the best available technologies for food waste (FW) and pig manure (PM) management by producing methane-rich biogas. However, mono digestion of FW or PM is easily inhibited by high volatile ...
Non-cut points in Hausdorff continua
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-07)
The worlds of metric and non-metric continuous curves show disparity with regards to the existence and non-existence of special types of non cut points. The thesis focuses on shore points, non block points and strong non ...
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 ...
Chemical diversity of zoantharians from the coast of Ecuador in the tropical eastern Pacific
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-18)
This thesis describes the isolation and identification of marine natural products from five zoantharian species collected off the Marine Protected Area El Pelado located in Santa Elena, Ecuador. Ecuador is one of the ...
Parenting in Ireland: Polish perspectives on child-rearing and help-seeking in a culturally diverse neighbourhood
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-28)
Despite Ireland’s ever-increasing cultural diversity over the last two decades, Irish social science research has yet to give sufficient attention to the actual life experiences of migrant parents. As a result, there is a ...