NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses)
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Depositing Your PhD Thesis in ARAN
1. Discuss with your supervisor whether an embargo period to withhold electronic access to your thesis is necessary and, if required, request this using the Library Submission form EOG051 which you you submit with your hardbound thesis.
2. Check whether you need to obtain permissions to include any third party copyrighted material such as illustrations or tables from other sources that you have reproduced. Your ethesis will be available on open access so if you do not have permission you must replace this content in the electronic version with a placeholder that states the content has been removed due to copyright restrictions. You can find further information on third party copyright here and adapt the template permission request letter
3. The electronic version of your thesis may require editing to indicate third party copyright permissions or you should replace third party material with a placeholder where copyright permission was not received before deposit. The thesis should be saved as a PDF and the recommended file naming convention is yearnamedegree.pdf (e.g. 2011smithphd.pdf).
4. When ready to upload the electronic version of the thesis, email aran@nuigalway.ie to request a password for your ARAN account to be created. Please provide your name, school, supervisor and email address in this email.
5. On notification that an account has been created, you should log on to ARAN at http://aran.library.nuigalway.ie using your email address.
- Complete stub metadata: Name, Title, Year, Supervisor, etc.
- Upload the third party copyright cleared version of your thesis as a PDF file.
- Sign off the deposit agreement electronically, including the declaration that third party permissions have been received to complete the deposit.
6. ARAN staff will verify the metadata and will check the status of any embargo request before committing your thesis to ARAN, thus making it available via the Web. [NOTE: Where an embargo has been granted, only the descriptive information will be displayed in ARAN for the duration of the embargo period.]
7. If an embargo period was granted, ARAN staff will lift the access restriction when the embargo period expires.
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Investigating the epigenetic regulation of toll-like receptor 3
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Analogous states: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and the performance of ethnography
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Pure culture, co-culture and whole ecosystem investigations of single anaerobes, partnerships and microbial communities in anaerobic digestion
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MicroRNAs as biomarkers and therapeutics in breast cancer
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Negotiating the landscape: Prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscape of esker and bog
(2017-10-20)The aim of this thesis is to understand movement and the evolution of routeways. The role of the individual and their decision-making process is discussed as a fundamental factor in the origins of paths and routeways. This ... -
Predicting the long-term performance of low-cost phosphorus-sorbing materials using small-scale adsorption column experiments
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Freedom of expression and the contours of political speech in Ethiopia: Lessons from a comparative study
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When paradigms clash: Irish labour market institutions and the unemployment crisis
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Ecosystem services and environmental impacts associated with commercial kelp aquaculture
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The dark side of humanity: psychopathy, psychiatry and human nature
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Multiple myeloma: The role of glycosylation in disease development and progression.
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Biomaterial scaffolds and genetically modified stem cells - An Investigation of their potential in bone repair
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Quality of life in psychotic illness: baseline and prospective determinants in first episode and chronic psychosis cohorts
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Energy biographies: Exploring the intersections between lives, practices and contexts
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The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction of the Costa Rica thermal dome: moving from lex lata to lex ferenda
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Characterisation of the cellular responses to CDC7 inhibition in breast-derived human cells
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Endocannabinoid modulation of TLR3-induced neuroinflammation
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The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the labour press in Ireland, 1909-1920
(2017-10-04)Officially launched by iconic labour leader James Larkin in January 1909, the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) quickly became the largest trade union in Ireland and a key institution in the country’s ... -
Modulation of inflammatory pain in intervertebral disc degeneration: A therapeutic biomaterials approach
(2017-10-05)Discogenic low back pain (LBP) is a very common health problem that imposes a socio-economic burden on society. Primarily, intervertebral disc degeneration is one of the causative factors of LBP. It is mediated by an ...