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Sheltered work and intellectual disability equality: Can the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities tackle this form of segregation?
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-13)
This thesis is a theoretical study that addresses the enduring segregation of people with intellectual disabilities in sheltered work environments. Having identified that many people with intellectual disabilities remain ...
A kind of mime: Cultural politics and narrative experiment in the works of Samuel Beckett, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Brian Ó Nualláin
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-27)
This thesis is a trilingual comparative literary study, analysing the works of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970), and Brian Ó Nualláin (1911-1966). This study will argue that the very particular ...
Sustainable treatment technologies using mixed waste media to mitigate agricultural contaminants in land drainage
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-30)
Intensification of agriculture in the European Union has resulted in nutrient losses from farms, which have contributed to a deterioration in water quality. As soil in drainage water ditch networks has limited capacity to ...
Developing the evidence base for preschool social circles: An intervention to support social inclusion for children with autism spectrum disorder
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)
Background
Successful social inclusion in early childhood education is associated with positive
outcomes for all children in later life, irrespective of disabilities or complexity of needs.
Many children with additional ...
Glycosylation in the injured and regenerating spinal cord, and the influence of biomaterial treatment
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-04)
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) results in disruption of tissue integrity leading to a loss of function. There has been minimal success in treating these injuries clinically, due to the inhibitory environment which ...
Identification of plant-specific components of the Polycomb Group pathway and their roles in the regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana development
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-30)
The knowledge about Arabidopsis thaliana developmental life cycle is deep in broad strokes. Nevertheless, the mechanisms that fine tune these phase transitions are still poorly described. One of these mechanisms is the ...
Toward dual-action platinum(IV) complexes with bioactive ligands as potent anticancer agents
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-20)
Platinum agents (cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin) have a crucial role in the treatment of many cancers for several decades. However, they have severe side effects and a high number of patients have intrinsic or ...
The role of IRE1α in the regulation of cytokine production
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-16)
Inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (IRE1), a key mediator of the unfolded protein response
(UPR), has emerging roles within innate immunity and cancer progression. Here we
examine how IRE1 signalling influences the production ...
Selfie surveillance: Exploring postfeminist-neoliberal visibility in young women’s selfie-practices
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-20)
This doctoral thesis explores how young women negotiate postfeminist-neoliberal
visibility through selfie-practices. It is based on a discourse analysis of twenty interviews
with female college students aged 18 to 30 ...
A qualitative exploration of ‘coming out’ in the context of a heterosexual marriage in Ireland: the perspectives of children, spouses and self
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-09)
Despite several decades of research into the sexual orientation of parents and spouses, there is a dearth of literature that explores the experience of having a parent or spouse declare a change in sexual orientation in ...