AIT Research@THEA is a digital collection of open access scholarly research publications from Athlone Institute of Technology. Where material has already been published it is made available subject to the open-access policies of the original publishers. This service is maintained by AIT Library.
Find information regarding the Repository for authors, end users and publishers on our Research Repository Guide.
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