Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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The bottomless care pyramid: a decolonial feminist ethnography of equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives at the University of Galway
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-12)This thesis examines tensions between feminist demands for transformations in higher education and the creation of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) governance structures at an Irish institution. Through a case ... -
Breaking down barriers to reception rights for unaccompanied migrant children in Europe: Does intersectional discrimination matter?
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-10)Introduction ‘States should ensure that children in the context of international migration are treated first and foremost as children’ 1 Although the exact number cannot be known, recent figures indicate that there are ... -
Brewery spent grain cascade process: protein recovery and improved downstream fermentation for simultaneous volatile fatty acid production and recovery
(NUI Galway, 2022-03-23)Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are short chain carboxylic acids currently produced from fossil fuels. Renewable biomass, including organic wastes, could be used as an alternative source of VFAs. Brewery spent grain (BSG) was ... -
The British Empire’s southern Dominions and the emergence of the League of Nations “C” mandates, 1914–1926: Origins, administration and international oversight
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-30)This thesis examines the impacts of changing international opinion during the First World War regarding the expansion of colonial Empires, in this particular case the British Empire, and the desire to prevent annexation ... -
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 ... -
Building envelope thermal bridging heat loss assessment using infrared thermography
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-25)Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and energy use is necessary to stop the progress of climate warming, which may have a serious impact on the human environment and the ecosystem. To achieve this reduction, it is essential ... -
Building the evidence base for the development and implementation of an Irish national digital Type 2 Diabetes prevention programme
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-09)Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) represents a major public health concern. Over one million annual deaths worldwide are attributed to the disease, making it the ninth leading cause of mortality. In Ireland, the ... -
Built to last: The benefits and the construction of Uí Néill dynastic identity in early medieval Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)This project examines the benefits and the construction of ‘Dynastic Frameworks’ in Early Medieval Ireland. It does so by using the Uí Néill, a powerful Irish political group, as a case study for understanding the role ... -
Business capability-centric management of services and processes models
(2017-01-11)With the advent of Industry 4.0, more and more companies are actively working on digitising their assets (i.e., services, processes, etc.) for better control, collaboration, modularity, analysis, etc. By 2020 more than 80% ... -
Cache maintenance in federated query processing based on quality of service constraints
(2017-05-09)The Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud forms a substantial and ever increasing portion of the global knowledge on theWorldWideWeb by contributing many distributed data sources. Due to the diversity of the knowledge that they ... -
CAL4AHU - Calibration of air handling unit models for fault detection and diagnosis
(NUI Galway, 2021-02-08)A systematic methodology for the automated calibration of Air Handling Unit (AHU) computational models for use in Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) is investigated that requires a minimum dataset and produces a trade-off ... -
Calendars, feasting, cosmology and identities: later Neolithic-early Bronze Age Ireland in European context
(2016-07-25)The aim of the study is to investigate the connections between calendar systems, large-scale feasting activities, changing representations of cosmological ideas and the formation of group identities from the Middle/Late ... -
Calibrated whole building energy simulation: An evidence-based methodology
(2011-01)Climate change, driven by global energy consumption, is one of the major challenges to humanity today. The buildings sector consumes a significant portion of global energy resources and much of this is due to inefficient ... -
Calibration of detailed building energy simulation models to measured data using uncertainty analysis
(2014-05-30)Over the past few decades, advances in technology, most notably the industrial revolution of the late 18th-century, has brought about dramatic improvements in the socioeconomic circumstances of developed nations. This has ... -
Calixarene-mediated protein assembly
(2014-05-23)Solved the first crystal structure of a protein-calixarene complex (at 1.4 Angstrom resolution). The results provide exact structural information on the amino acid preference of the anionic p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene (sclx4) ... -
The cannabinoid type-2 (CB2) receptor as a target for anti-inflammatory disease modification in Parkinson's disease
(2016-08-04)Parkinson’s disease is a multifaceted neurodegenerative disorder with no curative treatment. A key aspect in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease is inflammation, which is initially triggered by dying neurons and which ... -
Caointeoireacht na Gaeilge: Béalaireacht agus Literathacht
(2012-09-19)Tá deighilt láidir idir scoláirí Gaeilge maidir leis an mbéalaireacht agus an litearthacht sa chaoineadh. Ar láimh amháin, maítear gur seánra béil é an caoineadh a bhfuil fianaise de ar fáil i lámhscríbhinní, agus ar an ... -
Capability architecture for open data
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-31)Open data is increasingly becoming an essential asset for many organizations. Large numbers of new start-ups are emerging to benefit from the potential of this asset for a wide range of new products and services. However, ... -
Carbohydrates as precursors to macrocyclic and iminosugar frameworks
(2017-09-30)Natural products have been perceived as privileged structures in drug discovery based on their evolutionary experience. Chapter 1, explores previous exploitation of this platform by medicinal chemists to identify some ... -
Carbohydrates in the synthesis of macrocycles and glycoclusters
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-28)This thesis deals with efforts to generate new bioactive organic compounds. The main focus has been on the use of carbohydrate building blocks for synthesis of both macrocyclic compounds and glycoclusters for biological ...