Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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A chemical kinetic computational toolkit for computational modelling and estimation of fuel thermodynamic properties
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-27)It is undeniable that, due to human activity, global warming is one of the most challenging environmental issues of our time. It is well known that the main source of greenhouse gases (GHG) is due to the burning of ... -
Chemical nature and sources of particulate matter in urban areas
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-07)Particulate matter (PM) air pollution adversely affects human health and can lead to premature deaths. The sources of air pollution, however, remain poorly understood especially in urban areas with intense human activities. ... -
Chemical oceanography of Irish waters, with particular emphasis on ocean acidification
(2012-10)Strategically positioned along the western margin of the North Atlantic, Irish shelf and offshore waters play a crucial role in the global thermohaline circulation and regional and global climate cycles. The main objective ... -
Child to parent violence - an exploration of non-violent resistance
(2016-05-06)Until relatively recently, there has been very limited research on the aggressive and violent behaviour of children and adolescents who abuse their parents at home. This form of family violence has been poorly understood ... -
Children and parents' participation: socio-ecological perspectives on health promotion in schools
(2014-10-31)Schools are a key setting for health promotion. The development of Health Promoting Schools (HPS) draws on the settings-based approach to health promotion and includes child participation as one of its basic values. The ... -
Chinese policy towards UN intervention and peacekeeping: a case study
(2016-03-15)This research investigates the revision of China’s foreign policy in respect to the application of the principle of non-intervention when participating in UN interventions. It achieves this through a detailed examination ... -
Chironomid response to prehistoric farming in northwest Ireland
(2017-12-20)This article-based PhD thesis explored the utility and performance of chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) autecology in the investigation of prehistoric farming impacts on freshwater lake systems. Chironomid subfossils, ... -
Chondrogenic and vascular priming: an endochondral ossification approach to bone tissue regeneration
(2015-11-30)Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have significant potential to treat bone pathologies by exploiting the capacity for bone progenitors to grow and produce tissue constituents under specific biochemical and ... -
Chromatic Aberrations in Optical Systems: Prediction and Correction
(2012-12-19)The variation of refractive index with wavelength, known as dispersion, was what redirected Isaac Newton from refractive telescope designs toward a reflective one, since he found the chromatic effect incurable. Later it ... -
Chronic nitric oxide exposure induces prostate cell carcinogenesis, involving genetic instability and a pro-tumorigenic secretory phenotype
(2015-11-05)Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, and ranked third in the causes of death from cancer in Irish men. Inflammation has been implicated in prostate carcinogenesis, with the overexpression of NOS2 ... -
Classification Problems for Finite Linear Groups
(2013-03-08)This thesis is concerned with classification problems for finite linear groups. Our main concern is with groups of prime degree, and groups defined over finite fields and fields of zero characteristic. We use the computational ... -
Classifying Physical Activities from Accelerometry data recorded from healthy, elderly and neurological subjects
(2012-12-22)By 2050 two billion people will be aged 60 or older representing 22% of the global population. As this skew in the population distribution develops the nature of elderly health care provision will need to evolve. This ... -
Clifford Odets: Writing Around Jewishness
(2011-09-30)Playwright Clifford Odets was a second-generation Jewish American. He is commonly regarded as a sell-out to Hollywood who never fulfilled his artistic promise. This dissertation argues that societal pressure to assimilate ... -
Clinical Applications of Molecular Profiling in Colorectal Cancer
(2011-06)Despite developments in diagnosis and treatment, 20% of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients present with metastatic disease and 30% of cases recur after curative surgery. Furthermore, the molecular factors involved in prognosis ... -
A clinical evaluation of remote ischaemic preconditioning for organ protection
(2016-05-24)Periprocedural complications are an issue for patients with cardiovascular disease. Remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC) may offer periprocedural organ protection. Although the proof of concept data underpinning RIPC ... -
A close reading of the direct speech element in Robert the Monk’s 'Historia Hierosolimitana' as an alternative method for its historical analysis
(2017-01-18)This thesis is an examination of direct speech in Robert the Monk’s Historia Hierosolimitana, an early twelfth-century history of the expedition now known as the First Crusade (1096-1099). It examines most of the main ... -
Coevolutionary spatial game theory: The impact of abstention and dynamic networks on the evolution of cooperation
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-15)Since the dawn of evolutionary game theory, the standard models in evolutionary dynamics have been developed under the assumption of a well-mixed population where agents (individuals) can interact with all the other agents ... -
Cognition in two languages: bilingualism and second language competency as determinants of cognitive performance
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-15)Introduction. This project emphasises the importance of two aspects in research on bilingualism: (i) the inclusion of multiple language sets to reach generalisable results, which ensures that differences originate in changes ... -
Cognitive functioning in schizophrenia: Characterising the effects of common genetic variation, brain structure, inflammation, and early life adversity
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-08)Schizophrenia is a complex, highly polygenic neuropsychiatric disorder. Individuals with schizophrenia experience neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits that can impact their ability to work, live independently, ... -
Cognitive load and working memory capacity; within and between modality
(NUI Galway, 2018-10)Perceptual load and cognitive load have been assessed in the same method. However, it is proposed they have self-regulating and contradictory effects on the use of attentional resources. The difficulty of distinguishing ...