Browsing University of Galway Theses by Issue Date
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The Impact of Dynamic Network Effects and Decision Heuristics on Social Dynamics
(2011-08-31)Many systems in the real world display properties that cannot be easily understood by an analysis of their component parts. There are a number of approaches used to help us gain insight into these complex systems. One ... -
Fortune and the Troilus and Cressida Story; A Study of the Representations and Functions of Fortune in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
(2011-09)This thesis examines the representations of Fortune in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Both in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Fortune was intrinsically ... -
Correction of the Aberrations of the Eye Using Adaptive Optics with Pupil Tracking
(2011-09-01)Adaptive optics has long been used in the astronomical telescopes to acquire high resolution images via the real time correction of the rapidly changing wavefront aberrations. Human retinal images also suffer from rapidly ... -
Modelling of Inhalation Exposures to Pharmaceutical Agents
(2011-09-09)Assessment of worker's exposure is becoming increasingly critical in the pharmaceutical industry as drugs of higher potency are being manufactured. Also the batch nature of operations often makes it difficult to obtain ... -
The Effects of Electron-Withdrawing Ring Substituents on the Reactivity of Cyclopentadienyl Ruthenium Complexes
(2011-09-09)This thesis describes the synthesis of ruthenium complexes which contain cyclopentadienyl ligands with electron-withdrawing ring substituents and the effects of these substituents on the reactivity of the metal centre. ... -
Thanatourism and the commodification of war tourism space in ex-Yugoslavia
(2011-09-20)Humanity has a long standing fascination with death and disaster. Although dying has been partially sequestered from many western societies, death itself is the one true anthropological constant, encountered by every society ... -
The Role of the European Union in Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law
(2011-09-23)This research examines the role of the EU and its Member States in contributing to furthering the aims of international humanitarian law and increasing its implementation and effectiveness through its external promotion ... -
Studies on the biology of juvenile European eels (Anguilla anguilla L.) in Irish rivers
(2011-09-23)Over the past three decades recruitment of European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) to inland waters has declined by more than 95%. The causes of this decline are still unclear although a number of factors are thought to have ... -
Chemical Amendment of Dairy Slurry For The Control of Phosphorus in Runoff From Grassland
(2011-09-28)Phosphorus (P) loss from grassland to a waterbody can adversely affect water quality. Land application of dairy cattle slurry can result in incidental P losses to runoff in addition to increased chronic P losses from soil ... -
The Death Penalty in Africa
(2011-09-29)This study begins by addressing the issue of the death penalty in Africa prior to foreign legal influences. An Africanist view exhorts retentionist countries to repeal the death penalty simply because it is an imperialist ... -
Ruling the Borders: Wiliam Lord Dacre and the genesis of the Dacre Rising
(2011-09-29)This study examines the northern branch of the Dacre family - the Dacres of Gilsland. The west march of England towards Scotland, on the Anglo-Scottish borders, is the focal point of this thesis, as this contained the ... -
StoRHm: A Protocol Adapter for mapping SOAP-based Web Services to RESTful HTTP Format
(2011-09-29)Two of the most popular approaches to Web Services' implementation are SOAP-based Web Services, which are based on an XML messaging protocol and RESTful HTTP Web Services, which use HTTP in line with Representational ... -
Representations of the Virgin Mary on Irish High Crosses: Icons, Narratives and Symbols of Power
(2011-09-29)Representations of the Virgin Mary on the Irish high crosses form two distinct categories: iconic Virgin and Child panels, and narrative Infancy of Christ scenes. This study begins with an iconographic analysis of the ... -
Creating a Systematic Approach for the Reflective Practice of Service-Learning Academics through the Development of Communities of Reflective Practice
(2011-09-29)This Ph.D. thesis in education is a qualitative examination of the reflective practice of academics who use service-learning, which can be described as an experiential pedagogy whereby students learn through providing a ... -
Functional genomics of microrna- directed regulation of tumorigenesis in human cancer cells
(2011-09-30)In the past few decades, microRNAs emerged as key regulators of gene expression in many fundamental biological processes such as development and differentiation as well as diseases. There are thousands of microRNAs that ... -
Cell Cycle-dependence of cisplatin-and carboplatin-induced dna damage
(2011-09-30)Platinum-based chemotherapeutic drugs such as cisplatin and carboplatin induce intra- and interstrand crosslinks, resulting in replication arrest, and cell death. Translesion synthesis by DNA polymerase eta, is one way in ... -
Why Customary Law Matters: The Role of Customary Law in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights
(2011-09-30)For millions of Indigenous peoples around the world their own customary laws (nonstate laws they consider binding upon them) are their primary, if not their only source of law. Long marginalized and where recognized ... -
In-vitro cellular interaction of quantum dots and silicone surfaces
(2011-09-30)The main hypothesis on which this study has been based is that the surface modification of nano-particles of different size (Quantum Dots) and varying nano-surfaces roughness (Silicones of nanosurface roughness) can make ... -
Theatre and Space: Druid's Productions of Tom Murphy's Plays, 1984-1987
(2011-09-30)This study analyses the relationship between the theatre company Druid and Irish playwright Tom Murphy to discern how Druid successfully toured Murphy's plays abroad despite the perception that his work is viewed as popular ... -
The poem as event: the development of a poetic style that uses the poem as a performative site of meaning in Thomas Kinsella's poetry, 1952-1979
(2011-09-30)This thesis focuses on Thomas Kinsella's poetry between 1952 and 1979 and discovers a stylistic development which shows a distinctive way of dealing with the poetic subject. The poems move from a more formal style of lyric ...