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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 ... -
Cognitive remediation and social recovery in early psychosis (THE CReSt-R STUDY)
(NUI Galway, 2023-05-11)Background Psychosis, even in its early stages, is associated with significant disability, causing it to be ranked ahead of paraplegia and blindness in those aged 18–35 in terms of years lived with disability. Current ... -
COHESION core outcomes in neonatal encephalopathy
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-05)Neonatal encephalopathy is a complex neurological syndrome in newborn infants characterised by depression in tone and consciousness, impaired reflexes, and often seizures. The main subtype of neonatal encephalopathy is ... -
A collaborative tax administration: The case of co-operative compliance in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2024-02-19)Tax administrations worldwide face similar challenges in improving taxpayer services, addressing non-compliance, minimising the administrative burden on taxpayers, and reducing costs. In achieving these goals, tax ... -
Collaboratively exploring the history of education for community of practice formation in undergraduate initial teacher education
(2017-01-05)At the beating heart of recent developments in initial teacher education (ITE) are efforts to establish a cultural shift within the teaching profession, to a point where professional learning communities may flourish. ... -
Collision Avoidance using Lane Departure Warning and Obstacle Determination in the Automotive Environment
(2012-09-21)Statistics show that worldwide motor vehicle collisions lead to significant death and disability as well as significant financial costs to both society and the individuals involved. This thesis aims to address this issue ... -
Combined experimental testing and numerical modelling of a novel vertical axis tidal turbine
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-30)This research presents a study of a novel vertical axis tidal turbine (VATT) – the GKinetic turbine – using experimental testing of scale devices and numerical modelling. The primary aims of the thesis were: (1) to assess ... -
Combined zeolite and chemical amendments mixed with agricultural wastes to reduce surface and leaching losses of nutrients and greenhouse gas emissions, and biofilter treatment of dairy soiled water
(2017-05-08)Agricultural activity is a major source of nutrient emissions to surface and ground waters and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Despite legislation to improve terrestrial water quality, prescribed ... -
Combining biological and chemical approaches in marine biodiscovery
(2017-06-13)Marine organisms are prolific producers of novel and structurally interesting metabolites. The identification of marine natural products contributes to many scientific areas including pharmacology, chemical ecology, chemical ... -
Combustion kinetic studies of future transportation fuels and intermediates
(NUI Galway, 2020-10-22)The transportation sector requires an abundant supply of fossil and/or bio-derived fuels, which all produce significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The transportation sector is expected to account for ... -
The combustion of fuel reference compounds in laboratory-scale reactors and flames
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-14)Internal combustion engines that rely heavily on fuel oxidation chemical kinetics, rather than external ignition sources, promise the simultaneous improvement of thermodynamic efficiencies and reduction of pollutant emissions ... -
Comedy Italian Style: an Evolution of Italian Neorealism
(2011-11-30)This dissertation examines the relationship between the critically revered cinematic mode of production flourished in Italy at the end of World War II known as "neorealism" (1945-1954) and the commercially successful Italian ... -
Comic books in the digital age: Understanding technological co-existence through post-medium specificity
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-28)Comic books, a rarefied pastime in Western countries, have increasingly become content providers and narrative links in wide transmedia enterprises and have found new audiences through digital channels. This places the ... -
Coming 'Home': place, belonging and second-generation return migration from England to Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)This thesis contributes to the growing academic interest in the second-generation of migrants and the connections they maintain with their parental places of origin. It focuses on the children of the Irish emigrants to ... -
Coming of age in the Parisian Banlieues: young adult fiction as a vehicle for empowerment
(2015-04-30)Over the last number of decades the French banlieues, residential suburban areas surrounding major cities, have become increasingly visible in French society. The residents of these zones are predominantly working class, ... -
A community ready for the future? A social marketing study of Meals on Wheels Services in Ireland
(2015-02-05)This research, undertaken in the Irish Meals on Wheels (MOW) community, seeks to address the challenges associated with MOW stakeholders' behaviours through the application of a community social marketing model: the Community ... -
Comorbidity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
(2016-10-21)Comorbidity is defined as the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in the same person (Matson & Nebel-Schwalm, 2007). Comorbidity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a topic that has infrequently been addressed in the ... -
Comparative genomics combined with phenotypical analyses reveal novel acid stress response mechanisms in Listeria monocytogenes
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-13)Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium of significant concern for food safety. Its remarkable ability to withstand food-related stress and survive gastrointestinal passage is important for establishing ... -
Comparison of intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactors (IASBRs) and conventional sequencing batch reactors (cSBRs) in wastewater treatment
(2014-01-08)Increasingly stringent discharge standards, increased water usage, variations in wastewater characteristics and climate change have resulted in increased difficulty in achieving cost effective wastewater treatment. The ...