Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke: Natural History, Risk Factors and Clinical Consequences
(2013-08-28)Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability and the third leading cause of mortality in developed countries. Atrial fibrillation is a major risk factor for ischaemic stroke, associated with a five-fold increase in risk. ... -
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adolescence: the experiences of young women and second-level teachers in Ireland
(2017-05-13)There are numerous aspects of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that are underexplored and which we do not fully understand. This is particularly true when the condition is considered in relation to the ... -
Augmenting Social Media Items with Metadata using Related Web Content
(2012-01-23)The Web has shifted from a read-only medium where most users were solely consumers of information, to an interactive medium where collaborative technologies allow anyone to publish or edit content. In this environment, ... -
Austerity as retrogression: The rights to adequate housing and social security in the United Kingdom and Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2024-02-13)Austerity measures adopted by State Parties since 2008 had a detrimental impact on social housing and welfare, deteriorating the enjoyment of the rights to housing and social security under the International Covenant ... -
An autoignition study of hydrogen and natural gas mixtures under gas turbine relevant conditions in a rapid compression machine
(2013-11-14)This study presents an experimental and modelling investigation of the ignition of hydrogen and natural gas mixtures. These mixtures were chosen due to their relevancy to the gas turbine industry. A detailed chemical ... -
Autologous peripheral blood endothelial progenitor cells as a potential therapy for diabetic critical limb ischemia
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-20)[No abstract] -
Automated SoC neural networks and UWB radar bladder modelling
(2016-11-10)This thesis describes two significant research achievements. Part I describes the development of a novel System on Chip (SoC) hardware neural network simulator for diverse and biologically accurate neural network simulations. ... -
Automorphisms of Pairwise Combinatorial Designs
(2012-02-14)In this thesis, we investigate group actions on certain families of pairwise combinatorial designs, in particular Hadamard matrices and symmetric 2-(4t-1, 2t-1, t-1) designs. A Hadamard matrix H is called cocyclic if a ... -
Autotrophic denitrification using inorganic sulfur compounds as electron donor: process optimization and microbial characterization
(NUI Galway, 2022-07-25)This research aimed at enhancing and optimizing autotrophic denitrification exploiting inorganic sulfur compounds as electron donor and proposing and investigating pyrite as novel substrate. In addition, the simultaneous ... -
Axonal Regeneration Supported by Oligo[poly(ethylene glycol)fumarate] Cell-Loaded Hydrogel Scaffolds in the Transected Rat Spinal Cord
(2012-04-16)Spinal cord injury results in complete tissue destruction and irreversible loss of neurologic function below the level of the lesion in 40% of patients in Ireland. Tissue engineering using polymer scaffolds offers potential ... -
Balance, binary debate and missing women: a discourse analysis and creative response to 30 years of the abortion debate on RTÉ current affairs television, 1983-2013
(2017-02-23)Since the introduction of a foetal right to life into the Irish Constitution in 1983, abortion has persisted as a contentious issue in public debate in Ireland. This practice-based study investigates Irish public discourse ... -
Bamboozled! Systematic studies of the Keratoisididae (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea)
(NUI Galway, 2023-11-15)Deep-sea corals are globally distributed and form a three-dimensional habitat on the benthos which hosts a diverse invertebrate community. Despite this importance, a global lack of taxonomic expertise and low resolution ... -
The Bangladesh National Blindness and Low Vision Survey - Identification of prevalence, causes and the need for eye care services
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-15)Background: Bangladesh is a densely populated, impoverished country in South Asia with inadequate health service provision for a variety of diseases including treatable ocular conditions. The aims of this comprehensive ... -
Barton esters for initiator-free radical cyclisation with heteroaromatic substitution and anti-cancer evaluation of benzo[e][1,2,4]triazin-7-ones
(2014-07-03)Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to Chapters 2-5. Homolytic aromatic substitution routes to alicyclic ring-fused azoles and diazoles is reviewed. A review of recent literature using the COMPARE program of the ... -
Basic aesthetic features and their influence on attention and performance
(2015-01-23)Within experimental aesthetics it is often claimed that artists can exploit the normal activity of the perceptual system in order to achieve aesthetic effect. This thesis extends such a proposal by providing evidence to ... -
Bayesian functional concurrent regression for missing irregular functional data
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-25)Introduction Functional data analysis (FDA) methods have recently been developed to analyse several variables measured repeatedly and concurrently over a domain such as time in a cohort of individuals. However, many FDA ... -
Bayesian imputation of right censored data in time-to-event studies
(NUI Galway, 2018-03-20)In time-to-event studies subjects are followed until the event of interest has happened. Subjects who do not experience the event are referred to as censored. Due to censoring, methods of plotting individual survival ... -
Beati immaculati in via: Sin and reconciliation among the céli Dé of Tallaght and Terryglass
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-16)This dissertation researches the so-called céli Dé of the eighth and ninth centuries, in order to elucidate and reconstruct their beliefs on sin and reconciliation. Its contents are as follows: after a foreword that summarily ... -
The beauty of failure: Errancy as a methodology in the works of Samuel Beckett, Mary Swanzy and Jack B. Yeats
(2017-11-29)This thesis argues that Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) creates not only an aesthetic of failure but also a methodology of failure that permeates his works and intensifies as he matures as a writer. I contend that the impetus ... -
Becoming a person again: A classic grounded theory of psychosocial intervention use with residents with dementia in long-stay care.
(2014-05-14)This study set out to develop a theoretical understanding of staff's psychosocial intervention use with residents with dementia in long-stay care. This study applied classic grounded theory procedures. Data was collected ...