Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Networks and networking in ecotourism promotion: Evidence from Ireland's Greenbox ecotourism destination
(2013-12-21)This thesis presents the results of a study of the Greenbox, an ecotourism destination, situated in a geographically and economically marginal rural area on the northwest border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. The ... -
The neural network basis of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-22)Background: Despite well-documented cognitive deficits that contribute to poorer quality of life in bipolar disorder (BD) and evidence of altered topology and connectivity within neural networks, little work has been done ... -
Neural transfer learning for natural language processing
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-07)The current generation of neural network-based natural language processing models excels at learning from large amounts of labelled data. Given these capabilities, natural language processing is increasingly applied to new ... -
Neuroanatomical dysconnectivity in bipolar disorder
(2016-10-13)Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a major psychotic illness characterized by cyclic mood dysregulation. The dysconnectivity hypothesis suggests that psychotic illnesses arise not from regionally specific focal pathophysiology, but ... -
Neurocognitive effects of risk factors for psychosis: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of immune-related genetic and environmental factors
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-16)Schizophrenia (SZ) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder that afflicts approximately 1% of people worldwide. It is often characterized by hallucinations, sometimes by emotional blunting, and in a majority of cases by a ... -
Neurocognitive effects of risk variants for psychosis: neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of variants and pathways
(2017-07-19)Schizophrenia is a complex, highly polygenic brain disorder. Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia are among the most disabling symptoms, and as of yet, have no effective treatment. Investigating the effect of genetic variants ... -
Neurosymbolic visual reasoning with scene graph enrichment
(NUI Galway, 2024-02-26)Visual reasoning is a critical component of artificial intelligence that aims to understand, interpret, and reason about complex visual content. It has an interdisciplinary nature incorporating visual feature extraction ... -
Neurotrophic signalling and inhibition in breast cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
(2016-01-15)Neurotrophins are important growth factors for neuronal cells. They interact with the Trk kinase receptors and the p75NTR receptor to induce several signaling pathways. Neurotrophins and their receptors are known regulators ... -
A new business model for cell-based therapeutics
(NUI Galway, 2011-06)Cell-based therapeutics have attracted large amounts of investment as they may offer effective treatments for a wide variety of health problems. In spite of extensive research relatively few examples of successful ... -
A new framework for adaptive and agile honeypots
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-13)As new technological concepts appear and evolve, cyberattack surfaces and vectors are exploited. Every Internet facing device or service is vulnerable from the untrusted external Internet. Previously standalone devices are ... -
A new model: Seán Ó Riada, Ceoltóirí Cualann and Irish traditional music
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-19)This interdisciplinary thesis examines the history of Seán Ó Riada’s traditional ensemble Ceoltóirí Cualann and investigates the significance of the new group model for Irish traditional music that Ó Riada developed from ... -
New Particle Formation in Marine Air
(2012-11-28)Marine aerosols contribute significantly to global climate directly by absorbing or scattering solar radiation, as well as indirectly by altering the reflectance and persistence of clouds. This work presents results of ... -
Next generation HBBTV services and applications through multimedia synchronisation
(2015-09-18)In this thesis, the focus is on multi-source, multi-platform media synchronisation on a single device. Multimedia synchronisation is a broad research area with many facets across many multimedia application types. With ... -
Next-generation genomics-assisted characterization of genetic and phenotypic diversity in yams (Dioscorea spp) to support conservation and breeding for food security
(13-05-20)Yams (Dioscorea spp) are staple edible tuber food crop, a favored source of medicinal plants with socio-cultural value in West Africa, Asia, Far East, Oceania and the Caribbean regions. However, the knowledge on the extent ... -
NGF-induced pro-survivla signalling: Molecular engineering of NGFto enhance pro-survival signalling
(2014-01-27)Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a potent pro-survival growth factor that has diverse roles in development and in the adult nervous system. It has two cognate receptors that stimulate distinct signalling pathways, tropomyosin-related ... -
NGF/p75NTR or HSPB1-mediated regulation of cell survival under stress
(2016-02-09)Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) lack estrogen, progesterone and HER-2 receptors rendering them insensitive to current hormone targeted therapies. However, TNBC have been reported to express and secrete an additional ... -
NGOs as national political actors during the Cold War: A comparison of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s humanitarian programmes in the Global South, 1979-1988
(NUI Galway, 2023-09-28)This thesis examines the operations of two NGOs, Oxfam and MSF, as examples of European (Northern) humanitarian action in the Global South during the 1980s. By the end of the decade, these organisations were the most ... -
Nietzsche's askesis and philosophy as a style of life
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-08)In its original Greek sense askesis means ‘exercise.’ As such askesis is practical; it names the very idea of practice as an activity, and askesis is aspirational; it indicates an aim for which the practice is undertaken. ... -
Nineteenth-century Irish fiction: Irish identity, O'Connell and the transnational
(2015-05-29)This project contributes an analysis of the representation of Irish identity in the novel post-Catholic Emancipation (1829) to the turn of the twentieth century. The thesis focuses on the works of Gerald Griffin, William ... -
Nitrogen removal using partial nitritation-anammox process
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-26)The partial nitritation-anammox (PN-A) process is a promising biological nitrogen-removal process. Compared with the conventional autotrophic nitrification-heterotrophic denitrification process, it requires no organic ...