Browsing NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Quality of life in psychotic illness: baseline and prospective determinants in first episode and chronic psychosis cohorts
(2017-08-01)Abstract The overall aim of this thesis was to longitudinally assess determinants of quality of life in first episode and chronic psychosis patient cohorts. The Galway First Episode Psychosis Cohort Background: In ... -
Quality of Life Issues: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Young People in Ireland
(2013-05-28)The aim of this study was to explore quality of life issues of young people in Ireland with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). JIA is an autoimmune inflammatory disease diagnosed during childhood before the age of 16 ... -
Quantification of active pharmaceutical ingredients and polymorphs in tablets by spectroscopic means
(2013-11-29)Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can exist in various solid state forms including polymorphs, solvates, and hydrates. In the case of polymorphs each form can possess its own unique physical properties and chemical ... -
Quantitative Analysis of the Amorphous Phase and Multiple Polymorphs of Model Sulfa-Drugs; Sulfamerazine and Sulfathiazole
(2013-10-30)Polymorphic transformations are known to occur as a result of many factors, one of the most prominent being recrystallisation from different solutions. Though other factors have been known to induce polymorphic change, ... -
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of microbial community development during low-temperature anaerobic digestion of dairy wastewater
(2012-06-25)The objective of this thesis was to link microbial community structure, population dynamics and microbial activity with performance of two different bioreactor configurations during low-temperature anaerobic digestion of ... -
Quantum dots in bio-imaging and drug delivery
(2015-11-23)This work explores a range of bionanomaterials, with particular attention to their influence on cell growth, function and fate. Also the issue of intracellular nanoparticles quantification has been addressed in experimental ... -
A Quasi-Rotation Newton-Raphson method for the analysis of marine risser structures
(2014-10-17)This thesis describes a method which represents a novel approach for the prediction of coupled axial, bending and torque response of compliant beam structures undergoing finite deflections and rotations. The analysis of ... -
Radiobiological modelling in Radiation Oncology
(2011-09-30)Biological models potentially o er the ability to predict the response of tumour control to irradiation. A tumour control probability (TCP) model with excellent radiobiological pedigree was developed and examined to predict ... -
(Re)connecting children with nature? A sociological study of environmental education in Ireland.
(2014-11-01)The outcome of environmental education to solve the ecological crises by producing an environmentally sustainable society is uncertain. The marginalisation of environmental education in mainstream education, its precarious ... -
(Re)Thinking the Girl Effect: A Critical Analysis of Girls' Political Subjectivity and Agency at the United Nations 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 54)
(2012-10-26)This study is a feminist poststructuralist analysis of the Girl Effect informed by girls experiences at the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 54). Based on a series of in-depth qualitative interviews ... -
Re-place: performative landscapes as conceptual ecological environments
(2016-09-27)This dissertation aims to integrate Irish theatre history into a wider discourse of the environmental humanities. Combining material ecocritical thinking and theories of space and place, this thesis contends firstly, that ... -
Readership and Non-Canonical Victorian Popular Fiction 1860-1900: Materiality, Textuality, and Narrative
(2013-12-12)Scholars of print media are increasingly realising significant headway in the recovery of the history of reading. The study of Victorian fiction has also expanded beyond a core body of canonical texts to encompass a more ... -
Real-time detection of pedestrians in night-time conditions using a vehicle mounted infrared camera
(2016-09-30)Current statistics show that a significant number of road fatalities occur during night-time hours despite a smaller number of vehicles on the road. This number could be significantly reduced with the use of systems that ... -
Recombinant expression and characterization of ligand binding to mutants ff 3-O-sulphotransferase-1
(2014-10-21)Heparan Sulphate (HS) is a highly charged glycosyaminoglycan (GAG) that is closely related to Heparin, a related GAG with a higher degree of sulphation. Heparin is used in the development of anticoagulant drugs. Currently, ... -
Reform, instruction, and practice: the impact of the Catholic Revival on the laity in the Dublin diocese, 1793-1853
(2016-09-14)In the aftermath of the 1793 Catholic Relief Act the Catholic Church in Dublin experienced a period of revival. The building of new churches, the flourishing of religious orders, and the development Sunday Schools all point ... -
Regional development in minority language territories: state policies, structures and interventions in the Irish Gaeltacht
(2016-09-09)The primary aim of this thesis was to critically assess the capacity of the state to conceptualise and implement policies in support of the sustainable development of the Gaeltacht, and to do so through an integrated spatial ... -
Regional Scale Modelling of Boundary Layer Ozone and Influences of Climate Change
(2013-02-20)Ozone is a major air quality parameter, a key player in atmospheric chemistry and instrumental in greenhouse gas forcing. Consequently, the subject of ozone pollution warrants significant consideration in the construction ... -
Regulation and assembly of the associated network in human cells
(2011-10)Centromeres are the chromosomal loci which are responsible for the equal segregation of sister chromatids to daughter cells during mitosis, by directing the assembly of kinetochores. Despite being involved in the faithful ... -
Regulation and function of the tumour suppressor 53BP1 at sites of DNA damage
(2013-10-16)Cancer is the major cause of death for people in middle age. It results from cell transformation into malignant cells and propagates with normal controls. This process is induced by mutations occurring in DNA through the ... -
The regulation of ER stress induced cell death by HSPB1 (hsp27)
(2013-01-29)Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is associated with several human pathologies including neurodegenerative disorders. ER stress results in accumulation of unfolded proteins which activates the unfolded protein response ...