Browsing NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Safe food safe people management system: enhancing compliance with safety legislation in Irish food and drink manufacturing SMEs
(2016-03-16)Whilst the growth of many industry sectors has declined following the deepest global financial recession in decades, the food and drink sector, in particular food and drink manufacturing, has continued to grow. The sector ... -
Salmonella enterica - biofilm formation and survival of disinfection treatment on food contact surfaces.
(2013-05-31)A recent report indicated that Salmonella was the most frequently identified agent in food-borne outbreaks in Europe. Salmonella can survive on surfaces and act as a source of cross-contamination. Biofilm formation may ... -
Scale and the plankton dynamics of the Irish Shelf and adjacent offshore waters
(2012-01-26)The patchy distribution of planktonic organisms has been known for over 100 years and ever since then attempts have been made to model this variability over a hierarchy of scales. Forcing mechanisms that act on plankton ... -
Scattering Properties of Aerosols in Clean Marine and Polluted Air
(2012-06-06)The light scattering properties of aerosols are affected by their chemical composition, size distribution and ambient relative humidity (RH) thus making them highly variable in both the spatial and temporal domains, which ... -
Schema-agnostic queries for large-schema databases: A distributional semantics approach
(2015-05-01)The evolution of data environments towards the growth in the size, complexity, dynamicity and decentralisation (SCoDD) of schemas drastically impacts contemporary data management. The SCoDD trend emerges as a central data ... -
Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy:Transmission, performance and commemoration of Irish traditional music, 1973-2012
(2014-05-29)This thesis examines Scoil Samhraidh Willie Clancy (SSWC) and its role in the transmission, performance and commemoration of Irish traditional music from 1973-2012. SSWC is regarded as the foremost summer school in the ... -
Screamingly funny: A critical approach to the comedic anti-war novels of Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins and Tony Vigorito
(2016-10-14)This thesis investigates the use of humour in American anti-war novels in the second half of the twentieth century, through an analysis of joke-work in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five ... -
Sealbhú neamhiomlán na Gaeilge mar chéad teanga sa dátheangachas dealaitheach
(2014-08-08)Anailís atá sa taighde seo ar fhaisnéis a taifeadadh ó dhátheangaithe óga i gceithre aoisghrúpa sa Ghaeltacht chomhaimseartha. Léiríonn an staidreamh, na samplaí teangeolaíochta agus an anailís sochtheangeolaíochta go ... -
Second Level Teachers and Educational Change: An Investigation into Teachers' Responses to the Introduction and Implementation of Cooperative Learning
(2013-09-27)Successful educational change at school level is difficult to achieve; however it is imperative that schools engage in change practices if they are to enhance the learning experiences and academic achievements of their ... -
Secondary Verbs in Old Irish: A comparative-historical study of patterns of verbal derivation in the Old Irish Glosses
(2011-09-30)This thesis concerns the word formation of secondary verbs in Old Irish. Although extensive work has been done on primary verbs, the secondary adjectives and the nouns in Old Irish, and the formation of causatives and ... -
Secure Intellectual Property Management in Reconfigurable Computing Systems
(2010)This thesis contributes to Intellectual Property (IP) security and IP usage accounting in Partially Reconfigurable (PR) Xilinx Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based Reconfigurable Computing (RC) systems.The outsourcing ... -
Sediment mobility modelling and hydrodynamic properties of maerl
(2016-11-11)Sediment mobility modelling is a useful tool for scientifically robust marine spatial planning and characterisation of the benthic disturbance regime. As a prerequisite to modelling sediment transport of free living coralline ... -
Seismic Design of Concentrically Braced Steel Frames
(2012-03-01)The aim of this project is to develop a robust numerical model that accurately replicates the behaviour of CBFs during earthquakes. This numerical model is then used to validate a codified performance based design approach ... -
Self-aware buildings: an evaluation framework and implementation technologies for improving building operations
(2015-05-22)Significant advances have been made in developing national and international policies aimed at improving the energy efficiency of buildings that address both new construction and retrofitting activities in buildings. ... -
Semantic network analysis for unsupervised topic linking and labelling
(2014-10-24)We rely more and more on machines to organise, analyse and summarise the vast amount of textual digital information that is being produced at a rate never seen before. At the same time, we notice an increase in availability ... -
Semantic Paths in Business Filings Analysis
(2012-06-18)Supporting competitive business analysis of financial reports through the automated analysis and interpretation of their natural language sections, presents specific challenges including information that can be ambiguous, ... -
Semantic Service Oriented Architecture - Component Model, Reference Architecture and Evaluated Prototype
(2011-08-24)This dissertation presents a component model, reference architecture and peer-evaluated prototype for Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA). Semantic Web service technology, derived from the combination of the ... -
A semantic web approach to enable the holistic environmental and energy management of buildings
(2014-10-30)Narrowing the performance deficit between design intent and real-time performance is a complex and involved task, impacting on all building stakeholders. Buildings are designed, built and operated with the use of increasingly ... -
Semi-automated segmentation of pleural effusions in 3D thoracic X-ray computed tomography
(2014-09-27)A pleural effusion is excess fluid that collects in the pleural cavity, the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. Surplus amounts of such fluid can impair breathing by limiting the expansion of the lungs during ... -
Settlement and Social Change in the Barony of Tulla, c. 1650-1845
(2015-03-03)This thesis asserts that a diverse landowning elite and fragmented ownership was imposed in the barony of Tulla by the cumulative effect of the Cromwellian and Williamite land confiscations. Given that an exceptionally ...