Browsing NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Ultrashort pulse laser scribing of thin flexible glass
(2016-02-04)Laser scribing of thin glass has proven problematic due to inefficient optical absorption and difficulty achieving economical processing speeds while maintaining edge quality. Laser processing of glass is pertinent to touch ... -
Ultrawideband Radar for the Early Detection of Cancer Within the Heterogeneous Breast
(2012-01-18)Ultrawideband (UWB) microwave imaging is an emerging breast screening modality based on the electromagnetic reflections generated by the dielectric contrast between soft tissue types within the breast at microwave ... -
Understanding adolescent adjustment to maternal cancer: a study of personal experiences and psychosocial factors that promote adjustment
(2016-01-05)Parental cancer is a stressful situation that can have a strong impact on adolescents lives (Su & Ryan-Wenger, 2007; Giesbers et al., 2010; Sieh et al., 2010; Helseth & Ulfsaet, 2003). Objectives The objectives of this ... -
Understanding early intervention services in Ireland: a conceptual evaluation
(2016-06-21)In Ireland the provision of early intervention services for children with disabilities is changing. With the policy and legislative contexts driving this change, these services need to be informed by evidence and underpinned ... -
Understanding Emergency Nurses' experiences of moral distress
(2016-09-29)This study sought to understand emergency nurses' experiences of moral distress. Classical Grounded Theory based on the works of Glaser & Strauss and Glaser informed the study design. Participants included Staff Nurses, ... -
Understanding gender in conflict-affected Timor-Leste: Women's voices on marriage, motherhood and the gender-poverty-violence nexus
(2017-06-29)This research addresses conceptual dilemmas facing gender mainstreaming that impede its transformative potential to end gender inequality. It explores meanings of gender underlying women's subjective experiences of everyday ... -
Understanding strategic engagement: an exploratory study of perspectives on philanthropic investment in programmes for children and youth in Ireland
(2015-09-29)In Ireland, the term ‘philanthropy’ has connotations of charitable beneficence and is often associated with nineteenth century forms of giving to alleviate poverty in areas that subsequently become the responsibility of ... -
Understanding the Mechanisms of Action of Hypercapnic Acidosis and the Therapeutic Potential of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Diminishing Inflammation and Enhancing Repair in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
(2013-09-30)Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a term used to describe severe lung injury characterised by uncontrolled inflammatory response and resultant damage to endothelial and epithelial layers leading to eventual ... -
Understanding the role of the general stress response regulator, RpoS, in the environmental persistence of Escherichia coli
(2017-04-03)The use of E. coli as an indicator organism for faecal contamination in the environment, particularly in water sources, is based partly on the assumption that E. coli survives transiently outside of the mammalian ... -
Unemployment inflows and outflows in the UK: a micro economometric analysis
(2016-06-09)The unemployment rate is a function of both the inflows to unemployment and the outflows from unemployment. Understanding the unemployment rate requires an understanding of the flows that drive the rate. This thesis ... -
An unexpected role for Nanos in cnidarian neural stem cell fate determination
(2012-09)The mechanisms of lineage commitment and acquiring specific cell fate remain obscure and require investigating the role of particular genes involved in these complex processes. To address this issue, I studied the role of ... -
A Unified Probabilistic Approach for Predicting the Structural Response of Oriented Strandboard
(2011-09-30)Oriented strandboard (OSB) is a wood-based composite manufactured from elongated wood-strands coated in a resin binder that are oriented and arranged in layers, cross-laminated and hot pressed to form large panels. OSB is ... -
The United States and International Criminal Tribunals
(2012-08-07)This study examines the policies put forth by the United States during international debates that established international criminal tribunals from the pre-First World War era to 2012. Each chapter closely considers the ... -
Unveiling knowledge gaps: an investigation into the design and implementation of video hooks in the science classroom
(2017-01-21)Both internationally and in Ireland, the role science plays in the advancement of economic and technological endeavours cannot be undervalued. Nevertheless, in developed countries, established trends of decreasing student ... -
Upland transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in post-medieval settlement and society, c.1550-1900 AD
(2016-06-07)This thesis creates a new understanding of the phenomenon of transhumance in post-medieval Ireland, c.1550-1900 AD. Transhumance is an agro-pastoral system in which people and their livestock spend several months of each ... -
Upon uncertain ice: contingency, being and witness in later Cormac McCarthy
(2014-09-30)Interest in Cormac McCarthy¿s writing has grown rapidly over the past decade, with an attendant increase in the scholarly attention paid to his works. The author's long affiliation with the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) has ... -
Upstream Binding Factor, an Evolutionarily Conserved Protein that Organises Ribosomal Gene Chromatin
(2012-09-28)The nucleolus, the site of ribosome biogenesis, forms around arrays of ribosomal gene (rDNA) repeats termed nucleolar organiser regions (NORs). Transcriptionally active NORs appear as regions of under-condensed chromatin ... -
The use of Acetic Anhydride in Annulations onto Benzimidazoles to give Novel Reducible p-Dione Adducts
(2012-06-13)Chapter 1: Introduction to the reactive intermediates used in this thesis, namely acyl radicals and N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) is presented, along with an assessment of the anti-cancer activity of literature bioreductive ... -
The use of ensemble techniques in multiclass speech emotion recognition to improve both accuracy and confidence in classifications
(2015-09-30)Creating machines with the ability to reason, perceive, learn and make decisions based on a human like intelligence has been an interest of artificial intelligence researchers for decades, with the long term goal of ... -
The use of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) as part of the postoperative care regime in orthopaedic patients
(2017-09-14)Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is an extremely beneficial procedure carried out primarily as a treatment for end-stage knee osteoarthritis to improve both quality of life and physical functioning. Limitations in physical ...