Browsing NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Very-High-Energy and Ultraviolet Studies of Markarian 421 during 2007-2008
(2012-06-14)We have investigated the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission and the ultra- violet emission of Markarian 421 recorded during 2007-2008. The VHE dataset is reasonably spread out over nine successive months of observation, ... -
Vision Algorithms and Systems for Vehicle and Pedestrian Detection in Night Time Conditions Using Vehicle Mounted Cameras
(2011-08-24)Statistics show that a disproportionate amount of road fatalities occur at night-time despite the greatly reduced volume of traffic on roads. This thesis describes a system aimed at addressing this issue by automatically ... -
Visual Exploration of Text Collections
(2012-10-05)Despite many technological advances, the information overload problem still prevails in many application areas. It is challenging for users who are inundated with data to explore different facets of a complex information ... -
The Voice of Children in Social Work Assessments: What They Say? or What They Play?
(2012-04-13)Child protection and welfare social work practice is faced with many challenges in its statutory duty to protect children at risk of abuse and/or neglect. Numerous child care tragedies have highlighted the importance of ... -
Volcanic activity, magma-sediment-water interaction, hydrothermal alteration and vein mineralisation in south County Waterford
(2010-11-05)The Ordovician volcanic sequence of the south Waterford coast is used to investigate magma-sediment-water interaction and its role in hydrothermal systems. Field investigations and rock textures analysis have shown ... -
Voltammetric Characterization of Macroalgae-Exuded Organic Ligands in Response to Metal Exposure
(2013-09-30)Trace metal availability, and hence toxicity, is largely dependent on metal speciation. It is well established that in seawater complexation by organic ligands dominates the speciation of most metals including Cd, Cu, Pb, ... -
Wave-structure interaction of offshore wave energy converters
(2013-11-04)With the continuing rise in oil prices and greater concern for the damage to the atmosphere, the world is continually looking for a cleaner and more sustainable form of energy. Ocean wave energy as a renewable source of ... -
Wavelength dependence of femtosecond laser ablation of thin gold films
(2014-05-26)The demand for efficient laser processing of materials is as strong as ever and this requires a deep understanding of the fundamental laser-material interactions. There has been a recent upsurge in the number of studies ... -
A web-based system for determining drug dosing levels in kidney impairment
(2014-02-03)University Hospital Galway, Ireland (UHG) uses a hybrid system to maintain patient records. Some wards have an electronic health record (EHR), while others are still dependent on paper records. The continued use of ... -
What are the factors that influence person centred care in public residential care settings for older people?
(2014-02)The term Person centred care is used widely in health and social care discourse and is commonly employed in the articulation of policy, both at governmental and professional level. The concept, as it relates to older people ... -
What are the perspectives on ageing of mid-life women in rural Ireland?
(2017-02-15)Adopting a lifecourse perspective, this exploratory study examines what rural ageing means to mid-life women (45-65 years of age) in Connemara. Gaps in existing research coupled with divergence between theoretical and ... -
What we owe to children: A rawlsian perspective in an irish context
(2013-10-02)This thesis begins from the premise that a just state ought to be concerned for how children actually turn out. The basis for this claim is grounded in the contemporary liberal view that each person ought to have the ... -
What's Fair? Realising the right to Independent Living for people with intellectual disabilities: what Ireland needs to do.
(2013-10-17)Ireland has a long and shameful history of providing for the support and housing needs of people with intellectual disabilities in large institutions. This is not unique to Ireland, nor to people with intellectual ... -
When paradigms clash: Irish labour market institutions and the unemployment crisis
(2017-10-18)The recent Irish economic and financial crisis had significant impacts on the performance of the labour market and was also associated with major changes to labour market policies and institutions. Drawing on Douglass ... -
White matter organisation in the human brain: diffusion MRI investigation of microstructural alterations in chronic schizophrenia and post-mortem validation
(2014-08-29)Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling mental disorder affecting 0.7% of the worldwide population, characterised by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech and behaviour, and by social ... -
Why Customary Law Matters: The Role of Customary Law in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights
(2011-09-30)For millions of Indigenous peoples around the world their own customary laws (nonstate laws they consider binding upon them) are their primary, if not their only source of law. Long marginalized and where recognized ... -
Willingness to Pay for Community-Based Care Programmes for Older People in Ireland
(2012-01-20)Non-market valuation techniques are employed across a range of economic disciplines to assess the economic value generated by goods and services that typically are not captured by traditional market price mechanisms. Such ... -
The Wnt gene family in evolution and development: insights from Chilopoda
(2012-12-20)The importance of a relatively small number of highly conserved genes and signalling systems, which can be co-opted to many developmental functions over evolutionary time, is a central finding in the field of evolutionary ... -
Wnt signalling in the hydrozoan Hydractinia echinata
(2013-09-11)Canonical Wnt signalling controls many developmental processes in metazoans including primary axis formation in embryonic development and stem cell decision making. The evolutionary history of Wnt signalling and its ancestral ... -
Women and modernity: the global and the local in Moroccan women's NGOs' advocacy and public awareness work
(2013-08-30)This thesis examines the referential and linguistic strategies used by Moroccan women's NGOs in their advocacy and public awareness work. The study is based on interviews with 24 NGO directors from geographically and ...