Browsing NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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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 ... -
Women entrepreneurs and self-employed business-owners in Ireland 1922-1972
(14-01-20)This study set out to examine the prevalence of women entrepreneurs and self-employed business owners in Ireland in the early years of the Irish Free State. The historiography of Irish women has largely focussed on women ... -
The X Factor(s): New antibiotic resistance mechanisms in community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(2017-03-31)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains typically express low-level heterogeneous (HeR) resistance from which high-level homogeneously resistant (HoR) mutants can be isolated following oxacillin exposure. ... -
Xenophon and the ancient Greek cavalry horse: an equestrian perspective
(2015-11-30)The origins of this thesis lie in my appreciation, because of my own equestrian background, of Xenophon’s Art of Horsemanship and the Cavalry Commander. As the research progressed, I was surprised that classical scholars ... -
"You Mean We're Not Real People?": A semiotic and sociolinguistic perspective on the transposition of fictive Dialogue in the Spanish Translations of John Updike's "Rabbit" books
(2015-01-29)Despite the vast amount of research on translation in recent decades, the issue of fictive dialogue has yet to gain prominence in the field. Viewed from a monolingual perspective, dialogue is already problematic in that ... -
Young people's attitudes toward the police in Ireland. A mixed methods study
(2013-10-30)The aim of this research was to address outstanding empirical issues in the attitudes to police literature by developing and testing a theoretical model of the factors that influence young people's attitudes toward the ... -
Zambian Perspectives: A participatory contextualisation of Youth Civic Engagement (YCE) from both youth and adult Zambian perspectives
(2012-10-26)In the contemporary adult centered world, global policy has placed young people at the centre of the civic engagement debate. A universal definition of youth civic engagement (YCE) is lacking. The current YCE literature ...