Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Issue Date
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Examination of Flood Estimation Techniques in the Irish Context
(2010-07-07)This thesis deals with the determination of the most suitable methods of finding the food magnitude-return period relationship for Irish flood data using the annual maximum statistical model. Data from approximately 200 ... -
Speckle Reduction and Edge Detection in Ultrasound Imagery
(2010-09-01)This thesis investigates the related topics of speckle reduction and edge detection as applied to speckled ultrasonography. A strategy for the evaluation of speckle filters is presented. This includes their application to ... -
The Development of Ultra Wideband Scanning Techniques for Detection and Classification of Breast Cancer
(2010-09-30)This thesis addresses the development of imaging techniques for the early detection of breast cancer, based on Ultra Wideband (UWB) radar, a promising emerging technology that exploits the dielectric contrast between normal ... -
The Integration of Bounce and Resuspension into a Lagrangian Simulation of Particle Movement.
(2010-09-30)The phenomenon of particle transport in turbulent flows has been studied extensively using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) over the past few decades. One of the most useful DNS approaches is Lagrangian simulation. ... -
Supporting Email-based Collaborative Work across a Social Semantic Space
(2010-10-31)The Social Semantic Desktop adopts Semantic Web technology on the desktop to provide a universal platform for personal - and distributed - information management, social networking and community creation. The social semantic ... -
Controls on upper Viséan (Carboniferous) depositional environments in Ireland
(2010-11-02)The lithostratigraphy and fauna of Carboniferous sedimentary sequences in northwest and southwest Ireland were investigated to reconstruct how and why palaeoenvironments were changing throughout the upper Viséan and ... -
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 ... -
Derivative Estimation in Noisy Data; an Additive Penalty P-Spline Approach
(2010-12-20)In many situations it is of primary interest to estimate the rate of change of the relationship between response and explanatory variables. In this thesis derivative estimation using spline smoothing is explored. A review ... -
The Impact of Volcanic Eruptions on the Climate and Ecology of Ireland since A.D. 1800
(2010-12-20)Global warming and the influence of anthropogenic changes to the environment are dominant themes in climate research today. However, the trends brought about by these processes have the potential to be abruptly altered by ... -
Features and purposes of mathematical proofs in the view of novice students: observations from proof validation and evaluation performances
(2010-12-22)This thesis describes a comprehensive exploratory study of the approaches taken by novice students to the validation and evaluation of mathematical proofs. A theoretical framework based on sociocultural learning theories ... -
Calibrated whole building energy simulation: An evidence-based methodology
(2011-01)Climate change, driven by global energy consumption, is one of the major challenges to humanity today. The buildings sector consumes a significant portion of global energy resources and much of this is due to inefficient ... -
Algorithms for Nilpotent Linear Groups
(2011-03-04)In this thesis, we develop practical algorithms for irreducibility and primitivity testing of finite nilpotent linear groups defined over various fields of characteristic zero, including number fields and rational function ... -
Exploiting RDFS and OWL for Integrating Heterogeneous, Large-Scale, Linked Data Corpora
(2011-03-11)The Web contains a vast amount of information on an abundance of topics, much of which is encoded as structured data indexed by local databases. However, these databases are rarely interconnected and information reuse ... -
Anti-Inflammatory Gene Therapy for the Promotion of Implanted Stem Cell Survival in Infarcted Myocardium
(2011-04-13)Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world and is responsible for approximately 36% of Irish mortality. Myocardial infarction (MI), which is literally the death of cardiac tissue due to ... -
Antimicrobial prescribing and resistance in Irish general practice
(2011-04-20)The emerging problem of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens is complex and the result of individual and population factors. Antimicrobial agents are unique therapeutics in that their impact goes beyond the ... -
On Torture
(2011-04-26)This thesis argues that the ticking bomb scenario is a fiction and it accordingly asks, "if it is a fiction, how does it exercise the power of a black hole in modern memory? How does it bend all argument to its narrative, ... -
Irish planters, Atlantic merchants: the development of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1750-1766
(2011-05)The West Indian island of St. Croix became a colony of the Kingdom of DenmarkNorway in 1733.1 Despite this, it remained undeveloped until the late 1740s when investment in the large-scale production of sugarcane began in ... -
Ex-vivo generation of regulatory T-cells expressing transcription factor foxp3 and their application in cornea transplantation
(2011-05-27)This project investigated the therapeutic potential of allo-antigen specific regulatory T-cells in the context of penetrating keratoplasty. Two methods of ex-vivo generation of T regulatory cells have been explored in ... -
The Relationship between Refugee Exclusion Law and International Law: Convergence or Divergence?
(2011-05-30)While asylum as a concept has been known since ancient times, persons with a criminal background have always been treated with suspicion and depending on the time and place would either be granted asylum in a limited form ... -
A new business model for cell-based therapeutics
(NUI Galway, 2011-06)Cell-based therapeutics have attracted large amounts of investment as they may offer effective treatments for a wide variety of health problems. In spite of extensive research relatively few examples of successful ...