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Image super-resolution for consumer thermal cameras
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-21)
This thesis attempts to solve a problem currently faced by consumer-grade thermal cameras. Consumers have grown accustomed to the high pixel counts and high resolution offered by the modern smartphone, while the performance ...
Chemical nature and sources of particulate matter in urban areas
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-07)
Particulate matter (PM) air pollution adversely affects human health and can lead to premature deaths. The sources of air pollution, however, remain poorly understood especially in urban areas with intense human activities. ...
On extending depth of field in fast photographic lenses
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-04)
Modern smartphone cameras are equipped with multiple camera modules. These modules are typically five millimetres in length limiting the focal length of the lens. To preserve resolution the entrance pupil of these lenses ...
Detection of faint exoplanets in multispectral data
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-15)
The detection of extrasolar planets is extremely difficult due to their extreme faintness and proximity to their parent stars. Direct, ground-based detection is particularly challenging and despite the incredible contrast ...
Sources, concentrations, and screening of hazardous brominated flame retardants from waste streams in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-12)
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are organohalogen compounds which are applied to polymer-based materials in order to meet fire safety standards. Some of the most commonly-used of these BFRs in consumer plastic over the ...
Elucidating levels and pathways of human exposure in Ireland to POP-BFRs and PFOS (ELEVATE)
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-17)
BFRs such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were used as flame retardants (FRs) in soft furnishings, building insulation foams, electronic and electrical goods. Perfluoroalkyl ...
The multi-spectral signal properties of multiple reference optical coherence tomography
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-05)
Efforts to reduce the size and costs of optical coherence tomography systems (OCT) for consumer
applications, in general, focus on Fourier-domain OCT, due to its potential to be integrated on an optical chip, implementing ...