Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Characterization of the hydrodynamics and saltwater wedge variations in a coastal karst aquifer in response to tide and precipitation events (Bell Harbour catchment, county Clare, Ireland)
(2014-03-03)Low-lying coastal areas in the west of Ireland, such as the Galway and Clare coasts, have seen recent increases in flooding frequencies coupled with overall increases in sea level. The impacts of these changes are most ... -
Chemical Amendment of Dairy Slurry For The Control of Phosphorus in Runoff From Grassland
(2011-09-28)Phosphorus (P) loss from grassland to a waterbody can adversely affect water quality. Land application of dairy cattle slurry can result in incidental P losses to runoff in addition to increased chronic P losses from soil ... -
Chemical diversity of some benthic cyanobacteria from French Polynesia and New Caledonia
(NUI Galway, 2020-08-04)Cyanobacteria are often considered proliferative in relation with the global change affecting oceans worldwide and especially in the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean. The bloom of the cyanobacteria in the Pacific Ocean are ... -
Chemical diversity of zoantharians from the coast of Ecuador in the tropical eastern Pacific
(NUI Galway, 2019-09-18)This thesis describes the isolation and identification of marine natural products from five zoantharian species collected off the Marine Protected Area El Pelado located in Santa Elena, Ecuador. Ecuador is one of the ... -
Chemical investigation of alkaloids from two haplosclerida sponges collected in Papua New Guinea
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-21)The phylum Porifera contributes immensely to the repertoire of marine natural products amassed to date. Regions of the Pacific Ocean where chemical diversity was not previously assessed were analysed and samples of ... -
A chemical kinetic computational toolkit for computational modelling and estimation of fuel thermodynamic properties
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-27)It is undeniable that, due to human activity, global warming is one of the most challenging environmental issues of our time. It is well known that the main source of greenhouse gases (GHG) is due to the burning of ... -
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. ... -
Chemical oceanography of Irish waters, with particular emphasis on ocean acidification
(2012-10)Strategically positioned along the western margin of the North Atlantic, Irish shelf and offshore waters play a crucial role in the global thermohaline circulation and regional and global climate cycles. The main objective ... -
Child to parent violence - an exploration of non-violent resistance
(2016-05-06)Until relatively recently, there has been very limited research on the aggressive and violent behaviour of children and adolescents who abuse their parents at home. This form of family violence has been poorly understood ... -
Children and parents' participation: socio-ecological perspectives on health promotion in schools
(2014-10-31)Schools are a key setting for health promotion. The development of Health Promoting Schools (HPS) draws on the settings-based approach to health promotion and includes child participation as one of its basic values. The ... -
Chinese policy towards UN intervention and peacekeeping: a case study
(2016-03-15)This research investigates the revision of China’s foreign policy in respect to the application of the principle of non-intervention when participating in UN interventions. It achieves this through a detailed examination ... -
Chironomid response to prehistoric farming in northwest Ireland
(2017-12-20)This article-based PhD thesis explored the utility and performance of chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) autecology in the investigation of prehistoric farming impacts on freshwater lake systems. Chironomid subfossils, ... -
Chondrogenic and vascular priming: an endochondral ossification approach to bone tissue regeneration
(2015-11-30)Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have significant potential to treat bone pathologies by exploiting the capacity for bone progenitors to grow and produce tissue constituents under specific biochemical and ... -
Chromatic Aberrations in Optical Systems: Prediction and Correction
(2012-12-19)The variation of refractive index with wavelength, known as dispersion, was what redirected Isaac Newton from refractive telescope designs toward a reflective one, since he found the chromatic effect incurable. Later it ... -
Chronic nitric oxide exposure induces prostate cell carcinogenesis, involving genetic instability and a pro-tumorigenic secretory phenotype
(2015-11-05)Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, and ranked third in the causes of death from cancer in Irish men. Inflammation has been implicated in prostate carcinogenesis, with the overexpression of NOS2 ... -
Classification Problems for Finite Linear Groups
(2013-03-08)This thesis is concerned with classification problems for finite linear groups. Our main concern is with groups of prime degree, and groups defined over finite fields and fields of zero characteristic. We use the computational ... -
Classifying Physical Activities from Accelerometry data recorded from healthy, elderly and neurological subjects
(2012-12-22)By 2050 two billion people will be aged 60 or older representing 22% of the global population. As this skew in the population distribution develops the nature of elderly health care provision will need to evolve. This ... -
Clifford Odets: Writing Around Jewishness
(2011-09-30)Playwright Clifford Odets was a second-generation Jewish American. He is commonly regarded as a sell-out to Hollywood who never fulfilled his artistic promise. This dissertation argues that societal pressure to assimilate ... -
Clinical Applications of Molecular Profiling in Colorectal Cancer
(2011-06)Despite developments in diagnosis and treatment, 20% of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients present with metastatic disease and 30% of cases recur after curative surgery. Furthermore, the molecular factors involved in prognosis ... -
A clinical evaluation of remote ischaemic preconditioning for organ protection
(2016-05-24)Periprocedural complications are an issue for patients with cardiovascular disease. Remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC) may offer periprocedural organ protection. Although the proof of concept data underpinning RIPC ...