Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Contextualising sensors with linked data to improve relevancy, data quality and network adaptability
(2015-10-09)A sensor taken by itself, with no indication of what it is sensing, with what unit of measurement and where, would keep working without anybody being able to interpret its output. The sensor needs to be "contextualised". ... -
Contextualizing the 'Other': Parliamentary Discourses on Genocide and Rape in late nineteenth and late twentieth century Britain
(2012-09-27)This thesis argues that parliamentary discourses on genocide and rape have experienced continuity throughout the twentieth century. This is evident from the repetition of discursive categories within the British Houses of ... -
A continuous pressure monitoring technology for biomedical applications
(NUI Galway, 2023-11-10)The diverse physiological pressures within the human body are crucial in maintaining optimal health and homeostasis. Long-term and continuous monitoring of these physiological pressures can provide key information in ... -
The contribution of ingredient glycosylation and milk glycoproteins to infant milk formulations and bacterial microbiome activity
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-16)Infant milk formula (IMF) is a food that has a specific purpose in the feeding of infants at different stages of their development. It is modelled on human milk, which contains a number of unique ingredients to ensure ... -
Contribution of non-histone proteins to chromatin structure and stability
(2015-10-30)Histones are responsible for packaging the genomes of almost all eukaryotes into fundamental repeating nucleosome units. The packaging must facilitate compaction into the cell nucleus but also enable dynamic access to the ... -
Contributions of cognitive grammar to learning Spanish prepositions: An empirical study with university students of Spanish as a foreign language / Aportaciones de la gramática cognitiva al aprendizaje de preposiciones: una investigación empírica con estudiantes universitarios de E/LE
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)The perception of prepositions as relational functional units with a secondary role in the creation of meaning has often resulted in a superficial treatment of these elements in the classroom. Their introduction as ... -
Contributions to data augmentation techniques and synthetic data for training deep neural networks
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)In the recent years deep learning has become more and more popular and it is applied in a variety of fields, yielding outstanding results in different machine learning applications. Deep learning based solutions thrive ... -
Contributions to deep learning methodologies
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-26)In recent years the Deep Neural Networks (DNN) has been using widely in a big range of machine learning and data-mining purposes. This pattern recognition approach can handle highly nonlinear problems. In this work, ... -
Contributions to neural network models and training datasets for facial depth
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-27)The depth estimation problem has made significant progress due to recent improvements in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and the incorporation of traditional methodologies in these deep learning systems. Depth ... -
Contributions to practical iris biometrics on smartphones
(2016-05-12)This thesis investigates the practical adaption of iris biometrics on smartphones. Iris recognition is a mature and widely deployed technology which will be able to provide the high security demanded by next generation ... -
Contributions to the measurement of depth in consumer imaging
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-12)This thesis aims to examine and investigate methods that could potentially utilize images captured by consumer cameras such as smartphones to estimate depth and generate a 3D structure. After more than a century of ... -
Contributions to unconstrained palmprint recognition on smartphones
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-27)This thesis investigates the suitability of unconstrained palmprint as a biometric modality for handheld devices equipped with a camera, such as smartphones. A detailed literature survey is provided, covering existing ... -
Contributions towards 3D synthetic facial data generation and 3D face analysis with weak supervision
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-11)Facial analysis tasks are of pivotal importance in social interaction, thus gaining extensive attention among the scientific community. With the increased popularity of deep learning models and the availability of ... -
Control in a time of conflict: Women’s petitions in Ireland from 1541 to 1584
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-15)This dissertation provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of Anglophone women’s petition letter-writing in Tudor Ireland, from 1541-1583. This project provides both microhistories and quantitative rhetorical ... -
The control of centrosome duplication after genotoxic stress
(2011-12-16)The centrosome is the major microtubule organising center in animal cells. Following DNA damage, centrosome amplification can occur, which in turn can result in the formation of multipolar mitotic cells, and cell death. ... -
Control of polymorphism, crystal size and habit in pharmaceuticals
(NUI Galway, 2019-09)Crystallization is widely used as a purification method of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, APIs. During the process a crystalline compound is generally obtained, and it can display general properties and characteristics ... -
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 ... -
Copper complexes coupled to nucleosides, bile acids and histone deacetylase inhibitors.
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-10)The aim of this project is to synthesize and characterise novel inorganic complexes which consist of metal-based DNA cleavage entities coupled to biomolecules. It is hoped that the coupling of known DNA cleavage agents to ... -
A core outcome set for the treatment of pregnant women with pregestational diabetes: An international consensus study
(NUI Galway, 2021-09-10)Background Meaningful comparisons between studies evaluating interventions of pregnant women with pre-gestational diabetes mellitus (PGDM) are limited due to the heterogeneity in outcome selection and reporting. The aim ... -
Correction of the Aberrations of the Eye Using Adaptive Optics with Pupil Tracking
(2011-09-01)Adaptive optics has long been used in the astronomical telescopes to acquire high resolution images via the real time correction of the rapidly changing wavefront aberrations. Human retinal images also suffer from rapidly ...