Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Exploring the effectiveness and implementation of goal-setting techniques in diabetes self-management interventions and structured education programme
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)Background. The treatment of diabetes consists of ongoing medical care and continuous self-management. Sub-optimal levels of diabetic control are commonly detected in people with diabetes. Therefore, Healthcare Professionals ... -
Exploring the experience of living with an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). A Heideggerian phenomenological study
(NUI Galway, 2021-08-12)Abstract Sudden cardiac death has been identified as one of the principal causes of death in Europe and America. According to the American heart association (AHA) statistics, sudden cardiac death is responsible for more ... -
Exploring the human dynamics affecting the intergenerational family farm transfer process in later life: A roadmap for future policy
(2017-11-26)Intergenerational family farm transfer is increasingly viewed as crucial to the survival, continuity and future prosperity of the agricultural sector, traditional family farm model and broader sustainability of rural ... -
Exploring the influence of standardised assessment in the Irish primary school context: Key actor perspectives
(NUI Galway, 2021-12-08)Standardised assessment constitutes a topic of much debate across education systems internationally owing to its uses and influences within the classroom context and beyond. Discussion in this area is perhaps most fervent ... -
Exploring the perceived factors affecting participation in rugby for children with disabilities using the ‘F-words in child development’ framework: A mixed methods study
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-09)Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the perceived facilitators and barriers to participation in rugby for children with disabilities from the perspective of three relevant stakeholders; parents of children ... -
Exploring the potential of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK3) mediated therapy in castrate-resistant prostate cancer
(2016-11-30)Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK3) is involved in a myriad of signalling pathways and has recently received considerable interest due to its conflicting roles tumourigenesis. Though it has classically been regarded as a ... -
Exploring the potential of social robots to support resilience in dementia
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-30)Dementia is a debilitating progressive neurological syndrome that causes stress to people with the condition and their families. Most people with dementia want to be independent and with support, many people with dementia ... -
Exploring the role of glycosylation in vascular biology, immunology,and stem cell biology
(2016-09-30)Carbohydrates are important modulators in various biological and physiological processes. They are present ubiquitously and coat all cells, forming the glycocalyx of the cell. Glycosylation, a type of post-translational ... -
Exploring the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services
(2015-07-16)Abstract This study explores the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services. The focus of this study was to reveal lived experience from the emic ... -
Expression and silence: the language of phenomenology in Wittgenstein and Heidegger
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-31)This thesis is a comparative study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger in relation to their engagement with the problem of phenomenological expression. My central argument is that by reading Wittgenstein in this way, we can begin ... -
The expression of recombinant proteins with biomedical importance in Escherichia coli
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-30)Naturally-occurring peptides and proteins with diverse biological roles have enormous potential for use as therapeutics and biomaterials. While proteins of biomedical interest were traditionally isolated from their native ... -
Expression Profiling of circulating micro-RNAs in Prostate Cancer
(2013-08-06)Mi(cro)RNAs are small non-coding RNAs whose differential expression in tissue has been implicated in the development and progression of many malignancies, including prostate cancer. The discovery of miRNAs in the blood of ... -
Expression, purification and characterization of carbohydrate-binding proteins
(2014-05-29)Glycans play important roles in many biological interactions. They are involved in cell-cell interactions, function as a point of entry for viral infections and facilitate the adhesion of microbes in the body. Glycans of ... -
Expressive RDF stream reasoning via data parallelism in answer set programming
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-26)The Web nowadays is highly dynamic with massive amounts of data being continuously generated from a huge number of devices and services across the Internet. Various application scenarios in several domains, such as environment ... -
Extending Agile Systems Development: An Application of the Beyond Budgeting Model
(2012-09-17)The field of information systems development (ISD) is continuously evolving, with new development practices and methodologies regularly introduced to the field. It is widely recognised that one of the most recent family ... -
Extending the linear mixed modelling framework for method comparison studies involving functional responses with applications in elite sports
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-10)A method comparison study compares two or more different methods measuring some quantity of interest and the aim is to determine the level of agreement between the methods. Most of the methodological developments in this ... -
Extension of the finite volume particle method for fluid-structure interaction in cardiac valve prostheses
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-23)Cardiac valve prostheses are used to treat diseased native heart valves and failing prosthetic valves. Computational modelling methods have many applications in cardiovascular modelling, such as designing cardiac valve ... -
Extensions and Applications of Survival Trees in Medical Data
(2012-09-17)Survival trees are a non-parametric modeling strategy that can be included in the area of statistical modeling. These type of models can be used as an alternative to Cox proportional hazards models for the analysis of ... -
Extracellular vesicle encapsulated microRNAs and breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-24)Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women worldwide. There is a clear need for earlier detection methods and more personalised treatments. Extracellular vesicle encapsulated microRNA (EV-miR) provide novel ... -
"Extraordinary Debilities": Disability in the works of Samuel Beckett, 1928-45
(2018-02-16)This thesis considers the importance of Samuel Beckett’s representations of disability in the first half of the twentieth-century. It suggests that the innovations of form that Beckett brings to modernism are inextricably ...