Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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From animal welfare to animal rights: Rethinking our legal paradigm
(NUI Galway, 2021-03)This thesis is a critique of the current welfare system of protection for nonhuman animals (hereafter, animals) and calls for a paradigm shift in the legal protection. It is argued that there needs to be a shift from a ... -
From Carnacon to Cape Town: An interpretive study of the transnational career of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore (1854-1939), soldier, diplomat and politician
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)In this thesis, the contextual, thematic, biography of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore, a Catholic member of the Irish Ascendancy is used as a prism through which to interpret and reflect on a military and political career ... -
From Connemara to Minnesota: The Nugent Emigration Scheme, 1880
(2016-05-10)Abstract This study examines an assisted emigration scheme undertaken by Father James Nugent of Liverpool in June 1880. With the support of Bishop John Ireland of St Paul, Minnesota, Nugent transferred thirty-five destitute ... -
From Gaelic lordships to English counties: the Tudor transition in Leix and Offaly, c.1547-1603
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-29)This study evaluates whether or not successive Tudor regimes effectively transformed the Gaelic lordships of Leix and Offaly into English counties and as a direct consequence, administered these territories through the ... -
From hybrid bodies to haunted bodies: Mobile technologies, affect and theatre
(2017-09-22)Mobile digital technologies - from smartphones, to wearables, to pervasive technologies - are transforming the ways in which we experience our own bodies, and the ways in which we experience the world through our bodies. ... -
From phantasmagoria to mundanity: the fetishization of the automobile in 20th-century French representations
(2015-01-30)The automobile is an object that has been systematically consumed to become part of the fabric of society, hence its impact and its perception make the car a particularly precise means of studying cultural values. As it ... -
From the membrane to central metabolism: New insights into the diverse mechanisms controlling β-lactam resistance in MRSA
(NUI Galway, 2022-01-07)Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen, with the ability to colonise and cause disease, ranging in severity from superficial skin infections to life threatening invasive disease. The emergence of healthcare ... -
Fun games and health: evaluating physical education related CPD provision in primary schools: the case of the Buntus programme
(2014-09-27)Thesis Summary: Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is essential for teachers to change practices. The teaching and context methodologies for teaching and facilitating effective PE-CPD programmes is a challenging ... -
Functional Analysis of Vertebrate Msl2
(2014-02-12)hMSL2 (Male Specific Lethal 2, human) is a RING finger protein with E3 ubiquitin ligase activity. Although it has been shown to target histone H2B at lysine 34 and p53 at lysine 351, suggesting roles in transcription ... -
A functional approach to characterising the microbial communities underpinning low temperature anaerobic digestion
(2013-03-06)Low-temperature anaerobic digestion (LTAD) presents a sustainable, cost-efficient technology for the treatment of a vast array of wastewater streams. However, this microbially-mediated process requires further understanding ... -
Functional characterization of orphan genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2015-01-28)All organisms are known to contain a unique set of genes called 'orphan genes', which do not share any similarity with genes or protein domains in other evolutionary lineages. Such orphan genes can impart unique traits to ... -
Functional dissection of the Smc5/6 complex: roles of the SUMO ligase Nse2/Mms21 in the maintenance of genome stability
(2011-06)Nse2/ Mms21 is an E3 SUMO ligase component of the Smc5/6 complex, which plays multiple roles in maintaining genome stability. To study the functions of the vertebrate Nse2 orthologue, we generated Nse2-deficient chicken ... -
Functional effects of inter-genome interactions on seed development in Arabidopsis thaliana
(NUI Galway, 2022-01-14)Plant seed size determination is of high economic interest for modern food production worldwide as many crops are mainly consumed in the form of seeds, such as rice, wheat or corn. Parental conflict and genomic imprinting ... -
Functional genomics of microrna- directed regulation of tumorigenesis in human cancer cells
(2011-09-30)In the past few decades, microRNAs emerged as key regulators of gene expression in many fundamental biological processes such as development and differentiation as well as diseases. There are thousands of microRNAs that ... -
Functional role of CCAN histone fold proteins in mitosis
(2012-05-31)Centromeres are chromosomal loci that direct segregation of the genome by specifying kinetochore assembly in mitosis and meiosis. Kinetochores are built upon centromeric chromatin, which contains the histone H3 variant ... -
Functional screening of human faecal microbiome metagenome library for glycoside hydrolase enzymes
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-24)Members of the human gut microbiota use glycoside hydrolase (GH) enzymes, such as sialidases, α-fucosidases and β-galactosidases to forage on host mucin glycans and dietary fibers. A human faecal metagenomic library was ... -
Fuzzy k-mers and their application to comparative genome assembly
(2013-10-22)The application of k-mer matching to problems in the field of bioinformatics is long established, with k-mer techniques underpinning standard heuristic approaches to sequence alignment and genome assembly. Despite their ... -
Gach díograis go deireadh: Bailiúchán náisiúnta an bhéaloidis i dTeileann, iardheisceart Thír Chonaill, 1935-1976
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-02)Sa tráchtas seo, dírítear ar shaothar Sheáin Uí Eochaidh (1913-2002) agus a líonra seanchaithe i dTeileann idir 1935-1976. Le linn dó a bheith ag obair mar bhailitheoir de chuid Choimisiún Béaloideasa Éireann (1935-1971), ... -
GaIII and ZrIV Complexes as Phosphatase Analogues
(2011-11-16)In purple acid phosphatase (PAP)-catalysed phosphate monoester hydrolysis, it is accepted that the ferric ion of the active site can mediate the reaction through Lewis acid activation of the substrate and through nucleophilic ... -
Galway Grammar School, c. 1673-1958: A Foundation Institution of the Erasmus Smith Trust
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-02)This thesis is concerned with Galway Grammar School, from its opening about 1673 to its closure in 1958. It provides a broader understanding of Protestant grammar school education, particularly as it operated on the periphery ...