Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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The application of machine learning to optimise live migration in cloud data centres
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-06)Cloud computing providers utilise large-scale data centres to provide computing resource to users’ worldwide. However, an ongoing challenge facing cloud providers is to ensure that the required resource is available to ... -
Application of the doctrine of adverse possession under English and Nigerian law: A comparative study
(NUI Galway, 2021-06-04)This thesis engages a comparative study of the application of the doctrine of adverse possession under English and Nigerian law. Whilst the pre-colonial geographical entity which later became known as Nigeria had both ... -
Application of Ulva biomass for bioremediation of wastewater
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-18)The remarkable growth rate and environmental adaptability of Ulva species have attracted considerable interest for their potential applications in aquaculture and bioremediation. Ulva's capacity to absorb nutrients ... -
Applications of image processing for performance assessment of wastewater treatment plants
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-13)This thesis is concerned with the development of methodologies for automatically assessing fluid properties in wastewater treatment plants, and to monitor plant performance and efficiency. Reliable performance metrics are ... -
Applied learning. A design model for further education in the 21st century
(2015-11-23)Undertaken over four years, this research was both an investigation of the adoption of an applied learning approach for further education (FE) course delivery in the 21st century, and the development of an educational model ... -
Applying informal health reports and search queries for public health monitoring: An evaluation of characteristics, potentials, and requirements of online self-reporting, discussions, and search behaviour
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-13)The introduction of digital data sources has positively impacted public health surveillance and has paved the way for novel approaches. Internet-based sources provide large volumes of data which can be analysed in near ... -
Applying machine learning towards automating resource management in cloud computing environments
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-28)Over the last number of years there has been high acceleration and widespread adoption of cloud based services by many different industries to improve the scalability and reliability of their services while also reducing ... -
Approaches and methods used to assess ecological quality under European environmental legislation
(2012-09)Benthic habitats and the macrobenthic communities they support form an integral component of ecological quality assessments in marine and estuarine waters. Good conceptual understanding of change in benthic community ... -
Ar lorg an chleite: Seachadadh Beatha Cholaim Chille mar eiseamláir ar cheird an scríobhaí i dtús na seachtú haoise déag
(2017-09-06)Déantar iarracht sa tráchtas seo léargas a fháil ar chleachtas agus ar cheird scríobhaí Gaelach, Brian Mac Niallais, agus cóip dhílis de Beatha Cholaim Chille á cóiriú aige i dtús na seachtú haoise déag. Cuirtear i gcomórtas ... -
Archaeological watermarks: Settlement, landscape and seasonal flooding in historical Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-21)Turloughs are karst wetland ecosystems that are virtually unique to Ireland. They are intermittently inundated on an annual basis, mainly from groundwater. This thesis concerns the interaction of past communities with the ... -
Architecture of exclusion: the struggle for land and legitimacy of Palestinians under Israeli law
(2016-10)This research focuses on land law and provides an overview of the right to land under international law, followed by a background of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Subsequently, exploring the underpinning of the land ... -
Art and analogy through evolutionary computation
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-05)In this thesis the development of a computer system capable of generating art through the process of analogy is presented. A visual display is generated analogous to a given piece of music. This analogy is based upon the ... -
The art of Jack B Yeats and John Sloan: Connections and change
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-11)In 1904, at the instigation of his patron John Quinn, and on the occasion of his first solo show in the city, Jack B Yeats spent six weeks in New York. Three years later, his father John Butler Yeats arrived in Manhattan, ... -
Artefact Books: Towards a Multi-field Analytical Framework for Literary Research
(2011-09-30)While the most fundamental object of literary studies is often the codex, in this age of digital and electronic sensory inundation, it would seem that the physical book has a limited lifespan. However, the technologies ... -
Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a new bridge to bring human rights law to the domestic level and create a dynamic of change
(2015-09-30)This thesis looks at Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 33 requires states to set up a framework, located both within and outside of government, to guide and monitor the ... -
Aspects of modeling and application of survival-type data
(NUI Galway, 2018-02)Survival analysis is collection of methods for analyzing data where the outcome of interest is the time to an event and some of the observations are censored. Survival data can arise naturally from studies on, machines' ... -
Assessing and training analogical reasoning in young children using relational frame theory
(NUI Galway, 2021-09-23)Analogical responding is pervasive in everyday language and cognition and is a key component in learning. However, despite this, there is as yet relatively little behavioural research on 1) the age of emergence and 2) ... -
Assessing and training early emergent derived relational responding in children with autism
(2015-09-30)Many children with autism fail to develop generative language despite intensive teaching; their language can be described as “rote”. Research in the area of derived stimulus relations, in particular Relational Frame Theory ... -
Assessing and training temporal relational responding in children
(NUI Galway, 2023-12-19)Time is a fundamentally important dimension of human experience and responding adaptively in terms of this dimension is critical to human personal and societal functioning. However, there is an important distinction ... -
Assessing public preferences for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
(NUI Galway, 2020-05-05)The global aquaculture industry demonstrates consistently high growth rates, yet growth of the European industry is lagging. The European Union expressed a dual approach to develop European aquaculture; aiming to increase ...