Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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How adults tell: messages for society and policy makers regarding disclosure of childhood sexual abuse
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-08)The social work profession in Ireland plays a significant role in the assessment of child sexual abuse referrals. Somewhat unique in an international context, this role encompasses assessment of disclosures by current ... -
How can Utopia inform the understanding of works of visual and plastic art?
(2017-02-15)This project explores the production of visual art, utopian studies, and the interpretation of the works of Luce Irigaray, through a body of artwork that embodies and demonstrates perceptions of utopia as informing strategies ... -
How do children and young people in Ireland experience the process of their parents' separation and divorce and subsequent changed family life? Giving recognition to children's experiences.
(2017-05)Traditionally, children and young people in Ireland have not been given the opportunity to have their views heard on matters that affect their lives. The conceptualisation of children and childhood has, however, changed ... -
How does the delegation of tasks by registered nurses to health care assistants occur in residential care for older people? Interpretive multiple embedded case study
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-29)There is a need to develop safe and effective nursing teams within residential care for older people (RCOP) with an appropriate and sustainable skill mix to meet the increasing demands of the ageing population. This ... -
How evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for Venous Leg Ulcers impact on patient safety.
(NUI Galway, 2022-10-10)Patient safety is central to nursing practice. It is the connecting term in the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives in Ireland (NMBI, 2021). However, it would appear ... -
How research impacts on health policy in Ireland: A case study of alcohol and drug policy
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)Abstract The goal of public health and health promotion practitioners is to increase the health of populations through evidence informed health policy. Comparable to evidence-based medicine, public health advocates ... -
HPC IO and seismic data performance optimization using ANNs prediction based auto-tuning
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-19)HPC or super-computing clusters are designed for executing computationally intensive operations that typically involve large scale IO operations. This most commonly involves using a standard MPI library implemented in ... -
Human dignity as a bar to bio-patentability in European Patent Law: An exposé and a novel reform paradigm
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-04)This research addresses a gap found in the literature which is that there is a lack of coherence about the standard of the fundamental, but under-defined, concept of human dignity in European patent law. This problem ... -
Human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) in prostate cancer
(2016-08-08)Millions of years of infection by viral agents have left their mark on the human genome in the form of human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs). These retroelements integrated into our germline, became subject to Mendelian ... -
Human induced pluripotent stem cells as a model for neurodevelopmental disease
(2015-10-01)Abstract Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders which encompass a wide range of symptoms, including intellectual disability and delayed development, while the phenotype can range from mild to ... -
Human induced pluripotent stem cells as an in vitro model for autism spectrum disorder
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-23)Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders which encompass a wide range of symptoms, including intellectual disability and delayed development, while the phenotype can range from mild to severe. Genetic ... -
Human rights and foreign investment
(2015-03-27)This study details the mechanisms of a neoliberal ideology operative in the current international approach to foreign direct investment (FDI). It charts an increasing dependency on FDI within the process of international ... -
Human rights compliant decision-making in child protection: Lessons for Ireland from a comparative socio-legal case study analysis of Ireland, England and Germany
(NUI Galway, 2021-08-01)Children have a right to be protected from harm and the State is obliged to take measures to vindicate that right. The State may intervene in family life by restricting parental rights, removing a child into care or placing ... -
The Human Rights Triangle: Transnational Corporations, International Human Law and Regional Cooperation in the Context of Development
(2013-01-29)Following World War II, the allied powers sought to improve global financial stability and ensure that basic rights were codified and protected at the international level. The UN Charter and the Bretton Woods agreements ... -
Human stem cell modeling for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-28)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal and progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of upper and lower motor neurons (MNs). Most ALS cases are sporadic, with no family history or known genetic ... -
Human stem cell modelling for heart disease of long QT syndrome
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-29)Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in otherwise healthy young people is a public health priority. Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is the commonest life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia contributing to SCD under 40 years old with an estimated ... -
Human trafficking and China: Past and present
(2014-06)The idea of human trafficking as a new and distinct problem, a modern form of slavery that entraps individuals without agency in their own countries and abroad, is a common perception that has popularised the usage of the ... -
A human-centered design of a connected health system for older adults
(2017-08-15)The work outlined in this thesis explores the design of Connected Health devices, analyses the user characteristics of older adults and suggests a design methodology which was then applied to the design of two elements ... -
Hurdles for computationalism: The many difficulties facing a computationalist theory of phenomenal consciousness
(NUI Galway, 2023-11-20)There are several things that might be called ‘computationalism’. The one most central to the philosophy of mind is a theory that attempts to answer what Chalmers calls the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness: how can it ... -
A Hybrid Framework for Querying Linked Data Dynamically
(2012-09-28)As of today, the Web has evolved to become the largest collection of information made available by mankind. Researchers and developers are continuously working on transforming this loosely connected data collection into ...