Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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Balance, binary debate and missing women: a discourse analysis and creative response to 30 years of the abortion debate on RTÉ current affairs television, 1983-2013
(2017-02-23)Since the introduction of a foetal right to life into the Irish Constitution in 1983, abortion has persisted as a contentious issue in public debate in Ireland. This practice-based study investigates Irish public discourse ... -
Bamboozled! Systematic studies of the Keratoisididae (Octocorallia: Scleralcyonacea)
(NUI Galway, 2023-11-15)Deep-sea corals are globally distributed and form a three-dimensional habitat on the benthos which hosts a diverse invertebrate community. Despite this importance, a global lack of taxonomic expertise and low resolution ... -
The Bangladesh National Blindness and Low Vision Survey - Identification of prevalence, causes and the need for eye care services
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-15)Background: Bangladesh is a densely populated, impoverished country in South Asia with inadequate health service provision for a variety of diseases including treatable ocular conditions. The aims of this comprehensive ... -
Barton esters for initiator-free radical cyclisation with heteroaromatic substitution and anti-cancer evaluation of benzo[e][1,2,4]triazin-7-ones
(2014-07-03)Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to Chapters 2-5. Homolytic aromatic substitution routes to alicyclic ring-fused azoles and diazoles is reviewed. A review of recent literature using the COMPARE program of the ... -
Basic aesthetic features and their influence on attention and performance
(2015-01-23)Within experimental aesthetics it is often claimed that artists can exploit the normal activity of the perceptual system in order to achieve aesthetic effect. This thesis extends such a proposal by providing evidence to ... -
Bayesian functional concurrent regression for missing irregular functional data
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-25)Introduction Functional data analysis (FDA) methods have recently been developed to analyse several variables measured repeatedly and concurrently over a domain such as time in a cohort of individuals. However, many FDA ... -
Bayesian imputation of right censored data in time-to-event studies
(NUI Galway, 2018-03-20)In time-to-event studies subjects are followed until the event of interest has happened. Subjects who do not experience the event are referred to as censored. Due to censoring, methods of plotting individual survival ... -
Beati immaculati in via: Sin and reconciliation among the céli Dé of Tallaght and Terryglass
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-16)This dissertation researches the so-called céli Dé of the eighth and ninth centuries, in order to elucidate and reconstruct their beliefs on sin and reconciliation. Its contents are as follows: after a foreword that summarily ... -
The beauty of failure: Errancy as a methodology in the works of Samuel Beckett, Mary Swanzy and Jack B. Yeats
(2017-11-29)This thesis argues that Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) creates not only an aesthetic of failure but also a methodology of failure that permeates his works and intensifies as he matures as a writer. I contend that the impetus ... -
Becoming a person again: A classic grounded theory of psychosocial intervention use with residents with dementia in long-stay care.
(2014-05-14)This study set out to develop a theoretical understanding of staff's psychosocial intervention use with residents with dementia in long-stay care. This study applied classic grounded theory procedures. Data was collected ... -
Becoming learners across contexts: Kosovo postgraduate students’ transformative study abroad experiences in the UK
(2017-02-23)This study examines transformative learning dimensions in the context of study abroad. The research uses an integrative approach of transformative learning theory to explore the learner identity transformations of 16 ... -
Becoming mortal: A study of death in late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee
(2017-08-29)This study explores the centrality of the boundary condition for creative endeavour through close readings of late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee. The thematic concern with death in these authors’ ... -
Bede's plures de Scottorum regione: The Irish in the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
(2013-05-09)The Irish are an integral element of the Venerable Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum as missionaries, teachers, and as Christian models. The Columban mission to Northumbria, in particular, was essential to the ... -
Behavioural fluency: An investigation of instructional approaches to build fluency with academic skills and associated outcomes
(2014-07-11)This thesis investigates the efficacy of instructional approaches designed to build fluency with mathematics skills, specifically, frequency-building, Precision Teaching (PT) and the Morningside Mathematics Fluency curricula. ... -
Being in the land: a sculptural investigation of ecology
(2012-04-04)This doctoral research addresses the question: How may sculpture be generated as a result of a reciprocal relationship with the natural environment? Through an integrated theoretical and practical framework, the sculptures ... -
Being played
(2015-09)This thesis is an examination of kinaesthetic play from the lived experience of the player. The aim of this work is to show that the value of play runs much deeper than its applications and that play should be understood ... -
The benign synthesis of bioactive heterocycles using photochemistry and hydrogen peroxide with hydrohalic acids
(2016-07-08)Chapter 1 provides a pertinent review of recent photochemical homolytic aromatic substitution (HAS) literature. Photochemical methods for HAS include UV-light and visible light photoredox catalysis. Recently invented methods ... -
Between authorities: Exercises and experiments in literary appreciation
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-16)Literary criticism, of the type that follows in this project, is a series of experiments with and about the matter of authority: about how much authority a critic should want to have or be willing to give up, and how much ... -
Between Logic and Rhetoric
(2012-02)In The Uses of Argument (1958), Stephen E. Toulmin produced a model, analogous to procedures in jurisprudence, for the layout of arguments. He was seeking to provide a method of accommodating arguments in a wide range of ... -
Between realities: investigating temporal relations between stillness and movement in contemporary artists' lens-based imagery
(2017-02-23)Temporal registers of stillness and movement in lens-based imagery, traditionally defined under the terms of photography and film, are in many ways two faces of the same coin, one representing time as a frozen moment and ...