Browsing University of Galway Theses by Title
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International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: From Separation to Complementary Application
(2012-05-23)This study analyses the interplay between international human rights and humanitarian law, with the aim of clarifying their concurrent application. Part I provides an understanding of each legal framework and of their ... -
International News Supply in Ireland, c.1899-1949
(2014-07-03)During the first half of the twentieth century the Irish media were primarily reliant on news agencies for their coverage of international events. The Press Association was their dominant and often favoured supplier among ... -
Interoperability in intercloud
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-24)Intercloud is a cloud deployment model that interconnects multiple public cloud services together in a ‘cloud of clouds’. Intercloud provisioning has the potential to be the next stage in cloud evolution, involving ... -
Interrogating the call for more male primary school teachers as role models for boys: 'I don't care if it is male or female, I just want to learn!'
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-21)Abstract The education of girls and boys in Irish primary schools is one of the most imperative aspects of our children’s lives, yet it seems to be an area in which important focus shifts towards essentialist, simplistic ... -
Intervention, Consociationalism and De Facto Partition: The role of the external dimension in shaping post-war Kosovo 1999-2012
(2014-10-29)Consociational systems in post-conflict societies have been increasingly subject to international intervention. Whereas the literature argues that consociationalism has become the blueprint for international post-conflict ... -
Interviews with children: An experimental comparison of methods
(2013-02-19)Child-adult interviews are a prominent mode of research and practice in psychology. There is a considerable knowledge-base in forensic interviewing but less is known about interviews in other settings. The aim of the present ... -
Intra-household economic decision-making during a period of recession and austerity in Ireland
(2016-09-30)This thesis concerns intra-household economic decision-making within heterosexual couples in Ireland. Ireland recently experienced its worst economic recession in the post World War II era. The main hypothesis for the study ... -
Intra-Renal Inflammation in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
(2013-09-30)Introduction: Unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle, lead to the constellation of obesity, hyperinsulinaemia and hyperlipidaemia that are risk factors for both chronic kidney disease and type 2 Diabetes mellitus. Renal ... -
Intraguild impact of the invasive Noble false widow spider Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-04)With rapid urbanisation during the Anthropocene, several generalist spider species have adapted to synanthropic microhabitats and have established large populations outside of their native ranges. On the island of ... -
The introduction of a legal framework for Advance Directives in Irish mental health care
(2014-06-03)Advance directives (ADs) are legal statements or documents, which allow a person to outline treatment preferences and other life choices prior to a mental health crisis. This thesis examines the issues arising in relation ... -
Invasive haemodynamic characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients presenting with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation
(2016-01-12)The present thesis is comprised of an introduction followed by eight chapters. The introduction gives an overview of the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedure and details the patient selection process. ... -
Inventing Liberia: imagining and representing colony and nation in American, Liberian and European writing 1820-1940
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-11)Liberia, the West African nation, whose name connotes freedom, was the creation of the American Colonisation Society (ACS) whose initial aim was to rid the United States of a growing population of ‘free people of colour.’ ... -
Inversion of magnetotelluric data in an anisotropic domain
(2014-02-10)The aim of this study was to develop a set of tools -- algorithms that would be translated into computer programs at a later stage -- to invert anisotropic magnetotelluric data within a framework that integrates ... -
Investigating Irish antiquarianism: A comparative study of Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures, 1830-1876
(2017-09-15)The aim of this study is to investigate the differences in and similarities between Protestant and Catholic antiquarian cultures in Ireland in the period 1830 to 1876. The thesis demonstrates that there were notable ... -
Investigating nucleolar dynamics in karyotypically normal human cells by fluorescent protein tagging of genes encoding key nucleolar proteins
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-14)The nucleolus, the site of ribosome biogenesis, is the largest membrane-less structure or organelle in the eukaryotic nucleus. It forms around arrays of ribosomal gene (rDNA) repeats termed nucleolar organizer regions ... -
Investigating sediment source, supply and evolution of the Northwest Carboniferous Basin: A multi-proxy provenance approach
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-14)Provenance analysis investigates the origin of sediment and its pathways into sedimentary basins. Such analysis must consider certain external controls (e.g. location and scale of the transportsystem feeding a basin, ... -
Investigating the effect of anti-inflammatory hyaluronic acid towards regenerating the annulus fibrosus
(2017-05-11)Neck and low-back pain are major causes of disability leading to a serious socio-economic burden worldwide. The pathology is strongly correlated with the intervertebral disc degeneration (IVD). Disc degenerative disease ... -
Investigating the epigenetic regulation of toll-like receptor 3
(2017-10-20)Toll-like receptors are a family of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which have evolved to recognise structurally conserved components of microorganisms. They form an important part of the innate immune system, yet ... -
Investigating the genetics of deep learning derived neuro imaging phenotypes of brain disorders
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-17)Brain disorders are collections of debilitating phenotypes that can affect cognition and general life quality via a myriad of symptoms, including mood swings, memory loss, altered thought processes, and psychosis. Despite ... -
Investigating the impact of genomic profiling on breast cancer risk prediction, treatment and outcome
(2018-02-05)It has, for many years, been acknowledged that “breast cancer” is an umbrella term for many genetically and immunophenotypically distinct malignancies of the breast. Treatment paradigms are shifting in direct response to ...