Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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The impact of environmental regulation on human interaction with marine and coastal ecosystems
(2014-09)The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of environmental regulations on stakeholder interaction with marine and coastal ecosystems as well as provide a thorough treatment of the contrasts in ... -
The impact of farmers' implementation decisions on environmental effectiveness in the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS)
(2013-12)The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of farmers' implementation decisions on the effectiveness of the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS). Three separate empirical papers are used to ... -
Impact of interventions for obesity on insulin sensitivity using the leptin to adiponectin ratio
(NUI Galway, 2021-11-13)Introduction: Low energy meal replacement regimens can induce short-term weight loss in patients with severe obesity, but usually require specially formulated dietary supplements. Hypocaloric diets are known to induce ... -
The impact of knowledge transfer activities on farm level outcomes
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-12)Agricultural knowledge transfer (KT) activities are services that aim to improve farm level performance by building the capabilities of clients through improved problem solving, decision making and farm management skills. ... -
Impact of light intensities and low temperature on the composition and diurnal use of transient carbon stores in barley (Hordeum vulgare)
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-18)The carbon partitioning and accumulation are critical for biomass formation in plants and can be affected by environmental changes and regulated by circadian clock. Thus, in this study, barley was grown under three light ... -
The impact of preterm birth on adaptive behaviour and participation in childhood occupation
(2015-10-02)Background: Premature infants are at increased risk of developing motor, cognitive and behavioural impairments compared with infants born at term. Outcome studies have tended to focus their assessments predominately ... -
The Impact of Raunch Culture on the Development of an Autonomous Female Sexuality in Ireland
(2012-05-31)Raunch Culture is the relatively recent term given to the mainstreaming of sexualised images, language and messages within popular culture and the popular media over the past two decades. This thesis seeks to expose the ... -
The impact of the 2008 Great Recession on the well-being, young adult development, and masculine identity of emerging adult Irish men
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-25)This thesis presents three studies that aim to better understand how the 2008 Great Recession impacted the well-being, masculine identity, and young adult development of young Irish men. Exposure to limited opportunities ... -
The Impact of threat appeals on risky driving behaviours
(2014-03-26)A threat appeal is a form of persuasive communication that aims to change behaviour through the presentation of threatening material. Despite their widespread use in road safety campaigns, the empirical research exploring ... -
The impact of topology on diffusion processes in complex networks
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-18)In this thesis we explore how the structure of a network impacts upon spreading behaviours on that network. We have created a dataset of 2,400 hyperbolic random geometric graphs, of increasing edge density from 0 to 1, and ... -
The Impact of Volcanic Eruptions on the Climate and Ecology of Ireland since A.D. 1800
(2010-12-20)Global warming and the influence of anthropogenic changes to the environment are dominant themes in climate research today. However, the trends brought about by these processes have the potential to be abruptly altered by ... -
Impacts of DNA damage on the pericentriolar material and centriole duplication
(2015-12-03)The centrosome consists of two barrel-shaped centrioles embedded in a proteinaceous pericentriolar material (PCM), a highly organised scaffold that serves as a platform for proteins that regulate spindle assembly, protein ... -
Impacts of natural and induced abiotic factors on phlorotannins in brown algae
(2018-02-22)Phlorotannins are a group of highly bioactive marine polyphenols found exclusively in brown algae. They play multiple ecological roles in algae inhabiting stressful environments and, as a result, their natural concentrations ... -
IMPAIR: Massively parallel regularised Richardson-Lucy deconvolution on heterogeneous hardware
(2017-10-27)This thesis investigates the comparative performance of multicore CPU and general purpose GPU on a commodity desktop computer. To investigate this, an image deconvolution software package (IMPAIR) was updated from its ... -
Implementation of menu labelling interventions in the out-of-home food environment
(NUI Galway, 2022-10-10)Background: Prevention of obesity is a public health priority both globally and in Ireland. While the causes of obesity are complex and multifaceted, poor diet is a leading risk factor. Labelling menus with nutrition ... -
Implementation strategies for the use of social robotics in the context of dementia
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-14)Introduction Dementia is a global health challenge, and the number of people living with dementia (PLWD) is expected to continue to rise worldwide. Pet robots have been developed to support the psychosocial well-being ... -
Implications of histone H2AX abundance in breast cancer
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-09)Histones are responsible for the packaging of DNA into a eukaryotic cell nucleus, and the H2A variant H2AX plays an important role in the DNA damage response (DDR). The phosphorylated form of H2AX, known as γH2AX, has been ... -
The importance of a continuum of care before, during and after pregnancy in women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes along the Irish Atlantic seaboard
(2017-04-06)Pregestational diabetes is the most common chronic medical condition to complicate pregnancy and is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality for the mother-offspring pair. Optimising outcomes for this ... -
Importance of the caregiver in lifestyle interventions for cognitive impairment
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-11)Lifestyle risk factors have been identified as key targets for dementia prevention strategies, with most clinical trials targeting individual-level interventions. However, many lifestyle behaviours are known to cluster ... -
Improved cardiac arrhythmia prediction based on heart rate variability analysis
(NUI Galway, 2021-05-10)Many types of ventricular and atrial cardiac arrhythmias have been discovered in clinical practice in the past 100 years, and these arrhythmias are a major contributor to sudden cardiac death. Ventricular tachycardia, ...