Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Making the new space created in the UN CRPD real: Ensuring the voice and meaningful participation of the disability movement in policy-making and national monitoring
(2014-12-16)The participation of persons with disabilities in policy and legislative processes and in monitoring the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is an international legal ... -
Man the Tamer: case studies in masculine ideology, power and the domestication of the wild in Ancient Greek social thought
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-04)Drawing on the strong tradition of structuralism in the Classics, this thesis argues that the binary opposition between wild and tame was fundamental to the Ancient Greek man's understanding of social power relations. It ... -
Management control in Spanish public hospitals: healthcare accreditation
(2017-04-03)This study examines the operation of a mandatory healthcare accreditation system to achieve a better understanding of how an externally imposed system operates as a management control tool. Adopting a qualitative research ... -
Management of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in cancer patients
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-06)Chemotherapy is widely used as a successful treatment option for cancer patients, showing a higher success rate in hematological cancers than solid tumours. Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN), defined as “a reduction ... -
“Managing Pain by Tradition”: a constructivist grounded theory study exploring how patients live with and manage their pain
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-04)Living with persistent unresolved chronic pain is known to negatively impact on a person’s physical, psychological, and social well-being. Chronic pain associated with chronic leg wounds or ulcers can affect up to 65% of ... -
Mapping protein architecture in centromeres of Equus asinus
(2016-11-28)The centromere is a genetic locus present once per chromosome that specifies the site of kinetochore formation and is vital for chromosomal segregation. With the exception of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, whose ‘point’ ... -
Mapping soil using neural network machine learning and remotely sensed geoscience data; a study in peat
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-17)Several concepts exist in the discipline of data analysis that are often unknowingly used in geosciences. Specifically, the concepts related to Big Data, Data Assimilation, Digital Soil Mapping, and Exploratory Data ... -
Mapping the capacity of health promotion interventions for non-communicable diseases in Oman
(NUI Galway, 2021-04-28)Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are medical conditions or diseases that are, by definition, non-infectious and non-transmissible between people (Kim & Oh, 2013). The four main types of NCDs that form the focus of this ... -
Marine and freshwater influences on the hydrography, oxygen dynamics and ecology of an anoxic lagoonal estuary, Lough Furnace, Mayo, Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-08)Estuarine and coastal water bodies are amongst the most productive and diverse habitats, providing crucial ecological and economic benefits. However, owing to their position at the interface between continents and the ... -
Marine biodiscovery from Floridian mangrove forests and Irish waters
(2017-08-23)Natural products have been used since ancient times to treat illnesses and terrestrial organisms have been studied extensively from a chemical point of view. Marine organisms, on the other hand are definitely understudied ... -
Marine Spatial Planning from an Irish perspective: Towards Best Practice in Integrated Maritime Governance
(2011-07-29)Ireland with its extensive seas, belatedly being recognised as a significant development resource. There is evidence that a diverse range of stakeholders at national and local levels in Ireland are positively disposed ... -
A market framework for collaborative robot exploration
(2014-04-07)This research considers the problem of using miniature low-cost robots for real-world tasks. The issues of low quality sensor data, inaccurate odometry, low processing capacity and limited power are approached through the ... -
Masquerade, self-invention and the nation: uncovering the fiction of Katherine Cecil Thurston
(2014-03-07)This dissertation explores the life and works of Cork-born novelist, Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911). Thurston occupies a liminal place in the Irish literary canon in spite of achieving significant transatlantic success ... -
Mass justice for mass atrocity: Transitional justice and illiberal peace-building in Rwanda
(2013-12-01)Rwanda took the new, global norm of accountability to its logical extreme by putting more than one million, mostly low-level genocide suspects on trial. In doing so, Rwanda challenged the dominant model of accountability ... -
Mastectomy and breast reconstruction in the modern era: the role of neoadjuvant therapies and regenerative surgery
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-09)Complete surgical resection with disease free margins remains the cornerstone of effective breast cancer treatment. Breast cancer management continues to evolve with the development of more sophisticated techniques of ... -
Master of two nations: Examining Hellenistic Judean identity in the Exagoge of Ezekiel
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-18)During the Hellenistic period, Ptolemaic Alexandria was a thriving intellectual centre, marked by multicultural exchanges. Within this diverse and highly erudite community, Judeans began to avail of an education in ... -
Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland
(2016-01-31)This thesis is the first comprehensive study of ritual drinking vessels of horn and wood from later medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland. The research provides an analysis of the drinking vessels and offers an ... -
Mathematical Analysis of Some Models for Drug Delivery
(2012-08-27)This thesis is concerned with the mathematical modelling of controlled drug release from a number of delivery systems. There are two major strands to the work: (i) modelling release from affinity-based systems, and, (ii) ... -
A Mathematical and Numerical Examination of Wave-Current Interaction and Wave-Driven Hydrodynamics
(2010-04-28)A new derivation of an elliptic extended mild-slope wave equation, including the effects of energy dissipation and current, has been accomplished. A Galerkin-Eigenfunction method was used for this derivation and the final ... -
Mathematical models for the kinetics of some carbohydrate enzymes
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-17)In this thesis, some mathematical models for the mechanism of action of carbohydrate enzymes are developed and analysed. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to enzymes and their applications. In Chapter 2, ...