Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Building the evidence base for the development and implementation of an Irish national digital Type 2 Diabetes prevention programme
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-09)Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) represents a major public health concern. Over one million annual deaths worldwide are attributed to the disease, making it the ninth leading cause of mortality. In Ireland, the ... -
Built to last: The benefits and the construction of Uí Néill dynastic identity in early medieval Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)This project examines the benefits and the construction of ‘Dynastic Frameworks’ in Early Medieval Ireland. It does so by using the Uí Néill, a powerful Irish political group, as a case study for understanding the role ... -
Business capability-centric management of services and processes models
(2017-01-11)With the advent of Industry 4.0, more and more companies are actively working on digitising their assets (i.e., services, processes, etc.) for better control, collaboration, modularity, analysis, etc. By 2020 more than 80% ... -
Cache maintenance in federated query processing based on quality of service constraints
(2017-05-09)The Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud forms a substantial and ever increasing portion of the global knowledge on theWorldWideWeb by contributing many distributed data sources. Due to the diversity of the knowledge that they ... -
CAL4AHU - Calibration of air handling unit models for fault detection and diagnosis
(NUI Galway, 2021-02-08)A systematic methodology for the automated calibration of Air Handling Unit (AHU) computational models for use in Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) is investigated that requires a minimum dataset and produces a trade-off ... -
Calendars, feasting, cosmology and identities: later Neolithic-early Bronze Age Ireland in European context
(2016-07-25)The aim of the study is to investigate the connections between calendar systems, large-scale feasting activities, changing representations of cosmological ideas and the formation of group identities from the Middle/Late ... -
Calibrated whole building energy simulation: An evidence-based methodology
(2011-01)Climate change, driven by global energy consumption, is one of the major challenges to humanity today. The buildings sector consumes a significant portion of global energy resources and much of this is due to inefficient ... -
Calibration of detailed building energy simulation models to measured data using uncertainty analysis
(2014-05-30)Over the past few decades, advances in technology, most notably the industrial revolution of the late 18th-century, has brought about dramatic improvements in the socioeconomic circumstances of developed nations. This has ... -
Calixarene-mediated protein assembly
(2014-05-23)Solved the first crystal structure of a protein-calixarene complex (at 1.4 Angstrom resolution). The results provide exact structural information on the amino acid preference of the anionic p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene (sclx4) ... -
‘Can the feminist movement provide legal services to refugees?’ Feminist lawyering, women refugees and gender based violence in urban Uganda
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-03)‘Can the feminist movement provide legal services to refugees?’ This is the question that this thesis seeks to answer through an assessment of the applicability of feminist lawyering to address gender-based violence ... -
The cannabinoid type-2 (CB2) receptor as a target for anti-inflammatory disease modification in Parkinson's disease
(2016-08-04)Parkinson’s disease is a multifaceted neurodegenerative disorder with no curative treatment. A key aspect in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease is inflammation, which is initially triggered by dying neurons and which ... -
Caointeoireacht na Gaeilge: Béalaireacht agus Literathacht
(2012-09-19)Tá deighilt láidir idir scoláirí Gaeilge maidir leis an mbéalaireacht agus an litearthacht sa chaoineadh. Ar láimh amháin, maítear gur seánra béil é an caoineadh a bhfuil fianaise de ar fáil i lámhscríbhinní, agus ar an ... -
Capability architecture for open data
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-31)Open data is increasingly becoming an essential asset for many organizations. Large numbers of new start-ups are emerging to benefit from the potential of this asset for a wide range of new products and services. However, ... -
Carbohydrates as precursors to macrocyclic and iminosugar frameworks
(2017-09-30)Natural products have been perceived as privileged structures in drug discovery based on their evolutionary experience. Chapter 1, explores previous exploitation of this platform by medicinal chemists to identify some ... -
Carbohydrates in the synthesis of macrocycles and glycoclusters
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-28)This thesis deals with efforts to generate new bioactive organic compounds. The main focus has been on the use of carbohydrate building blocks for synthesis of both macrocyclic compounds and glycoclusters for biological ... -
Carbon fibre reinforced PEEK laminated as a material for orthopaedic devices: An experimental and computational investigation
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-27)The overall objective of this thesis is to investigate carbon fibre reinforced poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK) laminates as a material for fracture fixation devices through a combination of experimental testing and computational ... -
Carbonization of polyimide using CO2 laser and femtosecond laser for sensor applications
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-05)Laser carbonization is the process of photothermal conversion of polymers rich in aromatic carbons such as Polyimide (PI) into graphene, via a process called Laser Induced Graphene (LIG) using a laser as the source of ... -
Cardiovascular disease and functional ability in older adults
(2015-06-03)Preservation of functional independence is important to older adults. The consequences of functional impairment (increased dependence on others for activities of daily living and requirement for nursing home care) place a ... -
Care and control: The experience of the Sisters of Mercy run Irish industrial school system, 1868-1936
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-20)This thesis is a historical investigation into the experience of the Catholic Sisters of Mercy run Irish industrial schools, from the introduction of the system in 1868 to the publication of the Cussen Report in 1936. It ... -
A Carnivalesque Mirage: the Orient in Isabelle Eberhardt's Writings
(2012-12-10)As a woman who traversed the North African Orient in male costume, who spoke Arabic as well as French, who professed Islam while transgressing many of its instructions, Isabelle Eberhardt seems to fit within Mikhail Bakhtin¿s ...