Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Combined zeolite and chemical amendments mixed with agricultural wastes to reduce surface and leaching losses of nutrients and greenhouse gas emissions, and biofilter treatment of dairy soiled water
(2017-05-08)Agricultural activity is a major source of nutrient emissions to surface and ground waters and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Despite legislation to improve terrestrial water quality, prescribed ... -
Combining biological and chemical approaches in marine biodiscovery
(2017-06-13)Marine organisms are prolific producers of novel and structurally interesting metabolites. The identification of marine natural products contributes to many scientific areas including pharmacology, chemical ecology, chemical ... -
Combustion kinetic studies of future transportation fuels and intermediates
(NUI Galway, 2020-10-22)The transportation sector requires an abundant supply of fossil and/or bio-derived fuels, which all produce significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The transportation sector is expected to account for ... -
The combustion of fuel reference compounds in laboratory-scale reactors and flames
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-14)Internal combustion engines that rely heavily on fuel oxidation chemical kinetics, rather than external ignition sources, promise the simultaneous improvement of thermodynamic efficiencies and reduction of pollutant emissions ... -
Comedy Italian Style: an Evolution of Italian Neorealism
(2011-11-30)This dissertation examines the relationship between the critically revered cinematic mode of production flourished in Italy at the end of World War II known as "neorealism" (1945-1954) and the commercially successful Italian ... -
Comic books in the digital age: Understanding technological co-existence through post-medium specificity
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-28)Comic books, a rarefied pastime in Western countries, have increasingly become content providers and narrative links in wide transmedia enterprises and have found new audiences through digital channels. This places the ... -
Coming 'Home': place, belonging and second-generation return migration from England to Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)This thesis contributes to the growing academic interest in the second-generation of migrants and the connections they maintain with their parental places of origin. It focuses on the children of the Irish emigrants to ... -
Coming of age in the Parisian Banlieues: young adult fiction as a vehicle for empowerment
(2015-04-30)Over the last number of decades the French banlieues, residential suburban areas surrounding major cities, have become increasingly visible in French society. The residents of these zones are predominantly working class, ... -
A community ready for the future? A social marketing study of Meals on Wheels Services in Ireland
(2015-02-05)This research, undertaken in the Irish Meals on Wheels (MOW) community, seeks to address the challenges associated with MOW stakeholders' behaviours through the application of a community social marketing model: the Community ... -
Comorbidity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder
(2016-10-21)Comorbidity is defined as the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in the same person (Matson & Nebel-Schwalm, 2007). Comorbidity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a topic that has infrequently been addressed in the ... -
Comparative genomics combined with phenotypical analyses reveal novel acid stress response mechanisms in Listeria monocytogenes
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-13)Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium of significant concern for food safety. Its remarkable ability to withstand food-related stress and survive gastrointestinal passage is important for establishing ... -
Comparison of intermittently aerated sequencing batch reactors (IASBRs) and conventional sequencing batch reactors (cSBRs) in wastewater treatment
(2014-01-08)Increasingly stringent discharge standards, increased water usage, variations in wastewater characteristics and climate change have resulted in increased difficulty in achieving cost effective wastewater treatment. The ... -
A Comparison of the effects of Sensory-Integration Therapy and Behavioural Intervention on Challenging Behaviour and Academic Performance with Children with Autism
(2012-11)Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder and presents as a complex and often puzzling category of conditions. Parents of children with ASD face a dilemma when selecting the most efficient and ... -
Completions of partial matrices
(2015-03-23)A partial matrix over a field is a matrix whose entries are either elements of the field or independent indeterminates. A completion of a partial matrix is any matrix that results from assigning a field element to each ... -
A complex systems approach to financial market analysis: Nonlinearity, regime shifts and early warning indicators
(2017-08-16)The history of financial markets over the past century points to the stylised fact that markets build up to a peak and then crash. Many of the standard methods for risk estimation and modelling of financial time series ... -
Comprehensive techno-econo-environmental modelling of renewable hydrogen supply chains
(NUI Galway, 2022-03-01)The research in this thesis has explored, investigated, and analysed renewable hydrogen supply chain opportunities and optimisation through techno-econo-environmental modelling. The modelling incorporates capital and ... -
Computation of cohomology operations for finite groups
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)The main result of this dissertation is the computation of all Steenrod squares on the Mod 2 cohomology of all groups of order dividing 32 and all but 58 groups of order 64; partial information on Steenrod square is ... -
Computational and experimental analysis of the mechanical performance of SLS generated polymer-ceramic bone scaffold materials
(2014-09-30)The load-bearing ability of orthopaedic scaffolds in critical-sized defects is of critical importance. 3D printing methods such as selective laser sintering (SLS) have great potential for the fabrication of patient-specific ... -
A computational and experimental investigation of the biomechanics of nickel-titanium stents for femoropopliteal applications
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-15)Self-expanding nickel-titanium stents are the current gold-standard in treating peripheral artery disease in the femoropopliteal artery. Despite this, failure rates in the femoropopliteal artery are much higher than ...