Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Constructing the good king: Biblical exempla in Sedulous Scottus’ De Rectoribus Christianis
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-13)De Rectoribus Christianis (DRC) is a mid-ninth century political treatise, written by the Irish scholar Sedulius Scottus. The text is an example of the specula principum (‘mirrors for princes’) genre, and it instructs ... -
The construction of legitimacy in nature conservation: knowledge, power and participation in the regulation of Irish raised bogs under the European Habitats Directive
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-26)A network of 53 Irish raised bogs were designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) under the European Union (EU) Habitats Directive in the 1990s. Whilst the purpose of the designation is to protect unique habitats, ... -
Constructive Engagement and Human Rights: The Case of EU Policy on China
(2012-09-28)Since the European Commission released its first communication on relations with China in 1995, together, human rights diplomacy and human rights assistance, in the form of EU funding for rights-related technical cooperation ... -
A constructivist grounded theory study of the enablers and development of trust in scrum teams
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-19)The academic discourse is replete with aphorisms advocating the need for trust in Scrum teams. However, whilst trust is believed to be necessary to foster knowledge sharing and collaboration within the Scrum team no research ... -
Contested space: The revolutionary intersection of land hunger, memory and social justice impulse, within a rural west of Ireland community, 1793-1925 (a North Mayo case study)
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-09)‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt’, according to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George writing in Spring 1919. This ... -
The context and circumstances of early sexual initiation among adolescents in Ireland: A mixed methods investigation
(NUI Galway, 2020-08-25)Adolescents who initiate sexual intercourse at early ages may be at a heightened risk of negative sexual health outcomes at the time of first sex and later in life. In the case of Ireland, there is inadequate knowledge ... -
Contextualised sentiment analysis in the financial domain
(NUI Galway, 2021-07-02)Sentiments and beliefs play an important role in actions and decisions in a market environment; for example, people disliking a brand will tend to avoid products of it or people aiming to reduce their carbon-dioxide footprint ... -
Contextualising sensors with linked data to improve relevancy, data quality and network adaptability
(2015-10-09)A sensor taken by itself, with no indication of what it is sensing, with what unit of measurement and where, would keep working without anybody being able to interpret its output. The sensor needs to be "contextualised". ... -
Contextualizing the 'Other': Parliamentary Discourses on Genocide and Rape in late nineteenth and late twentieth century Britain
(2012-09-27)This thesis argues that parliamentary discourses on genocide and rape have experienced continuity throughout the twentieth century. This is evident from the repetition of discursive categories within the British Houses of ... -
A continuous pressure monitoring technology for biomedical applications
(NUI Galway, 2023-11-10)The diverse physiological pressures within the human body are crucial in maintaining optimal health and homeostasis. Long-term and continuous monitoring of these physiological pressures can provide key information in ... -
Contribution of non-histone proteins to chromatin structure and stability
(2015-10-30)Histones are responsible for packaging the genomes of almost all eukaryotes into fundamental repeating nucleosome units. The packaging must facilitate compaction into the cell nucleus but also enable dynamic access to the ... -
Contributions of cognitive grammar to learning Spanish prepositions: An empirical study with university students of Spanish as a foreign language / Aportaciones de la gramática cognitiva al aprendizaje de preposiciones: una investigación empírica con estudiantes universitarios de E/LE
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)The perception of prepositions as relational functional units with a secondary role in the creation of meaning has often resulted in a superficial treatment of these elements in the classroom. Their introduction as ... -
Contributions to data augmentation techniques and synthetic data for training deep neural networks
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-10)In the recent years deep learning has become more and more popular and it is applied in a variety of fields, yielding outstanding results in different machine learning applications. Deep learning based solutions thrive ... -
Contributions to deep learning methodologies
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-26)In recent years the Deep Neural Networks (DNN) has been using widely in a big range of machine learning and data-mining purposes. This pattern recognition approach can handle highly nonlinear problems. In this work, ... -
Contributions to neural network models and training datasets for facial depth
(NUI Galway, 2023-03-27)The depth estimation problem has made significant progress due to recent improvements in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and the incorporation of traditional methodologies in these deep learning systems. Depth ... -
Contributions to practical iris biometrics on smartphones
(2016-05-12)This thesis investigates the practical adaption of iris biometrics on smartphones. Iris recognition is a mature and widely deployed technology which will be able to provide the high security demanded by next generation ... -
Contributions to the measurement of depth in consumer imaging
(NUI Galway, 2018-06-12)This thesis aims to examine and investigate methods that could potentially utilize images captured by consumer cameras such as smartphones to estimate depth and generate a 3D structure. After more than a century of ... -
Contributions to unconstrained palmprint recognition on smartphones
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-27)This thesis investigates the suitability of unconstrained palmprint as a biometric modality for handheld devices equipped with a camera, such as smartphones. A detailed literature survey is provided, covering existing ... -
Contributions towards 3D synthetic facial data generation and 3D face analysis with weak supervision
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-11)Facial analysis tasks are of pivotal importance in social interaction, thus gaining extensive attention among the scientific community. With the increased popularity of deep learning models and the availability of ... -
Control in a time of conflict: Women’s petitions in Ireland from 1541 to 1584
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-15)This dissertation provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of Anglophone women’s petition letter-writing in Tudor Ireland, from 1541-1583. This project provides both microhistories and quantitative rhetorical ...