Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Emerging new product development methodology for the automobile industry
(2014-07-21)New competitive pressures are unsettling traditional carmakers. These include: new consumer groups in emerging markets; zero emission requirements of existing customers; new competitors from emerging markets; and increasing ... -
Emotions & social change in Ireland: Exploring habitus shift in liquid modernity
(2013-10-17)Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, history, politics, but particularly sociology and sociological theory, this thesis explores the relationship between emotions and social ... -
Empire, emergency & the law
(2014-05-27)This thesis interrogates the nature of emergency legal doctrine -- from the institutional and constitutional planes of international relations, national security and political economy, down to more mundane planes of daily ... -
Empirical essays on consumer engagement and heterogeneity in residential energy demand
(2017-06)Residential energy demand is a key priority area for energy policy in the European Union, especially for the engagement of its citizens in a so-called 'Energy Union' that encourages consumers to take ownership of the energy ... -
Employee Reactions to High Performance Work Systems in the Service Sector: Assessing the Role of Organisational Justice Theory.
(2012-05-10)This study examines the impact of high performance work systems (HPWS) on employee outcomes. Understanding the HR causal chain linking HR and performance has been an on-going area of investigation. This research seeks to ... -
Employment and Autism Spectrum Disorder: an evaluation of technology-aided interventions on teaching and improving skills necessary for workplace inclusion
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-09)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex, life-long, neurodevelopmental disorder that is associated with high unemployment rates and community participation restrictions that impact quality of life. In recent years, ... -
Empowering children and young people: an access to justice assessment of mental health law and policy
(2016-10-08)This thesis aims to comparatively assess the Irish government’s national, international and regional obligations to respect, protect and fulfil children’s access to justice rights under mental health law, policy and ... -
Enabling occupational engagement in the transition to independent living using a longitudinal case study approach
(NUI Galway, 2020-10-27)Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) highlight their preference to live independently in their own normal housing in the community as opposed to congregated settings consistently. Research has shown they experience ... -
Enabling smart societies using social internet of things: A semantic framework for real-time virtual object management
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-04)A wide variety of unique smart services and applications are evolved based on Internet of Things (IoT) for resolving numerous issues in daily life, social community, agriculture, health sector, entertainment sector, city ... -
The endgame of treason: Suppressing rebellion and usurpation in the late roman empire AD 397-411
(2014-08-15)This thesis examines how rebellion, usurpation and conspiracy to usurp imperial power (all crimes of high treason) were suppressed by the state during the Late Empire, with a particular focus on the years 397-411, during ... -
Endocannabinoid modulation of TLR3-induced neuroinflammation
(2017-10-06)Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a key role in the recognition and activation of the innate immune system in response to infection. However, aberrant TLR activation has been implicated in predisposing to, and exacerbating, ... -
Endocannabinoid modulation of TLR4-induced neuroinflammation: implications for autism spectrum disorders
(2014-07-07)Neuroinflammation is a key component of various neurological diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as depression and autism. ... -
Endocannabinoid regulation of neuroinflammatory responses following acute systemic viral (TLR3) and bacterial (TLR4) infection
(2015-10-14)Toll like receptors (TLRs) are key players in host defence, homeostasis and response to injury. However, uncontrolled and aberrant TLR activation has been proposed to trigger the onset of certain neurodegenerative disorders ... -
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress as a Component of Demyelination in Animal Models of Multiple Sclerosis
(2012-12-19)Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is a homeostatic signalling pathway, linked to many neurological diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS), which can lead to cell death when prolonged. Increasing evidence suggests that ... -
Endoplasmic reticulum stress signalling in myelination
(2017-12-07)Demyelinating conditions such as multiple sclerosis have a continued unmet need for remyelinating therapies. Myelin is a multi-lamellar membrane structure made by oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) that is critical ... -
Energy biographies: Exploring the intersections between lives, practices and contexts
(2017-02)Individual consumption and behaviour change has become a key area of attention in European and Irish sustainable development policy. To date, policy approaches to consumption have been informed by individualised models of ... -
An energy efficient spectrum sensing scheme for the cognitive radio based internet of things
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-29)Spectrum sensing in a cognitive radio network involves detecting when a primary user vacates their licensed spectrum to enable secondary users to broadcast on the same band. Accurately sensing the absence of the primary ... -
Energy recovery and pathogen inactivation with dry co-digestion of food waste and pig manure
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-14)Anaerobic digestion is one of the best available technologies for food waste (FW) and pig manure (PM) management by producing methane-rich biogas. However, mono digestion of FW or PM is easily inhibited by high volatile ... -
Enhancing knowledge graph completion models and selected biological applications
(NUI Galway, 2020-06-18)Knowledge completion is the task of extending knowledge graphs to enhance the quality of systems relying on them. In recent years, various knowledge completion techniques were developed to model knowledge graphs using ... -
Enhancing spectrum sensing performance for the cognitive radio based internet of things
(NUI Galway, 2021-12-26)In cognitive radio based internet of things (CR-IoT) networks spectrum sensing and decision making processes to determine whether the primary user (PU) signal is present or absent in the network are very important and ...