Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Enhancing trust in detecting security threats using machine learning approaches and its application in the Internet of Things
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-13)Identifying network attacks is a very crucial task for network security. The increasing amount of network devices is creating a massive amount of data and opening new security vulnerabilities that malicious users can ... -
Enhancing willingness to whistleblow internally: The role of leaders and work culture
(NUI Galway, 2021-03-30)Whistleblowing research shows that leaders play an essential role in steering ethical behaviour and work culture. This thesis investigates the factors that enhance employee willingness to internal speak up and how leadership ... -
Enterprise education in post-primary schools: An exploration of the antecedent and contextual factors that impact on successful provision
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-30)Enterprise education is universally lauded as a means to enabling an enterprising capacity in young citizens who benefit the local and national economy while also being one of the eight European Union key competences. ... -
Entity summarisation for entity-centric publish/subscribe systems
(NUI Galway, 2021-12-21)The Internet of Things (IoT) has contributed to physical devices generating entity-centric data (e.g. smart buildings). To bridge the gap between the devices’ data and the users’ interests, Publish/Subscribe systems (Pub/Sub) ... -
Entrepreneurial networking and the development of marketing capabilities in SMEs. A study of Irish entrepreneurs
(2016-09-16)It is widely accepted across the marketing, entrepreneurship and strategic management literatures that relationships and networks are instrumental for the growth and performance of SMEs. In particular, in the entrepreneurial ... -
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE): a business model approach
(2016-04-07)Researchers of entrepreneurship lack a general, yet distinct, conceptual framework that both describes how entrepreneurial action occurs and predicts who does it. Some scholars have noted that the emerging concept of ... -
Entry pattern matrices
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-29)An entry pattern matrix (EPM for short) is a rectangular matrix in which each entry is an indeterminate. The same indeterminate may appear in multiple positions, but different indeterminates are independent. For a field ... -
Environmental and genetic risk factors in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a stereological study
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-15)Autism spectrum disorders (ASD), include a group of heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) characterized by impaired social interaction, and communication with restricted patterns of behaviour. The aetiology ... -
Environmental aqueous geochemistry of arsenic in groundwater: occurrence, speciation and biogeochemical processes
(NUI Galway, 2020-04-27)The presence of arsenic and other trace elements within groundwater has become a global concern due to the health risks from drinking water associated with elevated concentrations in the last three decades. Whilst ample ... -
Environmental assessment of freshwater aquaculture in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-12-11)Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production activity in the world and has been for the last several decades. With over 60% of wild fish stocks at or below their maximum sustainable yield, it is expected that to ... -
Enzymes in the World of Computational Chemistry - Computational Studies on Structures, Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Specificity of Five Biologically Important Enzymes
(2012-10-30)The thesis demonstrates computational chemical methodology applied to some biologically important enzymes. Five enzymes have been studied, i.e. sortase A (SrtA), 2-Methyl-3-hydroxypyridine-5-carboxylic acid oxygenase ... -
Epigenetic regulation of germline stem cell fate by Centromere Protein C
(NUI Galway, 2021-01-21)Germline stem cells (GSCs) divide asymmetrically to produce one new daughter stem cell and one daughter cell that will subsequently undergo meiosis and differentiate to generate the mature gamete. The ‘silent sister ... -
Epigenetic regulation of NOD-like receptor activity and expression
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-19)NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are a family of intracellular pathogen recognition receptors involved in the innate immune response. NOD1 and NOD2 are the best characterised members of this family, and so are the focus of this ... -
An epigenomics approach to characterize alterations in disease
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-13)Epigenetics is the term that describes all the mechanisms that regulate the genomic activities such as transcription, DNA repair, DNA replication, transposon duplication. There is a great variety of epigenetic mechanisms ... -
Equality omitted reform: an exploration of 'egalitarian' and 'efficiency' principles in Irish health care provision within an institutionalist framework.
(2016-05-11)This thesis is an exploratory study of the theory and practice of equality in shaping modern policy conceptions of access and entitlement to health care provision. In most modern democratic societies, the principles of ... -
Equally existing objects: Tracing the emergence of non-hierarchical being through film and Occupy Wall Street
(NUI Galway, 2017-04-06)This project aims to trace the emergence of a non-hierarchical being, from 1999 to roughly 2013. The type of being under discussion is one that allows for all things to equally exist, outside of a human-world correlation, ... -
Ergonomic Analysis of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk to Plasterers Working in Ireland
(2012-12-19)As a consequence of the organisational nature of the construction industry, and due to the dynamic nature of construction activities, construction workers are exposed to Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSDs) risk ... -
The erodibility and phosphorus loss potential of a selection of Irish tillage soils
(2012-08-17)Arable cropping, due to its intensive nature, can leave soil with reduced ground cover and impaired soil structure, making it vulnerable to erosion under heavy rainfall. Runoff containing suspended sediment (SS) and ... -
Erschriebene Heimat - Erinnerungen an Kindheit und Jugend in der DDR und im Nachwendedeutschland von AutorInnen der Jahrgänge 1964-1976
(2013-04-23)The memory of childhood and youth in the former GDR and growing up in Germany after the 'Wende' is a prominent topic of contemporary German literature. Young East German authors like Jana Hensel, Daniel Wiechmann, Claudia ... -
Essays on estimating effects of star arrival in small open economies: An event-study analysis
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-14)As the economy’s growth becomes more dependent on innovation, science policy is increasing in importance as an instrument for shaping the direction and impact of science on economic development, especially in small ...