Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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A fibre based quad-cell wavefront sensor for high speed adaptive optics
(2014-05-20)The genesis of this thesis came out of the difficulties encountered when trying to apply adaptive optics correction to optical fields that contain scintillation (specklelike amplitude fluctuations). These scintillated ... -
Fibrin Mediated Proangiogenic and Secretory Control Gene Therapy for Compromised Wound Healing
(2012-07-18)Chronic or compromised healing is a major clinical problem. Particularly, in diabetes where the disease process hinders the capacity to repair the tissue damage, the patients are more susceptible to chronic ulcers, especially ... -
Fibrin-in-fibrin intervention for enhanced dopaminergic graft survival in Parkinson’s disease: Special focus on brain N-glycans
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-07)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused due to the selective loss of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra pars compacta (SN) translating into the classical motor symptoms ... -
FibroSensing Dynamic Soft Reservoir (FSDSR): A bio-sensing drug delivery device for monitoring the foreign body response in real time
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-19)Despite significant advancements in Type 1 diabetes mellitus (Type 1 DM) treatments, the foreign body response continues to prevent the longevity of implantable medical devices that treat the condition. The development ... -
Fidelity to founder under the Bourbon régime: the Congregation of the Mission, 1660-1736.
(2012-09-18)On 27 September 1660, the famous French reformer Vincent de Paul died. With his demise the institute of missionaries he founded and led for thirty five years, the Congregation of the Mission, was without its steward and ... -
Field and geochemical studies of the Galway granite batholith - the Kilkieran sector, Connemara, western Ireland
(2015-04-24)The late-Caledonian granites of south Connemara occupy a key location in the western Irish Caledonides. The granites comprise the Galway Granite Batholith and its satellite plutons of Roundstone, Inish, Omey and Letterfrack. ... -
Finite element modelling for component-level additive manufacturing applied to residual stress-deformation mitigation and fatigue crack initiation in welded connections
(NUI Galway, 2023-08-21)Additive manufacturing (AM) has attracted significant attention in many applications due to its capability of fabricating complex and customized metal parts. However, the potential for high inherent residual stresses ... -
Fios na mban. The role of women in death and burial customs in Erris in post-famine Ireland: evidence from the archive of the Irish Folklore Commission
(2016-11-16)This thesis examines the role and contributions of women to mortuary ritual in Erris in the post-Famine era. The written evidence for the project is based on the oral testaments of both women and men mainly but not exclusively ... -
First Synthesis of an Aziridinyl Fused Pyrrolo[1,2-a]benzimidazole and Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Various Imidazobenzimidazolequinones Towards Human Normal and Cancer Cell Lines
(2011-07-13)Chapter 1 provides a review of aziridine containing anti-tumour agents and some key syntheses of the aziridinomitosene skeleton. A novel protocol for aziridine ring fusion is described leading to the preparation of the ... -
First-year student well-being and persistence: Building the evidence base and including the student perspective
(NUI Galway, 2022-02)Student persistence is essential to student education attainment and is linked with student motivation to continue with their studies, even when they face challenges. Student persistence during first year of college is ... -
Fitting in whilst standing out: Fostering enterprise development among Irish rural women
(NUI Galway, 2021-02-17)Policymakers and academics have come to consider rural entrepreneurship as a key source of eco-nomic and social development. Over the last decade, as potential creators of new businesses, wom-en have been recognised as ... -
Flashes of modernity: stage design at the Abbey Theatre, 1902-1966
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)Responding to Guy Julier’s call for a “knowing practice” of design studies, this doctoral thesis reveals Ireland’s negotiation with modernity through stage design. I use historian T.J. Clark’s definition of modernity as ... -
Flood risk management in Ireland: the role of public participation
(2014-10-17)While growing vulnerability to floods globally emphasizes the need to pursue research in this field, the relatively recent engagement in Ireland with this escalating social problem is notably found wanting in both the areas ... -
The flute in Flamenco social practice: An analysis of timbre, processes of hybridisation, and indigenisation (1975-2017)
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-10)This thesis explores the introduction and integration of the flute in flamenco. Since its codification in the 1850s, flamenco has been associated with ethnic, regional and national identity in Spain (Gypsy, Andalusian and ... -
Foinn, focail, féiniúlachtaí: claochlú cultúir sa Chlár 1850-1950
(2017-09-27)Breathnaíonn an tráchtas seo ar na slite ina ndearna pobal iarthar an Chláir ionramháil ar fhoinn agus ar fhocail i dtraidisiún na hamhránaíochta, chun a bhféiniúlacht Éireannach féin a chur in iúl, le linn na tréimhse ... -
Food waste fermentation for lactic acid production and recovery
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-23)This research aimed at optimizing the lactic acid production process exploiting the organic matter present in food waste. The objective was to investigate every aspect of the industrial lactic acid production and define ... -
Forgiveness in the age of accountability - Assessing Amnesty in northern Uganda
(NUI Galway, 2021-07-05)In the year 2000, Uganda passed the Amnesty Act – a blanket amnesty law that effectively ended a 20-year rebellion by the Lord’s Resistance Army (“LRA”), reintegrating thousands of ex-combatants back into the community. ... -
Formal calibration methodology relating to CFD models of naturally ventilated internal environments
(2013-08-16)The building sector is responsible for 40% of total global energy consumption. Half of the energy consumed by buildings relates to heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Natural ventilation can provide ... -
Formality of financial reward management, availability of non-financial rewards and employee outcomes in SMEs: An investigation using psychological contract theory
(NUI Galway, 2022-08-13)This PhD study investigates whether the formality of financial reward management and the availability of non-financial rewards are associated with more positive employee outcomes in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). ... -
Fortune and the Troilus and Cressida Story; A Study of the Representations and Functions of Fortune in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
(2011-09)This thesis examines the representations of Fortune in Boccaccio's Filostrato, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Both in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Fortune was intrinsically ...