Browsing NUI Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Title
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Wave-structure interaction of offshore wave energy converters
(2013-11-04)With the continuing rise in oil prices and greater concern for the damage to the atmosphere, the world is continually looking for a cleaner and more sustainable form of energy. Ocean wave energy as a renewable source of ... -
Wavelength dependence of femtosecond laser ablation of thin gold films
(2014-05-26)The demand for efficient laser processing of materials is as strong as ever and this requires a deep understanding of the fundamental laser-material interactions. There has been a recent upsurge in the number of studies ... -
Waves, wrinkles and creases in deformed soft solids
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-10)This article-based thesis comprises a collection of four articles, each of which constitutes a chapter written and formatted in pre-print manuscript form. The general aim underlying these articles is to model the large ... -
"We here in Ireland are not outside this struggle": the Irish Catholic Church, anti-communism and the Cold War, 1945-1965
(NUI Galway, 2018-04-03)This project explores an understudied aspect of modern Irish Catholicism by examining the anticommunism of the Irish Catholic Church in the period from 1945 to 1965, which marked the early years of the Cold War. It looks ... -
A web-based system for determining drug dosing levels in kidney impairment
(2014-02-03)University Hospital Galway, Ireland (UHG) uses a hybrid system to maintain patient records. Some wards have an electronic health record (EHR), while others are still dependent on paper records. The continued use of ... -
What are the factors that influence person centred care in public residential care settings for older people?
(2014-02)The term Person centred care is used widely in health and social care discourse and is commonly employed in the articulation of policy, both at governmental and professional level. The concept, as it relates to older people ... -
What are the perspectives on ageing of mid-life women in rural Ireland?
(2017-02-15)Adopting a lifecourse perspective, this exploratory study examines what rural ageing means to mid-life women (45-65 years of age) in Connemara. Gaps in existing research coupled with divergence between theoretical and ... -
What we owe to children: A rawlsian perspective in an irish context
(2013-10-02)This thesis begins from the premise that a just state ought to be concerned for how children actually turn out. The basis for this claim is grounded in the contemporary liberal view that each person ought to have the ... -
What's Fair? Realising the right to Independent Living for people with intellectual disabilities: what Ireland needs to do.
(2013-10-17)Ireland has a long and shameful history of providing for the support and housing needs of people with intellectual disabilities in large institutions. This is not unique to Ireland, nor to people with intellectual ... -
When paradigms clash: Irish labour market institutions and the unemployment crisis
(2017-10-18)The recent Irish economic and financial crisis had significant impacts on the performance of the labour market and was also associated with major changes to labour market policies and institutions. Drawing on Douglass ... -
When the 'minority' speaks: voices of Amazigh women in Morocco
(NUI Galway, 2018-07-18)Applying an intersectional approach, this thesis examines the value and meaning that minority and indigenous (Amazigh) women in Morocco attribute to human rights and gender equality and, as well, how rights-based claims ... -
White matter organisation in the human brain: diffusion MRI investigation of microstructural alterations in chronic schizophrenia and post-mortem validation
(2014-08-29)Schizophrenia is a chronic and disabling mental disorder affecting 0.7% of the worldwide population, characterised by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech and behaviour, and by social ... -
Why Customary Law Matters: The Role of Customary Law in the Protection of Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights
(2011-09-30)For millions of Indigenous peoples around the world their own customary laws (nonstate laws they consider binding upon them) are their primary, if not their only source of law. Long marginalized and where recognized ... -
Willingness to Pay for Community-Based Care Programmes for Older People in Ireland
(2012-01-20)Non-market valuation techniques are employed across a range of economic disciplines to assess the economic value generated by goods and services that typically are not captured by traditional market price mechanisms. Such ... -
The Wnt gene family in evolution and development: insights from Chilopoda
(2012-12-20)The importance of a relatively small number of highly conserved genes and signalling systems, which can be co-opted to many developmental functions over evolutionary time, is a central finding in the field of evolutionary ... -
Wnt signalling in the hydrozoan Hydractinia echinata
(2013-09-11)Canonical Wnt signalling controls many developmental processes in metazoans including primary axis formation in embryonic development and stem cell decision making. The evolutionary history of Wnt signalling and its ancestral ... -
Wolveridge's Speculum Matricis: a mirror on antiquity?
(2018-03-07)The main aim of this study of Wolveridge’s Speculum Matricis of 1670 is to ascertain the extent to which his midwifery manual fitted within the still dominant Greek medical model, and how, if at all, it reflected influences ... -
Women and modernity: the global and the local in Moroccan women's NGOs' advocacy and public awareness work
(2013-08-30)This thesis examines the referential and linguistic strategies used by Moroccan women's NGOs in their advocacy and public awareness work. The study is based on interviews with 24 NGO directors from geographically and ... -
Women entrepreneurs and self-employed business-owners in Ireland 1922-1972
(14-01-20)This study set out to examine the prevalence of women entrepreneurs and self-employed business owners in Ireland in the early years of the Irish Free State. The historiography of Irish women has largely focussed on women ... -
Writing through the trauma of her past: Patterns of repression and a fragmented sense of self in the literature of Christa Wolf
(2017-09-08)This project aims to offer a re-evaluation of the literature of Christa Wolf and change the focus of the questions posed in relation to her literary legacy. Shifting the focus away from a denouncement of her character and ...