Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin: Theses & Dissertations
This community contains research theses submitted by graduates of Trinity College Dublin.
In 2016 the Library embarked on a large digitisation project of PhD theses (selected from date range 2000-2015) and will be uploading more than 2,000 as open access e-theses later in 2016.
Graduates if you wish for your thesis to be included in TARA, First check if your thesis has been selected for scanning in 2016. If you are not on the 2016 scan list but would like to contribute a pdf copy of your thesis, we would love to hear from you!
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From September 2016 onwards an eTheses submission system will be implemented College-wide for all Schools and all research theses.
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Essays in Urban and Housing Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of urban economics and the economic effects of affordable housing policy. While they do not use common data or methods, they all tackle fundamental issues ... -
Inspiring Women - An Educational Design Research Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Abstract The under-representation of girls in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education and careers is a deep-rooted problem. Gender differences in the participation of STEM education are visible as early ... -
Investigating Medical English as a Lingua Franca: Determining the Effectiveness of Communication between Healthcare Practitioners in Hospital Settings in Saudi Arabia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2024)This thesis investigates the effectiveness of communication between healthcare practitioners in multilingual hospital settings in Buraidah, Saudi Arabia, with a focus on Medical English as a Lingua Franca (MELF). With the ... -
"At the end of the day we're kind of motoring along on our own": Investigating the views of people with aphasia, their family, and SLTs on the need, value, and challenges of providing family therapy after stroke.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2024)Background Stroke significantly impacts the lives of both the person who sustained the stroke and their entire family unit, often profoundly changing the roles and dynamics within families. Aphasia, a communication disability ... -
Using in vitro and in silico approaches to investigate ibuprofen particulate and formulation dissolution behaviour under different hydrodynamic conditions.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2024)This work investigated the effect of fluid velocity and medium viscosity on the dissolution of ibuprofen powder and ibuprofen immediate release tablets in vitro, in the paddle apparatus and the flow-through apparatus, and ... -
Investigating an interplay between respiration and attention via the locus coeruleus - noradrenaline system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)The intricate interplay between respiration and attention, a cornerstone of yogic practices for millennia, is now gaining recognition in contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Recent research is shedding light on how respiration ... -
The Impact of Multinational Enterprises' Spillovers on Indigenous Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)While the symbiosis of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) and large-scale businesses is well-established, the landscape shifts dramatically in contexts where established businesses are scarce. The silver lining? The potential ... -
Do Emotions Matter? An Investigation of Human Emotions and Financial Decision Making in the Digital Era
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)This doctoral dissertation thoroughly examines the influence of social media sentiment on financial markets, focusing particularly on the GameStop short squeeze and the cryptocurrency market behavior. The dissertation includes ... -
Characterising Macrophage Immunometabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV are leading infection-related causes of global mortality and result in an enormous amount of suffering and economic loss. Available TB treatment strategies are inadequate, and vaccination ... -
Plasmonic interactions of gold nanoparticles with photoluminescent materials
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)The variable plasmonic resonances of metal nanoparticles have many applications across a wide range of fields, including the modification of the emission of photoluminescent materials. The plasmonic interactions of gold ... -
From synergy to inhibition: Effects of multi component solutions on the crystallization of divalent carbonates in natural and synthetic environments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)The understanding of the processes governing the mechanisms, kinetics, and pathways of carbonate crystallization is crucial in the context of carbon capture and storage through mineralization. However, uncertainty still ... -
Investigation of the Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Protein MC089 as a Novel Inhibitor of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 Activation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Immunology, 2024)Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) is a human-specific poxvirus that causes highly common, mild, papular skin lesions. The lesions are notable for exerting minimal to no inflammation but can persist for a long duration ... -
Cold-water corals from the deep-sea to the TV: development of shelf-edge mounds, assessment of anthropogenic stressors and geochemical parameters, and impacts of science communication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)Cold-water corals (CWCs) are the hidden reef-builders of the deep ocean. They are out of sight, yet they perform important functions for marine ecosystems, play a role in stabilising climate change, and hold clues to study ... -
James Joyce's Philosophical Formation: A Secularisation of Being
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis draws on radical philology, which focuses on the analysis of textual sources, to examine the exogenesis of James Joyce's early aesthetics, which is to say its development as a result of inter-textual echoes and ... -
Investigation of the role of immunomodulators oftoll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) function and associated genetic variants in the pathogenesis and progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)IPF is a fatal interstitial lung disease of unknown aetiology, with a lack of valid biomarkers and satisfactory therapeutic solutions available. Studies have shown an association between inflammation, viral and bacterial ... -
'how like death they are!': Death and Childhood in the Novels of Charles Dickens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis studies the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on childhood and Victorian attitudes towards death in the moribund child of Charles Dickens's novels. By the nineteenth century, ... -
The Testament of Stone: Understanding the past, present, and future cultural significance of the long lives of the Irish high crosses.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The Irish High Crosses are a unique group of monuments that, relative to their size, convey a exceptional amount of information about the early Christian period in which they were made. Over the past one hundred and fifty ... -
Expert-Free Online Transfer Learning in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables an intelligent agent to optimise its performance in a task by continuously taking action from an observed state and receiving a feedback from the environment in form of rewards. RL ... -
Nucleoside and Oligonucleotide Modification for Targeting the DNA Damage Repair Enzyme SNM1A
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2024)The exonuclease SNM1A is a key enzyme involved in the repair of interstrand crosslinks, a highly cytotoxic form of DNA damage. As cells depleted in this enzyme display increased sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents such ... -
High-resolution remote sensing data and machine learning approaches for mapping and monitoring habitats
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2024)The increasing decline in the status of habitats, mainly due to anthropogenic stressors, has spurred the development and implementation of many conservation-related legislation. This legislation involves mapping, a critical ...