Browsing Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin: Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Representations of music in nineteenth-century French art
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2021)In the abundant production shown in Salons - official and non-official - during the Second Empire and the Third Republic until 1900, a number of paintings have music as their theme. They form occasional clusters, corresponding ... -
Representing Activities associated with Processing of Personal Data and Consent using Semantic Web for GDPR Compliance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a landmark law regarding privacy and data protection. GDPR stipulates potentially large fines if an organisation is found to not be compliant. This has resulted in research ... -
Representing Europe's citizens : an analysis of political representation in the European Union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This project investigates how well the EU functions as an instrument of political representation. It addresses five separate but intrinsically linked research questions: are citizens' perceptions of representation important ... -
Reproductive seasonality of the male and female Eurasian badger, Meles meles
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2010)The ecology of the Eurasian Badger (Meles meles) is highly diverse; varying greatly between geographical regions, populations and even adjoining groups. It has been argued that mating systems result from individual strategies ... -
Research and development in the synthesis of cyanoacrylates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2010)This dissertation is aimed at developing a new synthetic chemistry suitable for the selective production of highly reactive, high yield and purified electron deficient enes in bulk quantities. -
Resilience of Traffic Networks to Extreme Weather Events: Analysis and Assessment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2018)The increment of extreme weather events is creating larger, and more frequent problems among infrastructure systems worldwide. In this thesis, the focus is on traffic networks by the analysis of a recent concept, the ... -
Resonances and lattice field theory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Mathematics, 2012)In this thesis, we look at the extraction of resonance parameters in lattice field theory. In particular we detail two major methods of dealing with resonances and consider them in a perturbative and nonpertnrbative ... -
Resonant aeroacoustic source localisation in ducted bluff body flows
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Resonant soft X-ray spectroscopic studies of certain transition metal oxides
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2011)Rutile-type transition-metal oxides are extremely fertile areas of study both for fundamental and technological reasons due to the range of physical properties they present, such as insulating TiO2, semiconducting Sn02 and ... -
Resource Management for Data Analytics in Edge Computing Networks
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2021)The emergence of Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) aspires to divert the aggregation of data and their computation away from the cloud, and closer to the end users. At the same time IoT and mobile devices create a plethora ... -
Responding to the challenge of political violence : the Catholic hierarchy in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936-1975)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2010)This thesis will examine the response of the Catholic hierarchy to political violence in Northern Ireland (1921-1972) and the Basque Country (1936- 1975). These were critical years in the political development of both ... -
Responding to uncertainty in the context of clinical pragmatics and speech and language therapy practice : a grounded theory study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Clinical Speech & Language Studies, 2011)Clinical pragmatics is a relatively young and evolving area. Clinical pragmatics involves the application of theory and constructs from the broad area of pragmatics to intervention and research in the area of communication ... -
The Response and Optimisation of Hybrid Wind Turbine Towers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2019)This thesis investigates the response and optimisation of wind turbine tower structures with a particular emphasis on hybrid steel-concrete towers. The wind turbine blades with tower interaction are represented through ... -
Responses of bone cells to microinjury
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2012)Microdamage in bone has been implicated as a principal stimulator of bone remodeling through the release of numerous biochemical factors. Such factors initiate the bone resorbing and bone forming potential of the constitutive ... -
Responsive aggregate defence for denial of service attacks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)The Internet is the main provider of information, communication and media services for an increasing percentage of the world's population. Its architecture is based on packet switching principles and employs a layered, ... -
Resting-state electroencephalographic biomarkers for tracking cognitive network dysfunction in amyotrophiclateral sclerosis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) stands as a multifaceted neurological disorder that primarily affects both upper and lower motor neurons. However, research in neuroimaging, neuropsychology and neurobiology has shown ... -
Restitution from public authorities in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2012)This thesis examines the law of restitution from public authorities in Ireland. It operates on two levels. First, it is the first large scale research project on the law of restitution in Ireland. It also analyses the law ... -
Restoration of native woodland in former conifer plantations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2003)The majority of Irish forests are plantations of exotic conifer species, with semi-natural woodlands occupying less than 1% of Ireland. Recent land-use changes, in particular the expansion of National Parks and Nature ... -
Retrospective analysis of dental implants placed over a 6 year period, comparing overdentures and implant fixed complete dentures, in terms of patient satisfaction and quality of life
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Dental Science, 2008)The aim of the first part of this project was to construct an implant database that recorded the details of every implant placed and restored in the Dublin Dental Hospital over a 6 year period. The objective of the second ... -
Return migration and integration : a comparison of Italian returnees from Argentina and Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2014)Italy has a long history of outward migration, from the I9th century through to the 1970s. In recent decades this has been reversed with a strong pattern of return migration emerging. This thesis examines and compares the ...