Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Culture Goes To War: A Critical Analysisof the Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2022)From 2003 onwards, faced with burgeoning insurgencies and widespread violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, US military policy underwent a cultural turn . This shift in policy emphasised the need for the collection of knowledge ... -
A culture of silence: a study of a social emotional learning (SEL) intervention for teenages affected by domestic violence.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)This study explores the effects of domestic violence on teenagers’ social emotional development. The young peoples’ perspective on their experience, and how it affected them, is explored by means of an active social emotional ... -
Culture of Spectrum Sharing: Emancipation of the hertz
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2019)Increase on demands for lower latency, pervasive connectivity, higher throughput, and more capacity has an exponential trend. To meet the demands is to put to use all spectrum resources we have and all of the technology ... -
Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2012)This thesis explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged ... -
Culture, politics and the struggle for mastery in Ireland c.1452-1540
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)The fall of the Kildare Geraldines in 1534 has traditionally been seen as the hinge of late medieval and early modern Irish history. In comprehending this period, the collection of documents published in the 1830s as the ... -
Curing of complex monomer systems: a spectroscopic and thermal analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2001)This thesis describcs the development of a novel methodology, which uses the high resolution liquid nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic technique to continuously monitor in real time the thermal and UV-photoinitiated ... -
Curriculum, Accreditation and Transition Pathways; pupils with Intellectual Disabilities in Special Schools (Ireland)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)The focus of this study was to explore what curriculum is available for students with ID, at Senior Cycle, in special schools in Ireland? Secondly, what are the accreditation outcomes for students with intellectual ... -
Cutaneous changes in renal transplant recipients - is there a relationship between benign and malignant disease?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2009)Renal transplant recipients are at an increased risk of many cutaneous diseases. The increased incidence of cutaneous malignancy is well recognised. Cutaneous infections and iatrogenic effects of immunosuppressive medications ... -
Cyber-space oddity? : an analysis of political parties' websites and online campaigning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This dissertation is an empirical investigation of how the internet is used by political parties and their candidates. This project seeks to make an original contribution to the literature on political parties, electoral ... -
Cyclen-based lanthanide complexes as ribonuclease mimics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2004)This thesis, entitled "Novel Cyclen-based Lanthanide Complexes as Ribonuclease Mimics" is divided into six chapters. Chapter One introduces the field of mRNA cleavage, with emphasis on the hydrolysis of phosphodiesters. ... -
Cyclosporine A modulates CD103+ DC responses to fungal PAMPs
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2022)Cyclosporine A (CsA) is an immunosuppressant that protects against inflammatory diseases and graft rejection. Despite its strong efficacy, one side-effect of CsA is an increased risk of fungal infection. To minimise this, ... -
Cyprus, from Basileis to Strategos : social power and the archaeology of religion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)Note: Published Monograph also available: Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus : From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos. Publisher: Brill, 2012. ISBN: 9789004224353 ; e-ISBN 9789004233805; Series: ... -
Cyrus the Great, religion, and the conquest of ancient Anatolia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)With the invasion of Anatolia in the sixth century BC Cyrus the Great began a series of conquests that would form the Persian Empire. For his tolerance and, indeed, support of foreign religions during his rule, Cyrus has ... -
Cytidine Aminohydrolase
The object of this work was to gain some information about the mechanics of action of cytidine aminohydralase from sheep liver -
Cytokine expression in coronary artery disease : high sensitivity detection in a patient cohort and analysis of its effect on cardiac myoblast cells in an in vitro model
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2011)Cardiovascular disease has evolved into one of the major causes of death in the developed world. Common clinical presentations of the disease are Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), Heart Failure, Carotid disease, Abdominal ... -
Cytokine gene expression, protein expression and genetic variability in the human response to infection
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2008)In this thesis I explore the hypothesis that a pro-inflammatory cytokine immune response is a beneficial and protective host mechanism in the setting of the human response to infection. The various regulatory pathways ... -
Cytokine mRNA gene expression profiles in human host response to infection and sepis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Surgery, 2013)This thesis explores the hypothesis that a cytokine mediated immune response modulates the human immune response to infection. Attenuation of this cytokine response may increase the risk of infection and sepsis in humans. -
Cytokine polymorphisms in the study of Helicobacter pylori related gastric pathology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2005)Persistent local inflammation is now accepted as a risk factor in the development of a number of cancers. Non-cardia gastric cancer is thought to develop after a long lead-time whereby persistent inflammation, caused by ... -
Cytokine-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition : mechanisms and implications for fibrotic diseases of respiratory and intestinal epithelia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2010)Fibrosis is characterised by the accumulation of myofibroblasts, the key effector cell implicated in the fibrogenic reaction. The exact origin of these myofibroblasts remains poorly understood. However, growing evidence ... -
Cₒ(X)-structure in C*-algebras, multiplier algebras and tensor products
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Mathematics, 2015)We begin in Chapter 2 with an introduction to the various notions of a bundle of C*-algebras that have appeared throughout the literature, and clarify the definitions of upper- and lower-semicontinuous C*-bundles not ...