Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Exploring the roles of ICT middle management in aligning business and ICT strategies : the case of information and communication technology in public service organisations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2013)A longitudinal review of the top information and communication teclmology (ICT) management issues had shown strategic alignment to be a key concern. The issue of strategic alignment has persisted as a critical ICT management ... -
Exploring the use of Communities of Practice and Communities of Inquiry in online postgraduate Higher Education settings.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)A supportive, collegial environment which fosters engagement and persistence is considered to be fundamental to learner success. Higher education online learning options are available to students which allows them to ... -
Exploring the use of social constructivist methodologies in teacher practice and student engagement in chemistry.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2019)This thesis comprises a self-study action research inquiry into the practice of a post-primary chemistry teacher in Ireland. The research had a collaborative aspect to it, as a number of students were invited to participate ... -
Exploring the α2-adrenergic receptors with alkyl substituted bis-guanidinium diaryl derivatives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2021)The burden of mental health conditions is on the rise globally. It is well documented that noradrenaline has a key role in memory, attention, stress, and regulation of emotions. The α2-adrenergic receptors (α2-ARs) are an ... -
Exploring use of the Bridge21 model as a 21st Century method of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Computer Science (CS) for Teachers in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)Across Europe there is strong push to teach Computer Science (CS) in post-primary schools (Forbes & Messina, 2002). Sentance and Csizmadia (2017a) advise that CS is perceived as a difficult subject, and call for Continuing ... -
Export activity, specialisation and structural change
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This thesis examines the evolution of Ireland’s manufacturing exports. In particular, it focuses on the changing pattern of specialisation both of products and of destinations. The first two chapters examine specialisation ... -
Export characteristics of Irish manufacturing enterprises
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the export characteristics of enterprises, using the manufacturing sector of Ireland between 1991 and 1998 as a case study. The growth of Irish merchandise exports is considered to ... -
Exposure to reduced oxygenation following radiation exposure enhances the survival of prostate cancer cells in vitro: implications for radiation therapy delivery
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2010)Introduction: Hypoxia is a common feature of prostate tumours; hypoxic cells are more radioresistance compared to oxygenated cells. Hypoxic radioresistance has also been shown to be related to the duration of hypoxia prior ... -
Expression of antibody fragments in tobacco using transient and stable expression systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Genetics, 2011)Plants are an attractive alternative to mammalian and microbial cell culture systems as a potential production platform for recombinant proteins. Apart from avoiding ethical problems associated with transgenic animals, ... -
Expression of hns and stpA in Salmonella enterica servoar Typhimurium
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Genetics and Microbiology, 2012)H-NS-like proteins are widespread amongst Enterobacteriaceae and other Gramnegative bacteria. They are small (15 kDa) nucleoid associated proteins involved in many cellular processes such as replication, transposition, ... -
Expressions of victory, Hellenism and power : the development of Campus Martius from the foundation of Rome to the end of the Republic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The Campus Martius, Rome, was a flood plain to the north of the city of ancient Rome that was characterised by its extra-pomerial location and its overtly level, spacious, nature. The way in which the Campus Martius ... -
Extending event based programming for sensor-driven applications in resource-constrained environments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)The ubiquitous computing vision which began with Weiser and its evolution since predicts large quantities of sensors, actuators and computational devices embedded in our environment enabling advanced applications which ... -
Extending geometric discretisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Mathematics, 2002)Geometric discretisation (GD) [1] is a novel approach capable of capturing topological properties, based on a correspondence between discrete objects and operations on a triangulation with continuum ones on a manifold. We ... -
Extending the job demands-resources model of work engagement : the role of demands and resources from other domains
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2015)This study aims to extend the job demands-resources model (JD-R model) of work engagement by proposing that in addition to job demands and job resources, as proposed in the existing JD-R model, non-work factors (e.g., ... -
Extending the limits of cardiovascular disease risk estimation : the roles of HDL cholesterol, resting heart rate and advancing years
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Surgery, 2010)Background: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease are the commonest causes of death Worldwide. The underlying atherosclerosis starts early ... -
An Extensible Administration and Configuration Tool for Linux Clusters
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)This project addresses the lack of system administration tools for Linux clusters. The goals of the project were to design and implement an extensible system that would facilitate the administration and configuration of ... -
Extra-legal steadying factors' in the Article 267 TFEU preliminary reference procedure
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2017)This dissertation presents the thesis that there are 'extra-legal steadying factors' in the EU legal system and the preliminary reference procedure that serve to reduce significantly the impact of obstacles to 'legal ... -
Extracting new urban patterns in cities: Analysis, models and applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2018)Smart city initiatives rely on real-time measurements and data collected by a large num- ber of heterogenous physical sensors deployed throughout a city. The data gathered by physical sensors can capably identify important ... -
Eye Tracking Evaluations of Control Populations and Children with Focal Epilepsy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2021)Eye tracking has emerged as a powerful tool in studying the eye movements of children. Previous eye tracking studies have not examined eye movements of children with focal epilepsy. The aim of this study was to develop a ... -
Écritures africaines de l'exil parisien
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2001)This thesis is an analysis of the representation of Parisian exile in seven African novels in French. The novels are studied in chronological order, thus illustrating the social and psychological evolution of the theme ...