Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Fabrication and characterisation of chemical vapour deposition grown branched carbon nanotube arrays
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2007)The fabrication, optimisation and characterisation of arrays of straight and junction multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) is presented in this thesis. A detailed description of the design and fabrication of the chemical ... -
Fabrication and characterisation of micro- and nano- structures with high aspect ratio
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2011)The main aim of the work presented in this thesis was to develop novel high aspect ratio micro- and nano- structures by using metal alkoxide derived sol-gels and polymer solutions and infiltrating them into porous templates. ... -
Fabrication of Nanoporous Membrane-like Thin Layers via Block Copolymer Lithography of P2VP-b-PS Inverse Systems and their Potential Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2024)The large-scale fabrication of nanoporous materials and substrates has generated significant research interest on account of the wide range of possible applications, including nanophotonics, optoelectronics, biomedical ... -
Fabrication of ultra-shallow boron junctions using proximity rapid thermal diffusion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2000)This work presents proximity rapid thermal diffusion (RTD) as a technique for fabricating shallow p-type junctions for LDD devices. Boron-doped spin-on dopant (SOD) is used as a dopant source in proximity RTD. Fourier ... -
Fabrication, characterisation and applications of some organic, inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2009)This thesis describes the fabrication, characterisation and applications of some interesting one-dimensional and two-dimensional nanostructures. The bulk of the thesis is concerned with the deposition of metals, polymers, ... -
Facade integrated concrete solar collectors
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2018)Concrete solar collectors are a type of solar thermal collector that are formed by embedding pipes within a layer of concrete that acts as the solar energy absorber. Concrete is a cheap, durable and abundant material that ... -
Facial Animation Pipeline Optimisation with Blendshape Importance Ordering and Perceptual Metrics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2020)The quality of realistic virtual human faces has increased in recent years with the availability of new technologies such as photogrammetry systems to scan actors and reproduce their shape and texture digitally with minute ... -
Facilitating readiness for advance care planning in Ireland: Informing the design of an innovative intervention for middle aged and older people in the community
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is a process aiming to elicit, communicate, and document future care wishes, providing mechanisms through which individual preferences can be supported. Poor and fragmented ... -
Facing multiple challenges at range margins : influence of climate change, nutrient enrichment and an introduced competitor on the glacial relict, Mysis Salemaai
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2013)Anthropogenic climate change is arguably the most important threat to global biodiversity, and its effects are expected to escalate. Mechanisms operating at local scales remain poorly understood, likely because of the ... -
Factionalism and noble power in English Ireland, c 1361-1423
(Trinity College DublinSchool of Histories and Humanities, 2007)This thesis offers a reappraisal of noble power and political culture in the English colony in Ireland in the late middle ages. It seeks to move beyond narrowly-conceived studies of the colony?s chief governors and ... -
Factors affecting mitochondrial efficiency
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2004)Experiments were designed to investigate for the first time in situ synaptosomal mitochondrial bioenergetic function using synaptosomes prepared from the whole brain of rats and to compare bioenergetic functions in ... -
Factors affecting paclitaxel content in yew
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2000)The anti-cancer agent paclitaxel has been the subject of intense scientific evaluation since it was first isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew [T. brevifolia] in 1971. It is currently used extensively in the treatment ... -
Factors affecting the pharmacotherapeutic management of chronic non-malignant pain in ageing and elderly populations in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2015)Chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP) has emerged as a global health priority due to the prevalence, complexity and presentation of the condition across all age- groups, social classes and ethnicities. There is a high prevalence ... -
Factors affecting the stability and performance of amorphous solid dispersions of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2020)This thesis focuses on factors affecting the stability and performance of amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The poor aqueous solubility of pipeline drugs has ... -
Factors Associated with Decision Making Capacity in Older Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Abstract: Making our own decisions goes to the heart of our autonomy. Increasingly decision making capacity (DMC) of older adults is questioned. The aim of this study was to explore DMC in older people and examine for ... -
Factors associated with the use of gastrointestinal medicines amoung older people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2020)Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience multi-morbidity, multiple medication use and have complex health needs. Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders such as constipation and gastroesophageal reflux ... -
Factors controlling the dispersion of single walled carbon nanotubes and hexabenzocoronene in liquid media
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2012)In this thesis, some of the primary factors controlling liquid phase dispersion of sp2-hybridised carbon nanostructures (namely single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC)) were investigated. -
Factors influencing the induction of immune responses with DNA vaccines
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2002)Compared with any other medical discovery vaccines have prevented more deaths and suffering. Emergence of novel pathogens accentuates the requisite for ongoing development and improvement of traditional vaccination strategies. ... -
Factors modulating TLR2, TLR4 and HBD2 expression in respiratory epithelium in COPD
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2006)The innate immune response of the respiratory epithelium, employing mechanisms of germ-line encoded, genetically conserved pattern recognition to “non-self’ organisms, is an important component of host defence against ... -
Facts or Fiction? : the Church of Ireland's writting of Irish church history 1838-1870
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis explores a central, but curiously neglected dimension of the cultural and intellectual history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. It addresses the systematic attempt by a group of scholars and academics, ...