Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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k-NN approach for classifying semantic roles via Tai-mapping projections
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)Semantic role labelling (SRL) is the task of labelling text with a semantic notation in order to identify who did what? When? How? Etc. Once the text is labelled; that information can be used to solve a multitude of other ... -
KAFCA : knowledge autonomy for reactive context-aware applications
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Pervasive computing represents a vision of networked computers being distributed throughout our everyday environment in order to transparently provide services to people. The use of sensors enables the deployment of so-called ... -
Kafka, Beckett, Onetti - a poetics of existential estrangement : notes towards the definition of a subgenre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2002)The following thesis was researched and written during the period October 1998 to September 2001 at Trinity College, Dublin. It originated as an investigation into the adequacy of the term 'existentialist' as applied to ... -
Kant on the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2010)The central theme of this study is a curious and controversial feature of Kant's account of acting from duty in the Groundwork:, his apparent omission of the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty. -
Kant's realism. An investigation into the essential interdependence of the formal and material conditions for the possibility of empirical knowledge in Kant's epistemology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)My central claim in this dissertation is that in Kant's epistemology (1) the conditions for the possibility of empirical knowledge (CPEK) comprise not only formal but also material conditions, i.e. CPEK = FCPK and MCPK, ... -
Kant, Cantor, and the unconditioned
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)In this thesis I inquire into the possible connections between the philosophical problem that Immanuel Kant called the First Antinomy of Pure Reason and some of the paradoxes that were discovered in set theory in the second ... -
A Kantian Reconciliation of Moral Realism and Moral Supervenience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2018)The 'Moral Supervenience' thesis is a deeply intuitive and popular one within philosophy, and can be defined as follows: "There can be no changes in any moral properties without at least some kind of change in non-moral ... -
Karstification and groundwater-surface water interactions in the Meath-Westmeath lakeland region
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)This thesis investigates the degree of karstification and the characteristics of groundwater - surface water interactions in the Meath-Westmeath Lakeland region. In particular, groundwater - lake interactions in the region ... -
Kathleen Clarke: A Life Proclaimed
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis analyses the memoir 'Revolutionary Woman', written during the 1940s by Kathleen Daly Clarke, and published in 1991. Kathleen married the Fenian activist Tom Clarke in 1901 in New York. They returned to Ireland ... -
Keeping connected in care : development of technology to stimulate social interaction among older people in care facilities
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2012)Care settings for older people, such as nursing homes, can have low levels of social engagement. Social interaction has been shown in many studies as being crucial to both the mental and physical well-being of older adults. ... -
Keeping Mum' : a qualitative study of women drug users' experience of preserving motherhood in Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2008)According to academic accounts, it is not uncommon for women who use illicit drugs to be culturally portrayed in negative stereotypical terms as ‘unfeminine’, 'unclean' and 'immoral'. Nowhere is this more evident than when ... -
Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman lmpact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10BCE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis investigates the character and fate(s) of the local ruling classes of Gallic communities around the Greater Rhône Basin (such as the Aedui, Arverni, Allobroges, and Volcae Arecomici) in relation to the advent ... -
Ketamine for depression: Clinical use and media accounts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2021)This thesis comprises two research studies, one of which is a clinical trial. Study 1: Pilot randomised controlled trial: Ketamine as an adjunctive therapy for major depression, the Karma-Dep Trial (NCT03256162). The ... -
Key challenges in the current TB & HIV information system in South Africa : a case study in Khayelitsha, Western Cape
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)South Africa has one of the most serious human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics in the world, with high incidence, prevalence and co-infection rates. Information is at the heart of managing ... -
Key components of consumer engagement : a firm-hosted virtual customer environment perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2015)The overarching objective of this research was to develop and test a model of consumer engagement in a virtual customer environment (VCE) in an attempt to advance substantive theory on the key determinants of this engagement. ... -
Key factors and underlying mechanisms for the enterprise systems lifecycle in public service organisations
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2017)This is a longitudinal Critical Realist case study in the Enterprise Systems (ES) area within the Information Systems (IS) domain. Based on the literature review, it is identified that the majority of the ES research is ... -
The 'Kickstart to Recovery' programme; a quantitative evaluation of a football programme for mental health service users in an Irish context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2020)Football is increasingly being used to support recovery and physical activity for mental health service users. The 'Kickstart to Recovery' programme is a collaboration between occupational therapy and the Football Association ... -
Kinematic properties of globally-propagating waves in the solar corona
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2012)Globally-propagating bright fronts in the solar corona are a poorly understood phenomena despite almost 15 years of research. Here, the kinematics and morphology of these disturbances are studied using Extreme UltraViolet ... -
Kinetic and structural studies of novel isosorbide-based ligand binding to esterase enzymes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2009)The main goal of the project described herein was to examine and rationalise the binding of a novel class of compound based on isosorbide to cholinesterase enzymes. The compounds of interest had been prepared within the ... -
Kinetic studies on biliverdin-IXalpha reductase
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2006)The species distribution of biliverdin-IXa reductase (BVR-A) has been reinvestigated. It appears increasingly likely that birds and amphibia have the potential to express an active biliverdin-IXa reductase. The full length ...