Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Obesity and cancer
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Surgery, 2011)Cancer rates are increasing with predictions of incidence rates doubling between 2000 and 2020. Although several factors are contributory, the rising incidence of overweight and obesity is currently thought to be fuelling ... -
Obesity, insulin resistance and Type 2 Diabetes in young Irish people
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2008)The epidemic of obesity in Irish youth, one of the highest ranking internationally, represents a major threat to public health. However, little is known of the metabolic and clinical characteristics of this cohort. I ... -
Objective and Quantitative acoustic-analysis of musicians dystonia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2020)Musician s Dystonia (MD) is the most common movement disorder affecting musicians. Being a specific phenotype of Dystonia, MD is a focal, task-specific and painless disorder that affects motor control during musical ... -
Observations of the natural history and long-term outcomes of deep venous thrombosis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Anatomy, 2001)One hundred above knee deep vein thromboses (DVT) from 89 patients (11 bilateral thrombosis) were examined to determine the dynamic status of the thrombi in the first year and to detennine the long-term clinical outcome ... -
Occupational pension schemes in Ireland : costs, governance and regulation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2011)This thesis examines some of the key determinants other than investment strategy in the reported performance of Irish occupational pension schemes and the role that these determinants might play in any comprehensive set ... -
The Occupying State as Legislator in Occupied Territory: Challenges to the duty imposed by the international law of belligerent occupation to respect the existing law and institutions in occupied territory
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2020)The Occupying State as Legislator in Occupied Territory: Challenges to the duty imposed by the international law of belligerent occupation to respect the existing law and institutions in occupied territory Author: David ... -
Ocular Microtremor as a clinical and scientific tool in neurologic disease : validation and application of a generalised discovery protocol
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2011)Ocular microtremor (OMT) , a high frequency low amplitude eye movement, is one of three fixational eye movements present even when the eyes are apparently at rest. The tremor is thought to be related to tonic neural ... -
Ocular microtremor measurement, characterization & analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2010)Ocular Microtremor (OMT) is a high frequency tremor of the eye present in all normal subjects even if the eye is apparently still. It is one of the fixational eye movements. Changes in the OMT frequency and pattern have ... -
Oesophageal cancer : association with visceral obesity, inflammation and optimisation of postoperative outcomes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Surgery, 2013)The incidence of oesophageal cancer is rising in the developed world and has paralleled the rising prevalence of obesity. This is an aggressive malignancy with poor overall survival rates. Thus there is an impetus to ... -
Oesophageal inflammation and tumourigenesis - inherited variation in an Irish population
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Surgery, 2010)Cancer is a major medical challenge of this era and early diagnosis of cancer is critical to curative therapy. The search for biomarkers that may indicate the risk or presence of cancer is ongoing in thousands of laboratories ... -
Of mines and markets : Labour regimes and agency in Chinese-structured GPNs in Zambia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2013)Over the last ten years, the presence of Chinese capital on the African continent has vastly increased. Investors are creating thousands of jobs in a variety of sectors, integrating African workers and consumers into ... -
Of Persepolis and Jerusalem. Towards an evaluation of Iranian influence on the Jewish apocalyptic traditions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Religions and Theology, 2010)This dissertation presents the need for a reconsideration of Iranian influence upon Jewish apocalyptic, and offers grounds upon which such study may proceed. The Prolegomena describes the history of scholarship on the ... -
Office suburbanisation in Dublin : user-demand, urban planning and property development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)This thesis explores the underlying dynamics which have brought about the geographical shift of office development to new suburban sites during Dublin’s fourth office development boom (1995 -2001). The role of end-user ... -
Official Propaganda in the Irish Free State
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)This thesis examines official propaganda in the Irish Free State. It takes the perspective that propaganda helped build the state and had a beneficial purpose. This differs from traditional views of state propaganda in ... -
...ohne Maaß veränderlich' : Novalis, women and writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Germanic Studies, 2003)This thesis re-examines the treatment of the feminine and of the female literary subject in the works of Hardenberg/Novalis. It contends that, whilst Hardenberg did not approach these themes in a manner wholly revolutionary ... -
Old English alienation from the Tudor state: a case study on the royal liberty of Wexford 1534-1585
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The early modern period (1500-1700) is a transformative era in the history of Ireland, establishing many enduring processes, some of which still impact today. An important component is the ideological formation of the Irish ... -
Olfactory-avoidance habituation in Drosophila melanogaster
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Genetics, 2015)Habituation is a form of sensory filtering in response to prolonged or repeated stimuli in the environment [Harris, 1943; Thompson and Spencer, 1966; Christoffersen, 1997; Rankin et al., 2009], It provides biological ... -
OM2R : semantic documentation of ontology mapping lifecycle to support retrieval and reuse of ontology mappings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)Ontology mappings are of critical importance for the Linked Data and the Semantic Web communities as they can help to mitigate the effects of heterogeneities, which are a major obstacle to the promise of interoperability ... -
Omnium Gatherum: The Ecological Fictions of Ransmayr, Tokarczuk and Flanagan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2023)This thesis presents a comparative reading of novels by three prominent contemporary writers who engage with ecological themes. Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan are all well-known writers both ... -
On constructing urban travel scales for analysing daily travel patterns : the case of the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)Over the last decade the Greater Dublin Area has witnessed significant land use and spatial restructuring. This has forced a distinct change in the spatial organisation of the built environment. Dublin has been transformed ...