Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Vaccination as a means of disease prevention in HIV infected individuals; successes, challenges & opportunities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2017)This thesis is structured to systemically assess susceptibility to vaccine preventable infections in HIV-infected adults, to investigate effectiveness of an integrated vaccine programme as a model of care for vaccine ... -
Vaccine-induced protective immunity to Bordetella pertussis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2016)Whooping cough (pertussis) is an infectious disease caused by the respiratory pathogen Bordetella pertussis that is re-emerging in many developed countries, despite extensive vaccine coverage. One of the proposed reasons ... -
Vacuum consolidation field test on a pseudo-fibrous peat
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2012)Several different ground improvement methods have been used to improve soft highly compressible organic soils such as peat. Vacuum consolidation is a ground improvement technique developed in the 1950’s, in which the ... -
Valence adjusting in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra in a role and reference grammar account
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)This thesis is a synchronic study of valence adjusting, switch-reference and ellipsis in three dialects of the Australian Western Desert language, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra (PYN). We investigate the ... -
Validation of numerical methods in cold spray by direct nozzle-internal measurements of non-dilute particle motion
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2018)This work presents the research conducted during the development of a new optical particle velocity measurement in the field of Cold Spray. Cold Spray is a process for surface coating formation and additive manufacturing, ... -
The value of ex situ collections for global biodiversity conservation in the wild
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2021)Despite the best efforts of conservation practitioners global biodiversity is continuing to decline. The role of zoos and aquariums in conserving global biodiversity ex situ has become increasingly important as more species ... -
Value, money and risk : three essays
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis comprises of three essays which explore the theories of value, money and risk. The first essay takes a theoretical approach to study the background of and the relationship between value, money and wealth. The ... -
Varational Bayes inference in digital receivers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2014)This thesis is primarily concerned with the trade-off between computational complexity and accuracy in digital receivers. Furthermore, because OFDM modulation is key in 4G systems, there is an interest in better demodulation ... -
Variation in DNA repair genes XRCC3, XRCC4, and XRCC5 and susceptibility ot myeloma
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Haematology, 2010)Cytogenetic analysis in myeloma reveals marked chromosomal instability. Both widespread genomic alterations and evidence of aberrant class switch recombination, the physiological process that regulates maturation of the ... -
Variation of the electronic functionality of self-seeded germanium nanowires through synthesis determined core-shell interface states
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2015)Bottom up grown germanium nanowires may have an important role to play in future electronic devices. While the electrical properties of nanowires grown using a metallic seed as a catalyst have been extensively reported we ... -
Variation within phonetics and phonology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2006)This thesis investigates variation from phonetic and phonological perspectives in a bid to better understand the relationship between phonetics and phonology. Issues pertaining to variation within phonetics and phonology ... -
Variational Bayes approximation for inverse regression problems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)Inverse regression is a tool to predict an unknown explanatory variable for given observations of a response variable in a regression problem. The prediction problem is usually carried out in two stages: firstly, to fit ... -
Variations in silver stained nucleolar organiser regions(AgNORs) in normal, irradiated and neoplastic tissues
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Microbiology, 2001)Nucleolar organiser regions (NORs) are loops of ribosomal DNA which contain the genes that transcribe to ribosomal RNA. They are situated on the short arm of the acrocentric human chromosomes 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22. Several ... -
Vascular correlates of cognitive performance in a community based elderly population
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2010)Population studies suggest that cardiovascular risk factors may be associated with cognitive impairment. Epidemiological studies evaluating individual markers of vascular disease as a risk factor for cognitive dysfunction ... -
Vasovagal Syncope in the older adult
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Medical Gerontology, 2013)Vasovagal Syncope (VVS) is a common form of neurally mediated syncope which affects at least one third of the population at least once in their lifetime. Commonly referred to as a “simple faint” and often described as ... -
Vectorization for accelerated gather/scatter and multibyte data formats
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)SIMD extensions to the instruction sets of general purpose processors have become widespread, and SIMD width and the capabilities provided by the hardware are steadily increasing with newer processor generations. This ... -
Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of the Iliad
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)Ships are the most prominent material objects in the world of epic and the lemma ship (νηῦς) is the one of the most common substantives in the Iliad. Despite this, there has never been a sustained account of what ships do ... -
Veiling sexualities in a psychiatric nursing context : a grounded theory study
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Verb categories in Irish Sign Language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 1997)The principal aim of this study is the identification of verb categories in Irish Sign Language. The data was collected on videotape from six deaf informants, three men and three women, all of whom regard themselves as ... -
La versification Verlainienne ou la prosodie de l'indécidabilité
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2000)This thesis is divided into three main sections: an introduction, a study of Verlaine's use of metres and a study of a number of specific poems from Verlaine's complete works. The introduction has two parts. The first ...
