Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The Lived Experiences of Young Adults who Grew Up in Foster Care with Permanence: A Qualitative Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)This qualitative doctoral study examines the current lives and lived experiences of a group of young adults who grew up in foster care with permanence. A key objective was to gain insights into whether or how, growing up ... -
Deaf People in Ireland: Education, Poverty, and the Law, 1851-1922
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis will carry out a historical investigation into aspects of the lives and experiences of deaf people in Ireland during the period 1851 to 1922. It comprehensively explores, using a 'history from below' perspective, ... -
Neuroimaging to Assess Neonatal Brain Development and Brain Injury in Neonatal Encephalopathy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a clinical syndrome describing perinatal brain injury and neurological dysfunction in the term-born infant. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used tool in the assessment of NE, ... -
THE DESIGN SPACE OF MOBILE MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS FOR ANXIETY MANAGEMENT
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Digital mental health is a rapidly growing area within Human-Computer Interaction. Mental health problems will affect one-third of the population worldwide during their lifetime. At the present moment, anxiety disorders ... -
'The New Womanly Man': Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis, ‘The New Womanly Man’: Cross-dressing and gender inversion in Joyce and his contemporaries, explores questions of gender identity and performance by examining depictions of cross-dressing and gender inversion ... -
Nigerian Taxi Drivers in Dublin: The Preferred Narrative Versus the Lived Experience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)The liberalisation of the Irish taxi industry in 2000 coincided with the Irish State becoming a place of net immigration for the first time in its history (Ruhs, 2005). Over the following decade, Dublin's taxi fleet increased ... -
PRINTED AND TEMPLATED 3D MXENE STRUCTURES FOR ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Recently, MXenes have emerged as a promising family of materials for a variety of energy storage devices, with much of the work surrounding supercapacitors based on Ti3C2Tx. Nanosheets of this material combine a metallically ... -
Dicuil's De cursu solis lunaeque: Translation and commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Between 814 and 818, the Irish scholar Dicuil wrote five untitled books for the Carolingian Emperor Louis the Pious (778-840). This thesis provides the first textual analysis of this work in its entirety and a full ... -
Examining the Impact of Peacekeeping Operations on Soldiers' Militarized Masculinities: The Case of Korean Peacekeeping Soldiers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)Gender studies of militaries and the dynamics of war suggest that ideas of militarized masculinity are central to the creation of soldiers who are willing to fight and perhaps die in combat. With the rise of national ... -
Mechanochemical Synthesis and Physicochemical Characterisation of Multicomponent Phases Comprising Lidocaine and Dicarboxylic Acids
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2023)Tuning of physicochemical properties of multicomponent phases incorporating active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with counterions or coformers is a challenge that opens up unlimited possibilities for expanding applications ... -
Radioiodine Dosimetry for Benign and Malignant Thyroid Disease
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Thyroid diseases are a common clinical disorder with 5-10% diagnosed as thyroid cancer. The published guidelines that provide clinical guidance for the diagnosis, treatment and management of thyroid diseases, based on a ... -
The Computus Einsidlensis: First Edition and Translation with an Introductory Commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The present thesis consists of three parts: a commentary, edition, and translation of the Computus Einsidlensis (CE), an early medieval textbook on the calculation of the date of Easter (computus) from Ireland. The commentary ... -
Changed Utterly: Conceptual Stretching and the Impact of the Tax Cases on EU State Aid Law
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2023)Article 107(1) TFEU was originally designed to regulate the grant of subsidies by Member States but it has been applied increasingly in recent years to regulate tax measures. Attempts to apply the State aid rules in this ... -
Multilingualism in Hong Kong: A Social Identity Theory Perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)The linguistic situation in Hong Kong is often described as being trilingual and biliterate. This thesis sets out to examine the link between language and the sense of national identity in Hong Kong from a social identity ... -
The frail brain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Background and aims: Frailty in older adults has been associated with reduced brain health and greater risk of cognitive decline. However, structural and functional brain signatures of frailty remain understudied, with ... -
Investigation of Concepts for Integrated Diffuser and Volute Systems for Packaging and Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)Large scale, high pressure ratio (PR) centrifugal compressors are commonly made up of a radial impeller with a vaned diffuser. In research to date, the majority of research and design has focused on extending the operating ... -
Desire Lines in Open Space:: An Exploration of the TeachMeet Phenomenon
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)Desire Lines in Open Space :: An Exploration of the TeachMeet Phenomenon Margaret Mary Amond Abstract TeachMeet is a recent phenomenon in which informal gatherings are arranged by teachers in order to share and discuss ... -
On Multi-Radio Multi-ServerPowered Multi-Access EdgeComputing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Highly intelligent, automated and ubiquitous digital world will be hallmark of the coming decade. To achieve this, we need high-speed, highly-reliable connectivity between physical, digital and biological world. In terms ... -
L-Vocalisation in Somerset
Traditional dialects in British English are undergoing a process of change, due in part to urbanisation, increased social mobility and language contact through population movement. Within British English there are several ... -
Why Are You Here? A Case Study of Persistence in Higher Education.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)The Irish Higher Education system has undergone significant structural change in the past three years, culminating in the re-designation of the majority of the Institutes of Technology (IoTs) as Technological Universities ...
