Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Achievement Gaps by Migration Background and the Role of Early Childhood Education and Care: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Irish Cohort Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)Drawing on the longitudinal data from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) '08 Cohort, this thesis sets out to contribute to the literature on the academic achievement of children with a migration background and Early Childhood ... -
Cerebral changes in Poliomyelitis survivors: A computational neuroimaging study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Post-polio syndrome (PPS) is a slowly progressive LMN condition that affects 20-85% of polio survivors many decades after their initial acute infection. While motor dysfunction is the hallmark of the disease, extra-motor ... -
An Investigation into the Aspiration Efficiency of Building Ventilation System Inlets for Reducing Energy Consumption in Air Filtration Systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)The built environment has been widely recognised as one of the largest energy consumers in the modern world, negatively impacting the environment and contributing to climate change. A disaggregation of the energy consuming ... -
Hydrological and hydrochemical supporting conditions for Irish calcareous fen vegetation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2023)Calcareous fens are listed in Annex 1 of the European Union (EU) Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC, habitat code 7230, 7210 and 7140) as habitats requiring special conservation measures, including the designation ... -
Internationalisation of Professional Service Firms: Evidence from Chinese Law Firms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)The globalisation of professional service firms (PSFs) has garnered increasing attention in research and practice since accounting firms expanded internationally in the 1970s. PSFs from emerging markets (EPSFs) are a ... -
Development of a Scaleable Breath-figure Type Polymer Thin Film Patterning Process via Controlled Vapour Swelling of Thin Films
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Efficient production of microporous polymeric films can be rapidly synthesised by changing the thermodynamics of a polymeric solution in a humid atmosphere. This conventional method, known as ?breath figure? (BF), involves ... -
Re-Engineering Rate Distortion Optimisation in Modern Video Codecs Using a Per Clip Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2023)The majority of internet traffic is video content. This drives the demand for video compression to deliver high quality video at low target bitrates. Optimising the parameters of a video codec for a specific video clip ... -
Optimisation and 3D Printing of Paediatric Stents
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)Aortic coarctation is a congenital heart defect that occurs 3 per 10,000 live births with a life expectancy of 35 years if left untreated. Stenting is a common treatment method, but devices are not specifically designed ... -
A Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B Virus, and Hepatitis C Virus Screening in an Emergency Department in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Background: The acceptability and utility of screening for HIV, HBV, and HCV in the ED has been demonstrated. Previous studies have reported cost-effectiveness of screening for either HIV mono-infection or HBV/HCV co-infection ... -
The Design of Ruthenium and Iridium Triplet Photosensitisers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)This thesis describes compounds designed to harness the energies of photon-induced transitions between electronic energy levels. Applications that involve such transitions include but are not limited to photodynamic therapy, ... -
Inflammatory markers of antipsychotic weight gain and cardiometabolic dysfunction in youth mental health disorders
Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are used in children and adolescents to treat psychotic symptoms in Early Onset Psychosis (EOP) and irritability and behaviours that challenge in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ... -
Illuminating Irish American Identity: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studios' Ecclesiastical Commissions in the USA c.1950-1970
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2023)Clarke Studios was established in 1930 and operated as a business making stained glass for more than forty years after the death of its founder, the artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). In that period windows were made for ... -
High-Throughput Computational Investigation of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Water Splitting Catalysts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Understanding the sources of activity and stability in oxygen evolution reaction catalysts remains an open challenge. This thesis attempts to understand these factors by studying many catalysts for both homogeneous OER to ... -
The Role of Political Parties in Civil War Peace Processes Outside Their Own Country - A New Internationalism? A Case Study of Sinn Féin and its Involvement in Three Foreign Peace Processes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2023)The existing literature on third party involvement in peace processes has largely overlooked the role of foreign political parties. This qualitative research tackles this gap by examining the involvement of foreign political ... -
Non-Invasive metabolic profiling in tissue engineering and innate immunology by 2P-FLIM
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)During the golden age of biochemistry from 1920s to 1960s, many of the metabolic pathways responsible for nutrient usage and energy production in humans and other organisms was defined. During this period, glycolysis, Krebs ... -
Development of an off-the-shelf biomimetic vascular graft for small diameter vascular regeneration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The impairment of blood flow can require a total vessel substitution, but current grafts fail to recapitulate the unique mechanical behavior of native ... -
Pursuing the desire for cattle or attacking the followers of heresy: A numerical analysis of different factors influencing strategies adopted in large group interactions involving nomads or holy war
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis is a numerical analysis of factors which have influenced the strategies adopted in a sample of 120 large group interactions involving nomads or holy war in the period 1250 BCE to 1850 CE in parts of Afro-Eurasia. ... -
Developing pedigree-based strategies to analyse whole genome sequencing data for complex disorders: learning from schizophrenia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)Complex genetic disorders are impacted by a range of DNA variation. Next generation sequencing (NGS) allows for the direct examination of this variation, but large sample numbers are required to identify rare variants in ... -
The Effects of Glucose Deprivation and Ketone Supplementation on the Growth and Function of Neural Stem and Neuronal Precursor Cells
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Anatomy, 2023)The cellular and phenotypic effects that carbohydrate restriction have on brain development are unclear. Ketone bodies become a primary energy source in periods of prolonged glucose deprivation, due to dieting, strenuous ... -
Post-fabrication tuning of Hybrid Plasmonic Nanostructures with VO2
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2023)The development of hybrid plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials to control electromagnetic radiation on the nanoscale has been at the centre of scientific research for the past few decades. Utilising the surface plasmon ...
