Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Development of novel porous materials via polymer self-assembly and phase separation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Polymer self-assembly is an ever-growing field that is attracting interest from a diverse range of research topics, which include the production of functional devices and membranes for electronic, optical and energy ... -
Longitudinal studies on variation by socio-economic position in child conduct, academic outcomes and curricular choice in the Irish context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)Using unique, nationally representative longitudinal data from Cohort98 of Growing Up in Ireland (N=6,039; 51.2% female; ages 9-17), this thesis evaluates socio-economic inequalities in educational development, decision-making ... -
Applying thermal post-processing techniques to engineer the microstructure and mechanical performanceof selective-laser-melted Ti-6Al-4V ELI
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)As an additive manufacturing technology, selective laser melting (SLM) affords the creation of customisable parts at high resolutions to within the micron range. Among the materials being processed by SLM systems, the ... -
LDx: An electronic storyboard that supports the users' requirements process in developing a user interface for the clinician-researchers team.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)This thesis presents the development of an electronic storyboard named LDx, which stands for Linked Data Experience, to facilitate the users' requirements gathering in developing a future user interface to support data ... -
Synthesis and analysis of Nile Red functionalised Ru(II) and Ir(III) photosensitisers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Nile Red (9-(diethylamino)-5H-benzo[a]phenoxazin-5-one) is a common organic dye that exhibits strong absorption of visible light, and is highly fluorescent. Despite these properties, examples of transition metal complexes ... -
NLRP1 drives inflammasome responses in the human respiratory epithelium
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2023)The airway epithelium is now considered crucial to the orchestration of respiratory inflammatory responses and tissue remodelling. It functions as the first line of defence against inhaled concomitants and coordinates the ... -
A journey from ethnomedicine in rural Kenya to network pharmacology using a critical research approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2023)Background: Traditional medicine (TM) is widely practiced globally, with inter-country figures on usage ranging from 30 to 90%. Research on TM is conducted for a multiplicity of reasons, among them health care and ... -
Incorporating Ignorance within Game Theory: An Imprecise Probability Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Statistics, 2023)Ignorance within non-cooperative games, reflected as a player's uncertain preferences towards a game's outcome, is examined from a probabilistic point of view. This topic has had scarce treatment in the literature, which ... -
Is Tusa an Muinteoir: Engaging Children and Parents as Learners of the Irish Language in an English-Medium School
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2023)The lack of opportunity for the majority of children attending English-medium primary schools to speak Irish outside of school, coupled with a documented decline in attainment in Irish language proficiency in recent decades ... -
Blockchain Layer2 Based Mass E-Commerce
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Blockchain technology has become a new driving force for technological innovation and has the potential to revolutionize the e-commerce industry. Hundreds of millions of users, merchants and platforms can be connected to ... -
Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Their Predictors Among Jordanian Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Background: Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is an umbrella term that includes myocardial infarction and unstable angina. Depression is a common psychological response in patients with ACS and has been shown to be independently ... -
Designing to Support Parental Involvement in Computer Science Education: An Exploratory Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2022)The value of Parental Involvement (PI) in children's education is well established. There is also evidence that the quality and quantity of PI can be improved by well-designed interventions. However, PI in Computer Science ... -
Social media and housing activism in post-crisis Dublin: Geographies of digital/material contention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)This thesis focuses on housing contention in Dublin since the global financial crisis. More specifically, it is an empirically grounded socio-technical investigation of the relation between contention and the digital?s ... -
microRNA, Dental Pulp Cell Mineralisation and Therapeutic Epigenetic Modification
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2022)Current clinical approaches to the management of deep caries and symptomatic pulpitis are destructive and costly, generally involving removal of the entire pulp as part of a root canal treatment (RCT) procedure. Contemporary ... -
New Methods of Studying Young Stellar Objects Using Radio Interferometry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)While most studies of star formation are based on infrared or optical observations, radio astronomy has also proven very useful in the study of this process. This is seen for example in the detection of free-free emission ... -
Design, synthesis, and biochemical evaluation of guanidine-based derivatives targeting protein kinases
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Kinases are some of the most intensively pursued classes of drug targets with approximately 243 distinct kinase inhibitors making it to human trials and most of these compounds are being investigated for the treatment of ... -
Explaining and predicting the adoption, timing and location of terrorism in civil conflicts
This thesis examines the adoption, timing and location of terrorism in civil conflicts. It analyzes the effect of territorial advances on the timing and location of state-based and one-sided violence, the effect of battlefield ... -
Digital Money Never Sleeps? Modern qualitative-based indices in digital assets
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)What can we know about digital assets, as digital money also never sleeps? How can we measure the variations in these digital assets from a new perspective? What are the effects of digital assets on financial markets? The ... -
Dispersal and speciation in the avian archipelago
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2022)Islands play a key role in both the evolution of new species and our understanding of that evolution. The colonisation of islands, followed by different levels of gene flow between populations, has produced a diverse ... -
Controlling the Properties of a-ZTO and a-IGZO via Low Temperature Annealing and Novel Layered Structures
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)This thesis deals with the broader implications of amorphous ZnSnO (a-ZTO) growth via two synthesis methods, examining the in-situ resistivity monitoring approach to optimising a low-annealing temperature <300 ?C and ...
