Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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REIMAGINING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: ADDRESSING THE CRISES OF DEMOCRACY THROUGH APPLIED DRAMA
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)Liberal democracy is under threat and in a state of crisis around the world. This crisis of democracy is characterised by a rise in right-wing populism, an increase in political strongmen, and an undermining of liberal ... -
Ancestral Legacies of an Insular Archipelago: A genomic exploration of prehistoric Japan and mainland Asia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2022)The objective of this thesis is to use ancient genomic data and a variety of bioinformatic approaches to explore human evolutionary history in the Japanese archipelago and mainland Asia. This thesis presents a dense genomic ... -
Self and identity of emergency nurses who pursue higher education in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2022)Higher education is a significant feature of contemporary nursing practice. The nursing profession has witnessed significant professional, political, and educational reform over recent years, both nationally and internationally. ... -
Synthesis and Physicochemical Characterisation of Pristine Metal-Organic Frameworks, Thin-Films and Derived Materials
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid coordination materials, characterised by their high surface area and internal porosity, formed from organic linkers and inorganic nodes. Additionally, MOFs have the ability to act ... -
Is the United Kingdom Becoming a Federal State?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2022)This thesis investigates whether the devolution processes that were triggered at the turn of the millennium have turned the United Kingdom into a federal state. Based on an analysis of the Welsh, Scottish, and Northern ... -
Porphyrin Atropisomerism - a New Twist in Molecular Recognition and Supramolecular Architectures
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2022)The unifying theme of the work reported in this thesis is the exploitation of the flexibility of the porphyrin macrocycle using sterically demanding units to construct supramolecular receptors for selective guest encapsulations. ... -
'Where is she?': Women and Irish Television 1957-73
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis examines the relationship between women and television in Ireland during the long 1960s. It looks at the role of programming in its analysis alongside questions surrounding the status of women workers at the ... -
The Worship Music of Dublin's Church of Ireland Parishes and Other Protestant Denominations in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sources, Repertoire and Cultural Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2022)Studies of music in eighteenth-century Dublin have, to date, typically focussed on the musical culture of the upper-class Protestant Ascendancy, and even more specifically, on secular music. Research into sacred music has ... -
The impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Evolutionary Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)ic development in most economies, particularly in modern advanced ones. This thesis focuses on how the interplay between FDI and indigenous enterprises in the host location impacts regional economic development. This study ... -
A Bioenergetics Study of Mitochondrial Function in Bone Marrow Derived Macrophages
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2022)Mitochondria are organelles involved in the generation of ATP, storage of intracellular calcium ions, regulation of the apoptotic pathway as well as numerous cell signalling pathways. Moreover, mitochondria are an important ... -
Magnetic field effects on water and aqueous solutions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)Claims of magnetic field effects on water and their potential use in a microfluidic channel are explored. The pendant drop method is used to measure the surface tension, which is calculated from the shape of the drop. The ... -
Modulation of hepatic autophagy for therapeutic correction of type 2 diabetes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2022)Glucagon is produced from pancreatic α-cells to control hepatic glucose production and glucose homeostasis. Hyperglycaemia is an early hallmark of type 2 diabetes, and therefore hepatic glucose production can contribute ... -
Examining the role of lymphocytes in health and in neonatal encephalopathy and the influence of mucosal associated T cells on B cell functions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Immunology, 2022)Background. Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is a neurological syndrome in term babies characterised by altered levels of consciousness, seizures, abnormal tone and reflexes, and/or failure to initiate or maintain respiration. ... -
Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman lmpact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10BCE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis investigates the character and fate(s) of the local ruling classes of Gallic communities around the Greater Rhône Basin (such as the Aedui, Arverni, Allobroges, and Volcae Arecomici) in relation to the advent ... -
Multi-perspectives of the lived experience of risk and protective factors of children of parental substance misuse: children, parents, grandparents, and service providers
Background: Globally, the problem of hidden harms to children of parents who use drugs and alcohol has been recognised, yet international literature has highlighted the difficulties with estimating the prevalence of ... -
Thermal and Athermal Characterisation of Slotted Semiconductor Lasers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a revolution in information and communications technologies that has affected almost every aspect of modern life. The growth in internet capabilities and services has ... -
Harry Potter and the Unconscious Dimension
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2022)In this thesis I explore the extent to which an unconscious response on the part of the reader may contribute to the extraordinary popularity among both children adults of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997—2007). ... -
Téama na Saoirse i bhFicsean Phádraig Uí Chíobháin
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2022)Is é atá sa tráchtas seo ná staidéar ar an léiriú a dhéanann Pádraig Ó Cíobháin, scríbhneoir comhaimseartha, ar théama na saoirse ina chuid úrscéalta agus gearrscéalta. Tá trí chaibidil sa tráchtas, agus déanaim anailís ... -
Change and entrenchment in Irish maternity care policies and antenatal practices: An Institutional Ethnography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Abstract Change and entrenchment in Irish maternity care policies and antenatal practices: An Institutional Ethnography Margaret Dunlea Background The Mother and Infant Care Scheme (MICS) (1954), enacted following the ... -
An exploration of the role of the clinical academic and strategies to sustain and build the clinical academic workforce
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Background Clinical academics are critical to delivering high quality patient care and discovering new ways to treat disease (1), however the clinical academic workforce is shrinking (2-4). There is a need to clearly ...
