Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Disproving the Claim of Inherent Incompatibility Between Islamic Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2022)Is Islamic Criminal Law incompatible with International Human Rights Law? If so, is this incompatibility inherent arising by reason of the texts of both Sharia and the International Bill of Rights, or does it exist by ... -
Determinants of Physical Activity Engagement and Physical Activity Intervention Adherence in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Mixed Methods Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. CentreFor Medical Gerontology, 2022)The overarching aim of this thesis was to to identify the determinants of PA engagement and PA intervention adherence in individuals with MCI to expand on this under-researched topic and better inform PA promotion and ... -
Neuropsychological and Neuropsychiatric Endophenotypes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, characterized by progressive muscle weakness and death, usually within 3-5 years from symptom onset. ALS is now recognized to be a multi-system ... -
Communication Partner Training for the Primary Caregivers of People with Aphasia in India: A multi-phase exploratory study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2022)Aphasia, as an acquired communication disability, has an impact beyond the language impairment, affecting life participation and quality of life. Communication Partner Training (CPT) is an evidence-based intervention which ... -
To give and to gain: An investigation into skills-based volunteering as an avenue for learning and development
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2022)Skills-based volunteering has entered the corporate vernacular. Sitting at the intersection of corporate philanthropy and human resources, skills-based volunteering is a strategically driven activity that offers employees ... -
Strings for Temporal Annotation and Semantic Representation of Events
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2022)This work describes the use of strings as models for the representation of temporal data---that is, events and times, and their linear ordering and temporal inter-relations---to form the basis of a framework for reasoning ... -
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 ... -
Diagnosing Organisational Culture During Community Healthcare Reform. A Mixed Methods Study Applying the Competing Values Framework
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Background: Across the globe healthcare systems are in a constant state of reform. However, the results of these reform activities are described as weak at best and situational dependent. While the research on organisational ... -
Investigating a role for members of the respiratory tract microbiota in Th17 cell pathogenicity and CNS autoimmunity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2022)The respiratory tract is home to a diverse microbial community whose influence on local and systemic immune responses is only beginning to be appreciated. Increasing reports have linked the airways with the trafficking ... -
Evaluation of STEM@University Experiences for Transition Year Students
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)This master's monograph and research present a study on the influence of STEM@University (a non-formal, university-school intervention) on a Transition Year student's STEM identity, through the measurement of STEM capital, ... -
Patterns of Medication Use Associated with Epilepsy and Comorbid Behavioural and Mental Disorders in Older People with Intellectual Disability
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2022)Background: There is increasing concern worldwide regarding the levels of use and suboptimal prescribing of psychotropic medication in people with intellectual disability. Antipsychotics, in particular are often prescribed ... -
Network Analysis in Motor Neuron Diseases: A Cortico-Muscular Coherence Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Neurodegenerative conditions are associated with widespread changes in the motor networks. There is preliminary evidence from (f)MRI studies that the structural changes extend beyond the primary motor areas in cortical ... -
Identifying the determinants of Brazilian migration to and from Ireland: a micro-level cross-country analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)Brazilian migration since the 1990s has given rise to what is now the largest non-EU immigrant group residing in Ireland (CSO, 2016). However, the determinants of Brazilian migration to Ireland have been considered only ... -
Central and peripheral characterisation of TLR7/8 and endocannabinoid signalling in multiple sclerosis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Physiology, 2022)Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a class of pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) involved in initiating an immune response to infection or endogenous damage. These receptors are expressed on cells of both the innate and ... -
Detection of Neurovascular Compression in Trigeminal Neuralgia by high-resolution Magnetic Resonance Angiography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Trigeminal neuralgia (TGN, tic douloureux) refers to sudden severe paroxysms of severe lancinating pain on one side of the face involving one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve (CN V) which usually lasts a few seconds ... -
Jordan systems, bounded symmetric domains and associated group orbits with holomorphic and CR extension theory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Mathematics, 2006)The first chapter will deal with the one to one correspondence between the positive hermitian Jordan triple systems and the bounded symmetric domains. We start by defining the various Jordan systems. Then we continue by ... -
CodePlus- Evaluating The Short and Long-Term Impact of a Computing Outreach Programme for Girls
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2022)Women s equal and meaningful participation in the digital society is seen as both integral to the realization of women s rights in the 21st century, as well as the realization of a just, inclusive and rights based information ... -
Coherent states and classical radiative observables in the S-matrix formalism
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Mathematics. Discipline of Pure & Applied Mathematics, 2022)In this thesis, we study classical radiative observables perturbatively in terms of on-shell scattering amplitudes. In particular, we focus primarily on the two-body problem in gauge and gravitational theories by using an ... -
Investigating the role of management and measurement technique on the temporal and spatial variability of carbon dynamics and nitrous oxide emissions from temperate grasslands
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2022)The Earth’s atmosphere consists primarily of nitrogen (N) in the form of dinitrogen (N2), and oxygen as well as greenhouse gas (GHG) molecules including water vapour, carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane ... -
History and Identity in Restoration Ireland, 1660-91
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis demonstrates how history mattered in the politics and society of seventeenth-century Ireland, how authors used the distant past in their arguments about the post-Restoration political and religious settlement ...
