Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Analysing Female Academic Underrepresentation in Senior Leadership Positions in Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)Gender inequality remains a pressing global issue, especially in Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) where the underrepresentation of women in senior positions has been a longstanding challenge. This research investigates ... -
"Playing catch-up" Safety and Optimal tackle outcomes in Women's Rugby Union.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Physiotherapy, 2024)The frequency and impact of tackle injuries in Rugby have prompted calls to mitigate the associated risks within the Sport. Although women's Rugby is considered one of the fastest growing sports worldwide, research has not ... -
Sulfide Nanomaterials for Lithium- and Sodium-Ion Battery Electrodes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)The escalating climate crisis demands an urgent shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate global warming. However, the intermittent nature of ... -
Gender, Power and the Politics of Access in the Fourteenth Century
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The central thesis of this study is the analytical interrogation of the relationship between gender, power and the politics of access in the fourteenth century. It concludes that, though there were undeniably gendered ... -
Static and Dynamic Characterisation of Exchange-Biased Mutlilayers for Magnetic Sensor Applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)The coupling of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic materials through exchange-bias has been one of the key interactions in producing magnetic sensing and memory technology since soon after the discovery of the GMR and TMR ... -
Investigating the Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Humans in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Mycobacterium bovis is the main cause of bovine tuberculosis. It can cause zoonotic infection in humans. An average of 6 human M. bovis infections are notified annually in Ireland. Little is currently known about the ... -
Structural and Functional Studies of the Thromboxane A2 Receptor for Rational Drug Design
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2024)The thromboxane A2 receptor (TP) is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that belongs to the prostanoid subfamily of class A GPCRs. TP plays critical roles in cardiovascular function as it leads to platelet aggregation ... -
Feature Size Dependent Manufacturability Influences the Functional Properties of Ti-6Al-4V Micro-Strut Lattices Fabricated through Powder Bed Fusion
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2024)Powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing techniques have enabled the fabrication of geometrically complex porous metallic lattice structures. Applied to biomedical implants such lattices offer many advantages over ... -
Mechanisms of polymerisation of perchloric acid and related initiators
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 1969)Extract from Introduction: Man has made use of natural polymers such as rubber and cellulose from the earliest times, but not until the late nineteenth century did he begin to synthesise polymers and investigate their ... -
An exploration of the clinical characteristics and the impact of symptomatic hypermobility in children, adolescents, and their families
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Physiotherapy, 2024)Background: Children and adolescents with symptomatic hypermobility can present with chronic musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction, along with a wide variety of multi-systemic complaints. Clinical heterogeneity poses a ... -
The mealtime experience of family carers of people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND)-related feeding and swallowing disabilities: A grounded theory study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, Trinity College Dublin, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, 2024)Family members of people with MND (PwMND) are impacted in profound ways by the presence of this illness and the numerous disabilities that can arise, including feeding and swallowing disability. Provision of assistance ... -
Anal Cancer Prevention in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Men who have Sex with Men: (Exploring Screening tests of Another Disease State (Cervical Cancer) to Inform Future Screening Strategies for Anal Cancer and its Precursor Lesions among a High-Risk Population in Ireland.)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Introduction: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the commonest sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world. “high-risk” (hr) HPV types are associated with causing or contributing to intraepithelial neoplasia and carcinoma ... -
Oral Health Data Analysis in National Child Cohort Surveys
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2024)Objectives: The objectives of this research were to: (1) summarise dental caries trends and evaluate effectiveness of community water fluoridation at National, Regional, and County- levels in the Republic of Ireland from ... -
Living with or beyond lymphoma: A mixed methods investigation of the unmet needs of cancer survivors.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, Trinity College Dublin, 2024)Background: The burden of cancer is set to increase thanks to success in treatment modalities and increasingly ageing populations. This is especially true for lymphoma survivors, the largest cohort of haematological ... -
The Moxon Tennyson: Illustration and the Making of Meaning. A Contextualisation of the 1857 Illustrated Edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Consisting of a Formal, Art Historical Investigation into its Designs and Engravings with a View to Assessing the Agency of the Image in the Reading of the Poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This doctoral thesis investigates the illustration in the illustrated edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems (`The Moxon Tennyson') first published in 1857 by Edward Moxon. The 1857 edition contains a total of eighty poems, ... -
The Role of Interleukin-18 in Barrett's Disease and progression to Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2024)Oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) is characterised as a dismal cancer, with a 5-year survival rate in western countries of less than 20%. The disease is an inflammation-associated cancer, which can begin as a pre-neoplastic ... -
How can architectural form follow ecological function? Mixed methods research with practitioners of architecture and landscape architecture to study their professional insights into perceptions of informal wild spaces, and to explore how biodiversity in general is considered within the design and development process in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2024)A major factor in global biodiversity loss is land use change. Several processes influence this, including the expansion of the built environment through development. Consequently, there is a need for development projects ... -
Theoretical development of new class Phase Transfer Catalysts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2024)This thesis stems from the imperative need to integrate computational chemistry into the pro- cess of designing asymmetric organocatalysts. Traditionally, computational chemistry has been employed as a retrospective tool ... -
Small-Bowel Capsule Endoscopy Optimising Capsule Endoscopy in Clinical Practice
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)This thesis evaluated three aspects of the clinical application of small bowel cap- sule endoscopy (SBCE). The first section looked at the use of the patency capsule in clinical practice and evaluated its limitations. ... -
Synthesis, Functionalisation and Reactivity of Reduced 2D 2H-MoS2
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2024)2D 2H-MoS2 is a thermodynamically stable, semiconducting material which is commonly explored for electronics, photoelectronic, sensing, bioimaging and therapeutics applications. However, one of its main drawbacks is the ...
