Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Revolutionary Currents: Newspapers, Publicity, and the Imperial Public Sphere, c.1760-1784
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The concept of the public sphere has generated significant debate across the varied fields of historical studies. This debate has centred on Habermas's original explanation, and how it failed to comprehend and take into ... -
Supporting the Engagement of Siblings of AAC Users
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2024)Background. Siblings occupy a central position within the family unit, often sharing intimate and long-lasting relationships, spending significant time together, assuming diverse roles in each other's lives, and influencing ... -
Transcendentalism without Idealism: An Essay on Kant and Wittgenstein
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2024)In this work, I compare Kant and Wittgenstein’s critical philosophies with respect to Transcendental Idealism, as a doctrine meant to “prove” the possibility of Metaphysics. My Central Question is: Is the early Wittgenstein ... -
A mixed-methods approach to explore the association between age and medication -related problems among adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2024)General introduction Much attention was focused on the ageing phenomenon and how to improve the quality of life in older people. Medication-related problems (MRPs) can potentially lead to hospital admissions, increased ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Older Adults with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Governments around the world took unprecedented actions to implement public health measures to control the spread of ... -
Predictors of Irish 11 to 12-year-olds' road use behaviour and investigation of associated parental risk perception of own and Child's behaviour
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)This study sought to gain a better insight into the road use behaviour of Irish primary school children aged between 11 and 12 years in Ireland.To do so required an assessment of their reported road use behaviour, their ... -
Dante and the Arthurian Literature: Contexts, Reception and Critical Perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2024)This doctoral dissertation offers the first comprehensive study of Dante¿s reception of Arthurian literature. In particular, it aims to identify the Arthurian romances that Dante knew, to define the ways in which he read ... -
An Exploration of the Trinity Access Mentoring Programme and the Perceptions and Experiences of 6th-year Students in Five of its Post-Primary Link Schools.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This research explored the effectiveness of the Trinity Access (TA) mentoring programme in supporting and/or informing the post-school aspirations and expectations of sixth-year students. It assessed the operational aspects ... -
Engineering Innate Immunology in a Humanised, Functional, In Vitro Model of Healthy Myocardium
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2024)Cardiovascular disease stands as the leading cause of death globally, claiming approximately 19.05 million lives in 2020. On the contrary, the development of cardiovascular drugs is experiencing a decline, largely due to ... -
Translocality and the Class Conditions of Filipino Nurse Migrants in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rise in the number of international labour migrants and their situatedness in and attachments to multiple locations are creating complex class conditions for migrant labour, which are only beginning to be understood ... -
Mental Capacity for Treatment Decisions in Psychiatry Inpatients
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2024)This research aimed to assess the prevalence of mental capacity for treatment decisions in psychiatry inpatients in Ireland and elucidate the relationship, if any, between mental capacity and key clinical and demographic ... -
Network Analysis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis during Voluntary Motor Task: Neurophysiological Biomarkers of Disrupted Cortical Connections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons primarily affecting the motor system, but individual people with ALS show ... -
Exploring Recruitment to Randomised Trials Within Current Clinical Care Pathways: A Qualitative Case Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: Randomised clinical trials constitute a cornerstone in the establishment of evidence-based healthcare practices (Hariton & Locascio 2018). Internationally, a positive correlation exists between the degree of ... -
A TEM Heart Transplant: The Development of a User Adjustable Pole-piece (UAP)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMs) have massively accelerated progress in many areas of science, particularly biology and material science. Atomic-scale resolution was achieved soon after the invention of the TEM, ... -
The Political Influence of Translation in a time of Revolution and War in France: a Microhistory of two Irish translators Nicholas Madgett (1738-1813) and John Sullivan (1767-1802)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of French, 2024)This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of two Irish translators, Nicholas Madgett and John Sullivan, incorporating approaches from translation studies and history. Drawing principally on French archival sources, the ... -
The Legends of the Lady: Finding Truth Through Transformation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the concepts and roles of disability, disfigurement, sovereignty, and ageism in medieval Irish and English Loathly Lady texts, as well as select texts that contain disabled and disfigured characters. ... -
Recommender Systems: A Study of Cold-Start and Attack Resilience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)My thesis focuses on two key challenges in Recommender System: the Cold Start Problem and Data Poisoning attacks within the user-clustering framework. We explored utilizing user clustering to address the Cold Start Problem, ... -
From the reconceptualisation of the safety event to an innovative systemic risk management approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Safety events occur spontaneously or unexpectedly without prior planning. The objective of this research was to demonstrate that safety events are conceptualised as dynamic combinations of co-occurring factors, both related ... -
There Has to be More Than One Way - How the Learning Experience of People with Disabilities Can Inform Career Guidance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2024)This research explores Inclusion in the Career Guidance relationship and how Universal Design (UD)and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) might be applied to Career Guidance or Guidance Counselling. The research considers ... -
The impact of the Great War on women in Ireland, 1914 - 1919
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)The impact of the Great War on women is a significant area of scholarship within First World War studies. The legacy of the war for women's lives and role in society has been the subject of much debate. This thesis ...
