Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Affecting State Legitimacy From Abroad: The Effects of Travel Policies on Citizens' Willingness to Obey Their State
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2024)This dissertation aims to examine the effects of restrictive travel policies implemented by foreign countries on citizens' evaluations of state legitimacy in electoral autocracies. This question matters because restrictive ... -
Judgments Of Emotional Reactions By Facial Emotion Recognition System: A Comparison
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2024)The research begins by asserting that a change in the movement of the muscle group responsible for executing a facial action unit permits one to ascertain the person?s emotional state. The connection between muscle movements ... -
Genotyping for the study of population genetics and trait evaluation in Picea sitchensis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2024)Genotyping provides information on the genetic makeup of an individual or a population of individuals. Molecular markers are commonly used as an affordable method of genotyping individuals, and the most popular modern ... -
Advances in the detection of particulate matter and aerosols in peat: Exploring Icelandic volcanic activity and multi-source deposition in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)This Ph.D. research project develops new techniques for the detection of particulate matter and aerosols in peat, a relatively underexplored atmospheric archive and carries out novel investigations of atmospheric deposition ... -
Design of Novel Magnetic Materials with Machine-Learning and High-Throughput Techniques
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)The importance of magnetic materials in modern applications is unquestionable. They are used in a wide range of applications, going from data storage devices to green energy production. This class of materials is well known ... -
Spatial Reckonings: Mapping the Raumproblem in Modern Mathematics and German Modernism, 1890-1933
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2024)Despite the often-celebrated ascent of 'interdisciplinarity' within academic research, in perhaps every setting, mathematics and the arts are still viewed as unrelated disciplines with divergent origins, influences and ... -
Quantifying the impacts of multiple stressors on the production of marine benthic resources
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2024)Coastal ecosystems are among the most heavily affected by climate change and anthropogenic activities, which impacts their diversity, productivity and functioning and puts many of the key ecosystem services they provide ... -
Selling Online Display Advertising via Guaranteed Contracts and the Real-time Bidding Auctions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)Online display advertising has become a principal revenue stream for a multitude of online publishers and content providers. This form of advertising involves selling 'impressions' or views of display advertisements to ... -
The Role of Light Variation in the Attending to and Memorisation of Stained-Glass Windows: An Eye Tracking and Behavioural Study.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Stained-glass is a distinctive art form that both transmits and reflects light, making it a desirable medium for research on the effects of light on attention and memory. There have been few investigations exploring the ... -
The Topographical Prints of Louis Meunier: A Study of a Representation of Spain in the Seventeenth Century and its Extended Afterlife
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis examines the representation of Spanish and Portuguese cities in an album of topographical views made by Louis Meunier, a printmaker operating in Paris in the second half of the seventeenth century. The set of ... -
The Many Voices of Community Archaeology: Inclusion and Multivocality in Cyprus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The most widely used definition of community archaeology is archaeology that is with, for, and/or by the community. The breadth of that description and all that it encompasses means there are as many ways to engage and ... -
Application of the Theory of Critical Distances to As-Built Selective Laser Melted Ti-6Al-4V
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2024)Metal additive manufacturing (AM) techniques such as selective laser melting (SLM) have become an increasingly present feature of new and novel manufacturing methods in recent years. This is owed to further technological ... -
Ulstermen and Identity in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1859-1949
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This research will assess the cultural identity of Ulstermen working in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1859-1949. Sir Robert Hart joined the Customs Service in 1859, and by 1863 was the head of the organisation. The ... -
Exploring the Potential of Chatbots: Insights into Consumer Preferences for Chatbots and Chatbot Interaction Content
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)The proliferation of chatbots has revolutionised customer service. By simulating human-human interaction and real-time information dissemination, chatbots enhance customer experiences while saving costs for businesses. ... -
Investigating the experiences of in-service English language teachers in the use of language corpora for teaching purposes: An international action research study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2024)For several decades, applied linguists have highlighted the benefits of using authentic language samples in language learning classrooms in acquiring genuine use of a language. Yet, few EFL teachers use corpora in their ... -
Data-driven magnetic materials inverse design
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Magnetic materials have diverse applications across multiple sectors, ranging from magnetic resonance imaging machines, used to detect diseases, to electric motors, sensors, and wind turbines just to name a few. The demand ... -
Who does iCBT work for and why: predicting and understanding treatment outcomes in depression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)At any given moment, depression directly affects 5% of the population, and indirectly impacts many more others. Effectively tackling this condition has remained at the forefront of psychiatry research. In the challenging ... -
The Weight of Aristophanes - Plato and the `Other' Comic Poets: An Intertextual Analysis of Plato's Protagoras and Eupolis' Kolakes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis has two aims. The first is to reorient the scholarly norm when thinking about Plato in relation to the genre of Greek Comedy. Since modern scholarship started taking Plato’s relationship to comedy seriously as ... -
The function and regulation of IL-17A-producing T cell subsets in central nervous system autoimmunity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2024)Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic progressive autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS). MS is characterised by the presence of demyelinating lesions in the CNS and is the leading cause of disability among ... -
Neuroimaging features of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Novelty: Because the vast majority of ALS imaging studies focus on evaluating motor pathology, the focus and novelty of this work is the nuanced characterisation of extra-motor involvement in a genetically stratified cohort ...
