Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Oral Health Beliefs and Behaviours among Adults with Sickle Cell Diseases in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2023)Background: The number of Adults Living with Sickle Cell Disease (ASkCD) in Ireland has risen, driven by recent immigration. A new multi-disciplinary national adult sickle service centre has been introduced to meet their ... -
Bayesian Tree Regression within a Streaming Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Statistics, 2023)Regression in a statistical streaming environment. Explore either large amounts of data or data that is continually being generated in a meaningful way. The streaming setting is challenging because either the proportion ... -
Omnium Gatherum: The Ecological Fictions of Ransmayr, Tokarczuk and Flanagan
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2023)This thesis presents a comparative reading of novels by three prominent contemporary writers who engage with ecological themes. Christoph Ransmayr, Olga Tokarczuk and Richard Flanagan are all well-known writers both ... -
Yang-Baxter integrable open quantum systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Mathematics. Discipline of Pure & Applied Mathematics, 2023)The main result of this thesis is the use of the boost operator to develop a systematic method to construct new integrable spin chains with nearest-neighbour interaction and characterized by an R-matrix of non-difference ... -
An Investigation of Teaching Approaches in a Non-formal Setting: An Exploratory Case Study of Irish CoderDojos
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)In a world where digital technologies are playing an ever-increasing role in peoples’ professional and personal lives, it is essential that individuals acquire the computer literacy skills needed to achieve their full ... -
Deprescribing Falls Risk Increasing Drugs in Older Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Pharmacy & Pharma. Sciences. Discipline of Pharmacy, 2023)Aim: The purpose of this thesis was to examine the facilitators of, and barriers to, implementing deprescribing of falls risk increasing medicines (FRIDs) in healthcare professionals' practices, by exploring the perspectives ... -
Thiol-Ene "Click" A Radical Tool for Chemoselective Modification and Labelling of Biomolecules
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Thiol-Ene Click chemistry represents a venerable reaction in chemical synthesis, allowing the efficient formation of a sulfur-carbon bond from thiol and alkene reaction partners. This reaction has found myriad applications ... -
Politics and national identity in the works of Frances Burney
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2023)This thesis analyses the novels and plays of Frances Burney in order to highlight the author's engagement with political concerns of her time, including the concepts of national identity and sympathy. Groups who experienced ... -
The Dietary Intake of Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Chronic pancreatitis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that results in destruction of the endocrine and exocrine function of the pancreas. Due to loss of function, most patient suffer from malabsorption and malnutrition. ... -
New Technologies for Ultra-low Dose-rate Imaging in the STEM
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2023)Electron microscopy arose from the need to image materials beyond the resolution optical microscopes could achieve. Though taking many years and technological advancements, the modern scanning transmission electron microscope ... -
Quantum transport in 2D materials: Theoretical and computational optimisation of large heterostructures with spintronics properties
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2023)Graphene is a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, making it the thinnest and strongest material known to man. Its exceptional electronic and thermal properties have generated great interest for its ... -
The Poison Dictates the Antidote: An Evaluation of a Rehabilitation Service for Torture Survivors Seeking International Protection in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Background: The growing number of refugees is of particular concern to global mental health practitioners. Specifically, rates of torture among forced migrants are thought to exceed 50% (Duffy & Kelly, 2015). Survivors of ... -
Exploring the Potential of Multimodal and Multiphasic Brain-Computer Interfaces for Neurorehabilitation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)Stroke is a significant contributor to disability-adjusted life years in Europe, and its incidence is expected to rise due to demographic changes highlighting the need for effective post-stroke motor rehabilitation. Early ... -
Essays in Family Economics and Gender
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ... -
The stability of fully and partially embedded beam-columns in elastic Winkler foundations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 1996)The stability, in terms of the buckling load, of fully and partially embedded piles that are supported laterally along their embedded length by an elastic Winkler foundation is investigated. Exact solutions are presently ... -
Evaluation of the wireless dry EEG Cumulus platform to conduct neurocognitive research
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)The identification and validation of reliable brain biomarkers to characterize neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders can be laborious and generally relies on time-consuming brain imaging methods. Brain activity ... -
THE DISTINCT AND AGGRESSIVE PATHOGENESIS OF ARTHRITIS IN CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis (IA) in children. However, recently we described a more aggressive form of IA in children with Down syndrome (DS), termed Down syndrome ... -
Examining the effectiveness of an embedded language education programme for international health science students in an Irish university
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2023)This study examines the effectiveness of an embedded language programme for international English as an Additional Language (EAL), health science students studying on a medicine or physiotherapy degree at an Irish university. ... -
The Structure of Forms in Plato's Theory of Forms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)The overall aim of this PhD dissertation is to consider and examine the relations between Forms in Plato?s theory of Forms. Undertaking this task does not require a full account of Plato?s theory of Forms, rather it requires ... -
Immune Dysfunction and Inflammageing in NAFLD
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)With a global prevalence of 25-40%, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is fast becoming the commonest cause of liver disease in the developed world [1]. Defined as increased hepatic lipid accumulation, approximately ...
