Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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AN INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT DUE TO PULSED FLOW IN MINICHANNELS
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)The development of current and next generation high performance electronic devices has led to smaller components in more densely packed spaces. The increasing power levels has resulted in ever-increasing heat flux densities ... -
Attitudes to remote patient monitoring among orthodontists in Ireland - a qualitative study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2023)Aims: The aim of the study was to explore the attitudes to remote patient monitoring among orthodontists in Ireland. Methods: A descriptive, qualitative study was conducted involving a purposive sample of orthodontists ... -
The Advanced Electron Microscopy Characterisation of Oxide Materials at the Atomic Level for Energy Storage and Conversion Technologies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)At the forefront of the challenges faced by modern-day society is the growing demand for clean and renewable energy sources. This challenge has been met by a surge in research activities on the development of electrochemical ... -
Kathleen Clarke: A Life Proclaimed
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis analyses the memoir 'Revolutionary Woman', written during the 1940s by Kathleen Daly Clarke, and published in 1991. Kathleen married the Fenian activist Tom Clarke in 1901 in New York. They returned to Ireland ... -
Epidemiological and Phylogenetic Investigation of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ireland and Internationally using Whole-Genome Sequencing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2023)Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a successful modern pathogen associated with many clinical manifestations including asymptomatic colonisation, superficial skin infections and severe invasive diseases. ... -
`THEY THOUGHT IT WAS NEW YORK' AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CORK JEWISH COMMUNITY
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Near & Middle Eastern Studies, 2023)This thesis examines the communal narrative of the Cork Jewish community. It is a narrative based on accidental arrival to Cork following escape from persecution in Russia. In order to undertake this study, it has been ... -
Constructions of older people and their care during the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland: A Grounded Theory analysis of official discourses
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)Beginning in March 2020, the Irish government implemented among Europe's most stringent and sustained lockdown measures to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Identified early on as a group at particularly high risk, older ... -
Nursing home staff mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)This thesis comprises three main studies. The aim of this project was to characterise nursing home staff mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland. Study 1: Cross-sectional survey of nursing ... -
Commemorating the Past: The Breton Church and its Irish Element, c.800-1100
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Brittany's beginnings as a refuge for British migrants meant that, historically, Brittany seemed looked to the Insular world for its culture, language, and religion. Beginning in the ninth century, Brittany faced several ... -
Assessing novel cultivation methods, baseline fish assemblages and survey methodologies of cultivated and wild kelp in the Southwest of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Zoology, 2023)Kelp (i.e. large brown macroalgae of the order Laminariales) are important habitat-forming species in coastal ecosystems. Recently, the key role kelp play as part of an expanding blue economy has been recognised in addition ... -
Understanding and Improving Physical Interactions in Virtual Reality
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)An important challenge in AR/VR is to enable virtual interactions that look and feel natural. Our goal in this work was to identify certain failures of AR/VR interactions, understand them, and propose solutions for them ... -
Delineating the mechanisms utilised by Staphylococcus aureus to survive intracellularly within phagocytes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2023)Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a major human pathogen in addition to being an important part of the human microbiome. The bacterium has evolved a large array of immune evasion mechanisms to facilitate its persistence ... -
An open source chatbot for a complex domain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)The call centre industry has grown rapidly due to advancements in information and communication technology that have enabled automation of many customer service tasks. The computerisation of customer relations has become ... -
Examining the Cognitive Linguistic Differences Between Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and a Group of Healthy Controls using a Devised Cognitive Linguistic Assessment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2023)Background: Changes in language often precede other notable cognitive changes in people who go on to develop dementia, however, given their subtlety, these early-stage communication signs are frequently missed. Speech and ... -
A Longitudinal Study of the Complex Needs of Motor Neuron Disease Caregivers
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2023)Motor Neuron Disease (MND) is the term used to describe a number of terminal incurable neurodegenerative disorders, of which Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most common type. MND is characterised by the progressive ... -
To what extent can a serious game elicit and evaluate nursing knowledge
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)This research explores to what extent a serious game could elicit and evaluate specialist nursing knowledge. The problem addressed is that not all nursing knowledge is captured in a way that is easy to access outside the ... -
An evaluation of the elastic recovery of nickel titanium archwires following ligation in palatally-displaced lateral incisors
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2023)Introduction The levelling and aligning phase of orthodontic treatment involves the use of low-modulus nickel titanium archwires with small cross-sectional diameters. Aims and objectives The aim of this study was to compare ... -
Towards Efficient Visual Place Recognition Methods in Challenging Environments by Adaptive Representations
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to recognize a place by providing a query im- age of an unknown location. The goal is to identify an image from a geotagged database of street-side imagery that depicts the ... -
Fluorescent probes to target nucleic acids
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)Guanine-quadruplexes (G-quadruplexes) are non-canonical nucleic acid structures that consist of two or more stacked G-tetrads further stabilized by monovalent-cations. These structures are stable under physiological ... -
Across the Isles: The Transnational Lordship of the Mortimer Earls of March and Ulster 1368-1398
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers an original examination of a transnational aristocratic lordship which spanned the worlds of late fourteenth century Ireland, Wales, and England. The composite lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and ...
