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  • A fitful fungus from a hot, arid climate increases grain yield in cool-cultivated barley 

    Murphy, Brian R.; Doohan, Fiona M.; Hodkinson, Trevor R (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    Purpose The fungus Piriformospora indica was first isolated from plants growing in arid, hot desert conditions and has been shown to have significant potential as a biocontrol and biofertilising organism in barley under ...

  • Friendship in the Field: Ethics and Reflexivity in Auto/biographical Research 

    O’Donoghue, Connor Tiarnach (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    The aim of this paper is to explore a model of researcher reflexivity, drawn from anthropological literature and applied to an auto/biographical study of young men in university. Social scientific research can involve ...

  • Grieving students: The response and support of educators in Irish schools 

    O'Brien, Aoife; McGuckin, Conor (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    It is estimated that bereavement has affected between 36,000 and 60,000 young people in Ireland. Little academic research has been conducted to ascertain the response of Irish schools to bereavement and grief support. The ...

  • JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH VOLUME XIII 

    Unknown author (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)

  • A Practical Humanoid Robot Morphology for Operation in Civilian Environments 

    McGinn, Conor (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    Despite recent progress in robotics research and development, the effective design of multi-purpose robotic solutions for civilian and domestic environments has proven particularly elusive. Mechanically simple systems are ...

  • A Risk Worth Taking? A Study of Mature Students’ Experiences in Two Irish Universities 

    Kearns, Mark Anthony (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    Policy forecasts suggest that mature students (aged +23) will form an increasing part of a more diverse student body in Irish higher education going forward. This presents challenges for a provision that has been geared ...

  • RoadRunners: An Exploratory Study of an Activity Programme for Young Offenders in North Dublin 

    Byrne, Nicole (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    Purpose The Children Act 2001, in a significant departure from earlier Irish juvenile justice legislation, introduces a range of community based sanctions for young offenders including a Probation (training and activity ...

  • The Supremacy of European Union Law: An Inevitable Revolution or Federalism in Action? 

    Arigho, Redmond (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    The European Union is a fully fledged, sui generis legal order. The doctrine of supremacy, developed by the European Court of Justice in the seminal case of Costa v ENEL established Union laws having primacy over domestic ...

  • Visions of the Future: Dream narratology in (Proto-)Science Fiction 

    Clarke, Jim (Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)
    Dream narration has a lengthy history in the Western literary tradition, functioning as the earliest iteration of the frame story. Dream narratives can be found in the Bible, and in Greek and Latin classical literature, ...