Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Field tests on single piles subjected to lateral and combined axial and lateral loads
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2003)This thesis describes the results of full-scale instrumented field studies on laterally loaded piles embedded in a layered soil. The research centred around tests on (i) 350mm square reinforced concrete piles driven through ... -
Fields and flares : understanding the complex magnetic topologies of solar active regions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2013)Sunspots are regions of decreased brightness on the visible surface of the Sun (photosphere) that are associated with strong magnetic fields. They have been found to be locations associated with solar flares, which occur ... -
Fields, fractals and flares: characterising magnetic complexity in solar active regions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2009)The main drivers of space weather, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, are thought to originate from active regions on the surface of the Sun. The mechanisms by which active regions produce these eruptive events remains ... -
'Figlio d'esseri umani': Animals in Italo Calvino's War Novels and Novellas (1947-1957)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2020)On November 17, 1946, the former Partisan and budding Italian writer, essayist, and intellectual, Italo Calvino, wrote an article for L'Unità against the atomic bomb testing done in the Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands. ... -
Finance and the government of Ireland 1660-85
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1983)Traditionally, historians have viewed this period as being dominated by Ormond and that its only interest lies in its being the aftermath of the Cromwellian Settlement and prelude to the 1688 Revolution. This thesis ... -
Financial integration, culture, and capital structure : an empirical analysis of emerging markets
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2011)The objectives of this thesis are (i) to study the financial integration between emerging markets and the world market, (ii) to investigate the determinants of the extent of market comovement, with special attention paid ... -
Financial provision on marital breakdown in Ireland : a comparative and empirical study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2008)This thesis examines property division and financial provision on matrimonial breakdown in Ireland. The primary question addressed is whether Ireland should move from a separation of assets approach, ameliorated by equitable ... -
The Financing of High-Tech SMEs: Investigating the Effects of Capital Structure on Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2019)The thesis examines the capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises which are based in the high-technology sector. Little analysis so far has investigated the impact of financing on this important sector and ... -
Financing SMEs : an investigation of determinants of capital structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)This study examines the financing of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by conducting an empirical investigation of determinants of capital structure. It commences with a review of both the financial growth life ... -
Finding Visual Music in its Twentieth Century History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2020)Visual fine art and music are typically considered to be separate disciplines and separate art forms. This, however, is not the case for visual music. Visual music straddles both visual art and music. Visual music has ... -
Finding Volunesia: An Exploration of How Volunteer Identity and Volunteer Learning Through the Life Course Transforms Participants and Develops Enduring Leaders.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Education. Discipline of Education, 2020)Ireland has a rich history in volunteering. A culture of neighbor helping neighbor, and giving one's time, energy and commitment to others outside of one?s immediate family. The purpose of the research is to examine life ... -
Fine Art education in Great Britain and Ireland with particular reference to the influence of modernism on the curriculum of the National College of Art and Design, 1977-1988
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2002)In 1975 a major change was brought about in the curriculum in the Fine Art faculty at The National College of Art and Design in Dublin. The introduction of this curriculum followed a period of unrest at the college. This ... -
Fingerprinting isotopic signatures for metal enrichment in European trees: Developing vectors for mineral exploration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2019)The trace-element geochemistry of native and common plant species in Ireland including ash, beech, blackberry, hawthorn, oak, poplar and sycamore was systematically determined above the Navan Zn-Pb deposit, currently mined ... -
Finite element analysis & Die profile optimisation for a cold forging process
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2001)Throughout the world, almost every machine that moves requires the use of bolts in one form or another. Bolts, or Fasteners, are made in bolt making machines by a process of cold forming. At a particular stage in the bolt ... -
Finite element and experimental analysis of dented aircraft panels
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2005)Aircraft fuselage panels are susceptible to low velocity impact damage in the form of "dents" from a variety of in-service sources, such as cargo and service trucks, dropped tools during servicing, walking on "no-step ... -
Finite element and experimental analysis of the micro-form rolling process
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2007)The observations made during this research which, to the best knowledge of the author have not been previously mentioned in literature, were as follows: -- Loss of contact between the die and workpiece when rolling small ... -
Finite element simulation of a metal forming process & die design
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2000)Thread Rolling (also known as roll threading) is a cold forming process for producing threads or other helical or annular forms on a fastener. This is achieved by rolling the surface profile of hardened steel dies onto the ... -
Fires in Rome: The ancient city as a fire regime
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)This thesis has undertaken two main complementary lines of research: firstly, it has looked afresh at the evidence for urban fires in Rome as presented by the written sources and, secondly, it has reimagined the city as ... -
Firm level multinationality in international business and finance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2009)The Multinational Corporation (MNC) is one of the most important concepts in international business (IB) and international finance (IF). However, there is no commonly and widely agreed definition of what constitutes an MNC ... -
First and second language socialisation processes among Polish immigrant adolescents in Ireland : ethnography and case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)Due to the dramatic increase in the population of immigrants in Ireland in recent years, the sociolinguistic dynamics of Irish classrooms has changed considerably. This thesis takes a Language Socialisation (LS) perspective ...
