Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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L-Vocalisation in Somerset
Traditional dialects in British English are undergoing a process of change, due in part to urbanisation, increased social mobility and language contact through population movement. Within British English there are several ... -
L_ Inference for shape parameter estimation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)In this thesis, we propose a method to robustly estimate the parameters that controls the mapping of a shape (model shape) onto another (target shape). The shapes of interest are contours in the 2D space, surfaces in the ... -
La diocesi di Armagh e l'arcivescovo Fiorentino Ottaviano del Palagio (1480-1513) : incluso un regesto del suo registro arcivescovile
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La verve Rabelaisienne dans un corpus de romans Québecois et Antillais contemporains
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2004)This thesis investigates a corpus of contemporary Quebec and French West Indian novels using a mainly formal approach, based on the concepts of stylistics as a deviation from the norm, and to a lesser extent, of magical ... -
Lake littoral macroinvertebrate biomass and community structure across alkalinity and nutrient gradients
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2010)The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of alkalinity and nutrients on the biomass of lake littoral macroinvertebrate communities. An initial comparative study of nine lakes determined the effect of alkalinity ... -
Lake sediment-based reconstructions of variations in levels of deposition of atmospheric pollutants from the industrial-scale combustion of fossil fuels and ecosystem response at three remote Irish lake sites
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)Humans have greatly manipulated the environment over the last 200 years through processes of industrialisation, urbanisation and agricultural intensification. As a result, levels of anthropogenic air pollution have increased ... -
The Land of the Chiefs and the Land of the State - What happens after an acquisition in Ghana?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2020)In Africa the importance of land cannot be overstated given that many rural livelihoods depend on farming for subsistence. Yet, where international land acquisitions are concerned, the majority take place on the African ... -
Land ownership changes in the County of Louth in the seventeenth century
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Land, politics, and society in eighteenth century Tipperary
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Landforms and hydrology of the lowland karst of County Roscommon, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)Karst is a significant aspect of the landscape of Ireland as more the half the island is underlain by limestone. Roscommon is located in Ireland's western karstic lowlands. The majority of Roscommon is underlain by clean, ... -
Landlord responses to the Irish land war, 1879-1882
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)This dissertation examines rural class conflict in Victorian Ireland at a critical point when the simmering antagonism of tenant farmers over access to and possession of the land became fused with a nationalist movement ... -
Landscape evolution at a young rifted margin: the Loreto region of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
(Imperial College London, Imperial College London, 2012)Continental rifts are commonly flanked by zones of high elevation. Proposed uplift mechanisms include active and induced asthenospheric upwelling, and isostatically driven lithospheric flexure. Although these hypotheses ... -
Landscape history and management of the Phoenix Park 1800-1880
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2006)This thesis examines the landscape history and management of the Phoenix Park between 1800 and 1880. Even though the formation of Ireland’s only royal Park (Phoenix Park) commenced in 1662 on the instructions of Charles ... -
Landscapes, voices and corporealities of excess in the theatre of Marina Carr
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This Ph. D. thesis concerns the plays of contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr from 1989-1998. In the first section of this introduction I will contextualise the background, career and plays of Marina Carr within the ... -
Language development in extra-territorial languages : terms of address in Colombian Spanish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This study investigates the use of terms of address in extra-territorial languages and determines how terms of address function in language to encode relationships. In addition, this study examines how the relationship ... -
The language learning motivation of Chinese postgraduate students in Ireland: From the perspectives of Neo-Confucian learning philosophy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2018)This doctoral thesis investigates the English language motivation of Chinese students enrolled in one-year Master?s programmes at Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland. These students, from what can be described as a Confucian ... -
Language support for communicating transactions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)In the context of databases, a transaction is a sequence of data operations that are executed atomically and in isolation: either all operations are executed or none is; and their effects are visible to the environment ... -
Language, displacement and censorship : a philosophical analysis of Sigmund Freud's common-sense method of dream-interpretation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2002)This thesis is a contribution to the tradition in philosophy of psychoanalysis in analytic philosophy of viewing Sigmund Freud's method of interpretation as an extension of common-sense psychology. The thesis addresses the ... -
Languages of war: How Italian combat officers wrote about the great war 1915-1918
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)An investigation of the impact of the war experience on language, mentalities and writing activity through the analysis of fifteen war writings, including diaries and letter collections. The content, style, writing attitudes ... -
Lanthanide luminescent self-assembly complexes : from solution studies to mechanical sensing on gold surfaces
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2009)This thesis entitled "Lanthanide Luminescent Self-Assembly Complexes: From Solution Studies to Mechanical Sensing on Gold Surfaces" is divided into five Chapters. Chapter 1 gives a detailed account of lanthanide-based ...
