Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC FACTORS INFLUENCING EDUCATOR WORKAHOLIC BEHAVIOUR
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2020)There is a necessity for multi-level multidisciplinary research within the field of workaholism research. Disagreement on how to define workaholism and how to measure it prevails. The ambiguity surrounding conceptualisation ... -
A Qualitative Life Course Study of the Educational Pathways of Care-experienced Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)The central role of education in relation to promoting positive outcomes in adulthood is well-established in existing literature (Hammond & Feinstein, 2006; Nicaise, 2012). However, a growing body of evidence points to ... -
Qualitative research with children : the perspectives of elite researchers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)This quantative study investigates the ways in which leading children’s researchers position themselves in their research relationships with children in qualitative research within psychology and the broader ‘childhood ... -
A qualitative study of dropout from an internet-delivered CBT intervention for adults with depression and anxiety
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Despite the efficacy and widespread use of online-delivered psychological interventions, treatment dropout remains a problem that for the most part is poorly understood. This qualitative study investigated the subjective ... -
Quality Improvement in the Mapping Process required for Linked Data publication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2023)This thesis presents a quality improvement approach named the Mapping Quality Improvement (MQI) Framework designed to improve and maintain quality in the publication process involved in the creation of linked data. Linked ... -
Quality improvement using Alexander moves
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Mathematics, 2003)The objects under consideration in this work are simplicial meshes. We are interested in the geometric shape of the constituent simplices. This interest is justified by the impact of simplicial shape on the error bounds ... -
Quality of life and anti-dementia drugs : an exploration of the experiences of people living with dementia and their care-partners
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Dementia is a chronic, progressive, incurable disease that has a major impact on the quality of life of people diagnosed and their families. Some anti-dementia medications exist (cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine) ... -
Quantification and optimisation of the benefits and risks of urban cycling
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2017)This thesis reports on a research project aimed at developing comprehensive methods for quantifying the benefits and risks of urban cycling, investigating the environmental exposures of cyclists and developing a tool for ... -
Quantification of Mutual Understanding in Task-Based Human-Human Interactions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2021)This thesis explores the quantification of mutual understanding in task-based interactions by observing the relation between patterns of repetitions and measures of communicative success. Two important characteristics of ... -
Quantifying Battery Rate Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2023)The global energy demand is quickly increasing and sustainable energy solutions are needed to keep pace. Batteries have emerged as the premier energy storage solution for increasing the adoption of renewable energy sources, ... -
Quantifying nutrient dynamics through a lowland karst network
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2014)In this thesis, hydrochemical methods are used in combination with hydrologic analysis to characterise and model the Gort Lowlands catchment in western Galway, specifically focussing on an interlinked chain of ephemeral ... -
Quantifying the environmental drivers of tree phenology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2007)The prediction of growth onset is particularly complicated, because this phenophase is the end-point of a series of poorly understood physiological changes that are not directly observable, occurring while the bud is ... -
Quantifying woodland resource usage in the Irish midlands using archaeological and palaeoecological techniques
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2012)This thesis examines charcoal methods in relation to archaeological sites and woodland resource usage using a variety of anthracological and palaeoecological approaches as well as literary evidence at different spatial and ... -
Quantitative accoustic analysis of inhaler sounds for the objective assessment of inhaler adherence in patients with chronic respiratory diseases
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2016)Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two of the most prevalent chronic respiratory disorders. Over 800 million people suffer from these diseases and over four million people die annually. Although ... -
Quantitative and Qualitive Analysis of Politeness and Gender Effects in Romantic Comedies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)This study investigates differences in markers of politeness between male and female characters in romantic comedies. While focusing on the gender of the speaker, the impact of the gender of the addressee and of the ... -
Quantitative assessment of perceptual, motor and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease and their contribution to freezing of gait
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Quantitative studies of rock fabrics and textures in layered mafic intrusions of the British tertiary igneous province : implications for magma system emplacement and evolution
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geology, 2007)This thesis examines and considers the processes which led to magmatic layering and associated planar and linear fabrics in mafic and ultramafic rocks of four igneous centres of the British (and Irish) Palaeogene Igneous ... -
Quantum Control of Thermodynamic Processes in Semiconductors
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)In this thesis, we explore theoretically the thermodynamics of heat exchange in laser driven solid state systems. In particular, we focus on the heat exchanged between phonons and a semiconductor quantum dot exciton, driven ... -
Quantum dots and quantum dot based polymer composites
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2013)The main aim of this thesis is to develop a range of new nanomaterials and composite materials based on fluorescent semiconducting nanoparticles (quantum dots). The work involves the synthesis and characterisation of various ... -
Quantum theory of multimode exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein Condensation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2013)
