Browsing by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin"
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A comparison of climate and vegetation dynamics in central Ireland and NW Spain since the mid-Holocene
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2008)This research investigates chmate and vegetation dynamics in two Atlantic regions; central Ireland and NW Spain. Atmospheric and oceanic processes influence climate and hence vegetation through forcing factors operating ... -
A comparison of various methods of assessing salivary flow in normal and xerostomic subjects
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Dental Science, 2006)Saliva is produced by the three major paired salivary glands and minor salivary glands. Alterations in the quantity and quality of saliva have adverse effects on the oral cavity and influence patient quality of Hfe. How ... -
A computational approach to understanding the deNOₓ properties of Rhodium metal
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2015)The emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx, x = 1, 2) from combustion engines is a significant contributor to acid rain, smog and the enhanced greenhouse effect. The environmental damage these polluntants have caused, as well ... -
A computational study of the mammalian subiculum
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2007)The subiculum occupies a central position as the mediator of information flow between the hippocampal memory system and both cortical and subcortical brain structures. To further the goal of understanding how the subiculum ... -
A considered application of the Langreth-Lundqvist van der Waals density functional in the context of : open shell molecules, atom centered basis sets, adsorption of graphene into a Bi₂Se₃ slab
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2015)The work in this thesis is aimed towards exploring the edge case application of the Langreth-Lundqvist vdW density functional (vdW-DF). The increasing popularity of the vdW-DF functional has resulted in its application ... -
A convex optimisation approach to optimal control in queueing systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)Convex optimisation and max-weight are central topics in networking and control, and having a clear understanding of their relationship and what this involves is crucial from a theoretical and practical point of view. In ... -
A critical edition of Mittelirische Verslehren III
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2007)This thesis consists of a critical edition and translation of a Middle Irish metrical tract known as Mittelirische Verslehren III (hereafter MV III). The tract is an important source of information on rhyming syllabic verse ... -
A critical editon of Aided Chonchobair 'The violent death of Conchobar' with translation, textual notes and bibliography
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2015)This thesis is a critical edition of the Old and Middle Irish versions of Aided Chonchobair ‘The violent death of Conchobar’. AC belongs to the aided category of tales of the Ulster Cycle. It has been transmitted in four ... -
A cross-cultural exploration of online community newcomer behaviour
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)As Internet use has become globally pervasive, the literature suggests that national culture is having an impact on online community communication practices. The importance of researching national culture in these spaces ... -
A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigation of Irish and Czech children's accounts of socially-constructed emotions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The application of a discursive approach to the subject of this study can be seen as an attempt to create a link between psychology and linguistics, where grammatical structures and language itself constitute the basis for ... -
A delay and disruption tolerant transport layer protocol
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2008)The area of delay-tolerant networking (DTN) is concerned with highly challenged networks in which application layer "sessions" commonly lack contemporaneous end-toend connectivity. For example, efforts to create networks ... -
A dependency modelling approach for the management of ontology-based integration systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)Ontology-based approaches that formally represent the meaning of information in a system, offer the hope of dealing with semantic heterogeneity when integrating heterogeneous data sources [Halevy 2001, Noy 2004, Wache et ... -
A diagnostic for the general linear model : an application to Time Series
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2002)An outlier is an observation which is thought to be unusual. The detection of such extreme values is an important issue. Developing a model based on data containing even a single outlier can seriously bias population ... -
A domain knowledge driven information uplift approach for network monitoring
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)With the advance of modern network technologies, people now enjoy increased convenience whilst occasionally suffering annoyance from network issues by lacking domain expertise. In the Home Area Network (HAN), these issues ... -
A dynamic study of cavity polaritons
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2002)Strong coupling between an atom and a cavity field is a well established phenomenon in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics. However it was not until 1992 that improvements in growth technology resulted in the advent ... -
A dynamical study of the chirally rotated Schrödinger functional in lattice QCD
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Mathematics, 2015)In this work, we present first results from dynamical simulations of the chirally rotated Schrödinger functional (SF) in lattice QCD. More specifically, we discuss the determination of renormalization constants of ... -
A feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noël
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2008)This thesis proposes a feminist reading of the mother-daughter relationship in the writings of Gabrielle Roy and Francine Noel. The texts discussed have been selected due to their feminist nature and to the importance that ... -
A flexible explanation system for case-based reasoning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)Artificial Intelligence systems have reached a level of sophistication and accuracy which means that they can now be confidently used as decision aids in real world situations. However, although these systems are accurate, ... -
A flexible framework for distributed shared objects
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2002)A distributed shared memory (DSM) system ensures the consistency of shared data in a distributed system while providing the programming paradigm of a single-processor system. Recent DSM systems provide increasingly more ... -
A formula for fluency? : an investigation into the effect of instruction in formulaic sequences on oral fluency in Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a programme of instruction on oral fluency in Irish. The programme design was informed by a focus on formulaic language and by the use of procedures designed ...
