Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Sponsor "TCD"
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The activation of unconventional T cells by Staphylococcus aureus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2021)Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen of multiple tissue sites. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains promises greater morbidity in the future. No S. aureus vaccine has so far succeeded in translating ... -
Anion templated self-assembly - From anion complexes to the formation of supramolecular 2D networks
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2019)This thesis, entitled “Anion Templated Self-Assembly – From Anion Complexes to the Formation of Supramolecular 2D Networks” covers the anion complexation and ATSA abilities of different sets of ligands. The work will be ... -
Change and entrenchment in Irish maternity care policies and antenatal practices: An Institutional Ethnography
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Abstract Change and entrenchment in Irish maternity care policies and antenatal practices: An Institutional Ethnography Margaret Dunlea Background The Mother and Infant Care Scheme (MICS) (1954), enacted following the ... -
Comprehensive analysis of salivary protein N-glycosylation for biomarker discovery and investigation of novel therapeutics in oral cancer
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Dental Sciences. Discipline of Dental Science, 2018)Oral Cancer (OC) is one of the few life threatening conditions of the oral cavity. There is an increasing number of cases in younger adults and women in particular; this is in contrast to the historical higher prevalence ... -
Computational Shedding in Stream Computing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2019)Stream Computing, a generic on-line data processing paradigm has emerged as the preferred approach in the processing of continuous data streams. Data streams suffer from a bursty characteristic where the data rate of the ... -
The cultural politics of William Carlos William's poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)This thesis offers a political reading of William Carlos Williams's poetry. Grounding its analysis in the work of a range of authors and theorists, as well as his own biography and writings, it approaches Williams's poems ... -
Decision-making: From 'participatory citizenship' to active citizenship. A feminist activist ethnography of parent-school relations in a DEIS School context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2019)Background Citizen participation in policy decision-making is a key principal of government as part of creating an inclusive society. The critical policy literature on the discourse of social inclusion/exclusion argues ... -
Design of a High Performance Low-Power ECG Amplifier for Textile Based Un-gelled Electrodes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2021)This thesis presents analytical studies and bench experiments which highlight how electrocardiographic recording equipment which adheres to current international standards can still introduce distortion and affect the ... -
Diagnosing Organisational Culture During Community Healthcare Reform. A Mixed Methods Study Applying the Competing Values Framework
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Background: Across the globe healthcare systems are in a constant state of reform. However, the results of these reform activities are described as weak at best and situational dependent. While the research on organisational ... -
Endophytic diversity of Fraxinus excelsior L. (European Ash) and its interaction with the dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2020)European ash, Fraxinus excelsior, has huge economic and environmental value on the island of Ireland for forestry and ecosystem services. Given the rapid spread of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, ash dieback disease, since its ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This dissertation consists of three essays in international macroeconomics. It lies at the intersection of balance of payments analysis and sectoral financial analysis. In particular, it makes use of newly available financial ... -
Exercising power in the self-management of COPD: A narrative inquiry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2020)Background: COPD is a common but underdiagnosed illness of the lungs and airways. Treatment is complex and varied and incorporates extensive self-management. Learning to self-manage in COPD requires people to draw on ... -
Food Allergy among Irish Children: An Exploration of the Risk and Impact of Accidental Allergic Reactions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Introduction Food allergy (FA) now impacts almost 1 in 20 Irish children. These children are at risk of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis. Food is an integral part of all social activities, and thus children with FA ... -
Form Factors, Integrability and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Mathematics. Discipline of Pure & Applied Mathematics, 2018)Form factors are matrix elements of local operators between scattering states, and are interesting off-shell objects in any QFT. In this thesis we will focus on the world-sheet theory describing strings in AdS5xS5, the ... -
Geography and Empire in Virgil's Georgics. A study of the poem and its reception in Britain and the British Empire, c.1820-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)This thesis is a history of Virgil?s Georgics, one which combines a reading of the text (Chapter 1) with investigation of its reception in Britain and the British empire (Chapters 2 and 3). It argues that an aesthetic trend ... -
Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
Harnessing the therapeutic properties of the Heme Oxygenase system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2018)The stress response enzyme, Heme Oxygenase 1 (HO-1), has been identified as an important immunomodulator which is highly upregulated in response to cellular stress and inflammation. HO-1 catalyses the conversion of free ... -
The immunomodulatory properties of L-rhamnose
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2020)L-Rhamnose is a non-mammalian monosaccharide ubiquitously found on the surface of both commensal and pathogenic bacteria. Previous publications had identified that L-rhamnose-rich Mycobacterium tuberculosis glycolipids, ... -
Impacts of land use and climate change on carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics of Irish peatland ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Botany, 2023)Peatlands are wetlands that are found on every continent except Antarctica, covering around 3% of the global land area and are the largest terrestrial soil organic carbon store. They are estimated to store around 550 ... -
Improving social intelligence of machines in the context of public speaking situations
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Computer Science, 2018)