Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations
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Investigating Medical English as a Lingua Franca: Determining the Effectiveness of Communication between Healthcare Practitioners in Hospital Settings in Saudi Arabia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2024)This thesis investigates the effectiveness of communication between healthcare practitioners in multilingual hospital settings in Buraidah, Saudi Arabia, with a focus on Medical English as a Lingua Franca (MELF). With the ... -
"At the end of the day we're kind of motoring along on our own": Investigating the views of people with aphasia, their family, and SLTs on the need, value, and challenges of providing family therapy after stroke.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. Discipline of Clin Speech & Language Studies, 2024)Background Stroke significantly impacts the lives of both the person who sustained the stroke and their entire family unit, often profoundly changing the roles and dynamics within families. Aphasia, a communication disability ... -
The Impact of Multinational Enterprises' Spillovers on Indigenous Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)While the symbiosis of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) and large-scale businesses is well-established, the landscape shifts dramatically in contexts where established businesses are scarce. The silver lining? The potential ... -
Do Emotions Matter? An Investigation of Human Emotions and Financial Decision Making in the Digital Era
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2024)This doctoral dissertation thoroughly examines the influence of social media sentiment on financial markets, focusing particularly on the GameStop short squeeze and the cryptocurrency market behavior. The dissertation includes ... -
From synergy to inhibition: Effects of multi component solutions on the crystallization of divalent carbonates in natural and synthetic environments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2024)The understanding of the processes governing the mechanisms, kinetics, and pathways of carbonate crystallization is crucial in the context of carbon capture and storage through mineralization. However, uncertainty still ... -
James Joyce's Philosophical Formation: A Secularisation of Being
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis draws on radical philology, which focuses on the analysis of textual sources, to examine the exogenesis of James Joyce's early aesthetics, which is to say its development as a result of inter-textual echoes and ... -
Investigation of the role of immunomodulators oftoll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) function and associated genetic variants in the pathogenesis and progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)IPF is a fatal interstitial lung disease of unknown aetiology, with a lack of valid biomarkers and satisfactory therapeutic solutions available. Studies have shown an association between inflammation, viral and bacterial ... -
'how like death they are!': Death and Childhood in the Novels of Charles Dickens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis studies the intersection between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on childhood and Victorian attitudes towards death in the moribund child of Charles Dickens's novels. By the nineteenth century, ... -
The Testament of Stone: Understanding the past, present, and future cultural significance of the long lives of the Irish high crosses.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The Irish High Crosses are a unique group of monuments that, relative to their size, convey a exceptional amount of information about the early Christian period in which they were made. Over the past one hundred and fifty ... -
Nucleoside and Oligonucleotide Modification for Targeting the DNA Damage Repair Enzyme SNM1A
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2024)The exonuclease SNM1A is a key enzyme involved in the repair of interstrand crosslinks, a highly cytotoxic form of DNA damage. As cells depleted in this enzyme display increased sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents such ... -
Surface Studies of Niobium Oxides
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)In this thesis, two important niobium-oxygen systems are studied. The first system is the NbO "nanocrystal" termination of Nb(110). A new model to explain this structure based on a monolayer of oxygen covering the surface ...