Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Bacterial products as activators of NF-ϰB
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2001)The ability of bacterial products to potently activate NF-xB has made this transcription factor one of the most widely studied in the immune response. A greater understanding of the mechanisms and signal transduction ... -
Badness. Good, isn't it? A bit of badness : Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of 'Deviance' and the Irish theatrical tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2004)This thesis is a study of the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. McGuinness was bom in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland in 1950. His first play, The Factory Girls, was produced in 1984. ... -
Balancing Innovation with Environmental Sustainability: Vapour Phase Patterning System for Controlling Block Co-Polymer and Polymer Brush Morphology
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2024)The growth of the semiconductor industry and device miniaturisation has highlighted a need for novel and sustainable approaches to nanofabrication. Resource scarcity, increasing energy costs and environmental instability ... -
A 'Bandung' View of the World: The Political Economy of Sino-South African Megaprojects
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2020)China's emergence as a significant actor in Africa's political economy has become a major topic in both academic and popular circles. Precipitated by a confluence of domestic politico-economic factors and an increasingly ... -
Barbarian among barbarians : a study of Euripides' Iphigenia in Taurus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2004)This thesis is a new reading of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, and argues that, contrary to common scholarly opinion, Iphigenia in Tauris is a serious tragedy which engages with serious issues, and is as finely constructed ... -
Barrett's oesophagus and associated cancer : the influence of bile acid regulated genetic factors and intestinal transcription factors in the pathogenesis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2012)Gastrooesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is very common and it is estimated that up to 20% of the western population will experience weekly heartburn. The initial simple mucosal damage can lead to further complications like ... -
Barriers and stimulants to the development of university-industry links : perspectives from the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)The aim of this research is to investigate barriers and stimulants to the development of university-industry (U-I) links in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter referred to as Ireland) from the perspectives of academia, ... -
The basement geology of the Porcupine High - a key transatlantic link between the Caledonides and Appalachians
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2023)In order to better reconstruct the basement geology of the western Irish offshore and the North Atlantic, constraining the geologic evolution of the Porcupine High region is key. Located 200 km west of Ireland, the Porcupine ... -
Battle at long range : correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1914, a social and cultural history
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Battling with the body : physical and allegorical violence in the English morality plays
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2001)Battling with the Body: Physical and Allegorical Violence in the English Morality Plays' investigates ways in which medieval allegory finds corporeal expression in the violence of the late medieval stage. Using the ... -
Bayesian approaches to content-based image retrieval
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)This thesis addresses some issues in the relatively new field of Content-Based Image Retrieval. Content-based image retrieval is a technique that uses the visual content of images to aid searches from large scale image ... -
Bayesian inference for misaligned irregular time series with application to palaeoclimate reconstruction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)This thesis proposes new Bayesian methods to jointly analyse misaligned irregular time series. Temporal misalignment occurs wdien multiple irregularly spaced time series are considered together, or when the time periods ... -
Bayesian inference for short term traffic forecasting
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)In intelligent transport systems, short term traffic forecasting is one of the most important problems, reflecting the network state in the near future and feeding information to other application modules. Even though ... -
Bayesian kernel classification for high dimensional data with variable selection
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2009)High dimensional data sets, where the dimension of the measurements exceeds the number of samples, arise in many application domains. In particular, the development of genomic and proteomic technologies in the last decade ... -
Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis and decision making in Health Technology Assessments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2013)In this thesis statistical methodologies to improve reimbursement decisions in healthcare are developed. The allocation of healthcare resources is a very topical issue in the current economic climate. Given a limited ... -
Bayesian modelling and analysis of utility-based maintenance for repairable systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2017)This thesis focuses on modelling and inference for maintenance systems for the purpose of utility optimisation. Providing standardised notation throughout, we first demonstrate the motivation for investigating the problem ... -
Bayesian modelling of short fatigue crack growth and coalescence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2000)Failure of metal structures is caused by cracks appearing and growing in the material until the strength of the structure is compromised. The way in which such cracks grow in metal has been researched extensively; the great ... -
Bayesian Tree Regression within a Streaming Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Statistics, 2023)Regression in a statistical streaming environment. Explore either large amounts of data or data that is continually being generated in a meaningful way. The streaming setting is challenging because either the proportion ... -
BeanBag: An Extensible Framework for Describing, Storing and Querying Components
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 1999-09)When it became obvious that Object Oriented software applications were falling short of their promise of significant software reuse, the software industry began to look at another solution. Hence the interest in Component ... -
Beauty as a matter of course : the representation of the heroine in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2010)This thesis analyses the development of the convention of the beautiful heroine in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel. The period inherited a profoundly dichotomised conception of beauty, beauty as a ...