Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title

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    • 3-dimensional solder paste inspection using Structured Light techniques 

      Chan, Cecilia Ka Yuk (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2002)
      Re-modelling of three-dimensional solder paste constructed from optical profilometry has gathered ever-increasing attention in different inspection and process control sectors of the electronics Printed Circuit Board ...

    • 3D Bioprinting Strategies To Engineer Structurally Organised Meniscal Tissue Grafts 

      Barceló Gallostra, Xavier (Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Mechanical & Manuf. Eng, 2023)
      Lesions to the meniscus are common sports-related injuries that can lead to articular cartilage degeneration and osteoarthritis if left untreated. While surgical repair procedures and meniscal substitutes offer better ...

    • 3D object reconstruction using multiple views 

      Kim, Donghoon (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2011)
      3D object modelling from multiple view images has recently been of increasing interest in computer vision. Two techniques, Visual Hull and Photo Hull, have been extensively studied in the hope of developing 3D shape ...

    • A behavioural and non-behavioural analysis of the London gold market 

      O'Connor, Fergal (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Trinity Business School, 2015)
      This thesis makes a number of contributions to the literature on the economics and finance of the gold market, with a special emphasis on the London gold market. It provides the first effort to produce a substantiate ...

    • A benevolent society? Local relief committee membership in Ireland 1817-57 

      Clinton, Georgina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)
      In all the various discussions and debates stimulated by poverty and relief in nineteenth-century Ireland, studies rarely go beyond generalisations with respect to relief committee membership. The main aim of this thesis ...

    • A biochemical oscillator : experimental and theoretical studies of the peroxidase-oxidase reaction 

      McDonald, Andrew (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2000)
      The peroxidase-oxidase (PO) reaction is the haem-peroxidase catalysed reaction of molecular oxygen with NADH, and has been shown previously to behave in an oscillatory fashion. It has been used here as a useful laboratory ...

    • A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 

      McGrath, Brid (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1998)
      This thesis examines the membership of the 1640 Irish House of Commons up to November 1641. It identifies 288 men who were members of the House at that time, matches them to their constituencies, where appropriate, and ...

    • A biographical study of Robert Southwell (1561-1595) and his historical and cultural milieu 

      Mumayiz, Ibrahim A. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1987)
      Introduction: explains the nature of this biographical study of Southwell, how it differs from previous ones; the contributions it seeks to make; and the general lines along which the biographical narrative proceeds. It ...

    • A bioinformatics approach to (intra-) genome comparisons 

      Hokamp, Karsten (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Genetics and Microbiology, 2002)
      The analysis of large volumes of genomic data generates special computational needs. A Beowulf-type computer cluster was set up for high-performance computing. Improvements over existing tools for the efficient ...

    • A Bridgman Furnace Front Tracking Model 

      Mooney, Robin Patrick (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2015)
      The Bridgman furnace is widely used in industry and research, mainly because it provides a means to directionally solidify materials in a controlled manner, so that the resulting microstructure, and hence material properties, ...

    • A candidate gene search for autism 

      Conroy, Judith (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2006)
      This research involved a candidate gene search for autism in the Irish population. It sought to identify candidate genes based on information from linkage studies, reports of chromosomal abnormalities, animal studies and ...

    • A case study analysis of person-centred-planning for people with intellectual disability following their transfer from institutional care 

      Fitzsimons, Donal (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)
      Person centred planning (PCP) has an essential part to play in ensuring self determination for the lives of people with intellectual disability. It is typically taken as an indicator to the quality of services and it is ...

    • A case study of Action Design Research for privacy risk management engineering 

      Moloney, Maria (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2014)
      This dissertation presents a case study concerning the application of the Action Design Research (ADR) methodology to the development of a privacy-enhanced electronic postal system. As part of the ADR project, a model of ...