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Nice to meet you : handshaking, personality and aggression
(Dublin Business School, 2006)Aims include finding a correlation between handshaking characteristics, personality and aggression plus a difference in how males and females score. NEO Five Factor Inventory and The Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire ... -
Nicotine replacement versus acute nicotine : differences in cognitive tasks, social anxiety, stress and cravings
(Dublin Business School, 2014)This study investigated the effects of nicotine levels on cigarette smoking and nicotine replacement on attention, memory and cravings in smokers. Another aim of the study is to examine if smokers or non-smokers exhibit ... -
'Nietzsche's Pregnant Bitch'. An exploration of what lurks beneath the masks of patriarchy in the works of August Strindberg
(Dublin Business School, 2016)This thesis is an investigation into the plays and life of August Strindberg in an attempt to unravel the following curious questions they may provoke in regards to how a die-hard misogynist captured and portrayed with ... -
The Nightmare
(Dublin Business School, 2004)Henry Fuseli was a forerunner of the artistic Romantic era; many of his works reveal his love for the grotesque, the sublime, and the fantastic. He is best remembered for The Nightmare (1781) and his fascination with the ... -
Nip/tuck : cosmetic surgery and the influence of body image and self esteem in young adults.
(Dublin Business School, 2010)This study investigates the influence of Self Esteem and Body Image on young adults who have undergone cosmetic surgery. There were a total of 212 participants who took part in the research, 109 participants were female ... -
No control and no way out - an exploration of birth trauma and its effects
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Childbirth in Ireland has become a medical process over the course of the last century, in order to lower maternal and infant mortality rates, and great success has been enjoyed in this objective. However, within this era ... -
No man's land. An investigation of the profile, experiences and aspirations of female workers in a leading urban advertising company in contemporary Irish society
(Dublin Business School, 2001)Seidler (1989), proposes that at least since Kant and the Reformation, rationality has been the dominant western mode available for construing experience, and rationality and masculinity have been conflated so that each ... -
The noir of noir : a certain tendency in American film
(Dublin Business School, 2014)In this dissertation, I will not attempt to put Film Noir into a genre, but discuss it as a pivotal movement in cinema’s history. I will incorporate a number of arguments in an effort to define and understand the film ... -
The North, the end
(Dublin Business School, 2006)The hypoFinal Year Project of this study set out to draw upon the less documented relationship between the media and peace in an effort to define the relationship between the media and the peace process in Northern Ireland. ... -
'Now that I am forever with child' : a study of the subjective experience of women in pregnancy
(Dublin Business School, 2002)In writing this thesis I have set myself the task of examining female subjectivity in pregnancy. However, it is immediately apparent that in order to see this one must first look at female subjectivity itself, and in ... -
Object detection in a video based on frame differencing using deep learning
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Earlier, security guards were employed to safeguard the people and premises. Due to advancements in technology and cheap storage cost, surveillance cameras have been installed in many public and private properties to prevent ... -
Occupational pension and scenario investment decisions for age 30-34 (Dublin, Ireland.)
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Purpose – This Research aims at simplifying terms, Schemes and simulates various investment decisions as regards to sustainability of contributions that should provide annuities after retirement. Methodology - Through the ... -
Occupational stress and job satisfaction differences between nurses in residential hospitals for the elderly
(Dublin Business School, 2006)Ample research has been conducted into stress and its ensuing health consequences. However, there is a dearth in research into stress amongst geriatric nurses. The current Mixed Design research examines stress and its ... -
Occupational stress, compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and burnout among Irish nurses
(Dublin Business School, 2020)This study investigated occupational stress, compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue and burnout among Irish nurses. A quantitative mixed correlational, cross sectional survey design used purposive snowball sampling ... -
Occupational stress, coping and general health : a comparison between psychiatric and general nurses
(Dublin Business School, 2007)This study examines occupational stress, coping and general health differences between psychiatric and general nurses, using a between subjects design. The study was prompted by a lack of research in this area. The Perceived ... -
Oedipal guilt, punishment and criminal behaviour
(Dublin Business School, 2014)The successful negotiation of the Oedipus complex is vital for our psychical development as it provides us with the means to form relationships and integrate into society. Resolution of the Oedipus complex requires the ... -
‘The old people had brooms’: Yanyuwa women, material culture and resistance
(SAHKartell, 2017)This piece investigates the complex and multiple meanings associated with one piece of Australian Aboriginal material culture, a broom made by Yanyuwa woman Emalina Evans a-Wanajabi in the 1980s. Yanyuwa people constitute ... -
On becomings: Exploration of reasons why qualified therapists choose not to practice
(Dublin Business School, 2019)This research aims to better understand the context within which fully qualified psychotherapists, with some experience of client work, made the decision not to continue with their careers after significant effort to ...