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Loss and psychotherapy – an explorative study
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The aim of this study is to explore how loss is understood from a psychotherapeutic perspective. It firstly offers some definitions for grief and bereavement. The study describes and compares some of the most taught ... -
A discussion of the ways in which the Companies Act 2014 specifically targets the needs of small companies
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A discussion of the reforms made to the law of co-ownership by the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009.
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The value of integrative psychotherapy for women in prostitution
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The purpose of this research is to explore whether psychotherapy can help women who are currently affected by prostitution, bearing in mind that women, who are still working in the sex industry, may leave their ... -
A psychodynamic exploration of the origins, development and completion of an artwork
(Dublin Business School, 2018)One of the fundamental building blocks of psychodynamic psychology is the idea that deep down in our psyche we harbour uncomfortable and repulsive unconscious desires which originate in childhood. However, the majority ... -
A psychotherapeutic exploration of working with people with dementia: The therapeutic encounter and auxiliary ego - An object relations perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Dementia is increasingly prevalent nationally and globally and is no longer a disease exclusively of old age. In terms of its management medical discourse is preeminent and this dissertation seeks to demonstrate that a ... -
Can an individual get lost in a group? An exploration of group theory and its application in the context of wider society
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The purpose of this research was to investigate group dynamics that may arise at a Travistock-style group relations conference. An attempt has been made to explore the experiences of the individual member and interpersonal ... -
Hysteria – mysterious disease and its journey through centuries. Four discourses and the hysteric.
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Hysteria has been deeply imbedded in the history of human kind throughout the centuries without having medically explained symptoms. With the development of modern medicine many symptoms have been found to have an ... -
An attachment perspective on how the therapeutic relationship can help clients with anxiety
(Dublin Business School, 2018)This dissertation aimed to explore the bases of security provided by the therapeutic relationship for clients with anxiety, considered from the perspective of Bowlby’s attachment theory. Empirical findings were presented ... -
A study on identification of dog breeds through multi-class classification using Deep Learning techniques
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Image classification, a discipline which over the years has made tremendous advancements with new and improved techniques continuously being implemented to improve the accuracy. With an enormous amount of effort being put ... -
Mindfulness therapies & recent biological science : What matters amidst the hype, for ineffable me, irreducible you?
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Mindfulness Therapy has become part of the stable of psychotherapy since the 1980s when Jon Kabat-Zinn established Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as an effective therapeutic intervention. That programme ... -
An exploration of the relationship between the therapist attachment style and the efficacy of therapy
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The current study is done using a desk-based research approach, using secondary resources taken from library books and online academic journals. It explores attachment theory and applies it to the therapeutic space to ... -
Buddhist meditation and psychotherapy – points of comparison examined
(Dublin Business School, 2018)The aim of this research is to examine potential points of comparison between contemporary Western Buddhist practice, on one side, and psychodynamic and person-centred psychotherapy on the other. The research selected a ... -
Implementing Shibboleth open source access management software: the DBS library experience
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Demand forecasting using statistical and machine learning algorithms
(Dublin Business School, 2019)This research titled “Demand forecasting using statistical and machine learning algorithms” aims to compare the performance of traditional statistical and machine learning algorithms to forecast the demand for 50 products. ... -
Building a skill-based system for better employee engagement in a software organization
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Skills form an integral part of an organization for its efficient functioning and employees with multiple skill sets are a great asset to any organization. Imagine an organization where everyone talks and thinks about ... -
Text and voice-enabled chatbot enhancing the user experience in career counselling domain
(Dublin Business School, 2019)This dissertation explores the need of conversational agents, such as chatbots within the career counselling domain in educational institutes. The artefact is mainly aimed at college students who need assistance while ... -
Ensemble modeling & prediction interpretability for insurance fraud claims classification
(Dublin Business School, 2019)The insurance fraud claims classification using Ensemble modeling is explained in this research paper. Using the pattern found in the data, Machine learning algorithms were able to find the fraud claims efficiently. The ... -
Applications of data mining techniques for churn prediction and cross-selling in the telecommunications industry
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Customer Churn is a critical point of concern for organizations in the telecommunications industry. It is estimated that this industry has an approximate annual churn rate of 30% leading to a huge loss of revenue for ... -
Implementing real time recommendation systems using graph algorithms & exploring graph analytics in a graph database platform (Neo4j)
(Dublin Business School, 2019)Recommendation Systems play a very important role in our lives in the modern era. With the advent of Big Data in recent years, an enormous amount of information (in both structured and un structured data formats) is being ...