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The mediational role of cultural identity conflict and loneliness in the relationship between bicultural stress and psychological symptoms in bicultural young adults
(2025)Abstract Globalization and migration have led to increasing bicultural populations, creating both opportunities and challenges for mental health. This study examines the relationship between bicultural stress and psychological ... -
Creating Digital Surface Models from satellite imagery using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
(2025)Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are increasingly used to generate Digital Surface Models (DSMs) from satellite imagery. However, research is far from mature and questions considering the accuracy in different environments, ... -
Computing Partial Order Alignments Using Net Unfoldings
(2025)Conformance checking is a prominent subfield of process mining. It aims to quantify to what extent the observed data matches the intended process. The de-facto method to achieve this is called alignments, which is computed ... -
The Liberated Mess: The Evolution of the Female Antiheroine in Contemporary Television
(2025)This research analyzes the evolution of the “Liberated Mess,” a contemporary television archetype of the female antiheroine characterized by emotional instability, vulnerability, and resistance to traditional femininity ... -
Vesicle trafficking characteristics of Axon-carrying Dendrite neurons and axon initial segment plasticity
(2025)Generally, mammalian neurons have a single axon and multiple branched dendrites emerging from the cell body. Notably, in Axon-carrying Dendrite (AcD) neurons the axon emerges from a dendrite instead of the soma. ... -
Interculturele Communicatie in de Revalidatiezorg: Ervaringen van zorgprofessionals binnen Maria-oord, Careyn
(2025)n de Nederlandse revalidatiezorg creëert een toenemende diverse patiëntenpopulatie uitdagingen in de communicatie, mede door taal- en cultuurbarrières. Dit onderzoek richt zich op de ervaringen van zorgprofessionals binnen ... -
Comparing Subjective Stress Reactivity in OC Users and Hormonal IUD Users while Considering Neuroticism
(2025)Hormonal contraceptives (HCs) have previously been found to influence physiological stress responses. However, the relationship between HCs and subjective stress remains understudied. Therefore, the present study aimed to ... -
Exploring the impact of nonverbal behavior on educational chatbot user experience
(2025)3D Digital Humans such as the ones from Unreal Engine Metahumans are becoming used for a variety of tasks from education to health and entertainment. The integration of techniques helps digital humans to engage in dynamic, ... -
Unpacking Anora (2024): Navigating Genre to Represent Sex Work and the American Dream.
(2025)This thesis examines how Anora by Sean Baker (2024) uses genre conventions to construct the representation of sex work, the American Dream, and the spatial dynamics where these themes intersect. Through a textual analysis ... -
Fungal succession and the future of carbon cycling in Northern bogs
(2025)Anthropogenic atmospheric pollution and emissions remain major causes of climate change, with serious projected harmful consequences to biological systems and our way of life. With carbon as the main greenhouse gas culprit ... -
The regulatory architecture of mitotic entry
(2025)The timing of mitosis is tightly regulated and is essential for proper development. In this review we investigate how the timing of mitosis is regulated and how this can be altered during development or after development. ... -
Revisiting Operation Genesis: State Terror Behind the Veil of Displacement
(2025)This thesis contains a qualitative analysis of Operation Genesis in Colombia and its aftermath. Although officially framed as a military offensive against guerrilla forces, the operation led to severe human rights violations, ... -
Routing the Transport of Goods for Institutional Care Customers
(2025)This thesis focuses on developing an algorithm to solve the routing problem with optional electric vehicles, which takes driver preferences into account for institutional care customer. The heterogeneous fleet, partial ... -
Shifting Operators on Spherical Functions of Compact Symmetric Pairs
(2025)Representation theory provides a unified framework for understanding many of the classical special functions appearing in theoretical physics, such as Legendre polynomials, by interpreting them as spherical functions of ... -
Evaluating Dutch Social Bias in Large Language Models
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used by people in their daily lives. However, LLMs can contain biases and express these biases in their responses. One of these biases is social bias, on which this thesis is ... -
Two Centuries Room for the River
(2025)The Room for the River program is generally regarded as successful in freeing up room to the river and seen as an exemplary alternative to conventional river flood protection measures. However, over the course of the last ... -
FRAMING THE FUTURE OF AI: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NARRATIVES SURROUINDING AI- DEVELOPMENT
(2025)This thesis examines how large tech companies and media outlets construct competing narratives around artificial intelligence (AI) development, revealing a discursive struggle that shapes global perceptions of innovation, ... -
Exploring AI-Assisted Triage: Comparing Classical Machine Learning and GPT-4o for Clinical Decision Making
(2025)Accurate and efficient triage is essential to optimize the allocation of limited medical resources in the emergency department (ED). Nevertheless, triage decisions are inherently hard, requiring rapid but justifiable ...