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Ethnic Business Organizations’ Impact on Member Turkish Business Owners for Access to Municipal Business Supports and Services
(2025)Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands continue to experience structural barriers in the labor market, despite increasing trends in migrant entrepreneurship. This study explores how Turkish entrepreneurs utilize social ... -
Creative Skills in Crisis: A Constructivist Critique of AI Replacing Creative Skills
(2025)This thesis investigates whether the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to produce creative outputs devalues human creative skills. Grounded in Christine Korsgaard’s constructivist value theory, I argue that ... -
Navigating the Public Space: A Mixed Method Study on the Walking Accessibility for People with Mobility Disabilities.
(2025)Walking is often seen as an accessible form of physical activity for everyone. However, being able to walk safely and freely in public spaces is not self-evident for everyone. People with mobility disabilities often ... -
Detecting and Responding: The Role of Youth Workers in Tackling Human Trafficking
(2025)Human trafficking remains a hidden yet urgent issue in the Netherlands, with young people particularly vulnerable to forms of criminal and sexual exploitation. While youth workers are uniquely positioned to detect and ... -
Empowerment in Grassroots Organisations: The Role of Holacracy - A Dutch Case Study
(2025)This research examines how Holacracy, a decentralised governance structure most commonly used in corporate contexts, operates within the grassroots organisation Grounded to evaluate its potential applicability to similar ... -
The moderating role of health status and gender in the relationship between perceived athletic competence and physical activity in children
(2025)Objective: To examine the moderating role of health status and gender in the relationship between perceived athletic competence (PAC) and physical activity (PA) in children. Study design: A cross-sectional, quantitative ... -
Unravelling the biodegradability of novel epibenthic ecosystem restoration structures and its effect on sediment dynamics in salt marshes
(2025)Salt marshes play an important role in carbon sequestration, habitat provision to marine life and coastal protection, but are degrading because of land use and climate change. Ecosystem engineers such as salt marsh vegetation, ... -
Seeking Employment as a Refugee Woman in the Netherlands: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Gender Norms and Expectations
(2025)While existing studies on female refugees’ labour market integration often emphasise structural barriers, such as a lack of language skills or limited education, less attention has been paid to how social gender norms shape ... -
Dungeons & Dragons, Baldur’s Gate 3, and the Importance of Experiencing the Game in Transmedia Storytelling
(2025)In this thesis, I argue that the audio-driven experience of playing a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) is central to defining transmedia storytelling entries based on TTRPGs. Traditionally, transmedia storytelling has ... -
Composing Short-circuits: a transductive analysis of the embodied relations between instrument and performer
(2025)This thesis explores the interconnectedness of human bodies, digital instruments and performance art. The focus is set on the analysis of the relationships between digital instruments and performers, where the interaction ... -
De medaille telt, maar de weg ernaartoe inspireert
(2025)Deze studie gaat over betekenissen van breedtesporters met een lichamelijke beperking aan narratieven rondom de inspiratie van paralympische topsport, en wat hiervan de beleidsimplicaties zijn in het sportdeelnamebeleid ... -
Chasing 28th by '28: EU conditionality and the challenges of state capture in Montenegro's path to EU membership
(2025)This thesis investigates how and to what extent European Union (EU) conditionality has facilitated the process of state capture in Montenegro. Although EU conditionality is intended to promote democratic reform, growing ... -
How Root Trait Dissimilarity Mediates Plant–Plant Interactions Under Drought and Nutrient Enrichment: A Greenhouse Experiment on Native Grassland Species
(2025)Introduction: In functional ecology, it has long been hypothesised that functional traits can be used to approximate niche differentiation and predict the outcome of plant–plant interactions. However, current research has ... -
Do global goals shape how international organizations interact? An analysis of the impact of the SGDs on the collaboration between the UN Development Programme and the UN Environment Programme
(2025)This thesis explores how the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 has influenced collaborative dynamics between two key United Nations agencies: the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and ... -
Precipitation and guano deposition: their combined impact on vegetation dynamics
(2025)Coastal ecosystems provide vital ecosystem services, including habitat provision, nutrient cycling, and shoreline protection. Vegetation helps to sustain these functions by acting as ecosystem engineers through soil ... -
MemeMind framework: Leveraging Large Language Models for Meme Classification and XAI
(2025)In the digital age, social media has become a vital platform for human interaction, reflecting a broad spectrum of ideas, emotions, and perspectives. Internet memes, as a prevalent form of digital content, have evolved ... -
The Controlling Factors of Authigenic Precipitation resulting from Submarine Groundwater Discharge Offshore the Lofoten-Versterålen Continental Margin, Norway
(2025)Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is an important process affecting ocean chemistry by transporting critical solutes, including trace elements, nutrients, and dissolved organic and inorganic carbon from the continental ... -
Purifying Video’s Visual Pollution: Videographics by Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt
(2025)The article is based on archival research into material contained by the Van de Bundts' partial artist archive housed at LI-MA, Amsterdam. Despite the status of Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt as the pioneers of Dutch abstract ...