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External validation of six COVID-19 prognostic models for predicting mortality risk in older populations in a hospital, primary care, and nursing home setting
(2025)Objective: To systematically evaluate the performance of COVID-19 prognostic models and scores for mortality risk in older populations across three healthcare settings: hospitals, primary care, and nursing homes. Study ... -
Fan engagement in sports broadcasting. A Case Study of the Comment Section of Tomorrow Golf League (TGL) on YouTube
(2025)This thesis investigates fan engagement with the Tomorrow Golf League (TGL), through a thematic analysis of YouTube comments. The research is situated at the intersection of sports media and digital fandoms. The research ... -
Rail4Earth
(2025)This report is about my internship at the consultancy BiomimicryNL, through which I participated in the Rail4Earth project. The aim of the project is to make the European railway sector more sustainable, environmentally ... -
Introducing spatio-temporal graph networks to displacement predictions in the context of the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
(2025)A devastating earthquake impacted southern Turkey and northern Syria in 2023, laying waste to infrastructure alongside causing massive displacement of affected people. Utilizing mobile-phone records of people in the ... -
Organic matter burial capacity and characterization of coastal lakes in the Gösku Delta salt marsh
(2025)Coastal vegetated environments are among the most productive ecosystems of planet earth, despite covering a fairly small global area. Their high capacity to capture and store Carbon in their sediments has recently been the ... -
Western Representation and Cultural Sensitivity in Disney’s Moana
(2025)This master’s thesis offers an analysis of Polynesian cultural representation in Disney’s Moana (2016) through theories and concepts such as imagology, Said’s theory of Orientalism, Hall’s concept of cultural representations ... -
The growth machine in the European suburb: Land-value capture and the use of anti-segregation discourse in Kontula, Helsinki
(2025)In the United States, growth machine theory has served as a key framework for understanding the mechanisms of local urban politics. It maintains that coalitions of local elites work together to intensify land use, enabling ... -
TARGETING IMMUNE INHIBITORY RECEPTORS IN AUTOIMMUNITY: A PROMISING STRATEGY TO TREAT AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
(2025)Autoimmune diseases, marked by chronic inflammation and dysregulated immune responses, contribute significantly to global morbidity and mortality. This review explores the potential of agonistic antibodies targeting immune ... -
ENTWINED ENTITIES Cavernous Reveries of the More-than-Human in Il Buco
(2025)This thesis explores how Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (2021) develops an aesthetic of entanglement that reframes the more-than-human as a cinematic presence. Situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, phenomenology, ... -
Exploring the Role of Perspective, Here-and-Nowness, and Emotional Intensity in Intrusive Suicidal Mental Imagery
(2025)Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, with an average of more than five people dying by suicide daily in the Netherlands. Suicidal mental imagery plays a significant role in suicidal ideation, yet research on the ... -
Modelling different mechanisms of T -cell regulation
(2025)The ability of the immune system to neutralise pathogens and infection is well known, but equally as important is its ability to maintain its own homeostasis via regulation of the T-cell response. Improper regulation of ... -
Riemannian Groupoids
(2025)This thesis studies the geometry of Lie groupoids. In particular, it introduces a new type of Riemannian metric on groupoid that is compatible with the groupoid structure. This metric is a simplification of an earlier ... -
Towards Safe and Sustainable Aviation Decarbonization: The Case for Fewer Flights on Higher Quality SAF
(2025)In response to the escalating climate crisis, Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) represent the aviation’s latest endeavor to maintain the industry’s license to operate. This thesis meticulously examines SAF technology, risks, ... -
Ex vivo engineering of Natural Killer cells with transcription factors to accelerate cell differentiation
(2025)Natural killer (NK) cells have been recently used as a promising alternative to T cells in adaptive cell therapy for hematological malignancies due to their potent cytotoxic capabilities and ability to recognize abnormal ... -
The quality of epidural anaesthesia for emergency C-section after labour analgesia
(2025)Aim Spinal anaesthesia (SA) and epidural surgical anaesthesia (ESA) are both regularly used for caesarean section (CS) in women that received epidural labour analgesia (ELA). This study aimed to investigate the efficacy ... -
Condense and Efficient Explanations in ASPIC+: An ASP approach to element explanations.
(2025)Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a critical aspect of AI systems, addressing the pressing need to enhance user understanding across various applications, thereby fostering trust and responsible use. ... -
Assessment of a new acoustic camera localizing vocalizations of newly weaned piglets
(2025)Objectives: Vocalizations of interest of newly weaned piglets were induced in order to assess the performance of a new acoustic camera, that uses an array of 64 microphones to map sound intensity over video recordings in ... -
Addicted to the Owl: Habitual Media Use and Gamification in Duolingo User Communities on Reddit
(2025)This thesis explores user engagement with Duolingo’s gamification features on Reddit. Through a mixed-methods analysis combining walkthrough study and computational text analysis, it examines how design elements like ...