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Beyond Mimicry: Comparing the Roles of Inter-Individual Coordination Mechanisms in Human Pair-Bonding
(2025)Inter-individual coordination (IIC) encompasses a variety of mechanisms, including mimicry, synchrony, complementarity, and turn-taking, that play important roles in romantic human pair-bonding. Although previous research ... -
The Seventeenth Century in Focus: Lithuanian Strategies of Parity and Distinctiveness in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
(2025)This study investigates the evolving political agency of Lithuanian elites within the seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, challenging dominant historiographical narratives that often subordinate Lithuanian ... -
Carbasugars in Drug Design: Novel Strategies for Mimicking Carbohydrate Properties
(2025)Carbasugars are currently regarded as valuable scaffolds in drug design due to their structural similarity to carbohydrates and enhanced stability and enzymatic resistance. The ability to mimic oxocarbenium-ion-like ... -
Matching for Impact Co-creating alignment, trust, and communication between social startups and investors
(2025)In the context of social entrepreneurship, investment relationships are shaped by the dual challenge of achieving financial sustainability while maintaining mission integrity. While alignment between stakeholders in hybrid ... -
What Merck Can Do: Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Access to Fertility Care in the Netherlands
(2025)In the Netherlands, fewer and fewer children are being born. While this may seem like a personal matter, it has serious consequences for society. A continued low birth rate means there will be fewer people working in the ... -
Divided Memories: Colonial Aphasia and the Absence of Transnational Memory Policy at the European Parliament.
(2025)The European Parliament, as the only fully democratically elected of the EU institutions, has become one of the most relevant memory actors in the continent. However, while it has made efforts to promote the remembrance ... -
Hazoumè & Benin: Kunst als spiegel van de maatschappij in de werken van Romuald Hazoumè
(2025)Deze scriptie onderzoekt op welke manier de Beninese kunstenaar Romuald Hazoumè in zijn werk zowel lokale maatschappelijke kwesties als wereldwijde problematiek aankaart. Thema’s als illegale benzinesmokkel, machtsverhoudingen, ... -
Morphologic projections of the Boschplaat overwash
(2025)This study investigates the morphological development of a planned artificial washover on the Boschplaat, Terschelling. The washover is part of a plan to reintroduce dynamics to the island tail. This study uses a Delft3D ... -
Reconstructing Late Neogene Oceanographic Changes in the Southern Ocean: Latitudinal Migration of the Subantarctic Zone
(2025)Reconstructing the late Neogene (5.5 – 0.5 Ma) migration of frontal systems will help understand the regional climate of the Southern Ocean (SO). This study investigates frontal latitudinal shifts at Ocean Drilling Program ... -
De voorspellende waarde van de leerkracht-leerling relatie op rekenresultaten bij vmbo-leerlingen in klas 2 tot en met 3 en de modererende rol van geslacht
(2025)De rekenvaardigheden van leerlingen in de onderbouw van het vmbo blijven achter; 75% behaalt het referentieniveau 2F niet (Inspectie van Onderwijs, 2024). De leerkracht-leerling relatie wordt gezien als een mogelijke ... -
Development of a Blood-Brain Barrier-on-Chip System to Study Chronic Kidney Disease-Associated Cognitive Impairment
(2025)Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a high global prevalence, with incidence rates increasing each year. The disease is characterized by a progressive loss of kidney function and is associated with high mortality, imposing a ... -
Begripsvorming versterken in eigen methode
(2025)Deze scriptie is een verslag van een ontwerponderzoek, waarin het herontwerpen van zelf gemaakt materiaal centraal stond. De focus ligt op het ondersteunen van begripsvorming. Aanleiding was de wens van mijn collega om het ... -
Electroencephalography (EEG) Arousal Analysis: An exploratory study of spectral slope dynamics around arousals in insomnia
(2025)Background: Sleep is fundamental for cognitive performance and physical health, yet its disruption can lead to significant impairments. Insomnia, characterized by fragmented sleep and frequent nocturnal arousals—including ... -
The Spectacle of Counting: Illuminating Exploitation in The Hunger Games
(2025)This paper investigates various representations of civic exploitation in The Hunger Games trilogy and its film adaptations. Firstly, I hypothesise how and why quantitative language (i.e. language that expresses acts of ... -
A Geometric Approach to Time Delay Estimation for Acoustic Localization of Primates
(2025)Due to the threatened status of multiple howler monkey species, it is important to monitor them for effective conservation. Passive methods such as acoustic localization are becoming increasingly popular for this purpose. ... -
Formalisation in Differential Geometry and Differential Topology; Differential Forms and the Whitney-Graustein Theorem.
(2025)This thesis describes the formalisation of differential forms in the Lean theorem prover. Building on the framework for alternating maps, manifolds and bundles in Lean’s mathematical library, mathlib, it constructs ... -
De schaduwzijde van het scrollen: De relatie tussen online schadelijke inhoud en de mentale gezondheid van jongeren
(2025)Het doel van dit onderzoek is om de relatie tussen online schadelijke inhoud en de mentale gezondheid van jongeren tussen de 16 en 25 jaar te onderzoeken (M=19,1 jaar, SD=2,47). Hierbij is ook gekeken naar de invloed van ...