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Onderbouwd of onderbuik?
(2026)Deze scriptie onderzoekt hoe de principes van Evidence Based Management (EBM) kunnen bijdragen aan een betere onderbouwing van Human Resource Management (HRM) beslissingen van leidinggevenden binnen een middelgrote ... -
Improving and evaluating a rhythm game for children with sensory processing issues
(2026)Serious games hold promise as therapeutic tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), particularly in the domains of sensory and motor regulation. This thesis investigates how targeted design modifications ... -
Pay Attention to your Neighbours: Leveraging Attention in Dimensionality Reduction
(2026)Dimensionality reduction techniques are essential for visualising and interpreting high-dimensional data. Traditional methods such as t-SNE are widely used due to the quality of their projections, but they suffer from ... -
From Recommendations to Decisions: Assessing Explainable AI for Time Management in Educational Settings
(2026)While explainable AI (XAI) promises improved decision-making through transparency, emerging research questions its universal benefits, particularly under temporal constraints where cognitive load theory and flow theory ... -
Rewilding Landscapes & Ecosystems
(2026)In the fight against Anthropogenic land use and climate change, rewilding has been one of the proposed solutions, promising to make ‘nature’ natural again. This form of ecological restoration is, however, contested, as a ... -
Food fermentation as a model system for predictive synthetic community design under community-level inhibition
(2026)Microbial food fermentation continues to gain interest from the industry and the scientific community due to the potential nutritional benefits and promising use for advancing food security and sustainability. A valuable ... -
The effects of dietary fiber fermentation products on skin-resident cells
(2026)Dietary fibers induce compositional shifts in taxa, including enrichment of beneficial SCFA-producing genera such as Faecalibacterium and Roseburia under β-glucan and lactobionic acid. Fiber-mixed induced the most diverse ... -
Infant Neural Tracking and Phonological Awareness at Pre-School Age
(2026)A growing body of research shows that neural tracking of language, especially infant-directed speech, is related to a child’s subsequent language development. These studies equated language development with vocabulary size, ... -
Controls on grain growth in polar ice
(2026)This thesis provides a comprehensive study of the controls on grain growth, specifically in the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core. It is very important to understand which processes control the grain ... -
Predicting the effect of human, heart-related regulatory SNPs in their native and orthologous mouse genomic contexts
(2026)Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common developmental malformation in newborns. Recent genetical studies have raised attention at the role of non-coding regions in CHD. To study these variants, researchers relied ... -
Exploring the role of Microtubule-Associated Proteins in organising microtubule bundles in cells using expansion microscopy
(2026)Microtubules are an essential part of the cytoskeleton, involved in many cellular processes such as cell division, cell motility and intracellular transport. To execute their various functions, microtubules interact with ... -
Towards Auxin-Inducible Degradation in Mouse Small Intestinal Organoids
(2026)The Golgi complex is essential for the processing, sorting, and packaging of proteins and lipids to their intra- and extracellular target destinations. To execute these functions efficiently, the Golgi complex is highly ... -
Stakeholders’ Reactions to the 2025 FDA Draft Guidance on Overall Survival in Oncology Drug Approvals
(2026)Overall survival (OS) and quality of life (QoL) are widely recognised as the most robust endpoints for capturing meaningful clinical benefit in oncology. Yet the heterogeneity of oncology settings, characterised by long ... -
Modernizing the Disney BRDF Viewer
(2026)In this work, a new layered BRDF explorer is presented. This BRDF explorer allows users to create and visualize layered material models consisting of analytical BRDFs and, as planned feature, measured BRDFs. The need for ... -
Cost-Effectiveness of Long-Acting PrEP among MSM and/or TGW in Middle- and High-Income Countries, with Relevance for the Netherlands - A Literature Review
(2026)Scientific Abstract Background: Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) has long been marketed around the world as an efficient method of preventing HIV infections. It is often targeted towards those at the highest risk of ... -
Exploring The Effects of Physical Activity and Gratitude Journaling on Daily Psychological Flexibility: An EMA Study Among Students and Young Professionals
(2026)Background: Psychological flexibility (PF)—the capacity to stay open, aware, and engaged in value-guided behaviour—is essential for young adults’ mental health (Hayes et al., 2012; Park et al., 2020). Previous research ...