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Enhancing modern proteins with ancient insights: the Power of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction
(2025)Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) has emerged as a powerful approach in protein engineering, offering unique insights into evolutionary biochemistry while enabling the creation of proteins with enhanced stability, ... -
Graph Neural Networks in Molecular Property Prediction
(2025)Molecular property prediction is a key component in drug development, enabling early and accurate assessments of the chemical and biological characteristics of potential compounds. This step optimizes the selection process ... -
The Role of Self-Compassion and Rejection Sensitivity in ADHD Symptoms
(2025)This study explored the relationship between ADHD symptoms, self-compassion, and rejection sensitivity, considering potential gender differences. Prior research has shown that individuals with ADHD often experience lower ... -
Digital innovation in Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing - Restructuring and implementing a new nomenclature for the Client Registration Management at EBPT NL
(2025)Management summary In this thesis addresses the digital infrastructure used within Eurofins BioPharma Testing Netherlands (EBPT NL), a national branch of the global company Eurofins. The current naming structure used for ... -
Towards High Resolution (~1 Km) Global Surface Water Quality Modelling: A Test Case for Citarum Basin, West Java, Indonesia
(2025)As the global population grows, the demand for safe water access increases. At the same time, increased wastewater disposal from urban activities and reduced river dilution capacity contribute to the deterioration of ... -
Bioinformatic Advancements in GWAS Analysis: Addressing Causality, Multiple Testing, and Regulatory Roles of Non-coding SNPs
(2025)Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have transformed genetic research by uncovering thousands of genetic variants linked to complex traits and diseases, offering opportunities for personalized medicine. Yet, three major ... -
The Effect of Interdependence and Co-presence on Compliance with a Rule-breaking Robot
(2025)As robots and virtual agents become integral workplace teammates, reliance on them increases. This increases the potential for conflicts between robot-issued guidance and established workplace rules. Therefore, it is vital ... -
Modeling action decisions in working memory-guided behavior
(2025)When performing everyday tasks, we make use of our visual working memory (VWM) to temporarily store the information we see. In this study, we have designed the TCC-AT model which can predict naturalistic behaviour where ... -
Environmental Value Adjustments for Asset Pricing
(2025)In this thesis, we explore how environmental aspects can be incorporated into asset valuation in the financial sector to internalise climate change economically. We propose several Environmental Value Adjustment (EVA) ... -
Endogenous tagging of the heterotrimeric kinesin-2 motor and inducible vimentin relocalization to study intracellular organelle organisation
(2025)Within cells, organelles are organized in a distinct manner where most organelles are clustered around the nucleus. This perinuclear architecture is essential for organelle function and is maintained through interactions ... -
Derailed Accountability: The Greek Media Representations of Greece's Deadliest Rail Collision
(2025)Media coverage of crimes of the powerful remains limited and ambiguous, often presenting the harmful outcomes as isolated events, accidents or unforeseeable tragedies. The 2023 Tempe rail collision in Greece, which ... -
The prowess of the lăutari – Performing the ‘lăutar space’ at the ‘Nacht van de Balkan’ concert in 1980 - Linden
(2025)On 6 September 1980, the Circustheater in the Netherlands hosted the ‘Nacht van de Balkan’ (NvdB), a concert featuring renowned ensembles from Romania and Hungary. The majority of the invited musicians belong to the Roma ... -
Stella Koudouma 4580869: Narrating Migrant Agency: (Re)Constructing Migrant Subjectivity in Collaborative Refugee Life Writing
(2025)This thesis examines how migrant agency and identity function in collaborative refugee life narratives to observe if they reinforce the figure of the ‘refugee’ or construct an emergent migrant subjectivity. I maintain that ... -
Student- run clinic: effect of a medical masters’ curriculum-embedded student-run clinic on prescribing skills of medical students at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
(2025)Aims: the prevalence of prescribing errors are common, especially among junior doctors. Undergraduate master students acquire few opportunities to prescribe medication during their studies. The implementation of an ... -
Augmenting compliance workflows: AI integration at Avery Dennison
(2025)Avery Dennison is a leading manufacturer of self-adhesive labels. The company relies on its Product Compliance team to ensure that every product meets the latest health, safety, and environmental standards. These regulations ... -
Devising synthetic cell division
(2025)Recent advances in the field of synthetic biology bring synthetic living cells on step closer. The ability to reproduce through division is a crucial element towards this end. Different steps of cell division have been ... -
Investigation of heterochronic bolting in lettuce.
(2025)The premature loss of rosette habit also called “heterochronic bolting” is an undesired trait in lettuce cultivars. As part of the LettuceKnow programme, this research project focuses on the rosette habit of the lettuce ... -
‘I’m Sorry, Could You Please Repeat That?’: A Research on Bilingual Children’s Ability to Process and Repeat Mixed Sentence Repetition (MSR) Tasks
(2025)This study investigates the code-switching behavior of bilingual Turkish-Dutch children, focusing on the distinction between content words and function words during Mixed Sentence Repetition (MSR) tasks. Code-switching, ...