UU Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Exploring the impact of nonverbal behavior on educational chatbot user experience
(2025)3D Digital Humans such as the ones from Unreal Engine Metahumans are becoming used for a variety of tasks from education to health and entertainment. The integration of techniques helps digital humans to engage in dynamic, ... -
Unpacking Anora (2024): Navigating Genre to Represent Sex Work and the American Dream.
(2025)This thesis examines how Anora by Sean Baker (2024) uses genre conventions to construct the representation of sex work, the American Dream, and the spatial dynamics where these themes intersect. Through a textual analysis ... -
Fungal succession and the future of carbon cycling in Northern bogs
(2025)Anthropogenic atmospheric pollution and emissions remain major causes of climate change, with serious projected harmful consequences to biological systems and our way of life. With carbon as the main greenhouse gas culprit ... -
The regulatory architecture of mitotic entry
(2025)The timing of mitosis is tightly regulated and is essential for proper development. In this review we investigate how the timing of mitosis is regulated and how this can be altered during development or after development. ... -
Revisiting Operation Genesis: State Terror Behind the Veil of Displacement
(2025)This thesis contains a qualitative analysis of Operation Genesis in Colombia and its aftermath. Although officially framed as a military offensive against guerrilla forces, the operation led to severe human rights violations, ... -
Routing the Transport of Goods for Institutional Care Customers
(2025)This thesis focuses on developing an algorithm to solve the routing problem with optional electric vehicles, which takes driver preferences into account for institutional care customer. The heterogeneous fleet, partial ... -
Shifting Operators on Spherical Functions of Compact Symmetric Pairs
(2025)Representation theory provides a unified framework for understanding many of the classical special functions appearing in theoretical physics, such as Legendre polynomials, by interpreting them as spherical functions of ... -
Evaluating Dutch Social Bias in Large Language Models
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used by people in their daily lives. However, LLMs can contain biases and express these biases in their responses. One of these biases is social bias, on which this thesis is ... -
Two Centuries Room for the River
(2025)The Room for the River program is generally regarded as successful in freeing up room to the river and seen as an exemplary alternative to conventional river flood protection measures. However, over the course of the last ... -
FRAMING THE FUTURE OF AI: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NARRATIVES SURROUINDING AI- DEVELOPMENT
(2025)This thesis examines how large tech companies and media outlets construct competing narratives around artificial intelligence (AI) development, revealing a discursive struggle that shapes global perceptions of innovation, ... -
Exploring AI-Assisted Triage: Comparing Classical Machine Learning and GPT-4o for Clinical Decision Making
(2025)Accurate and efficient triage is essential to optimize the allocation of limited medical resources in the emergency department (ED). Nevertheless, triage decisions are inherently hard, requiring rapid but justifiable ... -
The Fat Tail Problem
(2025)DNA deuterium labeling provides a minimally invasive technique for studying cell population dynamics over prolonged periods. However, interpreting labeling data is sometimes complicated by the persistent high labeling ... -
Alpha-synuclein fibril structures in Lewy pathology
(2025)Alpha-synuclein aggregation is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), PD with dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Misfolded ... -
Utilization of the household carbon footprint assessment for equitable policy formulation in Greece.
(2025)This thesis research aims to address the literature gap regarding the utilization of the household carbon footprint assessment for the formulation of equitable climate policies to assist the efforts for CO2 reduction in ... -
How Local Perspectives Matter. Local and Outsider Perceptions of Urban Deprivation: A Deep Learning Approach Using Remotely Sensed Imagery of the Accra-Tema City Region
(2025)The rapid growth of cities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has put increasing pressure on livability, resulting in deprived urban areas (DUAs). Previous research has shown that local livability perspectives can ... -
National Forest Attribute Maps Using ALS andSample Plot Data for the Netherlands
(2025)Forest inventory is essential for sustainable forest and nature management, as well as for policymaking at various levels. Traditional methods rely on plot sampling and provide reliable estimates of variables such as stem ... -
Brabantse identiteit in carnavalsmuziek door de tijd heen
(2025)Tijdens carnaval is de regionale identiteit meermaals onderwerp van gesprek. Carnaval is een feest dat lokale tradities in stand houdt, maar zich ook aanpast aan de tijd waarin het wordt gevierd (Wijers, 2000). Muziek kan ...