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Cartographies of Connection: A Study and Conceptualisation of User-Object Relations
(2025)A prominent leader within the contemporary digital media landscape, the social media platform YouTube possesses noteworthy influential capacity to shape the platform’s over 2.5 billion users. Primarily functioning around ... -
De wereld in het klein: Het menselijk lichaam als microkosmos in de flapjesprenten van Catoptrum microcosmicum
(2025)In 1619 werd in Augsburg het boek Catoptrum microcosmicum suis aere incisis visionibus splendens cum historia, & pinace, de novo prodit (Catoptrum microcosmicum), geschreven door Johann Remmelin gepubliceerd. Het boek ... -
From Grass Fields to Parks: Identifying and Classifying Urban Green Space for Sustainable City Planning in Utrecht
(2025)This research analyses the location and quality of Urban Green Space (UGS) in Utrecht, aiming to categorize them based on quality factors. A combination of satellite image classification and qualitative assessments has ... -
Is there a difference in kinematics between postoperative colic horses and clinically healthy horses during 3 minutes of in-hand walking that could indicate the presence of pain?
(2025)Mobilisation of post-operative colic horses is a standard part of the rehabilitation protocol, however, not much is known about the effects of mobilisation on these horses. In this study the kinematics of post-operative ... -
Use of intraoperative peritoneal fluid bacteriology as a short-term prognostic factor in horses that underwent colic surgery
(2025)Colic is the most common emergency in equine veterinary medicine, and it affects horses and ponies of all ages, breeds, sex and purposes. At times, emergency exploratory laparotomy is needed as treatment. The aim of this ... -
The Goldilocks Zone: Optimizing T Cell Engager Affinity, Kinetics and Architecture for Anti-Tumor Efficacy
(2025)Cancer remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite marked progress in standard of care treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Such approaches have shown poor specificity, systemic toxicity ... -
Finding dense and well-shaped convex clusters in 2-dimensional point sets
(2025)We address the problem of computing a convex region with bounded area and diameter, enclosing the maximum number of points from a planar point set P. This problem originated from previous work on an automatic pipeline for ... -
Using Large Language Model Applications to Determine Citizen Science Data Compatibility.
(2025)Metadata is essential for the findability and comparison of citizen science projects. Tagging datasets with scientific disciplines or keywords allows filtering and searching on citizen science platforms. However, certain ... -
Machine Learning Analysis of Gut Microbiome Profiles in Infants from Different Feeding Practices and Their Association with Health Outcomes
(2025)Breast milk is widely recognized for its critical role in infant health, with emerging evidence indicating that early nutrition shapes the infant gut microbiome, immune system development, and long-term health. Feeding ... -
Towards Continuous Sleep Monitoring of Preterm Infants in Complex NICU Scenes: A Video-Based Approach Using Eye Cues
(2025)A fetus in the third trimester sleeps the majority of the day, which is important for the development of the brain. When born preterm, sleep is likely to be interrupted due to exposure to external stimuli, which could be ... -
Deterministically counting k-paths and trees parameterized by treewidth in single exponential time
(2025)A valuable tool in evaluating the local structure of complex networks is the detection of network patterns, first described by Milo et al. (Science, 2002). Network patterns are small subgraphs that occur significantly ... -
"Swish and Flick!" Comparing Gestures and Menus in Defence Against Toxicity and Harassment in Social Virtual Reality.
(2025)This thesis explores the use of gesture-based interactions as a strat- egy to mitigate toxicity and harassment in Social Virtual Reality (VR) games. As these environments become more popular, the fre- quency of negative ... -
Expedition EVeresT: Exploring extracellular vesicles as regulators of T cell responses
(2025)Extracellular vesicles (EVs), including exosomes and ectosomes, are highly heterogenous lipid bilayer- enclosed structures comprising of various surface proteins and cargo molecules such as nucleic acids, (enzymatic) ...