Theses: Recent submissions
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Diagnosing deviations: explainable cellwise anomaly detection in tabular clinical data
(2025)The increasing volume and complexity of tabular data generated in clinical trials has outpaced traditional manual review workflows, which typically rely on univariate thresholds and two‐dimensional visualizations. Individual ... -
Is the Use of Biased Algorithms Morally Defensible?: Why Biased Algorithms Should be Used Under Certain Circumstances
(2025)Literature on the ethics of algorithms, particularly biased algorithms, has primarily focused on the algorithms themselves and their direct outcomes rather than the total impact of their use. This has led to a substantial ... -
From Farmland to Parliament: The Dutch Farmers' Protests and the Politics of Rural Identity
(2025)In recent years, the Dutch farmers’ protests have sparked public debates on agricultural and climate policy, farmers’ identity and urban-based politics. Farmers were outraged at the way they were treated and portrayed ... -
Culture and Modernity: Role of Turkmen Women in Shaping Turkmen Identity through Türkmençilik and Soviet Reforms
(2025)As the first gendered interrogation of türkmençilik (Turkmenness), this thesis challenges dominant narratives that marginalize Turkmen women’s voices, exploring the dual role of Turkmen women as both upholders of patriarchal ... -
500 Days of Trying: A research on Queer Temporality, Masculinity and Romance in 500 Days of Summer
(2025)This thesis explores how the romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer (Webb, 2009), engages with, and potentially challenges, masculine heteronormative ideals of romantic progression. The movie deviates from the typical romantic ... -
An Iota of Intensity is a Whole World: Exploring Affective Realms Beyond the Binary of Feminist Resistance and Colonial Conformity Ahluwalia, R.K; 0853372
(2025)“A feminist gut might sense something is amiss. You have to get closer to the feeling” (Ahmed, 2017) Based on Affect and post-colonial theory, this research explores the colonial entanglement and embodiment of emotions ... -
Claiming Space and Making It Stick: Stickers and the Making, Maintenance, and Experience of Urban Ideological Territory
(2025)Political stickers operate as tools of ideological territorialization, enabling grassroots actors to claim space, assert identity, and contest exclusion within urban environments. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with ... -
Van Dante tot Ferrante. Taal voor het volk: de Italiaanse tonen van Wereldbibliotheek (1905-2025)
(2025)Deze scriptie richt zich op de uit het Italiaans vertaalde fictie en non-fictie van Wereldbibliotheek tussen 1905 en 2025. Welk vertaald werk van welke Italiaanse auteurs, in welke genres en door welke vertalers verscheen ... -
Linking Informant Discrepancies to Observed Variations in Children’s Disruptive Behavior
(2025)Informant discrepancies in the ratings of children’s behavior are a persistent challenge in mental health research and clinical practice, especially in treatment decisions for children with disruptive behavior. These ... -
Marriage, Faith, and Harm: A Feminist Analysis of Domestic Violence in Ghana Surname: Akomprah ID: 1414739
(2025)This thesis explores how bride price (marriage) and Christian religious teachings intersect with domestic violence in Ghana, using a Ghanaian decolonial feminist standpoint. It centres the voices of survivors as co-creators, ... -
The effects of Speculative oil trading on Inequality and the role of Governance: A comparative study of five African countries
(2025)This thesis examines how the financialization of oil, specifically speculative trading in oil futures, affects inequality in five African countries heavily reliant on oil: Gabon, Nigeria, Angola, The Republic of Congo and ... -
Duurzame Inzetbaarheid van Werknemers met een Arbeidsbeperking
(2025)Dit onderzoek bestudeert de relatie tussen support en de duurzame inzetbaarheid van werknemers met een arbeidsbeperking. Hierbij wordt er gekeken naar support vanuit leidinggevenden, collega’s en jobcoaches. Duurzame ... -
WebGenie: An LLM-Based Method for Automated Website Design Recommendations
(2025)In today’s fast-paced digital environment, creating an effective website has a profound impact on brand presence and business operations, but it also brings increasingly complex demands for web design, which may consume ... -
Choosing Through Fear: Trauma-Related Symptoms and Biased Decision-Making in Aversive Contexts
(2025)This study investigated how trauma-related symptoms influence decision-making under aversive conditions. Eighty-seven participants completed a modified two-armed bandit task that included unpredictable exposure to aversive ... -
The Impact of Effort-Reward Imbalance on Temporal Discounting in Career Decision-Making
(2025)Temporal discounting, the tendency to devalue rewards that are further in the future, is widely studied but underexplored in career-decision making, despite its significance for individual and organisational outcomes. While ... -
The influence of spatial factors on the pain-ameliorating effect of CT-optimal touch
(2025)Recent studies show that CT-optimal touch, which is the gentle stroking of the skin, may serve as an innovative way to relieve chronic pain. However, there’s still much unknown about the spatial factors influencing its ... -
Who, What, Where, and Why of Feedback: Leadership's Role in Learning Organisations
(2025)Feedback plays a critical role for self-reflection and learning in the workplace. Leadership beliefs, the organisational context and (in)formal training measures shape its quality. Yet, organisational learning is often ... -
Exploring Students' Motivation Regulation Strategies in Dutch Secondary Vocational Education (MBO)
(2025)Students in Dutch secondary vocational education (MBO) often face motivational challenges, contributing to high dropout rates. By using motivation regulation strategies (MRSs), students can address these challenges, yet ...