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Multimodal Prosodic Phrasing in Infant-Directed Speech: Testing the Cumulative-Cue Hypothesis with Gesture Restriction
(2025)Human communication is inherently multimodal; the relation between speech and co-speech gestures is well established and facilitates face-to-face interaction. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain unclear. ... -
Impact of Genotype-Guided Versus Standard Dual Antiplatelet Therapy on Quality of Life in Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Patient-Reported Outcomes Comparison
(2025)Background: Genotype-guided CYP2C19 dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) aims to enhance the balance between ischemic and bleeding events by switching ticagrelor or prasugrel to clopidogrel. Even though effective in minimizing ... -
Let’s talk about sex baby
(2025)Background. Sexual regret is an important emotional outcome of sexual behaviour and is particularly relevant for girls, who face more social and biological risks than boys. Frequent child-parent conversations can support ... -
How Sapphic Songs Slay: A Queer Musicological Research on Sapphism, Vocality and Death in the Sirens' Voices in the Odyssey
(2025)This research is a reparative reading and a queer mythopoesis of the mythological figure of the sirens in the Odyssey, and more specifically of their deadly voices. In order to explore how sapphism, vocality and death ... -
Scary, Saggy, Subversive? Transformative Hagsploitation in The Substance (2024)
(2025)This thesis aims to explore critical and transformative analyses of the ageist-sexist figure of the 'hag' in horror cinematography. The thesis builds upon a rich history of feminist and queer theories on monstrosity and ... -
Navigating Norms: Transgender and Non-Binary Teachers in Dutch Secondary Schools
(2025)This thesis creates a narrative that discusses how school policies, interpersonal relations with teachers, students, and school leaders, the school’s spatial design, and the discourse around professionalism shape the ... -
How to become-human: a shapeshifter's perspective
(2025)From ancient epic to contemporary TV-series, the shapeshifter has a longstanding tradition of exploring the boundaries between human, animal and divine. Most intriguing is its persistent popularity within a society ... -
Navigating Different Perspectives: Differences Between Student Teachers’ Boundary-Crossing Competence in Addressing Student Misbehavior
(2025)Student teachers often feel uncertain when addressing misbehavior due to conflicting advice across contexts. Placement schools typically favor a directive approach and the Marnix teacher education institute emphasizes ... -
Parental behaviors in relation to child self-esteem development: The contribution of parental warmth, rules and parent-child agreement
(2025)Introduction: This study aimed to examine the relationship between parental warmth and rules and children’s self-esteem. Specifically, it investigated not only the perceptions of parents and children individually, but also ... -
Life Projects as a Protective Shield Against Loneliness: Moderating Effects on Flourishing Across Ages During the Pandemic in China
(2025)This cross-sectional study examined how life projects (LP) moderate the negative relationship between loneliness (LS) and flourishing (FS) across two age groups (18–30 vs. 31–65 years) during China’s COVID-19 pandemic. ... -
Van grip naar begrip
(2025)Effectief burgerschapsonderwijs voor mbo-studenten is belangrijk. Zij hebben weinig vertrouwen in de samenenleving, een lage politieke participatie en weinig vertrouwen in hun burgerschapsvaardigheden. Ondanks groeiende ... -
The Role of Digital Technologies in Preserving Refugee Narratives The Case of Chios, Greece
(2025)This thesis explores how digital technologies- specifically GIS mapping and digital archives- can preserve and communicate refugee experiences on Chios Island by bridging historical and contem porary migration narratives. ... -
Object pronouns in Catalan as a heritage language in Germany and in the Netherlands
(2025)In the study of heritage languages, significant attention has been given to the areas of grammar vulnerable to attrition and change. Among them, the acquisition and mastery of object pronouns has been an area of extensive ... -
On the one-loop corrections to gravitons in de Sitter space induced by massive non-minimally coupled scalars
(2025)The graviton self-energy captures how quantum effects modify the dynamics of gravity itself. These corrections, induced by quantum matter fields, are expected to influence the evolution of gravitational perturbations during ... -
Actions Per Minute (APM) as an Analogue to Cognitive Workload: Measuring Workload Through In-game Metrics & Subjective Self Report Criteria in World of Warcraft
(2025)This study aimed to determine whether Actions Per Minute(APM) can be used as a proxy for cognitive workload in a demanding human computer interaction task, namely playing World of Warcraft. By correlating APM with performance ... -
Sprinting Towards Sustainability: The Effect of Agile Ways of Working in Retail Sustainability Performance
(2025)Imagine a large retail company that states it will become more environmentally friendly by reducing emissions, improving working conditions, and utilizing resources more efficiently. However, simply making these promises ...