Theses: Recent submissions
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Measuring Procedural Learning in Preschool-Aged Children: Evidence from a Shortened SRT-Task.
(2025)Procedural learning is often linked to language acquisition. However, despite the important changes in language development that preschool-aged children undergo, little research with this group has been done using a manual ... -
Fan Engagement with the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Negotiating Franchise Fatigue and Queer Representation in Agatha All Along
(2025)This thesis examines how online fan discourse surrounding Agatha All Along (AAA) reflects shifting relationships between audiences and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Drawing on fan studies, transmedia storytelling, and ... -
“I've always felt like Garashir was kind of canon.” Refurbishing a franchise and leveraging fans’ memories in Star Trek: Lower Decks
(2025)Hollywood studios have established a trend of revitalising old franchises, creating nostalgia-driven reboots, sequels and spin-offs. These rely on the fans’ memories of the originals, especially those who read products ... -
Efficiently and reliably evaluating text classification in data sampled via active learning
(2025)Text classification helps structure data such as medical documents but requires many labeled data examples, which are costly. Active learning reduces this cost by selecting only the most informative data to be labeled. ... -
A Turn-Based Serious Game for Learning Kanji for L2 Learners of Japanese
(2025)Learning kanji is one of the hardest aspects of learning Japanese, especially for L2 learners of Japanese. Kanji are complex, and methods to learn them are often not motivating. This study researched if a serious game could ... -
Instagram Stories and the Commodification of Everyday Life
(2025)This thesis sets out to explore the commodification of everyday life that is occurring through Instagram’s Story feature. The Story feature’s main characteristic is that posts will be deleted after the 24 hour time limit ... -
Planning for LGBTQ+ in the Urban Sport Park
(2025)In recent years, the Netherlands’ public agenda has centred on diversity, equity, and inclusion - particularly in the City of Utrecht. Yet, the most recent Lhbtiqa+-monitor 2024 (Brammer et al., 2024) illustrates that ... -
An Introduction to Parametric Morse Theory and Pseudo-Isotopies
(2025)Parametric Morse theory is a refinement of classical Morse theory that studies families of smooth functions on a manifold parametrized by an auxiliary space. This approach is particularly useful in understanding the topology ... -
External validation of six COVID-19 prognostic models for predicting mortality risk in older populations in a hospital, primary care, and nursing home setting
(2025)Objective: To systematically evaluate the performance of COVID-19 prognostic models and scores for mortality risk in older populations across three healthcare settings: hospitals, primary care, and nursing homes. Study ... -
Fan engagement in sports broadcasting. A Case Study of the Comment Section of Tomorrow Golf League (TGL) on YouTube
(2025)This thesis investigates fan engagement with the Tomorrow Golf League (TGL), through a thematic analysis of YouTube comments. The research is situated at the intersection of sports media and digital fandoms. The research ... -
Rail4Earth
(2025)This report is about my internship at the consultancy BiomimicryNL, through which I participated in the Rail4Earth project. The aim of the project is to make the European railway sector more sustainable, environmentally ... -
Introducing spatio-temporal graph networks to displacement predictions in the context of the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
(2025)A devastating earthquake impacted southern Turkey and northern Syria in 2023, laying waste to infrastructure alongside causing massive displacement of affected people. Utilizing mobile-phone records of people in the ... -
Organic matter burial capacity and characterization of coastal lakes in the Gösku Delta salt marsh
(2025)Coastal vegetated environments are among the most productive ecosystems of planet earth, despite covering a fairly small global area. Their high capacity to capture and store Carbon in their sediments has recently been the ... -
Western Representation and Cultural Sensitivity in Disney’s Moana
(2025)This master’s thesis offers an analysis of Polynesian cultural representation in Disney’s Moana (2016) through theories and concepts such as imagology, Said’s theory of Orientalism, Hall’s concept of cultural representations ... -
The growth machine in the European suburb: Land-value capture and the use of anti-segregation discourse in Kontula, Helsinki
(2025)In the United States, growth machine theory has served as a key framework for understanding the mechanisms of local urban politics. It maintains that coalitions of local elites work together to intensify land use, enabling ... -
TARGETING IMMUNE INHIBITORY RECEPTORS IN AUTOIMMUNITY: A PROMISING STRATEGY TO TREAT AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
(2025)Autoimmune diseases, marked by chronic inflammation and dysregulated immune responses, contribute significantly to global morbidity and mortality. This review explores the potential of agonistic antibodies targeting immune ... -
ENTWINED ENTITIES Cavernous Reveries of the More-than-Human in Il Buco
(2025)This thesis explores how Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il Buco (2021) develops an aesthetic of entanglement that reframes the more-than-human as a cinematic presence. Situated at the intersection of ecocriticism, phenomenology, ... -
Exploring the Role of Perspective, Here-and-Nowness, and Emotional Intensity in Intrusive Suicidal Mental Imagery
(2025)Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, with an average of more than five people dying by suicide daily in the Netherlands. Suicidal mental imagery plays a significant role in suicidal ideation, yet research on the ... -
Modelling different mechanisms of T -cell regulation
(2025)The ability of the immune system to neutralise pathogens and infection is well known, but equally as important is its ability to maintain its own homeostasis via regulation of the T-cell response. Improper regulation of ... -
Riemannian Groupoids
(2025)This thesis studies the geometry of Lie groupoids. In particular, it introduces a new type of Riemannian metric on groupoid that is compatible with the groupoid structure. This metric is a simplification of an earlier ...