Theses: Recent submissions
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De grens van transparantie: lobbyregulering en de tabakslobby
(2025)Dit is een onderzoek naar welke rol lobbyregulering kan spelen in relatie tot de transparantie van de Nederlandse tabakslobby. Om dit te onderzoeken, worden de percepties van beleidsmakers, lobbyisten en het maatschappelijk ... -
Accession Anticipation in Environmental Ambition
(2025)The European Union (EU) is entering a new period in its development in which two separate trajectories coincide: the renewed momentum for EU enlargement following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the green transition ... -
One Solution for DINO GAME: AR Dinosaur Game
(2025)The AR Dinosaur Game is part of the larger DINO project—an interdisciplinary initiative that leverages game AI and augmented reality to promote outdoor activity and social engagement among children, especially those with ... -
Leading narrative classification
(2025)The transformation of media consumption through social platforms and short-form video content has created an urgent need for computational tools capable of automatically identifying leading narratives in news text. While ... -
Enhancing Adversarial Detection for Multi-Type Attacks through Globalized and Localized Features
(2025)Adversarial attacks pose a serious threat to the use of deep learning in computer vision. This thesis addresses two primary questions: whether a single detection method can effectively handle multiple types of adversarial ... -
Biological and Artificial Neural Representations of Concepts: Effects of Multimodal Learning in Sighted and Blind Individuals vs. Foundation Models
(2025)Human language acquisition, processing and generation is often deeply intertwined with visual experience. Hence, there have been claims (congenitally) blind individuals process linguistic features, such as the concreteness ... -
Heat justice, or just heat? A case study analysis of justice considerations for vulnerable groups in urban heat stress policies in the Netherlands.
(2025)Heat stress impacts people differently, with vulnerable groups being especially burdened. Heat stress is increasing in urban areas due to both the removal of green spaces by urbanisation and increased extreme weather events ... -
Metric Selection for Root Cause Analysis of Cloud Infrastructure
(2025)Cloud-native systems composed of microservices provide a lot of telemetry data, such as log messages and time-series metrics. Accurately interpreting this data to find performance problems remains a challenge. As services ... -
The market potential of seasonal energy storage trading on the Dutch-day ahead market
(2025)As the Netherlands transitions toward a renewable electricity system, seasonal energy storage (SES) may play a key role in balancing seasonal supply and demand mismatches. This thesis assesses the market potential and ... -
From Text to Table: Optimizing Prompt Design for Semantic Information Extraction in Dutch Healthcare A Case Study on Mapping Hospital Action Plans for Reducing Waiting Lists to the Menzis Format Using ChatGPT
(2025)The growing interest in large language models like ChatGPT has opened new possibilities for tasks requiring nuanced language understanding. ChatGPT's adaptability makes it especially suitable for niche applications, even ... -
Securitisation and Nubian Erasure in Postcolonial Egypt
(2025)This thesis investigates how the Aswan High Dam (AHD) was securitised in postcolonial Egypt and what this meant for the displacement and silencing of Nubians. While the dam has long been celebrated as a symbol of sovereignty ... -
Exploring the energy burden disparity across Dutch income groups: A historical perspective
(2025)In the Netherlands, rising energy prices have raised concerns about energy affordability and inequality among Dutch households in recent years. These price shocks have exacerbated disparities in household Energy Burden ... -
Changing Interpretation or Managing Reactions? The Impact of Trait Affect and Executive Functioning on Emotion Regulation Strategies of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression: The Moderating Role of Social Support
(2025)Emotion regulation is explored as one of the factors that could contribute to a healthier society during the ongoing worldwide mental health crisis. The trait-consistent affect regulation hypothesis (Hemenover & Harbke, ... -
A realist process evaluation of the TreatPaCS-trial for preschool age children who stutter: to bridge current knowledge to future practice
(2025)Background: In Belgium, the Lidcombe Program, Mini-KIDS and the Social-Cognitive Behaviour Therapy are frequently used to treat preschool age children who stutter (PCWS). The TreatPaCS-trial compares the outcome of these ... -
Financial Decision-Making In The Social Media Era: How Social Media Affects Investment Decisions Among University Students
(2025)With growing interest in investing among young adults, this study examines the impact of exposure to investment-related content, particularly through TikTok, on university students' investment decisions and risk attitudes. ... -
Living with climate risk for differently-abled individuals in Sri Lanka
(2025)While climate change intensifies, the ability to adapt varies widely across populations (Ngo et al., 2020). Differently abled individuals (DAI) are often highly affected by climate-related risks, yet their experiences ... -
A new path forward?: A look at the impacts of Samos' different arrival infrastructures on the locality of Vathy
(2025)a research thesis looking at the multiple arrival infrastructures on the island of Samos. It was analysed through a locality perspective, and systems thinking approach. residents of the islands capital Vathy were interviewed ... -
Holocene development of the Caorle Lagoon, Northeast Italy
(2025)Foraminferal analysis, sedimentological descriptions, granulometry and radiocarbon dating of five sediment cores enabled a Holocene reconstruction of the Caorle lagoon (Northeast Italy). Foraminifera define five biozones ... -
Understanding Car Use and Ownership among Individuals Aged 18-26 in Réunion Island
(2025)La Réunion, a French overseas department, has experienced a significant rise in car use and ownership over the past 20 years. This has led to increasing levels of congestion, pollution, and the dominance of car-based ... -
Pasture cropping for sustainable agricultural production in African drylands
(2025)This literature review examines the potential of pasture cropping as a sustainable agricultural method in African drylands. Pasture cropping is an Australia developed agro-pastoral system that combines annual crop cultivation ...