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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 ... -
Joint Action and Prosocial Behaviour: The Role of Normative Pressure and Group Identification
(2025)Addressing complex societal challenges, such as climate change, requires technological and policy solutions, however, the core to tackling the climate crisis is collective behavioural change. To better understand how such ... -
De invloed van de coronapandemie op de sociaal-emotionele ontwikkeling van kinderen
(2025)In december 2019 brak de coronapandemie uit die wereldwijd leidde tot ingrijpende maatregelen in de sociale omgeving van kinderen. Deze maatregelen hebben mogelijk de sociaal-emotionele ontwikkeling van kinderen beïnvloed. ... -
S. Snellenberg - Kievit (6919375) PERFORMING THE CROSS: THE DANE SAGA , CIVIC RELIGION, AND MEMORY IN LATE MEDIEVAL BREDA
(2025)This thesis, Performing the Cross: The Dane Saga, Civic Religion, and Memory in Late Medieval Breda, examines the interplay of narrative, ritual, and civic identity in the Brabantine city of Breda during the late fifteenth ... -
Moscow-Damascus: How the Ukraine War Disrupted the Patron-Client Relationship Between Russia and Syria.
(2025)Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, most research has focused on the war’s impact on Europe. Despite there being clear consequences for the European region, this conflict has also had ... -
Revising the Role of the Polluter Pays Principle in Tackling Textile Microplastics Release: a Critical Analysis of the EU Textile Life-cycle Legislation in Light of Circular Economy
(2025)The purpose of this study is to evaluate to what extent the PPP is relevant or should be relevant within the provision regarding the prevention of TMPs release and covering the entire textile life-cycle, in light of the ... -
On Shame, Desire, and Other Daily Disasters: A Situated, Affective Reading of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much (2020)
(2025)This thesis offers a situated, affect-oriented reading of Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much, examining how its narrative and affective structures resist catharsis and destabilize redemptive arcs. Drawing on affect theory, ... -
Artists’ Perceptions of Precarious Working Conditions within Mobility Programs
(2025)This study investigates how artists experience precarious conditions within cultural institutions, with a particular emphasis on their participation in residencies. By unpacking these dynamics, the study contributes to ... -
Building Blocks for a Theory of Change: The Transformative Role of Impact Dimensions in Zoönomic Methods and Instruments
(2025)The zoönomy presents an alternative vision of an economy that works towards ecological regeneration and promotes the wellbeing of more-than-human life. Through applying zoönomic methods and instruments, “Zoöp” organisations ... -
Constructive Communication and Psychological Symptoms in Clinical Couples: The Mediating Role of Relationship Satisfaction
(2025)Romantic relationships involving individuals receiving mental health care are associated with high societal costs. However, relational dynamics affecting psychological symptoms remain understudied. This dyadic study ... -
The Belarus-Poland crisis: Bordering on trafficking? Exploring the crime of Trafficking in Human Beings in a border context.
(2025)My master thesis, titled "The Belarus-Poland Crisis: Bordering on Trafficking?", explores whether the treatment of migrants at the Belarus-Poland border between May and November 2021 can constitute the crime of Trafficking ... -
Wildness in the Dutch landscape - A study into the perception of wildness of large grazers at the Veluwe, the Netherlands
(2025)Due to growing human influence on the natural landscape, either through fragmentation, or human interference, the pressure on shared natural areas is increasing. Recreational purposes meet the habitats of wildlife, and ... -
Exploring Innovation Dynamics in Adopting and Scaling Nature-Inclusive Fibre Crops for Biobased Construction in Utrecht
(2025)The urgent need to decarbonise the built environment and reduce agricultural externalities has drawn growing interest in biobased construction materials. Nature-inclusive fibre crops such as hemp, flax and miscanthus ...