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Analysis of sediment transport in the Mekong using the lumped BQART model
(2025)Decreasing sediment concentrations in rivers have led to a decrease in deposition in delta regions worldwide. This has led to an increased flood risk in coastal zones with large potential damages. This decrease in sediment ... -
Modelling energy consumption of inter-basin water transfer megaprojects worldwide
(2025)Are global water transfers worth the energy cost? With billions facing water scarcity, Karsten De Pauw's MSc research dives into the energy demands of Inter-Basin Water Transfer megaprojects worldwide. Using cutting-edge ... -
Validating and Developing LeydenJar’s New Product Marketing
(2025)Layman's abstract: LeydenJar is a company that makes pure silicon anodes, which are compounds that allow for high-energy batteries. They are targeting drone manufacturers as potential customers because it is believed that ... -
‘Voor weetgierige volken’:Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de representatie van het stedelijk leven in woord en beeld van Azië en Indonesië in twee werken van Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672).
(2025)Abstract In dit onderzoek staan de werken Het Gezantschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den Grooten Tartarischen Cham (1670) en Zee- en lantreize door verscheide gewesten van Oostindien (1682) van Johan ... -
Evaluating the implementation of pharmacists in Dutch primary care, a feasibility study
(2025)De rol van apotheker-behandelaar is een nieuwe rol in de huisartspraktijk. Het POINT-i project draagt zorg voor de implementatie hiervan. Om deze implementatie te evalueren is een protocol opgestelt. Dit protocol wordt in ... -
Navigating Diversity: An Evaluation of LGBTIQA+ Inclusion in Dutch Municipal Policies: challenges and best practices in implementing Rainbow policies.
(2025)The present study sets out to explore the ways in which the empowerment and safety of LGBTIQA+ people in different areas of society have become key priorities in municipal policies focused on inclusivity and equality. ... -
“The world-creating power of narratives”: A Critical Analysis of Fungal Aesthetics and Worldbuilding in Jeff Vandermeer’s Ambergris Books
(2025)This thesis critically examines the interconnection of fungal aesthetics and worldbuilding in Jeff Vandermeer’s Ambergris books through a lens of econarratological theory. Scholars of econarratology, the field of study ... -
Escaping Userism: Fighting for De Beauvoirian Freedom in Data-driven Personal Technologies
(2025)In this thesis I investigate the moral responsibilities of people who use data-driven personal technologies (DDPTs) in relation to the increasing threats of globally used DDPTs. I do this with a focus on the existential ... -
Family Functioning and the Course of Depression and Anxiety in Offspring of Affected Parents: The Moderating Role of Effortful Control
(2025)Objective: Family cohesion and flexibility are known to contribute to the onset of depression and anxiety in offspring with a parental history of these disorders. This is the first study that examines the impact of family ... -
Metabolic modeling of zebrafish - Combining robust and stochastic optimization methods with GC-flux and FVA to account for interindividual variation in gene expression
(2025)Introduction: Genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) predict metabolic fluxes based on genomic information from genes underlying its metabolic network. Van Steijn et al. improved the only available GEM for zebrafish (ZebraGEM) ... -
Een diep, duister dal? Historiografie en periodisering van de Middeleeuwen in de klas (Masterscriptie Martin Averdijk)
(2025)In deze masterscriptie wordt er door middel van een vakdidactisch ontwerponderzoek gekeken naar mogelijkheden voor geschiedenisdocenten om historiografie en periodisering te behandelen in de klas. Historiografie en ... -
Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mother-neonate dyads: exploring clinical outcomes, passive immunization transfer, and safety and efficacy evaluation of vaccination
(2025)This review contains an in-depth analysis of COVID-19 and its effect on pregnant women and their neonates. Specifically, the following topics are included: how COVID-19 in pregnant women affects newborns, the risk of the ... -
From Signal to Source: Cell Type Deconvolution of Cell-free RNA and Its Clinical Relevance in Atherosclerosis
(2025)Circulating cell-free RNA (cfRNA) holds significant potential for the minimally invasive assessment and monitoring of atherosclerosis, a disease characterised by plaque formation in the arterial walls. While plasma cfRNA ... -
Critical Infrastructure Art: Infrastructure, Hyperobject, Atmospheric Sensing
(2025)In this thesis I analyse a selection of artistic projects about the internet that belong to an emerging field I propose to call critical infrastructure art. These projects are artistic, critical and take an infrastructural ... -
Preventing loneliness of the new elderly using a digital platform
(2025)Loneliness is a common problem with many possible causes and negative consequences. The elderly are one of the more vulnerable groups, and they have fewer options to solve the problem. To prevent loneliness for the next ... -
Pure Past Action Masking for Safe Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning
(2025)Reinforcement Learning is a machine learning paradigm for solving sequential decision-making problems in non-deterministic environments. However, vanilla RLalgorithms, which rely on trial-and-error learning, exhibit unsafe ... -
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