Theses: Recent submissions
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Potential Predictors for the Need for Multiple Psychological Treatment in Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse
(2024)Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) has numerous long-term consequences, both physical and psychological. It is essential to identify victims who are more susceptible to the long-term consequences of CSA and who may benefit ... -
Exploring open charmed hadron production in heavy-ion collisions within the Trajectum theoretical framework.
(2024)In this thesis the production of open charmed hadrons in heavy-ion collisions is explored using the Trajectum theoretical framework. The relevant theory for the mechanics of Trajectum will be discussed as well as the ... -
Bioinformatic avenues to improve the specificity of CAR immune therapies
(2024)Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has proven to be a successful alternative to more traditional treatment methods for patients with B-cell malignancies. This success has not yet been repeated in other cancer ... -
Immunometabolic Profiling of Enteric Glial Cells in Response to Acute and Chronic Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Exposure: Implications for Early Pathogenic Insights into Parkinson's Disease
(2024)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a widespread neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the presence of α-syn aggregates, which have been associated with the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars ... -
Floating PV systems: assessing ecological and economic impacts of Floating photovoltaic systems on in-land waters.
(2024)Around the world countries are working on the transition from a fossil fuel-based energy supply towards more sustainable energy generation by for example means of wind and solar. This is also the case for the Netherlands, ... -
Prediction and pattern recognition
(2024)Humans frequently have to learn sequential data through pattern recognition or prediction. Data can come from a wide variety of sources and in a wide variety of forms, such as melodies, numbers or texts. An underlying ... -
Regulation of cell cycle dynamics and mitosis by Wnt signaling
(2024)The cell cycle and cell division are processes that need to be highly controlled in order for organisms to function and to prevent diseases. Cell behavior is controlled through many different signaling pathways, wherein ... -
Deep Learning models to predict lung transplant rejections using cell-free DNA fragmentomics
(2024)Chronic respiratory diseases impose a significant burden to society, and lung transplant remains the last-resort treatment option. However, long-term survival rates for lung transplant recipients are hindered by a high ... -
Negatieve ouder-kind interactie en cannabisgebruik: De mediërende rol van depressieve klachten
(2024)De adolescentie is een ontwikkelingsfase waarin veel adolescenten gaan experimenteren met cannabis. Cannabisgebruik kan negatieve mentale en fysieke gevolgen hebben. Jongeren die cannabisgebruiken spijbelen vaker, hebben ... -
Towards a morally sensitive, inclusive and empowering design of period trackers: An ethical analysis
(2024)This thesis provides an ethical analysis of period trackers, assessing their role in being an ethically justified tool to empower women. Subsequently, empowerment would be established as the result of women increasingly ... -
The Art of Remembering: The Negotiation of Colonial Memory in Contemporary Visual Art by Dutch Caribbean Diasporic Artists
(2024)In this thesis I research the creation of counter-memory and the workings of colonial forgetting and remembering in artworks by Deborah Jack and Avantia Damberg - artists from the Dutch Caribbean diaspora. As the debate ... -
THE RELATION BETWEEN CSR ENGAGEMENT AND SUCCESS IN STARTUPS
(2024)Larger corporations have recognised the advantages Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can bring, leading to benefits like talent retention and improved financial performance. Although there is extensive research on the ... -
De volgende stap naar een gezonder Utrecht
(2024)In dit scriptieonderzoek zijn de samenvattingen op de themapagina's van de website van de Volksgezondheidsmonitor Utrecht onderzocht. Dit heb ik gedaan door middel van een functionele analyse en interviews met gebruikers. ... -
Hurricane Ophelia: A case study of dynamically downscaled model analysis under alternate climate scenarios
(2024)Tropical cyclones are both deadly and costly disasters, though their impact on Europe is infrequently studied due to relatively few occurrences. However, recent studies suggest the number and impact of tropical-origin ... -
Do more ’humanlike’ vision-language models perform better on grounding challenges? An attribution-based study on the VALSE image-caption alignment benchmark
(2024)Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly successful, but questions remain about the extent and nature of their grounding in the visual modality. Many prior approaches to this question tend to focus on either ... -
The Quest for Ethical AI in Higher Education
(2024)The upcoming AI Act from the European Union (European Parliament, 2023) and the ethical issues that have been occurring with Artificial Intelligence (AI) constitute an ur- gent need for good governance. Especially within ... -
Optimal Charging of Electric Buses in an Existing Schedule Utilizing the Day-Ahead Electricity Market
(2024)In recent years the push to renewable energy has increased substantially. Households are encouraged to disconnect gas lines and install solar panels to create their own renewable energy. Governments are trying to stimulate ... -
Beyond Boundaries: Women and the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest. A study of the non-migration livelihood pathways of women in Coastal Bangladesh
(2024)Bangladesh is considered one of the most climate-stressed areas globally, sensitive to slow and rapid-onset hazards. Coastal inhabitants face various socioeconomic challenges alongside physical exposure to cyclones and ...