Theses: Recent submissions
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Remineralisation after Palliative Radiotherapy and its Effect on SINS and Pain Response
(2024)Introduction Spinal metastases, occurring in up to 40% of cancer patients, often lead to instability and pain. This study examines the effects of palliative radiotherapy (RT) on bone remineralisation, spinal instability ... -
Giving Birth to the Nation: Securitising Abortion Rights in Post-Socialist Poland
(2024)This paper explores the journey of Polish women’s rights organisation FEDERA as it fought to secure abortion rights in the country amidst a backdrop of shifting political and social landscapes in the post-socialist era. ... -
Investigating PARP-mediated slowdown of Replication using scEdU-seq
(2024)PARP enzymes are polymerases that facilitates the attachment of poly(ADP-ribose) chains to effector proteins, and are known for their ability to recognize and signal sites of DNA damage. Previously, we have shown that ... -
Early warning for gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star coalescence using field programmable gate arrays
(2024)The present thesis is a proof-of-concept study for the possibility for a machine learning-based pipeline to run on an field programmable gate array in order to detect gravitational waves emitted by the early inspiral of ... -
Understanding Adoption Dynamics: GenAI Assistants in Software Development
(2024)Prior research has shown the huge potential of using GenAI assistance in various domains, including Software Development (SD). However, theses studies are mainly focused on the capabilities of these tools rather than the ... -
Torsion in Tate-Shafarevich groups of abelian varieties
(2024)We say that an abelian variety satisfies the Hasse principle if it has a QQ-rational point whenever it has \RR-rational point and a QQ_p-rational point for all primes p. For every abelian variety it is possible to construct ... -
Boekhandel in beweging: Onderzoek naar de veranderende positie van de fysieke boekhandel in Nederland
(2024)De huidige studie onderzoekt de effecten van cultuurpolitiek, digitalisering en economische krachten op de toekomst van de boekhandel. Via literatuuronderzoek en door gebruik te maken van statistische gegevens over het ... -
IDEAL: Integrating the Detection of changes, Exploration of instance space, and Assessment of performance into Active Learning
(2024)With Active Learning becoming more used in the context of data streams, there is also an increasing need to have an algorithm appropriate for this setting. As such, the active learner must be able to handle the challenges ... -
Screening the vaginal microbiome as a predictive tool in reproductive health
(2024)The vagina is an organ of utmost importance in reproductive and sexual health. Its health is largely determined by the status of the niche microbial community that lives within it: the vaginal microbiome. A vaginal microbiome ... -
Slurs Reclaimed: A Reparatory Solution to the Problem of Ambiguity
(2024)In this thesis, I discuss the linguistic process of slur reclamation. In general, philosophical theories on slurs focus on why slurs offend. I question whether these accounts adequately explain cases of slur reclamation. ... -
RMA Thesis - Eloise Pasmore O'Pray - 6271332
(2024)This thesis investigates a phenomenon that I discovered in the British Film Institute archive: only a few years after commercial Television was launched in Britain in 1955, viewers stopped providing their full attention ... -
‘Vier tekeningen, ogenschijnlijk van weinig waarde’ : De vier tekeningen van amateurtekenares Angelique Wilhelmina Quarles van Ufford (1763-1812).
(2024)In deze thesis zijn de vier tekeningen van Angelique Wilhelmina Quarles van Ufford (1763-1812) onderzocht binnen de context van de rol van de amateurtekenkunst voor de Hollandse adellijke vrouw in achttiende-eeuw. Dit is ... -
Wolves in Bishops’ Clothing: Prince-Bishops against Cathedral Chapters and Estate Assemblies in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Holy Roman Empire
(2024)The Holy Roman Empire contained a vast multitude of states, many with their own unique political circumstances and government forms. Despite this, many studies on early modern state-building and even histories of the Holy ... -
Wildschut (1516027): The Maniera Etrusca in Florentine Art and Artistic Collections of the Late Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Antique Art in the Service of Florentine Civic Mythology
(2024)This thesis explores the ways in which the maniera Etrusca was defined and appropriated in the artistic production of the late 15th and 16th centuries, with a particular focus on the Etruscan self-fashioning of Leo X and ... -
Vulnerable Communities and Decision-Making in Energy Transitions.
(2024)Over the past years, European governments have initiated strategies for energy transitions and label upgrades in the housing sector of urban neighborhoods, aiming at climate mitigation, while tackling energy poverty. To ... -
Small island urbanization in the Caribbean: Balancing urban growth with land constraints in Aruba and Barbados
(2024)International applications of spatial planning theory often disregard the nuances of ‘place,’ overlooking the significant differences between island and non-island contexts. Yet, in small islands, the challenge of constrained ... -
Responsible Auditing: Privacy Constrained Fairness Estimation for Decision Trees
(2024)Gegevensbescherming en privacy worden steeds crucialer naarmate gegevens waardevoller en potentieel krachtiger worden. Bovendien neemt de druk van regelgeving en de samenleving toe op ontwikkelaars van Artificial Intelligence ...