Theses: Recent submissions
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KRAAMZORG AS CARE AND BEYOND: INTERNATIONAL MOTHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANTS IN THE NETHERLANDS
(2024)The postnatal period is an important and transitional time for new mothers, and more complex for mothers in a migration context. In the Netherlands, maternity care assistants (MCAs) provide postnatal care at home. Past ... -
Klingon Terror, Human Trauma: Islamophobia, Imperialism, and Intersectionality in Star Trek: Discovery
(2024)This thesis examines how the contemporary Star Trek franchise engages with discourses of Islamophobia through its 2017 series Star Trek: Discovery. This series continues the franchise’s long history of engaging with ... -
Not Queer Enough: The Representation of Asexuality in Sex Education
(2024)In recent years, there has been a significant increase in asexual representation in television. Despite this increased visibility, asexuality remains one of the least represented queer identities on television, causing the ... -
The Relation Between Childhood Trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder Profile: The Role of Attachment Styles
(2024)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder that specifically affects adolescents, who often experience serious interference with psychological wellbeing and acute life-threatening symptoms. There is ... -
"Bridging Uncertainty and Eating Pathology in People Recovered from an Eating Disorder: the Mediating role of Emotion Suppression.
(2024)This study explored the role of emotion regulation(ER) strategies and Intolerance of Uncertainty (the excessive negative response to uncertainty; IU) in individuals who recovered from Eating Disorders (EDs). Specifically, ... -
Finetuning GearNet-Edge Embedding, utilising Various MLPs to Predict Peptide Binders to MHC Class 1 Complex
(2024)The binding of peptides to the MHC class 1 complex allows the CTL cells in the immune system to eliminate the cell if the LTC receptor recognises it as foreign. Therefore, predicting the peptides that can bind to the MCH-I ... -
Operationalizing the concept of BKN for the municipality of Amsterdam with the use of Urban Regulating Ecosystem Services
(2024)The Dutch organization “De Vogelbescherming” has introduced a new concept called “Basiskwaliteit Natuur”, which aims to enhance the quality of nature and thereby the protection of common species. The municipality of Amsterdam ... -
Life Cycle Assessment as a tool to restore Ecosystem Services
(2024)In the last century, humanity has drastically increased production of goods and services, and this has created a strong impact on the environment and earth’s resources. The sustainability initiatives to decrease environmental ... -
Definition of ready in practice
(2024)This paper describes a case study on the rationale of using definition of ready at an Agile Scrum team, in combination with how teams create, maintain and apply their definition of ready. Conducted qualitative interviews ... -
Language of Thought Models for the Learning of Multiple Concepts: to which Degree is Pragmatic Reasoning Involved?
(2024)This work explores the interaction between pragmatic reasoning and concept learning. Specifically, it examines how reasoning about a speaker’s intentions influences concept learning, as well as how learners’ beliefs about ... -
The Convergence of Effortful Control and Self-Perception on the General Factor of Psychopathology during the Developmental Phase of Childhood and Adolescence
(2024)The General factor of psychopathology (p-factor) represents a unified dimension that reflects the underlying risk for various psychological disorders. It is hypothesised to be influenced by individual traits such as effortful ... -
The Mediating Role of Self-disgust on the Relationship Between Negative Body Image and Sexual Dysfunction
(2024)Negative body image concerns are prevalent among men and women and appear across various age groups. Previous research has found positive associations between negative body image and impaired sexual functioning, manifested ... -
The Ghost Resident: A Hauntology of Data Invisibility in the Dutch BRP Data Assemblage
(2024)This thesis explores the concept of the ghost resident, a notion that emerges within the Dutch governmental data assemblage to describe an individual who occupies a residential home but is not registered in the central ... -
The Parameterized Complexity of Roman Domination Reconfiguration
(2024)In this thesis, we prove the W[2]-completeness of Roman Domination Reconfiguration, parameterized by the number of tokens used and the length of the Reconfiguration sequence, under both the Token Jumping and the Token ... -
A recommender system supporting users of an integrated web-based interface
(2024)Recommender systems have gained considerable popularity for their helpful suggestions to end-users. However, limited research has been conducted exploring their potential of supporting users as they navigate through ...