Theses: Recent submissions
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Framing tools for fooling farms: An agnotological history of the nitrogen-dispute in Dutch newspaper discourse (1950 – 1980)
(2024)In a period of accelerating modernization of Dutch agriculture (1950 – 1980), newspaper media saw the coming of a public debate about fertilizers, a cosmopolitical issue combining technical aspects from agricultural sciences ... -
De Samenhang tussen de door Jongeren ervaren COVID-impact en Sociale Agst in 2022 en 2023.
(2024)Eind 2019 brak het coronavirus (COVID-19) uit, resulterend in een pandemie en sociale beperkingen, met negatieve gevolgen voor het welzijn van adolescenten: internaliserende problemen onder adolescenten namen toe tijdens ... -
Monuments and Memories: An analysis of processes of Decolonisation in Bristol, UK and Fremantle, Australia
(2024)["",""]This thesis has focused on two colonial monuments in both Australia and the UK respectively; The Explorers Monument in Fremantle, Western Australia and the statue of Edward Colston which was removed out of its plinth ... -
Studying the impacts of pre-training using ChatGPT generated text on downstream tasks
(2024)In recent times, significant advancements have been witnessed in the field of language models, particularly with the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on vast amounts of data extracted from internet ... -
The North-South perspectives on reducing GHG emissions from deforestation in Colombia: A clash of Visions? A constructivist analysis on Colombia's leadership in sustainable development and North-South cooperation to reduce deforestation in the Colombian Amazon.
(2024)[""This thesis constitutes a constructivist analysis of how Colombia's conservation narrative, exemplified by its active role in the 2030 Agenda, has influenced the Joint Declaration of Intent to reduce GHG emissions from ... -
De thuisbevalling: een traditie waard om te behouden?
(2024)Medicalisering is een fenomeen waarbij natuurlijke processen als medisch probleem worden gedefinieerd. Dit proces is in hoge mate sociologisch en normatief van aard. In zekere zin heeft de geboortezorg ook een proces van ... -
Unsupervised Paper2Slides Generation
(2024)Although presentations are an excellent medium for sharing academic opinions and ideas, there has been a scarcity of research into automating the "paper to slides" generation task, and a lack of publicly available datasets. ... -
Effects of spin inertia on ground-state energies: the spin-instanton
(2024)Recent experiments have shown that spin dynamics depend on spin inertia. If the spin dynamics are dependent on spin inertia, the energy levels of a single spin could have an inertia-dependence too. In this thesis, we ... -
Small States, Big Aspirations? Shifting Dutch development policies (1973) and Dutch technical aid to Colombia: the Microbiological and Parasitological Centre project (1969-1976)
(2024)Jan Pronk, Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation, implemented a progressive development policy in 1973, drastically affecting Dutch development aid to the Third World. These developments were embedded in the rise of ... -
Queering Nature After Death, Giving Back to the Non/living: Materiality, Mediality, and Agency of the Mycelium Material in the Loop Living Cocoon™ Coffin
(2024)This thesis provides a New Materialist analysis of the Loop Living Cocoon™ coffin, which is made of living fungal mycelium material. More specifically, it leads to a trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between ... -
Seeing cold, eating warm: Effects of imaginative storytelling and immersive virtual reality winter environments on food perception
(2024)Consumer studies have demonstrated that the context of the environment affects the type of food being chosen. In this regard, both immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and more traditional media (e.g., text-based storytelling) ... -
Serial mediation relationship between intolerance of uncertainty, worry, anxiety and sex
(2024)Intolerance of uncertainties (IU) has become a topical transdiagnostic factor in anxiety disorders. Anxiety symptoms have been commonly linked to sex and literature shows that women tend to suffer more from anxiety related ... -
Precariously Beyond Border: The Life of a Digital Nomad. An ethnographic exploration of the tensions in selfmaking and being made in the remote working community in Lisbon, Portugal
(2024)This thesis explores the tensions between self-making and being made by digital nomads and remote workers in relation to their experiences with precariousness in Lisbon, Portugal. Digital nomads are workers that perform ... -
De 'gemiddelde Nederlander'. Statistiek en het volk in politiek taalgebruik (1900-2018)
(2024)[""This thesis forms a conceptual history of the term ‘gemiddelde Nederlander’ (average Dutchman). It examines the ways in which politicians in the Dutch parliament used the term and the separate terms ‘gemiddeld(e)’ and ... -
Een zoektocht naar welstand - De theorie van Gerard De Lairesse in de praktijk van Philip Tidemans (1657-1705) tekeningen en schilderijen
(2024)Op basis van de analyses in deze scriptie is geconcludeerd dat Philip Tideman (1657-1705) de theorie van Gerard De Lairesse (1641-1711) zeer nauwkeurig toepaste in zowel zijn tekeningen in Leidse album als de schilderijen ... -
Exploring New Horizons in Treatment: The Potential of Radiation-induced Neuromodulation to Enhance Psychological Therapies in Refractory Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(2024)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) poses a significant challenge in psychiatric treatment, with a considerable number of patients exhibiting limited response to conventional therapies. As a result, neuromodulatory and ...