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Proving What? On the Structure of Proof of Concept Research
(2023)In his Representing and Intervening, Hacking (1983) argues that, contrary to common belief, many phenomena which the natural sciences investigate do not exist as such in nature. Rather, they only exist in highly specific, ... -
The Influence of Perceived Gender on Robot Abuse
(2023)A growing interest in social robotics underscores the need for comprehensive research on human-robot interaction to inform responsible robot design and application. Gender dynamics is a contentious topic in human-robot ... -
Green space and academic success
(2023)The Dutch system of education has been praised for its high quality for years, and Dutch students are one of the highest educated in the world. However, it has been reported that Dutch school performances have been declining ... -
MEV in the Ethereum ecosystem and its implications for crypto venture capital investors
(2023)MEV presents itself as a particularly stubborn problem that is a unique emergent property introduced by blockchain-based DeFi systems. The semi-fixed block times within these networks generate a novel asynchronous system, ... -
The influence of patient-reported shared decision-making on the deprescribing of fall-risk-increasing drugs in older adults
(2023)Background - Falls in older adults are a common problem with major consequences. The use of fall-risk- increasing drugs (FRIDs) is one of the risk factors and deprescribing could therefore, hypothetically, reduce the risk ... -
Exploring Interactive Experiences to Browse Extensive 360° Video Libraries in Virtual Reality
(2023)The goal of this master’s thesis is to investigate the differences in experience and effectiveness among various three-dimensional visualizations of extensive libraries to access 360° videos in virtual reality (VR) with ... -
Klimaatzorgen in een onzekere toekomt
(2023)Uit wetenschappelijke literatuur blijkt dat veel jongeren zich zorgen maken of zelfs last hebben van angstgevoelens voor toekomstige klimaatverandering (Bosschaart, 2019; Feiten En Cijfers over Klimaatverandering | Nederlands ... -
New Treatment Opportunity for Acute Myeloid Leukemias Harbouring a UBTF Tandem Duplication
(2023)Tandem duplications in the upstream binding transcription factor (UBTF-TD) have been recently identified as a recurrent mutation in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML). They are seen in 4% of de novo patients and 9% of ... -
Investigating the role of ADAM10 as a receptor for streptococcal pneumolysin
(2023)Streptococcus pneumoniae is a gram-positive extracellular opportunistic bacterium. S. pneumoniae mainly colonizes the human upper respiratory tract. Dissemination of this bacterium is a leading cause of a broad range of ... -
An Examination of Rodrigo Duterte's Rhetoric on the War on Drugs in the Philippines: The Apocalyptic Narration
(2023)Rodrigo Duterte introduced a harsh anti-drug campaign based on hunting down drug users and distributors to eliminate the persistent drug problem in the Philippines. The campaign led to extrajudicial killings of drug users ... -
“Want Opa, die kroop deur de klaai”: Verbeeldingen van het dorps- en plattelandsleven in moderne Twentse poëzie
(2023)Twentse streektaalpoëzie bevindt zich in de marges van de literatuur en wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar poëzie. Hierdoor is er weinig bekend over de aard en inhoud van deze poëzie. Dit onderzoek poogt een antwoord te vinden ... -
Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats Rotterdam. Performing urban citizenship through acts of solidarity and collective practices of repairing.
(2023)This thesis, drawing on materials collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats in Rotterdam, explores the articulations and performances of urban citizenship through acts of solidarity and collective ... -
From Virtual Bullets to Real Brilliance: The effect of debriefing after VR firearm training
(2023)Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the key emerging technologies of this century and can be used in many domains. One of these domains is the education domain, where training in VR has become much more affordable due to the ... -
Blue Noise Distributed MCMC Decorrelation of ReSTIR
(2023)Spatiotemporal resampling (ReSTIR) [Bitterli et al., 2020; Lin et al., 2021] is a popular new ray tracing technique. Unfortunately it can suffer from correlation artifacts if left unchecked. One solution for this is offered ... -
Water classification using a Random Forest model to limit river erosion in Bangladesh
(2023)Riverbank erosion is a significant issue in Bangladesh that is mainly caused by heavy rainfall in the Meghna estuary. Erosion predictions can help when planning and taking measures to protect land from erosion. One method ... -
A Material Flow Analysis for Defining Utrecht University’s Zero-Waste Goals
(2023)As the European Union and the Dutch government are moving towards a circular economy, Utrecht University (UU) has set a goal of becoming a zero-waste organization by 2030. Circularity is often contextualized using the ... -
Validation of a Bayesian mixture model for language contact with the use of synthetic language data
(2023)Speaker communities typically have some level of interaction and are not completely isolated. When individuals who speak different languages come into contact, it is probable that their respective languages undergo a process ... -
One Hundred Years of Polarization: Contesting Nationalisms in Turkey
(2023)The Republic of Turkey has become increasingly polarized in the last decade. There is a democratic backslide, economic instability, and lack of human rights under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. These developments, ... -
Determination of Dutch Landrace goats in paintings to support breeding goals
(2023)Dutch Landrace goats, primarily kept for their cultural and heritage value, have witnessed a decline in their population and a consequent loss of distinctive aesthetics. The Dutch Landrace goat traces its ancestry to a ...