Theses: Recent submissions
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Indicators for marine and coastal ecosystem services of the Dutch north sea
(2023)Marine and coastal ecosystems in the North Sea provide essential ecosystem services, supporting habitat provision, erosion control, and food production for local species, while also delivering economic value to humans. ... -
Filling in the gaps in the NDFF
(2023)Our research is distributed into the following stages: A. The production of a "ready for analysis" data set with attributes of a location or area listed in each row together with the matching occurrence counts. We assembled ... -
Gender Transformative Approaches – a silver bullet for gender equality? Investigating the effects of the GALS methodology on gender transformative change for coffee smallholders, as implemented in the Circular Coffee Project in San Martín, Peru
(2023)Despite many years of development work on gender inequality in global agricultural supply chains, there are still significant gaps that prevent gender equality from being achieved. Recent feminist literature has critiqued ... -
Passende zorg: Achterliggende principes en toepassing bij zorg rond het levenseinde
(2023)Deze masterscriptie onderzoekt (de implicaties van) het concept van passende zorg in de context van de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg, met een specifieke focus op zorg rondom het levenseinde. Het doel van het onderzoek is om ... -
Understanding the EU’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
(2023)This research examines new factors that can potentially be more important in influencing the EU’s reaction to Russian hostilities than it was thought before. This factor, or one of the most important at least, is the ... -
Maritime spatial planning and regional EU lobbying
(2023)Regions in the EU are becoming increasingly responsible for implementing EU legislation. This has incentivised regions to increase their efforts of influencing EU legislation. It is currently poorly understood why regions ... -
Livelihood in the Living Eden: Costa Rica’s Stimulation of Landowners to Become Agents of Forest Conservation and its Impacts on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
(2023)Costa Rica is the first country to have created a significant forest transition in which deforestation was halted and forest-biodiversity restored. This transition was facilitated through institutions that stimulated landowners ... -
The road to effective animal welfare policy
(2023)This is a study on the construction of animal welfare policy within Dutch municipalities. The research is inspired by Utrecht University, and the desire of the municipality of Veenendaal to discover what is going on ... -
Speculating on an Afrofuturist Anthropocene
(2023)This thesis proposes a theoretical alliance made up of three parts to the end of furthering the thinking on genre flailing and estrangement in an Anthropocene context. It advocates a combination of Afrofuturist science ... -
Arbowetgeving 1998 en de arbeidsomstandigheden op Schiphol
(2023)1 / 43 ARBOWETGEVING 1998 EN DE ARBEIDSOMSTANDIGHEDEN OP SCHIPHOL Welke invloed heeft de Arbowet uit 1998 gehad op de arbeidsomstandigheden van het grondpersoneel bij Schiphol in de periode 1998-2022? 2 / 43 Samenvatting ... -
Development of an efficient photochemical method to specifically label and detect lysine-crotonylated (K-cr) proteins.
(2023)Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are essential for cell survival and play an important role in regulating the biology of a cell. Lysine crotonylation (Kcr) is a recently discovered histone and non-histone PTM ... -
Methods to interrupt focal sensorimotor seizures: Self-reports of patients with central lobe epilepsy
(2023)Objective: To collect and evaluate self-suppression methods used by patients with seizures arising from the primary sensorimotor cortex, so-called central lobe epilepsy (CLE), to estimate their efficacy in suppressing focal ... -
In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigations of Manganese Oxide and Gadolinium Oxide
(2023)Nanomaterials have been widely studied owing to their interesting properties and potential applications. In this thesis, two novel nanomaterials were studied using in-situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM): (1) MnO ... -
Who bears the burden? Rare-variant burden testing in sub-gene units to identify ALS hotspots
(2023)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a large genetic component. Many of the variants seen in ALS patients and controls are so rare that a potential association between the ... -
Circusing Societal Condition - An Inquiry into How Contemporary Circus Enters Unconventional Spaces in Taiwan
(2023)This thesis investigates contemporary circus practices that enter unconventional spaces in Taiwan and how they reflect different societal conditions. As this research entails peculiar types of space in the real world and ... -
The Cyclical Nature of Violence: Examining the Relationship Between Exposure to Violence as a Child, Violence Against Women and Gender Norms in Pakistan
(2023)Violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) are serious public health issues that have an impact on millions of people globally. This thesis aimed to explore the relationship between exposure to violence ...