Theses: Recent submissions
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Perceived Algorithmic Fairness using Organizational Justice Theory: an Empirical Case Study on Algorithmic Hiring
(2023)Growing concerns about the fairness of algorithmic decision-making systems have prompted a proliferation of mathematical formulations aimed at remedying algorithmic bias. Yet, integrating mathematical fairness alone into ... -
Assessing Eolian Snow Redistribution in Din-Gad Catchment, Central Himalaya, using Remote Sensing and Modelling
(2023)The Himalaya are amongst the world’s most important water towers, supplying water to hundreds of millions of people. They are also vulnerable to climate change, stimulating research on their hydrological behaviour. One ... -
Lesgeven over de toekomst van Nederland als Deltaland.
(2023)In de huidige onderwijspraktijk en tevens in het curriculum van het vak aardrijkskunde begint de toekomst een steeds prominentere rol aan te nemen bij verschillende maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Daarentegen blijkt uit de ... -
Cannabis use in Dutch adolescents: An evaluation of changes before and after the first lockdown.
(2023)On March 17, 2020, the Netherlands went into the first COVID-19 lockdown, which had a major impact on the life of Dutch adolescents. Since then, several alarming reports came out, saying that Dutch adolescents were coping ... -
The implementation of sustainability targets in housing programmes
(2023)Municipal Environmental Visions in the Netherlands often include targets for sustainable housing construction. Often, those targets are very ambitious and reached towards 2030 or 2050, but lack concrete measures for the ... -
The Connectedness of Digital Nomads with the Host Environment: Medellin, Colombia
(2023)This thesis dives into the phenomenon of digital nomadism and the connectedness aspects of it. One of the global digital nomad hotspots – Medellin, is chosen to conduct the fieldwork. We shed light on the ambiguity of the ... -
Designing a Pipeline to extract User Stories from Requirements Engineering Meeting Transcripts
(2023)[Context and Motivation] The quality of Requirements Engineering meetings and the resulting requirements correlate with the quality of a software product. These requirements can be written in the standardized form of a ... -
The Effect of Oral Probiotics on Behavior, Rectal Temperature, Body Condition Score and Hair Coat Condition in Late Gestation Dairy Goats
(2023)Providing goats with probiotics could improve the goats health. Moreover, it could reduce the use of antibiotics. This study investigated whether probiotics have a positive effect on the health of dairy goats in late ... -
Inhalation toxicity of cinnamaldehyde: A physiologically based kinetic modeling approach to study route-to-route extrapolation
(2023)Layman summary A physiologically based kinetic modeling approach to study route-to-route extrapolation The cigarette is slowly disappearing from the streets all over the world. In its stead a relatively new phenomenon the ... -
Traditional Folk Music in a Polarizing Europe: An Expedient to Cultural Sovereignty?
(2023)“Folk” or “traditional” music is commonly used by governments, political movements, and NGOs to bolster cultural identities and to promote cultural heritage. On the one hand, folk music is implemented to assert difference ... -
Comparative genomic analysis of Actinobacillus suis
(2023)Objective The Gram-negative bacterium Actinobacillus suis is an agent of global importance to the swine industry and the cause of lethal respiratory or septicaemic disease in pigs of different ages. Between 2018 and 2019, ... -
Scheduling with explorable uncertainty for minimising the total weighted completion time
(2023)This thesis addresses the problem of scheduling with explorable uncertainty on a single machine. We consider the scenario where n jobs have a uniform upper limit on the processing time ̄u, a uniform testing time of 1 and ... -
A retrospective study on dalteparin dosage and anti-Xa levels in renal impairment
(2023)Abstract Background and aims: Different recommendations are given in international guidelines regarding the correct LMWH dose using anti-Xa levels for renally impaired patients. This multi-centre retrospective cohort study ... -
Automatically Deriving Checkers for Compiler Verification
(2023)Compiler verification is a hard problem. Verification costs can be reduced by means of translation validation, where individual runs of the compiler are verified, rather than all possible runs. This approach is used for ... -
The Search for a Rigorous, Generally Applicable Formulation of Inclusive Fitness Theory
(2023)Since its introduction in the 1960s, inclusive fitness theory and its results, especially Hamilton’s rule, have been the topic of unresolved and ongoing debate. Over the past decade, arguments have increased in intensity ... -
Mantle geochemistry indicates original magmatic heterogeneity was unaltered during subduction infancy: Insights from the Mont Albert ophiolite complex (Québec, Northern Appalachians)
(2023)Subduction initiation is a necessary prerequisite to generate Earth-like plate tectonics. However, it is not yet understood how elements begin to cycle through the lithospheric mantle during subduction infancy and how they ... -
Through the Lens of CNN.
(2023)This thesis investigates how CNN Digital represented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the days following Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on December 6th, 2017, and the opening of the US ... -
Ask God and You Will Obtain What You Seek”: A study of the sortes sanctorum in the Carolingian cultural-historical context
(2023)This thesis concerns itself with the study of the sortes sanctorum in the historical context of the Carolingian written culture. It aims to pull the prognostic text from its depreciative association with un-Christian ... -
Effects of Social Strategies on the mechanisms of Simple Choices
(2023)Decision-making is part of our daily life in many ways. Depending on the situation, a decision-making process is affected by external factors such as the environment and participating individuals. In social dilemmas, group ... -
Missed opportunities for mangroves as nature-based coastal protection against cyclone damage
(2023)Many coastal communities undervalue the natural defense system mangrove forests provide against cyclone storm surges. Consequently, large parts of mangrove forest are being removed for other projects, leaving the inhabitants ...