Theses: Recent submissions
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The relationship between the duration of crying, experienced problems with crying by the parents at six and ten weeks after birth and the development of parental stress: The moderating effect of a psycho-educational intervention aimed at preventing parental stress after birth.
(2023)Previous research has shown that excessive infant crying can lead to the development of parental stress and symptoms of psychopathology, posing a risk to the infant's healthy development. However, other forms of crying ... -
Drug design with improved MM-PBSA: tackling the entropy problem
(2023)Small molecules intended as active ingredient in drugs usually bind proteins to assert their effect. Of course, side-effects occur for any drug, and lowering the dose used usually lowers side effects. Therefore, for designing ... -
Learning from the hidden treasures of our ancestral plants
(2023)Recent crop engineering is trying to manage high demands of food production and climate change, which poses a difficult task as an increase in sustainability is also desired. The use of beneficial rhizospheric plant-microbe ... -
What came first: the Chick or the Island On the role of coastal birds in ecopote evolution of the Wadden Sea Islands
(2023)The Wadden Sea is a unique ecosystem and a very significant breeding, roosting, and migratory area for birds. Moreover, it protects the Netherlands from storms and the rising ocean. Due to the dynamic nature of local ... -
‘Queering’ Heteronormative and Gendered Sexual Scripts: A Qualitative Study About the Sexual Experiences of Plurisexual Individuals and the Potentiality of ‘Queering’ Heteronormative Ways of ‘Doing Gender’ During Sex
(2023)This research project aims at investigating how plurisexual individuals navigate heteronormative and gendered sexual scripts in diverse gender relations. More specifically, this research explores how sexual scripts (e.g. ... -
WHY DO YOU OPPRESS YOURSELF? Social Norms, Subordination, and the Duty to Resist
(2023)In this thesis, I argue that there is no duty to resist one's own oppression. Victims have no self- or other regarding duty to resist the oppressive norms imposed upon them. We should not reproach those who fail to, or do ... -
Cell competition in homeostasis and during tumorigenesis of mammalian epithelia
(2023)Cell competition is a process that controls tissue quality by mediating cell growth. It plays a role in maintaining homeostasis, embryonic development, tissue repair and was recently established to influence tumorigenesis ... -
Human leucocyte antigen alleles related to asparaginase allergy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
(2023)The aim of my project was to determine the association between allele variants coding for the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) and pegylated L-asparaginase (PEG-ASNase) induced allergy in children with acute lymphoblastic ... -
Problematic Eating Behavior in Women: How Much Do Autistic Traits and Cognitive Inflexibility Matter?
(2023)This study investigated the relationship between autistic traits, cognitive inflexibility (CI), and problematic eating behavior (PEB) in a sample of Dutch-speaking women (N = 61). PEB was assessed by means of three constructs: ... -
Alleen ga je sneller, samen kom je verder!
(2023)Vanuit één organisatie trachten de KNLTB en de NPB padel beter te positioneren. Dit moet bijdragen aan de groei van de padelsport. Ondanks het feit dat de fusie voor zowel de KNLTB als de NPB een stap vooruit moet zijn, ... -
Do-it-yourself greening: Interaction between municipal authorities and community-led initiatives for urban green spaces
(2023)The effects of urbanisation and climate change have increased the focus of urban policymakers on sustainability. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly implemented as a means to achieve sustainability, through their ... -
Development of HER2-Targeted Theranostics for Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer
(2023)A library of peptides targeting HER2 was established from in silico docking analysis of a pool of over 8000 preliminary sequences based on a recently developed anti-HER2 peptide KSPNPRF. The library has been synthesized ... -
Data-driven approach for body motion retargeting
(2023)Motion retargeting(MR) deals with the problem of adapting the motion of one articulated animated character to another, potentially with different skeletal structure, like different bone lengths, or a completely different ... -
The development of a Pt-Sn/Al2O3 model catalytic system to study the in situ conversion of CO to CO2 using SHINERS
(2023)Diesel Oxidation Catalysts (DOC’s) are Pt-based catalysts that are known to convert toxic exhaust gases, such as CO, into the less harmful CO2 at 250 °C. At lower temperatures, the surface of the DOC is adsorbed with only ... -
ClockWork: Genotyping of frameshift mutations induced by CRISPR-Cas9
(2023)Here we present Clockwork, a high-throughput bioinformatics pipeline for genotyping CRISPR-Cas9 induced frameshift mutations in single neurons. Clockwork is part of a project that aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms ... -
Cyber secure digital transformations
(2023)Introduction → There are no best practices concerning cyber security in the different phases of digital transformation nor frameworks that can be used by organizations in a digital transformation to decide the degree of ... -
Dutch involvement in international water development projects via Masterplans Comparative case study on Beira, Jakarta & Manila Bay
(2023)The Netherlands aspires to assist other countries across the globe in achieving safety and security regarding water. The Netherlands wants to supply researchers and consultants to countries that lack the required specialist ... -
The imperfect co-production of security: tracing the emergence and development of community-based armed groups in Mali & Burkina Faso between the 1990s and 2022
(2023)The year 2022 marks the tenth anniversary of violent conflict in the central Sahel, characterized by escalating and increasingly generalized violence. So-called self-defense groups are taking on a growing role in Burkina ...