Theses: Recent submissions
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De illustrator vertelt: boekillustraties in de Hans Christian Andersen-serie (1938-1945) van uitgeverij De Spieghel
(2023)In deze thesis worden de illustraties bij zes los verschenen verhalen van Hans Christian Andersen onderzocht die in de jaren dertig en veertig vertaald werden gepubliceerd door uitgeverij N.V. De Spieghel. De illustraties ... -
Coproduceren rondom de gaswinning: een (on)mogelijke opgave?
(2023)De gaswinning in Groningen is van een “sprookje” uitgelopen in een vertrouwenscrisis. Er zijn meerdere pogingen gedaan om de situatie te verbeteren, door partijen uit de regio te betrekken bij de veranderingen in de ... -
Improved diffusion MRI with an ultra-strong gradient head insert
(2023)Demyelination and dysmyelination diseases cause damage to the white matter in the central nervous system by disrupting the myelin water sheaths on axons. Diffusion MRI has been suggested to be crucial in uncovering ... -
Conflicting Global Economic Imaginaries: US Foreign Policy towards Mexico & the New International Economic Order, 1977–81
(2023)The North-South Dialogue was a series of international deliberations from 1973-82 in which Northern and Southern states debated the rearrangement of global economic governance. The Dialogue has recently been rediscovered ... -
Dawn of the Dutch Petrostate: Corporate Sovereignty on the Jambian Oil Frontier 1904-1923
(2023)This thesis traces the colonial origins of the Dutch petrostate. During the first two decades of the 20th century, Jambi (a region in East-Sumatra) was known to contain significant oil reserves. In this thesis, I analyse ... -
Covid-Bereavement in Tertiary students: Predicting loneliness and Prolonged Grief reaction.
(2023)During the Covid-19 pandemic, students faced psychological stress and loneliness. While the mortality rate during the pandemic was high, little is known about bereavement in the tertiary student population and its consequences ... -
The impact of arousal levels on reversal learning
(2023)This study explored how different levels of arousal may influence reversal learning. Arousal was induced by a emotional loaded memory. Participants performed a Probabilistic Reversal Learning Task (PRLT). The results show ... -
Project Terminus: A study into the effect of branching storylines on replayability
(2023)A comparative study was conducted to determine whether in a narrative-driven game created for educational purposes the existence of branching story lines has an influence on its replayability. To this end, three versions ... -
The Mismatch Negativity: Four machine learning approaches for predicting dyslexia in infants on EEG data
(2023)Electroencephalogram (EEG) in combination with machine learning (ML) techniques is becoming an increasingly popular method in medicine for clinical disorders prediction. This study applies ML techniques to the ePod dataset ... -
Begrijpelijke patiëntenfolders: Hoe dragen tekstbeleid en tekstuele aanpassingen hieraan bij?
(2023)Dit onderzoek gaat over de manier waarop ziekenhuizen hun patiëntenfolders begrijpelijker maken met tekstuele aanpassingen en met tekstbeleid. Ik heb interviews afgenomen bij drie Nederlandse ziekenhuizen om hun tekstbeleid ... -
Effects of continuation versus discontinuation of antipsychotic treatment on white matter microstructure in first episode psychosis
(2023)Background: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have reported decreased white matter (WM) integrity in first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients. However, the impact of long-term exposure and discontinuation of antipsychotic ... -
Double-Strand Break Repair in Repetitive DNA Regions
(2023)Every day, our cells are exposed to endogenous and exogenous sources of damage which cause double-strand breaks (DSBs). If left unrepaired or misrepaired, DBSs can be highly toxic for the cell resulting in cell death, ... -
Riding the Renovation Wave
(2023)The mission-oriented innovation system (MIS) framework is applied to study the sustainability transition in the German building and construction sector. The case study is embedded in the greater context of the European ... -
Toekomstvisie Amsterdam 2120: Concept voor de stad van de 22e eeuw
(2023)In the Netherlands the increasing urbanisation will in the coming century be accompanied by several problems of social and ecological nature. These problems are interrelated and are therefore able to influence one another. ... -
Telehealth in patients with ALS: A systematic review Assessing the barriers and facilitators for implementation
(2023)Care for patients with chronic diseases can be burdensome to the patient. Long days in the hospital with many different appointments are considered tiring and are often planned periodically. Telehealth is a method that ... -
International Business is still Regional Business: the influence of sub-national institutions on the location choices of multinational enterprises in the European Union
(2023)With the increased literary recognition that host countries' institutional configurations represent a key determining factor in the strategic location choices of multinational enterprises. This study aims to deepen the ... -
Anomaly detection and segmentation methods using Variational Autoencoders in Brain MRI
(2023)Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as a promising technique for unsupervised anomaly detection and segmentation in brain MRI. The principle behind this deep generative modeling is learning a model of healthy brain ...