Theses: Recent submissions
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Hybrid Monte Carlo Simulations of Graphene
(2023)We give a discussion on the Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations of the tight binding model with Coulomb interactions, for the electronic properties of Graphene. The aim of our simulations is to determine the phase transition ... -
THE EXPERIENCE OF PREGNANCY IN THE COVID-19 PERIOD IN GREECE
(2023)Being pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic was challenging for pregnant women since they had to cope with the unknown and the unprecedented COVID-19 situation. The state and the biomedical discourse classified them as ... -
The Face of a Green Leader? Analysing Xi Jinping’s Ideological Legitimation Strategies in Speeches to Domestic and International Audiences
(2023)Ideology is not often credited in analyses of leadership legitimation. Whether they be democratic or autocratic, a president’s legitimacy is commonly attributed primarily to their performance. In the case of Chinese president ... -
Bed, bad en brood: is het genoeg?
(2023)Sinds de oorlog in Oekraïne (februari 2022) vangen ruim honderd particuliere huishoudens (gastgezinnen) in Hilversum vluchtelingen uit Oekraïne op. De communicatie van Gemeente Hilversum met deze gastgezinnen is matig. De ... -
Gene-Environment Interactions and the Effect on Obesity Risk in LMICs: A Systematic Review
(2023)Obesity is a term used to describe people with high body mass index (BMI) and an excess of body fat that affects their health. It is a disease that increases the chance of developing other diseases, such as heart disease ... -
Crowdsourcing for Innovation: Investigating the interaction- and contributor-related characteristics that lead to team success for offline crowdsourcing for innovation
(2023)Companies increasingly turn to crowdsourcing for innovation, as it allows them to tap into the collective intelligence of the crowd to generate new ideas and solutions more effectively. Not only can this be relevant for ... -
Predicting harmful algal blooms through a combined modelling approach
(2023)The increasing intensity and frequency of harmful cyanobacterial blooms due to climate change and anthropogenically induced nutrient input is a well-studied and documented issue. Within the Netherlands, a protocol is in ... -
Care2Report: Dialogue summarisation for geriatric performance assessments
(2023)There is an administrative burden in healthcare. This thesis presents a solution to the administrative burden in geriatrics and nursing by creating a pipeline of linguistic techniques that allow for the automatic summarization ... -
Analyzing the Performance of the Linkage Tree Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm on Tree Decomposition Mk Landscapes using Local Optima Networks
(2023)Abstract This thesis analyses the performance of Linkage Tree Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm (LT-GOMEA) on Tree Decomposition Mk Landscapes for problems generated by the benchmark function CliqueTreeMk ... -
Exploring the impact of baryons on cosmological observables
(2023)Most predictions for matter distribution in the universe only consider dark matter. However, there have been several recent improvements in the quality of observational data. This means that we can no longer ignore the ... -
Patient Reported Outcome Visualization (PROVis): Design Study to Support Pediatric Rheumatologists
(2023)Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) is any report of the status of a health condition that comes directly from the patient without interpretation by the clinician. PROs contain valuable information that a doctor cannot easily ... -
KINSHIP VERIFICATION USING VISION TRANSFORMERS
(2023)Kinship verification is the term of verifying whether the given two people have a kin relationship from their facial images or videos or other biological features. As a soft bio-metric modality, visual kinship verification ... -
Role of filamentous fungi in sustainable biotechnologies and their potential as bioinspired solutions for long-term space exploration
(2023)Considering the ambitious goals for future space exploration, space sciences will be facing new challenges in the next few decades. Some of these challenges concern life in space, and thus, their answers rely on biological ... -
Supporting the Multi-/Inter-Disciplinary Collaboration of Bio-Related Design Projects Through Tangible Tools
(2023)Having experienced bio-related projects in the biology and design fields, the author foresees more combinations of the two types of projects in the future and has begun to think about integrated issues, including the ... -
Small Nucleolar RNAs: Players in Human Development and Disease
(2023)Throughout the late 20th century, small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) were identified as a novel class of non-coding RNA. SnoRNAs comprise three main classes based on conserved sequence motifs: C/D box, H/ACA box and Cajal ... -
Regulation of Grief: The Concept of Consolation in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
(2023)This thesis considers how Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy can be read as a consolatory text, and what consolation strategies are used within it. Accordingly, this thesis argues against satirical readings of the ... -
Communicatie in klantreizen
(2023)Vaak baseren klanten hun ervaringen met een verzekeraar op een schadeafhandeling (Broeder et al, 2008). Maar wat als klanten geen schade indienen? Op welke momenten kan een verzekeraar zich dan profileren? Verzekeraar ... -
Deep learning-based multi-organ segmentation for pediatric radiotherapy
(2023)Organ delineation is an essential but time-consuming step in pediatric kidney tumor radiotherapy. Interest in the automation of this task is increasing, and this work attempts to automatize abdominal multi-organ delineation ...