Early, unobtrusive detection of anxiety in children can facilitate timelier and more equitable access to mental-health interventions. This thesis developed and evaluated a deep-learning pipeline that predicts anxiety-related ...

Modeling is an important activity in Requirements Engineering (RE), yet performing it manually is time-consuming and tedious. When the modeling starts from an existing set of early requirements, researchers have proposed ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for personalized storytelling, but generating age-appropriate content remains challenging due to rapid developmental changes in early childhood. This study investigates the use of ...

Student-led social enterprises (SSEs) are a relevant field for addressing social and environmental challenges while developing students’ entrepreneurial skills. Universities increasingly seek to develop such initiatives, ...

This thesis investigates the potential of the Wigner-Ville Distribution (WVD) as a high-resolution alternative time-frequency music representation to the widely used, but less detailed, Mel-spectrogram as input for ...

This research investigates how stock markets react to far-right electoral victories in Europe. It focuses on firms with weak environmental performance, often referred to as ‘brown’ or low ESG firms. The main question is ...

Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among young adults, with student populations showing rates as high as 33.6% (Li et al., 2022). In the Netherlands alone, around 42 million euros are spent annually on managing ...

Disabled students often need support to successfully participate in higher education. One subgroup of disabled students who have been participating in higher education more often recently are autistic students. Previous ...