Theses: Recent submissions
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Mapping professional networks at the intersection of culture and technology
(2025)This thesis explores how hidden professional relationships, referred to as latent ties, can be inferred from publicly available LinkedIn profiles when explicit social connections are missing. Focusing on members of the ... -
Mapping water security risks in South Africa: A multi-model assessment of hydrological projections and socio-spatial vulnerability
(2025)This thesis developed and tested a reproducible, basin-to-municipality workflow for mapping compound water-security risk in South Africa, a data-sparse country spanning 13 climate zones. Two complementary hydrological ... -
The link between self-efficacy and well-being among emerging adults: the role of need crafting and need satisfaction
(2025)Half of the emerging adults (aged 18-25) in the Netherlands report poor mental health, highlighting the need for further research into the causes and solutions of well-being. In the current study the relation between ... -
Automatic Annotation of Dutch Educational Assessment Questions using Large Language Models
(2025)This study is aimed at the automatic evaluation of curriculum alignment. Curriculum alignment refers to the extent to which learning objectives, instructional activities, and assessments are coherently aligned. Traditionally, ... -
Applying generative AI to reduce administrative burden for WMO consultants
(2025)Social welfare support consultants have to deal with recurring administrativeburdens, which can cost them a large portion of their time. Social welfaresupport consultants, working under the Dutch law of social assistance, ... -
Hidden uncertainty in data analysis: Understanding sources of variability in many-analyst projects
(2025)This study examines (1) how analytical decisions contribute to variability in many-analyst studies and (2) whether specific decisions can be identified as key drivers. Several models, varying in complexity, were trained ... -
Too Sour to be Lime: Improving Consistency of Digital Soil Mapping with multivariate neural network and Soil Science Informed Loss Constraint.
(2025)Machine learning is increasingly used in the generation of maps from discrete point measurements, particularly often in Digital Soil Mapping. Commonly, the interdepen dence between soil properties and constraints of sparse ... -
Metric Selection For Root Cause Analysis of Cloud Infrastructure
(2025)Cryptojacking is a new threat to cloud infrastructure, where cyber attackers hijack computing resources for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining. Within containerized environments such as AWS Fargate, detection efficacy is ... -
Wel radicaal-rechts, maar niet hetzelfde: Een onderzoek naar de verschillen tussen de optredens van Geert Wilders en Viktor Orbán op internationale conferenties van 2006-2025
(2025)De huidige sociaalwetenschappelijke literatuur over internationale conferenties van radicaal-rechtse politici heeft tot nu toe nog weinig aandacht besteed aan de verschillen tussen deze politici op de conferenties. Dit is ... -
Agent-Based Pyramid: A Model for Augmenting ASReview's Capability in Outlier Detection
(2025)The exponential growth of academic literature presents significant challenges for researchers conducting systematic reviews, particularly in fields requiring exhaustive coverage such as medicine. This paper presents an ... -
Predictive Patterns Beyond Partnership: How Graph Neural Networks Reveal Associations in the Complex Social Dynamics of Fertility Intentions
(2025)Traditional demographic theories typically conceptualize romantic partnerships as the primary context in which fertility intentions are formed. This study challenges this assumption using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with ... -
Uncertainties within Weather Regime definitions for the Euro-Atlantic sector in ERA5 and CMIP6
(2025)Certain Weather Regimes (WR) are associated with a higher risk of en- ergy shortages, i.e. Blocking regimes for European winters. However, there are many uncertainties tied to the implementation of WRs and associated risks ... -
Implementing Large Language Models in an Educational Refactoring Tutor
(2025)Large Language Models possess capabilities such as code generation, explanation, and refactoring. Given their flexibility, researchers have begun to explore their potential to support programming education. This work ... -
ZoomPursuit: Smooth Pursuit-based Gaze Interaction for General-Purpose GUIs
(2025)Gaze interaction in general-purpose GUIs is limited by its inaccuracy and calibration requirements. Smooth pursuit-based methods offer a calibration-free alternative but often demand modified user interfaces. We present ... -
The Effectiveness of Nudges in Promoting Prosocial Behavior Intention: Comparing Community vs. Individual Approaches and the Impact of Student-Designed Nudges
(2025)This research is part of a larger project regarding a new upcoming teaching facility at Utrecht University (UU) in the city center, which aims to create a harmonious relationship between students and residents. One ... -
Investigating the relationship between workload and vitality, and the moderating role of self-efficacy and psychological flexibility
(2025)The relationship between workload and employee vitality is of growing interest given its implications for well-being and performance. While prior research generally supports that high job demands reduce well-being, the ...