UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Mineralogical changes with increased strain; insights from the shear zones in Cap de Creus, NE Spain
(2025)The Cap the Creus peninsula at the northeastern end of the Pyrenees consist of variscan LP- HT metasediments affected by a large network of greenschist shear zones. The age of these shear zones is still debated. These shear ... -
Unravelling the role of locus coeruleus Neuropeptide Y in stress-induced anxiety
(2025)The pathological anxiety that underlies anxiety disorders is commonly triggered by stress. Upon encountering a stressor, the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system (LC-NE system) is activated. However, excessive activation ... -
Urine Culture Practices and Microbiological Profiles in Males with an Afebrile Urinary Tract Infection: A retrospective cohort study based on linked routine care data
(2025)Urinary tract infections in males are under-researched despite their prevalence. Current Dutch guidelines recommend a urine culture to be performed for each male patient presenting with symptoms of urinary tract infection. ... -
Experience of PENG-block in palliative non-operative management for hip fractures
(2025)Introduction: The rise in the elderly has been accompanied by an increase in the incidence of hip fractures. Surgical intervention is the cornerstone of treatment for the majority of these fractures (89.4%), as opposed ... -
How being bilingual can affect your first language - The effect of age and bilingual language entropy on L1 emotion word processing
(2025)This study investigates the impact of bilingualism on the processing of emotion words in the first language (L1) among older adults, with a particular focus on the interplay between age, bilingual language use, and cognitive ... -
A Historical Perspective on Pesticides: Public Health, Bioethics, and the Legacy of Silent Spring
(2025)This essay reflects on the history and ethical dilemmas of pesticide use, focusing on how Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) shaped society, science, and policy. The book exposed the environmental and health hazards of ... -
Exploring factors of non-adoption of assistive devices and technology for promoting self-reliance from the perspective of older individuals in the Netherlands: A qualitative study
(2025)Dit onderzoek richt zich op het bevorderen van zelfredzaamheid bij ouderen binnen de wijkverpleging. Hoewel hulpmiddelen en technologie kunnen bijdragen aan het ondersteunen bij zorgbehoeften en het vergroten van ... -
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Woman?: on the affective and queer potential of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary performance
(2025)This thesis demonstrates how the negatively considered stereotype of the monstrous-feminine holds an affective and queer potential in contemporary performance. The monstrous-feminine is a concept that has been established ... -
Comparison of smart control strategies for heat pumps
(2025)As a side effect of the energy transition, the Netherlands experiences severe grid congestion. This can be mitigated by distributing the load on the grid more evenly over time. Heat pumps are a major contributor to the ... -
Exploring Motives and Their Impact on Perceived Emotional Support in Social Media
(2025)Social relationships are crucial for human well-being. They are the main source of socio-emotional support, which is linked to improved health and longevity. Traditionally, such support has been derived from face-to-face ... -
Pathway Interconnections in ALS Necessitate a Shift to Combination Therapies
(2025)Summary for Layman: ALS and the Potential of Combination Therapies Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease where nerve cells responsible for controlling movement, known as motor ... -
Applying Nash-Moser in Differential Topology
(2025)The h-principle is a fruitful and active area of research with applications in many areas of differen- tial geometry. Its main goal is to prove that the space of various geometric structures is (weakly) homotopy equivalent ... -
Transfinite Induction Principles and Iterated Reflection Principles
(2025)Two of the methods used to assign proof-theoretic ordinals to theories are using transfinite induction principles, inspired by Gentzen's consistency proof for $\mathsf{PA}$ via $\varepsilon_0$-induction, and approximating ... -
Big Brains and Befitting Behaviour: A Review on Cognition in Three Avian Families
(2025)Comparative psychology has revealed advanced cognitive abilities in primates, corvids (Corvidae) and parrots (Psittacidae). However, research on many bird families is sparse, even though brain sizes are relatively large ... -
Predicting future unwell-being of hospice patient using real world patient reported outcome measures, evaluation of the practical application of a frequentist and Bayesian approach.
(2025)Background In palliative care, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) gauge symptom severity. These PROMs help develop predictive models supporting proactive care. Longitudinal data prediction models in palliative care ... -
Zeggen, roepen, lachen: Een diachronisch onderzoek naar speech verbs in Nederlandse vertalingen van Jane Austen
(2025)In dit onderzoek staan meerdere vragen centraal: hoe speech verbs worden vertaald vanuit het Engels naar het Nederlands in vertalingen uit de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw, of hier een ontwikkeling in is waar te nemen, ... -
From Artefacts to Ancestors: Indigenous Artefacts and the Role of Digital Techniques in Repatriation and Reconnection with Indigenous Communities
(2025)Colonial-era practices have led to the widespread removal and global dispersal of Indigenous artefacts around the world, creating complex challenges for contemporary efforts to reclaim and repatriate cultural heritage. ... -
Learnable Fingerprints for Large Language Models
(2025)The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI), especially large language models (LLMs), has led to unprecedented capabilities in text generation, leading to the urgent need for the development of methods ... -
Schrödinger's Crime: AI-generated Child Sexual Abuse Material as a Victimless Offense
(2025)The emergence of fully AI-generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) presents a novel and complex challenge to European Union (EU) legal frameworks. This thesis critically examines the adequacy of existing and proposed ...