UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Removal of indwelling urinary catheter in prolapse surgery patients
(2025)Introduction: Postoperative urinary retention is an important complication in prolapse surgery patients. However, there is no consensus regarding the optimal timing for postoperative urinary catheter removal. To provide ... -
Forgetting in the ASPIC+ framework
(2025)In computational argumentation, removing irrelevant information from an argumentation framework can reduce its complexity, enabling more efficient reasoning without altering the core structure of the argumentation. Forgetting, ... -
The Information Paradox for One-sided Black Hole Evaporation in AdS
(2025)The black hole information paradox has been troubling the minds of physicists since the discovery of Hawking radiation. The contradiction between Hawking’s result and the unitarity postulate of quantum mechanics, reached ... -
An experimental study of the natural sedimentation-erosion patterns in the Nieuwe Waterweg
(2025)The Nieuwe Waterweg is a heavily engineered estuary that forms the entrance to the Port of Rotterdam. To allow easy access for increasingly larger ships to the harbours, the Nieuwe Waterweg has been narrowed, straightened ... -
Smart charging of electric vehicles in the Netherlands: An ecosystem perspective
(2025)The transition to sustainable electric mobility requires two key challenges to be addressed, the integration of renewable energy sources, and the mitigation of congestion on the electrical grid infrastructure. Although ... -
Developing a foundation model on high-resolution satellite data of the Netherlands
(2025)Foundation models have proven their potential for being developed self-supervised on large datasets. They show unprecedented performance on various downstream tasks while requiring less labeled data than models trained ... -
Understanding Bacterial Bet hedging: Mechanisms, Theoretical Foundation, and Recent Developments
(2025)Bet hedging is a risk-spreading survival strat- egy employed by organisms throughout the bi- ological realm, to survive unpredictable envi- ronments. Bacteria are no exception. By gen- erating phenotypic diversity through ... -
N-nucleotide additions by Terminal deoxynucleotidyl Transferase do not protect against deletion of the D segment during VDJ recombination in T-cell receptors
(2025)T-cell receptor (TCR) diversity is fundamental to the immune system's ability to recognise foreign antigens. TCRs are put together in a semi-stochastic process called V(D)J recombination, where the α-chain consists of a ... -
Temporal Rule Mining for Knowledge Graph Completion.
(2025)This thesis introduces StaTeR (Static to Temporal Rule learner), the first dynamic symbolic rule learner designed to generate temporal rules from static rules. StaTeR combines symbolic reasoning with temporal logic to ... -
The Role of Photorespiration in Enhancing Plant Resilience to Heat Stress
(2025)Photorespiration, initiated by RuBisCO's oxygenation activity, results in the production of 2-phosphoglycolate, which must be recycled through energy-intensive reactions. These processes consume ATP and NADPH, release CO2, ... -
Automatic memory reuse of immutable data in Kotlin
(2025)Immutable data brings many advantages to programming, including safer concur- rency and easier debugging, but it comes with a drawback: immutability means the data cannot be altered. Operations on it require allocating ... -
Enhancing Customer Support Chatbots with LLMs: Comparative Analysis of Few-Shot Learning, Fine-Tuning, and RAG including the Proposal of an Integrated Architecture
(2025)Recent years have seen a growing interest in advanced chatbots, mainly due to breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Particularly, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has increased chatbot capabilities, ... -
Targeted Delivery of Navitoclax to Elimate Senescent Tubular Epithelial Cells
(2025)Treatments for chronic kidney disorder (CKD) offer symptom management, but no cure is available. This highlights the importance of CKD prevention. The high population of senescent cells can be seen as a driver of CKD. ... -
The search for severity predictive biomarkers in food allergy: from literature review to experimental setup
(2025)In food allergy, the immune system mistakenly identifies specific food proteins as harmful, initiating an immune response. A skewed Th2 profile characterizes these immune responses. Th2 cells are a major player in the ... -
Optimizing healthcare processes with user-friendly insights on the data
(2025)Process visualizations are important for managing complex processes as they show user actions within a system. In healthcare, where such complex processes often occur, effective visualizations can be used as support for ... -
Machinevertaling in de Toeristische Sector
(2025)In deze masterscriptie is via een enquête met open en gesloten vragen onderzocht hoe machinevertalingen en professionele vertalingen van toeristische teksten worden beoordeeld op de strategieën ego-targeting, keying en ... -
MA-scriptie Zingbaar volgens Zangers Pauline Madelon Prange 6174779
(2025)IDe hoofdvraag van dit onderzoek luidde: Hoe beoordelen zangers de zingbaarheid van de Nederlandse vertaling van de musical Spamalot op zowel fonologisch (klankvorming), lexicaal en syntactisch (ritme, grammatica en ...