UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Brabantse identiteit in carnavalsmuziek door de tijd heen
(2025)Tijdens carnaval is de regionale identiteit meermaals onderwerp van gesprek. Carnaval is een feest dat lokale tradities in stand houdt, maar zich ook aanpast aan de tijd waarin het wordt gevierd (Wijers, 2000). Muziek kan ... -
Van Scalpel tot Penseel: Drie anatomische voorstellingen ontleed
(2025)Dit onderzoek richt zich op drie uitzonderlijke schilderijen met anatomische voorstellingen: Blaassteen met twee schelpjes (1627), Neuspoliep (1667) en Kaakbeen (1727). Deze kunstwerken tonen de anatomische onderdelen uit ... -
Modelling Urban Transformations: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Building Changes in the Conservation Area of Utrecht
(2025)This thesis studies transformation of urban environments, taking the conservation area of Utrecht as a case study. It aims to explore methods for vectorization, object matching and change detection of building data across ... -
Targeting Tumor-Promoting Myeloid Cells in Colon Cancer To Improve Anti-Tumor Immunity
(2025)Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Over the past decade, immunotherapy has become an important treatment type for many cancers, including colon cancer. However, not all colon cancer ... -
Van Hoogstraten naar het hiernamaals: De Zeven Smarten van Maria in de middeleeuwse memoriecultuur
(2025)In het eerste kwart van de zestiende eeuw werd voor Oda Stecke († in of kort na 1533) en Peter van der Beke († 1517) een ruim drie meter breed altaarstuk vervaardigd door de Meester van Hoogstraten. Dat plaatsten Oda en ... -
Live, and Let Last: The Power of Ephemerality in the #FreePalestine Digital Movement.
(2025)This research examines the impact of Instagram's ephemeral features, specifically Instagram Live, on creating urgency, engagement, and visibility within the #FreePalestine movement. By focusing on the digital activism of ... -
Degassing in Inland Shipping - An Exploratory Study on Identifying Degassing Patterns and Hotspots on Dutch Inland Waterways Based on AIS and IVS data
(2025)Vessels transporting liquid gasses still contain some vapour after discharging their cargo. These vessels need to degas their cargo tanks of this vapour in order to not contaminate their next cargo. Most of the vessels ... -
Experiences and Needs in Dementia Care for Older Arab Adults: a Qualitative Study
(2025)Introduction: In the Netherlands both dementia rates and cultural diversity are increasing. Therefore, there is an increasing need for care that is both medically appropriate and culturally responsive. Among older adults ... -
Cartographies of Connection: A Study and Conceptualisation of User-Object Relations
(2025)A prominent leader within the contemporary digital media landscape, the social media platform YouTube possesses noteworthy influential capacity to shape the platform’s over 2.5 billion users. Primarily functioning around ... -
De wereld in het klein: Het menselijk lichaam als microkosmos in de flapjesprenten van Catoptrum microcosmicum
(2025)In 1619 werd in Augsburg het boek Catoptrum microcosmicum suis aere incisis visionibus splendens cum historia, & pinace, de novo prodit (Catoptrum microcosmicum), geschreven door Johann Remmelin gepubliceerd. Het boek ... -
From Grass Fields to Parks: Identifying and Classifying Urban Green Space for Sustainable City Planning in Utrecht
(2025)This research analyses the location and quality of Urban Green Space (UGS) in Utrecht, aiming to categorize them based on quality factors. A combination of satellite image classification and qualitative assessments has ... -
Is there a difference in kinematics between postoperative colic horses and clinically healthy horses during 3 minutes of in-hand walking that could indicate the presence of pain?
(2025)Mobilisation of post-operative colic horses is a standard part of the rehabilitation protocol, however, not much is known about the effects of mobilisation on these horses. In this study the kinematics of post-operative ... -
Use of intraoperative peritoneal fluid bacteriology as a short-term prognostic factor in horses that underwent colic surgery
(2025)Colic is the most common emergency in equine veterinary medicine, and it affects horses and ponies of all ages, breeds, sex and purposes. At times, emergency exploratory laparotomy is needed as treatment. The aim of this ... -
The Goldilocks Zone: Optimizing T Cell Engager Affinity, Kinetics and Architecture for Anti-Tumor Efficacy
(2025)Cancer remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, despite marked progress in standard of care treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Such approaches have shown poor specificity, systemic toxicity ... -
Finding dense and well-shaped convex clusters in 2-dimensional point sets
(2025)We address the problem of computing a convex region with bounded area and diameter, enclosing the maximum number of points from a planar point set P. This problem originated from previous work on an automatic pipeline for ... -
Using Large Language Model Applications to Determine Citizen Science Data Compatibility.
(2025)Metadata is essential for the findability and comparison of citizen science projects. Tagging datasets with scientific disciplines or keywords allows filtering and searching on citizen science platforms. However, certain ... -
Machine Learning Analysis of Gut Microbiome Profiles in Infants from Different Feeding Practices and Their Association with Health Outcomes
(2025)Breast milk is widely recognized for its critical role in infant health, with emerging evidence indicating that early nutrition shapes the infant gut microbiome, immune system development, and long-term health. Feeding ... -
Towards Continuous Sleep Monitoring of Preterm Infants in Complex NICU Scenes: A Video-Based Approach Using Eye Cues
(2025)A fetus in the third trimester sleeps the majority of the day, which is important for the development of the brain. When born preterm, sleep is likely to be interrupted due to exposure to external stimuli, which could be ...