UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Environmental competence in a visit to the Botanic Gardens?: Analysis of educational material and adolescent visitor experiences
(2025)This research, titled "Environmental Competence in a Visit to the Botanic Gardens?: Analysis of Educational Material and Adolescent Visitor Experiences," explores the presence of environmental competence within the Botanic ... -
Teaching catalysis and scientific literacy: An evaluation of a lesson series for teaching scientific literacy through catalysis to Dutch pre-university students
(2025)A five part lesson series has been created and tested for the teaching of scientific literacy through catalysis to Dutch pre-university students aged 15 and 16. Considering the lack of a single clear definition of scientific ... -
Incidence of urinary incontinence after ovariectomy in Great Swiss Mountain dogs compared to similar sized dog breeds
(2025)Pet dogs have gained an important place in our households in the last century. While ovariectomy was previously considered the standard, more and more is known about the risk factors that come with this intervention. ... -
From East to West: Adapting Shūsaku Endō’s Silence Across Medium and Culture
(2025)Christianity has historically been a contentious subject within Japan. There have since been several works of literature and film that engage with the question of whether or not it can exist in Japan at all. One such work ... -
Escaping Userism: Fighting for De Beauvoirian Freedom in Data-driven Personal Technologies
(2025)In this thesis I investigate the moral responsibilities of people who use data-driven personal technologies (DDPTs) in relation to the increasing threats of globally used DDPTs. I do this with a focus on the existential ... -
"Dan vraag je het toch even aan ChatGPT?"
(2025)Artificiële Intelligentie (AI) is niet meer weg te denken uit de samenleving. Sinds de opkomst van ChatGPT heeft een groot deel van de wereldbevolking toegang tot een krachtig AI-model. ChatGPT onderscheidt zich van andere ... -
Development of an in vitro model to study digital dermatitis in cows
(2025)Digital dermatitis (DD) is a common and significant condition in dairy cattle, characterized by painful skin lesions, reduced productivity, and substantial economic losses. Despite decades of research, the aetiology and ... -
It takes guts!
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Spillover risks of emerging (zoonotic) diseases at the human-livestock-wildlife interface: the case of bovine tuberculosis in cattle around Akagera National Park in Rwanda.
(2025)Worldwide, the contact between wildlife, domestic animals and humans increases, resulting in increased risk of disease spillover from one species to the next. This is especially a big problem in many sub-Saharan African ... -
Neuroblastoma reveals infiltration of T-cells and immunosuppressive macrophages: A meta-analysis on the neuroblastoma immune landscape
(2025)Neuroblastoma is a common type of childhood cancer, with survival varying from over 90% in low-risk stages to less than 50% in high-risk patients. Especially in this high-risk group treatment resistance and relapse are ... -
A Flexible Schema for the Valorization of Citrus Peels
(2025)Large quantities of citrus fruits are eaten and processed in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, more than half of the fruit mass, including peel, pulp, and seeds, is discarded, often ending up in incinerators or landfills. ... -
An Ethical Procedure in Disclosing the CABR (Post-War Trial Archives of World War II) in 2025
(2025)This thesis looks at the ethical issues around opening up the Central Archive of Special Jurisdiction (CABR), which holds records from post-World War II trials in the Netherlands. Using Scanlon’s theory of contractualism, ... -
De brontekst als norm: het concept ‘vertaling’ in reviews van intersemiotische en interlinguale vertalingen van Harry Potter en De brief voor de koning
(2025)In deze scriptie wordt onderzocht hoe het concept ‘vertaling’ wordt gebruikt in reviews van intersemiotische vertalingen (adaptaties) en interlinguale vertalingen (boeken) van Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone en De ... -
Binden en boeien: het behoud van verpleegkundigen in het Emma Kinderziekenhuis
(2025)In Nederland is het tekort aan verpleegkundigen een groeiend probleem. Ook binnen het Emma Kinderziekenhuis (EKZ) vormt dit een uitdaging. Daarom is het belangrijk om te onderzoeken wat oorzaken van dit tekort zijn en welke ... -
Temperature affinities of dinocysts in the Southern Ocean during the Pliocene - Pleistocene compared to present time
(2025)In this study, a quantitative analysis is conducted to study the Southern Ocean temperature affinities of dinocysts during the Pliocene and Pleistocene in comparison to the present day. This is done to investigate whether ... -
Set in Stone. Nederlandse en Belgische Koloniale Monumenten en de Herinnering aan het Kolonialisme in de Openbare Ruimte
(2025)Tijdens deze scriptie is onderzoek gedaan naar de manier waarop Nederland en België het koloniale verleden hebben herinnerd door middel van koloniale monumenten in de openbare ruimte. Huidige vergelijkingen tussen beide ... -
From Wall-of-Text to Graphic Novel: Can Generative AI Enhance the Pleasure Reading Experience of English as a Second Language Readers?
(2025)This study explores an innovative approach to enhancing the reading experience for English as a Second Language (ESL) readers by leveraging generative AI to transform traditional narratives into graphic novels. Traditional ... -
Exploring the potential of AI assistance for teamwork in programming education
(2025)This study investigated the impact of using generative AI (GenAI) for programming in a collaborative setting in higher education. The study involved 44 Computer Science students, working on their final bachelors projects, ... -
An Investigation of Microfluidic Transport Through Ionic Channels
(2025)Memristors have been propelled into the scientific consciousness in recent decades. Memristors are resistors with memory, a history-dependent electrical device predicted by Chua in the 1970s as the missing fourth passive ...