UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Stem cell-derived β-cells in diabetes: The role of transplant sites in controlling off-target cell growth.
(2025)Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results destruction of pancreatic β-cells by the immune system, leading to chronic hyperglycaemia and reliance on insulin therapy. Current treatments, including insulin replacement, islet transplantation, ... -
"Medewerkersperspectieven op huisdieren op de werkplek: Een Onderzoek bij de Faculteit Diergeneeskunde, Universiteit Utrecht"
(2025)This research investigates employee attitudes at Utrecht University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine towards workplace pets, particularly focusing on dogs. The literature review underscores positive impacts like enhanced ... -
Ubiquitinated proteome analysis by mass spectrometry. Effect of R505C mutation in FBXW7 E3 ligase on protein ubiquitination.
(2025)Ubiquitination is a reversible post-translational modification that governs many critical processes in eukaryotes. In turn, defects in the ubiquitin system can lead to various diseases. Targeted strategies to correct ... -
Impact of hydroclimatic extreme events on nutrient concentrations in the Rhine and Meuse Rivers in the Netherlands.
(2025)Poor surface water quality threatens human water use and ecosystem health. Climate change and the associated higher frequency of hydroclimatic extreme events will further impact water quality. Although the effects of ... -
Information-Guided 3D Gaussian Splatting
(2025)This thesis presents an intrinsically informed segmentation method using clustering for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes to reconstruct solely the object of interest (OOI). We developed a pipeline that leverages the ... -
Multi-Haptic Feedback Texture Simulation and its Influence on the 'Sense of Presence' in Virtual Environments
(2025)The value and applicability of virtual reality (VR) experiences increases with the user’s ‘sense of presence’. A crucial tool to achieve high levels of ‘presence’ is haptic feedback. This study builds on state-of-the-art ... -
The height zeta function method for rational points on projective space.
(2025)We look at n-dimensional rational projective spaces. On these spaces we define a height function and we count the number N(B) of points with height smaller or equal to a bound B. In particular we are interested in the ... -
The Development of Analytical Detection Methods for Different Types of Nanoplastics in Human Placenta Tissue
(2025)The environment is one of the birthplaces of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs), originating from the accumulating plastic waste present in the environment. These particles have already been found in several organisms and even ... -
On the Microscopic Model for Strange Metal
(2025)High-temperature superconductors, particularly cuprates, have long intrigued both theoretical and experimental researchers. Despite recent progress in phenomenological explanations, such as the application of the AdS/CMT, ... -
How herd immunity mitigated a deadly second wave of COVID-19 in Manaus
(2025)In Manaus, Brazil, the COVID-19 pandemic struck hard with two significant waves of infections and deaths. The first wave began in March 2020, escalating into a severe healthcare crisis by April, as hospitals became overwhelmed ... -
Decoding the Effects of Gain-of-Function Mutations in STAT1 and STAT3: A Literature Review on Immune Dysregulation and Treatment Strategies
(2025)Inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) are genetic conditions that disrupt the immune system, leading to susceptibility to infections, autoimmunity, inflammation, and other immune dysregulations. Under normal circumstances, the ... -
A New Wave of Populist Feminism? Examining Identity Formation in the All Poland Women’s Strike, 2016-2021
(2025)This thesis traces the development of identity in the All Poland Women’s Strike (OSK), a feminist movement protesting abortion restrictions, between 2016 and 2021. Contrary to scholars who have emphasized the movement’s ... -
Temporally Accumulated Embeddings for Real-Time Neural Denoising
(2025)Neural models for Monte Carlo denoising usually target either real-time or offline performance. Offline denoisers are aimed at higher sample-per-pixel counts, since the offline budget allows for longer rendering times. ... -
Do Large Language Models have mental states? An exploration of Daniel Dennett’s Intentional Stance Theory
(2025)With the increasing use and popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), the need for answers grows, too. One question that is frequently raised is whether LLMs can be ascribed mental states. This is a question which ... -
Exploring the Thematic Coherence of Fake and LLM-generated news: A Topic Modeling Approach
(2025)Coherence is a fundamental property of well-written texts. As fake news continues to proliferate online and the prevalence of LLM-generated texts grows, the trustworthiness of news articles is broadly put under pressure. ... -
Let's Go, TTO? The Difference in Reading Motivation between Pupils in Bilingual and Regular Education in the Netherlands
(2025)Several studies have found a higher overall motivation from bilingual pupils when compared to regular pupils. However, differences in reading motivation specifically have not been studied yet. The present study, therefore, ...