This thesis explores how coastal communities in Padre Burgos, Southern Leyte, Philippines, adapt to the growing impacts of climate change and how governmental and non-governmental entities contribute to building local ...

Animal welfare becomes increasingly important in today’s society. One of the animals often discussed in welfare debates are pigs. Partly due to the fact that, on most commercial farms, piglets have no contact with piglets ...

Mother-of-pearl carvings, popular throughout Europe during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, constitute a unique group of late medieval devotional microcarvings. Although many of these objects survive in museum ...

This thesis explores the interpretability of automatic depression detection. Specifically, it investigates whether humanly understandable concepts can be gained from a varied array of machine learning models. Using the ...

This thesis examines how discourses concerning the work of outsourced content moderation reveal socially reproductive labor as culturally and historically devalued in response to the technological and ideological context ...

The global transition to low-carbon technologies is driving increased demand for critical metals, prompting renewed interest in deep-sea mining (DSM) as a complementary alternative to declining terrestrial sources. However, ...

Deze scriptie onderzoekt hoe mediatisering – in het bijzonder via personalisering van televisiecampagnes – bijdroeg aan een transformatie van de politieke representatie bij de traditionele volkspartijen van sociaaldemocratische ...

In this thesis we consider Gromov–Witten invariants and quantum cohomology, starting with the approach from symplectic geometry. We study pseudoholomorphic curves and their moduli spaces, whose compactifications incorporate ...