UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Pricing and reimbursement of Tumour-agnostic Therapies
(2024)Abstract Background: Larotrectinib and entrectinib are tumour-agnostic therapies that received marketing authorization from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in 2019 and 2020. In the Netherlands, both therapies are ... -
Beyond Remission: An In-Depth Exploration of Recovery Needs, Gaps, and Obstacles Faced by Working-Age Breast Cancer Survivors – A Qualitative Study
(2024)Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most prevalent cancer in women worldwide, with approximately 1 in 7 women receiving a diagnosis during their lifetime. The survival rate of BC has increased from 47,600 to 75,000 in ... -
Playful pathfinders: elucidating the direct contribution of mPFC pathways to social play behaviour in rats
(2024)Social play is thought to be fundamental for the proper development of social, motoric and cognitive skills. Therefore, deficient social play, as reported in children with autism and ADHD, could have profound consequences ... -
Purification of the Translocon-associated protein complex in a near-native state.
(2024)The ER translocon machinery is a macromolecular assembly, responsible for the admission of membrane proteins into the secretory pathway. During co-translational translocation, the translocon-associated protein complex ... -
Cerebrovascular Reactivity and White Matter Hyperintensities In Sporadic Small Vessel Disease
(2024)An impaired cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) is indicated to be an important contributor to the appearance of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) in cerebral small vessel disease (SVD). CVR is defined as a measure of the ... -
Accuracy and Precision of Volumetric Matching Micromotion Analysis (V3MA) for tibial component migration measurement in total knee arthroplasty: An experimental study and clinical proof of concept in six patients.
(2024)Introduction: Early migration and continuous migration in the first two years is considered a predictive factor of aseptic loosening in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The current gold standard to measure implant migration ... -
Automatic software product features extraction from software vendor documents
(2024)This project focuses on the automatic software features extraction from vendors' webpages and the consequent creation of a knowledge graph to accommodate these features. The use of LLMs for the classification of features ... -
Discourse-Weighted Sentiment Analysis: Measuring the Impact of EDU Depth on Review Classification
(2024)This study investigates how rhetorical complexity affects sentiment analysis accuracy in online reviews through integration of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) with lexicon-based approaches. While traditional sentiment ... -
From genetic variation to biotic interactions: towards a multi-scale approach for Species Dsitribution Modelling
(2024)Biological communities are being affected by anthropogenic driven climate change. One of these effects is a change in the geographical range of species, where species occur in a certain area. Although species occur in a ... -
Development of Hydroponics Vertical Farming and the Influences on Plant Growth
(2024)Hydroponics is a cornerstone of vertical farming, offering innovative and sustainable solutions for urban agriculture. By maximizing space utilization, conserving water, and producing high-quality crops, hydroponics addresses ... -
Quantifying the environmental benefits of animal-source food replacement: Integrated assessment of the environmental impact of dietary change to alternative protein sources
(2024)The environmental impact of diets high in animal-source foods has led to growing interest in potentially more sustainable alternative protein sources, such as plant-based meat analogues, cultivated meat, insect protein, ... -
The NiFeS Battery: Technology & Performance Analysis
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A multimodal deep learning approach for automated assessment of depressive symptoms in children
(2024)Depression is a global health issue affecting individuals coming from all age groups, with the prevalence in children rising. The early detection of depression in young ages is crucial, yet several obstacles hinder the ... -
Improvements for Extended Morton Codes for Bounding Volume Hierarchy Construction on GPUs in Problematicly Large Scenes
(2024)We present three new methods to enhance the positional accuracy of Morton Codes in large scenes that have distant or large primitives, which is an essential aspect of many Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) construction ... -
Causes, effects, and solutions for salinization of ground- and surface water in the Amsterdam region
(2024)Ground- and surface water in the Netherlands are threatened by salinization. Salinization can negatively impact drinking water provisioning, agriculture, industry and ecosystems. In the Netherlands in particular, the three ... -
Pioneering Urban Biodiversity: Using AI-sensors, eDNA and traditional methods to create a novel biodiversity monitoring toolkit and assessment framework.
(2024)While human-made elements often overshadow urban ecosystems, they have recently shown to be able to support and harbour significant biological diversity, which is critical yet challenging to monitor effectively. Given the ... -
Enhancing Cooperation in Group Fitness Tracking: The Role of Rewards and Punishments
(2024)The ”Quantified-Self” (QS) movement has transformed personal fitness applications through the use of wearable technology and real-time feedback. However, while fitness apps predominantly focus on individual metrics, they ...