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Enhancing Children Resilience Through Climate Change Education in Pakistan Perspectives of Indigenous Torwali Community Primary School Teachers
(2024)Education is a crucial resource to combat climate change. Climate change education provides the right knowledge, skills and tools to address the climate crisis. Integrating climate change education in formal education ... -
Race, Ownership and Authority in Fandom Discussions: An Analysis of the ‘green-Taako-debate’ within the The Adventure Zone Fandom
(2024)The relationship between fandom and race has traditionally been understudied. Even though more studies are being done on this relationship in this last decade, a lot of focus is still put on cases about racism within fandom. ... -
La Schiettezza Degli Apprendenti Olandesi in Italiano
(2024)Tra le diverse culture del mondo esistono diversi modi di comunicazione, e di uso della cortesia. Queste differenze tra culture potrebbero causare delle incomprensioni e degli stereotipi tra persone che appartengono a delle ... -
Fuelling Change. How the energy transition in the 1960s in the Netherlands impacted changing intergovernmental relations.
(2024)During the 1960s, the Netherlands went through a large and swift energy transition. The discovery of natural gas from Groningen resulted in the transformation of the energy system from a regional organisational structure ... -
Russian Disinformation and the OPCW: An Analysis of Russian Efforts to Undermine the FFM and IIT Investigations into the 2018 Douma Chemical Attack
(2024)This thesis analyses the attempts by Russian state representatives at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to undermine the OPCW’s investigations into the ... -
Mammoths, Mosasaurs, and More: The Meaning of Fossils Collected and Displayed by Naturalis Biodiversity Center and its Predecessor Museums (1878-2024)
(2024)The following paper investigates the meaning of fossils at the RGM, NNM, and Naturalis from the years 1878, when the RGM became an independent institution, to 2024, the composition of the museum in its configuration at the ... -
Freezing. Childhood sexual abuse and the impact it can have on the body and the brain
(2024)This thesis uses autoethnography of assemblage as its methodology, and philosopher Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and feminist philosopher and physicist Karen Barad’s agential realism philosophy as its theoretical framework, ... -
Snakes and Continuance: The Oceti Sakowin’s Resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice.
(2024)Using the lens of Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ), this thesis examines the experiences and resistance of the Oceti Sakowin Water Protectors within the NoDAPL movement to the environmental injustice brought by the ... -
Beyond Zero: Utopian Horizons and the Evolution of Dutch Mime
(2024)This research examines the evolution of the concept of Zero in Dutch mime thinking, from the 1960’s until now, and its relation to utopian thinking. First, the thesis provides a historical overview of mime traditions, ... -
Stock Markets, Oil, and Bitcoin during the Russian-Ukrainian War
(2024)This research examines the effect of the public interest in the Russian-Ukrainian war on the returns of the stock market indices, as well as on the oil and Bitcoin price returns. The stock market indices considered for the ... -
Trade Barrier Effect on European Union Member States Export Diversification From 1995 to 2022
(2024)This paper explores the trade barriers' impact on export diversification at the country level in the European Union. Using a database with EU-27 countries over 28 years at the HS4 level of disaggregation (872 exported ... -
The Heterogenous Impact of ESG Ratings on Firm Performance across different EU Sectors
(2024)This study analyses the relationship between ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) scores and firm profitability and value. By decomposing the sample at the sector level, the paper hopes to answer the following ... -
Does ESG controversies score moderate the relationship between ESG factors and corporate financial performance in the healthcare industry in U.S.?
(2024)In light of the pressing global challenges, ESG reporting has become crucial for large corporations to attract new investors. Since 2022, the regulatory authorities in the U.S. have proposed initiatives to strengthen ESG ... -
A backend for excuting machine learning models stored in the Open Neural Network Exchange format.
(2024)This thesis investigates the effectiveness of using ONNX-based machine learning models to simulate cellular automata, specifically focusing on Conway’s Game of Life. The primary goal is to evaluate how well an ONNX-based ... -
A Study into the Influence of the Parenting Challenge and its Influence on the Perception of Gender Roles in Parenting in the West Nile Region of Uganda
(2024)Parenting significantly influences a child’s development, enhancing competence and psychological well-being throughout childhood. Parenting programs are a common intervention in developmental aid, yet their efficacy in ... -
Investigating the interrelation of RSV infection and host cell cycle state
(2024)Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections are the leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) among young children and the elderly. The RSV virion contains a negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome ... -
Idiopathic versus Secondary Equine Headshaking Syndrome: Diagnostic Insights from CT imaging
(2024)Background: Equine headshaking Syndrom (EHS) is a rare condition characterized by involuntary headshaking in horses without external stimuli. It is not a specific disease, but a clinical sign with various potential underlying ...