UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Culturele Intelligentie op Internationaliserende Universiteiten
(2024)In een tijd van toenemende internationalisering op Nederlandse universiteiten wordt het steeds belangrijker dat docenten over de juiste competenties beschikken voor multiculturele educatie. Dit onderzoek richt zich op de ... -
Fighting Stigmatization of Survivors of Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Exploratory Mixed-methods Case Study of the School for Justice
(2024)The goal of this explorative case-study was to present an understanding of potential working elements and conditions for interventions targeting stigmatization of SEC and to formulate implications for the School For Justice ... -
Optimisation of the automated segmentation of the mitral valve plane in 4D flow cardiovascular MRI
(2024)Mitral valve segmentation is an important procedure to help evaluate blood flow in mitral regurgitation. Four-dimensional cardiovascular magnetic resonance flow imaging (4D flow MRI) is a technique that provides useful ... -
Toxic Tides in a Melting Arctic: Climate Change, Harmful Algal Blooms and Their Impact on the Food Security of Alaskan Arctic Indigenous Communities
(2024)The Alaskan Arctic is undergoing a profound transformation. As climate change reshapes the landscape, the balance of the ecosystem is disrupted. This has far reaching consequences for In- digenous communities who have ... -
Effect of soil pH on plant growth
(2024)Soil acidity and alkalinity are important chemical properties of soil and one of its fundamental attributes. They not only affect soil fertility but also the formation of soil nutrients and harmful substances, thereby ... -
Attitudes of Different Afghan Immigration Generations Towards the Dutch and Afghan Languages and Cultures
(2024)Afghans are a minority group in the Netherlands whose linguistic and cultural attitudes have not been studied extensively. Therefore, this thesis’ aim is to fill this research gap by investigating how first- and second-generation ... -
Exploring the use of large language models to improve one-to-one communication training scenarios
(2024)This paper explores the automation of communication training scenario writing by using AI generated statements. Two different research questions were explored, the first attempts to improve the quality of the training ... -
Neither/Nor: IDFA's "The Female Gaze" as subaltern public sphere for feminist discourse.
(2024)This thesis has conducted research into the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA). In 2014, IDFA had a subcategory named “The Female Gaze,” which focused on the question as to whether women make different ... -
Techno – economic evaluation of market- based congestion management mechanisms: a case study
(2024)This thesis examines the techno-economic evaluation of market-based congestion management mechanisms in the Goor Business Park. With grid congestion emerging as a major challenge due to increasing electricity demand and ... -
Exploring the Potential of Down-Sampling to Reduce Temporal Resolution in Energy System Optimisation Models
(2024)Energy system optimisation models (ESO) are increasingly important for managing renewable energy source (RES) integration. However, due to the intermittency of RES, the inclusion of storage and the increasing interconnectedness ... -
Will robots replace workers in greenhouses? Envisioning labour and automation in the Dutch greenhouse sector
(2024)In the Netherlands, horticulture is highly technologically advanced and automated yet depending on migrant workers to do manual labour. Robots are mentioned as the next developement to replace manual labour. Following the ... -
Contextualised Knowledge Base Creation through Phrase Extraction and Lexical Relation Classification
(2024)Large Language Models (LLMs) are used to solve many downstream tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One NLP area where they excel is classifying the lexical relation (LRC) between standalone words (e.g., 'house' and ... -
Understanding Decision Making Driver and Dynamics in Transportation Mode Choice: An agent-based modelling approach
(2024)Passenger transportation is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation modes (TMs) that individuals choose in daily life differ in their emissions, and a shift towards more sustainable TM ... -
Quantifying energy consumption by groundwater pumping for irrigation in the Netherlands
(2024)Groundwater is a vital resource for agricultural production, especially in regions where surface water is limited. However, extracting groundwater is highly energy-intensive, making it a key contributor to energy consumption ... -
Organic biomarker sea surface temperature proxies in Mediterranean Sea sediment traps
(2024)Paleoclimate proxies allow researchers to assess past climate and how it changed over time. Two sea surface temperature (SST) proxies, TEX86 and Uk37, are based on biomarkers called alkenones and glycerol dialkyl glycerol ... -
Feature Importance Mapping in performative predictions
(2024)Machine learning models have become widely used in recent years. As models are deployed and interact with real-world environments, they are susceptible to performance deterioration due to various factors such as data drift ...