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The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on Environmental, Social, and Governance Ratings: The Asian Perspective.
(2024)This study investigates the impact of Board Gender Diversity (BGD) on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance in India and Japan. The main question is how BGD affects ESG performance in these countries. ... -
Ethical Dimensions of Freemium Models: Consumer Perceptions and Behavioural Implications
(2024)The study investigates the ethical aspects of freemium models in digital multinational enterprises by analyzing consumer perceptions and behaviors. It quantitatively assesses the impact of ad-supported and feature-limited ... -
The relationship between mixed classes, inequality and average educational performance in Dutch secondary education.
(2024)In this thesis the relationship between mixed classes, inequality and average educational performance in Dutch secondary education is examined. Using cross-sectional, cohort fixed effects and TWFE models a careful empirical ... -
The influence of carbon risk on cost of capital: Empirical evidence from China
(2024)This study investigates the impact of carbon risk on corporate financing, with a particular focus on the cost of equity (CoE), cost of debt (CoD), and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of Chinese companies. This study ... -
Investigating the Influence of Bank Characteristics and Macroeconomic Variables on the Profit Levels of China's Commercial Banks: A Comprehensive Panel Data
(2024)This thesis investigates the factors influencing the profitability of Chinese commercial banks, focusing on bank specific factors and macroeconomic variables during the COVID-19 pandemic. The central question addresses ... -
“Reconstructing” a colour theory: Unraveling the theoretical, material and methodological assumptions underlying James Sowerby’s "A New Elucidation of Colours" (1809)
(2024)The mineralogist, botanist and engraver James Sowerby (1757 - 1822) is known for his high-quality illustrations of natural history works. Some 15 years after the publication of the coloured engravings for his "British ... -
Discontinuïteiten in spellen met onvolledige informatie
(2024)Discontinuïteiten in spellen met onvolledige informatie -
Leeftijdsafhankelijk Matrix Model en Stochasticiteit
(2024)Deze scriptie onderzoekt populatiedynamiek met een Leslie-matrix, gecombineerd met stochastische elementen van vertakkingsprocessen. Het onderzoekt zowel deterministische als stochastische benaderingen om een realistischer ... -
Het functiebegrip van Euler: discontinue functies in de Analyse
(2024)In deze scriptie wordt uitgelegd hoe het functiebegrip van Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) veranderde nadat hij de discontinue functies in de analyse introduceerde. In het bijzonder is `De usu functionum discontinuarum in ... -
The Consequences of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems for the Consistency of Mathematics.
(2024)The aim was to provide a clear overview of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems. The thesis covers primitive recursive functions and relations, some properties of Peano Arithmetic (PA for short), and material required to prove ... -
Symbolically Solving Two-Strategy Evolutionary Games in Python
(2024)This thesis presents a tool for symbolically solving two-strategy evolutionary games. To develop this tool, the underlying mathematics of twostrategy evolutionary games were thoroughly examined, and the mathematical software ... -
Modification of the silica nanoparticle surface with organosilanes: introducing hydrophobicity for neutral wetting behavior
(2024)Purification processes performed in the chemical industry require enormous amounts of energy. By utilizing bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels (bijels) as separative reaction media, the need for these energy ... -
Vivid Ecologies in Urban Rewilding: Shifting aesthetics and ontologies in more-than-human backyards in Rotterdam’s green turn.
(2024)This thesis explores the concept of “vivid ecologies” as a novel approach to urban rewilding in Rotterdam by focusing on how engaged backyard gardeners redefine urban spaces through negotiations of biodiversity and aesthetic ... -
Writing a History of the Present: The Los Angeles of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz
(2024)This thesis examines a collection of personal essays written by Joan Didion and Eve Babitz in and about Los Angeles throughout the 1960s and 70s. Through an analysis of these authors’ works, this thesis critically examines ... -
Systemic Sclerosis Dissected: Creating an In Vitro model
(2024)Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an chronic immune mediated disease characterized by fibrosis of the skin (scleroderma) and internal organs. Fibrosis of these tissues may ultimately lead to organ failure, potentially leading ... -
Digitalisation: What We Owe To Indigenous People
(2024)Digitalisation has become a global phenomenon. No country on Earth has not made at least some steps in digitalising their society or societies. The people on Earth who do not live in digitalised societies tend to be people ... -
Prevalence of Salmonella Dublin in dairy herds in Alberta, Canada
(2024)Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serotype Dublin (Salmonella Dublin) is a zoonotic pathogen host adapted to cattle. The objective of this study was to provide updated herd-level prevalence estimate of Salmonella ...