UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Assessing the performance and usability of urban digital twins
(2024)Cities around the world are rapidly adopting digital twin technology to address intricate urban planning issues, to foster more sustainable and efficient urban environments. However, despite this adoption and the recent ... -
Myanmar and the Rohingya: the Legitimization of Violence
(2024)This thesis analyzes the attempts of the Myanmar government to justify the persecution of the Rohingya both on a regional and an international level. -
IK BEN ONGESTELD, DUS?! Een interdisciplinair onderzoek naar het stigma rondom menstruatie en de invloed daarvan voor vrouwen op de werkvloer.
(2024)Menstruatiegezondheid wordt tegenwoordig gezien als publieke gezondheidskwestie. Echter, ondanks de toegenomen aandacht voor dit onderwerp en de toegenomen aanwezigheid van vrouwen op de werkvloer, blijft onderzoek naar ... -
Temperature dependence of holographic shear viscosity
(2024)Recent analysis of heavy ion collisions has shown clear signs of a temperature dependence of the shear viscosity to entropy ratio. However, it is very difficult to compute the shear viscosity theoretically in strongly ... -
Sugar in the crème brûlée: Developing organoid-based bioartificial kidneys transplanted on chicken embryos
(2024)Chronic kidney disease is a major health problem with over 10% of the world population affected. In the final stage, replacement of the renal function is lifesaving. However, conventional dialysis can only replace the ... -
Intergenerational Transmission of Depression and Anxiety: Offspring’s Temperament as a Mediator in the Association between Gender and Severity of Symptoms
(2024)Introduction: A parental history of depression and/or anxiety puts offspring at an ultra-high emergence risk of the same themselves, with girls showing a more severe symptomatology. With temperament being implicated as one ... -
Assessing the Feasibility of Deprescribing Strategies in Comprehensive Medication Reviews: A Process Evaluation
(2024)To optimize medication in older patients with polypharmacy, medication reviews (CMRs) are periodically conducted by community pharmacists (CPs), applying the Multidisciplinary Guideline Polypharmacy in Older Patients (MDRP) ... -
Improving Binding Breadth and Potency of NA-targeting Nanobodies by Multivalency
(2024)Influenza A viruses (IAVs) pose a continuous threat to global health, causing high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide each year. Neuraminidase (NA), a surface glycoprotein of IAV that plays a critical role in viral ... -
Combining mesenchymal stem cells with a nutritional intervention of lysophosphatidylcholine docosahexaenoic acid: the future treatment for perinatal hypoxia ischemia?
(2024)Background Perinatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among infants worldwide. Currently, the only approved treatment for infants suffering from HI injury is hypothermia, which has a ... -
Quantifying Natural Selection on Multiple Timescales
(2024)Quantifying the effect of selection on an evolving population allows us to better understand the mechanisms behind the process of evolution. We can calculate the change over time of a certain trait in a population, and ... -
Development of cell-laden gelAGE microspheres as modules for the bioassembly of larger vascularized hybrid constructs
(2024)Three dimensional (3D) tissue engineering has shown great potential for the development of in-vitro models and regenerative therapies for which there is a critical need, such as treatment of large bone defects. Yet, limited ... -
Climate Change, Agricultural Yields and the Fall of the Roman Empire
(2024)The Roman Empire fell at the end of the 5th century AD. Many potential drivers exist behind the decline of such a large nation that spanned Europe, one of them being climate change. It is hypothesised that the shift in ... -
Evaluation of the incidence of complications after transsphenoidal hypophysectomy in cats and the possible relation to the tumor size
(2024)This retrospective study evaluates the incidence of post-operative complications in 48 cats undergoing transsphenoidal hypophysectomy at the University Clinic for Companion Animals in Utrecht between January 1994 and ... -
The People Versus the Elite and the Language of Dutch Right-Wing Populism
(2024)De scriptie opent met het geven van de onderzoeksvraag en geeft de reden dat het relevant is. De onderzoeksvraag is; How has the concept of ‘the people versus the elite’ developed between the Dutch right-wing populists ...