UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Fungal succession and the future of carbon cycling in Northern bogs
(2025)Anthropogenic atmospheric pollution and emissions remain major causes of climate change, with serious projected harmful consequences to biological systems and our way of life. With carbon as the main greenhouse gas culprit ... -
The regulatory architecture of mitotic entry
(2025)The timing of mitosis is tightly regulated and is essential for proper development. In this review we investigate how the timing of mitosis is regulated and how this can be altered during development or after development. ... -
Revisiting Operation Genesis: State Terror Behind the Veil of Displacement
(2025)This thesis contains a qualitative analysis of Operation Genesis in Colombia and its aftermath. Although officially framed as a military offensive against guerrilla forces, the operation led to severe human rights violations, ... -
Routing the Transport of Goods for Institutional Care Customers
(2025)This thesis focuses on developing an algorithm to solve the routing problem with optional electric vehicles, which takes driver preferences into account for institutional care customer. The heterogeneous fleet, partial ... -
Shifting Operators on Spherical Functions of Compact Symmetric Pairs
(2025)Representation theory provides a unified framework for understanding many of the classical special functions appearing in theoretical physics, such as Legendre polynomials, by interpreting them as spherical functions of ... -
Evaluating Dutch Social Bias in Large Language Models
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used by people in their daily lives. However, LLMs can contain biases and express these biases in their responses. One of these biases is social bias, on which this thesis is ... -
Two Centuries Room for the River
(2025)The Room for the River program is generally regarded as successful in freeing up room to the river and seen as an exemplary alternative to conventional river flood protection measures. However, over the course of the last ... -
FRAMING THE FUTURE OF AI: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NARRATIVES SURROUINDING AI- DEVELOPMENT
(2025)This thesis examines how large tech companies and media outlets construct competing narratives around artificial intelligence (AI) development, revealing a discursive struggle that shapes global perceptions of innovation, ... -
Exploring AI-Assisted Triage: Comparing Classical Machine Learning and GPT-4o for Clinical Decision Making
(2025)Accurate and efficient triage is essential to optimize the allocation of limited medical resources in the emergency department (ED). Nevertheless, triage decisions are inherently hard, requiring rapid but justifiable ... -
The Fat Tail Problem
(2025)DNA deuterium labeling provides a minimally invasive technique for studying cell population dynamics over prolonged periods. However, interpreting labeling data is sometimes complicated by the persistent high labeling ... -
Alpha-synuclein fibril structures in Lewy pathology
(2025)Alpha-synuclein aggregation is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), PD with dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). Misfolded ... -
Utilization of the household carbon footprint assessment for equitable policy formulation in Greece.
(2025)This thesis research aims to address the literature gap regarding the utilization of the household carbon footprint assessment for the formulation of equitable climate policies to assist the efforts for CO2 reduction in ... -
How Local Perspectives Matter. Local and Outsider Perceptions of Urban Deprivation: A Deep Learning Approach Using Remotely Sensed Imagery of the Accra-Tema City Region
(2025)The rapid growth of cities in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has put increasing pressure on livability, resulting in deprived urban areas (DUAs). Previous research has shown that local livability perspectives can ... -
National Forest Attribute Maps Using ALS andSample Plot Data for the Netherlands
(2025)Forest inventory is essential for sustainable forest and nature management, as well as for policymaking at various levels. Traditional methods rely on plot sampling and provide reliable estimates of variables such as stem ... -
Brabantse identiteit in carnavalsmuziek door de tijd heen
(2025)Tijdens carnaval is de regionale identiteit meermaals onderwerp van gesprek. Carnaval is een feest dat lokale tradities in stand houdt, maar zich ook aanpast aan de tijd waarin het wordt gevierd (Wijers, 2000). Muziek kan ... -
Van Scalpel tot Penseel: Drie anatomische voorstellingen ontleed
(2025)Dit onderzoek richt zich op drie uitzonderlijke schilderijen met anatomische voorstellingen: Blaassteen met twee schelpjes (1627), Neuspoliep (1667) en Kaakbeen (1727). Deze kunstwerken tonen de anatomische onderdelen uit ... -
Modelling Urban Transformations: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Building Changes in the Conservation Area of Utrecht
(2025)This thesis studies transformation of urban environments, taking the conservation area of Utrecht as a case study. It aims to explore methods for vectorization, object matching and change detection of building data across ... -
Targeting Tumor-Promoting Myeloid Cells in Colon Cancer To Improve Anti-Tumor Immunity
(2025)Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Over the past decade, immunotherapy has become an important treatment type for many cancers, including colon cancer. However, not all colon cancer ...