UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Transformative Pathways to Sustainability in Ecovillages: Exploring Inner-Outer Dynamics
(2024)Current policy and practice have inadequately addressed the fundamental roots of unsustainability, with prevailing incremental approaches failing to generate the necessary scale, speed, and depth of action. Amidst this ... -
Giving meaning to climate change: Exploring framing in national climate citizens' assemblies
(2024)Despite commitments to the Paris Agreement, no country currently has plans to meet its targets. This urgent issue requires political action, yet current democratic systems are struggling. Consequently, scholars are advocating ... -
Centrale sturing of lokale vrijheid?
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The Spanish Civil War in Shostakovich’s MusicalImagination: New Critical and Analytical Perspectiveson Salute to Spain (1936) and Spanish Songs Op. 100(1956)
(2024)The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) marked a crucial period in Soviet-Spanish relations, with the Soviet Union providing substantial support to the Spanish Republic. Shostakovich's music for the theater piece Salute to Spain, ... -
Breathing Emotion: Assessing the Respiratory Cues in HCI Emotional Dynamics
(2024)This study looks into the complex dynamics of emotional and physiological responses evoked as individuals engage with various web-based tasks. The emphasis is on understanding how the emotions elicited by one task can ... -
Navigating Peace in the Crossfire
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The Relationship between Qualitative Job Insecurity and Meaningfulness at Work: The Mediating Effect of Job Crafting
(2024)In today’s cost-of-living crisis and rapidly changing modern organisational world (Patrick & Pybus, 2022), the present study aimed to explore the relationship between qualitative job insecurity (QJI), job crafting, and ... -
Literature review on mathematical and phylodynamic modelling of mpox outbreaks in men who have sex with men populations
(2024)Background: Mpox, previously known as 'monkeypox' poses a significant concern for public health, especially among men who have sex with men (MSM) communities. This was emphasized by the 2022-2023 international mpox outbreak, ... -
De spreidingswet: Het doorbreken van een impasse door middel van een inperking van gemeentelijke autonomie
(2024)De komst van de spreidingswet veroorzaakt een grote verschuiving in bestuurlijk Nederland. Van de 342 gemeenten in Nederland zijn er 286 gemeenten die niet voldoen aan de verdeelsleutel van de spreidingswet (AD, 2024). Bij ... -
Alleviating low-voltage network congestion using electric vehicles and heat pumps: an agent-based modeling approach
(2024)This thesis investigates the integration of multiple explicit and implicit flexibility incentives at the household level to identify a cost-effective solution to mitigate congestion on low-voltage (LV) networks using ... -
Behind the BY-phrase: The syntax and semantics of passive BY-phrases in West Germanic, with a special focus on Dutch
(2024)BY-phrases are found in long passives cross-linguistically, where they are standardly taken to reintroduce the demoted external theta-role of the passivized verb (e.g. The book was written by John). This thesis explores ... -
Emulating SAI Scenarios in CESM2 and the Effects on the Southern Hemisphere Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation
(2024)The implementation of adequate and timely policies to prevent the further increase of green- house gases in our atmosphere and the most disastrous effects of global warming is becoming increasingly unlikely. In this context, ... -
High-resolution firn on Antarctic ice shelves
(2024)Firn provides pore space that can retain meltwater. On the Antarctic ice shelves, depletion of the firn air content (FAC) can lead to hydrofracturing, by allowing for accumulation of meltwater. To understand the behaviour ... -
Not Too Local type inference
(2024)The type inference in statically typed, object-oriented languages is local because it needs to know the type of an object when a method is called or a property accessed on it, as multiple classes can implement the ... -
One-parameter family of baryonic physics models in the large-scale structure
(2024)Baryonic physics significantly influences the large-scale distribution of matter, posing a major challenge to weak gravitational lensing analyses. Numerous models have been proposed to account for these baryonic effects, ... -
A systematic approach for Systematic Dataset Reviews
(2024)This research introduces guidelines for performing a Systematic Dataset Review (SDR), a term newly defined within this research. The SDR guidelines tackle the issues currently faced with dataset research. Currently, ... -
Using Students’ Learning Curves to Assess the Quality of Hints and Feedback in an Intelligent Tutoring System
(2024)With traditional education facing challenges in delivering personalized instruction due to large student-to-teacher ratios, Intelligent Tutoring Systems offer a promising alternative by providing tailored instruction to ... -
Generative AI for Automatic Feedback Generation in Serious Games
(2024)This thesis investigates the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for automatic feedback generation in serious games, focusing on identifying the characteristics of effective feedback in serious games, key design ...