Plastic production and waste treatment significantly impact climate change and contribute to the environmental challenge of plastic littering. This research, a collaborative effort with TNO as part of the InReP project, ...

Oncogenic transformation can be caused by mutations in the Ras gene, present in 30% of all human cancers. Mutations in Harvey RAS (HRAS), an isoform of Ras, induce changes in metabolism, epigenome remodeling, and the ...

Sexual reproduction is a trait shared in all eukaryotes, and was present in the last eukaryotic common ancestor. Current eukaryotes mostly inherit mitochondria from one parent, but the mechanisms that ensure this vary ...

Although the overall CD8+ T cell immune response is reproducible, individual naïve CD8+ T cells vary significantly in their contributions. A single naïve CD8+ T cell and all its descendants constitute a “family”. Interestingly, ...

In the era of the Anthropocene, cities face escalating challenges due to climate change. Over the past decade, Urban Nature-Based Solutions (UNBS) have gained increasing interest as a holistic and sustainable way to tackle ...

This thesis examines the emergence, power consolidation, and subsequent decline of the vigilante group Amphibi in Central Lombok from 1998 to 2017. The central argument of this research is that vigilante groups such as ...

Recognition of pain in equines is essential for their welfare. However, unlike humans, equines lack verbal communication and are reliant on external observers to assess their pain. Observers can assess equine pain using ...

In this thesis we look at some of the proofs of proven EXPTIME-complete games and give our own EXPTIME-completeness proof. We specifically look at chess and American checkers, for which we will describe their EXPTIME-hardness ...