UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Samenwerken in een spanningsveld: navigeren tussen ruimte en regelgeving.
(2024)Hoe gaat Rijkswaterstaat om met burgerinitiatieven en wat zijn de factoren die deze samenwerking beïnvloeden? Dat is de onderzoeksvraag die aan de basis ligt van deze masterscriptie. Drie casussen, gericht op het aanpakken ... -
Characterizing the Inputs and Functionality of Stress- and Reward-Encoding Neuronal Ensembles in the Ventral Tegmental Area
(2024)Excessive amounts of stress can contribute to the development and exacerbation of various psychiatric diseases associated with maladaptive reward-driven reinforcement. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a mesolimbic brain ... -
Reflection of surface waves by fault structures in granular media
(2024)Laser vibrometry has previously been studied as a new non-invasive imaging method to acoustically image physical analogue models. This study aims to characterize the interaction between acoustic waves and deformation ... -
ETHICAL AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF AI JUDGES: BALANCING EFFICIENCY AND THE RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL
(2024)This thesis explores the ethical and legal implications of deploying AI judges in judicial systems, focusing on balancing efficiency with the fundamental right to a fair trial. While AI promises enhanced efficiency and ... -
Applying EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulations and De-risking Policy on Social Live Streaming Service Platforms and Live-Streamers
(2024)Live streaming as one of social media activity which brings challenges to financial regulation. This activity involves live-streaming platforms and live streamers where they can obtain revenue from conducting live-streaming. ... -
Fostering Legume Cultivation in the Netherlands
(2024)The Netherlands faces several critical sustainability challenges in its agricultural system, including excessive nitrogen emissions that harm ecosystems and a heavy reliance on imported legumes, particularly soy. These ... -
Quantifying random drift in a multi-level selection model
(2024)Random drift – stochastic effects leading to evolutionary change – is one of the major forces within evolution. Its effects are more significant for smaller populations. Since it has been shown that group-structured ... -
An explorative study of smaller LLMs: Pushing performance in a factuality assessment task using Prompt Engineering and Direct Preference Optimization
(2024)The automatic summarization of texts is time- and cost-efficient compared to manual summarization. However, models used for summary generation oftentimes ‘hallucinate’ information, meaning that the generated summary contains ... -
Enhancing Data-to-Text Systems with Neural-Symbolic Methods: An Exploration of Large Language Models as Text Scorers
(2024)Data-to-text generation converts structured data into natural language text, simplifying complex data interpretation and reducing manual effort. Traditional rule-based and neural approaches each offer distinct strengths ... -
Resultatives in word embeddings
(2024)Verbs can be categorised into classes based on the syntactic frames and alternations they can and cannot participate in (Levin, 1993). This study investigates whether pre-trained language model (PLM) word embeddings can ... -
Market-Driven Adoption of Agroforestry Systems
(2024)This review study suggests that despite initial decreases in production, agroforestry systems can achieve higher overall profitability compared to conventional monoculture practices, most strongly evidenced for the dairy ... -
Epitope-Based HLA Matching in Allogeneic Transplantation: A Literature Review on Computational Methods to Reduce Antibody-Mediated Rejection
(2024)Long-term success in allogeneic transplantation currently relies on the precise matching of donor and recipient HLA alleles to minimise immune-mediated complications. These complications can occur when either B- or T-cell ... -
Improving the Player Experience of Collaborative Multiplayer Games for Visually Impaired Children
(2024)Visually Impaired (VI) children face barriers when it comes to social engagement and integration, and engage in less cooperative play compared to sighted children. Collaborative multiplayer computer games can be used as a ... -
Procedural Content Generation in Mirror’s Edge using Markov Chains
(2024)This research presents a novel map generation system for a parkour-based game, called Mirror’s Edge, that operates outside the constraints of a grid, allowing for more organic level design. While the system enables flexible ... -
Identifying Xanthomonas recruitment genes in the soil-borne legacy
(2024)The plant microbiome can help the plant mitigate biotic stress. Hpa associated microbiota (HAM) are beneficial bacteria for which it is proven that Arabidopsis thaliana can actively recruit them in response to infection ... -
A Multifocal Approach: Toward the Production of Complement-activating MMN Patient-derived Anti-GM1 Antibodies
(2024)Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN) is a rare, chronic, primarily inflammatory complement-mediated polyneuropathy. It is characterized by progressive distal limb weakness. The exact pathophysiology of MMN remains unknown, ... -
Investigating climate change impacts in mountainous regions on the local level using a hybrid data approach - A case study of Neustift im Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria
(2024)Mountains are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Few efforts have focused on developing concrete and transferable procedures for optimizing the complementarity of different data sources, although the value of ...