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From Home to the Political Arena: How Children and Conservative Beliefs Shape Women's Political Self-Efficacy
(2024)This thesis examines the impact of having children on women's political self-efficacy, whether conservative beliefs influence women’s political self-efficacy and to what extent conservative beliefs moderate this relationship. ... -
Parents, Peers and Self-Control: What is the role of culture in explaining youth delinquency?
(2024)This study explores the influence of parental attachment, peer delinquency, and self-control on youth delinquency, and examines how these relationships vary between individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Utilising ... -
Leaving No One Behind - Ensuring the Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions in a Way that Benefits of Green are Accessible in a Just Manner
(2024)Climate change effects are impacting well-being, and these will increase in frequency and severity in the future. Urbanised areas such as the Netherlands are specifically at risk. Therefore, climate adaptation is required. ... -
To Attune to a Robot Arm: A Moving Body’s Perspective of Speculating, Programming, and Dancing with the Robot
(2024)This thesis investigates human-robot interaction through the concept of attunement, focusing particularly on movement and dance. I use my personal experience of speculating, programming the movement of, and dancing with ... -
The Evolution of Spatial Planning Research in Response to Societal Developments A Longitudinal Analysis of MSc Theses
(2024)The goal of this study is to evaluate the expanding body of literature on master students' spatial planning theses to discover patterns and developments in this field over the past 15 years. The 2008 global economic crisis ... -
La estética del dolor y la indignación en la literatura contemporánea mexicana: un análisis comparativo de Perras de Reserva de Dahlia de la Cerda y Basura de Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny
(2024)Este estudio examina cómo interactúan diferentes estrategias narrativas para expresar dolor e indignación en la literatura, y cómo se facilita una respuesta afectiva a través de estas estrategias. La investigación consiste ... -
“Those Psychic Aberrations of Primitive People”: Three Cases of Practicing Psychiatry in the Dutch Indies 1895-1926
(2024)This thesis sits at the crossroads between the history of psychiatry and the history of colonialism and takes as its subject the way psychiatry was practiced in the Dutch Indies around the turn of the twentieth century. ... -
Van ‘moeder’ tot ‘carrièrevrouw’: Een analyse van Nederlandse krantenartikelen over bewindsvrouwen tijdens de emancipatiestrijd in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw.
(2024)Vanaf het moment dat vrouwen in de jaren vijftig het Nederlandse kabinet betraden, zijn zij in de parlementaire journalistiek ongelijk behandeld vergeleken met mannelijke politici. Dit wordt algemeen erkend in het ... -
Exterior Architecture and the Dutch Housing Crisis
(2024)The Netherlands is facing a housing crisis, with thousands of dwellings being built quickly, focusing on quantity rather than aesthetically appealing qualities. Critics foresee a lack of place identity due to homogenised ... -
Vrouwen op de literaire ladder: Genderverhoudingen in Nederlandse literaire kritiek en literatuurprijzen in de periode 2007-2023
(2024)Deze masterscriptie onderzoekt de evolutie van genderdynamiek binnen de Nederlandse literaire kritiek en literaire prijzen van 2007 tot 2023. Voortbouwend op het onderzoek van Corina Koolen (2018), dat aanzienlijke ... -
The understanding of local knowledge in climate change adaptation. Research of small-scale famers in Naivasha, Kenya
(2024)Climate change is experienced on different communities all around the globe. Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies are used to minimize the impact of climate change. This research is contributing to bridge ... -
Efficacy of the Nonavalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Female Sex Workers:The HVFSW Study, a Randomized Controlled Trial
(2024)[Layman’s summary] Cervical cancer is an important public health concern. Almost all cervical cancers are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV can be sexually transmitted, and the vast majority of the population will ... -
Informal Caregiving in Context: Conversion Factors and their impact in Work-life Balance Outcomes
(2024)This study looks at the interactions between gender, employment arrangements, socioeconomic position (SEP), and welfare familialism degree to understand how informal caregivers (ICs) in the UK and Spain achieve work-life ... -
Schatting van SARS-CoV-2-transmissieparameters in huishoudens
(2024)We hebben verspreiding van SARS-CoV-2 binnen huishoudens onderzocht, door transmissieparameters in huishoudens te schatten met data van het Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht. Een transmissieparameter geeft aan hoe groot ... -
Van Maagdenhuis tot Malieveld Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de participatie van jongeren in Nederland in de jaren zestig van de twintigste eeuw en de jaren twintig van de eenentwintigste eeuw.
(2024)In dit onderzoek wordt de politieke participatie van jongeren uit de jaren zestig van de twintigste eeuw met de huidige generatie jongeren vergeleken. De recente bezettingen van universiteitsgebouwen, de klimaatdemonstraties ... -
“We trespassed in the city of the dead, and all our skills and talents counted for nothing” Challenging the borders of death in children’s literature
(2024)Children’s literature has been under pressure the last few years. There are more and more discussions on what can be written for children and how it should be written. One way to write about heavy topics for children is ... -
Transition of medication information after bariatric surgery: The added value of a medication advice letter
(2024)Background: Bariatric surgery is a popular and effective method for weight reduction. During the surgical procedure, alterations to the gastrointestinal tract are made which can lead to a different effect of oral drug ... -
Why Telling Stories about Black Bodies Matters: Physical Pain, Traumatic Body Memories and the Restoration of the Self in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys
(2024)The current Master thesis focuses on the concept of traumatic body memories, and departs from the notion that memories of traumatic experiences with pain can become encoded on a physical level, a place that does not adhere ... -
Beyond X-Rays: exploring correlation with surface topography measurements for safer scoliosis surveillance
(2024)The management of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) generally involves the repeated acquisition of full-spine radiographs, which leads to an increased risk of developing cancer due to cumulative radiation exposure. For ... -
Queering the Future: Rethinking Dystopia in the Anthropocene
(2024)A large part of twenty-first century speculative writing is shaped by a sense of dystopian futures invading the present. Many of these stories follow the narrative that humanity will soon go extinct as a result of anthropogenic ...