UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Nitrogen Regulations and Housing Development in the Netherlands: A Quantitative Analysis
(2024)As the Netherlands struggles with a housing crisis, nitrogen regulations, aimed at protecting Natura 2000 sites, have been accused of impeding housing development. However, existing studies on the topic have found contrasting ... -
Connecting the Dots: Group Coordination, Collective Agency, Social Cohesion and Sustainable Behavior
(2024)The understanding of the predecessors of sustainable behaviour is currently more crucial than ever, especially for finding ways to delay or stop the harmful impact we are having on the environment. The focus of the current ... -
PANSEXUALITY: A MODEL FOR SOCIETY?! Exploring the Interwoven Dynamics of Sexuality and Gender Binarity, and its connection to Colonialism and Capitalism Through the Perspectives of Two Queer Individuals
(2024)This thesis explores the interrelatedness of gender and sexuality, as well as their complex relationship with societal structures. It explores heteronormativity, monogamy, and gender norms within the larger frameworks of ... -
Thread Divergence Reduction in Path Tracer using Custom Thread Scheduler
(2024)This master thesis’ main purpose is to research, implement and experiment improved and innovative methods to reduce thread divergence in the path tracer algorithm. The main research question this work aims to answer is how ... -
Seasonality of Atmospheric CH4 and δ13CH4: New measurement at IMAU and analysis of Global long-term time series and model data
(2024)In this project, we measured methane samples at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) and analyzed long-term time series observations from NOAA as well as model outputs to explore the seasonality ... -
Reinforcement Learning in Oncology: A Comprehensive Review
(2024)Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a framework that enables machines to learn dynamic decision-making strategies through trial and error, so as to maximize a numerical reward signal. Although its origins are rooted in early ... -
itle: Windstorm Poly (2023): phenomenology, predictability and the role of the North Sea
(2024)Windstorm Poly, which developed overnight from 4th to 5th, 2023, was a major summer windstorm in the Netherlands, characterized by rapid intensification and severe wind gusts. The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute ... -
Using LLMs to extract diagnoses from clinical texts in psychiatry
(2024)A pre-trained Transformer was inplemented wirh the aim of optimizing the extraction of diagnosis classifications from Dutch psychiatric texts. Within this process, the following attributes were compared: data used for ... -
Enhancing Railway Operations: Rule-Based Event Log Extraction for ProRail Traffic Control
(2024)Current research in process mining and event detection offers excellent interfaces and algorithms for discovering and improving real-world processes. However, these methods assume that the very activities that make up the ... -
Variational inference in Stan
(2024)This thesis presents a novel, robust, and user-friendly variational inference (VI) algo- rithm implemented in Stan. As is customary, the algorithm uses the classical mean-field Gaussian variational family and the ... -
Automated Analysis of Dairy Cow Drinking Behaviour Using Computer Vision: Developing and Integrating Cow Detection and Drinking Behaviour Classification Components
(2024)Monitoring the drinking behaviour of dairy cows provides valuable insights into their health and welfare. However, establishing the relationship between water intake and factors like milk production has been challenging due ... -
Randstand and regio in the Dutch Parliament: A phantom gap? (preliminary)
(2024)The Netherlands is sometimes perceived as polarized between the urban center named the Randstad including the four main cities Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam and Utrecht, and the rest of the country, the regio. The gas ... -
Surrogate CFD modelling for simulating wind velocity over coastal dune terrain
(2024)Dunes play a crucial role in protecting coastal areas from flooding, erosion and supporting their fragile ecosystems. Coastal dune management is important to protect these coastal areas. Dunes are formed by various ... -
E32 Verlengen van AI-neerslagnowcasting door blending met weermodellen
(2024)This thesis was done for the company Weather Impact to assess the potential of blending of KNMI harmonie data and DGMR. Linear blending was selected and tested on data from various days. For linear blending, the python ... -
Analyzing Temporal Patterns of ICU Alarms: A Time- Series Clustering Approach
(2024)Objective This study employs a machine learning approach, namely time-series clustering with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), to empirically identify subgroups of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and examine the relationships ... -
Modelling the airflow in foredune blowouts using Computational Fluid Dynamics
(2024)Due to past coastal management strategies, sediment transport from the beach to the dunes has been severely limited, negatively affecting biodiversity in the backdunes. To amend this, through-like ’depressions’, called ... -
Analysing the Impact of Telegram (Social Media) on the Political Public Sphere: A Study on the Political Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy
(2024)This study analyses the quality of political discourse on social media by focusing on the Israel-Palestine conflict. It is based on Habermas' (2023) hypothesis, which suggests that individuals who mainly use social media ... -
Unmasking Memorization: Assessing Dutch Language Memorization in mT5 Models
(2024)This study investigates the memorization of Dutch language content in mT5 models, a multilingual variant of the T5 Transformer-based models. A fill-mask evaluation technique is used to assess memorization and how it varies ...