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Policing Networks: The mobilisation of actors in the relations between the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Tampa Bay and Pinellas County institutions, Florida, USA
(2015)This thesis explores the network of private and public policing in Pinellas County, Florida, USA. With a focus on the SPCA Tampa Bay and Pinellas County Animal Services, the two main animal shelters and 'animal cops' in ... -
Physical effort and the Sense of Moral Responsibility
(2015)Responsibility can be defined as the belief that one possesses the pivotal power to provoke or prevent subjective crucial outcomes. Responsibility is crucial in the field of law. Institutions seeking to control individuals ... -
The effect of personality traits and emotions on social motives - A Game Theoretic Approach
(2015)This research has aimed to elucidate the role of social motives in game theory. This was done by using two different game theoretical experiments; the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Decomposed Games. The main question that has ... -
Telomerase Assays A review and comparison of several telomerase activity assays.
(2015)Telomerase is a protein that is required by immortalized cells and cancer cells to continue their unlimited division. In this paper, a number of assays for detecting telomerase activity are reviewed. This is done in order ... -
Latitudinal patterns of species diversity, body mass and herbivory: a comparison between ectotherms and endotherms
(2015)Summary Earth varies widely in characteristics along her latitude, like temperature, precipitation and day length. This has consequences for life along this latitude. In this research, a comparison is made between ectotherms ... -
Irenicism in Seventeenth-Century English Thought: With Special Reference to English Natural Philosophy
(2015)This study seeks to add to the historiographical debate on science and religion in seventeenth-century England. Despite much excellent scholarly work on historical categories such as ‘puritanism’ and ‘latitudinarianism’, ... -
Van dansen tot rennen en fietsen Hoe het thema individualiteit tegenover collectiviteit zich voortbeweegt in de ruimte bij de voorstellingen van Schwalbe
(2015)Het mimegezelschap Schwalbe heeft de laatste jaren steeds meer naamsbekendheid verworden en spreekt een groot publiek aan, ondanks dat hun voorstellingen ietwat eentonig of abstract te noemen zijn. Opvallend is deze ... -
‘Ze is van zichzelf,’ zeg ik. ‘Ze is van niemand.’ Het mes dat niet wijkt als aanzet tot maatschappijkritisch denken over gender.
(2015)Deze scriptie betreft een genderanalyse van de dystopische Young Adult-roman Het mes dat niet wijkt van Patrick Ness. Hierbij wordt uitgegaan van de gedachte dat (jeugd)literatuur, met name in het genre dystopie, een ... -
The use of routine radiological database from equine practice to determine the prevalence of osteochondrosis and the relation to feeding practice factors in a Dutch warmblood horse population
(2015)Osteochondrosis (OC) is a very common disease in Dutch warmblood horses. The dynamic process of the endochondral ossification gets disturbed, which can result in irregular cartilage in equine joints, mostly hock and stifle. ... -
The effect of lateralized pointing on processing tactile stimuli
(2015)Prism adaptation is a well-known sensori-motor conflict/adaptation paradigm, which induces an adaptation to a visual shift and can improve spatial bias in neglect patients. However, recent research indicates that the prism ... -
We're a happy family
(2015)Onderzoek naar de rol van het gezin in de post-9/11 apocalyptische film World War Z (2013). Aan de hand van een mise-en-scène analyse van twee scènes wordt er gekeken hoe de mise-en-scène de rol die het gezin speelt in het ... -
Culture, Religion and Entrepreneurship in the United States: A Regional Perspective
(2015)This paper critically examines the present state of research into culture as a determinant of entrepreneurship, and concludes that studies that make use of quantitative measurements of culture at a cross-national level ... -
Intercomparison of the FLITS and KLDN with ATDnet Lightning Detection Systems in the Netherlands, with a case study on the potential of infrasound lightning detection
(2015)Because of the risks to public safety and property, meteorological services actively monitor lightning events. The generated lightning detections are used by insurance companies, air traffic controllers and other interested ... -
COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITY AND BOUNCE IN EINSTEIN-CARTAN-KIBBLE-SCHIAMA GRAVITY
(2015)In this thesis we consider a generalised Einstein-Cartan theory, and the effects of including space-time torsion in the description of grav- ity. We add the most general covariant dimension four operators to general ... -
Random packings via mechanical contraction
(2015)Random packings of particles are size independent, exhibiting the same features in the meso and in the nanoscale. These particle configurations are widely present in nature and technology, and their study constitutes an ... -
Using the Spatial Light Modulator for Adaptive Optics in Fluorescence Microscopy
(2015)To improve the quality of Stimulated Emission Depletion microscopy for the study of the physiology of Epidermal Growth Factor, challenges and possibilities of depletion beam pattern formation are assessed using a Spatial ... -
Slant perception of asymmetric stimuli
(2015)In this research slant perception of asymmetric stimuli was investigated. It is presumed that observers make assumptions like orthogonality and planarity to extract 3-D information from a 2-D image. When the retinal image ...