UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Ethical Reflections on Generative AI: Insights from Primary School Teachers and School Leaders
(2025)Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) offers opportunities for personalized learning and administrative support in primary education, but simultaneously raises ethical concerns related to privacy, algorithmic bias, ... -
Clustering brain morphometry in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
(2025)Background: Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a major obstacle for research and clinical practice. This study aimed to identify distinct neuroanatomical subtypes by applying advanced unsupervised clustering ... -
Cyprus en het Grieks nationalisme
(2025)Deze master scriptie onderzoekt aan de hand van welke oorzaken de Cypriotische Enosis (unie met Griekenland) mislukt is aan het begin van de 20e eeuw. De oorzaken worden gezocht in het complexe samenspel tussen Britse ... -
Women’s Complicity in Genocide-Related Sexual Violence: The Case of Yazidi Women and Girls’ Enslavement (2014-2019)
(2025)The so-called Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi community in Sinjar in 2014 and enslaved thousands of Yazidi women and girls. Foreign women from across the world traveled to Syria to join IS and participated in ... -
Acute Phase Proteins in Bacterial Infection: Structure, Mechanisms, and Clinical Significance
(2025)C-reac ve protein (CRP), serum amyloid A (SAA), and the long pentraxin 3 (PTX3), are major acute phase proteins (APPs) of the innate immune system that mediate microbial recogni on, opsoniza on, and clearance. While ... -
Enhancing PPI explainability with geometric deep learning
(2025)Understanding protein–protein interactions (PPIs) is essential for elucidating biological processes and advancing drug discovery. Traditional experimental techniques, while precise, are expensive and difficult to scale. ... -
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Dutch Organizations: How personal characteristics shape employee experience and attitudes
(2025)This thesis investigates how employees in the Netherlands perceive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, with a focus on how personal characteristics influence these perceptions. While DEI has become an ... -
Optimizing Workflow Efficiency for Operational Staff: A Case Study of Liberi Group
(2025)This thesis examines how process optimization and standardization can improve recurring workflows at Liberi Group, a life-sciences consultancy, focusing on monthly client update sheets and the administrative use of the ... -
Evaluating and improving collaboration in ProRail's project alliances for large and complex infrastructure projects
(2025)The Dutch construction sector is facing significant challenges. On the one hand, there is a shortage of materials and workers, increasing climate regulation, and broader prosperity that complicate large infrastructure ... -
Interpersonal conflict and burnout in the workplace: the moderating role of psychological safety
(2025)Burnout among employees is a growing concern in modern work environments, often resulting from chronic stressors such as interpersonal conflict. Burnout can lead to serious consequences for individuals and organizations, ... -
Playful Minds against Misinformation: Investigating the Effects of Playful Learning on Persuasion, Motivation, and Critical Thinking
(2025)The growing prevalence of health-related misinformation presents a critical challenge for individuals navigating digital environments. This study investigated whether a playful learning approach enhances adults’ ability ... -
The effect of Bonalive® bioactive glass on macrophage immune cell recruitment in response to S. aureus
(2025)Bioactive glass is used in orthopedic implants for its regenerative and antibacterial properties, but its effects on immune cell behaviour are not fully understood. In this study, the influence of Bonalive® bioactive glass ... -
Comparative analysis and integration of HIV drug resistance mutation testing and prediction tools
(2025)The pressure of antiretroviral therapy (ART) induces the selection of drug resistant variants in patients with human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1). Interpreting patient HIV-1 sequencing data allows personalization of ... -
Gatekeeping the Gut; Dynamics and interactions of tissue-resident memory T cells within the intestine
(2025)The immune system can create memory of what it has seen. This feature is of critical importance, as it enables the immune system to respond to reinfection at a faster rate. The most prevalent type of memory cells remain ... -
The Lost-and-Found Case of Silphium: Towards entangled understandings of extinction and biodiversity
(2025)How can the case study of an ancient plant, lost and found, change the way we conceptualize extinction? Millenia ago, a wild plant called Silphium had significant medical, economic, and symbolic value to ancient Greek and ... -
A comparison of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness: GRPO vs. DPO
(2025)Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing the problem-solving capabilities of large language models (LLMs), particularly in complex tasks that require multi-step reasoning. ...