UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Reconstructing land use change from archival records - Using text mining, large language models and GIS to reconstruct land use change processes in former Dutch colonies
(2024)Quantifying historical land use change (LUC) can help estimate historical contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Additionally, understanding LUC in former colonies can help fairly distribute the ... -
Resilient decarbonization strategies for district heating: A techno-economic analysis of ambient and waste heat sources considering economic risks due to uncertainty in future energy prices and waste heat availability
(2024)District heating (DH) systems can contribute substantially to the decarbonization of the heating sector by enabling the implementation of sustainable heating solutions on a large scale and the use of heat sources that are ... -
Ownership: what role does it play in ensuring a just transition?
(2024)Transitioning away from fossil fuels towards more renewable forms of energy is essential for the world to become carbon-neutral. The intermittent nature and weather-dependent power output of these renewables is leading to ... -
From lost soul to connecting hero: A case study of sustainability integration in a Dutch regional water authority.
(2024)The Dutch regional water authorities (DRWA) experience pressure to increase their sustainable practices due to the changing climate and political pressure. This research focuses on the structural organisational barriers ... -
Unpacking the complexity in the connection between adolescent pregnancy and child undernutrition
(2024)Since 2015, the prevalence of undernutrition has increased. This has led to approximately 800 million people being undernourished globally, resulting in growth stunting, underweight, anemia, and millions of deaths of ... -
Analysing productive interactions to explain societal impacts in transdisciplinary research: Case study analysis of European Nexus projects
(2024)Sustainability challenges are deeply interlinked and pressured by the climate change context. Given these interrelated and complex challenges, there is an increasing agreement that new approaches to knowledge production ... -
Creating recommendations for resilience building strategies: Preparing cities for future climate challenges through assessment and analysation of urban climate resilience in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Budapest
(2024)As the climate changes, certain climate effects may provide risk and impact on urban populations. Current climate effects may provide more risk and impact, or new climate effects may emerge to do so. Urban climate resilience ... -
An In Depth Look At Greece’s Child Protection System
(2024)This study investigates the institutional, social, and emotional challenges faced by three groups within the child protection system: youth care leavers, institution workers, and satellite workers. This was done under the ... -
Current Advances in Treatment Strategies for Relapsed T-ALL in Children
(2024)In children, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common form of cancer. For B-ALL the 5-year survival rates are improving reaching 90%. However, T-ALL lags behind with survival rates of 80-85% as 20% of the ... -
The Inefficiency of the Dutch Electricity Market
(2024)The inefficiency of the Dutch electricity market poses significant challenges, particularly for renewable energy (RE) producers, and is defined as any requirement to pay for the production of RE. This research focuses on ... -
From Sustainable Hype to Sustainable Reality: Exploring the Gap Between Intent and Behaviour Among the “Oat Milk Elite"
(2024)Climate change has far reached implications for humans and nature, such as, extreme weather and climate refugees. This worries many Dutch people (65%), especially because of the country's susceptibility to flooding. However, ... -
Effect of Personal Belief in a Just World on Drug Use in Adolescence
(2024)This study investigates the association between personal belief in a just world (PBJW), sense of control, and drug use among Dutch adolescents. The study hypothesized that (H1) a stronger PBJW is negatively associated with ... -
EXTRACTING BOOK TITLES FROM HISTORICAL NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES: A NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION APPROACH
(2024)This thesis introduces a novel method for extracting book titles from Optical Character Recognition scanned historical newspaper archives using Named Entity Recognition (NER), a task not extensively explored in existing ... -
What leads to Chinese women's gender role conflict? The influence of liberal attitudes toward women's role, career aspiration and gender stereotype perception.
(2024)Liberal attitudes towards women's role and career aspiration can increase women's career aspiration and gender role conflict. Gender stereotype perception can also increase gender role conflict. This study sets in the ...