UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Emotion, Perceptions and Resilience: Fishermen's Responses to Socio-Environmental Changes in Taranto, South of Italy
(2023)Coastal small-scale fisheries are facing significant challenges from climate change, European Union fishery policies, and other ‘uses’ of the sea (Raicevich et al. 2020), such as wind farms, drills, and pipelines. In ... -
US DRONE BLOWBACK: How the US drone programme in Afghanistan has been portrayed and received
(2023)[ The US-led NATO mission ‘Resolute Support Mission’ was active from January 2015 until August 2021. With this mission came a shift from boots on the ground to remoteness, employing drones. This thesis focuses on answering ... -
The Transnational Expansion of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13): An Assessment of the Gang's Transnational Patterns, Purposes, and Prospects in Spain.
(2023)["The study investigates the nature and extent of the consolidation of Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS13) in Spain. With the aim of answering the research question, what are the nature and implications of the transnational ... -
Facing the unknown: a study on the perspectives and experiences of Sepaku’s villagers on Indonesia’s capital relocation
(2023)Indonesia is building a ‘smart and sustainable forest city’ named Ibu Kota Negara (IKN) in East Kalimantan, Borneo Island, to replace the disaster-prone, polluted, and congested Jakarta as its new capital city in 2024. To ... -
The politics of money, growth-dependency and monetary transformation - The case of the Makkie time-bank in Amsterdam-Oost
(2023)Global financialization has led the politics of money and debt to be increasingly contested. Debt-based monetary creation, accumulation and artificial scarcity engrain competition, exploitation and growth dependency in ... -
Het boeiende verhaal van het negatieve: een kwalitatief onderzoek naar de negatieve doorwerking van peoplemanagement en de rol van de hybride professionaliteit
(2023)Dit kwalitatieve onderzoek richt zich op de negatieve doorwerking van peoplemanagement in de Nederlandse ziekenhuissector, waarin de structuur van lijnmanagers wordt gehanteerd. Met de groeiende werkdruk en personeelstekort ... -
The Vjosa Wild River National Park as a Legal Innovation: Creating Transformative Change in Albanian River Governance
(2023)The Vjosa River in Albania is considered the last European wild river and is a riverine ecosystem of European importance due to its diverse flora and fauna. However, the increasing demand for energy and economic development ... -
3D Human Reconstruction on the Multi-View, In-The-Wild, YOUth data
(2023)The main goal of this research thesis is to retrieve three dimensional human body models, of the parent and infant, depicted in the private YOUth dataset, from multiple uncalibrated cameras. The previous research in this ... -
Norms & Adolescent Sexual Health- The Role of Parents, Peers and Religion on Adolescent Sexual Satisfaction through Sexual Emotions
(2023)Adolescence is a crucial period for promoting positive sexual health outcomes. In this study, we aimed to gain insight into the role of injunctive norms about sexuality in adolescents' positive sexual experiences. Using ... -
A study of how and why democratic leadership affects work performance
(2023)This study aimed to outline the effects of democratic leadership in the workplace on employee organizational commitment and employee performance. Specifically, based on a literature review it is expected that employees who ... -
Waar liggen uw grenzen? De grenzen van behandeling
(2023)Patiënten moeten vroegtijdig nadenken over hun behandelwensen en -grenzen zodat artsen in een spoedeisende situatie weten wat de wensen van de patiënt zijn. Daarnaast kan het bespreken van behandelwensen leiden tot ... -
Properties and Applications of Hawkes Processes
(2023)Point processes in probability theory are special stochastic processes which model the occurrence of events (points) in some space and parameterized by their frequency. Hawkes processes are general point processes where ... -
Shaping How Others See Us: Utilising Beauty Practices for Social Influence and Public Imaging in the 15th Century
(2023)15th-century ideas around female beauty and beauty culture were just as nuanced as today's. With strong cultural ideas around beauty and behaviour as a reflection of inner virtue, French and Italian women used cosmetics ... -
THE IMPACT OF REVASCULARIZATION SURGERY ON HEADACHE IN PATIENTS WITH MOYAMOYA
(2023)Background and Aims: Significant headache in moyamoya vasculopathy is not uncommon but the pathophysiology is poorly understood. We aimed to investigate if headache in moyamoya patients improves after revascularization ...