UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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There are not barriers that cannot be overcome: A study on factors acting as facilitators, barriers and promoters for the continued attendance of children from 0 to 3 to non-formal ECEC provisions
(2024)Despite the critical role Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in children’s learning and development, many children, particularly those from vulnerable backgrounds, experience limited access or low attendance. This ... -
Retrieving Resources from E-Waste: Living Income for Informal E-waste Pickers in Accra, Ghana
(2024)This thesis is concerned with the livelihood and income of waste pickers in Ghana. As Ghana imports vast amounts of (e-)waste, an industry has emerged around waste picking. This thesis is concerned with the bottom rung ... -
The Dutch Debate about Apartheid: Dutch foreign policy toward the South African Apartheid regime during the 1980s
(2024)After decades of international condemnation, Western governments increasingly imposed sanctions on the South African Apartheid regime during the 1980s. At the same time, Dutch non-governmental anti-Apartheid organizations ... -
Patient participation in Clinical Ethics Support Services
(2024)Clinical ethics support services (CESS) can assist clinicians with the resolution of moral problems that arise in healthcare. They sometimes help clinicians clarify, for instance, the ‘right’ thing to do with regard to the ... -
‘Transing’ Identity: A Practice of Reparative Reading for Challenging Heteronormativity
(2024)In contemporary Japanese society, heteronormative norms limit women’s and LBGTQIA+ rights to their bodies and also the artistic representation of sexualities. Although Japanese feminist art has tried to deconstruct these ... -
Which specific neurological tests provide the greatest value in predicting prognosis in awake-surgery glioma patients
(2024)Background: Diffuse gliomas have a variable survival outcome with prognosis relying on established predictors. Cognition is shown to have added value in these predictions. This retrospective cohort study aims to uncover ... -
Breaking the Cycle: Exploring the Bidirectional Associations of Loneliness and Rejection Sensitivity Among First-Year Belgian College Students
(2024)Using a three-wave longitudinal design, the present study investigated the bidirectional associations between loneliness and rejection sensitivity. In line with previous empirical data, rejection sensitivity was hypothesized ... -
Suicide Loss Survivors and Complicated Grief: Avoidance as a Mediator
(2024)Suicide loss survivors (SLS) face unique challenges when compared to other bereavement types. They are at an increased risk for developing complicated grief (CG); i.e., a response to death that deviates significantly from ... -
Microaggressions under the Lens: A Scoping Review of Experimental Studies on Attributions of Subtle Forms of Discrimination
(2024)Subtle forms of discrimination are often ambiguous and challenging to identify. This thesis explores the shift of discrimination towards more subtle forms, specifically manifested in microaggressions, and their significant ... -
Role of family and friendship in the perceived loneliness of young adults from different cultures
(2024)Through in-depth interviews, this qualitative study explores how young adults from family-oriented and self-oriented cultures perceive family and friendship relationships as a theme in their loneliness. Young adults are ... -
Risk and protective factors for youth delinquency; the road towards true evidence-based policymaking
(2024)This systematized literature review aims to identify the predominant risk and protective factors associated with youth delinquency across multiple domains, including individual, family, peer, and broader social contexts. ... -
Diverse and inclusive work environment and the role and responsibility of leaders
(2024)Increasing diversity in organisations may result in beneficial outcomes for individuals and organisation, however, inclusion is needed to leverage diversity into positive outcomes. Leaders are considered important in ... -
Subjective-wellbeing Disparities: Examining the Roles of Social Assistance, Employment and Migration Background in Amsterdam
(2024)Subjective-wellbeing (SWB) levels in Amsterdam are declining more rapidly than nationally, which has been associated to the high population of people with a migration background in Amsterdam, as this group on average has ... -
De hulptabellen van Cayley voor het tellen van bomen
(2024)Het doel van dit onderzoek was het narekenen van tabellen uit twee artikelen van Cayley en bekijken waar Cayley de fout in was gegaan. We hebben geleerd dat Cayley veel wiskundige artikelen heeft geschreven, maar dat hij ... -
Primitive elements of abelian extensions and fields generated by polygon diagonals
(2024)In this thesis we are interested in primitive elements of abelian extensions of Q. By the Kronecker-Weber Theorem we know that abelian extensions are subfields of cyclotomic extensions Q(ζ_n). For the case where n = p^a ... -
EEG source localization using graph regularizednonnegative matrix factorization
(2024)We attempt to find the location EEG signals orignated from as through graph regularized nonnegative matrix factorization. We also discuss what nonnegative matrix factorization is and how to add regularizers to this problem ...