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Active Rewilding in a Novel Ecosystem: Investigating the Impact of Deer Herbivory and Water Level Management on Wetland Vegetation Development, The case of Oostvaardersplassen park, The Netherlands.
(2023)Wetlands play a crucial role in providing ecosystem services that contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, human activities have led to widespread degradation of wetlands over the ... -
The City of Utrecht as a Flood-Proof City An Assessment of flood management and governance of Utrecht
(2023)Climate change and urbanization increased the risk of flooding in the cities and urban areas, highlighting the need for resilient flood risk management in Urban areas. Involving public and private stakeholders and the ... -
Patient Perceptions and Experiences of Public Healthcare Services in the Presence of a Healthcare NGO: A Qualitative Study in Moutse Valley, Sekhukhune, Limpopo, South Africa
(2023)Background: The public healthcare system in South Africa grapples with limitations that hinder comprehensive patient care. Moutse Valley, located in the Sekhukhune district of Limpopo, presents an intriguing scenario where ... -
BOTTO-UP FLOOD MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON LIVELIHOOD IN JAKARTA
(2023)The past research illustrates top-down flood management in Jakarta since the colonial era 400 years ago. One of the common flood managements offered by Jakarta’s local government is through a river rehabilitation project, ... -
Migrant capabilities and domestic work. Agency and (dis)empowerment experiences of Latin American female domestic workers in Andalusia, Spain
(2023)This research set out to understand the (dis)empowerment experiences of Latin American female migrant domestic workers (FMDWs) in Andalusia, Spain. Paid domestic work in Spain, as well as around the world, is characterized ... -
Exploring Preferences and Acceptbaility of Policies to Reduce Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Across Various Social Groups - A Cross-Sectional Study in the Netherlands
(2023)This study explores acceptability and preference for policy approaches addressing socioeconomic inequalities in health in the Netherlands. Sixteen relevant policies were classified as structural, agento-structural, ... -
The power of education: A qualitative study to the role of NGO education programs in the empowerment of young women in La Paz, Bolivia
(2023)Although female enrollment rates in higher education are increasing worldwide, there are groups that stay behind. In the Bolivian context, socially and economically disadvantaged young women are still at disadvantage to ... -
Project title: Estimating Response Models in the Wild with Algorithmic Modeling and Multiverse Analysis
(2023)[""This project aimed to identify variables that consistently predict item non-response in Scottish adolescents using multiverse modeling. To implement multiverse modelling, four different state of the art algorithms were ... -
Patient recruitment and participation in the Netherlands – an exploration of factors and views
(2023)Clinical trials are crucial for evaluating the efficacy and safety of new pharmaceutical treatments, and the Netherlands has the potential to be a world leader in clinical research with its high-quality hospitals, facilities, ... -
Youth Participation in Climate Action in Kenya
(2023)Climate change is reshaping the world that young people are due to inherit and will bear the costs for in coming decades. Their activism and climate action activities are vital to the global community and the aspect of ... -
How Translocality Shapes Dutch-Cape Verdean Families
(2023)Cape Verde is a country with a rich and long migration history, which has led to the belief that there are more Cape Verdeans that live outside of the country borders than within. Cape Verdean migration flows span across ... -
How has the new-build gentrification of Dublin’s North Lotts Docklands affected the surrounding East Wall neighbourhood? A multifaceted approach to measuring knock-on effects resulting from the new-build gentrification of the Dublin Docklands to a bordering neighbourhood.
(2023)This thesis focuses on the new-build gentrification of Dublin's North Lotts Docklands and its knock-on effects on its bordering neighbourhood East Wall and its residents. The research considers whether the redevelopment ... -
Biomimicry in the Oude Hortus
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Computation in Nested Closed Timelike Curves
(2023)How powerful computers are depends on the laws of physics that govern the behaviour of a computer. So to determine what problems can be solved by computers, we have to consider the physical model they are present in. In ... -
Comparison of Acoustic Feature Representation Methods for Apparent Personality Recognition
(2023)This thesis examines the performance of Fisher Vector representations in classifying personality traits from audio. The Chalearn LAP First Impression dataset is used, which is a multimodal dataset. The audio modality of ... -
Visual Explanations of Runtime Verification Verdicts
(2023)In runtime verification, the behavior of a program or system is verified by automatically checking a specification expressed as a property in temporal logic on a finite execution trace. Understanding why a property is ... -
Assessing Sentiment Transfer Models on “Real” Text Style Transfer Tasks
(2023)With the development of Artificial Intelligence, style transformation has made progress in computer vision and natural language processing. Style transfer originated in the field of vision and has been extended to the field ... -
Causal Inference on Multimodal Single-Cell Data
(2023)The flow of genetic information within a cell is a complex interaction between DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding this interplay amounts to understanding how genetic code manifests itself into cellular function, it is ...