UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Investigating the role of ADAM10 as a receptor for streptococcal pneumolysin
(2023)Streptococcus pneumoniae is a gram-positive extracellular opportunistic bacterium. S. pneumoniae mainly colonizes the human upper respiratory tract. Dissemination of this bacterium is a leading cause of a broad range of ... -
An Examination of Rodrigo Duterte's Rhetoric on the War on Drugs in the Philippines: The Apocalyptic Narration
(2023)Rodrigo Duterte introduced a harsh anti-drug campaign based on hunting down drug users and distributors to eliminate the persistent drug problem in the Philippines. The campaign led to extrajudicial killings of drug users ... -
“Want Opa, die kroop deur de klaai”: Verbeeldingen van het dorps- en plattelandsleven in moderne Twentse poëzie
(2023)Twentse streektaalpoëzie bevindt zich in de marges van de literatuur en wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar poëzie. Hierdoor is er weinig bekend over de aard en inhoud van deze poëzie. Dit onderzoek poogt een antwoord te vinden ... -
Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats Rotterdam. Performing urban citizenship through acts of solidarity and collective practices of repairing.
(2023)This thesis, drawing on materials collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats in Rotterdam, explores the articulations and performances of urban citizenship through acts of solidarity and collective ... -
From Virtual Bullets to Real Brilliance: The effect of debriefing after VR firearm training
(2023)Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the key emerging technologies of this century and can be used in many domains. One of these domains is the education domain, where training in VR has become much more affordable due to the ... -
Blue Noise Distributed MCMC Decorrelation of ReSTIR
(2023)Spatiotemporal resampling (ReSTIR) [Bitterli et al., 2020; Lin et al., 2021] is a popular new ray tracing technique. Unfortunately it can suffer from correlation artifacts if left unchecked. One solution for this is offered ... -
Water classification using a Random Forest model to limit river erosion in Bangladesh
(2023)Riverbank erosion is a significant issue in Bangladesh that is mainly caused by heavy rainfall in the Meghna estuary. Erosion predictions can help when planning and taking measures to protect land from erosion. One method ... -
A Material Flow Analysis for Defining Utrecht University’s Zero-Waste Goals
(2023)As the European Union and the Dutch government are moving towards a circular economy, Utrecht University (UU) has set a goal of becoming a zero-waste organization by 2030. Circularity is often contextualized using the ... -
Validation of a Bayesian mixture model for language contact with the use of synthetic language data
(2023)Speaker communities typically have some level of interaction and are not completely isolated. When individuals who speak different languages come into contact, it is probable that their respective languages undergo a process ... -
One Hundred Years of Polarization: Contesting Nationalisms in Turkey
(2023)The Republic of Turkey has become increasingly polarized in the last decade. There is a democratic backslide, economic instability, and lack of human rights under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. These developments, ... -
Determination of Dutch Landrace goats in paintings to support breeding goals
(2023)Dutch Landrace goats, primarily kept for their cultural and heritage value, have witnessed a decline in their population and a consequent loss of distinctive aesthetics. The Dutch Landrace goat traces its ancestry to a ... -
Checklists For Everyone: Developing Design Principles For Everyday Organizations
(2023)Despite their proven benefits, checklists are minimally used and researched in everyday domains such as hospitality, retail, and education. A lack of design knowledge about checklists in these organizations is one of the ... -
Pseudo-orthogonal Yang-Mills theories and connections to gravity
(2023)The goal of this thesis is to study pseudo-orthogonal Yang-Mills actions and understand under which conditions they contain the Hilbert-Einstein action free of instabilities. The physical motivation is to construct a ... -
Trouble at the Border: Reframing the Paleobiogeographical Debate over Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift as a Problem of Paleontology’s Greater Integration with Evolutionary Biology
(2023)Why did George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984), probably the most consequential paleontologist of his generation, at first reject the theory of continental drift when, according to Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) who first proposed ... -
Ready or Not: Assessing Social Capital for Urban Resilience in the US
(2023)Urban areas in the United States are acutely at risk of an array of natural disasters that will become more frequent as climate change intensifies. Urban resilience is a multi-faceted concept that cities have adopted to ... -
Complexiteit aan het licht: Kwalitatief onderzoek naar de betekenisgeving van U-TECH community aan de publiek-private samenwerking
(2023)Eén van de meest urgente maatschappelijke kwesties van deze tijd is het toenemend personeelstekort, dat onder andere in de ICT-sector duidelijk merkbaar is (CA-ICT, 2021). Dergelijke problematiek vereist een gezamenlijke ... -
The Effects of FinTech and Financial Development on Economic Growth
(2023)From mobile payment solutions in emerging economies to online banking services in developed countries, technology is revolutionizing the way people access and manage their finances globally. This research aims to investigate ...