UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Guiding the Latent Space of Generative Models based on Subjective Human Factors
(2025)Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) specifically Deep Generative Models (DGMs) has shown significant potential for generating engineering product designs. While prior research demonstrates DGMs’ ability to incorporate ... -
Advance Care Planning in Primary Care: A study on documentation of Advance Care Planning in Primary Care in The Netherlands
(2025)Introduction Advance Care Planning is the continuous process in which patients think and talk about their point of view regarding future healthcare. It potentially improves the Quality of Life of patients in the terminal ... -
Road, Rail, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Potential Benefits of a UK Musicians’ Railcard
(2025)Whether of people or instruments, and whether by road, rail, air or foot, questions of sustainable transport in the music industry have been widely debated in academia. Transport is a costly facet — financially, environmentally ... -
Portraying Disability: League of Legends' Multifaceted Approach Across Game, Lore, and Media
(2025)This study examines the portrayal of mental health and disabilities through a transmedia lens, investigating how the League of Legends’ transmedia universe shapes and evolves the representation of disabilities across its ... -
Building an ethnorelative semantic model for multilingual ICC terminology management. The case of English and Spanish
(2025)The main objective of this thesis is to produce a semantic model that is effective to define, compare and link intercultural communication (ICC) terms across languages and cultures, placing its focus on the language pair ... -
On the chimeric origin of eukaryotic genes
(2025)The origin of eukaryotes is quite enigmatic and still poorly understood. It was previously thought that eukaryotes are the result of an endosymbiotic event between an Archaeal cell and an Alphaproteobacterium. However, ... -
Melodic Similarity among Incipits; a Deep Learning Approach
(2025)This project introduces transformer models to the field of melodic similarity. Originating from the Natural Language Processing field; transformer models use sequential data to find relationships between individual parts ... -
Rubens en de zwarte koning Balthasar: Tussen artistieke fascinatie en de constructie van de Ander.
(2025)In dit onderzoek staat de verbeelding van mensen van kleur in de Aanbidding der Koningenschilderijen van Peter Paul Rubens centraal, waarbij de zwarte koning Balthasar in de hoofdrol staat. Vanwege de artistieke fascinatie ... -
Implementation of a bathymetric constraint in LADDIE and its evaluation with in-situ and remotely sensed data
(2025)Accurate modelling of basal melting beneath Antarctic ice shelves is critical for predicting future ice sheet evolution and global sea-level rise. As current ice sheet models often rely on simplified basal melt ... -
The mediational role of cultural identity conflict and loneliness in the relationship between bicultural stress and psychological symptoms in bicultural young adults
(2025)Abstract Globalization and migration have led to increasing bicultural populations, creating both opportunities and challenges for mental health. This study examines the relationship between bicultural stress and psychological ... -
Creating Digital Surface Models from satellite imagery using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
(2025)Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are increasingly used to generate Digital Surface Models (DSMs) from satellite imagery. However, research is far from mature and questions considering the accuracy in different environments, ... -
Computing Partial Order Alignments Using Net Unfoldings
(2025)Conformance checking is a prominent subfield of process mining. It aims to quantify to what extent the observed data matches the intended process. The de-facto method to achieve this is called alignments, which is computed ... -
The Liberated Mess: The Evolution of the Female Antiheroine in Contemporary Television
(2025)This research analyzes the evolution of the “Liberated Mess,” a contemporary television archetype of the female antiheroine characterized by emotional instability, vulnerability, and resistance to traditional femininity ... -
Vesicle trafficking characteristics of Axon-carrying Dendrite neurons and axon initial segment plasticity
(2025)Generally, mammalian neurons have a single axon and multiple branched dendrites emerging from the cell body. Notably, in Axon-carrying Dendrite (AcD) neurons the axon emerges from a dendrite instead of the soma. ... -
Interculturele Communicatie in de Revalidatiezorg: Ervaringen van zorgprofessionals binnen Maria-oord, Careyn
(2025)n de Nederlandse revalidatiezorg creëert een toenemende diverse patiëntenpopulatie uitdagingen in de communicatie, mede door taal- en cultuurbarrières. Dit onderzoek richt zich op de ervaringen van zorgprofessionals binnen ... -
Comparing Subjective Stress Reactivity in OC Users and Hormonal IUD Users while Considering Neuroticism
(2025)Hormonal contraceptives (HCs) have previously been found to influence physiological stress responses. However, the relationship between HCs and subjective stress remains understudied. Therefore, the present study aimed to ... -
Exploring the impact of nonverbal behavior on educational chatbot user experience
(2025)3D Digital Humans such as the ones from Unreal Engine Metahumans are becoming used for a variety of tasks from education to health and entertainment. The integration of techniques helps digital humans to engage in dynamic, ...