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The Platforms’ Great Transformation: Assessing the Platform Work Directive’s impact on ‘social protection accessibility’ through the lenses of the 2019 Recommendation and the principle of ‘labour status neutrality’
(2025)The so-called platform economy is said to become an ideal opportunity for the construction of a competitive and inclusive Digital Single Market. However, the platform economy also runs the risk of undermining the social ... -
Designing for Focus and Flexibility: A Participatory Design Approach to Academic Planning Tools
(2025)Academic stress is a pervasive issue in higher education, with university students experiencing significant consequences on their mental health, performance, and well-being. Despite the abundance of digital support tools, ... -
A DSM adjustment method using a reference-based correction approach, Readar Case Study
(2025)Readar is a company that provides aerial imagery and maintains large repositories of Digital Surface Models (DSM) stored as raster images. A DSM is an elevation map which includes height measurements of elevated objects ... -
Identifying Inconsistencies Between Internal Manuals and Official Regulations Using Transformer-Based Text Analysis
(2025)The Employee Insurance Agency (’Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen’ (UWV)) is the Dutch public body responsible for administering employee insurance schemes, unemployment benefits, and labour-market services. ... -
The Role of Menstrual Cycle Phase in Workplace Emotion Regulation and the Moderating Effect of Workplace Climate
(2025)Emotion regulation at work plays a vital role in employee well-being and performance; but much less is known about how biological factors like the menstrual cycle, and especially contextual cues like workplace climate, may ... -
Emotional Responses to Homosexual Art Among Heterosexual Adults
(2025)Acceptance towards homosexuality has decreased among adolescents, while discrimination and violence have increased in Europe. Can art improve this negative trend? To investigate this hypothesis, the current research examined ... -
Child Benefit and Poverty in Suriname
(2025)The government of Suriname recently started increasing the budget for the social protection system and with the recent oil discovery, future expenditure is likely to increase further. These developments raise the question ... -
Pre-training Graph Neural Networks to Predict Women’s Fertility Intentions from Ego-Network Surveys
(2025)Understanding fertility intentions—the expressed likelihood of having a (further) child—is essential for addressing demographic challenges linked to low birth rates. While prior research has emphasized individual-level ... -
A quest for support and belonging: examining relationships between Sexual orientation, loneliness and social support among Dutch youth
(2025)This study examines how sexual orientation relates to loneliness among Dutch adolescents and whether family and friend support buffer this association. While LGB youth are known to experience elevated mental health risks, ... -
An EEG and Behavioral Analysis of Response Inhibition in Cannabis Users: The Impact of Trait Impulsivity
(2025)This study investigated the relationship between cannabis use severity, trait impulsivity, and response inhibition using both behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Eighteen cannabis users completed a stop-signal ... -
Between Policy and Practice: A Multi-Level Analysis of Educator Support in Greek Refugee Education
(2025)This thesis explores how educator support for refugee inclusion is structured, coordinated, and experienced across institutional levels in Greece. Despite extensive policy frameworks, research has rarely examined how ... -
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(2025)De Rwandese genocide van 1994, waarbij in slechts honderd dagen naar schatting tussen de 500.000 en 1 miljoen Tutsi's en gematigde Hutu's werden vermoord, blijft een pijnlijk punt in de geschiedenis van internationale ... -
Estimating the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions Prior to Implementation: Using Textual Embeddings of Intervention Descriptions
(2025)Improving teaching and learning contexts requires a better understanding of the effectiveness of educational interventions. Traditional evaluation methods, such as retrospective meta-analyses and prospective meta-analyses, ... -
Detecting educational policy reforms at scale using Retrieval Augmented Generation
(2025)International surveys and assessments can measure educational efficiency, but often fail to find policies or external factors that cause changes in efficiency. Large-scale data on policy reforms is necessary to understand ... -
When Algorithms ‘Think’: A Computational Analysis of Anthropomorphism in AI News Coverage
(2025)Over the past few years, researchers have observed an increase in anthropomorphic framing of artificial intelligence (AI) in news media. If anthropomorphic framings of AI remain uncritical about the true capabilities of ...