UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Windy conditions in the Ross Sea polynyas
(2025)The polar climate is rapidly changing due to rising global temperatures, significantly impacting Antarctic sea ice cover, particularly since 2016. Polynyas, areas of low sea ice concentration surrounded by pack ice, play ... -
Psilocybin’s effect on depression by binding to serotonergic receptors in the basolateral amygdala
(2025)This review investigates the interaction between psilocybin and the serotonin 2A receptor (5HT2AR) in the basolateral amygdala. With psilocybin being one of the psychedelics currently being studied for their positive ... -
When Loss Lingers: Severity and Correlates of Prolonged Grief in Parents and their Children
(2025)Grief is a natural experience after the loss of a loved one. When grief persists over time, it could develop into prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Prolonged grief disorder and its effects within families are severely ... -
The relationship between bodily intolerance of uncertainty and body-related behaviors moderated by trait anxiety
(2025)Body-related behaviors, such as body checking and body avoidance, are increasingly recognized as a major public health concern among female emerging adults. These behaviors are considered risk factors for the development ... -
Carnival Matters: A Multiscalar Approach to the Rotterdam Summer Carnival
(2025)The Rotterdam Summer Carnival (RSC) is an annual celebration in which many people participate. Students from the former Dutch Antilles started organizing the RSC in the 1980s. People with many cultural backgrounds started ... -
Discourse, Displacement, and Cultural Identity: The Role of Language in Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City and Translations
(2025)This thesis examines the transformation in the role of language during the Troubles by focusing on Friel’s The Freedom of the City and Translations. Previous research has looked at the discourse of Freedom that underscores ... -
When Neorealism Meets Magic: Alice Rohrwacher’s Women-Driven Vision in La Chimera (2023)
(2025)Italian neorealism and magic realism constitute two distinct yet complementary narrative traditions. Italian neorealism, came about as World War II ended, aiming at presenting the crude realities of daily existence, ... -
Designing a serious game to illustrate ADHD struggles for non-ADHD individuals to improve knowledge, empathy, and willingness to help
(2025)My thesis looks at the intersection of serious games and ADHD. This is done by developing a serious game that simulates key aspects of the ADHD experience, such as task prioritization, procrastination, time perception, and ... -
Supporting Newcomer Students before, during and after a Science museum visit: how do Teachers do it?
(2025)Science museums are not (yet) fully inclusive for diverse audiences. Inviting newcomer students, who are still learning the language of instruction, to a guided museum visit can be one step towards fostering greater diversity ... -
Putto, cupido of cherubijn: typen putti in de Franse, religieuze rococo
(2025)Putto is de term voor het motief van een naakte baby, die doorgaans vleugels heeft. Putti zijn eeuwenlang zeer geliefd geweest in verschillende kunststromingen en -genres. Van oorsprong is het motief te vinden in de klassieke ... -
From Interview to Process Model: Using Large Language Models for Process Discovery
(2025)The discovery of business processes is a crucial step for organisations that wish to understand their operations. This Process Discovery phase is of ten executed by process experts who interview domain experts to gather ... -
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, ...