UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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From Image Captioning to Visual Storytelling
(2025)This thesis explores the intersection of two key tasks in Vision & Language: Image Captioning and Visual Storytelling. While traditionally treated as separate problems, we investigate whether these two tasks can be combined ... -
Language and the resilience of knowledge
(2025)Hundreds of languages worldwide are endangered, and the common notion is that such language loss results in knowledge loss. In this thesis, I investigate the idea that different knowledge might have a different resilience ... -
The incidence of diuretic associated consecutive prescribing cascades
(2025)Background A prescribing cascade occurs when adverse drug reactions (ADRs) caused by one medication (index) are misinterpreted as a new medical condition, inducing the prescription of another medication (marker). Prescribing ... -
Synthesis of a Venetoclax-Lysozyme drug conjugate: a kidney regenerative therapy
(2025)Introduction: The cells of our bodies can enter a senescent state in which they lose their ability to grow and divide but they do not enter apoptosis. The accumulation of senescent cells contributes to inflammation and ... -
Burning boreal forests: how did fire regimes in Fennoscandia change during the Holocene and why?
(2025)Wildfire is an important natural phenomenon that affects Fennoscandian boreal forest ecosystems and their functioning. Due to the increase in large boreal wildfires and the damage they cause, knowledge on the natural fire ... -
A machine learning approach on reducing lithographic printing errors
(2025)A machine learning approach on reducing lithographic printing errors -
De semantische keuzes van verschillende vertalers. Een onderzoek naar de semantische keuzes van professionele vertalers, amateurvertalers en vertaalmachines aan de hand van After van Anna Todd.
(2025)De opkomst van ChatGPT als generatieve kunstmatige intelligentie heeft ervoor gezorgd dat professionele vertalers steeds meer moeite hebben om de kunst van het vertalen als beroep neer te zetten. Ook zijn er online steeds ... -
Listening to your loved one’s Biomusic: Auralizing biosignals to enhance social connection
(2025)Nowadays, more and more communication is online, but non-verbal cues and emotions appear to be difficult to convey through the online format. Therefore, research has been done towards sharing biofeedback in communication, ... -
Large Language Models as support for reflective conversations
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are gaining popularity both in practical usage and academic research. Recent advancements in these models have enhanced their capability to produce human-like responses, thereby ... -
“Why are we not just all this positive about queer people?”: An exploratory Study of Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers on Queer TikTok
(2025)In recent years, the in popularity rising video-sharing app TikTok has gained negative media attention because their algorithm actively contributes to the suppression of queer content and the platform is also known to aid ... -
Unhealthy Comparisons to Promote Healthy Behavior? Exploring the Impact of Social Comparison Strategies on Well-Being within Health &Wellness Applications.
(2025)Social comparison methods are frequently used in health & wellness applications despite concerns about their impact on users' well-being. These comparisons can lead to unfavorable self-perceptions and expectations, resulting ... -
Rheology of polymineralic Pyrenean shear zones: the importance of feldspar and orthopyroxene in controlling mid-crustal and upper mantle ductile shear zones
(2025)The rheology of the middle crust and the upper mantle dictates the rates at which geological processes occur. In these regimes, deformation predominantly occurs by ductile flow, meaning either dislocation creep or grain ... -
Tuning the Size of Colloidal Ni Nanoparticles for CO2 Hydrogenation Catalysis
(2025)Increasing demand for environmentally friendly produced fuels caused the interest in converting CO2 to useful products such as methane over Ni-based catalysts. Because the CO2 conversion (hydrogenation) over Ni catalysts ... -
Beyond Victims and Victimizers: Local Peace-Building Agency in Yugoslav Conflicts and its Visibility in Influential US and UK Media 1991-1995
(Utrecht University, 2014)Although Yugoslav wars have become an almost obligatory reference in policy literature, the representations of this conflict frequently reduce the role of local population to that of victims and victimizers, with little ... -
Leadership in Human-Robot Teams: Analyzing the Impact of Leadership Styles on Team Dynamics and Perceptions
(2025)Social robots are increasingly capable of taking on complex roles and it is anticipated that they may serve as leaders in human-robot teams. While research in human-robot interaction (HRI) has demonstrated that robots can ... -
Spectral sequences obtained from towers in the infinity category of spectra: décalage, exact couples and Massey products
(2025)There are various ways of constructing spectral sequences from the infinity category of towers of spectra. Classically there is the approach via exact couples; we will also discuss the décalage functor as constructed by ... -
Applying Field Theories: From Polarised Parton Distribution Functions to Neural Networks
(2025)This thesis explores two areas of theoretical physics: contributing to the refinement of polarised Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and Fragmentation Functions (FFs), and applying an Effective Field Theory (EFT) to ... -
Categorical Quantum Mechanics - constructing the category of homogenous cones
(2025)Category theory provides a unifying language to reason about diverse structures in mathematics and physics. Its foundational perspective proves especially potent for describing and generalizing frameworks in physical ...