UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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An NLP-Driven Analysis of Technical Contributions and Governance Influence in 5G
(2025)This thesis addresses a critical gap in understanding how companies and countries influence 5G technical standards within the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Given the immense volume and complexity of 3GPP ... -
Subjective well-being on different continents
(2025)This thesis examines whether institutional trust moderates the relationship between economic hardship and subjective well-being (SWB) in Thailand, a country marked by economic inequality, political volatility, and high ... -
Tracing the Humanisation of AI: A Computational Analysis of Agentic Language in News Media and Twitter Discourse on ChatGPT
(2025)This thesis examines how artificial intelligence (AI), particularly ChatGPT, is anthropomorphised through agentic language in news media and Twitter discourse. It investigates the prevalence, development, and thematic ... -
Representation of Migrants in Dutch News 2000-2024
(2025)This study examines whether reporting on migration reflects the presumed ideological orientation of six Dutch newspapers. Migration-related news articles published between 2014 and 2024 by Algemeen Dagblad (AD), Het ... -
Connecting Software Specifications and Payroll Rules: Evaluating Sparse and BERT-Based Retrieval
(2025)Each organization in the Netherlands that withholds taxes is legally required to file tax returns with the Dutch Tax Agency, which in turn sends these data to the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV). A tax return must comply ... -
Delegated Destruction: Artificial Intelligence in Warfare, The Accountability Gap and The Crisis of Global Governance
(2025)With the spread of Artificial Intelligence to the military sphere, the past decade has seen a revolution in the ways in which warfare is conducted. While autonomy in weapons may bring some advantages to the battlefield, ... -
Strengthening Mangrove Nature-based Solutions: A Comparative Case Study Analysis
(2025)Coastal regions are increasingly exposed to sea-level rise, erosion, and extreme weather, threatening the livelihoods, safety, and ecosystems of nearly 40% of the global population. Mangrove forests, as Nature-based Solutions ... -
Desirable Migrants: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Construction of the Expatriate in Dutch Migration Policy
(2025)This work examines how neoliberal governmentality shapes the discursive construction of expatriates as bearers of economic and cultural capital within Dutch migration governance, as reflected in state discourse surrounding ... -
The Evolving Land Requirements for Bioenergy Production in the EU
(2025)This study quantified the land area attributed to bioenergy production in the EU for the years 2010 and 2021. By applying three allocation methods—mass-based, energy-based, and economic allocation— land use was distributed ... -
The dynamic environment of Sustainable tourism in the Northern Circuit of Tanzania: a Stakeholder and Policy perspective
(2025)This thesis explores how stakeholder groups perceive the social, environmental, and economic impacts of tourism in the Northern Tourism Circuit (NTC) of Tanzania and examines the role of institutions in shaping sustainable ... -
The Right Fit: Optimizing Usability with Handedness-Adaptive Smartphone Interfaces
(2025)This research investigates the impact of a handedness-adaptive smartphone interface on usability. A considerable amount of research has been conducted towards smartphone interfaces, but many of these only consider ... -
Title: Motivation and Gamification: Drivers of Work Performance
(2025)In this study, it was examined how gamification can be used to promote health and well-being in the workplace, with a specific focus on Generation Z. A vignette study among the new generation was used to identify their ... -
Dewantara CRS: Interactive Visualization to Support Decision Making for Course Selection
(2025)Universities offer students the flexibility to personalize their academic paths while ensuring compliance with graduation requirements. However, students often face challenges in course selection due to the numerous criteria ... -
Leveraging multi modal deep-learning to predict anxiety symptoms from parent-child interactions
(2025)Early, unobtrusive detection of anxiety in children can facilitate timelier and more equitable access to mental-health interventions. This thesis developed and evaluated a deep-learning pipeline that predicts anxiety-related ... -
Identifying brain areas responsible for temporal order representations
(2025)Remembering events in their correct order is fundamental to cognition, but how exactly the brain represents this is poorly understood. This thesis tested the specific hypothesis that temporal order is represented by tuned ...