UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Visual Narrator 2.0: From User Stories to Domain Models via Large and Small Language Models
(2025)Modeling is an important activity in Requirements Engineering (RE), yet performing it manually is time-consuming and tedious. When the modeling starts from an existing set of early requirements, researchers have proposed ... -
Flora, Fauna, and Financial Fallacies: Investigating the ESG Biodiversity Gap
(2025)This thesis investigates the limitations of conventional ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) ratings in capturing biodiversity-related risks and proposes an alternative screening approach for investment portfolios. ... -
Monkey Moves AI Camera: Investigating the Creativity of Multimodal LLMs for Photo-Based Children’s Storytelling
(2025)This project investigates how AI technology can support children’s movement and creativity by developing an AI Camera Storytelling feature for the Monkey Moves Play app. The feature uses Multimodal Large Language Models ... -
Exploring NLP Models for Generative Storytelling
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for personalized storytelling, but generating age-appropriate content remains challenging due to rapid developmental changes in early childhood. This study investigates the use of ... -
Exploring the Influence of University Support on the Performance of Student-Led Social Enterprises: A Quantitative Study of Enactus Europe
(2025)Student-led social enterprises (SSEs) are a relevant field for addressing social and environmental challenges while developing students’ entrepreneurial skills. Universities increasingly seek to develop such initiatives, ... -
H8 What you hear is what you get: An exploration of audio level feature extraction for music recommendations
(2025)This thesis investigates the potential of the Wigner-Ville Distribution (WVD) as a high-resolution alternative time-frequency music representation to the widely used, but less detailed, Mel-spectrogram as input for ... -
Politics, Pollution and Profits
(2025)This research investigates how stock markets react to far-right electoral victories in Europe. It focuses on firms with weak environmental performance, often referred to as ‘brown’ or low ESG firms. The main question is ... -
Between Consent and Coersion, The Invisible Scripts of Heterosexual Sex
(2025)This study examines how sexual conflicts within heterosexual relationships are described in online discourse and whether these accounts reflect patterns associated with mainstream pornographic scripts. It focuses on posts ... -
The Effects of Gratitude Journaling and Psychological Flexibility on Depressive Symptoms in Students and Young Professionals
(2025)Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among young adults, with student populations showing rates as high as 33.6% (Li et al., 2022). In the Netherlands alone, around 42 million euros are spent annually on managing ... -
Profile and predictors of unmet service needs among autistic university students
(2025)Disabled students often need support to successfully participate in higher education. One subgroup of disabled students who have been participating in higher education more often recently are autistic students. Previous ... -
Intertidal flat development in the Frisian Inlet under accelerated sea-level rise
(2025)The Frisian Inlet in the Dutch Wadden Sea consists of two subbasins: the dynamic Pinkegat and the more stable Zoutkamperlaag. External drivers, including the Lauwerszee closure (1969), gas extraction (since 1986), and storm ... -
‘Tevreden in armoede’ De zeventiende-eeuwse Italiaanse volkstaferelen door Dirck Helmbreeker_J.Meindertsma0370525_MA_KG2025
(2025)De zeventiende-eeuwse schilder Dirck Helmbreeker wordt in de kunsthistorie gezien als de hekkensluiter van de Bamboccianti. Deze zeventiende-eeuwse genreschilderkunst combineerde de kunst door de Italianisanten met alledaagse ... -
The role of enhancers in determining cell type-specific gene expression and computational methods to infer enhancer activity
(2025)Enhancers are cis-regulatory elements that play a central role in transcriptional gene regulation and cell-type specific gene expression. More than 95% of variants associated with common diseases identified by GWAS lie in ... -
Predicting Long-Term Pessary Therapy Success: Insights from a Retrospective Cohort Study
(2025)Introduction: Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) symptoms significantly affect quality of life. Only 50-80% of patients continue using a pessary as treatment after one year. Early identification of patients less likely to benefit ... -
Evolutionary of vasculature and acidity in cancer
(2025)We will learn how to use evolutionary game theory to analyze the dynamics of the somatic evolution of cancer. In particular, we will formulate and solve a three-strategy game that describes the interaction of vasculature ...