UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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The Efficacy of a Serious Game in the Grammatical Intervention of Children Aged 7-10 Years with a Developmental Language Disorder
(2024)Background Modern and digitized intervention approaches, such as serious games (SGs) could make an engaging and challenging contribution to keep children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) motivated during their ... -
From Fragmentation to Uniformity: Towards a Standardized Decision Process for UX Evaluation Methods in a Large End-To-End Agency
(2024)This thesis demonstrates a proof of concept of a standardized decision process for user experience evaluation methods (UXEMs). A large end-to-end agency serves as a case study for this thesis. The final deliverable presented ... -
Dropping out of STEM - Why 10th grade student choose to discontinue STEM subjects they have elected the year before
(2024)Discontinuing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects is a global issue, since more employees in the STEM field are needed worldwide each year. However, in secondary education, fewer students are ... -
Future scenarios for introducing sustainability-related socio-scientific issues in science education
(2024)Sustainability issues pose significant challenges to our society, often manifesting as socio-scientific issues (SSIs) that require scientific study and have an impact on society. Citizens must acquire the skills to actively ... -
Assessing Alternatives to the Surface Area Heuristic for Bounding Volume Hierarchy Construction
(2024)In this thesis, alternatives to the greedily applied Surface Area Heuristics for BVH construction for ray tracing are explored. Non-greedy evaluation is used for measuring the impact of greedy evaluation methods and other ... -
Investigating the Impact of Timeline Length and Control Panel Vertical Location in 360-Degree Video Players on User Experience and Behavior
(2024)Video players for 360-degree videos that are watched in VR HMDs (virtual reality head-mounted displays) commonly follow the interaction design of video players for regular videos that are watched on flat, 2D screens. In ... -
Literature review: influence of supervisor in student work placement on learning and wellbeing
(2024)Work integrated learning (WIL) is een vorm van onderwijs die breed wordt toegepast binnen universiteiten. Een voorbeeld van WIL zijn stages die studenten binnen bedrijven kunnen lopen. In de literatuur is al eerder gebleken ... -
The Netherlands: A refuge and home to all? A comparative study on the effect of the differing Dutch refugee policies in shaping the socio-economic integration of Syrian and Ukrainian refugees.
(2024)["" The invasion of Ukraine resulted into millions of Ukrainians seeking refuge in Europe. The mass influx resulted in the EU evoking the Temporary Protection Directive for the first time since its creation, granting ... -
Politics of the Rubble and ‘A Life to Be Built’: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Dutch Media Representations of the Earthquake
(2024)This thesis aims to investigate how Dutch media representations of the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey become an extension of white innocence and constructs a politics of pity rather than transnational solidarities (Wekker ... -
How the Pufferfish beached the old Shark. The influence of NGOs on International Environmental Negotiations: the case of Greenpeace, Shell and the Brent Spar, 1995-1998
(2024)The Greenpeace Brent Spar campaign aimed to halt Shell’s decision to dump the oil-installation Brent Spar in the Northeast Atlantic and to place the wider issue of dumping offshore-installations on the agenda of the NSMC, ... -
The effects of multi-system dynamics on the diffusion of electrofuels: A maritime sector case study
(2024)While sustainability transition studies primarily analysed single socio-technical systems, this approach disregards the complexity of sustainability transitions that often involves actors, technologies, and institutions ... -
Diverse Perspectives: An Inclusive Serious Game for International and Dutch Students at Utrecht University
(2024)Nowadays, higher education has a diverse student population. Increased globalisation and more educational and financial opportunities are among the reasons why. Although there is a greater variety of students’ background, ... -
Funding Liberation: Dutch Development Aid, Tax Havens, and the Decolonization of the Netherlands Antilles
(2024)This thesis analyzes the political implications of neoliberal ideas in the context of Dutch development policies regarding the Netherlands Antilles during the 1970s and 1980s. It sheds light on both the intellectual history ... -
From Modernisation to Petro-Diplomacy: Unravelling the Dutch-Iranian Relationship (1954-1971)
(2024)[""This thesis examines the underresearched rapid development of Dutch-Iranian relations from 1954-1971, thereby mainly focusing on the impact of modernisation objectives and oil interests. Despite ancient historical ties, ... -
Affective Curatorial Strategies in Transhistorical Exhibitions: An analysis of the Double Act exhibition at the Centraal Museum Utrecht By Sadaf Javar 2846845
(2024)["" This thesis focuses on exploring the affective curatorial strategies in transhistorical exhibitions. The Double Act exhibition (2022) in the Centraal Museum Utrecht serves as the case study of this qualitative ... -
The Power of Large Language Models: using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Automatic Patch Generation
(2024)Automated Program Repair (APR) has emerged as a valuable tool for developers in the software development and maintenance process. Despite recent advances in deep learning (DL), the DL-based APR approaches still have ... -
Could you please ClAIrify?: A clustering based framework for machine learning model evaluation
(2024)Machine Learning and Visual Analytics have received increasing attention in recent years both in research and production. These two fields overlap on the evaluation of model performance. Classical evaluation metrics ...