UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Dissolved Ionic Salts under Nanoconfinement
(2024)Since the first isolation of graphene barely twenty years ago, quasi two-dimensional structures have been investigated in great detail as their properties such as their relative permittivity and heat conductivity vary ... -
The role of Hoogheemraadschap de Stichtse Rijnlanden in urban climate adaptation
(2024)To keep urban areas in the Netherlands inhabitable in the changing climate where extreme rainfall, drought, and heat occur increasingly often, they need to become more climate adaptive. The Deltaprogramma Ruimtelijke ... -
Information networks in Dutch agriculture: An analysis of the role of information in facilitating the adoption of ‘nature-inclusive’ agriculture
(2024)This study explores how the lack of NIA adoption is affected by how Dutch farmers gather, interact with, and apply information, as it is influenced by their subjective evaluation. Therefore, the research objective is to ... -
Strategic Niche Management for Levering the Blockchain Technology towards Scaling up the Financing of Nature-based Solutions through Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Case Study.
(2024)This study investigates the potential of leveraging Blockchain Technology and Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) to increase funding for rural nature-based solutions (NBS). Using Geels' Framework of Strategic Niche Management, ... -
The effectiveness of virtual reality-assisted hypnosis against itch: the creation and evaluation of a new therapeutic concept
(2024)Chronic itch is a disabling condition with currently limited treatment options. Virtual reality (VR) is an approach that takes people to another place and has demonstrated to temporarily reduce itch. Hypnosis, which is a ... -
External Organizational Identity Change of Organizations in the Energy Sector
(2024)As climate change is a globally well-known problem, the importance of the energy transition becomes even more prevalent. Many studies have been performed on the energy transition before, investigating the energy sector as ... -
Laat je de ballon van je vriend knappen?! Het effect van externaliserende problemen op risiconemen in een sociale context
(2024)Adolescents are characterized as risk takers, but what happens when they have the chance to take risks in situations that allow them to show antisocial behavior? Adolescents with a higher amount of externalizing problems ... -
Seeing Colour: Racial "blackness" in Ectors saga
(2024)This thesis examines the construction of black identity in the 15th century Icelandic text Ectors saga using a critical race approach and utilising the concepts of subalternity, marginality, and intersectionality. By taking ... -
De leefwereld van de plantersvrouw: Een onderzoek naar plantagehoudsters in het Suriname van de achttiende en negentiende eeuw
(2024)De rol van vrouwen in de Surinaamse geschiedenis is voor lange tijd onderbelicht gebleven. Dit geld ook voor plantersvrouwen. In dit onderzoek is gepoogd de positie van plantersvrouwen in de plantagemaatschappij van Suriname ... -
Ulysses van drie kanten: receptieonderzoek naar de dynamiek tussen de Nederlandse (her)vertalingen van Joyce’ roman
(2024)["",""]Een receptieonderzoek naar de drie Nederlandse vertalingen van het modernistische werk Ulysses (1922) van James Joyce (1882-1941), met een focus op de rol die hervertaling speelt in de receptie van de vertalingen ... -
Framing tools for fooling farms: An agnotological history of the nitrogen-dispute in Dutch newspaper discourse (1950 – 1980)
(2024)In a period of accelerating modernization of Dutch agriculture (1950 – 1980), newspaper media saw the coming of a public debate about fertilizers, a cosmopolitical issue combining technical aspects from agricultural sciences ... -
De Samenhang tussen de door Jongeren ervaren COVID-impact en Sociale Agst in 2022 en 2023.
(2024)Eind 2019 brak het coronavirus (COVID-19) uit, resulterend in een pandemie en sociale beperkingen, met negatieve gevolgen voor het welzijn van adolescenten: internaliserende problemen onder adolescenten namen toe tijdens ... -
Monuments and Memories: An analysis of processes of Decolonisation in Bristol, UK and Fremantle, Australia
(2024)["",""]This thesis has focused on two colonial monuments in both Australia and the UK respectively; The Explorers Monument in Fremantle, Western Australia and the statue of Edward Colston which was removed out of its plinth ... -
Studying the impacts of pre-training using ChatGPT generated text on downstream tasks
(2024)In recent times, significant advancements have been witnessed in the field of language models, particularly with the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on vast amounts of data extracted from internet ... -
The North-South perspectives on reducing GHG emissions from deforestation in Colombia: A clash of Visions? A constructivist analysis on Colombia's leadership in sustainable development and North-South cooperation to reduce deforestation in the Colombian Amazon.
(2024)[""This thesis constitutes a constructivist analysis of how Colombia's conservation narrative, exemplified by its active role in the 2030 Agenda, has influenced the Joint Declaration of Intent to reduce GHG emissions from ... -
De thuisbevalling: een traditie waard om te behouden?
(2024)Medicalisering is een fenomeen waarbij natuurlijke processen als medisch probleem worden gedefinieerd. Dit proces is in hoge mate sociologisch en normatief van aard. In zekere zin heeft de geboortezorg ook een proces van ...