UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Unsupervised Paper2Slides Generation
(2024)Although presentations are an excellent medium for sharing academic opinions and ideas, there has been a scarcity of research into automating the "paper to slides" generation task, and a lack of publicly available datasets. ... -
Effects of spin inertia on ground-state energies: the spin-instanton
(2024)Recent experiments have shown that spin dynamics depend on spin inertia. If the spin dynamics are dependent on spin inertia, the energy levels of a single spin could have an inertia-dependence too. In this thesis, we ... -
Small States, Big Aspirations? Shifting Dutch development policies (1973) and Dutch technical aid to Colombia: the Microbiological and Parasitological Centre project (1969-1976)
(2024)Jan Pronk, Dutch Minister of Development Cooperation, implemented a progressive development policy in 1973, drastically affecting Dutch development aid to the Third World. These developments were embedded in the rise of ... -
Queering Nature After Death, Giving Back to the Non/living: Materiality, Mediality, and Agency of the Mycelium Material in the Loop Living Cocoon™ Coffin
(2024)This thesis provides a New Materialist analysis of the Loop Living Cocoon™ coffin, which is made of living fungal mycelium material. More specifically, it leads to a trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between ... -
Seeing cold, eating warm: Effects of imaginative storytelling and immersive virtual reality winter environments on food perception
(2024)Consumer studies have demonstrated that the context of the environment affects the type of food being chosen. In this regard, both immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and more traditional media (e.g., text-based storytelling) ... -
Serial mediation relationship between intolerance of uncertainty, worry, anxiety and sex
(2024)Intolerance of uncertainties (IU) has become a topical transdiagnostic factor in anxiety disorders. Anxiety symptoms have been commonly linked to sex and literature shows that women tend to suffer more from anxiety related ... -
Precariously Beyond Border: The Life of a Digital Nomad. An ethnographic exploration of the tensions in selfmaking and being made in the remote working community in Lisbon, Portugal
(2024)This thesis explores the tensions between self-making and being made by digital nomads and remote workers in relation to their experiences with precariousness in Lisbon, Portugal. Digital nomads are workers that perform ... -
De 'gemiddelde Nederlander'. Statistiek en het volk in politiek taalgebruik (1900-2018)
(2024)[""This thesis forms a conceptual history of the term ‘gemiddelde Nederlander’ (average Dutchman). It examines the ways in which politicians in the Dutch parliament used the term and the separate terms ‘gemiddeld(e)’ and ... -
Een zoektocht naar welstand - De theorie van Gerard De Lairesse in de praktijk van Philip Tidemans (1657-1705) tekeningen en schilderijen
(2024)Op basis van de analyses in deze scriptie is geconcludeerd dat Philip Tideman (1657-1705) de theorie van Gerard De Lairesse (1641-1711) zeer nauwkeurig toepaste in zowel zijn tekeningen in Leidse album als de schilderijen ... -
Exploring New Horizons in Treatment: The Potential of Radiation-induced Neuromodulation to Enhance Psychological Therapies in Refractory Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
(2024)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) poses a significant challenge in psychiatric treatment, with a considerable number of patients exhibiting limited response to conventional therapies. As a result, neuromodulatory and ... -
Advocatus DiaBOTli: Artificial Dissent, Task Domain & Conformity
(2024)With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), research interest has shifted to understanding its potential for social influence. In line with the "Computers Are Social Actors” (CASA) paradigm, computational agents ... -
The Role of Menstrual Hygiene Management Interventions in Improving School Participation in South Sudan
(2024)The present study aims to determine whether Plan International Netherlands’ Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) activities in South Sudan successfully enable young women and girls of menstruating age (14-24) to participate ... -
The Power of Positivity: Investigating the Influence of Body Image on Sexual Pleasure Through Sexual Agency, with a Focus on Pleasure-Inclusive Sex Education as a Moderator
(2024)Background: The pervasive and gendered societal messages about young women's bodies often contribute to body image dissatisfaction which can negatively impact their ability to have pleasurable sexual experiences. This is ... -
Constraining the Triassic to Early Cretaceous structural and sedimentary evolution of the northern Dutch Central Graben; a seismic and well log data analysis.
(2024)The structural evolution of the present-day Dutch offshore has been influenced by tectonic events coupled with halokinesis, eustatic changes and modifications in the rate of sediment supply. The research aims to disentangle ... -
Gelijke kansen in het onderwijs: Een experimentele studie naar het effect van verschillen in competentie en motivatie van leerlingen op de hulpbereidheid van leraren
(2024)De werkomgeving van leraren brengt de nodige uitdagingen met zich mee. Tegen de achtergrond van een groeiend personeelstekort zien leraren hun klassen voller worden en de werkdruk toenemen. Terwijl de slagingspercentages ...