UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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From Contact to Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Epitope Characterization and Similarity Scoring
(2025)Epitopes play a crucial role in antibody-based diagnostics and therapeutics, making their accurate char- acterization essential for assessing off-target effects and antigen similarity. In this study, we present a comprehensive ... -
The Dutch CFSPID Cohort: an overview
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The Impact of Temperament on the Course of Anxiety and Depression in Offspring of Anxious/Depressed Parents
(2025)Parental depression and anxiety are well-documented risk factors for the development of psychopathology in offspring. This study examines the impact of temperament on the one-year course of anxiety and depression in ... -
The Role of Suicidal Intrusions and Rumination in the Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation
(2025)This study aimed to identify risk factors for suicidal ideation (SI) and inform treatment for depressed individuals at risk for suicide by exploring the relationship between depressive symptoms, suicidal intrusions, ... -
From Isolation to Ideation: The Mediating Effect of Suicidal Intrusions in Loneliness and Suicidal Ideation
(2025)Introduction Despite extensive research on suicidal ideation, underlying cognitive processes remain underexplored. This study aimed to assess whether suicidal intrusions mediate the relationship between loneliness and ... -
Regreening Kenya: Assessing the effectiveness of moisture retention techniques using GIS-based temporal analysis
(2025)This study evaluates the effectiveness of semi-circular bunds (demi-lunes) in enhancing vegetation health and stability in the semi-arid Loitokitok subcounty of southern Kenya over a multi-year period (2016–2024). Using ... -
The Overlooked Harm of Psychological Violence: How Legal Gaps Perpetuate Ignorance and Injustice.
(2025)This thesis addresses the limited literature on psychological violence and its relationship to femicide, specifically focusing on Dutch legislation aimed at preventing such violence. Through a literature review and interviews ... -
“We Use Games to Tell Stories”: Fostering Intercultural Understanding Through Actual Play Storytelling
(2025)This research investigates how "Worlds Beyond Number" (WBN), an Actual Play podcast, fosters intercultural competence (ICC) through narrative co-creation and mediated storytelling. Focusing on the campaign "The Wizard, the ... -
Application of RGB BRDF Synthesis methods to Spectral BRDFs and the applicability of a Fourier spectral representation
(2025)Spectral path tracing is used to create highly realistic scenes requiring spectral BRDFS, but BRDF synthesis is mostly limited to RGB BRDFs. To allow the creation of new spectral BRDFs this thesis converts interpolation ... -
Chlamydia check-up: Tracking policy shifts with a scientific swab at general practices
(2025)Background - Chlamydia trachomatis is a common sexually transmitted disease. Since January 2025, the Dutch public health service (GGD) implemented a major policy change for sexual health centers, discontinuing the testing ... -
Ecosystem Services versus Flood Risk Adaptation Strategies in Global River Deltas
(2025)Coastal river deltas provide vital ecosystem services that sustain human life, yet they are increasingly vulnerable to flooding. To address these risks, various flood-risk strategies, including protect-open, protect-closed, ... -
Revisiting Operation IceBridge snow-on-sea-ice measurements in the Arctic
(2025)The polar regions play a fundamental role in the ongoing climate warming and despite their remoteness and distance from human civilization, we have a great interest in understanding the changes taking place in the Arctic ... -
Sustainability in the OR: reducing environmental impact and hospital specific waste by filtration of used cardioplegic solution to exclude active pharmaceutical ingredients before disposal
(2025)A low-budget sustainable method was developed for the filtration and quantification of procaine in used cardioplegic solution. The quantification method consisted of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography ... -
Human and Climate-Induced Pressures on Coastal Dune Ecosystems: Effects on Biodiversity, Functionality and Ecosystem Services
(2025)Coastal dune ecosystems are dynamic and unique ecosystems with a high ecological significance. These dynamic systems harbour a wide diversity of species and provide many ecosystems services such as coastal protection, the ... -
The practical potential of generating synthetic data for cardiovascular disease research.
(2025)Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain a leading global health issue, contributing to significant mortality and reduced quality of life. While advancements in big data and precision medicine have improved diagnostic and ... -
Impact of AI Personalization on Email Clicks and Conversions: Insights from a Real-World AI-Personalized Phishing Simulation
(2025)Large Language Models (LLMs) enable near-instantaneous, high-quality text generation and is rapidly revolutionizing various industries. A promising use case is AI email personalization, which is relevant for legitimate ... -
Ontology Learning using public Large Language Models under set conditions, identifying metrics for measuring success
(2025)Capturing natural language text in an ontology which accurately reflects the domain semantics is a labor intensive task. It requires both knowledge regarding ontology modeling theory and the domain to be modeled. Large ... -
Parameter-bounded parallelism for fixed parameter tractable problems
(2025)Fixed-parameter tractability (FPT) addresses computational hardness by isolating complexity to a problem-specific parameter. As input sizes grow, so does the need for parallelism, partic- ularly when resources are constrained. ...