UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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A New Digital Public Sphere: Towards Democratic Social Media
(2024)This thesis explores what changes need to be made to current forms of mainstream social media to fulfill their role as facilitator of rational-critical debate in the ideal-type digital public sphere. It provides a historical ... -
Beeldtaal in de zorg: een onderzoek naar de rol van afbeeldingen in patiëntfolders
(2024)Ziekenhuizen zijn wettelijk verplicht om patiënten voldoende te informeren over hun behandelingen, maar een toename in het aantal laaggeletterde volwassen Nederlanders maakt dat dit lastig is. Een belangrijk medium in ... -
Supporting The Transhumanist Vision: An Examination of Whether Society Should Support the Transhumanist Vision
(2024)The improvement of the human condition has been an aspiration of man from time immemorial. Through time, each era had its own view of how to achieve this shaped by the zeitgeist. This has evolved to the current transhumanist ... -
Drifting To Daylight How Migration Routes for the Arctic Tern Are Influenced by Climate Change Induced Global Wind Pattern Changes
(2024)Some Arctic tern populations migrate from Antarctic regions to Svalbard during boreal spring (March-May). During this migration, they encounter and are greatly influenced by the wind patterns over the Atlantic Ocean. Making ... -
A Water Commons in Chile's Neoliberal Desert: Water Governance, Lithium Mining and Identity Formation in San Pedro de Atacama
(2024)An oasis village in the world’s driest desert, San Pedro de Atacama’s customary system of communitarian irrigation water governance – a highly unique instance of commoning in neoliberal Chile – is a socio-culturally rooted ... -
ADDRESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF HYDROELECTRIC DAMS IN RURAL COLOMBIA - An actor-based approach of the El Quimbo and HidroItuango
(2024)Grassroots organizations have increasingly contributed to pathways towards more sustainable energy systems by shedding light to the human cost of unsustainable resource uses. In light of a global boom of 3700 major dams ... -
From protest to parliament: the political emergence of Ne davimo Beograd Ethnography of entanglement of individual self-making and identity framing
(2024)The aim of this thesis is to describe the ways in which members of Ne davimo Beograd (Do not let Belgrade drown) created their sense of self while participating in creation of the movement’s identity. To showcase these ... -
Natural language processing strategies for discovery of cell type-specific DNA regulatory elements
(2024)Understanding the gene transcription rules present in non-coding DNA is essential for unraveling the genetic code that establishes cellular fate. In this study, we aim to narrow down on regulatory regions and motifs within ... -
Defining Uncertainty in Drug Regulation: A Scoping Review
(2024)The present scoping review aimed to study how uncertainty is defined in the drug regulatory field. Articles in which uncertainties were described from a regulatory perspective were analysed. Further, only records written ... -
THE USE OF PASSIVE SAMPLERS FOR THE DETECTION OF E. COLI IN WASTEWATER
(2024)Wastewater surveillance of antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes has been a useful epidemiology tool in monitoring antibiotic resistance within populations. These monitoring approaches are frequently reliant on composite ... -
In situ spectroscopic Study of the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 on single facet Copper Nanoparticles
(2024)Converting CO2 into useful chemicals and fuels with renewably generated electricity is of great technological and fundamental interest. Copper stands out as an electrocatalyst for this electrochemical reduction, as it ... -
Translational gene regulation in mouse gastruloids
(2024)Mechanisms to regulate gene expression have been studied thoroughly throughout the years mostly on the transcriptional level. There have been examples though where the presence of translational control regulated important ... -
Decorating Antigen with Multivalent CD22 Ligands to Prevent B-cell Mediated Anti-Drug Antibody Formation
(2024)Over the past few decades, the field of drug discovery has slowly been shifting towards the development of biotherapeutics. They offer many benefits over traditional small molecules imparted by their high specificity such ... -
Investigating rare variants in the ALS-associated NCALD enhancer and the enhancer’s impact on differentiated SH-sy5y cells
(2024)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease, which primarily affects motor neurons. Years of research have led to the identification of multiple genes involved in ALS. However, the non-coding genome ...