UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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How does the concern for maintaining socioemotional wealth influence the level of entrepreneurial orientation in family firms?
(2022)This study investigates the association between SEW and EO in family firms, as the current literature does not provide a complete overview of how each dimension influences the EO in family firms. By conducting a relational ... -
Market failures and economic theory, an insight on their effects on data-driven companies.
(2022)This research is aimed at exploring how data-driven companies have become so dominant in the tech industry, often thanks to the effects of market failures; in particular, how their growth has been fostered by Network Effects ... -
Decentral routing strategies for public transportation
(2022)In case of large disturbances in public transportation networks, there often is little information available for central dispatching. Moreover, high frequency systems may use decentral dispatching. We consider a local ... -
On the Fixed Parameter Tractability of Minimum Temporal Connectivity
(2022)Temporal graphs allow encoding time-dependent information in graphs. However, problems on temporal graphs tend to be more complex than their counterparts on static graphs. The Minimum Temporal Connectivity and Maximum ... -
Interpretable and explainable vision and video vision transformers for pain detection
(2022)Automatic detection of facial indicators of pain has many useful applications in the healthcare domain. Vision transformers are a top-performing architecture in computer vision, with little research on their use for pain ... -
Improving Robustness For Stochastic Parallel Machine Scheduling With Robustness Measures
(2022)In this thesis we look at the stochastic parallel machine scheduling problem with precedence constraints, release dates and a deadline. To deal with uncertainty in the job processing times, it is desirable to create robust ... -
Improving open text matching in a communication serious game
(2022)I analyze and implement state-of-the-art natural language processing models for open text understanding to improve the matching of open text input in a serious game that uses custom scenarios created for training communication ... -
Predicting the future of complex signals The information bottleneck applied to the generalized Langevin equation
(2022)Biological systems live in dynamic environments and thus need to adapt to changes in that environment. However, adapting costs time, so the system needs to predict its future environment based on past environments. Therefore, ... -
Predicting Novasure surgery outcomes based on patient characteristics and treatment activities
(2022)For 30% of the women, their daily life is influenced by heavy menstrual bleeding, meaning that their energy level, mood, work productivity, social interaction, family life, and sexual functioning alternate due to their ... -
Pre-processing to Mitigate Inherent Problems of Underwater Data Used for Object Detection
(2022)Ever since deep learning found its footing in the general field of AI, it has been growing increasingly larger. Deep learning technologies are nowadays commonly used in real-world applications. One field in which these ... -
The Effect of Grief Cognitions on Fluctuations in Yearning and Emotional Pain of Bereaved Individuals: An Experience Sampling Method Study
(2022)Background: A minority of bereaved individuals is affected by prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Research has established a positive association between negative grief cognitions and PGD symptom levels. The effect of grief ... -
Closing the responsibility gap in AI: Can Kundera’s idea of taking responsibility address the responsibility gap?
(2022)The problem of the responsibility gap as described by Andreas Matthias in 2004, showed that our legal and moral responsibility practices are challenged in the context of Artificial Intelligence. In a nutshell, the ... -
Biobased beehotel from flowerwaste
(2022)This research project was brought by Groot Packaging. Groot wants to help create a waste-free floral industry and has developed several circular and biodegradable products from flower waste. In this project we used flower ... -
Not so Straightforward: Coming Out and Hetero-Professionalism at Work
(2022)The current research aims to explore the relationship between being “out” as LGBT in the workplace and perceived professionalism and whether heteronormativity in the perceiver moderates this connection. The hypotheses ... -
The relationship between social status and stress with work pressure and socially prescribed perfectionism as possible mediators
(2022)The present study assessed the relationship between social status and stress, and whether this relationship was mediated by work pressure and socially prescribed perfectionism. The study was conducted with an online ... -
The impact of the corona pandemic on psychological distress in bereaved students
(2022)Governmental guidelines such as the closing of public amenities and restricting the amount of visitors at home due to COVID-19 have led higher education students to feel more lonely, lacking social support, and show increased ... -
Optimizing the Univentricular Heart: the Potentials of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy for patients with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
(2022)Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a congenital heart disease in which the left side of the heart is highly underdeveloped, hindering left-sided systemic circulation after birth. The condition is rare and accounts for only ... -
"O, schöne Zeit!" Het Utrechts Studenten Koor en Orkest in de jaren zestig
(2022)Er gaat in de academische literatuur grote aandacht uit naar de protestgeneratie en de conservatieve reactie. Er is echter weinig aandacht voor de jongeren die niet aan de voorhoede van de veranderingen stonden. Deze ... -
A Study Examining the Impact of Job Coaching Procedures on Career Sustainability of Young Professionals with a Work Handicap and the Mediating Role of Person-Job Fit.
(2022)As labour participation is not always a certainty for people with a work handicap, a sustainable career becomes increasingly important. This research is conducted in close collaboration with Stichting Studeren en Werken ...