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A Closer Look at Parental Phubbing: Examining Different Contexts of Parental Phubbing on Adolescent’s Phone Use and the Potentially Moderating Effect of Age
(2022)Introduction: Adolescents, and their parents, are heavy phone users. Excessive phone use is associated with a variety of mental health problems, and is thus a serious public health concern. Adolescent behaviors are partly ... -
The Association and Contribution of Gender-related Characteristics on Prevalent Chronic Kidney Disease in women and men in a multi-ethnic population
(2022)Background: Differences in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) between women and men have previously been reported. While biological explanation factors have been explored, research on sociocultural factors has ... -
Transgender people of color: double injustice?
(2022)Introduction: Despite the number of laws that should minimize the disadvantages of transgender people in America, discrimination is still a problem among this group. Several studies show that transgender people in America ... -
Greenhouse gas emission coverage and reduction potentials of scope 3 emissions in car manufacturing
(2022)In the car sector, total greenhouse gas emissions are dominated by indirect emission sources across complicated car supply chains. All indirect emissions fall under scope 3 of the GHG Protocol reporting standards and can ... -
Droogte in de Achterhoek | Een onderzoek naar de aanpak van een sluipende crisis met een focus op temporaliteit
(2022)Crises worden gekenmerkt door dreiging, urgentie en onzekerheid. Ze kunnen voor komen in acute of in sluipende vorm. De sluipende crisis, waarbij de temporele factor anders ligt dan bij een acute crisis, wordt vaak minder ... -
Peach Says: opening spaces of agency for sexuality in the Chinese internet with a playful discursivity. D'Antonio 7356196
(2022)Peach Says is a selling account on WeChat that publishes articles to inform its customers about sexuality. In China sexuality is a sensitive topic both culturally and from a Internet censorship point of you. Although, ... -
Affective Language Processing: Language-driven Evaluation of Character Affect in Morally Loaded Narratives
(2022)Research has shown that the valence of emotional linguistic stimuli is reflected in corrugator supercilii (‘frowning muscle’) activation, which can be measured using facial electromyography. But in a larger context, the ... -
Time to Care: Disabled and queer lived realities of care and time as forms of non-normative resistance
(2022)This research explores how care emerges and transfigures within queer and disabled contexts that diverge from a myriad of hegemonic ideals and ideas of normalcy, productivity, and independence. I pose the research questions: ... -
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 ...