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Cumulative Greenspace Exposure on Young Adult’s Mental Health and SocioeconomicStatus Moderators
(2022)The environmental context in which a person lives serves as a background factor that can trigger, reduce, or amplify the risk of suffering from a mental disorder. Poor mental health in young people can lead to further ... -
Time-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics in the Block Universe
(2022)The present thesis addresses a general and a specific research question. The general research question aims to explore whether the block universe perspective provides a smooth reconciliation between quantum mechanics and ... -
Interrater reliability of sensory testing in patients with diabetic neuropathy
(2022)Background: Peripheral neuropathy, occurring in 30-50% of diabetic patients, is the main risk factor for foot ulceration. In order to detect diabetic neuropathy, the continuous and dichotomous 39-item and the dichotomous ... -
Finance for sustainability: How European actors can support sustainable small and medium-sized enterprises in Nigeria
(2022)To address the challenge of mismanaged plastic waste in Nigeria, this research investigates the main research question ‘How can European actors financially support SMEs active in Nigeria’s plastic waste management as a ... -
An Experimental Vignette Study: The Moderating Role of History of Maternal Guilt- Induction on Emotion Regulation in Young Adults
(2022)Parental guilt-induction has been found to be a need frustrating factor for children and have detrimental effects on emotion regulation later in life. There is an ongoing debate about whether individuals who have need ... -
Relationship between peripheral indicators of arousal as indicators of attentional networks
(2022)The Drift Diffusion Model (DDM) has long been used to investigate perceptual decision making. Previous research has linked pupil size measures to decision making processes, which in turn were linked to parameters of the ... -
Let me show you how I feel: How simple emotional gesturing affects child engagement during vaccinations
(2022)Assistive robots are being increasingly applied in the health care domain to socially support humans in medical procedures. A special field is laying focus on the interaction between children and robots, because their ... -
An analysis of the Social Impact Assessment family of methods
(2022)Over the past decades, Social Impact Assessment (SIA), which measures the social consequences of an organisation's project, program, or policy has shifted from its traditional context in project development to a more recent ... -
Understanding the mechanism of SAAP-148 and exploring the purification of LptD/E
(2022)Chapter 1: In the race against antimicrobial resistance, De Breij et al. (2018) designed an antibiotic peptide called SAAP-148 derived from the amino acid sequence of the human antimicrobial peptide LL-37. SAAP-148 showed ... -
Agent-based modeling of the Dutch housing market
(2022)There currently is a crisis in the Dutch housing market. We believe the main cause of this crisis is a high housing shortage. As a result rents and buying prices are high. We also observe a lock-in effect where people ... -
Melanoma-derived extracellular vesicles: Signaling through their miRNA content
(2022)Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer. Early diagnosis is of great importance for patient outcome. Currently, genetic testing is required to determine the mutational background. Promising research on extracellular ... -
The Effect of Job Involvement on the Relation between Age Discrimination at Work and Job Satisfaction of Young Female and Male Employees
(2022)Age discrimination is one of the most common forms of discrimination in the workplace and negatively impacts essential aspects of employees' work life, such as job satisfaction. It is mainly associated with older employees, ... -
The Relationship between Touch Deprivation and Transdiagnostic Symptoms in Psychiatric Populations
(2022)Many people experienced touch deprivation during the COVID-19 pandemic because of social distancing, meaning they did not receive the amount of touch they would like to receive. Notably, psychiatric patients may be at a ... -
Psychometric properties of the fifth version of the Posttraumatic-Stress-Checklist in a clinical sample of refugees
(2022)Background The validity and reliability of the fifth version of the Posttraumatic Stress Checklist (PCL-5) have been demonstrated in numerous studies in Western cultures, various languages, and increasingly in non-Western ...