UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
Now showing items 5721-5740 of 44925
-
Facebook and the Public Sphere: Assessing the responsibility of a dominant social media platform through the lens of the public sphere
(2022)This thesis analyses the relation between the public sphere as described by Jürgen Habermas and Facebook. It addresses the two main concerns for Facebook as a modern digital medium: fake news and polarisation. Subsequently, ... -
Hoe sport- en beweeggedrag onder kwetsbaren beïnvloeden? Organiseer een lokaal Life Goals Festival!
(2022)Stichting Life Goals Nederland, opgericht op 24 november 2011, is een non-profitorganisatie die sport als een doeltreffend middel ziet voor het bieden van nieuw perspectief. De doelgroep waar Life Goals zich op richt zijn ... -
Tailoring the approach of chemistry practicals in order to motivate students: comparing effects of inquiry-based learning and direct instruction on autonomous motivation
(2022)Autonomous motivation of students is associated with many advantages in terms of academic performance and student well-being. In the case of science subjects in secondary education, however, it is decreasing in Western ... -
Experimental Feminist Life Writing: Examining Autofiction and Autotheory as Strategies of Dissent
(2022)This thesis examines genre-based experimentation in works of feminist life writing (namely reading Diane di Prima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik, Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick, and McKenzie Wark’s Reverse Cowgirl) as a practice of ... -
Cultuurchristelijk Confessioneel: Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar Cultuurchristelijke invloeden bij de Christelijke Partijen in Nederland
(2022)Cultuurchristendom is een verschijnsel dat veelvuldig aan het populisme wordt gelinkt. De beweging wordt als een ‘illiberal’ verschijnsel beschouwd waarmee populisten proberen de islam buiten het christelijke Europa te ... -
Embodied Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Contemporary Protest against black Pete
(2022)In 2011, activists Quinsy Gario and Jerry Afriyie challenged the festive nature of the Netherlands' annual St. Nicholas celebration by wearing t-shirts with the slogan "Zwarte Piet is Racism" [Black Pete is Racism] at the ... -
Living System Perspective on Ecosystem Services
(2022)Within the last decade, the Earth has become recognized as a coupled social- ecological system, where human activities significantly impact the functioning of the earth system, its ecosystems, and vice versa. Currently, ... -
Use of dredged sediments as a sustainable material
(2022)Sediment is dredged from the bottom of rivers and harbours to keep inland shipping and marine traffic possible. All over the world hundreds of millions of cubic meters of sediment is dredged annually. Human activity ... -
Regional knowledge networks towards innovation in the field of renewable energy
(2022)Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humanity is facing today. Minimizing its effects can only be achieved through a future of renewable energies (REs). Therefore, innovation in this sector plays a key role ... -
Using the AudioMoth - a novel passive acoustic monitoring technology - to monitor bat diversity in a rewilded landscape
(2022)Ecosystem restoration through the reintroduction of grazers is gaining interest across Europe. Large herbivores are associated with landscape heterogeneity, restoration of trophic cascades and biodiversity. Projects ... -
Expectations of energy communities
(2022) -
Performance Analysis of PV Systems in the Built Environment: a Case Study from a High Rise Building
(2022)Worldwide energy consumption and the related GHG emissions have a significant environmental impact, and 33% come from the residential sector. Research is focusing on energy efficient buildings that produce renewable energy ... -
How realistic is my synthetic data? A qualitative approach.
(2022)Missing values represent one of the most common challenges for data analytics tasks. For that reason, a lot of techniques have been proposed to fill the missing values through what is called ”Data Imputation”. Recent studies ... -
Governing MaaS; The governance of Mobility as a Service in the municipality of Amsterdam
(2022)Mobility as a Service is increasingly referred to as a solution to mobility systems that are under pressure and reached their maximum capacity, and to face the mobility problems that are experienced. MaaS is namely believed ... -
The Transparency/Opacity Conundrum: Locating Dutch Deportation Regimes at Schiphol Detention Center
(2022)Airports are often regarded as sites of transition, and thus devoid of meaning. This view obscures various articulations of power and exclusionary practices involved in border and migration management. I posit that one ... -
Object-sensitive Type Analysis for Python
(2022)Python is an interpreted, interactive and object-oriented programming language that stresses code readability. In Python, objects interact with each other to accomplish various tasks. Such interaction is usually achieved ... -
‘Building a bridge between the Climate Agreement and actual energy savings in the Dutch retail sector’
(2022)Becoming climate neutral by 2050 is the overarching target for the Dutch service sector. However, there is little insight in current energy usage patterns and opportunities for energy savings in the sector. Therefore, a ... -
Technical and economic demand response potential analysis of low-carbon nitrogenous fertilizer plants in 2030
(2022)Global fertilizer production accounts for 2 – 3% of the total energy consumption of which nitrogenous fertilizer is the vast majority. With natural gas as the dominant source of energy, the fertilizer industry is considered ...