UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Downy mildew-Associated Bacteria: Their growth and influence on reproduction of Hpa spores in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2022)Downy mildews are host specific, obligate biotrophic oomycetes that cause disease in a plant’s foliage and lead to catastrophic agricultural crop loss annually. The role of phyllosphere microbes to protect a plant against ... -
Valorisation of Chemical Inventions with a Sustainable Technological Character
(2022)Utrecht Holdings acknowledges the lack of valorisation opportunities that are chemical inventions (with a sustainable technological character). The internship elucidated reasons why these specific inventions flow less ... -
Feasibility of cone beam computed tomography with invertible recurrent inference machines
(2022)Introduction: Online adaptive radiation therapy (ART) relies on high-quality in-room volumetric imaging. Conventional linear accelerators (linac) are generally equipped with onboard orthovoltage cone beam computed tomography ... -
KPN’S LIAISON MANAGEMENT TEAM STRIVES FOR INNOVATION - How a small team of primarily interns is making an impact in a large company
(2022)“We love innovations, we love scale-ups”: Liaison Management Team. KPN is market leader in the field of internet and telephony and have become so big by continuing to innovate the latest developments. Within the strategic ... -
Develop a competencies framework for digital transformation in the banking industry
(2022)Concerning the banking industry, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) stated that digital technology might significantly impact increased competitiveness and contestability in financial markets. ... -
Persuasion in Exercise: the Pep to make the extra Step
(2022)By using the division of the top 3 and bottom 3 most liked persuasion strategies in a survey, different conditions and groups were made for the experiment. It appeared that the most likes strategies were not necessarily ... -
Investigations of Scatter Correction Methods in Quantitative PET using Deep Learning
(2022)Introduction: To render a reconstructed image acquired with PET as quantitatively accurate, corrections for the scattered coincidences have to be applied. Their contribution tends to introduce a low-frequency additive ... -
Breast Tumor Microstructure Imaging with Diffusion MRI
(2022)Despite the notable scientific progress in screening procedures and treatment strategies, breast cancer remains a significant cause of mortality, suffering and financial burden. Breast tumor detection, classification and ... -
Framework for integrating scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq to reveal signatures and trajectories of immune cells
(2022)Studying the dynamics and epigenetic signatures of immune cells is important to understand the differences in immune response of individuals. Vast amount of scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq data are available and computational ... -
Levelling the playing field: The influence of municipal commissioning on care services in the social support act
(2022)Background: In 2015 the procurement of services in the social support act became the responsibility of the Dutch municipalities. New mechanisms were introduced, like client level competition and, dialogue in the procurement. ... -
The Moderating Role of General Multicultural Attitudes on the Relation Between General Teaching Self-Efficacy and Attitudes Toward Culturally Responsive Teaching
(2022)This explanatory quantitative survey research investigated to what extent teachers’ general multicultural attitudes reinforces the relation between teachers’ general teaching self-efficacy and teachers’ attitudes toward ... -
GREEN IDENTITIES IN CONFLICT: Leaving the Group, Conformism and Loyal Deviance, Arising from Conflicting Green Identities Within Local Communities
(2022)In this Master’s thesis the interaction between personal green identity and community green identity in the development of sustainable intentions has been examined. Also, it has been explored what conflict resolution ... -
Identification of harm exposure levels based on user patterns among drug users in treatment and the role of predisposing, information and awareness factors
(2022)Objectives: We sought to identify clusters with different levels of harm exposure based on drug consumption patterns among drug users in treatment and assess the role of predisposing, information and awareness socio-demographic ... -
Intentions to vaccinate and follow guidelines against COVID-19 in the Netherlands in light of the 21st century’s first global pandemic: The determining role of protection motivation and micro and macro framing
(2022)Introduction of the new COVID-19 vaccinations presents a critical opportunity to effectively tackle the pandemic. However, high vaccination uptake and preventive measure compliance are crucial to successfully reduce COVID-19 ... -
Enhancing self-sufficiency among vulnerable people: An evaluative study on the perspectives of professionals on the implementation of the Learning Trajectories in the Dutch municipalities De Bilt, the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Zeist and Noord-Limburg
(2022)In the Netherlands, numbers of non-self-sufficient vulnerable people showing confused behavior are increasing. Simultaneously, it becomes clear that providing adequate professional support for this group is challenging. ... -
How Governance Influences Collaboration Between Scientific and Non-Scientific Stakeholders in Implementing and Evaluating Complex Interventions Regarding Health Issues
(2022)Health problems affect everyone but people with a lower SES are more affected. Health problems can be addressed on different levels, however to target health problems efficiently it might be useful to target neighbourhoods ... -
Dealing with Double Diversity: Migrant parents’ experiences in accessing preschool services for their children with disabilities
(2022)Little is known about the inclusion of migrants with disabilities in society and it has been acknowledged that this group is currently at risk of not obtaining the necessary assistance in the receiving country. Considering ... -
The Role of Communities in Creating a more Sustainable Future
(2022)Communities can play a possible role in adapting to and mitigating the risks of climate change that threaten humanity. By using the concept of community competences this thesis looks at two community initiatives focused ...