UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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UK Digital Health Platform Market Formation Barriers and Policy Trade-offs
(2022)Healthcare in the UK is becoming more expensive and less efficient. The from origin public National Health Service has started to invite companies into the system to try and tackle these problems, for example by providing ... -
Factors associated with COVID-19 infection and infection severity in Dutch health care workers during the COVID-19 epidemic in the Netherlands
(2022)Background: The BCG-Corona trial began in March 2020 and followed 1511 healthcare workers in the Netherlands for a year: 753 participants received BCG vaccine and 758 placebo vaccine. The trial found no impact of BCG ... -
Italian Teachers’ Beliefs on The ‘Knowledge and Information Age’ Skills and Education Practices
(2022)This study examines the beliefs of an Italian VET schools’ teachers concerning 21st century education and practices. The school is named ‘Cattaneo-Deledda’ and is located in Modena. The research investigates three questions: ... -
Role-Playing with Virtual Actors in an Online Communication Training: The Influence of Different Character Representations on User Experience and Learning Outcome
(2022)Effective communication is an important workplace requirement and can be improved through soft skill training programmes. A frequently used method for training interpersonal skills is through role-play. Faculty of Skills, ... -
Sustainable Transitions for Large Enterprises: A case study of B Corporations
(2022)The urgency of the climate crisis and global inequality demands the action of all, including the private sector. While smaller, mission driven companies have initially led the corporate sustainability transition, moving ... -
Functioneren in een sturingsspagaat: Hoe ambtenaren omgaan met hiërarchische sturing wanneer zij de overheid vertegenwoordigen in netwerksamenwerkingen in het landelijk gebied.
(2022)Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van de provincie Utrecht en is gericht op sturingsdilemma’s van uitvoerende ambtenaren die namens de provincie deelnemen aan gebiedsprocessen. De provincie maakt vaak gebruik van ... -
Spatial and temporal analysis in land and water productivity using WaPOR data. A case study of the sugarcane plantations of Metahara, Ethiopia
(2022)The Ethiopian government faces a challenge in which they aim to increase the yields of the sugarcane fields of Metahara, while decreasing the water consumption. Hence, this research analyzed the spatial and temporal ... -
Fighting the Sand: The Role of Education in Combating Desertification
(2022)Over 40% of the world’s land surface is covered by semi-arid and arid environments, which are home to over one billion people. These semi-arid and arid environments are subject to desertification. Africa is a heavily ... -
The Role of Higher Education in Shaping Students’ Policy Preferences: Does exposure to the assumptions prevalent in economics and sociology curricula prime attributions of poverty?
(2022)A survey experiment was conducted to study to what extent the assumptions about what drives human behavior in neoclassical economic theory and classical sociological theory drive attribution of poverty. Poverty attributions ... -
De dansende adviseur
(2022)Een duidelijke rolidentiteit draagt bij aan een goede relatie tussen de adviseur en opdrachtgever en komt daarmee de kwaliteit van het advies ten goede. Rolonduidleijkheid kan de kwaliteit van het advies schaden. In complexe ... -
The Role of Media with Sexual Content on Adolescents’ Sexual Risk Behavior and Pleasure & the Mediation of this Association by Adolescent SDS-Stereotypes
(2022)Sex and sexual relationships are commonly portrayed in media and adolescents are frequently exposed to these kinds of content from various media types (i.e., social media accounts, reality television, online pornography, ... -
Understanding the role of banks in overcoming financial barriers to agroecological transitions from a systems thinking perspective.
(2022)Intensive agricultural practices have contributed to global sustainability challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, soil degradation, food insecurity and groundwater pollution (Skaalsveen et ... -
Making it Rain in the Desert: Fantasy or Future
(2022)Regreening initiatives are being undertaken as climate change mitigation strategies, to improve water and food security, and to increase biodiversity. Because of positive feedback loops between vegetation and precipitation, ... -
Urban drought hazard assessment using global open data and water balance model
(2022)Understanding the spatial and temporal variability of droughts in cities around the globe is essential to adequately manage water resources and meet the needs of all urban users. As the use of hydrological models to simulate ... -
De toegang tot het gefinancierde rechtsbijstandsstelsel: ‘Te vinden voor iedereen?’
(2022)Dit explorerend onderzoek richt zich op de hoofdvraag: Hoe verhoudt het huidige beleidsmatige uitgangspunt van de zelfredzame burger bij de toegang tot het rechtsbijstandsstelsel zich tot de capaciteiten van de doelgroep ...