UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Let’s break the ice: an experimental investigation of the effect of team building on human-robot interaction
(2022)As the field of mobile robotics advances, autonomous robots are becoming more capable of collaborating with their human counterpart. However, in order to have social robots working alongside in our everyday life, much work ... -
Improving Curve Arrangements Through Local Changes
(2022)A curve arrangement can contain popular faces if a face is bounded the same curve multiple times. Popular faces and closed loops can make generated curved nonogram puzzles complex. To remove these features we make changes ... -
Exploring Gender Roles and Sigmund Freud’s Taboo in the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin
(2022)This Master's thesis explores Anais Nin's controversial first unexpurgated diary, titled Henry & June. The thesis explores the ways in which the diary has been an influential literary space of self-representation for women ... -
7792662 - Gómez Recinos - Thesis: Ladina Mestiza as a Political Identity in Guatemala
(2022)This research aims to explore the possibility of collectively building a new ladina-mestiza political identity within the Guatemalan context and women’s movement, mainly based in two decolonial feminist perspectives. First, ... -
Postpartum as Portal: Reimagining Western Conceptions of the Human Through Linocut Printmaking Workshops on Postpartum and Motherhood by Sophia Pekowsky, 1961950
(2022)While the postpartum time and its associated complications are well researched from a medical and psychological standpoint, there are few philosophical or feminist theories that take the postpartum as a point of study. In ... -
Belfast’s 21st Century Apartheid: How Does Segregation Influence How Catholic Youth Experience and Navigate Life in Belfast?
(2022)This thesis explores how the entrenched segregation of Belfast’s Catholic and Protestant communities influences the daily experiences and navigation of life for Catholic youth growing up in the post-conflict city. To address ... -
Agent-Based Modelling of Trans-Atlantic Bird Flights
(2022)Many North American bird species migrate towards South America to spend the colder seasons. Occasionally, some of the birds that were meant to migrate south arrive in Europe, far outside of their normal habitat. It is ... -
'Iedereen die ons kwaad deed': Constructie van het Nederlandse zelf- en heterobeeld in militaire autobiografieën over de missie in Afghanistan
(2022)De Nederlandse missie in Afghanistan van 2002 tot 2021 kostte veel soldaten het leven en leidde tot de val van het kabinet-Balkenende IV. Daarnaast liep een recordaantal militairen PTSS op. Er zijn twijfels over de ... -
Multispecies Justice. Philosophical and political considerations for multispecies futures.
(2022)The consequences of climate change, such as the massive decline in biodiversity and the increasing magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events, have challenged the western theorisation of a disentangled relationship ... -
Het Doel als Middel: Een onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van gemeentelijk woonbeleid
(2022)De betaalbaarheid van woningen in Nederland is sterk achteruitgegaan in de afgelopen jaren. De meeste gemeenten hadden in het woonbeleid al doelstellingen over het realiseren van sociale woningbouw, maar nemen steeds vaker ... -
Desert Power: A Chronological Comparison of Dune and Its Relationship With Contemporary American Views Towards Islam
(2022)This study sets out to examine the relationship between Frank Herbert’s science fiction epic Dune and contemporary American views towards Islam. It investigates the first Dune novel (1965), the 1984 film adaptation by David ... -
Licht, transparantie en glans in Jan van Eycks schilderkunst. Een onderzoek naar metafysische en materiële iconografie.
(2022)Het doel van dit onderzoek is om te bestuderen op welke manier opvattingen uit de middeleeuwse scholastische lichtmetafysica en materiële iconografie kunnen bijdragen aan een vollediger begrip van de symboliek van licht, ... -
The extent of sentiment on sexual health topics between moderated and non-moderated websites
(2022)Sexual health information shared online is not always credible. Due to the nature of the internet, and how it allows anyone to create or spread content, often misinformation occurs, and being misinformed about (sexual) ... -
Language morphology in active learning aided systematic reviews
(2022)Active learning aided abstract screening can alleviate the labour-intensive process of systematic reviewing. In such a learning cycle, a machine learning model suggests the next abstract to be reviewed, and a researcher ... -
Beyond punitive opposition: cancel culture in relation to queer storytelling
(2022)Abstract Cancelling has become an increasingly resonant word in the past years, and it has adopted particular modes in the field of pop culture and media. This research aims to explore the ways in which cancel culture ... -
The Display of Women’s Social Roles in Ritual Participation in Classical Athenian Polis-Cults
(2022)In this thesis I examine women’s religious participation in Classical Athens. The aim of my research is to find the social roles women displayed through this religious participation in Athenian polis-cults specifically. I ...