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Derailed Accountability: The Greek Media Representations of Greece's Deadliest Rail Collision
(2025)Media coverage of crimes of the powerful remains limited and ambiguous, often presenting the harmful outcomes as isolated events, accidents or unforeseeable tragedies. The 2023 Tempe rail collision in Greece, which ... -
The prowess of the lăutari – Performing the ‘lăutar space’ at the ‘Nacht van de Balkan’ concert in 1980 - Linden
(2025)On 6 September 1980, the Circustheater in the Netherlands hosted the ‘Nacht van de Balkan’ (NvdB), a concert featuring renowned ensembles from Romania and Hungary. The majority of the invited musicians belong to the Roma ... -
Stella Koudouma 4580869: Narrating Migrant Agency: (Re)Constructing Migrant Subjectivity in Collaborative Refugee Life Writing
(2025)This thesis examines how migrant agency and identity function in collaborative refugee life narratives to observe if they reinforce the figure of the ‘refugee’ or construct an emergent migrant subjectivity. I maintain that ... -
Student- run clinic: effect of a medical masters’ curriculum-embedded student-run clinic on prescribing skills of medical students at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
(2025)Aims: the prevalence of prescribing errors are common, especially among junior doctors. Undergraduate master students acquire few opportunities to prescribe medication during their studies. The implementation of an ... -
Augmenting compliance workflows: AI integration at Avery Dennison
(2025)Avery Dennison is a leading manufacturer of self-adhesive labels. The company relies on its Product Compliance team to ensure that every product meets the latest health, safety, and environmental standards. These regulations ... -
Devising synthetic cell division
(2025)Recent advances in the field of synthetic biology bring synthetic living cells on step closer. The ability to reproduce through division is a crucial element towards this end. Different steps of cell division have been ... -
Investigation of heterochronic bolting in lettuce.
(2025)The premature loss of rosette habit also called “heterochronic bolting” is an undesired trait in lettuce cultivars. As part of the LettuceKnow programme, this research project focuses on the rosette habit of the lettuce ... -
‘I’m Sorry, Could You Please Repeat That?’: A Research on Bilingual Children’s Ability to Process and Repeat Mixed Sentence Repetition (MSR) Tasks
(2025)This study investigates the code-switching behavior of bilingual Turkish-Dutch children, focusing on the distinction between content words and function words during Mixed Sentence Repetition (MSR) tasks. Code-switching, ... -
Fermi arcs in an exactly solvable model for cuprates
(2025)In the search for room-temperature superconductors, understanding the pseudogap phase in strange metals such as cuprates is of vital importance for a possible microscopic description of high-temperature superconductivity ... -
Klimaat drama, klimaatdrammer of klimaat dromer? Hoe ervaren Cuijkse leerlingen klimaatverandering, welke emoties roept dit bij hen op, en welke factoren beïnvloeden hun houding en gedrag?
(2025)Klimaatverandering vormt een van de grootste uitdagingen van deze tijd, met jongeren als een van de meest getroffen groepen. Dit onderzoek richt zich op hoe middelbare scholieren in Cuijk klimaatverandering waarnemen, welke ... -
Optimisation of lentiviral transduction in B-cells: application of protein A/G-driven transduction
(2025)Primary B cells are difficult to transduce with lentiviruses and most methods available are not B cell specific. Therefore, we investigated the application of protein AG (pAG) on the lentiviral particle surface to have an ... -
We are still changelings: Neuro-exoticism, and the hyper-invisibility of Autism
(2025)Through the lens of Autism, this text will propose the existence of and analyse the historical and mechanical parallels between racist exoticism and what I will call neuro-exoticism. A growing body of texts from academia ... -
Constructing a square using similar rectangles
(2025)We work out the proof of a theorem by Freiling and Rinne in detail. This theorem provides a necessary and sufficient condition on the shape of a rectangle, so that a square can be tiled with such similar rectangles. In ... -
The impact of physical exercise on thyroid hormones in cancer patients and other populations
(2025)Cancer treatments often lead to adverse side effects that significantly impact patients' overall health and quality of life. Consequently, minimizing these side effects is a critical component of improving patient care. ... -
Mitigating the cold start issue in Serverless using Reinforcement learning
(2025)Serverless computing is a novel paradigm of cloud computing that allows cloud users to reduce underlying infrastructure down to the ”function” level of an application. Although, the function provides lightweight and efficient ... -
Wayfinding with the Use of Tactile Maps: Egocentric and Allocentric Representations in Navigation
(2025)This study investigates the effects of egocentric and allocentric tactile map representations on navigation tasks, specifically route repetition and retracing. It also explores how perceived navigational ability, assessed ... -
Born of Violence, Trapped in Silence: Assessing the Applicability and Feasibility of Transformative Gender Justice for Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in the 2014 Yezidi Genocide
(2025)This thesis critically examines the applicability and feasibility of Transformative Gender Justice (TGJ) for children born as a result of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) perpetrated by Da’esh (ISIS) during the 2014 ...