UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Quantifying Gully Erosion Dynamics in Southern France: A Remote Sensing Approach
(2025)Gully erosion is a major driver of landscape evolution in semi-arid regions, which impacts land use and environmental stability (Vanmaercke et al., 2021). They create deep channels in the landscape and significantly impact ... -
Use it or Lose it: A Kotlin Static Analysis for Identifying Unused Values
(2025)Unused values found in source code may be a source of potential bugs. This is especially true for some types of values that must be eventually used by a certain set of functions. For example, an asynchronous call must be ... -
Reimagining work
(2025)Organizations are shifting from a job-based to a task-based organizational structure (Chalutz-Ben Gal, 2023). This increased task focus requires assessing who would be fit for a task directly by utilizing person-skill fit ... -
Plant perception of Herbivore- and Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns and its role in defense against insects
(2025)Plants can interact with herbivores through complex signaling pathways involving the perception of herbivore-associated molecular patterns (HAMPs) and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) by pattern recognition ... -
Risico- en beschermende factoren voor het niet afronden van een leerstraf bij jonge delinquenten
(2025)In the current existing literature several risk and protective factors have already been identified to be associated with the criminal behavior of youngsters. A study into the risk and protective factors that are associated ... -
Environmentally Sustainable Practices in Healthcare: Exploring Physicians’ Roles and Ethical Responsibilities
(2025)The environmental impact of the healthcare sector is increasingly receiving attention, thus raising questions regarding the role of healthcare systems in sustainable transition. This thesis focuses on the role of physicians, ... -
Another (Art) World is Possible: Nieuwe Vide as a Case Study on the Engagement with Activism in Dutch Presentation Institutions
(2025)This MA thesis explores the engagement with and integration of activism in Dutch art institutions. Specifically, it examines activism in Dutch non-collecting non-profit contemporary art spaces, also known as presentation ... -
Werkstraffen bij adolescenten: Dragen de bereidheid te voldoen aan de werkstraf en ouderlijk toezicht bij aan een succesvolle afronding?
(2025)To answer the research question “Do the adolescent's willingness to comply with community service and parental supervision contribute to a successful completion of community service among adolescents?”, data from the ... -
Reporting and handling of unrecorded values in automatically textextracted study variables from electronic health records in epidemiological studies: A Literature Review
(2025)Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) provide valuable patient data for research and natural language processing (NLP) helps convert this unstructured data into analyzable formats, though the issue of unrecorded ... -
Trauma-informed Care in de praktijk: impact op onvrijwillige zorg binnen de residentiële jeugdhulpverlening
(2025)De toenemende maatschappelijke urgentie om kwetsbare jongeren binnen de jeugdzorg effectiever te ondersteunen benadrukt de noodzaak voor nieuwe behandelmethoden. Dit onderzoek richt zich op Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) en ... -
Het Verband tussen Depressieve Symptomen en het Plegen van Ongewenste Sexting bij Jeugdigen: Een Meta-Analyse (The Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Non-Consensual Sexting Perpetration in Youth: A Meta-Analysis)
(2025)Background: Different forms of cyber youth crime have specific explanatory factors, but not all forms of cybercrime have received the same level of attention in the literature, such as non-consensual sexting. In addition, ... -
Stem cell-derived β-cells in diabetes: The role of transplant sites in controlling off-target cell growth.
(2025)Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results destruction of pancreatic β-cells by the immune system, leading to chronic hyperglycaemia and reliance on insulin therapy. Current treatments, including insulin replacement, islet transplantation, ... -
"Medewerkersperspectieven op huisdieren op de werkplek: Een Onderzoek bij de Faculteit Diergeneeskunde, Universiteit Utrecht"
(2025)This research investigates employee attitudes at Utrecht University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine towards workplace pets, particularly focusing on dogs. The literature review underscores positive impacts like enhanced ... -
Ubiquitinated proteome analysis by mass spectrometry. Effect of R505C mutation in FBXW7 E3 ligase on protein ubiquitination.
(2025)Ubiquitination is a reversible post-translational modification that governs many critical processes in eukaryotes. In turn, defects in the ubiquitin system can lead to various diseases. Targeted strategies to correct ... -
Impact of hydroclimatic extreme events on nutrient concentrations in the Rhine and Meuse Rivers in the Netherlands.
(2025)Poor surface water quality threatens human water use and ecosystem health. Climate change and the associated higher frequency of hydroclimatic extreme events will further impact water quality. Although the effects of ... -
Information-Guided 3D Gaussian Splatting
(2025)This thesis presents an intrinsically informed segmentation method using clustering for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes to reconstruct solely the object of interest (OOI). We developed a pipeline that leverages the ... -
Multi-Haptic Feedback Texture Simulation and its Influence on the 'Sense of Presence' in Virtual Environments
(2025)The value and applicability of virtual reality (VR) experiences increases with the user’s ‘sense of presence’. A crucial tool to achieve high levels of ‘presence’ is haptic feedback. This study builds on state-of-the-art ...