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Heart and Soul

Reyes, Stefan Roel

This dissertation investigates the emotion practices of seafarers who traveled through Dutch imperial networks between 1670 and 1800, using two underexploited bodies of archival evidence: (a) the so-called sailing letters: personal correspondence seized by the British during the Third (1672–1674) and Fourth (1781–1784)...

Shedding light on the future of dementia diagnosis

van der Landen, Sophia Maureen

As the global burden of dementia continues to rise, there is a growing need for accessible, scalable, and precise approaches to cognitive and functional assessment in dementia diagnosis and care. Digital cognitive and functional assessments hold promise in this regard, particularly as disease-modifying treatments incre...

Adaptive and maladaptive emotions in patients with cancer

Doppenberg-Smit, Gertrude Elisabeth

Patients with cancer experience a wide range of emotions during or after their treatments. Emotions can help patients with cancer to adapt to the new situation or help by alerting others that they need support. Emotions are essentially adaptive: they help people to cope with the disease. However, sometimes emotions bec...

Comprehensive and responsive child development in India

Chakravarty, Nayan

Improving child development remains a central challenge both at the global level and in countries such as India. Childhood development is a multidimensional and context specific processes shaped by interacting conditions of biological, social, economic, cultural, environmental and institutional conditions. Yet, policy...

Precision Medicine in Prostate Cancer

de Bie, Katelijne Charlotte Christien

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most frequently diagnosed malignancies in men worldwide and demonstrates considerable clinical heterogeneity. While many tumours remain indolent, others progress despite curative-intent treatment. Contemporary PCa management therefore increasingly aims to tailor treatment to individu...

Augmenting Parkinson’s Rehabilitation at Home

Hardeman, Lotte Elise Susan

This thesis focused on the purposeful co-development and early implementation of home-based exergaming therapy with Strolll Rehab, alternated with in-clinic therapy. The therapy targets gait, balance, walking adaptability, and ultimately fall risk. Home-based therapy was asynchronously prescribed and managed by trained...

Contribution to real-time long-range erupting volcanoes monitoring based on infrasound

Matos, Sandro Branquinho de

De acordo com a base de dados do Global Volcanism Program (GVP) da Smithsonian InsAtuAon, existem atualmente 1 281 vulcões potencialmente aAvos e dezenas de milhares de vulcões dormentes no Planeta Terra. É importante destacar que apenas uma pequena parte dos vulcões aAvos e potencialmente aAvos do planeta é monitoriza...

Potential of Co-Feeding Pyrolysis in Arid Regions for Energy Production, Carbon Sequestration, and Soil Amendment

Ahmad, Waqas

Co-pyrolysis can convert mixed organic residues into fuels and soil-conditioning carbon, yet practical guidance on temperatures and blend ratios that satisfy energy, agronomic, and safety requirements remains limited. This thesis established temperature-resolved mono-feed baselines for food waste (FW), sewage sludge (S...

Contribution de la ventilation en mode mixte sur la performance énergétique des bâtiments résidentiels sous un climat méditerranéen: Cas l’Aéro-habitat à Alger

Tellache, Asmaa

Connecting the dots in genital gender-affirming surgery

Roijer, Philippine Johanna