Agenda
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Orchestrating the Internet of Things with Task-Oriented Programming
The development of reliable software for the internet of things (IoT) is difficult because IoT systems are dynamic, interactive, distributed, collaborative, multi- tiered, and multitasking in nature.
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When DNA doubles up: Exploring the role of DNA duplications in evolution
Genomic duplications are a type of mutation where genetic material is doubled within the genome of an organism, and they can be classified depending on their size and their original function.
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Creative thinking in mathematics education
Worldwide, there is a growing focus on creativity in education, driven by the understanding that creative thinking and learning are closely linked. This is also important when teaching arithmetic and maths.
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Borges is here to stay.
The Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has played a significant role in Dutch literature. This PhD thesis maps the significance of Borges' work for the literary works and poetics of Doeschka Meijsing, Frans Kellendonk, and Willem Jan Otten.
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Convolutional Neural Networks for Spectroscopic Data Analysis
In this thesis, we described spectroscopic data and analyzed them with deep learning inspired methodologies. The goal was to design artificial neural network-based methodologies capable of dealing with known challenges of the analysis of spectroscopic data.
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A blood test to monitor minimal residual disease in patients with Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Myeloma is a common and incurable type of blood cancer. Improved treatment strategies have led to a large part of patients where the number of tumor cells is strongly reduced.
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The use of surface scanning in radiation therapy
Radiation therapy is the treatment of cancer using therapeutic doses of ionizing radiation. Accurate radiation therapy delivery requires a reproducible patient setup.
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Towards a better understanding of how motor response training influences food evaluation
By changing their dietary choices, people can make some contribution to improve their physical health or reduce their impact on the environment.
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Limits of criminal law in the pre-harm phase
In recent decades, Dutch legislators have increasingly criminalised behaviour that does not yet in itself cause harm or injury, but mainly creates danger.
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Secondary school teachers' instructional adaptations: Perceiving and addressing students' various learner characteristics in daily practice
Teachers are expected to respond to differences between students within a class by tailoring their didactics to these differences. These instructional adaptations are assumed to lead to better facilitation of student learning.
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As boorish as a Dutchman and as wild as a Pole? How Polish and Dutch people perceived and conceptualised each other in the seventeenth century
Just as now, the Netherlands and Poland maintained close contacts in a wide range of areas as early as the seventeenth century: from trade and diplomacy to religion and science. At the same time, Polish and Dutch people developed different ideas about each other.
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Prevention and management of kidney graft failure
Immunosuppressive drugs are needed to prevent acute rejection after kidney transplantation. Tacrolimus is an important drugs. The first part of this thesis includes the optimization of tacrolimus treatment.
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A more personalized treatment strategy for cancer patients by cancer markers in blood tests.
A personalized treatment strategy is not yet possible for all cancer patients. In this thesis, cancer markers in blood were studied to help select and monitor therapy to refine cancer treatment per patient.
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Sentinel lymph node mapping in low- and intermediate-risk endometrial cancer
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer, with 2200 new patients in 2022 in the Netherlands.