Nederland had tijdens het interbellum nog geen adoptiewetgeving, terwijl dit omringende landen wel al wettelijk was geregeld. Deze scriptie onderzoekt waarom Nederland dit pas in 1956 invoerde. De...Show moreNederland had tijdens het interbellum nog geen adoptiewetgeving, terwijl dit omringende landen wel al wettelijk was geregeld. Deze scriptie onderzoekt waarom Nederland dit pas in 1956 invoerde. De aandacht gaat hierbij naar de invloed van christelijk gedachtegoed op de Nederlandse politiek en de visie van de pedagogiek op de kwestie. Ook wordt er een vergelijking met Engeland gemaakt, een land dat wel al gedurende het interbellum adoptiewetgeving invoerde.Show less
The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of dubbing and subtitling on EFL competence in dubbing and subtitling countries in the EU. If significant differences exist in EFL competence...Show moreThe purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of dubbing and subtitling on EFL competence in dubbing and subtitling countries in the EU. If significant differences exist in EFL competence between dubbing and subtitling countries in the EU, this might have implications for dubbing countries, especially in the light of the 2002 Barcelona objective, which states that citizens of the EU should speak two languages in addition to their mother tongue. Since English is the most commonly learned foreign language in the EU, and because the majority of dubbed or subtitled material in the EU is anglophone in origin, this paper asks how dubbing and subtitling affect EFL competence in dubbing and subtitling countries in the EU. To answer this question, secondary data from a number of large-scale EU studies were analyzed. The results of the analysis showed a clear link between subtitling countries and relatively high EFL competence; EFL competence was found to be lower in dubbing countries. However, there were exceptions to this general trend, suggesting that other factors such as quality and quantity of exposure and issues related to formal education also play an important part in determining overall EFL competence.Show less
Research master thesis | Developmental Psychopathology in Education and Child Studies (research) (MSc)
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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by communication deficits. Emotions are part of interpersonal communication and adequate use of emotions are vital for successful...Show moreChildren with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are characterized by communication deficits. Emotions are part of interpersonal communication and adequate use of emotions are vital for successful interaction. To see if children with ASD express emotions to the same extent, we compared 17 children with ASD (age range: 3-6 years) to 33 typically developing children of the same age on both on behavioral emotion expression and on psychophysiological arousal. The behavioral expression and psychophysiological parameters of emotion (heart rate and skin conductance level) were continuously measured during rest and a fear inducing paradigm. The groups did not differ on the intensity of negative or positive emotion expression. The ASD group had lower skin conductance levels during rest compared to the typically developing children and a more pronounced increase in psychophysiological arousal in response to a fear paradigm. To integrate these two separate measures of emotion, the concordance between the behavioral and psychophysiological components was evaluated. Negative emotions were related to heart rate in the ASD group and to skin conductance in the control group, but the strength of the correlation did not differ significantly between the two groups. Considering the health and behavioral risks associated with abnormal levels of emotional arousal, the specific effects of deviant emotional arousal in children with ASD need to be further explored. Targeting psychophysiological levels of arousal in interventions might be an effective approach to ameliorate challenging behavior in children with ASD.Show less
Speaker normalization is a process during speech perception through which the vocal tract variabilities of different speakers are minimized while preserving the phonemic and sociolinguistic...Show moreSpeaker normalization is a process during speech perception through which the vocal tract variabilities of different speakers are minimized while preserving the phonemic and sociolinguistic variation, prior to the recognition of linguistic categories. This study aims at deciphering the underlying mechanisms through which listeners are able to cope with speaker and dialect differences. Using an event-related potential (ERP) oddball experiment, the present study examined whether listeners treat between-speaker variability in vowel acoustics differently than they treat between-dialect variability. In contrast to the results of a previous experiment, results from the present ERP study show a higher mismatch negativity (MMN) for gender variation than for speaker changes indicating that listeners do not normalize gender differences while changes in speaker are more easily normalized.Show less
This thesis will show that Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy critically explore contemporary social concerns in modern-day America, such as the unfair...Show moreThis thesis will show that Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy critically explore contemporary social concerns in modern-day America, such as the unfair distribution of wealth, the potentially corruptive nature of power and the dual nature of identity. The trilogies also question the capability of both totalitarian and democratic political regimes to govern their people fairly. Both authors introduce their young-adult audience to such pressing socio-political topics by presenting them with two different prospective dystopian futures. Both the Hunger Games as well as the Divergent series present protagonists who are young adults themselves – making the storyline easier to relate to – and the novels critically explore socio-political themes specifically tailored for the young readership. Beyond these initial similarities, both trilogies exhibit a different vision regarding not only contemporary America, but its future development as well, giving relevance to their comparison. Whereas the Hunger Games series' social critique is mainly centered around governmental systems, the Divergent series focuses more on the controversy surrounding identity development, commenting on the precarious balance between a character’s free will to develop his or her own identity and an imposed identity constructed from various external social and economic forces.Show less
Research master thesis | Asian Studies (research) (MA)
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The Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province is often seen as the success story of China’s reform policies that were initiated by Hua Guofeng in the late 1970s, and popularised by Deng...Show moreThe Chinese city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province is often seen as the success story of China’s reform policies that were initiated by Hua Guofeng in the late 1970s, and popularised by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. Shenzhen – China’s first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) – is also representative of the ideal of a new, modernized, and economically strong China. The communist ideals of the Maoist era have long been pushed aside to make way for newer ideologies such as ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’, or more recently, Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’. These shifts in ideology have had a significant influence on the identity that the Chinese state wishes to convey to its citizens and beyond. This paper examines how national and regional identities and their subsequent narratives interact or conflict in the permanent exhibition of Shenzhen museum. Furthermore, I will look at how similar exhibition practices (Shenzhen Museum and the National Museum of China) are used to convey a different message. Shenzhen Museum plays an important part in communicating the city’s identity and its position in China as a model city both to the local population and beyond. Shenzhen illustrates that the way we perceive nationalism has to change in an ever-globalising world, where large cities within a nation can play as large a role in defining the nation as the country at large.Show less
Data transfers are done on a global scale and are impervious to man-made geographical borders. Attempts to regulate them may therefore lead to jurisdictional overlaps. This paper focuses on the EU...Show moreData transfers are done on a global scale and are impervious to man-made geographical borders. Attempts to regulate them may therefore lead to jurisdictional overlaps. This paper focuses on the EU using its power to change standards abroad. This is done in light of the Normative Power Europe concept. This concept is a particular perspective on the EU’s international role and its influence on affairs beyond its borders. From this perspective, the EU promotes and spreads its norms to third countries or other external entities. When it comes to privacy and data protection standards, the EU seems to be doing exactly this. This paper is an attempt to anchor EU privacy policy in the broader theoretical context of Normative Power Europe, developing a subset concept: Privacy Power Europe. This entails the construction of a Privacy Power Europe ideal type, having various characteristic features. The paper then continues with an extensive evaluation whether the EU in its current form and actions in fact shows these characteristic features. The question is asked whether the EU is a normative power in the area of privacy and data protection.Show less
It is well known that Thailand’s official historiography paints Burma as their cruel enemy. Even in this era of ASEAN regional integration, where the Socio-Cultural Community’s goal is to create a...Show moreIt is well known that Thailand’s official historiography paints Burma as their cruel enemy. Even in this era of ASEAN regional integration, where the Socio-Cultural Community’s goal is to create a mutually understanding society conscious of its ties of history, investigation into current history textbooks and recent popular representations reveal little to no change. It is argued in this thesis that the Thai-Burmese war episodes have been embedded with a specific set of desirable Thai values, keeping them politically persistent despite the ASEAN talk. However, a look into online communities and the results from the electronic survey conducted for this research show that the ASEAN discourse, nonetheless, is making a positive impact on the society, prompting, among Thai people, more questioning and increased interests in traveling and learning about Burma. This seems to bring about improved, positive attitudes towards Burma, and an increasing contestation towards the Thai official narration.Show less
This thesis develops a theoretical framework for how the concepts of affect and participation might enhance our understanding of bioart – an emerging art movement in which artists engage with tools...Show moreThis thesis develops a theoretical framework for how the concepts of affect and participation might enhance our understanding of bioart – an emerging art movement in which artists engage with tools and materials on offer via biotechnology. Drawing principally on a Deleuzian conceptualization of affect, I first explore how it allows us to understand bioart experiences as an oscillation between a sense of activity and a sense of passivity in which everyone can affect and simultaneously be affected by another body. Secondly, through an engagement with mutaFelch – a bioart performance in which Zaretsky deploys a DIY adaptation of gene gun technology in order to create living paint, I follow Sedgwick’s and Tomkin’s plea to examine affect as a manifold concept, consisting of different and often overflowing gradations (such as disgust, eroticism, and fear) in order to gain insight into the specific visceral mechanisms underlying any interaction between viewer, artist, and artificially constructed life. And yet, even though affect draws attention to a viewer’s involvement in a work, affect does not suggest issues of power that participation – both in theory and in practice – inevitably brings forward. Thus, in order to reflect upon power issues inherent in every participatory practice, I expand my affective reading of bioart by incorporating the concept of participation. I conclude that by incorporating both the intimate realm of bodily experience and a critical, theoretical approach that understands the power structure intrinsic in technology, participation enhances and augments our understanding of biotechnologies.Show less
Het begrip Competentie, dat sterk gerelateerd is aan competentiebeleving, blijkt samen te hangen met executieve functies. (Xuezhao lan et al, 2011; Vestberg et al,2012; Kalaichelvi Ganesalingam et...Show moreHet begrip Competentie, dat sterk gerelateerd is aan competentiebeleving, blijkt samen te hangen met executieve functies. (Xuezhao lan et al, 2011; Vestberg et al,2012; Kalaichelvi Ganesalingam et al, 2011). He huidig onderzoek richt zich op de samenhang tussen competentiebeleving en executieve functies (EF) en de relatie tussen gevoel van eigenwaarde en EF. Gaande dit onderzoek is er geconstateerd dat er bijna geen onderzoek gedaan is naar deze relaties. Het enige onderzoek dat een directe relatie toont tussen competentiebeleving en EF is dat van Hugher en Ensor(2011), waarin een positieve significante samenhang tussen EF en academische competentiebeleving domein werd vastgesteld. De huidige steekproef is uitgevoerd onder een groep basisschoolkinderen in de leeftijd van 8 tot 12 jaar (N=204, M=10, SD=2). Aan de hand van een correlatietoets en vervolgens een regressieanalyse wordt er gekeken of er een samenhang is tussen executieve functies en competentie domeinen schoolvaardigheden, sociale acceptatie, sportieve vaardigheden, fysieke verschijning en gevoel van eigenwaarde. Vervolgens wordt de samenhang tussen gevoel van eigenwaarde en inhibitie, emotie regulatie, initiatief nemen, werkgeheugen, plannen en organiseren, ordelijkheid en netheid en gedragsevaluatie getoetst. Uit de resultaten blijkt dat executieve functies niet gerelateerd is aan de verschillende domeinen van competentiebeleving. Daarnaast is er geen significante correlatie gevonden tussen de verschillende componenten van EF en gevoel van eigenwaarde. Er kan worden geconcludeerd dat EF en competentiebeleving niet aan elkaar gerelateerd zijn bij acht tot twaalf jarigen. Het exploratief onderzoek geeft inzicht in de ontwikkeling van competentiebeleving, dat een belangrijke factor is voor intrinsieke motivatie, en daardoor voor het leren van nieuwe vaardigheden (Lepper, Sethi, Dialdin, Drake, 1996).Show less
A selection from the Dutch edition of Bernhard von Breydenbach's travel journal, in which he describes his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The result is a historical-critical edition.
Koning Jacobus I wilde vlak na zijn aantreden geen onrust in Engeland en besloot een conferentie te organiseren om de puriteinen de gelegenheid te geven hun onvrede en aanbevelingen met betrekking...Show moreKoning Jacobus I wilde vlak na zijn aantreden geen onrust in Engeland en besloot een conferentie te organiseren om de puriteinen de gelegenheid te geven hun onvrede en aanbevelingen met betrekking tot de Kerk van Engeland nader toe te laten lichten. Tijdens de zogeheten Hampton Court Conference in 1604 gingen de koning, afgevaardigden van de Kerk van Engeland en afgevaardigden van de puriteinen met elkaar om tafel zitten. Een van de afgevaardigden van de Kerk van Engeland, William Barlow, heeft uitgebreid verslag gedaan over alles wat tijdens de Hampton Court Conference werd besproken en beslist. Vlak na de Hampton Court Conference publiceerde Francis Bacon zijn belangrijkste religieuze werk. Het werk had de belangstelling van de koning, omdat het voor een groot deel inging op de religieuze kwesties die aan de orde waren gekomen tijdens de Hampton Court Conference en de opvattingen van koning Jacobus I leek te weerspiegelen. De vraag die gesteld kan worden is of Bacon's werk zijn eigen opvattingen over de Kerk van Engeland weerspiegelde of dat het gebaseerd was op de uitspraken van koning Jacobus I tijdens de Hampton Court Conference.Show less
This BA thesis explores the nature of individual human agency in the second season of the television series The Wire. Drawing on Althusserian or Gramscian thought, involving the question of...Show moreThis BA thesis explores the nature of individual human agency in the second season of the television series The Wire. Drawing on Althusserian or Gramscian thought, involving the question of ideology and its limiting effects on human agency, I have argued that the nature of human agency in The Wire is problematic. The characters, especially in the second season, are bound by an ideological discourse. Chapter two has shown that the characters are involved in an ideological discourse of their own and that determines the extent of their individual agency. In addition, and in dialogue with the ideologies that bind the characters, there is the (creators of the) series’ own ideological response to this, both in terms of the plotting and on a more formal level (discussed in chapters three and four respectively).Show less
This thesis aims to chronologically reconstruct the official gold supply of a small province at the frontier of the Roman empire: Germania Inferior. For this purpose a dataset of over 1,250 Roman...Show moreThis thesis aims to chronologically reconstruct the official gold supply of a small province at the frontier of the Roman empire: Germania Inferior. For this purpose a dataset of over 1,250 Roman gold coins were analyzed from the Southern Netherlands, Northeastern Belgium and the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. The result is a detailed overview of the amount of gold that was available thoughout the Roman period.Show less
