Bachelor thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)
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Heeft de kerk invloed op wat er in de politiek gebeurt? In de Filippijnen had de katholieke kerk in de People Power revoluties van 1986 en 2001, een bijdragen in het herstel van democratie. De kerk...Show moreHeeft de kerk invloed op wat er in de politiek gebeurt? In de Filippijnen had de katholieke kerk in de People Power revoluties van 1986 en 2001, een bijdragen in het herstel van democratie. De kerk wist de bevolking te mobiliseren. Door middel van niet gewelddadig protest wisten zij twee presidenten af te zetten. Wat deed de katholieke kerk precies in deze revoluties en waarom slaagde zij erin om democratie te herstellen?Show less
Bachelor thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)
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In deze scriptie wordt gekeken naar verklaringen voor het economisch succes van Chinezen, en de mate waarin opvattingen en praktijken omtrent familie hierin bepalend zijn.
Bachelor thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)
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Een antropologische bespreking van de nationale strategieën voor de integratie van Roma van Nederland, Frankrijk, Roemenië en Bulgarije. Met gebruikmaking van de concepten integratie, burgerschap...Show moreEen antropologische bespreking van de nationale strategieën voor de integratie van Roma van Nederland, Frankrijk, Roemenië en Bulgarije. Met gebruikmaking van de concepten integratie, burgerschap en intraculturele diversiteit worden de beleidsdocumenten geanalyseerd.Show less
In this thesis we will consider waves in excitable media. These waves can be found in different biological settings, from signalling in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to cardiac fibrillation...Show moreIn this thesis we will consider waves in excitable media. These waves can be found in different biological settings, from signalling in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to cardiac fibrillation and spiral galaxies. Depending on the number of spatial dimensions, the waves can be of different types. In one spatial dimension travelling waves and travelling pulses occur. The existence and uniqueness of such waves will be proven. It follows that there there is a unique velocity, depending on the level of a so-called controller species, for which there exists a corresponding travelling wave. In two spatial dimensions the spiral waves will be considered. It follows that the normal velocity of a spiral wave front is not only determined by the level of controller species in the front, but also by the curvature of the front.Show less
Bachelor thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (BSc)
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De overheden van Oezbekistan en Tadzjikistan maken veelvuldig gebruik van cultureel erfgoed bij het ontwikkelen van een nationale identiteit en het creëren van nationalisme onder de bevolking....Show moreDe overheden van Oezbekistan en Tadzjikistan maken veelvuldig gebruik van cultureel erfgoed bij het ontwikkelen van een nationale identiteit en het creëren van nationalisme onder de bevolking. Hierbij zijn met name verwijzingen naar mythische helden en een glorieus verleden van belang.Show less
This thesis is concerned with an object called ’arithmetic codex’ which has been introduced recently in [6], and generalizes a number of notions which have been used both in cryptography (in the...Show moreThis thesis is concerned with an object called ’arithmetic codex’ which has been introduced recently in [6], and generalizes a number of notions which have been used both in cryptography (in the areas of secret sharing and multiparty computation) and algebraic complexity theory. The field of secure multi-party computation is concerned with finding protocols that offer the possibility to compute a function in several variables by a number of parties. The extra requirement for these protocols is that all the players have an input for the function of which they do not want others to find out the value. A common example is that of two millionaires that want to determine who of them is the richest without having to reveal the value of their assets [14]. Secret sharing schemes were introduced by Shamir [12] and Blakley [4]. They later turned out to provide an important building block for many multiparty computation protocols, especially when we want to achieve information-theoretic security, i.e., security which holds regardless of the computational power of the adversary. The fundamental results in this area were given by Ben-Or, Goldwasser and Wigderson [3] and, independently, Chaum, Cr´epeau and Damgaard [8]. They both use Shamir’s secret sharing scheme in which certain multiplicative properties are essential. Cramer Damgaard and Maurer [9] captured these algebraic properties in the notion of multiplicative and strongly multiplicative secret sharing schemes. Both notions are encompassed by the concept of arithmetic codex. On the other hand, the codex also has use in the field of algebraic complexity theory, that analyses the amount of operations one needs to perform algebraic calculations. Namely, the notion of codex encompasses that of symmetric bilinear multiplication algorithm [5]. In this thesis, we first introduce the notion of codex and provide some basic theory. Then we study the conditions under which these objects exist by establishing several bounds on its parameters. We consider first a fruitful approach to finding bounds on some of the integer parameters, based on the relation of codices with coding theory. This approach however does not exploit the multiplicative nature of codices and so we turn to a strategy that depends on the algebra attached to a codex. We can compare the latter bounds with several results known in algebraic complexity. In particular, Fiduccia and Zalcstein and later Adler and Strassen established some results on the multiplicative complexity of algebras. These, in turn, imply as a special case bounds on certain codices. The results in this thesis allow to find alternative and comparatively simple proofs for the same codex bounds in some cases. Furthermore the arguments can be generalized to find bounds on codices which are not direct consequences of the results in [1] and [10].Show less
Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
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In voormalig Somalië is het percentage besneden vrouwen het hoogste van de wereld. Door verschillende partijen, zoals NGO’s, regeringen en individuen, wordt vrouwenbesnijdenis aan de orde gesteld...Show moreIn voormalig Somalië is het percentage besneden vrouwen het hoogste van de wereld. Door verschillende partijen, zoals NGO’s, regeringen en individuen, wordt vrouwenbesnijdenis aan de orde gesteld als zijnde onderdrukkend voor de vrouw. Deze scriptie beschrijft welke samenhang er bestaat tussen de mate van succes van anti-vrouwenbesnijdenis bewegingen, de gekozen benadering en de manier waarop vrouwenbesnijdenis is ingebed in het sociale en culturele leven in voormalig Somalië.Show less
Master thesis | Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
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This study shows that Afrikaans speaking South African immigrants living in the Netherlands create a sense of home and belonging through a variety of products, activities and networks. They do this...Show moreThis study shows that Afrikaans speaking South African immigrants living in the Netherlands create a sense of home and belonging through a variety of products, activities and networks. They do this within the institutional framework, consisting of rules, regulations and constraints of the Netherlands. Like the respondent who smuggles in Grandpa powder, a headache powder used in South Africa, although EU regulations do not allow this. Blockages thus also exist after one has migrated, and are not only of influence during the process of migration from one place to another. Within the institutional framework of the Netherlands, Afrikaans speaking South Africans have found several ways to make use of products, activities and networks in their efforts to feel at ease.Show less
