This thesis delves into the concept of the queer 'Other' in Gothic literature, using Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' as...Show moreThis thesis delves into the concept of the queer 'Other' in Gothic literature, using Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' as examples to analyse the discourse surrounding the figure of the queer Other in nineteenth-century society. Key concepts are the (sexually) queer monster and queer(ing) space and social constructs.Show less
This MA thesis is a research into the origins, structure and patronage of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. In this MA thesis, five terms are being...Show moreThis MA thesis is a research into the origins, structure and patronage of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in Eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. In this MA thesis, five terms are being researched to see whether or not they are applicable to the People's Republics in the Donbas. These terms are puppet state, protectorate, client state, associated state and vassal state. The conclusion of this MA thesis is that the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic can be considered both Russian puppet states as well as Russian protectorates.Show less
The Arctic is often perceived to be a vast empty space, the world’s inhospitable and politically unimportant hinterland. Increasingly at the forefront of the global climate change precipice, the...Show moreThe Arctic is often perceived to be a vast empty space, the world’s inhospitable and politically unimportant hinterland. Increasingly at the forefront of the global climate change precipice, the attention the Arctic receives predominantly reflects a passive region that serves as a dire warning of the environmental degradation to come. In reality however, the Arctic is home to over 500,000 indigenous peoples whose heritages reflect thousands of years of subsistence living and adaption to the region’s environment. The political agency of indigenous peoples in the Arctic is integral to the innovative and collaborative space. As a result, indigenous knowledge is an important component for understanding Arctic international relations and developments. However, the narrow framework of mainstream International Relations is unequipped to sufficiently address this reality. This thesis asks: How do Arctic indigenous peoples’ knowledge and perspectives pose a challenge to prevailing International Relations assumptions? With a focus on the challenges and new perspectives that indigenous knowledge offers to the assumptions of state-centrism, agency, cooperation, territoriality, sovereignty and modernity, this thesis endeavours to include indigenous views in a more inclusive and globally representative International Relations. Is it sufficient to analyse the indigenous political role in environmental protection and sustainable development as one of a non-state influence, pressuring states to make environmentally conscious decisions in their policies? Are indigenous political and social arrangements in the Arctic merely an anomaly formation of significant authority within the regular framework of state interactions? This thesis argues that the variety of indigenous beliefs, worldviews, and knowledge provide more discerning and apt frameworks for International Relations theory to understand indigenous peoples’ involvement in Arctic politics.Show less
La dictadura militar dirigida por Augusto Pinochet es indudablemente el período histórico que ha generado y que sigue generando la mayor controversia en la sociedad chilena. A través de la memoria...Show moreLa dictadura militar dirigida por Augusto Pinochet es indudablemente el período histórico que ha generado y que sigue generando la mayor controversia en la sociedad chilena. A través de la memoria colectiva el país puede enfrentar las atrocidades de su pasado y reconocer su historia. Para influir sobre esta historia de la sociedad chilena es fundamental tener una política de memoria por parte del Estado. Las políticas de memoria elaboran el pasado común que sirve de fondo de experiencia, que gestiona el presente y que decide el futuro.Show less
Orthodox accounts of the British Labour governments in power between 1945 and 1951 are mistaken in presenting the government’s management of the sterling crises as having been apolitical and...Show moreOrthodox accounts of the British Labour governments in power between 1945 and 1951 are mistaken in presenting the government’s management of the sterling crises as having been apolitical and pragmatic. This thesis compares the effects of Britain’s sterling area policies on Britain and the British Empire more widely, in order to evaluate the consequences of their domestic social democratic reforms and the reconstruction of the wider British economy beyond the British experience. Contra orthodox historians of the period, the Attlee governments’ economic policy was deeply political in its design, implementation and consequences, subordinating the needs of colonial peoples to those of Britain in both design and practice. The British government relied on political control over the sterling area to obtain finance from the colonies at non-market rates. Without these loans, the Attlee governments may have had to have cut domestic expenditure or make greater political concessions to the USA in return for more American aid. Policies were implemented to mobilise colonial resources whose export would have a positive effect on the balance of payments crises. Although in some colonies this export drive laid the groundwork for economic development, in colonies where development projects were poorly implemented, particularly in West Africa, the benefits were not mutual. Furthermore, the Attlee governments effectively “outsourced” austerity to the colonies, resulting in shortages of goods and capital drain. This was achieved through their political control over the terms of trade in the sterling area. The negative effects of their policies on colonial living standards were known and contested, and ran counter to the Labour Party’s espoused socialist principles. However, ideological beliefs about race and the role of Britain in the world order may have influenced government decisions to protect British people at the expense of dependent colonies, and the Empire’s undemocratic political structure permitted it. That austerity measures in the colonies bear the hallmarks of measures for economic discipline traditionally employed in the 1920s and 1930s suggests that Attlee’s brand of social democracy did not transform the nature of capitalism to the extent that it may have appeared from a British perspective.Show less
Deze masterscriptie is geschreven tijdens de master Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media aan de Universiteit Leiden in opdracht van Omroep West. De effecten van constructieve journalistiek op de...Show moreDeze masterscriptie is geschreven tijdens de master Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media aan de Universiteit Leiden in opdracht van Omroep West. De effecten van constructieve journalistiek op de waardering van de nieuwsvoorziening van Omroep West staan hierbij centraal. Door middel van kwantitatief onderzoek wordt antwoord gegeven op de onderzoeksvraag: ‘Welk effect heeft de overgang naar constructieve journalistiek op de perceptie van het publiek van Omroep West?’. Voordat de stroming van constructieve journalistiek werd opgenomen in het beleid van Omroep West is er een survey verspreid onder het publiek van de omroep. Bijna 500 respondenten hebben deze survey ingevuld die in 2017 is verspreid. Na een periode van meer dan een jaar is dezelfde survey wederom verspreid onder de respondenten (N= 116). Na het analyseren van de verkregen data van de surveys in SPSS wijst dit onderzoek uit welk effect de overgang naar constructieve journalistiek op het publiek van Omroep West heeft gehad. Constructieve journalistiek kan een mogelijke verfrissing zijn tussen de bestaande negatieve berichtgeving en een bijdrage leveren om het ‘news gap’ te verkleinen. Deze nieuwe vorm van journalistiek draait om oplossingsgerichtheid en het bieden van context. De theorie over constructieve journalistiek toont aan dat een juiste toepassing van de elementen van deze stroming een positief effect heeft op nieuwsconsumenten. Dit onderzoek toont aan dat, in tegenstelling tot de theorie, de overgang naar constructieve journalistiek geen positief effect heeft gehad op de perceptie van de berichtgeving door het publiek van Omroep West. Hier zijn een aantal mogelijke oorzaken voor. Bijvoorbeeld dat constructieve journalistiek in te kleine mate is toegepast op de berichtgeving om waarneembaar en/of doorslaggevend te zijn bij de waardering van de stellingen door het publiek. Daarnaast kan het ook onvolledig zijn toegepast of merken de respondenten de veranderingen die teweeg zijn gebracht door constructieve journalistiek niet genoeg op. Eventueel vervolgonderzoek kan wenselijk zijn om verdere verduidelijking te krijgen over de invloed van deze mogelijke oorzaken.Show less
Kort voor de Japanse inval in Nederlands-Indië (1942) werd een groep van 146 geïnterneerde Indische NSB'ers, de onverzoenlijken, naar Suriname verscheept. Meer dan een jaar na het einde van de...Show moreKort voor de Japanse inval in Nederlands-Indië (1942) werd een groep van 146 geïnterneerde Indische NSB'ers, de onverzoenlijken, naar Suriname verscheept. Meer dan een jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden zij vervolgens naar Nederland gebracht waar zij probeerden gerehabiliteerd te worden. In deze scriptie is getracht de beleidslijn ten aanzien van deze groep - de Surinamegroep - te reconstrueren.Show less
This thesis focuses on the role of the Indonesian propagandist Sutomo (or Bung Tomo) during the Indonesian revolution in Surabaya, 1945, questioning the Dutch and Indonesian different perspectives...Show moreThis thesis focuses on the role of the Indonesian propagandist Sutomo (or Bung Tomo) during the Indonesian revolution in Surabaya, 1945, questioning the Dutch and Indonesian different perspectives and memory. Nowadays in Indonesia Sutomo is remembered as a hero, yet in the Dutch historiography he is often portrayed as a war criminal, responsible for inciting the masses to kill Dutch, Eurasians and other minorities. One Dutch testimony in particular holds him accountable for the brutal massacre in the Simpang Club. This case-study analyses the different views on Indonesian anti-colonial violence during the so-called "Bersiap-period" and how Bung Tomo became the personification of these brutalities for the Dutch memory in particular. How does the latter relate to the Indonesian positive memory of him? As such, the topic of this thesis also relates to the growing academic attention to the Bersiap, in which terminology (should we call it a genocide) and the possible trigger (why did it happen) are the main topics of discussion. The first section provides a brief historical outline from the pre-war colonial situation to the Japanese occupation and finally the capitulation on August 15th, 1945. To give a clear understanding of the variety of social and political factors that led to the violent outburst of the Bersiap. The second section traces the basic history of Sutomo and his place in Surabaya and the first two months of the revolution in September and October 1945. This includes an analysis of the horrible events inside the Simpang Club. The third section pays attention to the period after he established his organization BPRI, when he became internationally known as radio-maker, actively countering Dutch propaganda. This section aims to explore the possibility of a Dutch slander campaign against him and the subsequent impact of that on the later historiography and memory. The conclusion returns to the main question on how to make sense of the conflicting memories of Bung Tomo. The conclusion also touches upon the larger question regarding the responsibility for the Bersiap and whether the term genocide is appropriate in this case.Show less
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Over the last few decades, several methods have been explored and applied to circumvent the Abbe-Rayleigh diffraction limit, probably most importantly, stochastic super-resolution fluorescence...Show moreOver the last few decades, several methods have been explored and applied to circumvent the Abbe-Rayleigh diffraction limit, probably most importantly, stochastic super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods. Another possibility, relying only on linear classical optics, is to exploit optical superoscillations, and is far less explored to date. In this project we explore the use of optical vortices for super-resolution far-field imaging. For this, we investigate strongly focused optical fields using a number of theoretical methods, we implement an experiment where a micro-pinhole is scanned through the focus, and, explore spin-orbit interactions of strongly focused optical fields. We find that our micron-sized pinhole is able to discern structures much smaller than its own size and leads to an enhancement of the spin-orbit interaction. Our method can be implemented as a simple and fast tool for characterizing the intensity distribution of a focused field with high resolution.Show less
We characterized an alternatively designed, low-cost “electron bombarding based” silicon L-shell radiation source, to be applied for metrology in the Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography process. The...Show moreWe characterized an alternatively designed, low-cost “electron bombarding based” silicon L-shell radiation source, to be applied for metrology in the Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography process. The design of the source enables adjustable focusing of the electrons on the target. A transmission grating spectrometer as well as a silicon drift detector were used to determine the radiation spectrum. In our electron-based source, we found that the maximum source power input was 80 W. Experiments with the grating spectrometer showed that for electrons with an energy of 5 kV, the source produced a power of 2 * 10^(-6) W/sr and the conversion efficiency amounts to 8 * 10^(-8)/sr for radiation around 13.5 nm. Regarding spectrum detection, the sensitivity of the silicon drift detector appeared too low to measure the silicon L peak. A decreased signal of silicon L-shell radiation was observed associated with the growing of carbon K peak.Show less
In this research, we aim to achieve sub-mK effective electron measurements to better analyze effects that occur at these very low temperatures. We do this by using a Faraday cage, through which we...Show moreIn this research, we aim to achieve sub-mK effective electron measurements to better analyze effects that occur at these very low temperatures. We do this by using a Faraday cage, through which we send a signal using sets of inductors. In order to test this, we define an effective frequency range for our signal by analyzing the theoretical electrical side effects that occur in our system. We perform multiple room temperature tests on our system within the defined frequency range, and work towards testing the effectiveness of our system at millikelvin temperatures as well.Show less
Master thesis | Statistical Science for the Life and Behavioural Sciences (MSc)
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Currently, platelet transfusion is the main treatment for patients with thrombocytopenia due to haematological malignancy and intensive chemotherapy. When the platelet count is low, transfusion is...Show moreCurrently, platelet transfusion is the main treatment for patients with thrombocytopenia due to haematological malignancy and intensive chemotherapy. When the platelet count is low, transfusion is given to prevent bleedings. However, the platelet count is not the only determinant of bleeding (Ypma et al., 2019). Other biomarkers might additionally or even better predict bleeding such as the albumincreatinine ratio measured in urine. This thesis project will determine the predictive value of these new biomarkers where we would like to predict the ”untreated risk” of bleeding: the risk of bleeding if patients would not receive a transfusion. We used a real dataset that contains 88 patients with 116 thrombocytopenic episodes in which patients’ platelet counts are low and they may develop a bleeding. A problem is that the patients who received transfusions cause diculty in predicting the “untreated risk”. Another problem is that transfusions were given partly based on the platelet counts, which makes the e↵ect of transfusion on bleeding confounded by platelet count. We considered two situations. One was to predict the bleeding during the day based on the platelet count that was measured in the morning (the one-day situation). The two-day situation was to predict bleeding in the next two days, but before the second day-night based on the platelet count that was measured on the first day morning. In the first part of this thesis, we structured the relationship between biomarkers, transfusions and bleeding by expressing them in causal diagrams. Using the causal diagrams, we found the reason why the conventional models failed to predict untreated risk in the two-day situation. We found that the marginal structural model might be a solution. In the second part, we set up a simulation to verify whether the marginal structural model or conventional regression models can handle the confounding in the one-day situation and the time-dependent confounding in the two-day situation. Based on our simulation studies, we concluded that for the one-day situation the regression model including treatment and predictor was well equipped, while in the two-day situation the marginal structure model is recommended to estimate the “untreated” risk. In the third part, we applied the models to the dataset. We found that in the one-day situation urine albumin/creatinine ratio and the platelet count have potential predictive value for predicting same day bleeding, while, for the two-day situation, only the urine albumin/creatinine ratio was significantly associated with the risk of bleeding in all models. Additionally, there was not a clear e↵ect of transfusion detected in the one-day situation and two-day situation.Show less
