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Here, Radboud University presents theses written by students affiliated with various bachelor’s and master’s programmes at the university, as well as papers from students of the Radboud Honours Academy and publications in the Radboud journal Ex Tempore.
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Item Value-based healthcare: a new dawn in colorectal cancer treatment(2025-06-23)The Dutch healthcare is under increasing financial pressure due to an aging population. One of the most common diseases under the elderly, and with one of the highest yearly hospital costs, is colorectal cancer. This study aims to investigate whether Dutch hospital decision-makers should opt for the traditional fee-for-service model or the bundled payment model from the value-based healthcare framework in colorectal cancer treatment. A Markov model, grounded in Expected Utility Theory, was made to simulate the disease progression of CRC patients between 55-75 years old. This model showed that the bundled payment model is cost-effective, and cost-saving compared to the fee-for-service model with a difference in cost per patient per year of €387.42, a difference in quality adjusted life-year of 1.19 and an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of €-3,905.43, all favouring the bundled payment model. However, this analysis is not enough to make a decision on for hospitals as other factors such as attitudes towards financial risk, market dynamics, and institutional utilities also play a role in the decision-making. Future research should be expanded to include these other factors, and hospital decision-makers and policymakers should further prepare hospitals to move towards more value-based healthcare.Item Neurodiversity on Screen: The Representation Of Autism On Modern-Day Television(2023-09-03)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the way contemporary television frames Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This will be done by analyzing three television shows from the past ten years that focused on main characters with ASD: The Good Doctor, Atypical, and As We See It. This thesis will analyze how their disorder is framed during general social interaction, in the workplace, and during the development of romantic relationships. The goal is to explain how autism is framed and represented on television. Subsequently, it will also aim to point out, where applicable, which parts of the disorder are underrepresented, providing further thought as to how to characterize these facets in the future.Item How do (combinations of) factors contribute to business recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake?(2025-06-18)This research has looked at the Great East Japan earthquake and what led to businesses recovering. In the theoretical background, five factors were found to have a positive contribution to business recovery. These five factors are being part of the Construction and manufacturing sector, being Part of a franchise, having a Low disaster impact, having a Big business size, and having Good pre-disaster financial conditions. The QCA method is applied in six steps like calibrating the fuzzy scores into crisp ones, Necessity analyses, making a Truth table, Sufficiency analyses, and a Robustness test. Eventually, three solutions have been found. The first solution is that companies with not good pre-disaster financial conditions are more prone to recover after the earthquake. Secondly, companies that are part of the construction and manufacturing sector and have a high disaster impact, have a higher chance to recover. Lastly, companies which are part of the construction and manufacturing sector and have a big business size, are more likely to recover. In the discussion, the solutions are reviewed by comparing them to the expectations and existing literature. Afterwards, the theoretical and practical implications as well as the limitations and suggestions for future research are discussed.Item I’m gonna raise my Voice and Roar: A Feminist Analysis of Six and &Juliet(2024-06-15)This thesis looks at two musical adaptations, Six and &Juliet, in terms of modernisation and feminism. It investigates the different ways in which both adaptations have been adjusted to modern-day audiences, and what this results in. Additionally, it joins the discussion on whether either of these shows are feminist. It answers the question on whether Six and &Juliet are feminist, and how this was achieved. It does so by comparing and contrasting both adaptations, as well as using secondary sources on adaptation theory and feminist theory. These sources are applied to all the various aspects of musical theatre, as the only way to properly analyse musical theatre is to cover the entire scope of the medium. The analysis shows that through modernising the adaptations, they resonate more with a wider, and modern-day audience. Furthermore, both adaptations are feminist in every sense of the word, as they give the female characters full agency. More detailed research should be done on the songs and individual characters in Six and &Juliet, as well as research on musical adaptations in general.Item Dystopia, Posthumanism and Metamodern Attitudes of Hope in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go(2024-06-15)This thesis examines how dystopian and posthuman concerns are reflected in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go while exploring whether these concerns relate to the metamodern structure of feeling. It first discusses previous scholarly research on the core themes in dystopian literature and posthumanism. Additionally, posthumanism is greatly intertwined with dystopian literature since it focuses on the technological advancements that contest the boundaries between humans and technology. Lastly, this thesis examines the new cultural paradigm of metamodernism, showing what characterises metamodern mood, its relevance in a socio-historical context and how it is related to modernism and postmodernism. It then uses these discussions to analyse Ishiguro’s novels.
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