Welcome to the Radboud Educational Repository


Here the Radboud University presents theses written by students affiliated with the various bachelor and master programmes offered at the Radboud University, as well as papers written by students of the Radboud Honours Academy.

Recent Submissions

  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Towards a better understanding of disfluency and lexical diversity behaviour in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and the role of underlying cognitive processes.
    (2024-07-01) Bijnens, Annemarie
    This master’s thesis examines the differences in disfluency and lexical diversity behaviour between children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their typically developing (TD) peers, during a structured storytelling task. Limited evidence exists on ADHD-related disfluency and lexical diversity behaviour in connected speech, although a significant number of patients in this clinical group experience language difficulties at different linguistic levels. Using a retrospective cross-sectional design with data from the Asymmetries TalkBank database, this study aims to capture differences in disfluency production and lexical diversity between children with ADHD, of different subtypes, and TD children. These measures include the frequencies of different disfluency subtypes and lexical diversity measures, and are correlated with performance on a working memory (WM) task and a response inhibition (RI) task. Results indicate that the ADHD group produced a higher mean frequency of each disfluency type, but no differences were found to be significant. Similarly, no significant differences in lexical diversity variables were found between groups. Correlation analysis revealed that filled pauses and revisions were negative
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Similitudes littéraires : Bertrand, Baudelaire et la poésie en prose
    (2024-06-15) Poelgeest, Fleur
    In deze bachelorscriptie heb ik gekeken naar de positie van Charles Baudelaire ten opzichte van Aloysius Bertrand. Het uitgangspunt hiervoor is het voorwoord van Baudelaire in zijn dichtbundel Le Spleen de Paris, waarin hij vertelt geïnspireerd te zijn geweest door de bundel Gaspard de la Nuit van Bertrand. Daaruit valt op te maken dat er tussen de dichtbundels zowel overeenkomsten als verschillen zijn. In het theoretisch kader heb ik een focus gelegd op het genre poésie en prose of poème en prose, prozapoëzie. In hoofdstuk 1 heb ik vervolgens gekeken naar een aantal algemene kenmerken van de vorm waarin en de inhoud waarover Bertrand en Baudelaire schrijven, evenals naar de invulling die beide dichters gaven aan de poésie en prose. Ook heb ik de bundels Le Spleen de Paris en Gaspard de la Nuit verder onder de loep genomen; ten slotte heb ik vier gedichten uit elke bundel geanalyseerd.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Product Innovation in transitions from Engineer to Order to Configure to Order
    (2024-07-11) Visser, Vincent
    Product Innovation is very important for companies to remain competitive in todays competitive capitalistic market. Not being able to adequately innovate could even make that companies become obsolete. Therefore, a effective way of performing Product Innovation should be present within every company. A company that works according to a EtO operating model has a built-in innovation function, in the form of innovative customer requests. In an EtO operating model, products are specifically developed per customer. Fulfilling these innovative customer requests leads to Product Innovation as these requests are typically innovative (Denicol et al., 2020). However, as costs tend to become relatively high as a consequence of developing specific products per customer, companies often look for alternatives. A logical choice is a transition to a CtO operating model. In a CtO operating model, products are modularized and can be combined into end products. These end products are then sold to customers. Transitioning from EtO to CtO has a positive effect on reducing costs, but the Product Innovation as a consequence of fulfilling innovative customer requests disappears. Therefore, if companies still want to perform Product Innovation, Product Innovation should be structured separately. This study analyzes the current literature base on this topic and analyzes companies that are currently transitioning from EtO to CtO on the described issue. This study is conducted in a qualitative inductive manner, as the data is gathered with semi structured interviews and the Product Innovation structures at the companies are derived from the data that is generated by the interviews. The MIOS (Lekkerkerk, 2012) provides structure when describing the companies. More specifically the general innovation process model (Lekkerkerk, 2024) can be used to describe the Product Innovation structures at the companies in more detail. The results of this paper show that the companies did structure a separate Product Innovation structure in their company. However, still a lot of Product Innovation is derived from customer requests in both companies. The transitioning companies, thus, structure their Product Innovation in a hybrid EtO and CtO operating model manner. This hybrid manner of structuring Product Innovation is not yet mentioned in literature, and provides a lot of new research topics, moving forward.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    La tragédie classique au fémininUne étude quantitative et lexicale comparative des tragédies de Catherine Bernard, Jean Racine et Voltaire
    (2024-07-08) Visser, Ida
    La question que nous nous sommes posée, c'est de savoir si les femmes écrivent différemment des hommes et, pour étudier cela, nous avons examiné de près les deux tragédies de la dramaturge Catherine Bernard: 'Laodamie' (1689) et 'Brutus' (1690). Nous avons utilisé comme méthode une « distant reading » pour réaliser une analyse quantitative et lexicale, mais nous avons également eu recours à une lecture approfondie de certains éléments clés pour compléter et expliquer nos résultats. La comparaison entre les tragédies de Catherine Bernard et celles des auteurs masculins Jean Racine et Voltaire a démontré que Bernard a donné plus de poids à ses personnages féminins, surtout dans sa 'Laodamie'. Elle emploie également des termes qui sont liés aux sentiments et à l'amour plus souvent que Racine et bien plus souvent que Voltaire. Cette importance accordée à l'amour est une spécificité de l'œuvre de Bernard.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Altérité et aliénation : le regard français sur l’Italie du XIXe siècle dans le Voyage pittoresque en Italie et en Sicile de Paul de Musset
    (2024-06-15) Sierink, Ger
    Dans le Voyage pittoresque en Italie et en Sicile (1855), Paul de Musset emmène le lecteur sur un voyage en Italie. On peut déduire l'image qu'il a de son pays d'origine (la France) et son pays de destination (l'Italie) à partir de ses descriptions. Ces auto-images et hétéro-images sont interdépendantes, ce qui amplifie les caractéristiques positives bien que négatives. Dans ce mémoire de fin d'études, la relation entre les images créées de la France et de l'Italie, et leur construction textuelle, dans le Voyage pittoresque sera analysée. La relation entre auto-images et hétéro-images se manifeste en trois catégories: une auto-image positive et une hétéro-image négative, l’inverse, et une comparaison sur un pied d'égalité. Cette sous-division dépend de la thématique abordée par De Musset : s'il s'agit de la politique ou les mœurs, l'auto-image l'emporte ; mais culturellement, les Italiens sont, dans les yeux de Paul de Musset, les vainqueurs incontestés.
Show more

Communities in Radboud Educational Repository

Select a community to browse its collections.