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Proteins in harmony: Tuning selectivity in early drug discovery
This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.
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The victims
The Second World War took the lives of at least 663 students, staff and alumni of Leiden University. They were killed in raids, deported to concentration camps or, out of desperation, took their own lives.
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Reception Old Observatory
Old Observatory, Sterrenwachtlaan 11, 2311 GW, Leiden
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Micro-Blogging and Media Policy in China
Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.
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What's New
What's New is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.
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The conflict of the faculties : perspectives on artistic research and academia
This dissertation addresses the position of artistic research within academia.
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LIACS Media Lab (LML)
The goal of the LIACS Media Lab (LML) at Leiden University is to conduct state-of-the-art research in the areas of deep learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision.
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Politics of the Digital
Political and social implications of life in a digital age.
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Torsion points on elliptic curves over number fields of small degree
Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven Co-promotor: L. van Geemen, P. Parent
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Lattice models for Josephson junctions and graphene superlattices
In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.
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G-zips and Ekedahl-Oort strata for Hodge type Shimura varieties
Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, F. Andreatta
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Guts and Brains
An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record
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Exploring Open-World Visual Understanding with Deep Learning
We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.
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Cyclophellitol and its derivatives: synthesis and application as beta-glycosidase inhibitors
Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel
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Sustainable Thesis Topics
Are you in the final stage of your bachelor or master program? And do you want to research a topic that has to do with sustainability? Then, this document is the right one for you. In this document, several sustainability related topics from a variety of studies is coming together which can give you…
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Research Handbook in the series of Human Rights Law
The Research Handbook on Labour, Business and Human Rights Law edited by prof. Janice Bellace of the University of Pennsylvania and ass. prof. Beryl ter Haar of Leiden University. The book is publisehd in Edward Elgars series on Human Rights.
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Insights from modeling metabolism and amoeboid cell motility in the immune system
This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.
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Brexit, the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, and Global Treaty (Re-)Negotiations
Joris Larik, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, wrote about the topics of the Brexit, the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement, and Global Treaty (Re-)Negotiations.
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Funky Phone Challenge
As part of LUGO’s focus on responsible recycling of e-waste (electronic waste) we participated in the Funky Phone Challenge.
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APL 2 - Collection of Papers
Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia is the annual journal of the Faculty of Archaeology (formerly the Institute of Prehistory), Leiden University.
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Spin-triplet supercurrents of odd and even parity in nanostructured devices
Triplet superconductivity refers to a condensate of equal-spin Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons with equal spin).
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Hydrogen dissociation on metal surfaces
Promotor: G. J. Kroes
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Development of synthetic procedures towards immunostimulating carbohydrates
Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-Promotor: J.D.C. Codée
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Witnessing the Process of Bacterial Cell Death: Novel Antimicrobials and Their Mechanisms of Action
This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…
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Replacing the needle and syringe for vaccine administration
Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra
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Management implications for invertebrate assemblages in the Midwest American agricultural landscape
Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters
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The Role of the United Nations General Assembly in Advancing Accountability for Atrocity Crimes: Legal Powers and Effects
On 20 October 2021 Michael Ramsden defended the thesis 'The Role of the United Nations General Assembly in Advancing Accountability for Atrocity Crimes: Legal Powers and Effects'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. N.M. Blokker.
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Star formation and aging at cosmic noon: the spectral evolution of galaxies from z=2
Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx & Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)
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Evolutionary diversification of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)
Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes
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Computational, biochemical, and NMR-driven structural studies on histone variant H2A.B
Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.
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Models of curves: The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture & ordinary reduction
Chapter 1,contains the numerical verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for hundreds of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Quantifying nucleosome dynamicsand protein binding with PIE-FCCS and spFRET
In this thesis I describe the results of Pulsed Interleaved Excitation and Fluorescence (Cross) Correlation Spectroscopy (PIE-F(C)CS) combined with single-pair Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (spFRET) used to study dynamics in single nucleosomes, which depends on subtle differences in the length of…
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Natter, Czaika & De Haas, Political party ideology and immigration policy reform
What drives the restrictiveness of immigration reforms? Political scientists Katharina Natter (Leiden University), Mathias Czaika (Danube University Krems) and Hein de Haas (University of Amsterdam) analysed immigration reforms in 21 Western immigration countries between 1970 and 2012. They found that…
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Research
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D'Erman, Schure & Verdun, Economic and Financial Governance in the European Union after a Decade of Economic and Political Crises
Introducing five papers about of the impact of crises on the governance, decision-making, and institutional design of the Euro Area, political scientists Valerie D'Erman (University of Victoria, Canada), Paul Schure (University of Victoria, Canada) and Amy Verdun (Leiden University) summarise the 'lessons…
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Hirschmann, Guarding the Guards
It is difficult to hold international organisations (IOs) accountable for human rights violations. Gisela Hirschmann (Institute of Political Science, Leiden University) introduces the concept of pluralist accountability, whereby third parties set the standards for IOs’ actions in relation to human rights,…
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Radio galaxies at low frequencies: high spatial and spectral resolution studies with LOFAR
Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley
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The right to family unification : between migration control and human rights
The central question in this book is whether there is a human right to family unification.
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Luzia Helfer, How Politics Becomes News and News Becomes Politics
Political scientist Luzia Helfer (Leiden University) empirically tested claims about media-politics relatiopns using unique data from experimental studies with elected politicians and political journalists in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
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Integrating Analytics with Relational Databases
The database research community has made tremendous strides in developing powerful database engines that allow for efficient analytical query processing.
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Kummer theory for commutative algebraic groups
This dissertation is a collection of four research articles devoted to the study of Kummer theory for commutative algebraic groups.
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PhD programmes
The Leiden University doctoral / PhD programme takes around four years of study and consists of independent and original research under the supervision of a professor.
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On cluster algebras and topological string theory
My PhD research is devoted to studies of the conjectural cluster-algebraic symmetry in the theory of topological string, which is the simplest, however already non-trivial sector in the theory of string.
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Optimization of quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers
This thesis covers several aspects of quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers and its applications to quantum chemistry and material science.
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Harnessing zebrafish xenograft models for ocular melanoma treatment discovery
The aim of this thesis was to develop novel treatment strategies for different types of eye melanoma utilizing zebrafish models. We first establish orthotopic and ectopic xenograft models for uveal and conjunctival melanoma by engraftment of the immortalized cells derived from these tumors into zebrafish…
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Analyzability and semantic associations in referring expressions: A study in comparative lexicology
This thesis is a sample-based typological study of formal and semantic patterns in terms for a selection of referring (
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Van Vonno, Achieving Party Unity: A Sequential Approach to Why MPs Act in Concert (dissertation)
Cynthia van Vonno, political scientist at Leiden University, explains why individual MPs vote according to the party group line.
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Travelling patterns on Discrete Media
This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.
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John van Noort Lab - Chromatin Dynamics
Chromatin is an ubiquitous protein-DNA complex that forms the structural basis of DNA condensation in all eukaryotic organisms.