2,778 search results for “influence” in the Public website
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Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.
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Virtual Neanderthals
This study presents an agent-based simulation model exploring the patterns of presence and absence of Late Pleistocene Neanderthals in western Europe.
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Stereoelectronic and conformational effects in oxocarbenium, iminium and iminosugar ammonium ions
Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée
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Press freedom, law and politics in Indonesia
Press freedom in Indonesia is still under pressure, despite the demise of Soeharto’s regime in 1998
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Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities
This book explores the intellectual and cultural flows between Asia and Europe which occurred during – and were formative of – the political and social changes of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
As part of the VIDI 'Cultural innovation in a globalising society: Egypt in the Roman world', this research explores manifestations of Egypt in the material culture of Augustan Rome. This period was a crucial turning point for the urban landscape of Rome, which was characterised by cultural diversit…
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Risky Business?
Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying risky decision-making in adolescents
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Nanomaterial safety for microbially-colonized hosts: Microbiota-mediated physisorption interactions and particle-specific toxicity
The external tissues of plants and animals are colonized by microbial communities termed microbiota. When organisms are exposed to environmental pollutants, these substances will therefore encounter microbiota at the exposure interface.
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The Majang Language
On the 4th of June, Andreas Joswig successfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Andreas on this great result.
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Close encounters of the third kind?
Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium, a bone story
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Choice-related stress and uncertainty
What are the behavioral, cognitive, and motivational consequences of decision reversibility?
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Kolonie, Kontakt, Kultur
Eine Analyse materieller Kultur römischer Kolonien in der Mikroregion von Suessa Aurunca, Minturnae und Sinuessa
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Governance of Innovation Project Management: Necessary and Neglected
Promotores: B.R. Katzy, J. de Vries, Co-Promotor: L.P. Groenewegen
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The impacts and challenges of water use of electric power production in China
This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.
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Neurogenomics of vocal learning
How does FoxP1 affect auditory perception on a behavioural and genomic level?
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Het Urban Future‐project
Central to this research is the Urban Future-project, which consists of a large archive of artworks made from 2002 until now.
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Digging for data: the rise and fall of a Miocene mammal biodiversity hotspot in the Vallès-Penedès (Catalonia, Spain)
The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.
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Early Jaina epistemology: a study of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama; With an English translation of the Tattvārthādhigamabhāṣya
Lucas den Boer defended his thesis on 23 April 2020
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Giant barrel sponges in diverse habitats: a story about the metabolome
Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.
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Peer feedback on academic writing
Feedback from fellow students on academic writing is as informative as that of teachers.
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A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942
In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.
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Host-Microbe Interactions
Host-Microbe Interactions is one of the four research themes of the Institute of Biology Leiden.
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Scalable organic solvent free supercritical fluid spray drying process for producing dry protein formulations
In this study, we evaluated the influence of supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) spray drying conditions, in the absence of organic solvent, on the ability to produce dry protein/trehalose formulations at 1:10 and 1:4 (w/w) ratios.
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Through the magnifying glass
Although nanoparticles are extensively used in various applications like consumer products and have most probably entered the environment, little is known about the effects of these particles on living organisms.
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Noradrenergic control of human cognition
What is the role of the noradrenergic system in human cognition?
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Student-teachers' commitment to teaching
The motivation of student teachers for the teacher's profession depends on various factors. Teacher training can influence the commitment of students.
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Complexity, errors, and administrative burdens
The authors of the article expect automation to improve accuracy in less complex programmes but worsens with increased complexity
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world.
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Search in Response to Negative Performance Feedback: Problem-Definition and Solution-Generation
In order to test theoretical expectations concerning individual decision-makers' search in response to negative performance, Joris van der Voet conceptually disentangles problem-defining and solution-generation as two distinct search objectives.
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D-SIGN-LAB
Research Experiments on Designing Objects with ‘Artistic’ Messages
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Cheating belowground interactions
Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.
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NATO Allies and the Protection of Civilians
In this policy paper, Joachim Koops and Christian Patz are discussing Germany’s comprehensive assessment of Protection of Civilians readiness at the national level.
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Sign languages of Iran
I am Nargess Asghari. I came to the Netherlands in 2017 to study Linguistics at Leiden University. I wrote my pre-master’s and master’s theses on Iranian Sign Language and Berbey Sign Language (an emerging family sign language in the village of Berbey, Mali), respectively, under the supervision of Dr.…
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Emergence of rebellious digital press in Chile: Divergence, engagement and impact. Journal of Communication
A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile
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Teacher professional learning and collaboration in secondary schools
This dissertation focuses on teacher professional learning and collaboration in secondary schools.
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Systems Pharmacology
The aim of the research programme Systems Pharmacology lies in the development of personalised medicine strategies, and development of new systems-based approaches in translational and clinical pharmacology.
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Eye gaze behavior in socially anxious individuals
Are there any differences in gaze behavior between high and low socially anxious individuals? What factors influence the relation between social anxiety and gaze behavior?
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Languages of Islam and Christianity: Institutional Discourses, Community Strategies and Missionary Rhetoric
On February 20th, Gulnaz Sibgatullina succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Gulnaz on this great result.
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De ordinaire kap
Een bouwhistorische studie naar kapconstructies op Leidse huizen tusen 1300 en 1800
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Assist or accuse? Identifying trends in crisis communication through a bibliometric literature review
This article explores crisis communication research clusters in the literature, examining overlaps and intersections among diverse fields.
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Understanding existential self-understanding
Annemarie van Stee defended her thesis on 21 June 2017.
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The conspiracy of subjectivity: myth and materiality in twenty rst century ballet practice
This research project problematizes the applicability of ballet within a contemporary choreographic practice.
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Visualization of Vitamin A Metabolism
Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.
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Vaccination against atherosclerosis; induction of protective CD8 T-cells through immunization
Atherosclerosis, in particular rupture of atherosclerotic plaques, is the underlying cause of most heart attacks or strokes and is the leading cause of death worldwide.
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European Markets, Trade and Digitization
Research on this theme concerns Europe’s position in global markets, its response to the emergence of new international trade and financial actors that challenge institutions where Europe has long had considerable influence.
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A Grammar of Logba (Ikpana)
This book presents a comprehensive description of the grammar of Logba, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages spoken by approximately 7,500 speakers on the South-Eastern frontier of the Ghana-Togo border. It is the outcome of fifteen months research in Logba speaking communities.
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Historical sociolinguistics
When researching languages in historical context, our goal is to understand the nature of linguistic variation in the past, and explain the extent to which the socio-cultural context of bygone times contributed to shaping linguistic variation and change.
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The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology
This collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century. From his early training in international law to his five terms in the US Senate, J. William Fulbright (1905--1995) had a profound influence on US foreign policy,…
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Arabic and its Alternatives
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.
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Using soil inoculations for ecological restorations
How soil microbial composition impacts structure and composition of the aboveground plant and animal communities?