4,605 search results for “human” in the Public website
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Outreach
In developing cooperation with Indonesia, Leiden University focuses on projects that benefit culture, nature, society and economy, in Indonesia as well as in the Netherlands.
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Systems pharmacology of the endocannabinoid system
What are the functions of the endocannabinoid system?
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The right to health of the child : an analytical exploration of the international normative framework
Large numbers of children all over the world face significant health risks, such as infectious and chronic diseases, malnutrition, injuries and the consequences of natural disasters, protracted armed conflicts and poverty.
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Diversity Card Game
Having open conversations about diversity and inclusion is an important first step towards change. Yet, such conversation can be emotional and vulnerable, and at times uncomfortable to initiate and sustain. The 'What’s Your Story?' Card Game aims to enable participants to exchange and respond to stories…
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Exploitation of host chemokine signalling by pathogenic mycobacteria
Promotores: A.H. Meijer, H.P. Spaink
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Saqqara Excavations and Fieldschool (Egypt)
Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.
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Syntax
Syntacticians study how words combine into larger units (phrases and sentences) in human languages and how the combinatorial possibilities determine word order and grammatical relations between parts of a sentence.
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Other publications
Other COI publications can be found on Leiden Law Blog, the Leiden Law Methods Portal, and in the drop-down tabs below.
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Litigating the Rights of the Child
This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989.
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Vision
Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) at Leiden University aims to advance knowledge and practice on how we govern – and could govern – major world-scale changes in contemporary society. These global transformations include hegemonic and other geopolitical shifts, ecological changes,…
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Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence
This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…
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The Prehistory of Asia Minor
From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies
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Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity. Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination
Different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman antiquity.
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Dutch Shipping and the Environment, 1621-1939
This project explores themes at the intersection of maritime history and environmental history by looking at the problems Dutch ships encountered in the different climates of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, and the solutions they could provide.
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Systems pharmacology of the endocannabinoid system
In this thesis, a system pharmacology approach, integrating metabolomics, pharmacology and chemical biology, was applied to understand and modulate the endocannabinoid system across different model systems (cells, zebrafish, mice and humans).
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Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology
This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and frequently used experiments in archaeology.
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Tracing Technology: Forty Years of Archaeological Research at Satricum, Rome 25-28 October 2017
With the resumption of archaeological investigations at Satricum (Borgo LeFerriere, Latium), in 1977, a broad array of themes, methodologies and analytical approaches have been pursued. A common thread is technology, which encompasses all social, economic and cultural aspects of human agency.
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Carcinogenicity of insulin analogues
Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: J.W. van der Laan, C.L.E. Siezen
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Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child
The drafting of a handbook that serves as the first guide to European law in the area of children's rights, taking into account the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), as well as the decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights…
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Astrolinguistics
Design of a Linguistic System for Interstellar Communication Based on Logic
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Dynamics of the renin-angiotensin aldosterone system in dogs: circadian variations in physiological conditions and in relation to angiotensin-converting
Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof
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Mobility, Globalisation, and Interculturality
Mobility, Globalisation, and Interculturality is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Automated de novo metabolite identification with mass spectrometry and cheminformatics
Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier
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Küçük Asya'nın Tarihönces
Karmaşık Avcı-Toplayıcılardan Erken Kentsel Toplumlara
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Theoretical Linguistics
Studying the underlying principles of the nature of language.
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Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the Police
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics at the Police
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Sowing the seed ?
Human impact and plant subsistence in Dutch wetlands during the Late Mesolithic and Early and Middle Neolithic (5500-3400 cal BC)
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Organisation
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW) offers an inspiring and competitive, international working and learning environment to around 1,025 staff and around 7,000 students from home and abroad on 13 bachelor's, master's and research master's programmes.
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Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi…
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Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan
Leiden-Yale collaboration uncovers a tale of samurai same-sex love in a library manuscript.
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Phenotypic screening with 3D cell-based assays
Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.
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Analysis of 13C and 15N isotopes from Eurasian Quaternary fossils
Insights in diet, climate and ecology
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Exploring chemical space in covalent and competitive glycosidase inhibitor design
Glycoside hydrolases (glycosidases/GHs) are widely abundant enzymes in all kingdoms of life and are important biocatalysts that catalyze the hydrolysis of glycosidic linkages in oligo/polysaccharides, glycoproteins and glycolipids with tremendous efficiency
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Modelling the interactions of advanced micro- and nanoparticles with novel entities
Novel entities may pose risks to humans and the environment. The small particle size and relatively large surface area of micro- and nanoparticles (MNPs) make them capable of adsorbing other novel entities, leading to the formation of aggregated contamination.
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Gene regulation in embryonic development
The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.
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Sybil-AA: Systems Biology of Alcohol Addiction
The Horizon 2020 project Sybil-AA (Systems Biology of Alcohol Addiction) focuses on modeling and validating disease state networks in human and animal brains for understanding pathophysiology, predicting outcomes and improving therapy in alcohol addiction. Alcohol addiction, the most severe form of…
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Supramolecular peptide amphiphile nanoparticles as a novel allergy vaccine platform
Bet v1, the major allergen in birch pollen, is one of the main causes of allergies such as asthma and rhino-conjunctivitis. Additionally it is the main cause of birch pollen allergy in humans.
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In Perspective, quarterly publication
'In Perspective' is the quarterly publication of the Faculty of Humanities in which we bundle some of our most high-profile stories. In Perspective is printed in limited quantities (currently only available in Dutch), spread amongst relations and partners and offered on coffeetables within our buildings.…
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Exploring Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory and International Criminal Law
On 12 mei 2020, Darryl Robinson defended 'Exploring Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory and International Criminal Law'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. C. Stahn.
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Education
The Learning and Behavior Problems in Education program group is responsible for teaching in the area of learning problems.
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The Open Society and Its Animals
On 10 October 2019, Janneke Vink defended her thesis 'The Open Society and Its Animals'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. P.B. Cliteur.
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.
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Education
Members of LUCIR contribute to various education programmes in the sphere of international relations, exchanging expertise with both bachelor’s and master’s students.
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Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies
This series of publications brings together new material on wellconsidered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies.
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Master Internship
Binnen de masteropleiding Education and Child Studies kun je verschillende typen stages lopen.
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Research
LUCIR aims to bundle together, strengthen and disseminate existing research in the field of international relations.
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[a]social creatures lab
The [a]social creatures lab focusses on understanding social interaction with and between artificial creatures.
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Biomimetic Copper Catalysts for the Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.
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Autophagy and Lc3-associated phagocytosis in host defense against Salmonella
Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.
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Cognitive and motivational components of adaptive and maladaptive decision-making: an integrative approach
How do cognitive, motivational, and affective processes interact to select actions?