The thesis presents a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all genres being still mostly neglected from musicologists and performers.

Andrea Giolai defended his thesis on 3 May 2017.

This dissertation gives an ethnographic account of Kurdish dengbêj narrative from a theorethical perspective.

New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period

How public service motivation and professionalism affect decision-making in dilemma situations. Individuals who work in the public sector see themselves confronted with conflicting values, contradictory demands, and the need to serve an at times difficult to define ‘public interest’.

From Crisis to Critique

This book presents the results of a research about the Islamic courts of Cianjur in West Java, and Bulukumba in South Sulawesi and the role they play in local divorce practices.

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…

The role of grave sets in Corded Ware and Bell Beaker funerary practices

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancer in males.

The formation and evolution of galaxies is fundamentally driven by the formation of new stars out of cold gas.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.T.F. den Hollander, Prof. dr. E.A. Verbitskiy

Leiden-Yale collaboration uncovers a tale of samurai same-sex love in a library manuscript.

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Agrian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000; C.C. Bakels

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Insights in diet, climate and ecology

The high standards set by the Academic Language Centre are attested by the following quality labels and memberships.

This thesis provides explicit expressions for the density functions of absolutely continuous invariant measures for general families of interval maps, that include random maps and infinite measure transformations, not necessarily number systems.

Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Volume 87 in the series Religion and Society

This accessible textbook uses key documents embedded in a clear narrative to chart the post-Cold War rise and decline of transatlantic relations. It provides a novel interpretive framework by proposing that the three decades between 1989 and 2020 represent a distinct ‘transatlantic era’.

Both Europe and Latin America face challenges globally and at home. Conflicts over land and resources have been resurgent in recent years.

My research addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew, often translated with “please”, from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). It combines textual criticism, translation technique, discourse pragmatics, and the…

Intermediality, Media Practices and Media Literacy is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.

Psychoeducational Assessment, Intervention and Rehabilitation (PAIR) publishes high quality articles on theoretical and empirical research regarding psychological and psychoeducational assessment, intervention, and rehabilitation in all areas related to cognitive and socio-emotional development.

In our culture, vocal harmonics function as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

Dr. at the Department of organic chemistry, Wageningen University - the Nederlands

This volume provides an authoritative, cutting-edge resource on the characteristics of both technological and social change in warfare in the twenty-first century, and the challenges such change presents to international law.

On 22 November 2018, Teico Sikkema defended his thesis 'Beginsel en begrip van verdeling'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. mr. W.G. Huijgen and Prof. dr. F. Sonneveldt.

What role should the university play in the climate crisis?

Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor…

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

The dissociative chemisorption of methane on metal surfaces is of fundamental and practical interest, being a rate-limiting step in the steam reforming process. The reaction is best modeled with quantum dynamics calculations, but these are currently not guaranteed to produce accurate results because…

This thesis investigates aspects of phi-features in non-standard and minority West Germanic languages.

Located in the small Kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Daǧ (c. 50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars

The Faculty of Humanities

Electron microscopy has become an extremely important techniquein a wide variety of elds.

This dissertation investigates Extended Lexical Units (ELUs), elements that are bigger than just one word and which are stored in the Lexicon.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: S. Bruderer

The book reinterprets the role of the UN during the Congo crisis from 1960 to 1964, presenting a multidimensional view of the organisation.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

Promotor: A. Kros

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

Vol. V, Sections 1-2

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich