Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

Who are open-source intelligence activists and how reliable are their contributions to public understanding of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

Barrier function is the natural role of the skin. The lipid matrix present in the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum is important for this function.

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

When you have decided to participate in a Summer School of Leiden University, there are some matters you need to know before arrival. Please take a few minutes to read through the information here to find out what you can do from your side to smooth the process.

An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Het onderwerp van deze studie is het portfolio dat wordt gebruikt bij een lerarenopleiding als instrument om bij docenten in opleiding reflectie op hun ontwikkeling als docent te stimuleren.

Dit proefschrift beschrijft de ontwikkeling van een beoordelingsprocedure voor docenten, toegespitst op beginnende eerstegraads docenten Engels.

In dit artikel vatten Kristin Makszin en Achim Kemmerling bewijs samen over hoe het VK en de VS leren van het Chileense pensioenmodel, maar beide landen slagen er niet in krediet toe te kennen of de lessen te vervormen.

Sinds de United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on the Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (UN GGE) elf aanbevelingen heeft gedaan over verantwoordelijk staatsgedrag omtrent cyberspace is er een discussie gaande over internationale…

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Op 9 mei 2018 verdedigde Roy van Keulen zijn proefschrift 'Digital Force: Life, Liberty & Livelihood in the Information Age'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. A. Ellian.

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

How can we bridge the gap between experts and the general public?

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Combinatorial games are games for two competing players, moving in a turn-by-turn fashion, in which there is no chance nor hidden information⁠. Chess, checkers and the simpler tic tac toe are well-known examples of this class of games, as well as game of go⁠.

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

De Tweede Kamerverkiezingen die staan gepland voor maart 2017 zullen resulteren in een versnipperd parlement en een lastige kabinetsformatie, aldus de politicoloog Hans Vollaard (Universiteit Leiden) in een bijdrage aan het EUROPP-blog.

Dit artikel analyseert de transnationaliteit van terroristische organisaties, waaronder fondsenwerving, communicatie, alliantievorming en doelselectie.

In this thesis we study the landscape of gravitational models which modify GR by introducing an additional scalar degree of freedom (d.o.f.) to source Cosmic Acceleration.

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

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…

Hoye stelt dat het fundamentele fundament van Hobbes' Leviathan grootmoedige staatkunde belichaamt, waarin soevereinen natuurlijke rechtvaardigheid nastreven, die zich manifesteert als eminente

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Op 9 april 2019 verdedigde Yudan Tan haar proefschrift 'The Rome Statute as Evidence of Customary International Law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. W.A. Schabas.

Bet v1, the major allergen in birch pollen, is one of the main causes of allergies such as asthma and rhino-conjunctivitis. It is the main cause of birch pollen allergy in humans.

Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.

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Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Area Studies, Chinese Studies

Promotor: A.P.IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman

Streptomyces bacteria are a valuable source of natural products, many of which are used in the clinic or in biotechnology.

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Muster

This dissertation investigates the energy and material related impacts of the transition towards a low-carbon heating system in the Netherlands, in the context of its 2050 climate and circular economy policy goals.

Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…

In dit artikel wordt het concept van probleemprioritering binnen de context van bestuurskundig onderzoek verkend.

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

Laatste technologische ontwikkelingen op het gebied van datamining en profilering.