Waarom zijn niet alle kinderen even gevoelig voor variaties in hun sociale omgeving?

In dit proefschrift staat het leren van ervaren docenten in een context van samenwerking in interdisciplinaire teams centraal.

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Op 10 februari 2022 verdedigde Christian Mommers het proefschrift 'Voluntary return and the limits of individual responsibility in the EU Returns Directive'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P.R. Rodrigues en prof.dr. P. Boeles.

Wij modernen beroemen ons erop dat wij het eindproduct zijn van een voortgang en wordingsproces die haar geboortestonde in het antieke Griekenland heeft gekend.

Vertrouwen en wederkerigheid zijn twee belangrijke sociale gedragingen die adolescenten helpen zich op een succesvolle manier door hun sociale wereld te begeven. In hun artikel in Journal of Research on Adolescence beschrijven Van de Groep, Meuwese, Zanolie, Güroğlu en Crone de ontwikkeling van vertrouwen…

Onderzoek naar representatieve bureaucratie heeft vaak de positieve prestatie-effecten bevestigd van bureaucratieën die de demografische kenmerken van hun cliënten weerspiegelen. Er is echter weinig bekend over de onderliggende mechanismen op individueel niveau die tot deze resultaten leiden.

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

Wat zijn de defecten en mechanische eigenschappen van de mozaïeken van verschillende tegelvormen?

In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…

Kunnen sociaaleconomische verschillen in gezondheidsgedrag worden verklaard door concurrerende doelen en eisen in het dagelijks leven, zoals gezondheidszorgen die concurreren met financiële zorgen?

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

Single-Molecule Microscopy (SMM) techniques constitute a group of powerful imaging tools that enable researchers to study the dynamic behavior of individual molecules.

Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.

The findings in this thesis improve the understanding of 1) the relationship between exposure characteristics and toxicity of ENPs, 2) the joint toxic action of ENP mixtures and the comparison to metal salt mixtures, 3) how NOM affects the individual and joint toxicity of ENPs, 4) the extent of trophic…

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort

Songbirds as vocal learners learn their songs and song preference from social tutors⁠. Tutor choice for both song and preference learning are important to characterize for understanding individual learning performance and cultural transmission of song⁠.

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

The key characteristic of active matter is the motion of an emergent collection (such as a flock of birds), which is driven by the consumption of energy by its active components (i.e. individual birds).

Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

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

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Dit project bestudeert sociale afstand - de mate van begrip tussen mensen - in relatie tot het buitenlands beleid van staten. Geeft sociale afstand vorm aan politieke vooroordelen, hulpverhalen en, uiteindelijk, de prioriteiten en beslissingen van het buitenlands beleid van een staat?

In this thesis,

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

The aim is to develop methods to assess environmental and occupational exposure to (individual) pesticides, to be applied in epidemiological studies investigating pesticide exposure and human health. Furthermore, we aim to investigate the potential association between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s…

By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.

Welke relatie bestaat er tussen verschillende type PLGs en cognitieve differentiatie?

Dr. Helen Pluut heeft een artikel gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP). Dit in samenwerking met Remus Ilies (National University of Singapore), Petru Curşeu (Open Universiteit en Babeş-Bolyai University) en Yukun Liu (University of…

De Universiteit Leiden biedt een specifieke masteropleiding die kolonialisme en slavernij behandelt.

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Kros

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Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

Sinds 2021 is de master ook in deeltijd te volgen, een parttime opleiding van 2-3 dagen per week, waarvan één vaste, verplichte dag op vrijdag.

Promotor: Thomas Hankemeier, Co-promotores: Heiko van der Linden, Paul Vulto

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the main reasons for drug attrition during pre-clinical and clinical phases of drug development as well as for drug withdrawal post-marketing.

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.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-Promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-Promotor: J. de Jongh

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs