3,186 zoekresultaten voor “global transformations and governance challenges” in de Publieke website
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Creating Global Scenarios of Environmental Impacts with Structural Economic Models
To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.
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Onderwijsinnovatie Hub
Sinds de oprichting is LUC een college voor onderwijsontwikkeling en experimentatie. In de missie van het college wordt LUC beschreven als "een plek van innovatie op het gebied van didactiek, curriculumontwerp en studentwelzijn." Deze visie wordt toegepast via een studentgerichte benadering in het onderwijs…
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Forces and symmetries in cells and tissues
The way organisms develop from the initial single-cellular state to a complex final assembly like the human body, and how the final body is maintained throughout life, is one of the greatest mysteries and it’s understanding one of the biggest scientific challenges.
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The Robinson congruence in electrodynamics and general relativity
Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester
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Leidse experts over het Oekraïnereferendum
Voor, tijdens en na het Oekraïnereferendum op 6 april leverden Leidse wetenschappers opiniestukken en stonden uiteenlopende media te woord. Een voorlopig overzicht.
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Interdisciplinair onderzoek en -onderwijs Universiteit Leiden
Veel vraagstukken van onze tijd zijn te complex om vanuit één wetenschapsgebied op te kunnen lossen. De Universiteit Leiden is een brede universiteit waar ongelofelijk veel onderzoeksvelden samenkomen. Daarom zijn we bij uitstek geschikt als broedplaats en beoefenaar van interdisciplinair onderzoek…
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Civil Liability for Damage caused by Global Navigation Satellite System
Op 17 december 2018 verdedigde Dejian Kong zijn proefschrift 'Civil Liability for Damage caused by Global Navigation Satellite System'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. P.M.J. Mendes de Leon.
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Inhibitor Selectivity: Profiling and Prediction
Less than 1 in 10 drug candidates that enter phase 1 clinical trials actually gets approved for human use.
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role of mycorrhizal associations in soil carbon cycling: insights from global analyses of mycorrhizal vegetation
In this PhD study, I aim to deepen our understanding of the influence of major mycorrhizal types, namely arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) and ectomycorrhizae (EM), on the global soil carbon cycle and their potential distribution changes under future environmental shifts.
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Mundane dynamics: Understanding collaborative governance approaches to ‘big’ problems through studying ‘small’ practices
In dit artikel heeft Lianne Visser bijgedragen aan het begrip rondom samenwerkend bestuur als uitdagende aanpak voor hardnekkige problemen.
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High-throughput quantification and unambiguous identification for metabolomics
The challenge of achieving fast quantification in metabolomics is the presence of severe matrix effects during the MS analysis of complex samples.
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Transnational counterterrorism assemblages: the case of preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali
In dit artikel wordt onderzocht hoe de dreiging van terrorisme op beleidsniveau is aangepakt door middel van een analyse van een specifiek in Mali.
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Winnaars ING Challenge
ls onderdeel van hun M.Sc.programma, werken ICT in Business studenten aan projected geinspireerd op concrete problemen die voortkomen uit echte situaties binnen bedrijven.
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The material side of the energy transition: analyzing flows and stocks of critical and other metals
The expanding population and economic activity are driving up global energy consumption. Simultaneously, there is an urgent need to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources to mitigate the climate crisis, primarily caused by fossil fuel combustion.
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Faith in Democracy. Justice, Politics and Transcendence
This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.
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Analytical chemistry and biochemistry of glycosphingolipids: new developments and insights
Advanced mass spectrometry of glycosphingolipids takes the central stage in this thesis. Investigations focus on characterization of glycosphingolipid metabolism in health and disease with emphasis to the detection and accurate quantitation of known and so far unknown glycosphingolipids and closely…
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Assessing global regionalized impacts of eutrophication on freshwater fish biodiversity
Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.
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The diverse governance logic of smart government in East Asian countries
What can we learn from the diverse institutional logics of smart government in East Asia to inform cross-institutional AI governance?
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Marieke van der Maden
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Asia and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.
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Multi Modal Representation Learning and Cross-Modal Semantic Matching
Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.
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Non-take-up of social support and the implications for social policies
This dissertation takes an important step in understanding the phenomenon of non-take-up of social support and what it means for contemporary social policies.
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Data-driven Predictive Maintenance and Time-Series Applications
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.
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Life Cycle Assessment of Nanomaterials and Risk Assessment.
What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?
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Small-State Influence in EU Security Governance: Unveiling Latvian Lobbying Against Disinformation
In dit artikel onderzoekt Sophie Vériter hoe een kleine staat het veiligheidsbestuur van de EU beïnvloedt.
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Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE)
Hoe worden nachtruimtes verbeeld, geproduceerd, ervaren en verteld door migrantengemeenschappen in Europa? Dit onderzoeksproject onderzoekt deze vraag in acht Europese steden: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlijn, Cork, Galway, Lissabon, Londen en Rotterdam.
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Un-solvable crises? Differential implementation and transboundary crisis management in the EU
In dit artikel analyseren Lydie Cabane en Martin Lodge analyseren de invloed van institutionele keuzes op het aanpassen van beleidsintegratie in grensoverschrijdende crisisbeheersing.
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Large scale visual search
Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew
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The environmental rebound effect: a new paradigm for an old challenge. The case of transport eco-innovation
What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?
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Diversity and distribution of octocorals and scleractinians in the Persian Gulf region
Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen
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Understanding the Heterogeneity of Corporate Entrepreneurship Programs
In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
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Abstract Behavioral Specification: unifying modeling and programming
We strive to address the challenge of constructing a modeling language to write software which can take advantage of recent hardware developments (multicore, cloud) without compromising in its abstraction levels.
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High-contrast imaging polarimetry of exoplanets and circumstellar disks
Understanding the formation and evolution of planetary systems is one of the most fundamental challenges in astronomy. To directly image and study young exoplanets and the circumstellar disks they form from, dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments are built.
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Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts (CREAA)
CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.
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Algorithms for analyzing and mining real-world graphs
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: W.A. Kosters
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Innovative sample preparation and handling strategies for automated and high-throughput metabolomics
Metabolomics has the potential to play a pivotal role in understanding disease onset and progression, and ultimately personalized treatments. One of its major challenges is its large-scale implementation, which is necessary to deal with the high variability of the metabolome. In this work we have developed…
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Metabolic signatures in nutrition and health: short-term diet response, sexual dimorphism and hormone chronobiology
The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).
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Nieuw LDE-Centre: Governance of Migration and Diversity
Sinds begin dit jaar bestaat het LDE-Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity, dat met een multidisciplinaire blik naar bestuurs- en beleidsvraagstukken in vier Zuid-Hollandse steden kijkt. Bijzonder is dat er al afgestudeerde masterstudenten op dit specialistische gebied rondlopen.
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A computational study of structural and excitonic properties of chlorosomes
The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…
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Speels online leerplatform wint Deans' Challenge
Een online platform met leerzame en sociale uitdagingen ter voorbereiding op de veranderende arbeidsmarkt. Met dat idee won het team Piece of Skill op 27 augustus de Deans' Challenge. In deze wedstrijd bedenken studenten oplossingen voor mondiale zorgen, geselecteerd door decanen van de Universiteit…
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Exploring Images With Deep Learning for Classification, Retrieval and Synthesis
In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.
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Dynamical Gibbs-non-Gibbs transitions: a study via coupling and large deviations
Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander
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Random walks and the contact process
Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich
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Generalized Strictly Periodic Scheduling Analysis, Resource Optimization, and Implementation of Adaptive Streaming Applications
This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.
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Innate immunity, developmental speed and their trade-offs in two hexapod models
This thesis focuses on important life history traits and their trade-offs using two hexapod models. Particularly, the trade-off between immune defense and embryonic developmental speed is a central theme of this study.
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Right to Challenge: Lessen uit Londen
Esmée Driessen, onderzoeks- en onderwijsmedewerkster verbonden aan de afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht, reisde vorige week met een delegatie van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken naar London. Daar wilde zij meer leren over de toepassing van het zogenoemde Right to Challenge in het Verenigd Koni…
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Securing Humanitarian Operations: Preparedness and Response to Cyber Crises in Aid Delivery
Hoe hebben humanitaire organisaties voorbereidings- en responsstrategieën voor cyberincidenten afgestemd op hun specifieke prioriteiten, behoeften en context?
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Chemical Similarity: Structuring Risk and Hazard Assessment
At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.