Promotores: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. C.P. Dullemond

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

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Op zondag 8 oktober 2023, tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap, opende de Faculteit Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen van de Universiteit Leiden haar deuren voor iedereen die nieuwsgierig is naar wetenschap! Meer dan 750 mensen namen een kijkje achter de schermen, bekeken spannende demonstraties, kropen…

Dit artikel beschrijft dat het gebruik van het concept van energierechtvaardigheid nieuw is, hoewel interpretaties al lang deel uitmaken van het energiebeleid.

Professor Ken Meier is een van de meest vooraanstaande bestuurskundigen van de wereld. Meier is professor Public Management bij Cardiff School of Business (Wales), professor Bureaucracy and Democracy bij Leiden Universiteit, onderzoeker bij Danish Centre for Social Sciences Research (Kopenhagen, Denemarken)…

Leids onderzoek naar bestraffing komt tot stand uit verschillende disciplines. Het onderzoeksproject kent een juridische, criminologische, sociaalwetenschappelijke en filosofische invalshoek.

How did colonial law work to turn people into property? This project argues that colonial ideas about households and domestic authority were critical to legal processes of enslavement in the early modern Dutch empire. Using colonial court records from Dutch Brazil, Suriname, and the Moluccas, the project…

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

Soms heb je leerlingen in de klas waarbij je even niet meer weet wat werkt. Je wil de leerling graag begeleiden, maar niets lijkt te helpen. Gedrag van leerlingen is niet altijd makkelijk te begrijpen. Wil je bestaande patronen doorbreken en nieuwe inspiratie opdoen?

Wat weet het grote publiek over quantum en wat vindt men ervan? Ook daar denken onderzoekers binnen Quantum Leiden over na.

Op 27 mei 2016 sprak prof. dr. Sandra Groeneveld haar oratie uit getiteld: ‘Het belang van bureaucratie. Omgaan met ambivalentie in publiek management’.

Biological polymers, including proteins and the genome, undergo folding processes crucial for their proper functioning. Even slight changes in the folding structure of these biopolymers can have significant implications, leading to the development of various pathological conditions, such as neurodegenerative…

Cytotoxic T-cells (CTLs) are involved in the clearance of viruses and killing of tumor cells.

De strijd om het presidentschap van de Verenigde Staten wordt vaak afgeschilderd als een nek-aan-nekrace. De twee belangrijkste kandidaten, Hillary Clinton en Donald Trump, lijken even populair (of impopulair) en media laten niet na te benadrukken hoe klein de marge is tussen winst en verlies. Dat is…

Promotor: M.A.G.J. Orrit

Ontdek hoe je je kunt aanmelden voor Public Administration aan Universiteit Leiden met ons stappenplan.

Structural variants (SVs) are the hidden architecture of the human genome, and are critical for us to understand diseases, evolution, and so on.

In een kritisch Volkskrant-artikel reageert hoogleraar Leo Lucassen op het boek 'Migratiemagneet Nederland' van Jan van de Beek. Hij ontkracht diens stellingen over asielmigratie.

Has the industrial sector in China effectively been decarbonizing in recent years, across different regions and subsectors, and is it plausible that it will reduce its CO2 emissions in conformity with national and internationally pledged emission goals?

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a major health threat. Addressing this challenge requires among others the development of new antibacterial compounds. The research described in this thesis focuses on discovering novel antibiotics from soil bacteria, specifically Streptomyces and Paenibacillus.Despite…

In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

CONSENT (Consumer sentiment regarding privacy on user generated content services in the digital economy) is a research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme. The question central to this research is whether recent changes to consumer and commercial practices developed…

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

How can we, together international experts, define future needs of R+D contributions for innovations in the field of risk-based management of chemicals and products in a global perspective using alternative testing strategies to minimize animal tests?

What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?

The aims of the project are to: further clarify 'inhibition by safety'; explore and describe all possible sagety factors, with a special focus on the primary human safety source: social connectedness; reviewing prolonged stress responses without stressors.

Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…

Description of Biotic ligand models: making an inventory of available models & assessment of the variability of the predicted HC5 using the BLMs in different Dutch water types (2005 - 2007)

What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?

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

It researches (the possibilities for) the development of a set of principles and best practices for insolvency office holders by comparing multilateral treaties and soft law recommendations and national legislation within Europe.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh, C.J.M. Musters

The ultimate aim of this project is to improve cooperation between courts in different Member States.

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

Medio jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw woedde in Nederland een felle maatschappelijke discussie over kernwapens, die de bevolking en politiek Den Haag sterk verdeelde. De aanleiding was de mogelijke plaatsing van Amerikaanse nucleaire kruisvluchtwapens op Nederlands grondgebied. Honderdduizenden…

What is movements and corridors of the Bornean pygmy elephant in Sebuku forest? What is the nature of human-elephant conflict in Nunukan District in time and space? What are the diets of the Bornean elephants related to crop raiding?

Onderwijsvernieuwingen komen en gaan, maar er is één onderwijsideaal dat altijd zal blijven bestaan: studenten uitdagen op hun eigen niveau om diepgaand na te denken over en met de leerstof.

Op 12 januari 2022 verdedigde Mirjam Franke het proefschrift 'Over de grens van de onrechtmatige daad'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. A.G. Castermans en prof.mr. J.H. Crijns.

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

A linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China

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