What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Promotor: Carel J. ten Cate, Co-Promotor: Hans W. Slabbekoorn

In astronomy, the interpration of observations and measurements plays a crucial role: we rely purely and fundamentally on the information that reaches us as observers. And 80% of all matter in the universe is undetectable directly.

The overall objectives of my thesis are to investigate the dynamics of the sorghum root microbiome and to explore the beneficial effects of the root microbiome on sorghum growth and stress tolerance.

How presence, abundance and enzymatic activities of AM and EM fungi differently affect soil carbon sequestration processes?

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.

All life on earth contains DNA, which is used to store biological information. Organisms compact their DNA in order for it to fit inside their cell(s).

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

The lipids in the uppermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC), play an important role in the skin barrier function. The three main SC lipid classes are ceramides (CER), cholesterol and free fatty acids.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

The studies described in this thesis deal with glycosidases, in particular alpha-galactosidases.

This thesis addresses questions on effectively using variational quantum circuits for machine learning tasks.

How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

Unconstrained day-to-day activities are difficult to quantify and how the corresponding movements shape the brain remain unclear. Read more

Can we distinguish the effects of pesticides from other abiotic and biotic factors that occur in the field? And how do these factors interact with pesticides?

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

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

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?

The thesis mainly contributes to the characterization of Majorana fermions as they appear in the Condensed Matter context.

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

Lysosomal glycosidases are acid hydrolases that fragment glycoconjugates in lysosomes.

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

Spectroscopic studies on fluorescent single molecules in organic condensed matter does not only provide information about the molecule itself, but also its near environment. By suppression of phonon-induced broadening of spectral lines through cooling to low temperatures, small changes in the spectral…

Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

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…

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotores: M.G. Vijver, J.P.M. Vink

Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.

The research described in this thesis combines the latest insights in lysosomal function with lysosome centred cell signalling.

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…

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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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.A. Rottgering

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

Op 19 september 2019 verdedigde Lynette Janssen zijn proefschrift 'EU Bank Resolution Framework: A comparative study on the relation with national private law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. W.A.K. Rank en prof.mr. M. Haentjens.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe; J.N. van den Anker, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen; B. van Ramshorst

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

Hoe kunnen studenten in mbo- en hoger onderwijsinstellingen het beste worden ondersteund in hun studiekeuze en studieloopbaan met het oog op soepele in- en doorstroom in opleiding en werk?

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Dit artikel wil een coherente basis bieden voor empirische studies naar interpersoonlijke discussies over risico's.

Centraal in dit proefschrift staan de perspectieven van docenten met betrekking tot zelfstandig leren.

Onder welke omstandigheden beperken paramilitaire groepen hun gebruik van politiek geweld? Dit artikel onderzoekt het gebruik hiervan door de PIRA.

In dit artikel onderzochten Martin Sievert en Jonas Bruder of en hoe administratieve lasten van invloed zijn op de perceptie van burgers van het welzijnsbeleid en hun houding tegenover uitkeringsgerechtigden.

Dit artikel beoordeelt de Russische retoriek ten aanzien van Oekraïne door verklaringen van het Russische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken te analyseren.