Milan van der Kuil, Anne Visser, Andrea Evers en Ineke van der Ham hebben een artikel gepubliceerd in Frontiers in Psychology, getiteld: A usability study of a serious game in cognitive rehabilitation: a compensatory navigation training in acquired brain injury patients. Ze beschrijven hierin hoe serious…

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken Co-Promotores: I.M.N. Groot; L.B.F. Juurlink

Wat zou je willen weten over hersenen of over pubergedrag? Scholen in en rondom Leiden die de leukste, beste of meest originele vragen naar het Brain and Development Research Center opsturen, kunnen daar een gastles voor leerlingen of een lezing voor docenten mee winnen. Zij ontvangen tijdens de Brain…

The thesis describes experimental steps towards reduction of friction on the macroscopic scale by scenarios of thermo- and superlubricity well-known on the nanoscale.

Promotor: Bas Edixhoven, Promotor: Qing Liu

In the first part, we introduce a new condition, called toric-additivity, on a family of abelian varieties degenerating to a semi-abelian scheme over a normal crossing divisor.

This thesis focuses on the synthesis, characterization and performance towards CO2 electroreduction of mono and bi-metallic particles based on p-block metals

Welke rol spelen ouder-kind interacties bij het ontstaan, in stand houden en de behandeling van depressieve klachten van jongeren?

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: J.B.F. Juurlink

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

This thesis aims to investigate the effect of tripartite interaction between microbial inoculants, the plant, and herbivore insects on the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome. We investigated the rhizosphere microbiome and volatilome of tomato plants exposed to insect herbivory and/or inoculated with…

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

In this thesis we use Josephson and noise scanning tunneling microscopy for the study of conventional, unconventional (iron-based) and disordered superconductors. On the one hand, Josephson scanning tunneling microscopy allows us to directly visualize the superfluid density with high spatial resolut…

Fundamental understanding of molecular reactions on metal surfaces is important for improving heterogeneous catalysis.

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.

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).

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

The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…

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

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.

Werk kan niet altijd leuk zijn, maar wat als alleen al een blik op de to do-lijst buikpijn bezorgt? Om het gesprek daarover te starten, ging de zesde Psychology Connected over werkdruk en werkplezier. Mét tips uit de positieve psychologie.

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Het Levend Lab van de Universiteit Leiden verhuist naar het hart van het Leiden Bio Science Park. Op de nieuwe plek tussen de Hogeschool, Mentor en Naturalis, zijn de eerste slootjes inmiddels gegraven. Deze nieuwe locatie is beter toegankelijk voor zowel wetenschappers als publiek. Hier kunnen onderzoek…

Lysosomal glycosidases are acid hydrolases that fragment glycoconjugates in lysosomes.

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…

De zon ontbrak, maar dat kon de sfeer niet drukken. Met een coverband, tropische drankjes en een stikstofijskar pakte de Honours Academy groots uit om de zomer in te luiden. Op de borrel blikten studenten, docenten en medewerkers van de Academy terug op het afgelopen jaar.

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-promotor: H.H. de Iongh, C.J.M. Musters

Samen zullen we sociale, economische en culturele ongelijkheid in de maatschappij moeten overbruggen, vindt Wilco van Dijk. Maar helaas zijn minderheidsgroepen dikwijls geen onderdeel van die ’wij’, constateert Carolien Rieffe. Punt van discussie tijdens deze vijfde Psychology Connected.

In de medische en psychologische wetenschap is weinig onderzoek gedaan naar vrouwen. Te ingewikkeld, die grillige hormoonhuishouding. Ja, onderzoek naar verschillen tussen mannen en vrouwen is complex, weten neurowetenschappers Ellen de Bruijn en Lara Wierenga, maar juist daarom zo belangrijk.

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

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

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

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

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

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…