CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Area Studies, Chinese Studies

Promotie

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

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.

Effectiveness and Side-effects.

In this thesis, we aim to shed light on the diverse and often opposing roles of integrin α3β1 in cancer.

Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Publicaties van het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut

Programma's die de symptomen van sociale angst bij kinderen willen verminderen, omvatten doorgaans meerdere onderdelen, zoals blootstelling en mentale herstructurering. Het is onbekend of afzonderlijke onderdelen positieve effecten opleveren bij kinderen of dat een combinatie van onderdelen nodig is…

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

We showed that constitutive and inducible chemical and morphological defenses against Western flower thrips differ between tomato and chrysanthemum plants.

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal

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.

Extending our current arsenal of antibiotics is key to staying ahead in the arms race between humans and resistant bacteria.

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

This book aims to be a point of reflection and debate for journalists, academics and students to recognize a fundamental task in the duty of the communications professional, which is to influence through their daily work and their routines in order to achieve a more inclusive and plural society, through…

The work in this thesis demonstrates how to obtain an atomic-scale picture of a diverse set of complex surface structures observed using STM, under disparate conditions.

Radio jets are important to the evoultion of galaxies. However, it is still not fully understood how a radio jet can be triggered.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: F. Calle-Vallejo

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

This thesis focused on the exploration of monolayer graphene as a membrane in direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) applications, with improvements achieved through plasma exposure or damage- free chemical functionalization.

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

This thesis introduces the concept of

Zie hier het facultaire werkplan voor diversiteit en inclusie binnen de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid.

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.

Drie Leidse studenten die dit jaar met behulp van de VSBfonds Beurs hun buitenlandse droom werkelijkheid maken, vertellen over hun ervaringen.

Het is een van de meest besproken onderwerpen van dit moment: hoe bannen we seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag en geweld uit? Alumnus Femke Eisma is woordvoerder van Mariëtte Hamer, de regeringscommissaris die dit hardnekkige maatschappelijke probleem moet aanpakken. Eisma studeerde Nederlands in Leiden.…

In de zomermaanden zijn er drie grote introductieweken - EL CID, HOP en OWL - voor nieuwe studenten, maar ook halverwege het academisch jaar starten er nieuwe studenten met hun studie in Leiden of Den Haag. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan internationale studenten die hier een aantal maanden op uitwisseling komen.…

Sinds 2009 behaalden 87 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

In 2021 heeft het NCSC de Universiteit Leiden gevraagd om een rapid review uit te voeren naar best practices en mogelijkheden voor vervolgonderzoek over de integratie van gedragswetenschappen in security by design methodologieën en projecten. Dit academische veld wordt security by behavioural design…

Persoonlijke briefjes uit middeleeuws Rusland? We kennen wel veel officiële en kerkelijke documenten, maar de vondsten van stukjes beschreven berkenbast uit Novgorod geven op een unieke wijze inzicht in hoe 'gewone' mensen dagelijks met elkaar communiceerden.

This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

Research

Een onderzoek naar de invloed van afgeleid eten op consumptiebeleving en het consumptiegedrag.

CERA (CErtification of RAw Materials) is a four-year project that will develop a standardized certification scheme ensuring environmental, social and economic sustainability in extraction, processing, trading and manufacturing of all mineral raw materials. It will guarantee traceability of certified…

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Several single-stranded RNA viruses make use of Xrn1-resistant RNAs in their 3’ untranslated regions of their genome RNAs in order to increase their pathogenicity.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by a dysregulated host response to infection, it is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and with a high financial burden on global healthcare systems. Bacterial infections are the primary cause of sepsis, but the growing prevalence of antimicrobial…