The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

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: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotors: A.I. Yanson, L.B.F. Juurlink

This thesis describes biochemical investigations of glucocerebrosidase (GBA), the lysosomal β- glucosidase that is deficient in Gaucher disease (GD).

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

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In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Humans and songbirds learn their vocalizations early in life by exposure to the vocalizations of adult conspecifics. Often, better learning outcomes are achieved with live, social, tutors than with audio-only exposure to vocalizations.

This thesis applies data mining in commercial settings in the telecommunications industry.

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

This work describes several studies into the electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), both regarding mechanistical aspects and catalyst stability considerations. Mechanistic insights into carbon-carbon bond formation on a silver catalyst are described in Ch 2, were we find an acetaldehyde-like surface…

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.

Promotors: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. H. Leirs (Univ. Antwerpen)

The parabolic Anderson model (PAM), which is the Cauchy problem for the heat equation with random potential. The PAM is a mathematical model that describes how mass (i.e. matter or energy) flows in a medium in the presence of a field of sources and sinks.

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Hoe kan een CLIL-aanpak, met een focus op Disciplinary Literacies, het literatuuronderwijs van het LLA-programma in de bovenbouw van TTO verbeteren?

Drie Leidse studenten gaan hun kennis delen over geschiedenis terwijl ze videogames spelen. De livestreams vinden plaats op het populaire streamingplatform Twitch. Ze zijn onderdeel van het project ‘Streaming the Past’. De eerste livestream is donderdag 20 mei.

Lezing, Studium Generale

This thesis describes the structural and biochemical characterization of the β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and the Alr and YlmE proteins from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).Mtb is the main cause of tuberculosis.

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

Microbiome composition of the spermosphere and the rhizosphere of wild and modern bean accessions grown in an agricultural and a native soil from Colombia was characterized by metagenomics and cultivation-dependent approaches.

Promotie

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

Investigating epistemic and ethical practices in medical experimentation on humans in the colonial period in Southeast Asia.

Een vergelijkende analyse van legitimeringsstrategieën in drie landen: Rusland, Venezuela en de Seychellen.

In De verwoestingen van Rusland beschrijft politicoloog Hans Oversloot (Universiteit Leiden) de uiterst turbulente geschiedenis van de Sovjet-Unie en de Russische Federatie van de afgelopen 35 jaar. Aan de orde komen onder meer de teloorgang van het socialisme door Gorbatsjov, de opkomst van de oligarchen…

Noord-Korea zou volgens Zuid-Koreaanse inlichtingen al 1500 militairen in Rusland trainen voor de oorlog in Oekraïne. Noord-Korea-deskundige Remco Breuker van de Universiteit Leiden geeft in diverse media zijn visie op deze ontwikkeling.

Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

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.

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

Lezing

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

Per toeval stuitte student Nederlandse taal en cultuur Evi Dijcks op een gedicht van een voor haar onbekend dichtgenootschap. Toen ook haar docente het genootschap niet kende, wisten ze dat dit een onderzoek waard zou zijn. In Trouw vertelt Evi over haar bijzondere ontdekking van een zeer exclusief…

De Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid deelt met trots mee dat Professor Ann Skelton, hoogleraar Kinderrechten in een duurzame wereld en voorzitter van het Kinderrechtencomité van de Verenigde Naties, een eredoctoraat is toegekend door de University of Strathclyde. Deze prestigieuze erkenning is een eerbetoon…

De onderzoeksgroep Organizational & Entrepreneurial Behavior onderzoekt het gedrag van individuen en groepen die in organisaties werken, organisaties starten, of organisaties leiden, met als doel om organisatorische praktijken te informeren. Door zich te concentreren op het gedrag van (groepen) werknemers,…

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