901 search results for “data” in the Student website
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Intriguing food reflex discovered with a smartphone
Psychologist Hilmar Zech found that overweight people are actually more attracted to food pictures after eating than before. He did so using an old research method that he revamped for use on smartphones. Zech will defend his PhD on 30 April.
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How language reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent'
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that you heard it through someone else. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal has been awarded a Vici grant to investigate whether the way people do this is…
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Radio astronomers bypass disturbing Earth's atmosphere with new calibration technique
An international team of researchers led by astronomers from Leiden University (the Netherlands) has produced the first sharp radio maps of the universe at low frequencies. Thanks to a new calibration technique, they bypassed the disturbances of the Earth's ionosphere. They used the new method to study…
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Artwork in the new Gorlaeus Building: ‘Academics and artists have more in common than we think’
Leiden artist Jos Agasi gets to create the artwork for the atrium of the new Gorlaeus Building. His work was chosen from several entries and will be a real eye-catcher in the building. The artist has a fascination for light and uses it to create works of art with all kinds of materials, objects and…
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Dutch people are understanding the term ‘violence’ to mean more and more
When do we say violence was used in an incident? The answer may seem obvious at first. But interim results from a study by Jolien van Breen show that Dutch people are labelling events in increasingly broad contexts as violent.
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Archaeologists receive funding for science communication: ‘We want to change the public image of archaeology’
A diverse team of Leiden archaeologists applied for, and was awarded, the KNAW ‘Appreciated!’ grant, meant to further their science communication endeavours. We speak with Dr Maikel Kuijpers, who is the main contact person of the application.
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Max van Duijn and Vasiliki Kosta join The Young Academy
Leiden researchers Max van Duijn (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science) and Vasilika Kosta (Leiden Law School, Europa Institute) will join The Young Academy (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) KNAW)).
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countries. This was shown by long-term economic and environmental data. 'The gap between poor and rich countries is widening.' Scientists from the Leiden Institute…
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Why the world is quantum
During the Bachelor Honours Class ‘The world is quantum’, students from various disciplines learned about the rules of nature on the smallest scale: quantum mechanics. What opportunities and dangers do they see for their field of study?
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Leiden technology research receives funding from NWO and businesses
A CT scanner to treat eye cancer, energy-efficient software for the future and a test to identify male chick eggs. Three projects by researchers from Leiden University are to receive funding from research funder NWO’s Open Technology programme, to which the business sector also contributes.
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Psychologiestudenten vertellen over hun onderzoek op de Wetenschapsmiddag 2024
The celebration of our up-and-coming science talent, that is the Psychology Science Day. Students stand proudly by their research posters and enrich the insights of fellow students, PhD candidates, postdocs and faculty with their explanations.
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Parenting choices important in transmission of extremism
Do children growing up in a jihadist or right-wing extremist household develop the same extremist views as their parents?
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MODIFED: Morphosyntactic Dialect Feature Detection Workshop
Workshop
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Deep Learning for Beginners: How to Make a Computer Think like a Human
Workshop Series
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Military Purposes
Lecture
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'ALICE': Understanding SLURM: Simplifying High-Performance Computing
Workshop
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (5)
Workshop Series
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Career College Working in Consultancy
Career and apply for jobs
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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Methodology & Statistics Alumni meet students in Psychology
Alumni event, Career
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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The Answer to Inequality is in the Past
Lecture
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LIBC SYLVIUS Lecture
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Fariba Karimi
Lecture
- Responsible Extended Reality (XR) Workshop
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Rense Corten
Lecture
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Political Social Networks in Indonesia Workshop
Workshop
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (2)
Workshop Series
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Multi-Layer Models and Activation Functions Workshop
Workshop Series
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First photo of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
Finally we know for sure that there is a black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. Today, astronomers unveiled the first ever photo of Sagittarius A*, a super-massive object at the centre of the Milky Way. This picture could only be taken thanks to the cooperation of telescopes worldwide.
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar Sustainability
Lecture
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with with Naja Hulvej Rod
Lecture
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Can Generative AI Generate Culture?
Debate
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Humanities for Contemporary Policy Research - the Case of China
Lecture
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Career Talk with Maurien Olsthoorn
Debate, Career Talk
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Alumni meet students in Psychology Methodology & Statistics
Alumni event
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Dialect Comparison and Historical Reconstruction
Lecture, Workshop Series
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
- CADS Research Seminars
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AI & Humanities, Help, Hype or Hassle
Conference
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, Center of Computational Life Sciences
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Explore the Digital Lab with LUCDH: Open Lab and Demos
Lecture
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The ambiguity of the post-verbal modal morpheme DE in Sichuanese
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Exploring Web Archives
Lecture
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’
After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both lecturers in Methodology and Statistics, initiated this major change in the curriculum. That did not happen overnight.