1,210 search results for “construction” in the Public website
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Concurrent Systems
In modern information systems, a large number of different components are often active simultaneously. This phenomenon - known as concurrency - underlies not only the functioning of computer systems but of any system in which many processes take place at the same time.
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Functions of P38 and ERK kinases in zebrafish early development
Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar
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Prince, Pen, and Sword. Eurasian Perspectives
Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions…
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Sustainability
Leiden University is a integral part of the community and contributes to a sustainable society. Over the coming years our University will become even greener.
- Brought under the law of the land
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Decentering Gagaku. Exploring the multiplicity of contemporary Japanese Court music
Andrea Giolai defended his thesis on 3 May 2017.
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Improvisations in phototrophy
Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.
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Met de voeten in het water
Publication on the excavations at Roman fort Matilo in Leiden
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Peacekeeping in South Lebanon: Credibility and Local Cooperation
In this book, Vanessa Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility’s essential place in peacekeeping.
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Ghosts Here and There: Spectral Resistance and Dialogue in Postcolonial Literature
The ethics of ghosts, spectres, and mediums in postcolonial literature
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Crowdsourced Online Dispute Resolution
On 27 June 2017, Daniel Dimov defended his PhD dissertation “Crowdsourced Online Dispute Resolution”. The supervisors are Professor H.J. van den Herik and Professor A.R. Lodder.
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Attacks on hash functions and applications
Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger
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Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World
While phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism are both known for their investigations of consciousness, there exists a core tension between them: phenomenology affirms the existence of essence, whereas Yogacara Buddhism argues that everything is empty of essence (svabhava). How is constructive cultural…
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Facing Society
The main aim of this research is to understand the dynamics of identity within indigenous Caribbean communities as expressed through the practice of intentional cranial modification. A multidisciplinary approach will be applied to achieve this aim, combining current anthropological and sociological…
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On the Aesthetic Regime of Kurdish Cinema: The Making of Kurdishness
Bahar Şimşek defended her thesis on 4 May 2021.
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The Observatory
On this section of the website you can find more information about the Old Observatory and the current astronomy research institute.
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Foreign investment and colonial society in Indonesia
The aim of this PhD dissertation project is to study the effect of private foreign investment outside the realm of economics in the context of a colonial structure in Indonesia between c. 1910 and c. 1960.
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Researching Extremists and Terrorists: Reflections on Interviewing Hard-to-Reach Populations
In this publication, the authors explore the reality of accessing and interviewing hard-to-reach populations such as extremists and terrorists
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Dorothea Samtleben Lab - Neutrino Telescopes
Our current research focusses on the exploration of the Universe using the neutrino. This neutral, almost massless and only weakly interacting particle can open a window to the distant Universe and also dense regions from which photons cannot escape.
- Green Infrastructure, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
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Segments and rules: a comparative study into the computational mechanisms underlying language acquisition
In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…
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Visualizing strongly-correlated electrons with a novel scanning tunneling microscope
Materials with strongly correlated electrons show some of the most mysterious and exotic phases of quantum matter, such as unconventional superconductivity, quantum criticality and strange metal phase.
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An Ontology for Physical Necessity
The central inquiry of this thesis revolves around how ontology can adequately accommodate the existence of necessary physical relations. Initially, the thesis demonstrates the imperative acknowledgment of necessary physical relations by showcasing the failure of Neo-Humean theories.
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The Confluence of Water and Power
On 27 January 2022 Tjahjono Prasodjo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Topological phases and phase transitions in magnets and ice
The main focus of this thesis is the behaviour of two-dimensional materials, namely (anti)-ferromagnetic materials in the first two chapters, which show topological phases, and energetic square ice in the third and fourth chapter.
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Understanding the #plandemic: Core framings on Twitter and what this tells us about countering online far right COVID-19 conspiracies
This paper examines the need and possibility for developing online resilience-based approaches in response to COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies, often linked to the far right.
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La crémation à Alexandrie et dans l’Égypte grecque et romaine: étude d'une pratique à travers ses urnes cinéraires
This research aims to study the practice of cremation in Alexandria and Graeco-Roman Egypt, through the examination of its cinerary urns.
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No Man's Land: Gender and Sexuality in Erotic Narratives of the Late Ottoman Empire
Muge Özoglu defended her dissertation on 5 December 2018
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Chaotic dynamics in N-body systems
Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart, Co-promotor: D.C. Heggie
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Interaccion Colonial en un Pueblo de Indios Encomendados
El Chorro de Maita, Cuba
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A Featural Typology of Bantu Agreement
This book explores the fascinating microvariation in Bantu languages and proposes a new syntactic analysis of subject and object agreement crosslinguistically. This book is open access!
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Coiled-coils on lipid membranes: a new perspective on membrane fusion
Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros
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Righting and Rewriting History: Recovering and Analyzing Manuscript Archives Destroyed During World War II
Archives were a common target during the Second World War, and hundreds suffered damages. Among these archival losses, the losses to medieval manuscript collections stand out.
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Credible sets in nonparametric regression
Promotor: Prof.dr. A.W. van der Vaart
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Molecular engineering of plant development using Agrobacterium-mediated protein translocation
Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas Co-Supervisor: R. Offringa
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Islamization Explored
Can we speak of a single Islamic discourse in fields like politics, militancy, economics, sustainable development, and the like, and what interaction does this Islamic though have with ‘Western’ thought?
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Pragmatics
When combined and used by specific people located in time and place, words can express something more than, different from, or even the opposite of their dictionary meanings.
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Societies at the Old Observatory
Four different astronomical societies are active in the Old Observatory. We are very proud of the commitment these associations show to organize activities.
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Imagining Communities. Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation
In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a
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The style of speeches
What is the difference between a minister saying that something is possible or that it is not impossible ?
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Gorlaeus Bicycle Storage
Currently, the construction is underway for a large, covered bicycle parking facility with space for nearly 3000 bicycles. In the summer of 2024, the Gorlaeus bicycle parking will be ready for use.
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Sacrificial Landscapes
Cultural biographies of persons, objects and 'natural' places in the Bronze Age of the Southern Netherlands, c. 2300-600 BC.
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The infrastructure of news: Newsroom ethnography in Chile
Research on the process and construction of news stories about human rights issues in Latin American newspapers.
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Paul Natorp’s reformulation of the Kantian distinction between intuition and concept
The goal of our research is to analyze Natorp’s redefinition of the distinction between intuitions and concepts in relation to his conception of the method of philosophy. We will exhibit the connection between the way in which Natorp redefines the Kantian dichotomy and his conception of the method of…
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Large scale visual search
Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew
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DNA expressions - A formal notation for DNA
Promotores: J.N. Kok, H.J. Hoogeboom
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Second Language Acquisition
Research combining a conceptual and practical perspective within the field of teaching and learning second languages.
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Shaping Massive Galaxies: the structural evolution of galaxies across
Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.
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Verfransing onder de loep
On the 24th of May, Brenda Assendelft successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Brenda on this achievement!
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Unconditionally secure cryptographic protocols from coding-theoretic primitives
This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.