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Interaction with sound for participatory systems and data sonification
This thesis deals with the use of sound in interactions in the context of participatory systems and data sonification. We investigate an interactive environment where participants perceive information of the data through sound elements.
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Hunting for new physics in the primordial Universe
This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.
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Advancements of interventional oncology treatments for early stage hepatocellular carcinoma
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Leiden Leadership Centre zomercafe
Afgelopen vrijdag 3 juni stelden studenten, professionals en academici hun kennis over publiek leiderschap op de proef tijdens de Leiden Leadership Pubquiz/het Leiden Leadership Zomer Café.
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Indo-European Etymological Dictionary
Dit unieke project, dat in 1991 werd opgezet, heeft tot doel het gemeenschappelijke lexicale erfgoed van de belangrijkste Indo-Europese talen en taaltakken te identificeren en te beschrijven. Het project heeft tot dusver geresulteerd in twaalf delen, gepubliceerd als The Leiden Indo-European Etymological…
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Exploring Images With Deep Learning for Classification, Retrieval and Synthesis
In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.
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Deep learning for tomographic reconstruction with limited data
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.
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Stochastic and Deterministic Algorithms for Continuous Black-Box Optimization
Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.
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A recipe for desert: analysis of an extended Klausmeier model
Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk
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Novel detectors and algorithms for electron nano-crystallography
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel
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Is asylum bad for men (and better for women)? Changing perspectives on female and male refugees and asylum seekers in the Netherlands in the
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Alwin Kloekhorst bij Unity.NU over zijn passie voor dode talen
Elke week ontvangt Christine Carrington voor het programma ‘Het Nachtelijk Gesprek’ van Unity.NU een bekende regiogenoot in haar slaapkamer voor een openhartig gesprek. Deze week was Alwin Kloekhorst, universitair hoofddocent bij Taalwetenschappen, te gast. Hij sprak o.a. over zijn interesse voor taalwetenschap…
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Forensisch spraakonderzoek: opkomende wetenschap in Leiden
Studenten van het mastercollege Forensic Speech Science waren op 4 juni op bezoek bij het Nederlands Forensisch Instituut (NFI) in Den Haag. Hier kregen ze voorbeelden voorgeschoteld uit de praktijk, zoals spraakonderzoek aan stemopnamen van verdachten. Forensische fonetiek is een jong, zich snel ontwikkelend…
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Vacancy: 11 PhD positions (University of Marburg)
Candidates are invited to submit their ‘own proposals for doctoral projects, which can come from the following eleven subjects: Ancient History, Old Testament, Ancient Oriental Studies, Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Greek Studies, Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Classical Archaeology,…
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Joost Kok in Leidsch Dagblad over Dutch Sport Data Centre
Wetenschappers van de Universiteit Leiden werken samen met de schaatsploeg van Jac Orie om te bepalen welke mix van verschillende trainingen voorafgaand aan een wedstrijd het beste is om optimaal te presteren. Joost Kok, hoogleraar informatica: 'We willen dé hoofdstad van de sport data valley van Nederland…
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Leidse muurgedichten
In deze filmpjes leer je over de schriftsystemen van de bekende Leidse muurgedichten.
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Tienjarig bestaan Dual PhD Centre
Op 14 december vierde het Dual PhD Centre van de Universiteit Leiden haar tienjarig bestaan met een posterpresentatie, beschouwingen, muziek en een receptie aan de Haagse Schouwburgstraat. In het bijzijn van decaan Erwin Muller, oud-rector Douwe Breimer, oprichter Adriaan in ’t Groen en directeur Johannes…
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Heterogenized molecular (pre)catalysts for water oxidation and oxygen reduction
Before the large scale use of renewable energy sources can be implemented in our society, the storage of electrical energy needs to be tackled. Storage the energy as hydrogen via the reduction of protons is a good option.
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Optimally weighted ensembles of surrogate models for sequential parameter optimization
It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.
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Statistical physics and information theory for systems with local constraints
Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.
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Inverse Jacobian and related topics for certain superelliptic curves
To an algebraic curve C over the complex numbers one can associate a non-negative integer g, the genus, as a measure of its complexity.
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Leiden University College ontvangt subsidie voor diversiteitsproject
Minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Ingrid Van Engelshoven maakte op donderdag 13 juni 2019 bij Pulchri Studio in Den Haag bekend welke projecten subsidie ontvangen van de Students-4-Students campagne. Het Leiden University College: The Hague was één van de zeven onderwijsinstituten die hun…
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Design and development of a comprehensive data management platform for cytomics: cytomicsDB
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok
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Engineering of antigen-saving dissolving microneedles for intradermal vaccine delivery
The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.
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Met een plakboek vol foto’s naar Leiden University College
Leiden University College bruist weer van leven. Op 13 augustus trok een nieuwe lichting studenten in hun studentenkamers. Voor meer dan tweehonderd eerstejaars is LUC de komende drie jaar hun thuis. Tijdens moving day spraken we drie van hen.
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Meike de Boer: ‘Door het woordje ‘uh’ kun je verdachten opsporen’
In de nieuwe videoreeks ‘De wereld van taalwetenschap’ vertellen alumni en wetenschappers over hun passie voor hun vakgebied. Promovenda Meike de Boer weet alles over het woordje ‘uh’.
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PhD Position on Understanding the Global Movement for Open Research Information
Sociale Wetenschappen, Centrum voor Wetenschaps- en Technologiestudies
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Opportunity and Problem in Context (OPiC). A framework for environmental management in developing countries
Promotor: W.T. de Groot
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Evaluation of Different Design Space Description Methods for Analysing Combustion Engine Operation Limits
Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck
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Inhibitors and activity-based probes for β-D-glucuronidases, heparanases and β-L-arabinofuranosidases
Glycosidases (GHs) are enzymes responsible for the degradation of carbohydrates and play many roles in human health and pathophysiology. Often, abnormal levels of glycosidase activity are markedly linked to human pathologies.
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PLGA-based particulate vaccine delivery systems for immunotherapy of cancer
Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp
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and development of conformational inhibitors and activity-based probes for retaining glycosidases
Glycosidases are essential in fundamental biological processes and are responsible for the degradation of most (oligo)saccharides, glycolipids and glycoproteins.
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as modulators of lipid metabolism and inflammation and the relevance for atherosclerosis
Acute cardiovascular clinical events such as myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke represent the major cause of death in Western societies. These pathologies are primarily resulting from atherosclerosis, a progressive condition characterized by the accumulation of lipids, immune cells, and fibrous…
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Genomics applications of nanopore long-read sequencing for small to large sized genomes
In this thesis I highlight the applications of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing. This technique is a relatively new approach in the sequencing field, where nanopores are embedded in a membrane, DNA molecules are pulled through nanopores and an electrical current serving as the sequencing…
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How to scale clearance from adults to children for drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism?
The aim of this thesis is to expedite and ensure the systematic accuracy of clearance scaling from adults to paediatric patients, with a special focus on drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism.
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Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Scheduling
Multi-criteria optimalisatie is een effectieve techniek voor het vinden van optimale oplossingen die een afweging bieden tussen verschillende, tegenstrijdige criteria. Het heeft zijn toepassing gevonden in de wereld om ons heen omdat bij het oplossen van praktische, re¨ele wereld problemen men gewoonlijk…
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Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Static Surface Model for Molecule- Surface Reactions
Several techniques are explored for going beyond the born-oppenheimer static surface model for molecule-surface reactions.
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Automated machine learning for dynamic energy management using time-series data
Time-series forecasting through modelling sequences of temporally dependent observations has many industrial and scientific applications. While machine learning models have been widely used to create time-series forecasting models, creating efficient and performant time-series forecasting models is…
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Functionalized two-dimensional membranes and materials for solar-to-fuel devices: a multiscale computational approach
In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.
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Human skin equivalents for atopic dermatitis: investigating the role of filaggrin in the skin barrier
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri
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Interactive scalable condensation of reverse engineered UML class diagrams for software comprehension
Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)
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Innovative sample preparation and handling strategies for automated and high-throughput metabolomics
Metabolomics has the potential to play a pivotal role in understanding disease onset and progression, and ultimately personalized treatments. One of its major challenges is its large-scale implementation, which is necessary to deal with the high variability of the metabolome. In this work we have developed…
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Egbert Fortuin benoemd tot hoogleraar Russian Language and Linguistics: ‘Ik ben weer terug’
Op 1 augustus is Egbert Fortuin benoemd tot hoogleraar Russian Language and Linguistics. Na een bestuursperiode van vijf jaar als vice-decaan in het faculteitsbestuur staat hij te trappelen om zich volledig aan de opleiding te wijden. Zijn benoeming kan dan ook in vier woorden worden samengevat: ‘Ik…
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The Chara plasma membrane system : an ancestral model for plasma membrane transport in plant cells
Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.
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Jenny Doetjes onderzoekt ‘hoeveel’ met NWO Open Competitie-subsidie
Hoogleraar Jenny Doetjes heeft een NWO-subsidie ontvangen om onderzoek te doen naar de cross-linguïstische eigenschappen van hoeveelheidsuitdrukkingen en de invloed van ons brein op taal.
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Promovendus Camil Staps zocht uit wat ‘uit’ betekent
Woorden die oorspronkelijk bedoeld zijn om ruimte aan te geven, zoals ‘uit’, worden ook regelmatig gebruikt om oorzaak en gevolg aan te geven. Waarom gebeurt dit? En hoe zit het in andere talen? Promovendus Camil Staps zocht het uit.
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Developing metabolomics for a systems biology approach to understand Parkinson's disease
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…
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biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces sp. QL37 and implications for lugdunomycin production
Streptomyces bacteria are a valuable source of natural products, many of which are used in the clinic or in biotechnology.
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Two-photon multifocal microscopy for in vivo single-molecule and single-particle imaging
In this thesis we investigated the ability of two-photon multifocal microscopy for single-molecule microscopy in live cells and organisms.
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Visual analytics for spatially-resolved omics data at single cell resolution: Methods and Applications
The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…