3,067 zoekresultaten voor “global transformations and governance challenges” in de Publieke website
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Algorithms for analyzing and mining real-world graphs
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: W.A. Kosters
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Winnaars ING Challenge
ls onderdeel van hun M.Sc.programma, werken ICT in Business studenten aan projected geinspireerd op concrete problemen die voortkomen uit echte situaties binnen bedrijven.
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Sarah Wolff
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
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Chemical Similarity: Structuring Risk and Hazard Assessment
At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.
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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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Addressing climate change with behavioural science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Dit artikel beschrijft het ontstaan van een app die kan helpen om het klimaatbewustzijn en de actie wereldwijd te vergroten.
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Many objective optimization and complex network analysis
This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.
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Random walks and the contact process
Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich
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A computational study of structural and excitonic properties of chlorosomes
The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…
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Dynamical Gibbs-non-Gibbs transitions: a study via coupling and large deviations
Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander
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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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Interview: Zeger van der Wal over 'Good Governance in Asia and the West'
In het kader van het Asia Year van de Universiteit Leiden vindt donderdag 28 september het evenement ‘Good Governance in Asia and the West: What is the Difference?’ plaats in Wijnhaven. Lees hier het interview met Zeger van der Wal over zijn ideeën over Azië en het evenement.
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Isotopes and the characterization of extrasolar planets
Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.
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Going global to local: achieving agri-food sustainability from a spatially explicit input-output analysis perspective
The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.
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Interstellar Catalysts and the PAH universe
Organic molecules in interstellar space are important as they influence the structure of galaxies and star formations. Studying catalytic processes in space allows us to understand how molecular species are formed and chemically evolved in the interstellar medium and solar system objects.
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Intelligence and Security
Wij zijn de grootste onderzoeksgroep binnen de Europese Unie gericht op inlichtingen en veiligheid. Het onderwijs dat door onze groep gegeven wordt bestaat uit een serie van theoretisch en praktisch georiënteerde vakken op zowel bachelor niveau waaronder een minor in Intelligence Studies, als een gespecialiseerde…
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The advantages and disadvantages of bioorthogonal proteins
This thesis describes the use of bioorthogonal proteins in immunological settings. It provides an introduction towards the field of protein modification, which was used throughout the thesis for the expression of proteins containing unnatural amino acids.
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Generalized Strictly Periodic Scheduling Analysis, Resource Optimization, and Implementation of Adaptive Streaming Applications
This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.
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Welkom in de wereld van cybersecurity governance
Onze digitale infrastructuur brengt niet alleen nieuwe mogelijkheden met zich mee, we worden er ook kwetsbaar door. De oplossing ligt niet alleen bij de techniek. Maar hoe geven we organisaties nu werkelijk handvatten om dit complexe thema van digitale veiligheid aan te vliegen? Welkom in de wereld…
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Alette Jansen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carlijn van der Hek
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Invariant manifolds and applications for functional differential equations of mixed type
Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel
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Political Economy and Public Policy
Veel van de grote uitdagingen van de 21ste eeuw (klimaatverandering, internationale migratie, financiële instabiliteit, sociaal-economische ongelijkheid) vinden hun oorsprong in de organisatie van de wereldeconomie. Elke oplossing voor de grote uitdagingen van de wereld vereist daarom krachtige beleidsinterventies…
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Wim van Anrooij
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
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Large scale visual search
Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew
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Understanding the Heterogeneity of Corporate Entrepreneurship Programs
In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…
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Hans-Martien ten Napel schrijft artikel voor LSE Religion and Global Society Blog
Op 15 juli 2019 heeft Hans-Martien ten Napel de aftrap gegeven voor een nieuwe serie over het recht op vrijheid van godsdienst en levensovertuiging op het interdisciplinaire Religion and Global Society Blog van de London School of Economics.
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Mechanisms and consequences of horizontal gene transfer in cell wall-deficient cells of Kitasatospora viridifaciens
The bacterial cell wall is a nearly universal structure that offers protection and gives the cell its shape. However, environmental stressors, such as cell wall-targeting antibiotics and hyperosmotic conditions, can induce bacteria to shift to a wall-deficient state. It is unknown whether the lack of…
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Towards superconducting spintronics with RuO2 and CrO2 nanowires
CrO2, a half-metal ferromagnet, has shown great promise for superconducting spintronics applications for nearly two decades.
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Engagement of citizens and public professionals in the co-production of public services
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.…
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Search and rescue: tackling antibiotic resistance with chemistry
With the rise of multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens, the possibility of a post-antibiotic world is quickly becoming reality.
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Monitoring and detection of nanomaterials in biological media.
How do nanoparticles bioaccumulate and biodistribute in organisms?
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Autophagy and Lc3-associated phagocytosis in host defense against Salmonella
Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.
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Artificial metallo-proteins for photocatalytic water splitting: stability and activity in artificial photosynthesis
Climate change is one of the largest challenges faced by humanity. To combat this research into alternatives to fossil fuels is ongoing. Dihydrogen is considered a good alternative fuel, since its burning only forms water.
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Novel regulators of prostate cancer stem cells and tumor aggressiveness
Promotor: R.C.M. Pelger Co-Promotor: G. van der Pluijm
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Arguably augmented reality : relationships between the virtual and the real
This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.
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Anthracycline biosynthesis in Streptomyces: engineering, resistance and antimicrobial activity
Actinobacteria are well known for the production of bioactive natural products, many of which have applications in the fields of human, animal and plant health. Subject of this thesis are the anthracyclines, glycosylated aromatic polyketides with potent anticancer activity.
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Can traditional forest management protect and conserve ironwood (ulin) stands? An option and approach in East Kalimantan
Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh
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1,2-cis-glycosylations: method development and synthesis of complex oligosaccharides
Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: D.C. Codée
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The environmental rebound effect: a new paradigm for an old challenge. The case of transport eco-innovation
What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?
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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.
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Dr. Jos Gommans benoemd tot hoogleraar Colonial and Global History
Dr. Jos Gommans is per 1 juli 2011 bij de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen benoemd tot hoogleraar Colonial and Global History. Gommans was al werkzaam bij de Universiteit Leiden, als hoofddocent bij het Instituut Geschiedenis.
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Nieuw LDE-Centre: Governance of Migration and Diversity
Sinds begin dit jaar bestaat het LDE-Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity, dat met een multidisciplinaire blik naar bestuurs- en beleidsvraagstukken in vier Zuid-Hollandse steden kijkt. Bijzonder is dat er al afgestudeerde masterstudenten op dit specialistische gebied rondlopen.
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Systematics, Epidermal defense and Bioprospecting of Wild Orchids
This thesis presents the systematics, epidermal defense, and bioprospecting of wild orchids.
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Guiding safe and sustainable technological innovation under uncertainty: a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaics
A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.
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Nieuwe masterspecialisatie Economics & Governance
New master specialisation: Economics and Governance
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Speels online leerplatform wint Deans' Challenge
Een online platform met leerzame en sociale uitdagingen ter voorbereiding op de veranderende arbeidsmarkt. Met dat idee won het team Piece of Skill op 27 augustus de Deans' Challenge. In deze wedstrijd bedenken studenten oplossingen voor mondiale zorgen, geselecteerd door decanen van de Universiteit…
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CO2 reduction toward liquid fuels : on heterogeneous electrocatalysts and heterogenized molecular catalysts
With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.
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Good Governance Workshop (Utrecht)
On February 1, Utrecht University organizes an international workshop on good governance in the late medieval city (1200-1600).
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Right to Challenge: Lessen uit Londen
Esmée Driessen, onderzoeks- en onderwijsmedewerkster verbonden aan de afdeling Staats- en bestuursrecht, reisde vorige week met een delegatie van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken naar London. Daar wilde zij meer leren over de toepassing van het zogenoemde Right to Challenge in het Verenigd Koni…