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The research in this dissertation aims to optimise blood donation processes in the framework of the Dutch national blood bank Sanquin. The primary health risk for blood donors is iron deficiency, which is evaluated based on donors' hemoglobin and ferritin levels.

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

The work described in this Thesis is focused on the assembly of oligosaccharide fragments derived from a fungal polysaccharide, galactosaminogalactan (GAG) and fragments of the exopolysaccharide Pel, generated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

Lezing, NGL-lezing

De Romeinse politicus Cicero was een briljant staatsman, maar ook een blaaskaak. Dat stelt universitair docent Leanne Jansen in een interview in NRC.

Maar liefst dertien eeuwen omvat de nieuwe Engelstalige podcast van Maurits Berger, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe. In acht afleveringen betoogt de hoogleraar Islam and the West dat islam en de moslims een belangrijk onderdeel uitmaken van de Europese geschiedenis: ‘Dat was toen,…

What are the flows of C&DW (e.g. bricks, concrete, gypsum and wood) in the case study countries ? How to define the specification for each material to be quantified? What indicators should be used to identify the pattern of each C&DW management system? How to interpret the MFA results in relation…

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

Hot astrophysical plasma is ubiquitous in the Universe, from comets in our Solar system to the largest scale structures -- the cosmic web filaments. These hot plasmas, with the temperature of a few millions of degrees, are often observed in the X-ray wavelength range.

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Creating a framework to assess the sustainability of fish farms which will set sustainability standards and give consumers information about the the sustainability and safety of their seafood.

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Studievoorlichting

Volume 72 of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art is dedicated to the relationship of art and death in the Low Countries and its diaspora, from premodern times to the present. The editors welcome contributions on works of art and architecture (paintings, prints, sculptures, objects of applied…

In hoeverre is Nederland rijk geworden van de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel? Gerhard de Kok kijkt in zijn proefschrift 'Walcherse Ketens' naar Vlissingen en Middelburg, de belangrijkste slavenhandelssteden van Nederland in de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw. Wat blijkt: op nationaal niveau was…

In this Yearbook you will find some fascinating examples of what was done in 2021, not only by ourselves, but also by our international colleagues.

Drie Nederlandse onderzoeksinstituten – waaronder het Leidse KITLV – gaan vervolgonderzoek doen naar het geweldsgebruik tijdens de dekolonisatieoorlog in Nederlands-Indië (1945 – 1950). Het kabinet stelt daarvoor 4,1 miljoen euro beschikbaar.

Zuid-Korea en Japan maken al maandenlang ruzie over handel en uitwisseling van geheime inlichtingen. De gemoederen lopen steeds hoger op, mede door de sentimenten uit het koloniale verleden van beide landen. Remco Breuker, hoogleraar Koreastudies, gaat bij BNR in op de situatie.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde (LION)

Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes

De Universiteit Leiden biedt een specifieke masteropleiding die kolonialisme en slavernij behandelt.

De politicologen Joop van Holsteyn en Tom Louwerse (Universiteit Leiden) zien dat referenda in Nederland de Euroscepsis een stem geven. Maar van een ‘Nexit’ is nog lang geen sprake.

Radio jets are important to the evoultion of galaxies. However, it is still not fully understood how a radio jet can be triggered.

De Universiteit Leiden feliciteert historicus Bart van der Boom, die met zijn boek Wij weten niets van hun lot. Gewone Nederlanders en de Holocaust de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs in ontvangst mocht nemen. De prijs werd zaterdag 27 oktober uitgereikt tijdens de Nacht van de Geschiedenis in Amsterdam.