Misleidende berichten op sociale media beweren ten onrechte dat Jumbo supermarkten gezichtsherkenning gebruiken. De supermarktketen zou gezichtsherkenning gebruiken bij de zelfscankassa’s. Jumbo ontkent dit, al zijn ze wel begonnen met proeven met AI-camera’s om winkeldiefstal tegen te gaan, zonder…

Zsuzsika Sjoerds heeft het druk met onderzoek doen, onderwijs geven en de barricades bestormen voor de wetenschap. Van 29 september tot en met 6 oktober heeft ze een week lang het beheer over het twitteraccount @NL_Wetenschap.

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

Leidse alumni komen op zeer diverse plekken terecht. De verhalen van onze alumni verzamelen we en publiceren we regelmatig in onze alumni nieuwsbrief en alumnimagazine Leidraad. Op deze pagina zijn al deze interviews terug te vinden. Ze brengen mooi in beeld hoe het Leidse alumni na hun afstuderen is…

In this dissertation non-parametric Bayesian methods are used in the application of robotic vision.

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In dit artikel presenteren Andrea Bartolucci en Michele Magni een evidence-based onderzoek naar de spontane opname van slachtoffers en de verdeling van patiënten in de onmiddellijke nasleep van de Manchester Arena Bombing.

Het Instituut voor Geschiedenis heeft een LinkedIn pagina opgezet voor studenten en alumni van de studie Geschiedenis in Leiden. Dit is een professionele online community waar je op de hoogte blijft van interessante stages, werkplekken en evenementen. Een digitale ontmoetingsplek voor iedereen die ooit…

Een dag na de inauguratie van Donald Trump als nieuwe president van de Verenigde Staten werden zoektermen gelieerd aan Biden, Harris en Obama op Instagram aangemerkt als ‘gevoelige content’. Promovendus Danny Mekic waarschuwt in de Volkskrant voor techbedrijven: ‘Extreem onwenselijk’.

Danny Mekić, promovendus bij eLaw - Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie én Eindhoven University of Technology, is op 22 juli uitgeroepen tot ‘Mr. van de Week’ omdat hij recentelijk twee rechtszaken tegen het socialemediabedrijf Twitter heeft gewonnen.

Tijdens haar werk voor de Europese Unie zag Sophie Vériter hoe jongeren in landen als Oekraïne en Moldavië werden blootgesteld aan Russische propaganda. Na het in kaart brengen van het EU-beleid rond desinformatie, pleit de promovendus er nu voor om de aanpak te herzien.

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This thesis covers various applications of topology in condensed matter physics and quantum information.

In this thesis, we consider various (electro)chemical phenomena at surfaces and nanoparticles and their underlying atomistic processes, which we studied using first-principles methods such as density functional theory.

Despite being the second largest transmembrane protein family after GPCRs, the SLC superfamily has only gained significant attention in early drug development over the past decade.

The inverse electron demand Diels-Alder (IEDDA) pyridazine elimination emerged in 2013 as a new bioorthogonal reaction and constitutes a prime example of what is now known as dissociative bioorthogonal chemistry. The research described in this Thesis aims to develop synthetic strategies which enable…

Endocannabinoids are lipid messengers that modulate various physiological functions by activating the cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors. While the metabolism of endocannabinoids and their action at the CB receptors is fairly well studied, the molecular mechanisms governing their release and transport…

This thesis mainly focuses on cross-modal retrieval and single-modal image retrieval via deep learning methods, i.e. by using deep convolutional neural networks.

In this thesis, we aim to shed light on the diverse and often opposing roles of integrin α3β1 in cancer.

This thesis describes the implementation and on-sky demonstration of high-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptive optics systems that are used to find and characterize exoplanets.

This thesis provides explicit expressions for the density functions of absolutely continuous invariant measures for general families of interval maps, that include random maps and infinite measure transformations, not necessarily number systems.

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The RNA guided endonuclease based on the CRISPR/Cas system of Streptococcus pyogenus is a potent new tool for genome engineering in plants.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

The ideas underlying this thesis are that lipidomics may improve the diagnosis of liver metabolic diseases, and can provide further insights into the underlying pathophysiology of these diseases.

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

Quantum computing is an emerging technology, which holds the potential to simulate complex quantum systems beyond the reach of classical numerical methods.Despite recent formidable advancements in quantum hardware, constructing a quantum computer capable of performing useful calculations remains challenging.In…

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt

Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.

The intracluster medium (ICM) is a hot, tenuous and X-ray emitting gas that pervades galaxy clusters.

Protoplanetary disks are the gas and dust environments where planetary systems form around young stars. Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) this thesis analyses the gaseous molecular reservoir, using multiple tracers to resolve the 3D structure of protoplanetary…

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Dissochaeta Blume (Melastomataceae, tribe Dissochaeteae) is well-known as a scrambling plant genus found in Southeast Asia, where it is an inhabitant of the tropical rainforests or evergreen forests.

Promotor: G. A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: D. V. Filippov

There is a need for alternative methods to replace, reduce and refine (3R) animal experimentation. Combining experimental data from high-throughput in vitro studies with in silico modeling is a promising approach to unravel the effect of chemicals on living cells and to gain a better understanding of…

The largest genus within the Phyllanthaceae family is a group called Phyllanthus L. Recent studies have shown, that Phyllanthus is paraphyletic with the genera Glochidion, Breynia and Synostemon nested within it.

Promotors: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Prof.dr. E. Drent

Almost all bacteria are enveloped by a cell wall that provides cellular protection.

The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

In the traditional theory of linear elasticity, superposition dictates that the response of a material does not depend on the sequence of the applied mechanical actuations.

Onderzoekers aangesloten bij het Leiden Leadership Centre zijn actieve leden van het PUPOL netwerk. PUPOL is een internationaal academisch netwerk voor publiek en politiek leiderschap. Dit netwerk stimuleert de uitwisseling van ideeën en bevordert gezamenlijk onderzoek tussen wetenschappers gericht…

In this thesis new methodologies are developed for the detection and systematic study of radio sources in the early universe. This allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies, the activity of supermassive black holes, and the final phase transition of our universe:…