Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

De onderzoeksgroep ‘Governance of Crises’ bestudeert verschijnselen, dynamiek en spelers als het gaat om crisisbeheersing. Het Crisis Research Center (CRC) van de Universiteit Leiden maakt deel uit van deze onderzoekgroep.

This dissertation focuses on developing new mathematical and statistical methods to properly represent time-varying covariates and model them within the context of time-to-event analysis.

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

Membrane fusion is a vital process in living organisms and is mediated by zipper-like proteins.

Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.

Drug development is a time- and resource-consuming process that starts with the discovery and validation of a (protein) target that contributes to pathogenesis or disease progression.

Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg

The database research community has made tremendous strides in developing powerful database engines that allow for efficient analytical query processing.

Als jong professional ben je volop in ontwikkeling. In je werk, maar ook thuis. Daarom bieden we je op donderdag 17 oktober bij de Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag een inspiratiemiddag aan. Met een presentatie over levensvragen zoals: wat ben ik en wie wil ik zijn? En workshops over vaardigheden die…

Public Affairs kennis verbreden, je verrassen met nieuwe inzichten en zoek de verbinding met PA-professionals. Het programma is een samenwerking tussen de Universiteit Leiden (Centre for Professional Learning, CPL) en de Public Affairs Academie, waarbij praktijk en wetenschap met elkaar worden verbo…

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

The project falls in the context of the EU Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (COM(2005)670). The Institute for Environment and Resources (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed three sets of decoupling indicators. Such indicators require the definition of a…

Mechanical interactions between cells and their environment play an important role in many biological processes.

How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

Promotor: Huub J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Promotores: Prof.dr. E.A.L. Biessen, Prof.dr. T.J.C. van Berkel

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Childhood obesity is an increasing health issue. In the first part of this thesis comorbidities in children with obesity were studied, concerning the diagnostic process and dosing regimens.

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: T.H. Reijmers

Control of infectious diseases poses continuous challenges for human health.

The work in this thesis describes the fundamental role of Lkb1 as a conductor of metabolism-related processes in zebrafish larvae.

The LOFAR radio telescope produces petabytes of data every year. Radio Astronomers use complex multi-step pipelines to process this data and produce scientific images.

Glycosidases are essential in fundamental biological processes and are responsible for the degradation of most (oligo)saccharides, glycolipids and glycoproteins.

Autophagy is a fundamental degradative process, maintaining cellular homeostasis and functions in host defense against intracellular pathogens, including mycobacteria and Salmonella.

Overall dispersion in LCA as result of inherent uncertainties, spread and unrepresentativeness.

The effective treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health.

Promotie

Je volgt een basispakket van biologievakken, exacte vakken in de informatica en speciale integratievakken.

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

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

Dissociative chemisorption is an important reaction step in many catalytic reactions.

In this thesis chemical and physical processes in the ice mantles on interstellar dust grains are studied.

Deze serie benadert begrijpend lezen vanuit een cognitief perspectief. We beschrijven hoe lezers tot begrip komen. Dat wil zeggen: hoe zij coherente mentale representaties opbouwen tijdens het lezen van tekst.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

This paper describes the development process of voting behavior in Chile; particularly the relationship between the class voting theory and the theory of cultural post-materialist vote is investigated. This research deals with Chile as a case study, a developing country with a relatively stable democracy…

This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants⁠.

Sphingolipids are important membrane compounds with a variety of functions. In mammalian cells, different enzymes are involved in the metabolism of sphingolipids, but interruption of this metabolism process leads to different diseases.

Het onderzoek in dit proefschrift kijkt naar de rol van het locus ceuruleus - noradrenalinesysteem in verscheidene aspecten van menselijke cognitie, en de modulatie van de staat van het brein.