Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

De master International Relations van de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit Leiden biedt een volledig inzicht in de complexe factoren die kenmerkend zijn voor de moderne wereld. De opleiding legt een voortreffelijke basis voor een carrière in de internationale arena.

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

Dit tweejarige Advanced MSc IRD-programma biedt je een unieke combinatie van academisch onderwijs in internationale betrekkingen en politieke wetenschappen, met praktisch onderwijs en training in internationale onderhandelingsvaardigheden en diplomatie.

In de bachelorspecialisatie International Relations and Organisations ligt de nadruk op internationale onderwerpen. Het programma is geheel Engelstalig en wordt verzorgd in Den Haag.

Benieuwd of de Engelstalige bachelor opleiding International Relations and Organisations in Den Haag bij je past? Bekijk de opleidingsvideo.

Dit project bestudeert sociale afstand - de mate van begrip tussen mensen - in relatie tot het buitenlands beleid van staten. Geeft sociale afstand vorm aan politieke vooroordelen, hulpverhalen en, uiteindelijk, de prioriteiten en beslissingen van het buitenlands beleid van een staat?

The key purpose of this project is to study tautological relations on the level of closed differential forms or even integral cochains (i.e. we don't take classes in cohomology).

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

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​Hoe verwerkt ons brein prikkels en informatie? Waarom is ons brein zo gevoelig voor fake-news? Doordat het leven van jongeren steeds meer online plaatsvindt, worden zij ook vaker blootgesteld aan fake-news. Valse informatie kan schadelijk zijn voor de gezondheid en het welzijn van jongeren. Om dit…

Proefschrift van de politicoloog Luzia Helfer (Universiteit Leiden), die in Nederland en in Zwitserland onderzocht op basis van welke criteria journalisten politiek nieuws selecteren en hoe politici besluiten wel of niet te reageren op het nieuws.

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

Op donderdag 11 januari 2018 verdedigde Xiang Li haar proefschrift: 'Collective Labour Rights and Collective Labour Relations of China'. Haar promotoren zijn Guus Heerma van Voss en Barend Barentsen.

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

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Writing an operational guide to the ISO standards for LCA and related sub-projects.

Alumni-activiteit, New York

Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Rottgering

On May 30 and 31, a workshop will take place at the Dutch Art Historical Institute in Florence (NIKI). This workshop aims to further our understanding of how late medieval societies reconciled the partially contradictory ideals and expectations of Ecclesia and Iustitia at a collective and individual…

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability' laat zien hoe de eco-geologische creativiteit van de aarde verweven is met de landvormen, culturen en wereldvisies van moderne Himalayagemeenschappen. Het boek laat casestudies zien uit Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim,…

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Phospholipase A/acyltransferase 3 (PLAAT3) and PLAAT4 are enzymes involved in the synthesis of bioactive lipids. Despite sequential and structural similarities, the two enzymes differ in activity and specificity.

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

Op 20 juni promoveert Camil Staps. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Camil!

Op 19 september 2019 verdedigde Lynette Janssen zijn proefschrift 'EU Bank Resolution Framework: A comparative study on the relation with national private law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. W.A.K. Rank en prof.mr. M. Haentjens.

Until the 1990s, the only known planets were those in our Solar System. Three decades later, several thousand exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars other than the Sun, and substantial efforts have been made to explore these strange new worlds through spectroscopic analyses of their atmosphe…

Article by Leiden University political scientist Daniel Thomas about shifting norms for membership in international organisations.

Within this thesis the central stage is taken by the discovery and investigation of transglycosylation of sterols. First, investigation focuses on the development of a method to accurately detect and quantify glucosylated metabolites in biological materials.

Advanced mass spectrometry of glycosphingolipids takes the central stage in this thesis. Investigations focus on characterization of glycosphingolipid metabolism in health and disease with emphasis to the detection and accurate quantitation of known and so far unknown glycosphingolipids and closely…

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Polymyxins are clinically used antibiotics, discovered in mid-20th century. Once abandoned due to excessive nephrotoxicity, they are now used increasingly to address infections caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria.In this thesis, we describe the development and synthesis of analogues…

This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Op 26 juni 2019 verdedigde Lisa Louwerse haar proefschrift 'The EU’s Conceptualisation of the Rule of Law in its External Relations: Case Studies on Development Cooperation and Enlargement'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. mr. C.A.P. Hillion.

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Hoe kom je als Leidse alumnus te werken in het New Yorkse Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)? In het geval van Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide berust het deels op toeval, geluk, het lot. Maar daar ging wel een bijzondere studie Kunstnijverheid in Leiden aan vooraf.

De negende Network Europe Conference in Edinburgh werd in juni 2017 gehouden en was georganiseerd door het Europa Instituut in Zurich.

This thesis concerns the relation bettween the good reduction of Shimura varieties and the associated loop groups.

Galaxies in the Universe are distributed along the intricate framework of the Cosmic Web. Groups and clusters of galaxies comprise the densest regions in this network, and therefore, are excellent cosmic laboratories to study different aspects of galaxy evolution in extreme environments.