Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Rok Spruk onderzoeken de bijdrage van institutionele hervormingen aan economische groei.

In deze publicatie worden problemen met betrekking tot de grensoverschrijdende afwikkeling van financiële instellingen onderzocht.

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Religion and ethnicity are inextricably linked in discourse within and about Central Asia. One common narrative suggests that as a result of differences between historically sedentary and nomadic populations, ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks are naturally more religious and more likely to radicalise than their…

What physics controls the properties of quantum matter, such as how electrons flow inside high-temperature superconductors? This question has captivated the physics community and industry for decades, in part due to the great technological potential such materials have, but also because they have resisted…

The thesis explores micromammal fossils from the Afşar section in Anatolia, a crucial locality for understanding the Pliocene epoch and the transition to the Villafranchian Age.

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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.

Dit was het programma van De Kennisboomgaard 2025:

The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

Religion, Philosophy, and the Pre-modern World

Na maanden van thuiswerken, hoe vergaat het de medewerkers van het Instituut Geschiedenis? Marlisa den Hartog en Theo Dekker delen hun verhaal.

Nog steeds werken we zoveel mogelijk vanuit huis. Hoe vergaat het de medewerkers van het Instituut Geschiedenis? Philip Post en Maartje Janse vertellen hun ervaring.

This thesis focuses on developing wafer-scale two-dimensional (2D) materials by combining synthesis, transfer, characterization, and device integration of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), and BN-doped amorphous carbon.

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…

Op 23 maart 2023 verdedigde Weidong Zhang in Leiden zijn proefschrift over het bereiken van 'decent work' in China. Dit onderzoek analyseert in hoeverre China fatsoenlijk werk bereikt aan de hand van een casestudy over fatsoenlijke werktijden. Het woord 'bereiken' benadrukt dat China nog bezig is dit…

Mooc Eu Policy Europe Europa

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Een nieuw artikel van Dr. Helen Pluut zal verschijnen in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Het artikel, dat samen met Marion Büttgen en Jan Ullrich van de Universiteit van Hohenheim is geschreven, heeft implicaties voor organisaties die een duaal laddersysteem hanteren. Zulke systemen…

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Co-Promotor: N.S. Pannu

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Op vrijdag 23 april verscheen Jorrit Rijpma voor de Working Group on Frontex Scrutiny van het Europees Parlement. Deze werkgroep is opgericht door de Commissie burgerlijke vrijheden, justitie en binnenlandse zaken (LIBE) van het Europees Parlement, als reactie op de beschuldigingen van serieuze schendingen…

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Jan Melissen, universitair hoofddocent bij ISGA en hoofdredacteur van The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, heeft met zijn team 10.000 euro gekregen uit het fonds ‘Gewaardeerd’. Dit pilotfonds, uitgevoerd door de KNAW (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) wil de interactie tussen wetenschap…

Promotor: A. Kros

Sinds 2009 behaalden 95 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

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Antimicrobial drugs constitute a fundamental part of modern medicine. The global rise in antimicrobial resistance poses a major threat to global health.

De onderzoeksgroep Terrorism and Political Violence van de Universiteit Leiden bestudeert de oorzaken van radicalisering, de tactieken van extremistische groeperingen, en de effectiviteit van anti-terrorismebeleid. We onderzoeken ook de rol van media en de invloed van postkoloniale erfenissen in de…

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What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

One of the key discoveries in exoplanet research over the past decade is the abundance of small planets in our Milky Way. Despite their high numbers, our understanding of their atmospheres remains limited, and it is unknown if they possess atmospheres at all.

Particles are omnipresent in biopharmaceutical products. In protein-based therapeutics such particles are generally associated with impurities, either derived from the drug product itself (e.g. protein aggregates), or from extrinsic contaminations (e.g. cellulose fibers).

In this dissertation (titled: Exploring the Synergies between Transfer in Reinforcement Learning and Procedural Content Generation) we explore how the two research fields named in the title, namely Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (TRL) and Procedural Content Generation (PCG) can synergize togethe…

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This thesis describes the synthesis, analysis of various tetrazine bearing compounds and use in bioorthogonal chemistry.

In this work, we illustrate unconventional approaches towards the fabrication of edge functionalized graphene nanostructures and bidimensional architectures in polymeric and metallic supports, with an outlook towards molecular sensing devices.

A remarkable population of short period transiting rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures on the order of 2,000 K has recently been discovered.

The overarching clinical aim of this thesis was to improve pharmacological pain management by characterizing the pharmacodynamics of analgesics. This promotion has been awarded the predicate cum laude.

Dit artikel onderzoekt de effecten van de invoering van proportionele vertegenwoordiging (PR) op de politieke vertegenwoordiging van vrouwen.

Hoe kan complexiteitswetenschap de transformatie van inlichtingen bevorderen?

Dit proefschrift betreft een interpretatief onderzoek naar de wijze waarop leraren hun dagelijkse leraar-leerling interacties interpreteren in termen van het belang van hun leerlingen.

In this PhD study, I aim to deepen our understanding of the influence of major mycorrhizal types, namely arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) and ectomycorrhizae (EM), on the global soil carbon cycle and their potential distribution changes under future environmental shifts.