Het is weer zover. Het proces van kabinetsformatie is weer voor enige tijd verplaatst naar een mooi landgoed. Zou het daardoor echt beter gaan? Laten we het hopen. Maar of het nu in Den Haag of elders in het land gebeurt, waar het om gaat is dat er een stevige basis wordt gelegd voor goed bestuur in…

Bij Vroeg! Op Radio 1 vertelt Evelien Campfens, jurist en gespecialiseerd in Internationaal cultuur- en erfgoedrecht, meer over de teruggave van roofkunst. Hoe bepaal je wat roofkunst precies is en hoe kan Nederland het proces van teruggave verbeteren?

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

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Van Lodewijk XIV tot Napoleon

This thesis presents the results of a study on the interfaces of insulating oxides with and without the insertion of a magnetic layer.

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.

Promotor: J. Schaye

This thesis is about the study of hydrocarbons via infrared spectroscopy.

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

A new publication on changes in the relationship between news and their public in Chile

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Op 26 november 1940 hield Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa (1894-1980) zijn beroemd geworden protestrede.

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (Chapters 2 and 3) deals with a class of Markov process called Quasi-Skipfree (QSF) processes.

This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

The haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) comprise about 4000 species distributed over a wide range of habitats, with great gametophytic and sporophytic morphological variation. Their monophyly is well supported by the results of several molecular phylogenetic studies, which shed light on their relationships…

Throughout the history of computer science, a major challenge has been how to assert that software is free of bugs and works as intended. Software bugs can lead to serious negative impacts on any software system. Throughout the main body of the thesis, we implemented a series of studies on exploring…

Promotores: G.W. Canters, T.J. Aartsma

The overall theme of this thesis is to complement the electrochemical data acquired in fuel cell research with in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a major cereal crop that millions of subsistence farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) rely on. However, the scourging impact of the root parasitic weed Striga (Striga hermonthica, a.k.a. “witch-weed”) has remained a major constraint hampering the productivity of sorghum in…

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: S.C. Hille

n this PhD thesis, the recombination of different atomic lattices in stacked 2D materials such as twisted bilayer graphene is studied. Using the different possibilities of Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), the domain forming between the two atomic layers with small differences is studied.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Heck, Co-Promotor: B.P. Tighe

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

Het gebruik van ‘Big data’ is niet meer weg te denken binnen het wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Voor dit onderzoek maken we gebruiken van diverse grote databestanden.

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

We study the interplay of topology and geometry with chirality for several passive and active systems, employing both analytical and numerical methods.

This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. den Hertog

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Hoe kunnen we de uitvoering van EU beleid begrijpen en welke uitdagingen spelen daarbij een rol?

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

Bacterial chemosensory arrays are protein assemblies that are the key structural and functional component for motile bacteria to sense their internal or environmental chemical signals.

De nieuwbouw voor de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen is een belangrijke mijlpaal voor de Universiteit Leiden en de faculteit in het bijzonder. In drie fasen wordt een nieuw gebouw gerealiseerd. De eerste fase van het nieuwe gebouw is in 2016 in gebruik genomen en beslaat 45.000m2. Het…

Of all the mass in our Universe, 80% is thought to consist of a hypothetical and invisible substance called dark matter (DM).

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotor: E.C.M. de Lange

Fungal food spoilage often starts with a contamination with spores. Experimental data strongly indicate the existence of subpopulations of spores with different levels of resistance to preservation methods.

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

The chemical and structural heterogeneity of toxoid vaccines makes their analysis challenging. However, detailed insights on a molecular level can be obtained by mass spectrometry.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

The sequence-dependence of biomolecular interactions involving nucleic acids and proteins is essential for numerous processes inside the cell. Insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms have been obtained using various biochemical and biophysical methods on two different levels — bulk and sin…

This thesis is concerned with the constitution of chiral responsive matrix assemblies that may undergo light-driven conformational changes and self-select vibrations to develop vibronic states for driving semi-classical coherent transfer with nearly 100% yield in a lossless NCAP process.

Promotor: J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Co-Promotor: S.J. van der Molen