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The immune system in action against cervical cancer
In the hunt for a vaccine against cervical cancer, fundamental knowledge about the immune system and organic chemistry have been brought together and have already resulted in a vaccine that is now being tested in clinical trials. Scientists are now working hard on an improved variant.
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Hearing Status Affects Children's Emotion Understanding in Dynamic Social Situations: An Eye-Tracking Study
Understanding others’ emotional behavior is essential for navigating daily social life. But how is such an understanding achieved? The eye-tracking study by Yung-Ting Tsou and colleagues shows that children with hearing loss adopt a unique visual strategy that makes uses of explicit visual information…
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Archaeology of the Lower Maroni River
The application of compliance archaeology techniques such as mechanical large scale excavations where large quantities of data are gathered in relatively little time (and relatively inexpensively) and a firm post-excavation research phase yielded a whole new body of archaeological evidence.
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Transformation through Destruction
A monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen
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Morocco
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Humanities with Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique.
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Governance of Crisis (MSc)
In the track Governance of Crisis, you will be familiarized with the main body of knowledge on strategic crisis management.
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LUCIP Lecture "The normative body and the embodiment of norms. It’s about habit."
Lecture
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Van Marum Colloquium: Imaging Electrochemical Reactions by Operando Optical Microscopy
Lecture
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International Resource Panel
Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management
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Guts and Brains
An Integrative Approach to the Hominin Record
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BioTherapeutics
Research in the BioTherapeutics research programme is aimed at a smoother and speedier transition from preclinical research to pharmacological interventions, and the delivery of drugs in the human body by use of small molecules and biologics.
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Effects of human pressures on aquatic invertebrate
What are interactive effects of human pressures on aquatic communities?
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Reducing daily-stress breaking a habit
With this thesis the PhD-candidate aims to enrich the body of evidence concerning the relation between stress and health, and the mediating role of (un)conscious perseverative cognitions, which is captured in the extended perseverative cognition hypothesis.
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The added risk of size
What are the risks of nanoparticles?
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Rumours of Revolt: Civil War and the Emergence of a Transnational News Culture in France and the Netherlands, 1561–1598
This book explores the reception of foreign news during the late sixteenth-century civil wars in France and the Netherlands.
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Modern and Contemporary Studies (1800−Present)
This research cluster centres on regional, national, and global intersections between a variety of artistic and cultural expressions and their role in society from 1800 onwards.
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Broken Ensemble - Siamak Anvari
Broken ensemble is a series of sound installations, in principle a self-played ensemble, consisting of some broken instruments which can not be normally played anymore.
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Pharmacodynamics of analgesics and sedatives in neonates and infants
In neonates and infants, body size, enzyme pathways, and expression and function of receptors and (target) proteins are still developing.
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Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire
Perec’s Lieux project consists of texts describing the author's places of memory, photographs, personal documents and ephemera collected in the street.
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that sign languages make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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Development of an in vitro vascular network using zebrafish embryonic cells
One of the major limitations in culturing complex tissues or organs is the lack of vascularization in the cultured tissue. Development of a functional capillary bed could overcome this problem.
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Societal impact
Research from the Living Lab is important for society. For example, scientists from the Living Lab discovered that the pesticide thiacloprid is up to 2,500 times more harmful to insects than was thought on the basis of regular lab research. Partly because of this discovery, the European Commission decided…
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Multiple Paths. Towards a Performance Practice in Computer Music
This thesis proposes multiple paths towards the development of a performance practice in Computer Music.
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Sports and exam centre
The new sports center, which will also be used as an examination center, will be located at the Campus Square.
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Unearthing Literature: The Case of Hussein Barghouti
Haneen Omari defended her thesis on 29 October 2019
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Why do we use laboratory animals?
We use laboratory animals to address research questions, but only when there is no alternative and the question cannot be answered in any other way. Read here why we conduct animals experiments.
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Career prospects
Graduates of the Security Studies bachelor are highly-employable thanks to their extensive knowledge of global issues in security, academic and professional skills and the current and future relevance of the security field.
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About the programme
In the Master's programme Crisis and Security Management, specialisation Governance of radicalism, extremism and terrorism we focus on the academic body of knowledge on different form of protests, contention, resistance and violence. We explore and explain the emergence of radical and extremist move…
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Cultures of Collecting: The Leiden Anatomical Collections in Context
The general aim of the project is a description and analysis of the Leiden anatomical collections from a humanities perspective. The project investigates how historical and cultural practices and concerns have shaped anatomical preparations and how exhibitions of the anatomical body have informed cultural…
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Cardiac imaging characteristics in patients with COPD: prognostic implications
PhD defence
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Advanced echocardiographic imaging in valvular and systemic diseases
PhD defence
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Lahabi Lab - Quantum Materials and Devices
Kaveh Lahabi's lab explores the exotic physics of quantum materials, whose underlying physics seems to have more in common with elementary particles and black holes, than ordinary metals and semiconductors.
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Imaging the (un)imaginable of the Barrier Immune System
PhD defence
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New Approaches to Imaging and Treatment of Ocular Melanoma
PhD defence
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Imaging the prenatal brain in congenital heart defects
PhD defence
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PhD and prize winner: filmmaker Itandehui Jansen talks about her work
Itandehui Jansen graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam and is currently making films as part of her PhD project at Leiden University. And with great success. Her films have been shown at the IDFA and the Short Film Corner of Cannes, and have won a number of prizes.…
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The Guava Platform
The Guava Platform, which is at the centre of this PhD thesis, was initiated in 2014 as a conceptual framework of my art practice and research. The aim of the Guava Platform is to research and create possible techniques of art-actions that are part of my quest to continue to live in the conflicted landscape,…
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Anatomical Collections as Public History
The third project, worked on by dr. Rina Knoeff, is a synthesising project directed at studying the Leiden anatomical collections as important parts of ‘public history’. It will use the results of the other projects in order to analyse anatomical collections (their focus, significant silences, audiences,…
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Research
Through metabolism, biochemical processes give rise to the complexity of life. Acquired and inborn errors in metabolism underlie many diseases occurring in man. The challenge for present day medical biochemistry is to find, and integrate, pieces of information at molecular, cell and organismal level…
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China
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with Shandong University in Qingdao.
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Collecting Pathological Anatomy
Researcher: Hieke Huistra MSc. This PhD-project is directed at the historical and educational import of the Leiden University nineteenth-century pathological collections.
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The role of expectancies and avoidance learning in the maintenance of somatic symptoms
Somatic symptoms, such as pain, itch, and fatigue have been shown to have a bidirectional relationship with mental symptoms. Although acute somatic symptoms serve some adaptive properties, chronic symptoms can instead lead to interference in daily activities and lower quality of life.
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Participate in our experiments?
Would you like to join our research in Psychology Lab on Wheels? We currently have two experiments in the van. We will take the utmost care to protect your data and privacy. Join in our experiments. meld je aan.
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Guidelines for authors
The WIIS-NL blog provides articles on gendered international security issues taking a multi-disciplinary approach which includes but is not limited to WIIS focus areas. This blog aims to reach a broad audience of academics, practitioners, students, and interested members of the general public.
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Research
An overview of the research at the Biologics Formulation group
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Fighting tumours with light
Chemotherapy that does nothing until you irradiate it with light. Sylvestre Bonnet receives a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros for the development of this treatment. The Leiden chemist wants to build a new molecule to fight tumours that are at the time still difficult to treat.
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Organic Farmers as Green Entrepreneurs: Exploring the impact of FPOs on organic cultivation in Sikkim (Northeast India)
Charisma K. Lepcha (PI, Sikkim University), Pradyut Guha (co-PI, Sikkim University), Rajib Sutradhar (co-PI, Christ University Bangalore) and Erik de Maaker (Leiden University) have been awarded a two-year grant of USD 18.000 to conduct research on the impact of ‘green farming’ on the sensitive mountain…
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Bart Custers: 'AI can predict rulings, but beware of Kafka'
The work of judges can also be done by AI systems. These systems can formulate an objective proposal for a ruling. But such proposal should always be checked by a judge, says Bart Custers.