2,448 search results for “postcolonial studies” in the Public website
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Chemical biology of glucosylceramide metabolism: fundamental studies and clinical applications for Gaucher disease
How can we develop new chemical biology tools and approaches to understand and interfere with glucosylceramide metabolism in relation to Gaucher disease?
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The SMILE study: Sleep Mood lntervention: Live Effectively a group intervention in students with sleep problems
Can SMILE, our multi-component intervention, which combines cognitive-behavioural therapy for insomnia, mindfulness, stress, and lifestyle components, improve sleep quality? Can it also improve mood and quality of life and prevent depression and anxiety in the long term?
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Computational, biochemical, and NMR-driven structural studies on histone variant H2A.B
Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.
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galaxies at low frequencies: high spatial and spectral resolution studies with LOFAR
Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: G.K. Miley
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‘Suspect community or suspect category?‘, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Ragazzi, ‘Suspect community or suspect category?‘, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Bioorthogonal deprotection strategy to study T-cell activation and cross- presentation
Cytotoxic T-cells (CTLs) are involved in the clearance of viruses and killing of tumor cells.
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On the geometry of demixing: A study of lipid phase separation on curved surfaces
Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.
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Low-temperature spectroscopic studies of single molecules in 3-D and on 2-D hosts
PhD defence
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deuterated water in space: a combined laboratory and computational study
Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz, Co-Promotores: H.M. Cuppen, S. Ioppolo
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A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses
This study aims to examine how South Korea (hereafter, Korea) and Japan, two neighboring countries in Northeast Asia, have been responding to and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Noa Schonmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Wouters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Müge Kinacioglu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Verstraten
Faculty of Humanities
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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Neske Baerwaldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
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community ecology; a next generation of eDNA monitoring tool for biomass studies in freshwater environments
How can we quantify the density of species within a community through environmental DNA concentrations?
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The Urban Graveyard
The urban graveyard presents several studies in which the results of older archaeological and osteoarchaeological research are compared to more recent excavation data from several Dutch, Belgian and Danish cities and towns.
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Leiden's first professor in International Studies
The Board of Governors of Leiden University has confirmed the appointment of Professor André Gerrits (Institute for History, currently in the field of Russian Politics and History) to the field of International Studies and Global Politics, commencing October 1st 2015.
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Honours students participate in poster presentations at Reuvensdagen
On Friday, November 22, students of the Archaeology Honours track participated in a poster presentation at the national archaeological congress 'De Reuvensdagen'. The posters were made as final assignment for the Honours Orientation Seminar, which is the introduction course for the Honours Track ‘Crossing…
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ACPA alumnus Clarence Charles on functions of calypso music as a cultural expression
Charles wrote an article 'Assimilating Afro Caribbean Carnivalesque Culture' for the publication 'Understanding América. The essential contribution of Afro-American music to the sociocultural meaning of the continent'
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Lorentz workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology
From November 13 to 17 2023, a workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology was organized at the Lorentz Center in Leiden by Eduardo Herrera Malatesta (Aarhus University), Felicia J. Fricke (University of Copenhagen) and Maaike de Waal (Leiden University).
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Spirits as medicine for a dark past
Spirits play a important role in post-colonial and minority literature as a means of processing black pages from history, according to literary scientist Chia-Sui Lee. PhD defence 11 January.
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Why Minor Powers Risk Wars with Major Powers: A Comparative Study of the Post-Cold War Era
Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this book studies asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials.
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Fellows
The center invites internationally renowned scholars to spend time at Leiden to teach graduate students in the BA and MA programmes and in custom made seminars, and to give public lectures. Specialisations vary covering so far manuscript studies, history, anthropology, literature, art history and religious…
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Engaging students in the study of physics: An investigation of physics teachers' belief systems about teaching and learning physics
This doctoral thesis comprises four studies on the content and structure of physics teachers’ belief systems about teaching and learning physics in secondary education in the Netherlands.
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and sustainable technological innovation under uncertainty: a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaics
A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.
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Care, Children and the Other Holocaust
Inaugural lecture
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A pharmacognostic study of Vernonia guineensis Benth. (Asteraceae): bioactivity, safety, and phytochemical analysis
Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, , Co-Promotor: Young Hae Choi
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Towards in-cell structural study of light-harvesting complexes : an investigation with MAS-NMR
Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.
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Working on Labor. Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 9
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.
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Studying the Benefits of Using UML on Software Maintenance: an Evidence-Based Approach.
Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.
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Untangling cosmic collisions: a study of particle acceleration and magnetic fields in merging galaxy clusters
On the largest scale, the Universe resembles a cosmic spiderweb. Most galaxies coexist in small groups within the threads of this web. At the nodes of the threads are enormous groups of galaxies forming the largest structures in the universe still held together by gravity: clusters of galaxies.
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Electrochemical and surface studies of the effect of naphthalene-based additives on tin electrodeposition
Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.
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Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping
This project aims to investigate the underlying (neurocognitive) linguistic processes of ellipsis resolution, particularly gapping.
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A study of Polish LDS (Mormon) conversion in two branches in Warsaw, Poland
On the 16th of June Patrtick Harrison successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Democratic Secrecy: A Philosophical Study of the Role of Secrecy in Democratic Governance
The starting hypothesis of the project is that secrecy is not always inimical to democratic governance as conventional wisdom has it.
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Security Studies awarded bronze medal EW Best Studies 2023
The Security Studies bachelor's programme has received a bronze medal in EW Best Studies 2023. Every year, EW Best Studies selects the top programmes in Dutch higher education.
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute (the research school for economic and social history in the Netherlands and Flanders)…
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Heritage expert Martin Berger honored as a member of the Young Academy Leiden
Our own Dr. Martin Berger has been accepted as a member of the Young Academy Leiden! He is thrilled with his appointment. ‘I am honored to be accepted as a member of the Young Academy Leiden and am looking forward to working together with other scholars from across the University.’
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International Studies students receive their diploma
Organised in four separate sessions throughout the day, and broadcast live online to guests and families who could not join, a total of 260 students received their Bachelor’s Diploma of International Studies on 28 August 2020 at the graduation ceremony in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden.
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Complaining as a moral narrative: An ethnographic study of complaints, morality and bureaucracy at a Dutch health insurer
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A Comparative Anthropology of Commercial Insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.