Hoe dachten de anglosaksen over de ervaring van het ouder worden? Was het echt een gouden tijd voor de ouderen zoals werd gesuggereerd?

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.

The aims of the project are to: further clarify 'inhibition by safety'; explore and describe all possible sagety factors, with a special focus on the primary human safety source: social connectedness; reviewing prolonged stress responses without stressors.

Promotores: F.H. van Lunteren, F.P. Israel

In this thesis the links between allergy and intestinal health, the gut microbiome (GM), and external factors were studied by exploring the metabolome in longitudinal clinical studies and in vitro models.

Het centrale doel is de systematische bestudering van verschillen in criminaliteitspatronen en sociale controle tussen migranten en niet-migranten in het vroegmoderne Frankfurt am Main.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar

Op 30 september 2021 verdedigde Babette van Hazebroek haar proefschrift 'Understanding delinquent development from childhood into early adulthood in early onset offenders'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. J.W. de Keijser en prof. dr. A. Popma (VUMC).

Songbirds as vocal learners learn their songs and song preference from social tutors⁠. Tutor choice for both song and preference learning are important to characterize for understanding individual learning performance and cultural transmission of song⁠.

Een goede taalontwikkeling is van belang voor de cognitieve en sociale ontwikkeling, om te kunnen communiceren en om te kunnen leren. Als de taalontwikkeling niet verloopt zoals verwacht, kan dit allerlei consequenties hebben. Kinderen met een extra X of Y chromosoom hebben een verhoogd risico op problemen…

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

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Enkele honderden miljoenen jaren na de Oerknal vormden zich de eerste sterren en sterrenstelsels. Om te begrijpen hoe het heelal zich ontwikkelde, worden deze verre sterrenstelsels bestudeerd. Een belangrijke eigenschap van een sterrenstelsel is hoeveel sterren er worden gevormd, de zogeheten stervo…

A New Technology-Based Firm (NTBF) is a significant enabler of job creation and a driver of the economy through stimulating innovation.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

Metastasis is responsible for over 90% of cancer-related deaths and arises from the ability of a small subset of tumor cells to detach from the primary tumor, overcome multiple biochemical and mechanical barriers, disseminate through the body, and colonize distant organs.

Op 21 oktober 2021 verdedigde Frederik Behre het proefschrift 'A European Ministry of Finance?'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. S.C.G. Van den Bogaert.

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

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This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants⁠.

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This study tests whether behavioural problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire by Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma (Eds.)

This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.

We investigate the buildup of galaxies from various vantage points. The first two chapters focus on the stellar content of galaxies, especially the distribution of stellar masses at birth and potential variations therein in various galactic environments.

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Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide, and better models are urgently needed for disease progression studies and drug development.

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Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, A. Lucchini

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

One of the most important correlation functions in physics, especially in cosmology, is the energy density, which describes how much energy is present at each point in spacetime due to matter fields. A key contribution to the energy density of the primordial universe comes from gravitational waves (GWs),…

The zebrafish is a promising vertebrate model organism in early drug discovery and development.

Almost all bacteria are enveloped by a cell wall that provides cellular protection.

Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot

Vitamin A or retinol is essential in embryonic development, the visual cycle and the immune system.

Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

In this thesis we study the landscape of gravitational models which modify GR by introducing an additional scalar degree of freedom (d.o.f.) to source Cosmic Acceleration.

Promotor: J. A. Bouwstra

This thesis is a (biased) journey through very different topics in astrophysics: quasars and new populations of active galactic nuclei, gravitational waves from merging black holes, and protoplanetary discs around young stars.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.W.M. Frenken