Humans share meaning through language. Over time, repeated interactions have shaped languages into forms that match our cognitive preferences, making them structured, expressive, easy to learn, and ultimately, meaningful.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Learning about My meaningful Way through life and profession.

Leiden My Way is een co-curriculair persoonlijk ontwikkelprogramma uitgevoerd aan de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen.

The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

In this thesis, several aspects of software debugging from automated crash reproduction to bug report analysis and use of contracts have been studied.

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Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Dit project onderzoekt de professionalisering van universiteitsbibliotheken in de negentiende en vroege twintigste eeuw, door de lens van het middeleeuwse handschriftenbezit. Met de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek als uitgangspunt werpt het licht op de veranderende praktijken rond het conserveren, behandelen…

Deze bundel onderzoekt sociale betekenis vanuit het perspectief van actuele theorieën in de pragmatiek.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Op 29 april 2020 verdedigde Beth Van Schaack haar proefschrift 'Imagining Justice for Syria: Water Always Finds Its Way'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. C. Stahn.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H. J. A. Röttgering, Co-Promotor: M. Haverkorn

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

In dit onderzoek wordt hersenontwikkeling voor het eerst direct gelinkt aan sekseverschillen en schoolprestatie. De resultaten ontkrachten de mythe dat jongens achterlopen in hersenontwikkeling.

Het onderwerp van dit proefschrift is integratie van klinische kennis en kennis van de basisvakken in het medisch onderwijs en de rol die concept maps kunnen spelen in het expliciet maken van deze zogenoemde verticale integratie.

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

Supervisor: S.F. Portegies Zwart Co-Supervisor: A.G.A. Brown

The formation of stars and planets happens over multiple scales, which can interact. In particular, planet formation happens in the dense, complex environment of star forming regions.

In this project, researchers from computer science, law, psychology, and public administration research in practice how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to make decision-making in the security domain more effective, while also keeping it safe and accountable.

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

Workshop

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position within the project ‘Libraries as Links in Learning: Making the Meaning of Manuscripts’ (1.0 fte, 4 years). The PhD candidate will track changing professional and scholarly practices and attitudes towards…

Hoe proberen verschillende actoren betekenis te geven aan terroristische aanslagen in het eerste jaar dat daarop volgt?

Presents a novel philosophical account of psychedelic experiences, arguing that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics — such as meditation and yoga.

Er zijn wereldwijd vele open (leer)materialen beschikbaar, maar deze worden nog niet of zeer beperkt gebruikt in het onderwijs.

One of the key quests in astronomy is to study the growth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Radio observations provide a powerful means of studying the formation of stars and subsequent buildup of distant galaxies, in a way that is unbiased by the presence of dust.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

In this thesis, mathematical modeling and simulation was applied as a tool to inform quantitative decision making in oncology drug discovery and development.

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

Quantitative biology means exploiting mathematical modelling and computer simulation as a tool to gain additional insights into the meaning of experimental data. Discover in this minor when and how to apply these tools, in a multidisciplinary setting.

De meeste Learning My Way-modules hebben een vergelijkbare structuur: voorbereiding, seminar, integratie.

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

If mankind wants to survive into the 22nd century, we will need to change the way we live drastically. The human impact on our planet is everywhere, we are changing the atmosphere, the oceans and the land, leading to global warming, climate change, loss of biodiversity and pervasive pollution. There…

Wat is de invloed van de Internationale Verdragen ICCPR en ICESCR? Hoe kan hun toekomstige rol in de bescherming van de mensenrechten verder worden verbeterd? Dit is een kleine greep uit de vragen die worden gesteld tijdens de conferentie ter ere van de 50ste verjaardag van het ICCPR en ICESCR.

De Learning My Way-methodologie is afgelopen 10 jaar ontwikkeld en geperfectioneerd. Begonnen in experimentele vorm in het FSW Honours College, is LMW al snel door verschillende instellingen opgepakt in opleidingen en voor HRM-doeleinden.

In this thesis, we study different curved single crystals because of the diversity of surface structures across their curvature.

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

Learning My Way wordt gebruikt in een breed scala aan onderwijscontexten. Daarbij wordt altijd een blended learning en flipped classroom-benadering toegepast om optimale integratie van persoonlijke inzichten in dagelijks leven en gedrag mogelijk te maken.

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Humans can see the world through the eyes of other humans and imagine what they know, want, and intend. This competence is known as Theory of Mind.

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.