Safety First. How local processes of securitization have affected the position and role of Dutch mayors. Nederlandse burgemeesters super-netwerkers. Nederlandse burgemeesters zien zich anno 2014 geconfronteerd met een grote variëteit aan nieuwe veiligheidsvraagstukken, waaronder radicalisering, loverboys…

This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

In November publiceerde Springer een boek getiteld The Future of Drone Use, onder redactie van mr. dr. ir. Bart Custers, hoofd onderzoek bij eLaw, het Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie van de Universiteit Leiden.

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

De jongeren van nu groeien op met sociale media. Mogelijk heeft dat invloed op de ontwikkeling van herssengebieden die betrokken zijn bij sociale interactie. Crone en Konijn laten in dit overzichtsartikel in Nature Communications zien hoe neurowetenschappelijke kennis kan bijdragen aan een beter begrip…

Hydrogen-based fuels are regarded as promising candidates for decarbonizing the maritime shipping sector.

In Nederland en in België nam de maatschappelijke en politieke belangstelling voor de veiligheid bij grootschalige evenementen en noodsituaties sterk toe.

M. Danhof, Co-promotores: J. Freijer, A. Yassen

Growth and development affect the metabolism of drugs administered to neonates, infants, and children.

Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.

Assessing the risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) solely on the basis of experimental assays is time-consuming, resource intensive, and constrained by ethical considerations (such as the principles of the 3Rs of animal testing). The adoption of computational toxicology in this field is a high p…

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

The cellular metabolism of immune cells constitutes an important part of their proper function and activation. Using T cells as an example, this phenomenon is highlighted by the metabolic reprogramming that occurs in these cells upon activation.

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

Dit artikel illustreert hoe de term 'dual use' geassocieerd is geraakt met een bredere dichotomie tussen 'legitieme' en 'illegale' doeleinden.

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

Deepfakes zijn video’s die gemanipuleerd zijn om twee personen te verwisselen. Ze kunnen moeilijk te onderscheiden zijn van de originele video’s. In onze studie laten we zien dat mensen die meer complotdenken en mensen die meer gebruikmaken van social media beter zijn in het herkennen van deepfakes.

In this article, Eamon Aloyo argues that university supervisors should not use student evaluations of teachers as a measure of teaching effectiveness.

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

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Dit artikel levert een bijdrage aan een groeiend aantal onderzoeken naar radicalisering. Het richt zich specifiek op het onderscheid tussen individuen die radicalisering en daardoor betrokken raken bij terroristisch geweld en individuen die radicaliseren maar niet betrokken raken bij geweld.

Promotor: R. Tijdeman, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

The last decades it is increasingly recognized that acute as well as chronic postoperative pain is an important problem. Treatment and prevention of postoperative pain is a challenge, especially in special patient populations where there is only limited guidance on how to optimally use opioids.

All the data stored and processed by our computers is encoded as sequences of zeros and ones, called bits. Quantum computers offer an alternative to this traditional way of encoding and manipulating information.

This thesis investigates the structural evolution and assembly of galaxies since the first few billions years after the big bang.

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

Promotor: Roeland M.H. Merks

There are study programmes at LIACS that offer the opportunity to do an internship or research project, as part of the curriculum.

Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.

The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University is delighted to host the Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, a program designed to provide support and mentorship to scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early middle ages. In…

Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

Promotor: M.L. van Hecke

Op 21 maart 2019 verdedigde James Welch zijn proefschrift 'The Grotius Sanction: Deus Ex Machina. The legal, ethical, and strategic use of drones in transnational armed conflict and counterterrorism'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. P.B Cliteur.

This thesis probes under what conditions quantum computing presents an advantage over classical computing.

Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

Cathodic corrosion is a relatively unknown phenomenon that can severely etch metallic electrodes at cathodic (negative) potentials.

Food waste is a defining inefficiency of the modern food system, with profound implications for resource use, climate change, and circular economy transitions. This dissertation examines food waste through two complementary lenses: the prevention of avoidable food waste and the valorization of unavoidable…

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require aggressive emission reductions and large-scale CO₂ removal from the atmosphere. Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) can neutralize hard-to-abate residual emissions and even draw down atmospheric CO₂ to reverse a temperature overshoot. However, deploying CDR at…

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller, Prof.dr. H.C. Gerritsen

Promotor: Prof.dr. I.A.G. Snellen, C.U. Keller

In my research, I used a comparative wood anatomical approach to address wood evolution of the (largely) tropical flowering plant families Apocynaceae and Sapotaceae.

Quantum computers promise computational capabilities beyond the reach of efficient classical methods, raising a central question: how can one rigorously certify nonclassical behavior in large-scale quantum devices under minimal assumptions?