Waarom zijn niet alle kinderen even gevoelig voor variaties in hun sociale omgeving?

Obesity may alter how a person absorbs, distributes, metabolizes or excretes medication. This thesis describes how obesity affects drug levels in the blood for antimicrobial agents, such as ciprofloxacin and fluconazole.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Bart Schuurman & Sarah Louise Carthy de verschillen tussen geradicaliseerde individuen en de algemene bevolking.

In dit proefschrift staat het leren van ervaren docenten in een context van samenwerking in interdisciplinaire teams centraal.

Wij modernen beroemen ons erop dat wij het eindproduct zijn van een voortgang en wordingsproces die haar geboortestonde in het antieke Griekenland heeft gekend.

Vertrouwen en wederkerigheid zijn twee belangrijke sociale gedragingen die adolescenten helpen zich op een succesvolle manier door hun sociale wereld te begeven. In hun artikel in Journal of Research on Adolescence beschrijven Van de Groep, Meuwese, Zanolie, Güroğlu en Crone de ontwikkeling van vertrouwen…

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Op 10 februari 2022 verdedigde Christian Mommers het proefschrift 'Voluntary return and the limits of individual responsibility in the EU Returns Directive'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P.R. Rodrigues en prof.dr. P. Boeles.

Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.

Onderzoek naar representatieve bureaucratie heeft vaak de positieve prestatie-effecten bevestigd van bureaucratieën die de demografische kenmerken van hun cliënten weerspiegelen. Er is echter weinig bekend over de onderliggende mechanismen op individueel niveau die tot deze resultaten leiden.

In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…

Kunnen sociaaleconomische verschillen in gezondheidsgedrag worden verklaard door concurrerende doelen en eisen in het dagelijks leven, zoals gezondheidszorgen die concurreren met financiële zorgen?

The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort

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This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

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Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

Dr. Helen Pluut heeft een artikel gepubliceerd in het gerenommeerde tijdschrift Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP). Dit in samenwerking met Remus Ilies (National University of Singapore), Petru Curşeu (Open Universiteit en Babeş-Bolyai University) en Yukun Liu (University of…

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

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

Dit onderzoek gaat over de verschillen tussen luisteraars in de waarneming van prosodie.

The findings in this thesis improve the understanding of 1) the relationship between exposure characteristics and toxicity of ENPs, 2) the joint toxic action of ENP mixtures and the comparison to metal salt mixtures, 3) how NOM affects the individual and joint toxicity of ENPs, 4) the extent of trophic…

Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).

Single-Molecule Microscopy (SMM) techniques constitute a group of powerful imaging tools that enable researchers to study the dynamic behavior of individual molecules.

Welke consumentengroepen hebben de grootste impact op de volksgezondheid en de planeet door hun voedingskeuzes, en hoe kunnen we deze inzichten gebruiken om de transitie naar duurzame eetpatronen te versnellen?

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Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Kros

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 European Council and the European Commission have a similar role in agenda setting. Both place issues on the EU agenda. However, these institutions have distinct designs. They have different political attributes (the European Council has considerably more political authority) and information-processing…

Detecting nanoscopic objects plays an important role in nanoscience in particular, in the rapidly growing field of nanobiology. The forebear to modern super-resolution microscopy for single molecule investigation, is fluorescence microscopy.

Welke relatie bestaat er tussen verschillende type PLGs en cognitieve differentiatie?

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law.

In human cells, a meter-long DNA is condensed inside a micrometer-sized cell nucleus. Simultaneously, the genetic code must remain accessible for its replication and transcription to functional proteins.

Promotor: J. Schaye

In this work, we attempt to answer the question:

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a major health threat. Addressing this challenge requires among others the development of new antibacterial compounds. The research described in this thesis focuses on discovering novel antibiotics from soil bacteria, specifically Streptomyces and Paenibacillus.Despite…

The prevalence of obesity (BMI >40 kg/m2) has increased rapidly over the recent years, not only in adults, but also in children and adolescents.

This thesis investigates opinion dynamics on random graphs through the lens of the voter model, a classical interacting particle system used to describe how consensus emerges in networks.

This thesis introduces a relational interaction model and a practical tool for describing, visualising and generating interactive dialogues.

According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides initiates the pathological cascade in Alzheimer's disease (AD).