1,361 zoekresultaten voor “afrika in the world” in de Publieke website
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Open-world Continual Learning via Knowledge Transfer
This thesis investigates Open-world Continual Learning (OWCL), a learning paradigm designed for intelligent systems operating in non-stationary environments with persistent exposure to unknown data.
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Multimedia Research and documentation of African Oral Genres
The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.
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Steeds minder leeuwen in Afrika
Het aantal leeuwen in Afrika neemt sterk af. Over twintig jaar zijn de populaties van de meeste soorten zelfs gehalveerd. Waarom gaat het zo slecht met de leeuw? - Radio Interview met Hans de Iongh van CML bij De Kennis van Nu - NPOwetenschap.nl
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Exploring Open-World Visual Understanding with Deep Learning
We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.
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Hunting for the fastest stars in the Milky Way
The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.
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Diversity in the globally intertwined giant barrel sponge species complex
This thesis describes the genetic and prokaryotic diversity of giant barrel sponges.
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Navigating the World of Emotions
Social Information Processing in Children with and without Hearing Loss
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Atmospheres of hot alien Worlds
Promotor: Prof.dr. I.A.G. Snellen, C.U. Keller
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Wild versus domestic prey in the diet of tigers
A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.
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Online Course Clinical Research Regulation in the Netherlands
Are you planning to conduct clinical research in the Netherlands? In this online course, you are introduced to legislation and procedures on clinical research in the Netherlands. It will help you prepare and submit your research file efficiently. The first three themes ‘The Dutch Review System’ , ‘The…
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Peeking into the future: Fungi in the greening Arctic
Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml
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Effects of pesticides on aquatic macrofauna in the field
Promotores: W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg, G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: M.G. Vijver
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Metals in the diffuse gas around high-redshift galaxies
Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)
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Politics in the Netherlands
Binnen het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’ richt het onderzoekscluster ‘Politics in the Netherlands’ zich op de Nederlandse politiek. De onderzoekers bestuderen de opzet en het functioneren van de politieke instituties en kijken naar de attitudes en het gedrag…
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Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators
Op 1 april 2020 verdedigde Marc Broekema zijn proefschrift 'Cognitive Bias in the Judgment of Business Valuations and Valuators'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. J.I. van der Rest.
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Developmental effects of polystyrene nanoparticles in the chicken embryo
There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.
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Bezoek aan Ghana: Universiteit Leiden versterkt banden met partners in Afrika
Universiteit Leiden gaat haar samenwerking met kennisinstellingen in Afrika verder verdiepen. Tijdens een reis naar Ghana is met diverse kennisinstellingen uit Afrika doorgepraat over intensievere samenwerking.
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Novel Protecting Group Strategies in the Synthesis of Oligosaccharides
The thesis focuses on synthesis strategies in oligosaccharide campaigns, and the influence of protecting groups.
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Topics in the arithmetic of del Pezzo and K3 surfaces
Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk
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Distant star formation in the faint radio sky
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.
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Establishing State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government
Op 16 juni 2020 verdedigde Andrea Varga haar proefschrift 'Establishing State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. F. Baetens (University of Oslo).
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Monsters in the Deep: Using simulations to understand the excess baryonic mass in the centres of high-mass, early-type galaxies
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…
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Canon and Coincidence: using data-driven approaches to understand Art Worlds (BECACO)
Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…
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Optimizing Solvers for Real-World Expensive Black-Box Optimization with Applications in Vehicle Design
Optimally solving real-world expensive Black-Box Optimization (BBO) problems w.r.t. real-world constraints, such as wall-clock time and computational costs, is extremely difficult and tedious.
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Network analysis methods for smart inspection in the transport domain
Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.
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Hunting for new physics in the primordial Universe
This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.
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Indigeneship, bureaucratic discretion, and institutional change in Northern Nigeria
‘Gaat het hem lukken?’ Dat is zondermeer de meest gestelde vraag in de Nigeriaanse politiek sinds de opmerkelijke overwinning van Muhammadu Buhari tijdens de presidentiële verkiezingen in 2015.
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Precision modeling of breast cancer in the CRISPR era
The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.
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Probing new physics in the laboratory and in space
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.
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Human-wildlife Interactions in the Western Terai of Nepal
Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.
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Fire and grazers in the West African savanna
Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh
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Tail Regeneration in the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)
Regeneration is the ability of an organism to restore damaged or lost tissue with a functional replacement, and without scarring. Many lizards can regenerate their tails.
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Giant galactic outflows and shocks in the Cosmic Web
The radio sky harbours both galactic and extragalactic sources of arcminute- to degree-scale emission of various physical origins. To discover extragalactic diffuse emission in the Cosmic Web beyond galaxy clusters, one must image low–surface brightness structures amidst a sea of brighter compact fore-…
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Harmful Tax Competition in the East African Community
Op 13 januari 2022 verdedigde Pie Habimana het proefschrift 'Harmful Tax Competition in the East African Community'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. H. Vording en prof.dr. S.C.W. Douma (UvA).
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Connecting economic and environmental histories in the pre-modern world
Lecture and Masterclass with Alexandra Sapoznik (King's College London) Connecting economic and environmental histories in the pre-modern world 12 and 13 May 2025, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Deadline for submissions: 29 April 2025, 13:00
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Jan-Bart Gewald nieuwe directeur Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden
Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald is benoemd tot nieuwe directeur van het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden met ingang van 1 september 2017, voor een periode van vijf jaar. Professor Gewald zal Ton Dietz opvolgen die in september met pensioen gaat.
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Spatiotemporal building stock modeling for residential decarbonization in the Netherlands
Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.
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BIAS: Mitigating Diversity Biases in the Labor Market
Het project onderzoekt het gebruik van kunstmatige intelligentie op de arbeidsmarkt en hoe vooroordelen bij het aannemen en promoten van processen op basis van persoonlijke kenmerken mogelijk worden gereproduceerd met op AI gebaseerde systemen.
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Early death of massive galaxies in the distant universe
Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé
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Winds in the AGN environment: new perspectives from high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy
Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
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Sheltering 10 billion people in a warming and resource-scarce world: challenges and opportunities
Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.
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FAIR-ASSESS: Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI
Welkom bij het project Fair Educational Assessment in the Age of AI (FAIR-ASSESS)!
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Bezoek Directeur Afrika UNDP: ‘Afrika heeft een nieuwe boodschap nodig’
Afrika heeft een boodschap nodig die aansluit op de ontwikkelingen die gaande zijn op het continent. In deze ontwikkelingen spelen getalenteerde jongeren, creatieve tech hubs en ‘leapfrogging’ een grote rol. Wij moeten onze investeringen hierop aanpassen.
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in atherosclerosis: mechanistic studies revealing a protective role in the plaque microenvironment
Atherosclerosis is the most important underlying process that drives cardiovascular disease, and is characterized by an accumulation of cholesterol which triggers an inflammatory response in the vessel wall.
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Diversity and distribution of octocorals and scleractinians in the Persian Gulf region
Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen
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Structure and substructure in the stellar halo of the Milky Way
Promotor: K.H. Kuijken
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Leeuwen in West- en Centraal-Afrika blijken uniek
Leeuwen in West- en Centraal-Afrika vormen een unieke groep, die relatief weinig verwant is met leeuwen in Oost en zuidelijk Afrika. Biologen van de Universiteit Leiden bevestigen dit in een artikel gepubliceerd in Scientific Reports.
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Rituals of Birth, Circumcision, Marriage, and Death among Muslims in the Netherlands
Migration imposes special pressures on the meaning, experience and organization of lifecycle rituals. These pressures are felt most strongly by Muslim migrants to Western Europe. In this innovative study, Nathal M. Dessing examines the effects of migration on the life cycle rituals of Moroccan, Turkish…