Het boek biedt verschillende theoretische perspectieven om het proces van publieke sector hervormingen te onderzoeken. Daarnaast geeft het een overzicht van de belangrijkste trends in publieke sector hervormingen in Europa en de Verenigde Staten.

Professor Edwin Bakker, directeur van het Centrum voor Terrorisme & Contraterrorisme heeft zijn nieuwe boek getiteld 'Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies: Comparing Theory and Practice' bij Leiden University Press uitgebracht.

This Thesis shows discoveries in non-linear astrochemical kinetics as well as a deeper analysis of dark clouds chemistry.

Dit proefschrift richt zich op vragen over het doel van onderwijs en wat het betekent om opgeleid te zijn. Deze vragen zijn tijdloos, aangezien de antwoorden op deze vragen altijd in zekere mate verband houden met de hedendaagse samenleving.

Drug induced organ toxicity is the main problem of the drug development and drug usage in the clinic. The liver and kidneys are the most sensitive organs towards drug induced toxicity.

We prove a p-adic version of the work by Gross and Zagier on the differences between singular moduli by proving a set of conjectures by Giampietro and Darmon, who investigated the factorisation of a rational invariant associated to a pair of CM-points on a genus zero Shimura curve, obtained as the ratio…

We show that Kirchhoff ’s law of conservation holds for non-commutative graph flows if and only if the graph is planar. We generalize the theory of (Euclidean) lattices to infinite dimension and consider the ring of algebraic integers as such a lattice.

Op 12 mei 2020 verdedigde Darryl Robinson zijn proefschrift 'Exploring Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory and International Criminal Law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. C. Stahn.

One of the key limitations of the direct imaging of exoplanets at small angular separations are quasi-static speckles that originate from evolving non-common path aberrations (NCPA) to which the primary adaptive optics system is inherently blind. The main focus of this thesis is the development and…

In dit artikel presenteren Kellerman en Seddon een nieuw conceptueel kader waarin het concept van marktleesbaarheid centraal staat.

Arithmetic geometry concerns the number-theoretic properties of geometric objects defined by polynomials. Mathematicians are interested in the rational solutions to these geometric objects.

Ice, the solid state of water, plays an important role on our planet as well as the entire universe.Despite the fact that an individual water molecule has a very simple structure, its chemical bonding in the solid phase can be surprisingly complex.

Pectin is a plant cell wall polysaccharide made of mainly D-galacturonic acid (GA) subunits. The potency of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger to naturally secrete high amounts of pectinases to degrade pectin has been utilized for the industrial production of pectinases.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

This thesis consists of three chapters, the first two of which concern division points of elements of the multiplicative group of a number field.

This thesis consists of three chapters. Each chapter is on a different subject. However, all three chapters address issues that arise in counting arithmetically interesting objects.

To gain more insight into the evolutionary development of orchid flowers and fruits, the orchid species Erycina pusilla was studied. The evolutionary origin of the median petaloid sepal, the callus on the labellum, and the stelidia was studied.

Soil is a home for an unbelievable diversity and abundance of microbial life that is essential for supporting life on our planet.

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

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…

This thesis studies the geometry of representation varieties and character stacks. These are spaces parametrizing the representations of a finitely generated group, typically the fundamental group of a compact manifold, into an algebraic group G.

Let A be a commutative algebraic group over a field K, and let G be a finitely generated subgroup of the K-rational points of A. The purpose of this thesis is to study the degrees of the Kummer extensions relative to A,K and G.

The aromatic infrared bands (AIBs) seen throughout the interstellar medium (ISM) are generally thought to be carried by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their nitrogen analogues (PANHs).

In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

'Ik stond vorig jaar in Nature, ik was genomineerd voor de facultaire prijs voor docent van het jaar; het liet mijn kinderen allemaal koud. Maar als je simulaties in The Big Bang Theory verschijnen, dan is het ineens wat anders! ’ aldus Huib van Langevelde.

This thesis explores Breaking of Ensemble Equivalence (BEE) in random graph models by examining the spectral properties of adjacency matrices. The goal is to identify spectral characteristics that differentiate random graph ensembles, enhancing the understanding of complex network structures and beh…

Op 23 oktober 2019 verdedigde Yoram Stein zijn proefschrift 'Spinoza's Theory of Religion: The Importance of Religion in Spinoza's Thought and Its Implications for State and Society'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P.B. Cliteur en prof.dr. A.A.M. Kinneging.

Op 7 september verdedigde Francesc Claret Traid het proefschrift 'On the nature of the right to resist: a rights-based theory of the ius resistendi in liberal democracies'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door Afshin Ellian en Gelijn Molier.

Increasing the efficiency of gene targeting (GT) as a genome editing tool in plants has been an important goal in plant biotechnology.

The increasing resistance of pathogenic bacteria to antibiotics necessitates the discovery of new medicines.

Promotors: Prof.dr. P.J. Punt, Prof.dr. C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel

Promotores: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson, Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink. Co-promotor: C.P. Bagowski

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Co-promotor: Pascal Autissier

Vincenzo Vitelli is per 1 juni 215 benoemd tot hoogleraar Theory of Condensed Matter.

Deze scriptie onderzoekt de complexiteit van wetsbesluiten binnen de EU, met een specifieke focus op de Raad van de EU.

Organic molecules in interstellar space are important as they influence the structure of galaxies and star formations. Studying catalytic processes in space allows us to understand how molecular species are formed and chemically evolved in the interstellar medium and solar system objects.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi

In this article, Jasmijn Boeken, explores in which ways the defining characteristics of the different zones can be found in the digital sphere.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

Een interdisciplinaire culturele analyse van de manier waarop de Hindoestaanse dubbele migratie hedendaagse identificatieprocessen beïnvloedt en de juxtapositie van traditie en moderniteit problematiseert.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven

The type-IV secretion system (T4SS) is a machinery able to transfer DNA and proteins between bacteria and in certain cases also to eukaryotic cells.

Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk

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.

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

Promotor: F. Arbab, R. De Nicola, Co-Promotor: M. Tribastone

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris

Heterogeneous catalysis is one of the fundamental processes of modern life, being common in industrial refinery and hydrogen vehicles, all the way to the living cell. The dissociation of H2 on Cu(111) is an important benchmark system for studying heterogeneous catalysis, with a large and varied amount…