The project

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

In dit interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma werken onderzoekers uit vijf verschillende disciplines met elkaar samen. Zij stellen zich hieronder (in het Engels) aan u voor.

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

Van maandag 10 tot woensdag 12 juni 2019 vertegenwoordigden Jeroen Wolbers, Wout Broekema en Sanneke Kuipers het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) op de vierde editie van de Noord-Europese Conferentie over Nood- en Rampenonderzoek (NEEDS).

Het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) biedt onderwijsprogramma’s aan op bachelor- en masterniveau. Tevens zijn er minoren, wordt er online onderwijs aangeboden en is er onderwijs voor professionals.

Een lijst met wetenschappelijke publicaties samengesteld door het team van het TRIXY Expertisecentrum.

Promotie

Op 23 februari 2022 verdedigde Cale Davis het proefschrift 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. C. Stahn en dr. J.C. Powderly.

Kiemproject: Hoe kunnen metaforen bijdragen aan betere maatschappelijke betrokkenheid bij quantumwetenschap en -technologie, en welke factoren beïnvloeden de acceptatie of weerstand tegen metaforen bij zowel experts als leken?

Researchers from the Department of Economics - Kees Goudswaard, Koen Caminada, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning and Olaf van Vliet - have been awarded a grant of one million euros by Instituut Gak to investigate self-sufficiency and social protection.

There is accumulating evidence for an increase in severe global drought events. In particular, Europe experienced several severe droughts in 2003, 2015, and 2018 (unprecedented in the past 2,110 years). Such droughts have caused serious and far-reaching impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death worldwide. The most important risk factor for developing this disease is high cholesterol levels in the blood.

De programmagroep Leer- en Gedragsproblemen in het Onderwijs doet onderzoek naar stagnaties die kunnen optreden in de cognitieve ontwikkeling.

Promotor: M. Danhof Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

It researches (the possibilities for) the development of a set of principles and best practices for insolvency office holders by comparing multilateral treaties and soft law recommendations and national legislation within Europe.

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

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…

Van het filteren van uv-licht in zonnebrandcrème tot het voorkomen van zweetgeur in sokken en het steriliseren van koelkasten en wasmachines. Steeds vaker gebruiken producenten nanodeeltjes in producten. Maar wat is het effect van deze miniscule deeltjes op het milieu?

We zijn nog onvoldoende in staat om de reikwijdte en impact van cybersecurity vraagstukken te zien, meent professor Bibi van den Berg in een artikel op de website van iBestuur online. Zij pleit voor een bredere focus, bijvoorbeeld door niet alleen systemen maar ook mensen als risicodragers te zien.

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…

Projecten in de afdeling Industrial Ecology

Promotie

The majority (80%) of e-waste generated globally are recycled informally in developing countries.

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?

Statistical considerations guide the design and implementation of the experiments that scientists perform. For instance, in a clinical trial about a the efficacy of a treatment, its effect in a certain minimum amount of patients has to be observed in order to make confident assertions about the efficacy…

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

Promotor: A.W. van der Vaart

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Join this lecture from professor Daniel Aldrich at the Spanish Steps in Wijnhaven on Wednesday 3 November. Dr. Sanneke Kuipers, associate professor in Crisis Governance, will be the moderator of the lecture and she and professor Aldrich give us a preview of the event.

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

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.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)