Urbanisation is steadily increasing with estimates expecting that 68% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate the rural to urban transition, large quantities of land are transformed from natural to urban lands.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, P.Parent

Op 24 september 2021 kwam een groep academici en professionals op de Oude Sterrewacht bijeen om te praten over cultuur, victimologie, slachtofferschap, en hoe we dit moeten invullen.

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).

Proefstuderen kan alleen offline op locatie? Nee hoor! Bij onze faculteit zijn we eind 2019 gestart met het project Online Proefstuderen en Verplichte Matching, en daarvan is nu de eerste module Online Proefstuderen gereed, al in gebruik en draait zelfstandig. Deze Online Experience English Language…

From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

The clinical potential of applying synthetic lethality to cancer treatment is famously demonstrated by the BRCA1/PARP1 paradigm: a tumor specific defect in BRCA1 – a component of the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway homologous recombination (HR) – results in a remarkable sensitivity to PARP1…

World Teachers Festival 2024 - Celebrating and exploring language, culture, diversity and criticality in teaching and learning

Did the Jochids leave their mark on the Grand Duchy, taking into account that the Lithuanian state was one of the main successor states of the Great Horde in the 16thCentury?

This thesis describes the synthesis and biochemical evaluation of a variety of cyclophellitol based activity-based probes and inhibitors targeting various endo- and exo-acting retaining glycosidases. In the last two decades a variety of probes and inhibitors for (hemi)cellulose degrading enzymes have…

Prof. dr. Henk te Velde kiest in zijn boek 'Sprekende politiek' de twee beroemdste parlementen van hun tijd, het Britse en het Franse, om de rijke wereld van het negentiende-eeuwse parlement en zijn publiek te ontsluiten.

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This thesis explores squaramide-based supramolecular polymers and hydrogels, enhancing their mechanical strength for 3D cell culture.

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

The studies described in this thesis deal with glycosidases, in particular alpha-galactosidases.

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Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (AMT) has abundantly been used for scientific research for identifying valuable traits.

Menig student ziet op tegen het schrijven van een scriptie. De praktijkgerichte scriptie van masterstudent Laura Robustella laat zien dat het wél meer dan de moeite waard is. Op basis van haar masterscriptie ontwikkelde ze een kunsttentoonstelling.

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

In juli zal een aantal onderzoekers van de Afdeling Jeugdrecht een paper presenteren op de 'Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family' conference in Londen, georganiseerd door het International Centre for family law, policy and practice te Londen.

Op Things That Talk, een website opgericht en ontwikkeld door Fresco Sam-Sin, beschrijven studenten en onderzoekers objecten van vandaag en lang geleden. Inmiddels zijn meer dan honderd objecten aan bod gekomen. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij en Frank van den Boom werken mee aan de content.

Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.

Triplet superconductivity refers to a condensate of equal-spin Cooper pairs (pairs of electrons with equal spin).

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

Presents a novel philosophical account of psychedelic experiences, arguing that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics — such as meditation and yoga.

In oktober werd Sophie Starrenburg gekozen tot lid van het coördinerende comité van de ESIL ‘Interest Group on the International Law of Culture’. Ze zal hierin samenwerken met Giovanni Carlo Bruno (Italian National Research Council), Andrzej Jakubowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) en Lucas Lixinski…

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

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Tijdens de vroege moderne tijd werden veel middeleeuwse manuscripten in stroken perkament gesneden, die opnieuw werden gebruikt om de bindingen van nieuw gedrukte boeken te versterken. Tot voor kort kwamen deze hergebruikte stukjes middeleeuwse manuscripten alleen aan het licht wanneer de vroege moderne…

Actinobacteria are well known for the production of bioactive natural products, many of which have applications in the fields of human, animal and plant health. Subject of this thesis are the anthracyclines, glycosylated aromatic polyketides with potent anticancer activity.

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. One of its symptoms is the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta.

Death in all types of melanomas is generally caused by metastasis. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular melanoma, there are currently no (patient-derived) animal models that faithfully recapitulate metastatic dissemination of UM.

Deze colleges zijn in het Engels, u kunt vragen stellen en reageren in het Nederlands.

Bij de Universiteit Leiden krijg je de mogelijkheid om het beste uit jezelf te halen. Heb je tijd en talent? Dan is honoursonderwijs iets voor jou. Of doe een bestuursjaar.

In this thesis population pharmacokinetic and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) approaches were applied to investigate the influence of glomerular filtration (GF) and active tubular secretion (ATS) on renal clearance in children.

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. P. IJzerman, Co-Promotor: L.H. Heitman