Op 11 januari 2019 organiseerden de Universiteit Maastricht en de Universiteit van Groningen een workshop over wetgeving en social media influencers.

De roep om een socialemediaverbod voor kinderen klinkt luider dan ooit. Volgens hoogleraar Kinderrechten Ton Liefaard is dat onverstandig, zo stelt hij in Trouw. ‘Voor kinderen zijn online en offline geen verschillende werelden’.

Delineating psychophysiological endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder

In Nederland komt gehoorverlies voor bij 1 tot 2 op de 1000 kinderen. In ongeveer een kwart van de gevallen is de oorzaak niet bekend. De mate van gehoorverlies kent een grote variatie. In dit proefschrift worden kinderen besproken met een gehoorverlies variërend van matig (40 dB, te vergelijken met…

The confinement of molecular catalysts in metal-organic frameworks has the potential to lead to significant improvements in selectivity, long term activity and catalyst stability.

Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

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,…

Despite being the second largest transmembrane protein family after GPCRs, the SLC superfamily has only gained significant attention in early drug development over the past decade.

Explaining treatment response variability between and within patients can support treatment and dosing optimization, to improve treatment of individual patients.

In this thesis, I investigated the neurogenetic properties of Neotropical bat species. Bats represent the second largest mammalian order (Chiroptera) in the world, with Neotropical bats constituting about 13% of the total number of bat species.

When a star is born in our Galaxy, it is quite likely that it has formed within a massive cluster, which hosts numerous high-mass stars bathing their lower mass neighbours in UV radiation.

De League of European Research Universities (LERU) doet aanbevelingen voor de toekomst van het Social Science en Humanities Research (SSH) in Europa. Dit onderzoek is van vitaal belang voor het opbouwen van een innovatief en veerkrachtig Europa.

A Josephson junction is a device where a thin insulating barrier or a nanostructure is placed between two superconducting leads. Such a junction is essential to superconducting qubits that store quantum information due to its anharmonic spectrum.

Dat een sociale angststoornis vaak bij meerdere personen in een familie voorkomt was al bekend. Onderzoek van promovenda Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam toont nu aan dat sprake is van erfelijke hersenkarakteristieken die samenhangen met sociale angst. Promotie op 14 januari.

Seksueel misbruik van kinderen is een veelvoorkomend probleem: wereldwijd wordt ongeveer één op de vijf meisjes en één op de dertien jongens vóór hun achttiende jaar slachtoffer van een vorm van seksueel misbruik. Ondanks de hoge prevalentie zwijgen veel slachtoffers over deze ervaringen en wachten…

Onze onderzoeker en promovenda Helena Ursic heeft een interview gegeven aan Druzina, één van de grootste kranten in Slovenië.

Het Australische parlement nam eind november een wet aan die sociale media voor jongeren onder zestien jaar verbiedt. Dit lost niets op, stelt Simone van der Hof, hoogleraar recht en informatiemaatschappij, in NRC. ‘Diensten moeten aan de wet gehouden worden.’

De jongeren van nu groeien op met sociale media. Mogelijk heeft dat invloed op de ontwikkeling van herssengebieden die betrokken zijn bij sociale interactie. Crone en Konijn laten in dit overzichtsartikel in Nature Communications zien hoe neurowetenschappelijke kennis kan bijdragen aan een beter begrip…

Beleid dat erop is gericht radicalisering tegen te gaan, ondermijnt het vertrouwen en de sociale cohesie binnen onze samenleving.

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.

Cardiovascular disease is a major global burden and atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathological process.

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

The haplolepideous mosses (Dicranidae) comprise about 4000 species distributed over a wide range of habitats, with great gametophytic and sporophytic morphological variation. Their monophyly is well supported by the results of several molecular phylogenetic studies, which shed light on their relationships…

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

Single-layer graphene (SLG) has attracted considerable interest as a proton exchange membrane for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), owing to its atomic thickness, mechanical robustness, and unique proton permeability.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is one of the most pressing challenges that humanity faces in the coming decades.

Advanced UHF MRI techniques provide powerful tools for studying the zebrafish brain, an emerging model in neurological research. In this work, various MRI and localized MRS methods are optimized and employed for UHF strength for studying the zebrafish brain.

This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

Filamentous Actinobacteria, such as Streptomyces, produce a plethora of chemically diverse bioactive metabolites that have found applications across medicine, agriculture and biotechnology.

Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

The invention of neural networks marks a critical milestone in the pursuit of true artificial intelligence. Despite their impressive performance on various tasks, these networks face limitations in learning efficiently as they are often trained from scratch.

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium which can form biofilms, increasing its resistance against antibiotics and the host immune system. Polysaccharides are an integral part of this biofilm, one of these polysaccharides is called Psl. PslG is a glycosidase, able to cleave this polysaccharide,…

The effective treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health.