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De onderzoeksgroep Terrorism and Political Violence van de Universiteit Leiden bestudeert de oorzaken van radicalisering, de tactieken van extremistische groeperingen, en de effectiviteit van anti-terrorismebeleid. We onderzoeken ook de rol van media en de invloed van postkoloniale erfenissen in de…

Op donderdag 25 en vrijdag 26 oktober 2018 organiseerde het Europa Instituut een conferentie in het kader van ‘Interaction between Legal Systems (ILS): Policing the High Seas’ en in samenwerking met vier belangengroepen van de European Society of International Law.

Op 29 oktober 2020 organiseerde het Europa-Institut Zürich een conferentie met als titel

Ook in Nederland is er veel aandacht voor de verkiezingen in de VS. Waar komt die fascinatie vandaan? En hebben wij een goed beeld van wat daar gebeurt? Promovendus Bram Eenink legt uit.

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, A. Plaat, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

Transplantation of labial salivary glands to the eyelids for patients with dry eye appears to give excellent results clinically.

In meta-analysis, heterogeneity often exists between studies. In such cases, it is essential to investigate the sources of heterogeneity and understand the relationship between effect size and study characteristics (i.e., moderators).

In this thesis, deep learning is studied from a statistical perspective. Convergence rates for the worst case risk bounds of neural network estimators are obtained in the classification, density estimation and linear regression model.

A remarkable population of short period transiting rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures on the order of 2,000 K has recently been discovered.

Op 16 december 2021 verdedigde Lisanne van Houten het proefschrift 'Flexing the Slot Regime'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof. L. Pierallini (Luiss University Of Rome).

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A Kersten, Prof dr. J.A. Bouwstra

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: J-P. Amorij

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

We investigate the buildup of galaxies from various vantage points. The first two chapters focus on the stellar content of galaxies, especially the distribution of stellar masses at birth and potential variations therein in various galactic environments.

Plants and their pollinators form complex interaction networks. Within these networks, species differ widely in the number of species they interact with.

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

This thesis seeks to combine two different research topics; Multi-Objective Optimization and Complex Network Analysis.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Evelien Campfens het proefschrift 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Portegies Zwart

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

Promotors: C.A.J. Knibbe, Anthonius de Boer, Co-promotor: M.M.J. van der Vorst

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

The investigation into the bidirectional communication between the gut and its host is a rapidly growing area of research, attracting considerable attention for its potential to provide crucial insights into health and disease.

Promotor: G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: B. Metz

The studies presented in the work show the potential of the integrative use of biophysical data in defining the structural basis of protein interactions.

We strive to address the challenge of constructing a modeling language to write software which can take advantage of recent hardware developments (multicore, cloud) without compromising in its abstraction levels.

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Enzymes are innately sensitive to changes in the amino acid sequence, which largely constrains their evolutionary potential, i.e., evolvability. This evolutionary burden can be alleviated in the presence of stabilizing mutations, which increase the buffering capacity of enzymes to tolerate mutations…

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

Due to their central physiological roles in living organisms, retaining beta-glycosidases have been the subject of tremendous research efforts to examine their structure/function relation using numerous biophysical and biochemical approaches.

A modern ship design process is subject to a wide variety of constraints such as safety constraints, regulations, and physical constraints.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

Empirical Legal Studies in Leiden focust op het bouwen van een interdisciplinaire gemeenschap van rechtsgeleerden en sociale wetenschappers die samen juridische vraagstukken onderzoeken op het snijpunt van recht en gedrag, waarbij diverse soorten methoden worden gebruikt.

The growing demand of energy indicates that global energy resources in the form of fossil fuels will not be sufficient in the future. In order to solve potential future energy problems development of a sustainable hydrogen economy is highly desirable.

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: T.R. van Andel

Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease resulting in the formation of an arterial plaque. Despite lipid lowering, recurrent cardiovascular events remain a risk. While atherosclerosis is primarily lipid-driven, the immune system plays a critical role in the pathophysiology.

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.

Antibiotic resistance, caused by widespread use of antibiotics, leads to bacterial infections that are difficult, if not impossible, to treat and is a major worldwide health concern.

The focus of the described research in this thesis is on the oxidative stress response (Nrf2 pathway). The aim of the research presented in this thesis is to obtain more information concerning microRNAs which are involved in the Nrf2 pathway, to determine and evaluate the application of microRNAs for…

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

Promotor: T. Schmidt, Co-promotor: S. J.T. van Noort