Artificiele Intelligentie en Ethiek bij de Politie

Schimmels die zich in vanilleplanten nestelen, spelen een rol bij het ontstaan van de smaak en geur van vanille. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Shahnoo Khoyratty van het Instituut Biologie Leiden. Promotie op 27 oktober.

Langs de randen van de Afrikaanse Serengeti groeide de bevolking de afgelopen tien jaar met vierhonderd procent. Het aantal wilde dieren daarentegen nam drastisch af. Van sommige diersoorten bleven er minder dan een kwart over. Ecoloog Michiel Veldhuis onderzoekt of het tij nog te keren is. Hij vertelde…

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

The largest structures in the Universe are clusters of galaxies. Each can contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies.

In this thesis, I studied the origin and evolution of the non-thermal radiation in merging galaxy clusters.

Promotores:Th.J.C. van Berkel, M. van Eck

Promotor: Prof. dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Het Sport Data Center doet onderzoek binnen vijf thema's.

Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

The aim of this thesis was to develop novel treatment strategies for different types of eye melanoma utilizing zebrafish models. We first establish orthotopic and ectopic xenograft models for uveal and conjunctival melanoma by engraftment of the immortalized cells derived from these tumors into zebrafish…

We use DNA strands to stabilize few-atom silver clusters, which show unique optical and chemical properties. This thesis involves the study of these constructs for various applications.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

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We showed that constitutive and inducible chemical and morphological defenses against Western flower thrips differ between tomato and chrysanthemum plants.

The aim of this thesis is to develop and study a robust and adaptable scaffold for supramolecular polymer self-assembly in water.

Gold nanoparticles show surprisingly strong interactions with light in the visible range, which can be divided into scattering, absorption, and photoluminescence.

Drug-target binding kinetics determine the time course of the central event in pharmacotherapy: Drug-target interaction.

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

Pericytes, the mural cells of blood microvessels, are important regulators of vascular morphogenesis and function that have been postulated to mechanically control microvascular diameter through as yet unknown mechanisms.

Detecting nanoscopic objects plays an important role in nanoscience in particular, in the rapidly growing field of nanobiology. The forebear to modern super-resolution microscopy for single molecule investigation, is fluorescence microscopy.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

This work has described synthetic strategies towards well-defined structures resembling capsular polysaccharide (CPS) fragments, CPS mimics, teichoic acid (TA) fragments as well as a third-generation ring-closing tandem metathesis (RCM) linker to better exploit the potential of automated synthesis.

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How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

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?

Promotor: Richard D. Gill

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

How and to what extent the historic house (re-)constructs identity through image-making in China.

Atoms and molecules are the basic units of matter. If we keep dividing a bar of gold or a glass of water into smaller parts, at the end we are left with a single gold atom or a water molecule.

This thesis is a collection of experimental attempts to enhance photoluminescence of fluorescent molecules and quantum dots with single gold nanorods (GNRs) and relevant applications.

This research delves into a region of space known as the interstellar medium (ISM), which is essentially the area between the stars filled with gas and dust.

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

The plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development through polar cell-to-cell transport-generated maxima and minima. PIN FORMED (PIN) auxin efflux carriers determine the direction of this auxin flow through their asymmetric placement on the plasma membrane (PM).

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

Mechanical metamaterials are carefully engineered materials whose properties are controlled by their structure, not by their composition, which allows using metamaterials to study and control physical effects in detail⁠.

The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.

In this thesis, bioorthogonal chemistry is combined with correlative light-electron microscopy to selectively label and study pathogenic intracellular bacteria within the host immune cell.

This thesis investigates how cell shape and collective behavior influence the dynamics and structure of biological tissues, which are crucial for understanding processes like embryonic development, tissue regeneration, and metastasis.

Heart failure is a major health care problem with high mortality.

De afdeling Environmental Biology (CML-EB) houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken rondom biodiversiteit en natuurlijke hulpbronnen op het platteland in westerse en niet-westerse gebieden.

Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle) produces valuable monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) such as vincristine and vinblastine, crucial for cancer treatment.

This thesis investigates opinion dynamics on random graphs through the lens of the voter model, a classical interacting particle system used to describe how consensus emerges in networks.