How new media shape the communication strategies of the PRC’s official news agency Xinhua?

This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.

In this dissertation, the life account is constructed of of the founder of Bon Religion, Shenrab Miwo.

Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.

In the master’s programme in Dutch Discourse Studies at Leiden University you will study rhetoric and argumentation, and you will specifically focus on research into pragmatics, stylistics, genre research and persuasion.

On March 12th, Jonathan Brown succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Jonathan on this great result.

This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

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We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…

... which focuses on the development and use of new multivariate statistical tools needed for analyses of data collected in the four other programs.

With textnets it is possible to visualize and analyze textual data in novel ways.

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Religion and ethnicity are inextricably linked in discourse within and about Central Asia. One common narrative suggests that as a result of differences between historically sedentary and nomadic populations, ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks are naturally more religious and more likely to radicalise than their…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

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The project Going Dutch investigates why the link between being or becoming Dutch, and knowledge of Standard Dutch is so often taken for granted in public discourse, by diving into its historical roots.

The research of our group is centered around dynamical systems, functional analysis and their interplay.

The research of this programme is centered around dynamical systems, functional analysis, and their interplay.

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

The research of the Applied Mathematics cluster is concerned with such diverse topics as dynamical systems, representation theory, differential equations and pattern recognition.

The main methodological aspects of the use of stepwise LCA estimators under different circumstances.

This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the early 1990s.

This handbook provides a resource for those already familiar with some kinds of micro-particles who wish to learn more about others, or for those just starting out in the study of microremains who wish to have a broad understanding about microscopic archaeology.

The objective is to develop in vitro antigen degradation assays in order to mimic the fate of the antigen in vivo.

On February 20th, Gulnaz Sibgatullina succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Gulnaz on this great result.

Mr. S. Al Daghistani defended his thesis on 30 November 2017

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

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

Systems pharmacology aims to apply techniques from systems biology to pharmacological models.

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Analysis of neuroimaging data requires multiple steps where statistics play a crucial role. The MRI methods research group develops new statistical methods that are accurate, transparent and easy to use.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Deprettere

How does the cluster bootstrap procedure in combination with various types of linear models perform in the analysis of longitudinal data, compared to other methods.

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

The master in Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory at Leiden University focuses on the study of literature from a comparative and theoretical perspective, with a special emphasis on literary movements and genres of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. It covers a wide range of languages and cultures…

Promotor: B. van de Water, Co-Promotores: J.H.N. Meerman, F.J. Verbeek

This project aims to improve understanding of, and responses to, the phenomenon of lone actors through analysis of comprehensive data on cases from across Europe.

Science, Mathematical Institute (MI)

The wealth of shoes, sandals and other footwear from ancient Egypt is poorly understood due to lack of research. This is remarkable, because from the very beginning of Egypt’s long history footwear served practical as well as more spiritual purposes.

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).

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

D2.2 comprises the in-depth legal analysis of the initial heuristic model, focused on addressing, in more detail, the main legal concerns for data reusers in the European data economy. This detailed analysis of the legal propositions presented in D2.1 is supplemented by an analysis of the technological,…

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What should the EU do to support Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova? How can the European Union adapt its policies towards these countries in a very difficult and challenging geopolitical context?

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.