2,297 search results for “power” in the Public website
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Dialogues as a Dynamic Framework for Logic
This dissertation shows that dialogical logic constitutes a powerful and flexible general framework for the development and study of various logical formalisms and combinations thereof.
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Analogy, Technical Reason, and Living Beings: The Role of Analogy in Representing Kant's Concept of Naturzweck
This dissertation concerns the role of analogy in Kant’s “Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment”, especially the role of analogy for the formation of the concept of a natural end (Naturzweck). A ‘natural end’ is a ‘regulative concept’ of the reflective power of judgment, that is, a heuristic…
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Metabolic signatures in nutrition and health : short-term diet response, sexual dimorphism and hormone chronobiology
The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).
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On the 16-rank of class groups of quadratic number fields
Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, E. Fouvry (Univeriste Paris Saclay)
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Global East Asia Into the Twenty-First Century
Home to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after the US, a global East Asia is seen and felt everywhere. This dynamic text views the global square from the perspective of the world’s most important rising global center.
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El almirantazgo y la armada de los Países Bajos durante los reinados de Felipe I y Carlos V
This book investigates how the rulers of the Habsburg world empire developed and implemented a central maritime policy for the Netherlands and appointed an admiral of the sea or admiral-general for that purpose.
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The gravitational billion body problem
Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Portegies Zwart
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The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Europe
Arco Timmermans, professor by special appointment in Public Affairs at the Institute of Public Administration, is co-editor of this book focused on comparing engagements in policy advisory systems.
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The Heirs Of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India
This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research…
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The promise of bureaucratic reputation approaches for the EU regulatory state
Reputation literature has provided crucial insights about the evolution of the US regulatory state. Daniel Carpenter’s influential account painstakingly demonstrates the relevance of reputation to bureaucratic ‘power’ and to early institutional state-building in the US context. We argue that adopting…
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Rituals of Initiation and Consecration in Premodern Japan
Power and Legitimacy in Kingship, Religion, and the Arts Volume 87 in the series Religion and Society
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Exclusion and Renewal. Identity and Jewishness in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and David Vogels's 'Married Life'
In this study I explore literary structures of identity-formation in the works of assimilated/acculturated Jewish writers: Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” (“Die Verwandlung”, 1912) and David Vogel’s Hebrew novel Married Life. 1929).
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Towards Optical Detection of a Single Electron
Single-molecule spectroscopy has become a powerful method for using organic fluorescent molecules in numerous applications.
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Africa in the world - Rethinking Africa’s global connections
The debate about Africa’s changing relations with the world has rapidly evolved over the past decade. The initial emphasis on China’s role in Africa has given way to a more diversified approach, acknowledging that other emerging global players have also become important.
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Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh: A Political Biography
On the 24th of June Hossein Pourbagheri successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Political Science Luch Research Seminar: The Distinction Between Power and Domination
Lecture
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Politiques, Education et Identités Linguistiques, le collège des Frères des écoles chrétiennes de Jérusalem (1922-1939)
This dissertation sheds light on politics, education and linguistic identity by studying the case of the College of Jerusalem, founded by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
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Visions of Rome. Strategic Appropriation of the Roman Heritage in Humanist Latin Poetry
This research project analyses the use of different, often competing, stereotypical images of Rome in Humanist Latin Poetry, by considering it as strategic appropriation of the classical heritage.
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Islam and culture
Thanks to its early civilisation and continuous mix of influences, the Muslim world has a rich and varied culture. The study of material culture, books, stories, films and increasingly television series teaches us about the structure of modern-day Muslim societies.
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LUCIR Lecture: Restraining Great Powers - Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
Lecture
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Online Conference The Development of Normative Powers of UN Investigative Mechanisms
Conference
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CPP Colloquium with Raf Geenens: Constituent Power in Federal Settings: A Puzzle without a Solution?
Lecture
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Van Ham, Thomassen, Aarts & Andeweg (eds), Myth and Reality of the Legitimacy Crisis
This book systematically evaluates the empirical evidence for legitimacy decline in established democracies, the explanatory power of theories of legitimacy decline, and promises new routes in investigating and assessing political legitimacy.
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Towards a comprehensive and predictive theory of catalysis based on simple structure-activity relations
Can we tailor catalysts at the atomic scale by means of high-school chemistry and geometry rules?
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Telders International Law Moot Court Competition
The main objective of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition is to challenge students to excel in international law, consequently testing their creativity and powers of persuasion in a friendly competition. Students and academic staff throughout Europe consider participation to be a great…
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eLaw Open Minded 2021-2022 #2 "AI, Data, Power & Human Dignity"
Lecture, Open Minded Lecture
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Brazil, an emerging power, a BRICS / Brazil, major producer of primary goods
Lecture
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Yemen as a Battleground: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Gulf and Beyond
Debate
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Spirituality, Culture & Political Power in Early Independent West Africa
Lecture
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Machiavelli and the Minor States; Power Politics in the International System
Inaugural Lecture
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Brazil - a growing power in the South Atlantic and the consequences for its defence
Lecture
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Unearthly Powers: a theoretical framework for inserting religion into comparative global history
Lecture, Research Seminar 1000-1800
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against China: new Asian governments challenge the region’s balance of power
Lecture, International Relations Seminar Series
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Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CA)
Conference
- Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture: Spirituality, Culture & Political Power in Early Independent West Africa
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The Limits of Power: Trade Union Pluralism and Politics in Burkina Faso
Lecture
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Opening mini-exhibition A Mosaic of Images: Power and Daily Life in Byzantium
Exhibition
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Mining the Dragon Vein: Coal Extraction and Secular Power in Northeast China, 1895-1912
Lecture, China Seminar
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Theory
Many important topics in computer science, such as the correctness of software, the efficiency of algorithms and the modeling of complicated systems, depend on sound theoretical underpinnings. In the Theory group, we study these fundamental building blocks and develop verification methods to prove system…
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Theory
Many important topics in computer science, such as the correctness of software, the efficiency of algorithms and the modeling of complicated systems, depend on sound theoretical underpinnings. In the Theory group, we study these fundamental building blocks and develop verification methods to prove system…
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Designing 'context-specific' regional innovation policy: a study on the role of regional government in six European regions
Whilst government’s ability to design ‘context-specific’ regional innovation policy is generally assumed to depend on the region’s decision-making power, the aim of this study is to investigate how regional government matters. In order to open up the black box of policy design, the study develops a…
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Covering the Ocean. Newspapers and Information Management in the Atlantic World, 1580-1820
This project investigates how early print media covered distant but urgent geopolitical conflicts, using newspapers from the Low Countries, north and south.
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China’s long march to national rejuvenation: toward a Neo-Imperial order in East Asia?
In tracing the deeper historical roots of what Xi Jinping contemporarily frames as a “Chinese dream” of “wealth and power,” the article discerns key actors, events, and organizing principles in a long process toward restoring China’s deemed rightful place in the regional system.
- Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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Precarize and divide
Stella Morgana defended her thesis on 31 March 2021
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Idols of the Mind: Modern Variations on a Baconian Theme, 1800-2000
Drawing on a broad array of sources, this project examines modern retrievals of Bacon’s idols, thereby testing Justus von Liebig’s intriguing observation, back in 1863, that Bacon’s name lived on mainly in mottos or stereotypical phrases. More importantly, it examines the rhetorical purposes served…
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Samineh Bagheri
Samineh Bagheri is our Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science’s nominee for the C.J. Kok Jury Award 2020.
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Testing gravity on the largest scales with kids and friends
What are the 'dark' components of the universe?