Binnen de computationele taalkunde wordt er gebruik gemaakt van computermethodes om antwoord te krijgen op taalkundige vragen over verscheidene onderwerpen.

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: Roeland M.H. Merks

Hoe bepaal je bij een kind de juiste dosering van een medicijn? Dat kan niet altijd op basis van lichaamsgewicht. Maar soms kan dat wèl, ontdekte farmacoloog Elke Krekels. Ze won hiermee de TOP-Publicatieprijs van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Klinische Farmacologie en Biofarmacie. In de uitzending…

Matthijs van Leeuwen van het Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science ontwikkelt methodes om interactief naar de juiste computermodellen te zoeken. Hierbij kunnen experts informatie uit ruwe data combineren met hun eigen kennis om zo voorspellingen accurater te maken. ‘Op deze manier hopen we modellen…

Description of Biotic ligand models: making an inventory of available models & assessment of the variability of the predicted HC5 using the BLMs in different Dutch water types (2005 - 2007)

Epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) and tumor cell migration play an important role in cancer progression, and an improved understanding of the mechanisms underlying these concepts is essential for developing new targeted approaches.

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Deprettere

This dissertation studies the Asymptotics of Bayesian nonparametric inference for Gaussian linear models.

Death in all types of melanomas is generally caused by metastasis. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular melanoma, there are currently no (patient-derived) animal models that faithfully recapitulate metastatic dissemination of UM.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn & Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink Co-promotor: Dr. B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Industrial manufacturing processes, such as the production of steel or the stamping of car body parts, are complex semi-batch processes with many process steps, machine parameters and quality indicators.

Immunotherapies for cancer are an emerging class of therapeutic strategies which aim to treat cancer via augmentation of the immune system.

The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

Clinical development of drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders has been particularly challenging and still suffers from high attrition rates.

This dissertation focuses on developing new mathematical and statistical methods to properly represent time-varying covariates and model them within the context of time-to-event analysis.

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

Making a dynamic substance stock model in order to conduct scenario analyses and make forecasts.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotores: L.T.M. van der Ven, A.S. Kienhuis

Promotor: B.van de Water, Co-promotor: L.S.Price

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

From surface science towards industrial practice using high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy.

In this thesis, we extend the concept of null models as canonical ensembles of multi-graphs with given constraints and present new metrics able to characterize real-world layered systems based on their correlation patterns.

Peter Grunwald

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

Synthetic microswimmers take an important place within the interdisciplinary field of active soft matter.

Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are a group of orphan diseases characterized by lysosomal dysfunction or impaired lysosomal catabolism and affect collectively about 1 in 5000 live births.

In this thesis, mathematical modeling and simulation was applied as a tool to inform quantitative decision making in oncology drug discovery and development.

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

M. Danhof, Co-promotores: J. Freijer, A. Yassen

Het onderzoek van de sectie Cognitieve Psychologie is onder te verdelen in twee domeinen.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

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

It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the standard for business processes diagrams.

Promotor: Prof.dr. F. den Hollander, G.Maillard

Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

In surface science there is great effort to move from studying simple, flat model surfaces in vacuum to investigating more complex model catalysts in gas environments (in situ). This thesis gives three examples of such studies using microscopy and spectroscopy.

Describe and identify what dosimetry parameters are of importance to interpret dose-response relationships (eg., mortality, sub-lethal, growth or reproduction inhabitation, DNA damage and reactive oxygen species, etc. ) for metal-based nanoparticles? How to develop quantitative models that enable to…

Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

To improve cancer treatments, personalized medicine approaches have aimed to identify exactly which mutations are driving tumor development in a given patient and specifically target these mutations using precision therapies.

To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.

Netherlands Statistics (CBS), Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam have started a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Enriching official economic statistics using data-driven modelling techniques'.

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.

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