What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

The complexity of an intelligence problem determines to a great extent the certainty that can be provided by intelligence and security services.

In vitro disease models play a fundamental role in drug research. They enable the systemic identification and validation of disease mechanisms and the discovery of possible drug targets. However, more than often, drug candidates that are identified in vitro fail in the later clinical stages of drug…

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken Co-Promotores: I.M.N. Groot; L.B.F. Juurlink

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz, Co-Promotores: S. Ioppolo, H.M. Cuppen

Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh

Binnen de eerste subsidieronde van het NWO-onderzoeksprogramma Complexity is het project 'Critical transitions and early-warning signals in spatial ecosystems', gezamenlijk ingediend door Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher (CWI) en Max Rietkerk en Martin Wassen (beiden geowetenschappen, UU), gehonoreerd…

What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?

This dissertation consists of two parts, with the common theme

Promotor: R. Cramer

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

An algorithm is discussed to compute the exponential representation of principal units in a finite extension field F of the p-adic rationals.

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

A common method to solve expensive function evaluation problem is using Bayesian Global Optimization, instead of Evolutionary Algorithms.

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

Bacteria have the ability to alter their morphology in order to adapt to changing environments.

Promotie

To an algebraic curve C over the complex numbers one can associate a non-negative integer g, the genus, as a measure of its complexity.

In this thesis we study products of linear error correcting codes.

Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

Promotie

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

To address the fundamental questions of how life on Earth emerged and how common life may be in the Universe, it is crucial to know the chemical composition of the planet-forming material.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: Theo Reijmers

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

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Promotor: Carel J. ten Cate, Co-Promotor: Hans W. Slabbekoorn

Promotor: J.A. Bouwstra Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

Can we distinguish the effects of pesticides from other abiotic and biotic factors that occur in the field? And how do these factors interact with pesticides?

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…

Catalysis is of extreme relevance in the production of everyday materials and plays a central role in many aspects of our life.

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

In this thesis, the discovery and optimization is described of chemical tools to study the N-acylethanolamine (NAE) biosynthetic pathway.

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, K. Belabas (University of Bordeaux)

Lezing

De Dick Stufkens Prijs 2010 is toegekend aan dr. Niels Elders. De prijs wordt gegeven door de Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry voor zijn proefschrift

Anne-Laura van Harmelen houdt zich bezig met met het brein in relatie tot de ontwikkeling van grensoverschrijdend gedrag en het voorkomen en behandelen daarvan. In tijdschrift 'de Psycholoog', een uitgave van het Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen reageert zij in de blogpost op de misstanden bij The…

CADS-docent Sander Hölsgens is een van de initiatiefnemers van het NWO Smart Culture Project Documenting Complexity (projectnummer CISC.KC.212). Dit project onderzoekt hoe en waarom geëngageerde documentairemakers nieuwe technologieën gebruiken in hun werk. Een van de uitkomsten van dit project is de…

Natuurkundige Jelmer Renema gaat met een Rubiconsubsidie van NWO twee jaar onderzoek doen aan Oxford University in Groot Brittannië.

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