1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

Effects of maternal smoking, premature birth, intra-uterine growth retardation and asphyxia on child development.

What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

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Op 12 september 2019 verdedigde Michiel Rhoen zijn proefschrift 'Big Data, Big Risks, Big Power Shifts: Evaluating the General Data Protection Regulation as an instrument of risk control and power redistribution in the context of big data'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr.mr.…

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Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof

How can we, together international experts, define future needs of R+D contributions for innovations in the field of risk-based management of chemicals and products in a global perspective using alternative testing strategies to minimize animal tests?

Leiden University and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management are involved in a collaboration in the form of a research project titled 'Data-Driven Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Networks'

Description of Triple bottom line approach for risk-benefit analysis of genetically modified crops.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

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How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

This study’s main aim is to test whether children’s learning behaviour explains why they do not benefit from a literate environment.

Herkennen huisartsen kinderen die (een verhoogd risico voor) angststoornissen hebben en is er een patroon dat kan helpen om kinderen met en zonder angststoornissen te onderscheiden in de huisartsenpraktijk?

Aan de hand van een reeks case studies in Irak, Moldavië en Servië gedurende het post-Koude Oorlogstijdperk, onderzoekt dit boek asymmetrische conflicten waarbij de strijdende partijen een grote ongelijkheid in machtsposities vertonen.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F.P. Israel, Prof.dr. P.P. van der Werf

Een Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) over dreiging in de moderne samenleving.

What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

The aim is to develop methods to assess environmental and occupational exposure to (individual) pesticides, to be applied in epidemiological studies investigating pesticide exposure and human health. Furthermore, we aim to investigate the potential association between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s…

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

The majority (80%) of e-waste generated globally are recycled informally in developing countries.

Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death worldwide. The most important risk factor for developing this disease is high cholesterol levels in the blood.

Promotor: A.W. van der Vaart

Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe, D. Tibboel, Co-Promotor: P. Bruins

With the energy transition toward a renewable energy supply and a CO2-neutral economy, electrification of the energy system is rising in importance, which leads to the challenge of long-term storage of renewable electricity.

Maandag 29 januari vond de jaarlijkse conferentie van Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Center for Safety and Security (LDE CSS) plaats in Wijnhaven. De conferentie begon met pitches van projecten die werden gefinancierd door LDE CSS. Dit werd gevolgd door interactie in kleine groepen om onderzoeks- en onderwijsthema's…

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, Y. Tan, Co-promotor: M.T.M. Emmerich

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

Safety issues of the transport and storage of Chlorine, ammonia and LPG.

This longitudinal study is focused on neurodevelopmental problems in young children with XXY, XXX and XYY, aged 1 to 6 years.

Can we develop a platform for raw materials intelligence?

Somatic symptoms are highly prevalent and have a major impact on patients and society. This project studies the role of placebo and nocebo effects in the onset, experience, course, and recovery of such somatic symptoms by means of innovative psychological and neurobiological methods and treatments.

LCA has become an important method to study environmental impacts of human activities. Still, there are several methodological issues in LCA that can adversely affect the results reliability.

De Academie voor Accounting en Financial Management van De Haagse Hogeschool is op zoek naar drie onderzoeker-docenten Risk Management. Deze duale functie is samen met het Centrum Regionale Kennisontwikkeling ontwikkeld. Het is een unieke aanpak die voortkomt uit de intensieve samenwerking tussen de…

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

1. To what extent do metallic NPs added to soil extractions change the activity, abundance, or community composition of microbes? 2. How do the effects of metallic NPs on soil microbes differ from the effects of the ions shedding from corresponding NPs?

CERA (CErtification of RAw Materials) is a four-year project that will develop a standardized certification scheme ensuring environmental, social and economic sustainability in extraction, processing, trading and manufacturing of all mineral raw materials. It will guarantee traceability of certified…

De onderzoekgroep Terrorism and Political Violence onderzoekt de verschillende verschijningvormen van terrorisme-gerelateerd en andere vormen van politiek gemotiveerd geweld.

Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

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

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