Sociale Wetenschappen, Politieke Wetenschap

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.

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

Leiden University offers a unique range of summer courses where you can broaden or deepen your knowledge or share your expertise with fellow students. The choice of academic courses is very diverse, ranging from Law, Big Data, Languages and Linguistics to Maths and Natural Sciences, Biology, Biomedical…

Description of Atlas of the surfacewater concentrations of pesticides in the Netherlands, a pilotstudy.

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Bachelor, Master

The main aim of my Ph.D. thesis is to further explore the value of using early developing zebrafish larvae (up to 5 dpf) as a model to study anxiety-like behaviour and their pharmacological modulation with drugs.

This Thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of ADP-ribosylated compounds that can be applied in biological studies.

Sphingolipids are important membrane compounds with a variety of functions. In mammalian cells, different enzymes are involved in the metabolism of sphingolipids, but interruption of this metabolism process leads to different diseases.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Op 10 juni 2021 verdedigde Merinda Stewart haar proefschrift 'Freedom of Overflight: A Study of Coastal State Jurisdiction in International Airspace'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. P.M.J. Mendes de Leon en prof.dr. J.J. Rijpma.

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Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz

Cytotoxic T-cells (CTLs) are involved in the clearance of viruses and killing of tumor cells.

Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.

Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.

Light-Harvesting Complex II (LHCII) is responsible for light absorption and excitation energy transfer in plants and photosynthetic algae, while in high light it undergoes conformational changes by which it quenches excitations to prevent photodamage.

Op 1 december 2020 verdedigde Bernadette Muscat haar proefschrift 'Insolvency Close-out Netting: A comparative study of English, French and US laws in a global perspective'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr.drs. M. Haentjens en prof.mr. B. Wessels.

Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

This dissertation is an experimental study of laser-generated, atmospheric pressure, transient toroidal helium plasmas.

Description of Effects of glufosinate-ammonium on off crop vegetation.

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

GLOBOX is a spatially differentiated multimedia fate, exposure and effect model. It is used for the calculation of spatially differentiated LCA characterisation factors on a global scale.

Onderzoek naar representatieve bureaucratie heeft vaak de positieve prestatie-effecten bevestigd van bureaucratieën die de demografische kenmerken van hun cliënten weerspiegelen. Er is echter weinig bekend over de onderliggende mechanismen op individueel niveau die tot deze resultaten leiden.

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman Co-promotor: L.H. Heitman

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

Mechanical forces are known to play an important role in bacterial colonies. In this dissertation, we study the self-organization at various stages of growing bacterial colonies, and focus on the mechanical effects of cell growth.

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.

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

Prof. dr. Judi Mesman is benoemd tot hoogleraar interdisciplinary study of societal challenges, een gedeelde leerstoel tussen de faculteiten Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) en Sociale Wetenschappen (FSW) van de Universiteit Leiden.

Do e-waste workers display enhanced effects of adverse health effects due to informal e-waste processing in Nigeria? Is there a difference between the health outcomes of the exposed and the control groups? Are there difference in health effects within and between job groups (collectors, dismantlers,…

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

Promotor: J. Zaanen

Supervisor: S.F. Portegies Zwart Co-Supervisor: A.G.A. Brown

This thesis provides an overview of the development of the Pair Configuration to Molecular Activity Coefficient (PAC-MAC) model.

Studenten, medewerkers en alumni van de FSW bundelden hun krachten om samen te werken, te debatteren en te pitchen tijdens het Connecting Social Siences wetenschapsfestival.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Onze faculteit vindt de 'international classroom' belangrijk. Het biedt studenten de mogelijkheid om hun bewustzijn en begrip van andere culturen te vergroten, bevordert kritisch denken en helpt bij het ontwikkelen van een waardering voor andere perspectieven. Om deze reden werven we voor onze Engelstalige…

Wat komt er allemaal kijken bij het opzetten en uitvoeren van klinisch onderzoek? Om onderzoekers goed op weg te helpen, heeft de LUMC-Campus Den Haag handige tips en trucs op een rij gezet in de nieuwe massive open online course (MOOC) Population Health: Study Design.

Statistical distributions in LCA and converting between different representations of these distributions.

Genetische stoornissen leiden vaak tot cognitieve en gedragsproblemen. De 20ste editie van het International Research Symposium van de SSBP gaat over het in kaart brengen van deze problemen en de mogelijke behandeling hiervan.

Het Institute for Advanced Study heeft astronoom en chemicus Ewine van Dishoeck benoemd tot lid van de Board of Trustees, met ingang van 5 mei 2018.

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.