As a virtually inexhaustible source, solar energy plays a major role in future global energy scenarios.

This paper describes the development process of voting behavior in Chile; particularly the relationship between the class voting theory and the theory of cultural post-materialist vote is investigated. This research deals with Chile as a case study, a developing country with a relatively stable democracy…

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.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

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

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: A.J. Knobbe

The effective treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health.

This thesis focuses on the development of sample-preparation methods for small amounts of samples and applying the developed methods to muscle tissues to investigate the mechanisms involved in sarcopenia.

This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.

This thesis consists of two main parts. The first part (Chapters 2 and 3) deals with a class of Markov process called Quasi-Skipfree (QSF) processes.

Congres/symposium, Leiden University Green Office

How to contribute to a quantum leap of eco-industrial symbiosis in China?

Van 19 t/m 21 september werd de derde jaarlijkse ‘Law and Development Research Network’-conferentie gehouden in het Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: R. Heijungs

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?

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

André Leliveld heeft een beurs van 100.000 euro gewonnen binnen het Comenius Senior Fellow programma voor het project ‘Mondiaal leren, lokaal handelen: co-creatie van een internationale multidisciplinaire online leeromgeving rondom Frugal Innovation’. André is vanuit het Afrika-Studiecentrum in samenwerking…

Hoe kan formatieve assessment worden ingezet om het leren van docenten te bevorderen? Dit boek bevat diverse onderzoeken naar professionaliseringsaanpakken en cursussen waarin formatieve assessment wordt aangewend met het oog op het leren van docenten.

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

Wil je meer doen op het gebied van duurzaamheid? Handen uit de mouwen steken? Gelijkgestemden tegen komen? Aan de slag met je ideeën? Ga ervoor!

Promotor: I. Snellen, Co-Promotor: M. Kenworthy

The rapidly increasing commercial application of metallic nanoparticles within products will inevitably enhance the amount of NPs being released into soil.

Discovery and development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs is hampered by high attrition rates.

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

Solute carrier (SLC) transporters are a large and diverse class of relatively understudied transmembrane proteins.

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

In Europe a number of production and communication strategies have long tried to establish local products as resources for local development. At the foot of the Alps, this scenario appears in all its contradictions, especially in relation to cheese production. The Heritage Arena focuses on the saga…

In de internationale bachelor Culturele antropologie en ontwikkelingssociologie onderzoek je verschillende manieren waarop mensen hun idealen en normen uiten in gedrag; en je leert om deze uitingen te begrijpen binnen de complexe processen van sociale en globale ontwikkelingen. Hoe kun je (gender) ongelijkheid…

Large areas of space are filled by molecular clouds that consist of gas and dust grains that are the remnants of dead stars. When these clouds start collapsing, the decreasing temperature and increasing density cause gas particles to start accreting onto dust grain surfaces.

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

What are the life-cycle environmental impacts and risks to human health and ecosystems of a III-V/Si PV system? How can these be expected to change when the system is deployed at industrial scale? What are the most favourable recycling scenarios?

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

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Astrofysicus Harold Linnartz simuleert processen van het heelal in zijn lab. In het NRC is zijn werkplek in beeld gebracht.

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

Op 22 februari leidt Karst Schuil (Wenen) het derde seminar (online) van de seminarreeks van de Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek: Emotionality and Late Medieval Self-Transformative Processes. Hij onderzoekt de relatie tussen pelgrimages en emoties en zal zijn prospectus (een uitgewerkt voorstel) van zijn…

Verscholen achter het Academiegebouw op het Rapenburg ligt de oudste botanische tuin van Nederland en één van de oudste tuinen ter wereld. Aangelegd in 1590 en uitgebreid in de eeuwen daarna is de Hortus hét groene hart van Leiden.

Promotores: Prof.dr. C.A.M.J.J. van den Hondel, Prof.dr. V. Meyer (Technische Universität Berlin)

De Universiteit Leiden en de stad Den Haag werken nauw samen om de impact van ons onderzoek en onderwijs te vergroten en zo maximaal bij te dragen aan de ontwikkeling van de stad.

In zijn proefschrift beschrijft hij de ontwikkeling van het arbeidsrecht in Indonesië. De nadruk ligt op de modernisering van het arbeidsrecht in de periode na de val van het Soeharto-regime in 1998, de reformasi.