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

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: S.C. Hille

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

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What impact does a mid-season wildfire have on grassland invertebrates?

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

This dissertation consists of two parts, with the common theme

Promotor: Robert Tijdeman, Co-promotor: Cornelis Kraaikamp

De interdisciplinaire minor De (on)rechtvaardige samenleving geeft een verdiepende en toegepaste kijk op sociale rechtvaardigheid in Nederland. Dat doen we door het thema vanuit verschillende invalshoeken te belichten en door samen met jou als student actief aan de slag te gaan met concrete maatschappelijke…

On dinsdag 26 september heeft Jessica Hill haar proefschrift ‘On the road to adulthood. Delinquency and desistance in Dutch emerging adults’ verdedigd. Promotor is Professor Arjan Blokland.

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

Promotor: C. W. J. Beenakker, Co-promotor: J. K. Asboth

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

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

Dissociative chemisorption is an important reaction step in many catalytic reactions.

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

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo

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

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

Het Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic (LAPP) is een pro bono initiatief aangaande juridische vraagstukken omtrent plastic. LAPP is opgericht om het toenemende probleem van plasticvervuiling aan te pakken en onderzoek te doen naar juridische kwesties gerelateerd hieraan. Studenten werken hierbij als…

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…

The research presented in this thesis makes use of small molecules (as H2 , D2 and O2 ) on well-defined single crystal surfaces (flat Pt(111), flat Cu(211) and curved Pt(111)) to elucidate the role of surface structure and degrees of freedom in the reactant in specific surface reactions.

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?

The dissertation describes TEM experiments on heterogeneous catalysts.

Promotor: J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-Promotor: A. Kros

Does a mid-season fire impact invertebrate populations?

In this thesis we study bistable reaction-diffusion equations on lattice domains.

The main topic of this PhD thesis is the Arakelov ray class group of a number field, an algebraic object that contains both the ideal class group structure and the unit group structure.

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

Collected Cases on EU Labour Law (eerste druk) is onlangs verschenen bij Eleven International Publishing.

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Jan-Hendrik Evertse, Co-promotor: Pascal Autissier

In this thesis, two potential therapeutic targets for diabetic nephropathy were dentified and investigated. First, we show that glomerular clusterin is upregulated in diabetic nephropathy and demonstrated that recombinant clusterin protein can protect the podocytes against oxidative stress in vitro.…

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

The research described in this thesis has, using the zebrafish as a model system, shed new light on the intricate relationship between TB and DM2, in particular on the role of leptin, SHP-1 and glucocorticoids.

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the most abundant class of organic compounds in space. The PAH field evolves from the constant interaction between experimentalists, theorists, modellers and observers. While laboratory research and quantum chemical calculations together set up the molecular…

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

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.