Supervisor: P.J.J. Hooykaas

Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the standard for business processes diagrams.

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

What performance criteria does a new technology have to fulfill in order to be added to the list of future energy options and what constraints exist in terms of broad market penetration?

What are the flows of C&DW (e.g. bricks, concrete, gypsum and wood) in the case study countries ? How to define the specification for each material to be quantified? What indicators should be used to identify the pattern of each C&DW management system? How to interpret the MFA results in relation…

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

Promotor: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotores: P.B.F. Ouwerkerk, M. Wang

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

This thesis investigates the application of deep learning techniques in image analysis across various domains, focusing on four main themes: feature extraction, classification, segmentation, and integration, demonstrating the transformative potential of these technologies.

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Fokelien Kootstra verdedigde haar proefschrift op 23 april 2019

Hoe moet de EU omgaan met Oekraïne, Wit-Rusland en Moldavië? Hoe kunnen we de Europese Unie helpen om, in een uiterst moeilijke en veeleisende geopolitieke context, zijn politiek ten aanzien van deze landen te heroverwegen?

This study seeks to analyse how job stress could be the result of performing administrative tasks

Dit artikel beoordeelt de Russische retoriek ten aanzien van Oekraïne door verklaringen van het Russische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken te analyseren.

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

Streptomyces present a valuable platform for natural product discovery. Lugdunomycin is a novel angucycline-derived polyketide from Streptomyces sp QL37, with unprecedented skeleton and antimicrobial activity.

Streptomyces bacteria are a valuable source of natural products, many of which are used in the clinic or in biotechnology.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Verpoorte, Co-Promotor: Dr. Young Hae Choi

How can prospective LCA be streamlined in a way that its practical application in research and technology development increases?

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?

In dit artikel bestuderen de auteurs hoe individuele variabelen en variabelen op landelijk niveau op elkaar inwerken bij het beïnvloeden van politieke genderattitudes in Europa.

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

Op 5 september 2019 verdedigde Jennifer Doekhie haar proefschrift 'Dimensions of desistance: A qualitative longitudinal analysis of different dimensions of the desistance process among long-term prisoners in the Netherlands'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. P. Nieuwbeerta.

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers 2018 werd georganiseerd in Leiden.

Mangaan winnen op de kwetsbare bodem van de diepzee of kobalt delven onder slechte werkomstandigheden in Congo: kritieke materialen die cruciaal zijn voor de energietransitie komen nog vaak met een keerzijde voor mens én natuur. Hoe komt de wereld op een duurzame manier aan voldoende grondstoffen? Leidse…

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh

There is a need for alternative methods to replace, reduce and refine (3R) animal experimentation. Combining experimental data from high-throughput in vitro studies with in silico modeling is a promising approach to unravel the effect of chemicals on living cells and to gain a better understanding of…

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

Identification of the products or product groups that have the greatest environmental impact from a life-cycle perspective using environmentally extended input-output analysis.

What are the environmental trade-offs for SMEs considering moving from monoculture aquaculture practice towards IMTA? What are the environmental trade-offs comparing IMTA species with their conventional monoculture alternatives?

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…