In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.

This thesis describes the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA), which consists of two small robotic telescope designed to detect exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky.

Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, A. Lucchini

It is an established fact that the Standard Model has to be extended to explain the so-called Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) phenomena: dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe and neutrino flavour oscillations.

Op 8 oktober 2020 verdedigde Kartica van der Zon haar proefschrift 'Pleegrechten voor kinderen'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. M.R. Bruning en prof.dr.mr. T. Liefaard.

The focus of this thesis is how stars like our Sun and planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are formed.

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The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

The progressive loss and degeneration of dopaminergic neurons is a major pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). The onset and progression of PD can be triggered by multiple risk factors, for instance, genetic mutation, environmental exposure, and aging.

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

Materials with strongly correlated electrons show some of the most mysterious and exotic phases of quantum matter, such as unconventional superconductivity, quantum criticality and strange metal phase.

In this thesis I describe the results of Pulsed Interleaved Excitation and Fluorescence (Cross) Correlation Spectroscopy (PIE-F(C)CS) combined with single-pair Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (spFRET) used to study dynamics in single nucleosomes, which depends on subtle differences in the length of…

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

A novel mathematical model describes spatial-temporal drug distribution within one or more brain units, which are cubic representations of a piece of brain tissue with brain capillaries at the edges.

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

Deepfakes zijn video’s die gemanipuleerd zijn om twee personen te verwisselen. Ze kunnen moeilijk te onderscheiden zijn van de originele video’s. In onze studie laten we zien dat mensen die meer complotdenken en mensen die meer gebruikmaken van social media beter zijn in het herkennen van deepfakes.

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

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…

This thesis describes the development of improved formulations and alternative delivery strategies for polio vaccination.

The RNA guided endonuclease based on the CRISPR/Cas system of Streptococcus pyogenus is a potent new tool for genome engineering in plants.

Curved single crystals provide variable, but well-defined surface structures.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

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Op 19 september 2019 verdedigde Lynette Janssen zijn proefschrift 'EU Bank Resolution Framework: A comparative study on the relation with national private law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. W.A.K. Rank en prof.mr. M. Haentjens.

The elementary excitations of magnets are called spin waves, and their corresponding quasi-particles are known as magnons. The rapidly growing field of Magnonics aims at using them as information carriers in a new generation of electronic devices, (almost) free of electric currents.

This thesis examines the link between simple molecules and the underlying structure and chemistry within protoplanetary disks - the birthplaces of planets.

In this dissertation iron-based homogeneous catalysts were synthesized, characterized and investigated for water oxidation activity.

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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, universitair hoofddocent bij eLaw, heeft bijgedragen aan 'Cyber–Physical–Human Systems', een boek waarin de nieuwste ontwikkelingen in interacties tussen cyberfysische systemen en mensen worden onderzocht.

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

Dit artikel beschrijft het ontstaan van een app die kan helpen om het klimaatbewustzijn en de actie wereldwijd te vergroten.

Door de groeiende populariteit van zelfregulering door bedrijven om problemen in de leveringsketen aan te pakken, staat maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen in het middelpunt van de belangstelling. In dit artikel analyseren Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Sarah Vandenbroucke en Yvonne Erkens de gedragscodes…

“De kredietcrisis ligt achter ons, op naar economische groei!” De krantenkoppen geven ons weer hoop. Maar is sprake van een structureel herstel of wordt dit herstel gebouwd op een fragiel fundament?

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

Promotor: E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

This paper presents the prevalence and characteristics of firearm homicides in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland

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The research described in this thesis focused on the preparation of S/N functionalized carbene ligands and their transition metal complexes, and the exploration of their application as electrocatalysts for proton reduction.

This article studies the influence of framing on preferences for cooperation with the EU.