Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Source: Structure , Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 1120-1139 (2014)

Around the world, mindfulness has become big business. This course combines conventional scholarly inquiry from multiple disciplines with experiential learning to provide a responsible, comprehensive, and inclusive education about mindfulness as a contemporary phenomenon.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

This thesis explores different avenues to develop insurmountable antagonists for CC Chemokine Receptors, such as CCR1, CCR2 and CCR5.

Het Meisje met de Parel is overal. Het schilderij van Johannes Vermeer prijkt op mokken, muismatten en notitieboekjes. In het radioprogramma ‘De Nacht is Zwart’ vertelt promovenda Liselore Tissen over reproducties en hun betekenis voor de kunst.

Bij Cambridge University Press (CUP) verscheen onlangs van Ingrid Leijten het boek Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. Het boek maakt onderdeel uit van de serie Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy en heeft als onderwerp de bescherming van sociaaleconomische rechten…

This initiative is intended to support generative research collaborations between and among scholars located in different geographical regions who wish to pursue focused, joint projects in any area of the study of religion.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel

This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…

Promotor: J. Kuiper

Promotor: J. Zaanen

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller

The formation of stars and planets happens over multiple scales, which can interact. In particular, planet formation happens in the dense, complex environment of star forming regions.

Promotor: M. Ubbink, Co-Promotor: R. T. Dame

Promotor: J.M. Memelink

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is the substrate used for the introduction of the ubiquitous and highly dynamic PTM in which either one or multiple adenosine diphosphate ribose (ADPr) moieties are covalently attached to a nucleophilic side chain of an specific amino acid in the target protein…

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-promotor: R.J. Vreeken

Indonesië is deze dagen de achtergrond van de G20-top. Een uitgelezen kans voor het land om zich als zelfbewust te profileren. In de Volkskrant gaat hoogleraar David Henley in op de Indonesische ambitie om in 2045 een hooginkomensland te zijn.

Sinds 2009 behaalden 90 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

Chapter 1,contains the numerical verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for hundreds of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

This course explores international arbitration as one of the most common methods of international dispute settlement. You will gain an in-depth understanding of international arbitration through the analysis of its role as a mechanism of dispute settlement, its institutions, the fields of law it is…

Unconstrained day-to-day activities are difficult to quantify and how the corresponding movements shape the brain remain unclear. Read more

Promotores: T.H. Oosterkamp, N. de Jonge

This work describes several studies into the electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR), both regarding mechanistical aspects and catalyst stability considerations. Mechanistic insights into carbon-carbon bond formation on a silver catalyst are described in Ch 2, were we find an acetaldehyde-like surface…

Moritz Jesse, Universitair Hoofddocent Europees Recht aan het Europa Instituut, heeft zijn boek “The Civic Citizens of Europe: The Legal Potential for Immigrant Integration in the EU, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom

Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

Enforcement of group cooperation fails because of discriminatory punishment, according to research by Welmer Molenmaker and colleagues. When group members have different backgrounds, punishment turns into a double-edged sword: no longer used just to prevent group exploitation, but also to break the…

Electrocatalysis allows for storing electricity or converting it into chemical bonds, producing chemical building blocks and fuels using renewable resources.

The disease acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by fast progression and low survival rates.

Leo Lucassen, hoogleraar Global Labour and Migration History en directeur onderzoek van het IISH, is op 18 februari 2017 benoemd tot lid van de Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW).

Afrika is in de lucht. De Leidse Afrikaspecialist Mirjam de Bruijn is gefascineerd door de snelle ontwikkeling van mobiele telefonie en sociale media in Afrika. Daarover houdt ze een website bij, toegespitst op afgelegen, gemarginaliseerde en conflictueuze gebieden in Midden-Afrika.

Hoe leefden de mythische koningen uit het oude Perzië? In deze podcast duiken we in de Shahnameh, oftewel het boek der koningen.

KNIR cursus voor BA and MA studenten - Deadline voor inschrijving: 15 January 2017

Aan Nederlandse universiteiten klinkt steeds harder de roep om Israëlische universiteiten te boycotten. Hoogleraar Maurits Berger ziet voors en tegens voor zo’n boycot.

Climate change, depletion of natural resources, loss of natural and cultural landscapes, and many other (ecological) sustainability challenges urge us to (re)evaluate human interaction with the natural world. This renewed environmental consciousness has invigorated not only scientists working on effects…

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

Almost all bacteria are enveloped by a cell wall that provides cellular protection.

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This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.