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

This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.

Het onderzoek dat in dit proefschrift wordt beschreven gaat over de ontwikkeling van praktijkkennis van ervaren natuurkunde- scheikunde -en biologiedocenten in de context van de invoering van het vak Algemene Natuurwetenschappen (ANW) in de Tweede Fase van het voortgezet onderwijs.

In dit artikel proberen Isabelle Frens, Jelle van Buuren en Edwin Bakker anti-overheidsprotesten te begrijpen.

In dit proefschrift staan de verschillende vormen centraal die de verwevenheid van onderzoek en onderwijs kan innemen binnen de universiteit, meer specifiek in de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen. Algemeen wordt erkend dat een sterke verwevenheid van onderzoek en onderwijs belangrijk is, maar het was…

Dit proefschrift handelt over de verwevenheid van onderzoek en onderwijs in de natuurwetenschappen. Algemeen wordt erkend dat een sterke verwevenheid van onderwijs en onderzoek belangrijk is, maar het was niet altijd duidelijk op welke manieren deze relatie vorm kan krijgen in het universitaire onde…

In dit artikel analyseren Madeleine O. Hosli en Jaroslaw Kantorowicz de divergentie in het buitenlandse beleid van EU-lidstaten tijdens het VN Algemene Debat.

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Forgotten Lineages explores the paths through which generations of formally enslaved and their descendants gradually forgot their past of enslavement under Dutch and British imperial rule and became local subjects in Sri Lanka and South Africa. It explores why and how forgetting rather than memory became…

Media spelen een belangrijke rol in het functioneren van het Nederlandse parlement. Kamerleden zijn veelal nieuwsjunkies en de berichtgeving die zij consumeren speelt daardoor een rol in hun dagelijks werk. Zo hebben diverse onderzoekers aangetoond dat media-aandacht een sterke invloed heeft op zogenaamde…

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…

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

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

This course explains the functions of each international court and tribunal in The Hague. On the basis of cases and interviews with judges and lawyers, this course explores the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice.

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

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Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr. K.E. Schalm

Sound is everywhere in the marine environment and hearing is therefore a very important for stimuli for fish. They use sound for orientation and communication, during migration, aggregation and spawning, but also for detection of prey and predators.

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With increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and their detrimental effect on the global climate, modern society needs to push for more renewable energy sources. Storing widely accessible and abundant solar energy in chemical bonds in the form of molecular fuel via artificial photosynthesis…

Op 3 december 2019 verdedigde Hanna Bosdriesz haar proefschrift 'Furthering the fight against impunity in Latin America: the contributions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to domestic accountability processes'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik…

The International Course on Water Use and Management in Cagayan Valley The Philippines (2011-2015)

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: H.A. Every

In hoeverre was arbeidsmigratie belangrijk voor het functioneren van de steden in Romeins Italië?

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Op 20 maart 2019 verdedigde Tim Dekkers zijn proefschrift 'Mobility, Control and Technology in Border Areas: Discretion and Decision-making in the Information Age'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. J.P. van der Leun en prof. dr. M.A.H. van der Woude.

This thesis describes the antimicrobial discovery strategy developed in our group, the den Hertog Group at the Hubrecht Institute. It includes a cultivation-based screening approach for novel antimicrobial agents from the source of fungi, and a bacterial time-lapse imaging approach for antimicrobial…

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

In dit artikel onderzochten Annemiek de Looze en Eefje Cuppen empirisch of en hoe sociaal conflict leidt tot institutionele verandering.

De centrale vraag is wat Nederland kan leren van de wijze waarop deze landen de rechtshandhaving en de rechtstaat in hun overzeese gebieden hebben ingericht.

New drugs for use as tuberculosis (TB) treatment are needed due to the constrains of classical antibiotics against TB and the rise of antibiotic-resistant strains, making TB a harder and harder disease to treat.

In this top-rated course, you will learn how the European Union prepares and decides on policy, and how policy is transferred to member states and implemented by various authorities. It discusses the challenges of the European multi-level governance structure and the main causes of policy failure or…

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Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique used to visualize the inside of cells and to study specific protein complexes. Within this thesis, I describe the use of various cryo-EM techniques to gain insight into the structural changes of the human pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, as it…

Climate change is a challenge for both current and future generations. New biological resources have to be developed in order to meet the demand for energy as well as the demand for food.

Irene Khan, expert op het gebied van mensenrechten, werpt een aantal vragen op: Wat kan men verstaan onder een ‘Culture of Justice’? Wie bepaalt wat 'Justice' is? Hoe realistisch is de bevordering van ‘Rule of Law’ en ‘Justice’ in landen waar sprake is van ernstige conflictsituaties en armoede?

Migration imposes special pressures on the meaning, experience and organization of lifecycle rituals. These pressures are felt most strongly by Muslim migrants to Western Europe. In this innovative study, Nathal M. Dessing examines the effects of migration on the life cycle rituals of Moroccan, Turkish…

Dit onderzoek richt zich op een historisch-sociale analyse van een geselecteerd corpus van romans uit de moderne Turkse literatuur die het thema delen van de migratie van Anatolische steden en dorpen naar Istanbul en de strijd van immigranten in deze stad tegen verschillende uitsluitingsmechanismen.

Josien de Klerk en Tennessee Miller onderzochten de interactie tussen de ziekte- en herstelervaringen van studenten en de academische werkcultuur in deze context.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

Timo Slootweg, associate professor at he department Philosophy of Law, published a chapter about Paul Scholten in

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…

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.