Errors are everywhere, and mechanical failures are especially common: buckled grain silos and cracked support columns are, justly, seen as an issue to be avoided.

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.

CMLCA is a software tool that supports the technical steps of the Life Cycle Assessment. The focus of the program is on advanced computational aspects of life cycle inventory calculations.

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven Co-promotor: L. van Geemen, P. Parent

Neuraminidases are enzymes that cleave glycosidic linkages of sialic acid. These enzymes are involved in influenza infections as well as in many cellular processes in mammals and micro-organisms.

In 2005 groeven archeologen van de gemeente Leiden een 2700 jaar oude boomstamkano op. Deze boomstamkano wordt nu door wetenschappers van Material Culture Studies nagebouwd met behulp van replica's van ijzertijd-werktuigen. De wetenschappers willen zo onder meer beter inzicht krijgen in het bouwproc…

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Hoe geeft audiovisueel materiaal de identiteit van een volk vorm, als dat volk geen eigen land heeft en wordt onderdrukt? Bahar Simsek verdiepte zich in het effect van film op de Koerdische identiteit. Promotie op 4 mei.

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

On 30 October 2020, Dr Mark Noort successfully defended his PhD investigation at the London School of Economics and political science (LSE) into

Public Administration is a major refereed journal publishing articles on public administration, public policy and public management.

Hoe leefden mensen tijdens de nieuwe steentijd? Dankzij een NWO subsidie van 650.000 euro kan Annelou van Gijn en haar team daar de komende jaren in Vlaardingen uitgebreid onderzoek naar doen. Naar aanleiding van het nieuws over de subsidietoekenning schreven verschillende media over het onderzoek.

Plants are colonized by an astounding number of microorganisms that can provide different life-support functions, including nutrient acquisition and protection against (a)biotic stresses like drought or pathogen attack.

The key purpose of this project is to study tautological relations on the level of closed differential forms or even integral cochains (i.e. we don't take classes in cohomology).

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

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

Discovery and development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs is hampered by high attrition rates.

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen, B. van Ramshorst

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

Modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems are still challenging. One reason is that cyber-physical systems involve many different parts (cyber or physical), of different nature (discrete or continuous), and in constant interaction via sensing and actuating.

Over the last three decades, the discovery of exoplanets has revealed the boundless variety of worlds beyond our own Solar System⁠. Majority of planetary systems contain short-period planets that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune⁠.

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

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

In het academisch jaar 2023-2024 biedt het interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma Sociale Veerkracht en Veiligheid vier vakken aan voor studenten die beginnen met het derde jaar van hun bachelor. Deze vakken zijn te volgen binnen de ruimte voor keuzevakken. Je kunt de vakken afzonderlijk als keuzevak…

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Exploring linkages between energy and material use and implications for sustainable development.

Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)

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

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort

Op 23 februari 2022 verdedigde Cale Davis het proefschrift 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. C. Stahn en dr. J.C. Powderly.

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

The conference 'Beyond Comparison: Towards a Connected Philology' is focused on identifying and examining the connections that create or lie behind parallels between philological methods and traditions in various cultures. Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2022.