Miranda Smit, Ineke van der Ham en collega’s hebben een artikel gepubliceerd in Experimental Brain Research, getiteld: Body ownership and the absence of touch: Approaching the rubber hand in- and outside peri-hand space. Ze beschrijven hierin de illusie waarbij een rubber hand onderdeel van het lichaam…

How should jurisdictions, both on the national and on the supra-national level, handle the interaction between public and private law where it regards the regulation of financial markets?

De onderzoekers aan het LUCL hebben het Leiden Hands!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies opgezet.

Since its beginnings, Leiden University has been home to scholars with a broad and diverse expertise in the histories, languages, literatures and material cultures relevant to the study of Jews and Judaism from antiquity to modern times.

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The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

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…

It researches (the possibilities for) the development of a set of principles and best practices for insolvency office holders by comparing multilateral treaties and soft law recommendations and national legislation within Europe.

This dissertation presents a new perspective on the life, work and character of the Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and one of the most important and colourful scientists in Dutch history. The image of Van ’t Hoff that emerges from…

A single self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot in a high-finesse optical microcavity - the subject of this thesis - is an interesting quantum-mechanical system for future quantum applications. For instance, this system allows trapping of an extra electron and thus can serve as a spin quantum memory,…

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…

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

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Wat doet de naam van de middeleeuwse Perzische dichter Nezami (✞ ca. 1209) op de cover van een rockalbum van Eric Clapton? Asghar Seyed Gohrab, universitair hoofddocent aan het Instituut voor Area Studies, vertelt erover in een nieuwe blog voor het Leiden Medievalists Blog.

Het ligt misschien niet echt voor de hand, maar het Nederlands is na het Engels waarschijnlijk de best onderzochte taal ter wereld. Al die grammaticale kennis wordt nu gebundeld in een website: TaalPortaal.

Op 7 juli vond een bijzondere ontmoeting plaats op de Universiteit Leiden. Derdejaars studenten van de opleiding Web Applicaties en Mobiele Applicaties van het ROC Leiden presenteerden een tweetal apps waarmee het Riffijns Berber geoefend kan worden. Riffijns Berber, of Tamazight, is de thuistaal van…

In samenwerking met het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden.

This thesis develops a method for direction dependent calibration of the ionosphere in radio interferometric data.

In this thesis we study products of linear error correcting codes.

In this thesis chemical and physical processes in the ice mantles on interstellar dust grains are studied.

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

D1.2 reports on the findings of an analysis of framework conditions relevant in the context of the data economy from a legal, a socio-economic and a technological perspective. The analysis is a key foundation for the creation of an initial, heuristic model of the European data economy. The deliverable…

In this thesis, we consider various (electro)chemical phenomena at surfaces and nanoparticles and their underlying atomistic processes, which we studied using first-principles methods such as density functional theory.

The main goal of this thesis is to achieve advanced control of binding properties in bis-pyrrolic and macrocyclic pyrrolic receptors by light.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, L.D.J. Taelman

The aim of this thesis was to develop novel treatment strategies for different types of eye melanoma utilizing zebrafish models. We first establish orthotopic and ectopic xenograft models for uveal and conjunctival melanoma by engraftment of the immortalized cells derived from these tumors into zebrafish…

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.

This dissertation is a collection of four research articles devoted to the study of Kummer theory for commutative algebraic groups.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

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

This thesis has described novel synthetic methods to produce a variety of (glyco)peptides and their application in the study of various immunological processes.

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

Development of scenarios for 2050 detailed in an IO framework

Het documenteren en beschrijven van de talen van de wereld.

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Call for Application for a Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) Fellowship

Nederland werd op 10 mei 1940 volkomen verrast door de aanval van het Duitse leger. Toch? In zijn proefschrift ontkracht Wouter Linmans het idee dat de Tweede Wereldoorlog Nederland overviel. ‘Vanaf 1935 wilden alle grote politieke partijen investeren in het leger.’ Promotie op 20 mei.

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Themabijeenkomst Being the First

Alledaagse taal uit het verleden kennen wij nauwelijks, maar taalkundig onderzoek van een unieke brievencollectie opent perspectieven. Buitgemaakte brieven van mannen, vrouwen en zelfs kinderen stonden centraal in het Leidse Brieven als Buit-project onder leiding van prof. dr. Marijke van der Wal, dat…

Firearms and violence in Europe–A systematic review by Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Marieke Liem