Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: S.C. Hille

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

What impact does a mid-season wildfire have on grassland invertebrates?

This Thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of ADP-ribosylated compounds that can be applied in biological studies.

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

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

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

In this thesis, two potential therapeutic targets for diabetic nephropathy were dentified and investigated. First, we show that glomerular clusterin is upregulated in diabetic nephropathy and demonstrated that recombinant clusterin protein can protect the podocytes against oxidative stress in vitro.…

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo

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Op 3 september 2019 verdedigde Ilektra Antonaki haar proefschrift 'Privatisations and golden shares: Bridging the gap between the State and the market in the area of free movement of capital in the EU'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. S.C.G. Van den Bogaert.

Artificial photosynthesis has recognised potential to produce green and sustainable fuels from earth-abundant resources such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and sunlight.

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

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).

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

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

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

This dissertation consists of two parts, with the common theme

Promotor: Robert Tijdeman, Co-promotor: Cornelis Kraaikamp

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

In surface science there is great effort to move from studying simple, flat model surfaces in vacuum to investigating more complex model catalysts in gas environments (in situ). This thesis gives three examples of such studies using microscopy and spectroscopy.

The research described in this thesis has, using the zebrafish as a model system, shed new light on the intricate relationship between TB and DM2, in particular on the role of leptin, SHP-1 and glucocorticoids.

De interdisciplinaire minor De (on)rechtvaardige samenleving geeft een verdiepende en toegepaste kijk op sociale rechtvaardigheid in Nederland. Dat doen we door het thema vanuit verschillende invalshoeken te belichten en door samen met jou als student actief aan de slag te gaan met concrete maatschappelijke…

On dinsdag 26 september heeft Jessica Hill haar proefschrift ‘On the road to adulthood. Delinquency and desistance in Dutch emerging adults’ verdedigd. Promotor is Professor Arjan Blokland.

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

In multi/many-core System-on-Chips (SoCs), the performance is almost linearly scaling with the number of processing elements.

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

Promotor: C. W. J. Beenakker, Co-promotor: J. K. Asboth

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.J. Kroes

Geesteswetenschappen, Centre for the Arts in Society

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

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…

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

Dissociative chemisorption is an important reaction step in many catalytic reactions.

What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?

Promotores: J. Jonkers, K.E. de Visser

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

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

Het Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic (LAPP) is een pro bono initiatief aangaande juridische vraagstukken omtrent plastic. LAPP is opgericht om het toenemende probleem van plasticvervuiling aan te pakken en onderzoek te doen naar juridische kwesties gerelateerd hieraan. Studenten werken hierbij als…