1,331 zoekresultaten voor “centre for innovation” in de Publieke website
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Guorui Lu
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
g.lu@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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industrial waste gases (mixed CO/CO2 streams) into intermediates for polyurethane plastics for rigid foams/building insulation and coatings
What would be the environmental performance of the Carbon4PUR technology at industrial scale in the future?
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The synthesis of chemical tools for studying sphingolipid metabolism
Sphingolipids are important membrane compounds with a variety of functions. In mammalian cells, different enzymes are involved in the metabolism of sphingolipids, but interruption of this metabolism process leads to different diseases.
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Addressing Environmental Concerns Through Trade: A Case for Extraterritoriality?,
Kunnen landen bij gebrek aan een sterk internationaal kader voor milieubescherming unilateraal optreden om het wereldwijde milieu te beschermen?
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Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications
A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.
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Reliable and Fair Machine Learning for Risk Assessment
The focus of this thesis is on the technical methods which help promote the movement towards Trustworthy AI, specifically within the Inspectorate of the Netherlands.
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High-throughput quantification and unambiguous identification for metabolomics
The challenge of achieving fast quantification in metabolomics is the presence of severe matrix effects during the MS analysis of complex samples.
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Interaction with sound for participatory systems and data sonification
This thesis deals with the use of sound in interactions in the context of participatory systems and data sonification. We investigate an interactive environment where participants perceive information of the data through sound elements.
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Hunting for new physics in the primordial Universe
This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.
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Soil Organic Amendments for Climate-Smart Agriculture
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10 Start-ups uit Den Haag geselecteerd voor Venture Academy
Het Centre for Innovation lanceerde 22 februari 2017 de Venture Academy. De Venture Academy helpt Haagse studenten hun eigen baan te creëren. Het doel van de Academy is een brug te slaan tussen ondernemerschap van studenten en kleine en middelgrote bedrijven. Het biedt een vijf maanden durend programma…
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Vier korte films over vier eeuwen vrijheid aan de Universiteit Leiden
Vier video’s vertellen het verhaal van de geschiedenis van de Universiteit Leiden. Op 2 november gingen de films in première tijdens het Leidse Filmfestival.
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Deep: Using simulations to understand the excess baryonic mass in the centres of high-mass, early-type galaxies
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…
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Exploring Images With Deep Learning for Classification, Retrieval and Synthesis
In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.
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Deep learning for tomographic reconstruction with limited data
Tomography is a powerful technique to non-destructively determine the interior structure of an object.Usually, a series of projection images (e.g.\ X-ray images) is acquired from a range of different positions.
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Stochastic and Deterministic Algorithms for Continuous Black-Box Optimization
Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.
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A recipe for desert: analysis of an extended Klausmeier model
Promotores: Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher, Max Rietkerk
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Novel detectors and algorithms for electron nano-crystallography
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.P. Abrahams, Prof.dr. M. van Heel
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Leiden Leadership Centre zomercafe
Afgelopen vrijdag 3 juni stelden studenten, professionals en academici hun kennis over publiek leiderschap op de proef tijdens de Leiden Leadership Pubquiz/het Leiden Leadership Zomer Café.
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Is asylum bad for men (and better for women)? Changing perspectives on female and male refugees and asylum seekers in the Netherlands in the
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Joost Kok in Leidsch Dagblad over Dutch Sport Data Centre
Wetenschappers van de Universiteit Leiden werken samen met de schaatsploeg van Jac Orie om te bepalen welke mix van verschillende trainingen voorafgaand aan een wedstrijd het beste is om optimaal te presteren. Joost Kok, hoogleraar informatica: 'We willen dé hoofdstad van de sport data valley van Nederland…
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Heterogenized molecular (pre)catalysts for water oxidation and oxygen reduction
Before the large scale use of renewable energy sources can be implemented in our society, the storage of electrical energy needs to be tackled. Storage the energy as hydrogen via the reduction of protons is a good option.
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Optimally weighted ensembles of surrogate models for sequential parameter optimization
It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.
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Statistical physics and information theory for systems with local constraints
Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.
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Inverse Jacobian and related topics for certain superelliptic curves
To an algebraic curve C over the complex numbers one can associate a non-negative integer g, the genus, as a measure of its complexity.
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Tienjarig bestaan Dual PhD Centre
Op 14 december vierde het Dual PhD Centre van de Universiteit Leiden haar tienjarig bestaan met een posterpresentatie, beschouwingen, muziek en een receptie aan de Haagse Schouwburgstraat. In het bijzijn van decaan Erwin Muller, oud-rector Douwe Breimer, oprichter Adriaan in ’t Groen en directeur Johannes…
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Design and development of a comprehensive data management platform for cytomics: cytomicsDB
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok
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Engineering of antigen-saving dissolving microneedles for intradermal vaccine delivery
The intradermal administration route is attractive for vaccine delivery, because of the highly populated antigen-presenting cells in the skin. However, the skin’s main physical barrier, the stratum corneum, prevents vaccines from entering the skin.
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PhD: Targeting electron transport chain in Listeria monocytogenes for novel antibiotic development
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Chemisch Onderzoek (LIC)
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Opportunity and Problem in Context (OPiC). A framework for environmental management in developing countries
Promotor: W.T. de Groot
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Evaluation of Different Design Space Description Methods for Analysing Combustion Engine Operation Limits
Promotor: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck
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Inhibitors and activity-based probes for β-D-glucuronidases, heparanases and β-L-arabinofuranosidases
Glycosidases (GHs) are enzymes responsible for the degradation of carbohydrates and play many roles in human health and pathophysiology. Often, abnormal levels of glycosidase activity are markedly linked to human pathologies.
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PLGA-based particulate vaccine delivery systems for immunotherapy of cancer
Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp
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and development of conformational inhibitors and activity-based probes for retaining glycosidases
Glycosidases are essential in fundamental biological processes and are responsible for the degradation of most (oligo)saccharides, glycolipids and glycoproteins.
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as modulators of lipid metabolism and inflammation and the relevance for atherosclerosis
Acute cardiovascular clinical events such as myocardial infarction and cerebral stroke represent the major cause of death in Western societies. These pathologies are primarily resulting from atherosclerosis, a progressive condition characterized by the accumulation of lipids, immune cells, and fibrous…
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Genomics applications of nanopore long-read sequencing for small to large sized genomes
In this thesis I highlight the applications of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing. This technique is a relatively new approach in the sequencing field, where nanopores are embedded in a membrane, DNA molecules are pulled through nanopores and an electrical current serving as the sequencing…
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How to scale clearance from adults to children for drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism?
The aim of this thesis is to expedite and ensure the systematic accuracy of clearance scaling from adults to paediatric patients, with a special focus on drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism.
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Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Scheduling
Multi-criteria optimalisatie is een effectieve techniek voor het vinden van optimale oplossingen die een afweging bieden tussen verschillende, tegenstrijdige criteria. Het heeft zijn toepassing gevonden in de wereld om ons heen omdat bij het oplossen van praktische, re¨ele wereld problemen men gewoonlijk…
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Two PhD candidates (1.0 fte) for the NWO project "Boom to Dust"
Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden
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Beyond the Born-Oppenheimer Static Surface Model for Molecule- Surface Reactions
Several techniques are explored for going beyond the born-oppenheimer static surface model for molecule-surface reactions.
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Automated machine learning for dynamic energy management using time-series data
Time-series forecasting through modelling sequences of temporally dependent observations has many industrial and scientific applications. While machine learning models have been widely used to create time-series forecasting models, creating efficient and performant time-series forecasting models is…
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Human skin equivalents for atopic dermatitis: investigating the role of filaggrin in the skin barrier
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri
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Interactive scalable condensation of reverse engineered UML class diagrams for software comprehension
Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)
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Innovative sample preparation and handling strategies for automated and high-throughput metabolomics
Metabolomics has the potential to play a pivotal role in understanding disease onset and progression, and ultimately personalized treatments. One of its major challenges is its large-scale implementation, which is necessary to deal with the high variability of the metabolome. In this work we have developed…
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Functionalized two-dimensional membranes and materials for solar-to-fuel devices: a multiscale computational approach
In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.
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Omid Karami ontvangt de Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award tijdens feestelijke uitreiking
In een feestelijke en intieme prijsuitreiking ontving plantenonderzoeker Omid Karami de eerste editie van de Krijn Rietveld Memorial Innovation Award uit handen van Wim Klop, directeur van het Biotechnology Center bij DSM. Verschillende sprekers spraken over Krijn Rietveld en waarom Karami de prijs…
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The Chara plasma membrane system : an ancestral model for plasma membrane transport in plant cells
Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.
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PhD candidate, Feature-based machine learning for precision diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Developing metabolomics for a systems biology approach to understand Parkinson's disease
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (PD), are increasing in prevalence due to the aging population. Despite extensive study, these diseases are still not fully understood and the lack of personalised treatment options that can target the cause of the diseases, rather than the symptoms,…
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Bestuurskunde voorloper in Online Teaching Innovatie
Het Instituut Bestuurskunde heeft dit semester twee SPOCs gelanceerd over Publieke Waarden & Ethiek en Onderzoeks design. Een SPOC is een Small Private Online Course, het kleinere ‘broertje’ van de MOOC. Het is de eerste keer dat studenten van de FGGA die on-campus studeren, hun vakken volledig online…