2,399 zoekresultaten voor “climate and energy policy” in de Publieke website
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Thiosugars: reactivity, methodology and applications
Carbohydrates, alongside proteins and nucleic acids, constitute a crucial and versatile family of biomolecules present in all life forms. They manifest as monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides, covalently bonded to proteins and fats. Carbohydrates are integral to plant and arthropod…
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Orion's Dragon and Other Stories
Stellar feedback is a crucial ingredient in the evolution of galaxies.
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Gast lezing door Ernst Worrell over: "Material Matter: Connecting Energy and Material Efficiency"
Op Dinsdag 10 Maart 2015 - 10h zal Ernst Worrell, professor aan de Universteit Utrecht met een leerstoel op
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Duurzaamheid in onderwijs
In het onderwijs bieden wij alle studenten de mogelijkheid om kennis te maken met duurzaamheidsthema’s en –vraagstukken, waar mogelijk aansluitend bij de inhoud van hun opleiding.
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.
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Improved hard real-time scheduling and transformations for embedded Streaming Applications
This thesis addresses the problem of designing performance and energy efficient embedded streaming systems, that is, systems which process a stream of input data coming from the environment and generate a stream of output data going into the environment.
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)
In onze eenjarige masteropleiding leer je hoe je het dagelijks leven van kwetsbare groepen - zowel in Nederland als wereldwijd - kunt bestuderen, en hoe je ze binnen de complexe processen van sociale en globale ontwikkeling kunt plaatsen.
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A computational study of structural and excitonic properties of chlorosomes
The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…
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Digging for data: the rise and fall of a Miocene mammal biodiversity hotspot in the Vallès-Penedès (Catalonia, Spain)
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.
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maximising approaches to evaluate the trade-offs involved in the evergreen and deciduous conundrum
Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?
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CarbonCap
In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.
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Photoinduced processes in dye-sensitized photoanodes under the spotlight: a multiscale in silico investigation
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…
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The gendered micropolitics of hiding and disclosing: assessing the spread and stagnation of information on two new EMTCT policies in a Malawian
Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.
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CO2-Calculator
Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.
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Shijie Wei
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
s.j.wei@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Origami metamaterials : design, symmetries, and combinatorics
In the first part of this thesis we study the geometry of folding patterns.
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Monitoring drought and salinity stress in agriculture by remote sensing for a sustainable future
Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…
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Impacts of the use of Natural Resources and Products
Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.
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Cyber-noir: Cybersecurity and popular culture
Een nieuw artikel over de invloed die populaire cultuur uitoefent op cybersecurity experts. Beschikbaar als Open Access artikel bij 'Contemporary Security Policy', als onderdeel van een speciale editie die is samengesteld door dr. Myriam Dunn Cavelty.
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by the rules? : coordination of EU sustainable development policies and the importance of the politico-legal context
There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…
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HEPGAME
HEPGAME is a research project that combines the world’s fastest computer algebra system for High Energy Physics equations, FORM, with insights from artificial intelligence. The name combines High Energy Physics and Games.
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papers interdisciplinair congres 'EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice - Reflections and Prospects'
Dit interdisciplinair Engelstalig congres, dat wordt gehouden op 26 en 27 juni 2017, beoogt (strafrecht)juristen, criminologen, sociologen, politicologen en (rechts)filosofen bijeen te brengen voor een gezamenlijke reflectie op de ontwikkeling van een strafrechtelijk beleid in de Europese Unie.
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Probing Gravity at Cosmic Scales
The theoretical explanation of cosmic acceleration is nowadays one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.
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Services on Environmental Statistics and Accounts
What is the best way to combine the environmental and economic data and how can we create an operational system to do so, thereby supporting the delivery of data to the Data centres on Products and Resources?
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A study on PsbS and its role as a pH sensor
Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.
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Clavis Aurea? Structure-enabled approaches of identifying and optimizing GPCR ligands
Promotores: A.P. IJzerman, H.W.T. van Vlijmen
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Martha Dellar
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
m.e.dellar@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Christa Tobler spreekt op het European Energy Law Seminar 2022
Op 24 mei 2022 gaf Christa Tobler een lezing over
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Ruthenium- and cobalt-based artificial metalloenzymes for photocatalytic water oxidation in artificial photosynthesis
Producing green energy has become the main goal in our society in the search of reducing or eliminating the carbon emission from fossil fuels.
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Surface Temperature and the Dynamics of H2 on Cu(111)
Heterogeneous catalysis is one of the fundamental processes of modern life, being common in industrial refinery and hydrogen vehicles, all the way to the living cell. The dissociation of H2 on Cu(111) is an important benchmark system for studying heterogeneous catalysis, with a large and varied amount…
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Semi-partitioned Scheduling and Task Migration in Dataflow Networks
Promotor: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promotor: Todor P. Stefanov
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Spectral imaging and tomographic reconstruction methods for industrial applications
Radiography is an important technique to inspect objects, with applications in airports and hospitals. X-ray imaging is also essential in industry, for instance in food safety checks for the presence of foreign objects.
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Reconstruction Methods for Combined HAADF-STEM and EDS Tomography
The research in this thesis is focused on tomographic reconstruction based on two imaging modalities in electron microscopy.
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Disorder and interactions in high-temperature superconductors
This thesis is devoted to an in-depth examination of the various effects of disorder in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors.
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Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts (CREAA)
CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.
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Linking the gene regulatory network with the functional physical structure of whole-genome engineered Arabidopsis mutants : an HR-MAS NMR-based
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.
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Creating Global Scenarios of Environmental Impacts with Structural Economic Models
To limit the effects of climate change, global average temperature since pre-industrial measurements are to be kept well below 2 °C preferably even at 1.5 °C.
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Highly Accurate Simulations and Benchmarking of Molecule-Surface Reactions
Heterogeneous catalyzed processes are highly significant to the chemical industry. Dissociative chemisorption (DC) of molecules on surfaces is always considered as a step with a high degree of rate control for heterogeneous catalysis.
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Soil and crop management options to improve nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil
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?
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Merging galaxy clusters: probing magnetism and particle acceleration over cosmic time
In this thesis, I studied the origin and evolution of the non-thermal radiation in merging galaxy clusters.
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Quantifying nucleosome dynamicsand protein binding with PIE-FCCS and spFRET
In this thesis I describe the results of Pulsed Interleaved Excitation and Fluorescence (Cross) Correlation Spectroscopy (PIE-F(C)CS) combined with single-pair Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (spFRET) used to study dynamics in single nucleosomes, which depends on subtle differences in the length of…
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Data-driven Predictive Maintenance and Time-Series Applications
Predictive maintenance (PdM) is a maintenance policy that uses the past, current, and prognosticated health condition of an asset to predict when timely maintenance should occur.
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Wout Broekema op de website van Platform O: Zijn experts 'heilig'?
In het bestrijden van de coronacrisis leunen politici in verregaande mate op de kennis van experts. Dat is verstandig, maar het is niet aan experts om politieke besluiten te nemen. Dit betogen Wout Broekema, Universitair Docent Crisis Governance aan de Universiteit Leiden, en Beatrice de Graaf, Hoogleraar…
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On Multifield Inflation, Adiabaticity and the Speed of Sound of the Curvature Perturbations
Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma
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Life Cycle Assessment of Nanomaterials and Risk Assessment.
What is the environmental impact, the human health impact and the life cycle and production costs of the lab, pilot and commercial diffusion of nanowires and nanowire-based photovoltaic technologies?
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Waste Collection Systems Assessed and Good Practices Identified (COLLECTORS)
What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?
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Artificial metallo-proteins for photocatalytic water splitting: stability and activity in artificial photosynthesis
Climate change is one of the largest challenges faced by humanity. To combat this research into alternatives to fossil fuels is ongoing. Dihydrogen is considered a good alternative fuel, since its burning only forms water.
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Hauke Ward
Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen
h.ward@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6808
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Innate immunity, developmental speed and their trade-offs in two hexapod models
This thesis focuses on important life history traits and their trade-offs using two hexapod models. Particularly, the trade-off between immune defense and embryonic developmental speed is a central theme of this study.
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Electrochemical and surface studies of the effect of naphthalene-based additives on tin electrodeposition
Tin electrodeposition applications have rapidly evolved in the past 25 years.