What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Gerechtshoven die oorlogsmisdaden of andere misdaden tegen de menselijkheid berechten, betrekken daarbij vaker regionale normen en culturele waarden. Promovendus Seun Bakare onderzocht of dit ook een aanwinst kan zijn wanneer zij samenwerken met het Internationaal Strafhof.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

Promotie

Social Information Processing in Children with and without Hearing Loss

De opkomst van het digitale tijdperk beïnvloedt het openbaar bestuur op vele manieren. Digitalisering en data hebben invloed op elk aspect van openbaar bestuur en beleid. Binnen het instituut Bestuurskunde van de Universiteit Leiden, gevestigd in Den Haag - de bestuurlijke hoofdstad van Nederland -…

Op 10 oktober 2018 verdedigde Richard Resch zijn proefschrift 'The Interpretation of Plurilingual Tax Treaties'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. mr. C. van Raad.

GLOBALINT is een baanbrekend onderzoek naar inlichtingendiensten in het ‘mondiale Zuiden’. De centrale vraag is ‘hoe beïnvloeden (on)democratische verschuivingen in politiek bestuur de inlichtingendiensten in de context van gewelddadig conflict?’

Op welke manier ontwikkelt de ‘rule of law’ zich in Westerse samenlevingen in het licht van de opkomst en verspreiding van diverse digitale technologieën en hoe kan de rule of law invloed hebben op het gebruik en de verspreiding van deze technologieën.

This course explains the functions of each international court and tribunal in The Hague. On the basis of cases and interviews with judges and lawyers, this course explores the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice.

We analyse the link between media consumption and the attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS in Chile. We used data from a sample of 1000 people, obtained in the 2011 wave of the World Values Survey (WVS). We use a logistic binary regression model by maximum likelihood. Our results suggest that…

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

In dit artikel bespreken Joachim Koops en Christian Patz de uitgebreide beoordeling van de Duitse gereedheid op het gebied van 'Protection of Civilians' (PoC).

Bas Rietjens en zijn collega's onderzochten de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne en onderzochten deze veelvoud aan facetten en hun onderlinge verbanden.

Leidse wetenschappers onderzoeken groepsgedrag. Ze ontdekten onder meer dat mensen zich waarschijnlijk instinctmatig opofferen voor een mede-groepslid. Met dit soort inzichten kunnen we sociale processen in een wijk of binnen een bedrijf beter begrijpen en beïnvloeden.

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Review of new technical decisionsupport systems in the environmental field, and application in water management decission processes.

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.

In this dissertation, the synthesis and characterization of a series of iron complexes based on different ligand platforms are described.

In this thesis, the research focuses on the properties of dark matter and dark matter haloes and how they connect with the galaxies we can observe in the Universe.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Schilthuizen

OB associations are loose groups of young, massive stars. They constitute the last stage of the massive starformation process, and the context in which new stars are formed.

In this thesis, rational points on K3 surfaces are studied. In the first part of Chapter 1 the Brauer group and the the Brauer-Manin obstruction are introduced.

Op 8 juli 2020 verdedigde Andres Sarmiento Lamus zijn proefschrift 'The Proliferation of Dissenting Opinions in International Law'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik en prof.dr. Y.A.A.S. Radi (UCLouvain).

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk

Op 10 november 2021 verdedigde Carmel van Niekerk-Jacobs het proefschrift 'Realising the right to reproduce with assistance in South Africa'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr. T. Liefaard.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Co-Promotor: Rychard Bouwens

Promotor: Prof.dr. F. den Hollander, G.Maillard

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…

Op 16 juni 2020 verdedigde Andrea Varga haar proefschrift 'Establishing State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof. dr. F. Baetens (University of Oslo).

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Multicopper oxidase, laccase, can efficiently reduce oxygen to water and are mostly used in the enzymatic biofuel cells.

Promotoren: R. Tijdeman, A.K. Lenstra, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Promotor: Prof.dr. H. J. A. Röttgering, Co-Promotor: M. Haverkorn

Geesteswetenschappen, Instituut voor Geschiedenis

Promotor: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Co-Promotores: K. Vrieling, P.P.J. Mulder

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

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.

This thesis describes the genetic and prokaryotic diversity of giant barrel sponges.

Promotor: T. H. Oosterkamp

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen

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

The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.