Debat, Kickstart

A New Technology-Based Firm (NTBF) is a significant enabler of job creation and a driver of the economy through stimulating innovation.

Op 17 november 2021 verdedigde Cyril-Igor Grigorieff het proefschrift 'The Regime for International Air Carrier Liability'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof.dr. V. Correia (University Paris Saclay).

The Department of History at Amherst College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in medieval and early modern European history, beginning July 1, 2024. The area of specialization is open, but we particularly seek candidates who will offer a…

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotor: L. Juurlink

According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides initiates the pathological cascade in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

In this thesis, we have studied the potential of the zebrafish larval model in studying the ECS, as a complementary model to the existing rodent models.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Leidse wetenschappers en studenten bloggen en podcasten over onderzoek en onderwijs.

This thesis describes the use of bioorthogonal proteins in immunological settings. It provides an introduction towards the field of protein modification, which was used throughout the thesis for the expression of proteins containing unnatural amino acids.

In de Bibliotheca Thysiana, een zeventiende-eeuwse bibliotheek aan het Leidse Rapenburg, is in een boekband een deel van een Duits ambtelijk archief uit de Late Middeleeuwen aangetroffen. Het betreft niet minder dan 132 handgeschreven papieren bladen en notitievelletjes afkomstig van een ongeïdentificeerd…

Organic molecules in interstellar space are important as they influence the structure of galaxies and star formations. Studying catalytic processes in space allows us to understand how molecular species are formed and chemically evolved in the interstellar medium and solar system objects.

This thesis discusses several questions regarding the double ramification cycle as a Chow class on the moduli space of stable n-pointed genus g curves using tools from so-called logarithmic geometry.

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

Het toonaangevende medische tijdschrift The Lancet heeft een controversiële publicatie over het malariamiddel hydroxychloroquine ingetrokken. Reden hiervoor is de open brief aan The Lancet die ruim honderd wetenschappers ondertekenden, waaronder Richard Gill, Leids emeritus hoogleraar Mathematische…

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

Promotor: T.J. Aartsma, Co-promotor: R.N. Frese

In this thesis, a system pharmacology approach, integrating metabolomics, pharmacology and chemical biology, was applied to understand and modulate the endocannabinoid system across different model systems (cells, zebrafish, mice and humans).

Special Issue in: Visual Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016

Promotor: J.N. Kok, P.E. Slagboom Co-promotor: J.F.J. Laros

The first direct detection of gravitational waves opened the possibility of mapping the Universe via this new and independent messenger.

All life on earth contains DNA, which is used to store biological information. Organisms compact their DNA in order for it to fit inside their cell(s).

The complexity of an intelligence problem determines to a great extent the certainty that can be provided by intelligence and security services.

This thesis explores the theoretical and observational properties of distant massive galaxies that harbour active black holes in their centres and shine brightly at radio wavelengths.

Promotores: W. Th. F. den Hollander, M.O. Heydenreich

PUMA aims at composing a geological map of the urban mine of Amsterdam for a selection of metals. Where are main deposits of copper, iron and aluminium located, when will they become available for secondary production, in what state and shape are they?

The thesis deals with the study of giant radio galaxies (GRGs), which are radio galaxies of megaparsec sizes.

An algorithm is discussed to compute the exponential representation of principal units in a finite extension field F of the p-adic rationals.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Heck, Co-Promotor: B.P. Tighe

In dit artikel gaan Joris Larik en Richard Ponzio in op het belang van de Summit of the Future om multilaterale samenwerking een nieuw leven in te blazen en te versterken in een tijdperk van toenemende concurrentie tussen de grootmachten.

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are widely prescribed as anti-inflammatory drugs due to their well-established immunosuppressive effects.

An account of the total of material flows going in, out and through Amsterdam.

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L.B.F.M. Waters (UvA), Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

We have conducted a full spectral line survey of the 3-13 micron region of two massive protostars, AFGL 2591 and AFGL 2136, for the first time at high spectral resolution.

Political scientist Matthew Longo (Leiden University) takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, he reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in…

In this dissertation several settings in the Online Learning framework are studied. The first chapter serves as an introduction to the relevant settings in Online Learning and in the subsequent chapters new results and insights are given for both full-information and bandit information settings.

Kamerlid Mona Keijzer zei op 17 mei in televisieprogramma ‘Sophie & Jeroen’ dat ‘antisemitisme bijna onderdeel is van de islamitische cultuur’. In EW reageert hoogleraar Maurits Berger op haar uitspraak.

De Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP) was een politiek experiment. Bij haar oprichting in 1894 hadden de meeste leden geen stemrecht, de leiders geen politieke ervaring en stond de organisatievorm nog in de kinderschoenen. Wie lid werd, zette bovendien zijn geld, goede naam en baan op het…

Dit boek, samengesteld door voormalig BVD-historicus Dick Engelen en historicus Constant Hijzen, geeft een overzicht van lokaties in Nederland die in de twintigste eeuw iets te maken hebben gehad met spionage en geheime diensten uit binnen- en buitenland.

Boek over de totstandkoming van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, onder redactie van onder andere Henk te Velde.

​Het Verre gezicht biedt de lezer een fraaie staalkaart van de politieke en culturele relaties tussen Nederland en Azië, Afrika en Amerika.

Bart van der Boom, ''Wij weten niets van hun lot'. Gewone Nederlanders en de Holocaust' (2012).

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn