Vijf jaar na de overhandiging van ‘A History of Russian Law’, overhandigde emiritus hoogleraar Ferdinand Feldbrugge op 16 januari het tweede deel van zijn unieke overzichtswerk aan decaan van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid Joanne van der Leun.

Vastgoed heeft een handige Q&A met veelgestelde vragen over de nieuwe Humanities Campus opgesteld voor met name de omwonenden van het Witte Singel-Doelencomplex. Niet alle berichtgeving in de media is juist, daarom plaatsen we de Q&A ook voor alle medewerkers. Wil je weten hoe het zit met de gebouwen…

As a member of the Research School you can take part in join-in courses. Join-in courses are MA-courses in medieval topics given in set MA-programs of the six participant universities of the Research School. These courses allow you to further specialize in certain topics.

Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, infests major cereal crops in Sub-Saharan Africa causing severe yield losses and threatening the livelihood of millions of resource poor farmers.

The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.

Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities.

Lezing, Studium Generale

De letter M is ontstaan uit een tekeningetje van kabbelend water. Dat leert het kinderboek ‘A is van Os’ waaraan de Leidse egyptoloog Ben Haring een belangrijk aandeel had. In juni kwam het uit.

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

The aim is to develop methods to assess environmental and occupational exposure to (individual) pesticides, to be applied in epidemiological studies investigating pesticide exposure and human health. Furthermore, we aim to investigate the potential association between exposure to pesticides and Parkinson’s…

SEAtrans: an interdisciplinary research project that aims at studying the dynamics and processes of transitions in society-nature interactions in Southeast Asian societies.

How and to what extent the historic house (re-)constructs identity through image-making in China.

Do selenium nanoparticles in fish food cause subtle alterations in behavior of fish: effect of particles size and concentration?

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

Het VICI onderzoeksproject Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, onder leiding van Els Rose (Universiteit Utrecht), heeft een nieuw boek uitgebracht: Els Rose, Robert Flierman en Merel de Bruin-van de Beek, red., City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500. A Comparative Approach (Londen: Palgrave-Macmillan,…

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Ferritin is a spherical metalloprotein, capable of storing and releasing iron in a controllable way. It is composed of a protein shell of about 12 nm and within its cavity, iron is stored in a mineral form.

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancer in males.

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Promotor: D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: D. Kraft

Promotor: Jan van der Greef; Co-promotors: Mei Wang; Eduard van Wijk

Quantum hardware comes with a different computing paradigm and new ways to tackle applications. Much effort has to be put into understanding how to leverage this technology to give real-world advantages in areas of interest for industries such as combinatorial optimization or machine learning.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo

Op deze pagina vindt u de opnames van de online This Week's Discoveries vanaf 12 mei 2020 en een lijst sprekers vanaf oktober 2015.

Promotores: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. K. Sailer (Munich University)

Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…

What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

Adenosine is an endogenous ligand which exerts its action by activating adenosine receptors (ARs), while its circulating levels are controlled via a variety of mechanism and proteins, amongst others the equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs).

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

This thesis provides an overview of the development of the Pair Configuration to Molecular Activity Coefficient (PAC-MAC) model.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

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.

Promotor: T.H. Oosterkamp

Software development is a complex process. It is important that software products become stable and maintainable assets.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H Lenstra, Prof.dr. A Facchini (Padova University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: A.J. Knobbe

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel

This dissertation consists of two parts, with the common theme

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.H. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H.Hoekstra

Promotor: T. Schmidt

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition caused by a dysregulated host response to infection, it is associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and with a high financial burden on global healthcare systems. Bacterial infections are the primary cause of sepsis, but the growing prevalence of antimicrobial…

During the course of drug discovery translational steps are made.

In this thesis, deep learning is studied from a statistical perspective. Convergence rates for the worst case risk bounds of neural network estimators are obtained in the classification, density estimation and linear regression model.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Prof.dr. J.J.M.M. Rutten (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).

This thesis describes the implementation and on-sky demonstration of high-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptive optics systems that are used to find and characterize exoplanets.