In deze masterspecialisatie draait het om de bronnen van internationale conflicten, de dynamiek van crisismanagement en de voorwaarden die landen in staat stellen hun geschillen vreedzaam op te lossen.

Na afronding van deze opleiding beschik je over een eerstegraads onderwijsbevoegdheid en ben je goed voorbereid op een carrière als docent Biologie in het voortgezet onderwijs.

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Description of Development of a low cost technology for in-situ treatment of groundwater for potable and irrigation purposes (TiPOT) (2004 - 2007)

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In 2005 groeven archeologen van de gemeente Leiden een 2700 jaar oude boomstamkano op. Deze boomstamkano wordt nu door wetenschappers van Material Culture Studies nagebouwd met behulp van replica's van ijzertijd-werktuigen. De wetenschappers willen zo onder meer beter inzicht krijgen in het bouwproc…

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

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

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

Jos Gommans heeft een subsidie van € 200.000,- van het Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) ontvangen voor onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van religieuze en culturele tradities in Indonesië tussen 1600 en 1940.

A single self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot in a high-finesse optical microcavity - the subject of this thesis - is an interesting quantum-mechanical system for future quantum applications. For instance, this system allows trapping of an extra electron and thus can serve as a spin quantum memory,…

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

The overarching clinical aim of this thesis was to improve pharmacological pain management by characterizing the pharmacodynamics of analgesics. This promotion has been awarded the predicate cum laude.

How can we, together international experts, define future needs of R+D contributions for innovations in the field of risk-based management of chemicals and products in a global perspective using alternative testing strategies to minimize animal tests?

This report investigates the different approaches in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use in the European Union and the United States of America. Three main aspects are considered and analyzed as potential causes of differences in the authorization process of GMOs for commercial use.…

In this dissertation non-parametric Bayesian methods are used in the application of robotic vision.

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?

Over several decades, a variety of computational methods for drug discovery have been proposed and applied in practice. With the accumulation of data and the development of machine learning methods, computational drug design methods have gradually shifted to a new paradigm, i.e. deep learning methods…

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

Some examples of research questions include: What framework of circular strategies should local practitioners use? How should practitioners organize their monitoring of the circular economy activities in the region of interest? What are the main products that have the most circular potential in the…

A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

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In the first part, we introduce a new condition, called toric-additivity, on a family of abelian varieties degenerating to a semi-abelian scheme over a normal crossing divisor.

Promotor: J.A. Bouwstra Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

Promotor: A. Achúcarro Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

Cardiovascular disease is a major global burden and atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathological process.

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

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Aarts, Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

Promotor: J. Schaye

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

The theoretical explanation of cosmic acceleration is nowadays one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?

This thesis is largely an experimental study on the formation of solid-state simple and complex organic molecules in the H2O-rich and CO-rich ice phases of dense interstellar clouds and dark cores.

In this thesis we have discussed several parameters that affect the electrochemical conversion of enviromentaly harmful molecules such as nitrates and carbon dioxide to more valuable and less deleterious compounds, in order to cast light onto the mechanism of the reaction to achieve an efficient and…

Taking as a point of departure the Italian American community in Boston and its process of collective remembrance surrounding Saint Anthony’s Feast, we addressing the limits and potential of montage.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. M. van der Zee

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Doelman, Co-promotor: V. Rottschäfer

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Achucarro

The mycorrhizal symbiosis is among the most widespread species interactions on Earth⁠. This thesis focuses on orchid mycorrhiza, a unique mycorrhizal type that has caught scientists’ attention for centuries⁠.