Jongeren nemen vaker risico dan kinderen en volwassenen. Dat komt doordat het beloningscentrum in hun hersenen veel actiever is als ze een beloning krijgen, ontdekte promovenda Barbara Braams. Daarnaast spelen persoonlijkheid, testosteron en sociale context een rol.

The extensive use of electronic communication channels and other devices has opened new possibilities for collecting data on human behavior. This information is sometimes openly accessible, but largely part of administrative registration systems that are not open to the broader public. The data provides…

Evaluating the environmental consequences of diet changes in the European Union.

uman skin equivalents (HSEs) are in vitro 3D-skin models that mimic many aspects of the native human skin (NHS) and can be a valuable tool.

Public Administration is a major refereed journal publishing articles on public administration, public policy and public management.

Plants are colonized by an astounding number of microorganisms that can provide different life-support functions, including nutrient acquisition and protection against (a)biotic stresses like drought or pathogen attack.

The key purpose of this project is to study tautological relations on the level of closed differential forms or even integral cochains (i.e. we don't take classes in cohomology).

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr. K.E. Schalm

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

Discovery and development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs is hampered by high attrition rates.

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

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.

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics states that a measurement collapses a wavefunction onto an eigenstate of the corresponding measurement operator.

Promotor: M. Franx, Co-Promotor: I.F. Labbé

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen, B. van Ramshorst

My PhD project studies how the temporally sequential Hox gene expression is regulated during head-tail patterning of the frog embryo.

Modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems are still challenging. One reason is that cyber-physical systems involve many different parts (cyber or physical), of different nature (discrete or continuous), and in constant interaction via sensing and actuating.

Over the last three decades, the discovery of exoplanets has revealed the boundless variety of worlds beyond our own Solar System⁠. Majority of planetary systems contain short-period planets that are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune⁠.

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

In het academisch jaar 2023-2024 biedt het interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma Sociale Veerkracht en Veiligheid vier vakken aan voor studenten die beginnen met het derde jaar van hun bachelor. Deze vakken zijn te volgen binnen de ruimte voor keuzevakken. Je kunt de vakken afzonderlijk als keuzevak…

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

The research provides insight into disease behavior in both rural and semi-urban areas in Serengeti in Tanzania.

Exploring linkages between energy and material use and implications for sustainable development.

Promotores: J. Kok, M. Chaudron (Chalmers University)

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy, Prof.dr. H.J. van den Herik, Prof.dr. G.H. Baltes (University of Applied Sciences Konstanz)

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: S.J.T. van Noort

Op 23 februari 2022 verdedigde Cale Davis het proefschrift 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. C. Stahn en dr. J.C. Powderly.

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

We found that, next to the effectiveness of the intervention, it’s also very likely that the intervention is cost-effective compared to attention only.

This thesis examines silicon pore optics (SPO), a technology that exploits silicon wafers from the semiconductor industry to create extremely high quality X-ray optics, by studying its manufacturing process, applications, and prospects.

On 30 October 2020, Dr Mark Noort successfully defended his PhD investigation at the London School of Economics and political science (LSE) into

Examining the sustainability aspects of biotechnology, especially those related to the production of ethanol from biomass.

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

Alumni-activiteit

Several single-stranded RNA viruses make use of Xrn1-resistant RNAs in their 3’ untranslated regions of their genome RNAs in order to increase their pathogenicity.

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

Promotor: R. Cramer

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: W.A. Kosters

Promotor: W.T. de Groot