Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Who are open-source intelligence activists and how reliable are their contributions to public understanding of Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Di Marco onderzoekt hoe ouderschap een cruciaal keerpunt vormt in het leven van jonge mensen in Latijns-Amerika, en van invloed is op hun criminele verleden.

Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.

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…

This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…

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.

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Transport inspectorates are looking for novel methods to identify dangerous behavior, ultimately to reduce risks associated to the movements of people and goods. We explore a data-driven approach to arrive at smart inspections of vehicles.

Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Eind november 2014 presenteerde Peter Meel zijn biografie van Henck Arron in Amsterdam, en in januari 2015 in Paramaribo.

Promotor: J. Kuiper

Human civilization consumes a huge amount of fossil fuels, which has resulted in an atmospheric CO2 level which has not been higher in over 800 millennia.

Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).

Onlangs ontvingen Wim Voermans, hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht en Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, universitair docent bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs en de afdeling Economie, een subsidie uit het KNAW Fonds Staatsman Thorbecke om hun project met de titel 'People-centered constitutional…

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

Hoe kunnen we op een interdisciplinaire wijze de classificatie van migranten en mensen met een beperking bestuderen en onderzoekers van deze velden samenbrengen om raakvlakken met elkaar te vinden?

Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

75 jaar na Hiroshima en Nagasaki In samenwerking met Japanmuseum SieboldHuis, naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling aldaar.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

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Majorana fermions in superconductors are the subgap quasiparticle excitations that are their own antiparticles.

We developed the bitterling as a unique, well-studied model organism in the area of the evolutionary ecology of brood parasitism. The bitterling-mussel relationship, interspecific mussel host preference, and mussel gill structure are studied in detail, to help understand the developmental adaptation…

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

De pedel Willem van Beelen ging op 29 februari met pensioen. Hoe blikt hij terug en wat zeggen ingewijden over hem?

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.

S.S. Kolipaka’s thesis questions and investigates the survival prospects of reintroduced tigers and their offspring’s in the human dominated landscape of Panna tiger reserve in India.

Deze colleges zijn in het Engels, u kunt vragen stellen en reageren in het Nederlands.

Promotores: E. van Dijk, G.R. de Snoo. Co-promotor: H. Staats

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

Ons onderwijsaanbod is breed en divers. Hieronder vindt u alle informatie over de vakken die door de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen worden verzorgd. Als u op een vak klikt, wordt u doorgeleid naar de studiegids.

This study attempts to understand how indigenous community institutions pose an important role in sustainable community-based development, including the integration between local culture and development.

In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming ‘out of Africa’, the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization of the world by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Together with his Exeter…

Nu de Nijl uit zijn oevers is getreden zijn veel piramides en andere oudheden in Noord-Soedan niet meer veilig. Het water van de rivier overstroomt nu de oude hoofdstad Meroë. Archeoloog Tomomi Fushiya bespreekt de situatie in Trouw.

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

Congres/symposium

Het ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (OCW) bestaat dit jaar 100 jaar. Bij die gelegenheid maakte beleidshistoricus Pieter Slaman een lijvig overzichtswerk van het jarige departement. We blikken terug in 5 cruciale momenten.

Op woensdag 16 november en vrijdag 18 november zijn in vijf ceremonies 529 bachelordiploma’s uitgereikt. De faculteit ontving ongeveer 2000 gasten in het Academiegebouw, de Stadsgehoorzaal en het Kamerlingh Onnes gebouw.

De Universiteit Leiden opende haar deuren tijdens de Museumnacht Leiden. Bezoekers konden volop experimenteren en beleven in het Academiegebouw, de Hortus botanicus en de Oude Sterrewacht. Bekijk de foto's.

Lezing

Arco Timmermans in Follow the Money vertelt dat de formatieperiode het moment is om invloed uit te oefenen op het politieke beleid voor de komende jaren.

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.

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…

A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…