There is an urgent need for more physiologically relevant cell culture methods to guide compound selection in pre-clinical stages of the drug development pipeline.

Mining time series is a machine learning subfield that focuses on a particular data structure, where variables are measured over (short or long) periods of time.

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

Promotores: Bas Edixhoven, Guy Henniart

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).

Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is the principal enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). MAGL inhibition provides several potential therapeutic opportunities, including anti-nociceptive, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity.

Promotores: P.G.L. Klinkhamer, P.M. Brakefield, Co-Promotor: M. Bruinsma

In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…

This thesis consists of five chapters on how to construct prediction sets for different types of data and models in a parametric or nonparametric Bayesian paradigm.

Op donderdag 15 december is Elisavet Alexiadou gepromoveerd op haar proefschrift: ‘The Right to Health. A Human Rights Perspective with a Case Study on Greece'. Promotor was hoogleraar gezondheidsrecht Aart Hendriks.

Quantitative biology means exploiting mathematical modelling and computer simulation as a tool to gain additional insights into the meaning of experimental data. Discover in this minor when and how to apply these tools, in a multidisciplinary setting.

This new Casebook features the work of an international, interdisciplinary research group entitled ‘The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry’.

Onze zorg voor vluchteling-, eerstegeneratiestudenten en studenten uit Caribisch Nederland en Suriname.

Participants in this course will learn to support student teachers and new colleagues in their professional development as teachers, with particular emphasis on the context of bilingual or international education, as in the ICLON World Teachers Programme (WTP).

Een diversere groep studenten kun je je bijna niet voorstellen. India, Duitsland, Pakistan, Nederland, Israël, Rusland, Italië en Mongolië, allemaal voorbeelden van landen die dit voorjaar vertegenwoordigd zijn in de pilot van het International Leiden Leadership Programme.

Louis Sicking gaat met het Dr. Ernst Crone Fellowship van het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam onderzoek verrichten naar een uniek scheepsmodel in zijn collectie: het model van een oorlogsschip uit 1560.

Een lijst met wetenschappelijke publicaties samengesteld door het team van het TRIXY Expertisecentrum.

Van 25 tot/met 31 oktober 2017 was professor Simone van der Hof met een delegatie van Leiden Law School, waaronder onze decaan professor Joanne van der Leun, op werkbezoek in China.

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This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

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There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

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Leren om onderzoek te doen is een goede voorbereiding op wetenschappelijk onderwijs. De Universiteit Leiden helpt je daarom graag op weg om profielwerkstuk te schrijven waar je trots op kunt zijn.

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Over geschiedenis van de sterrenkunde van radioastronomie tot exoplaneten, de revolutionaire ontwikkeling van de naoorlogse sterrenkunde.

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Hoe kunnen leraren in opleiding worden voorbereid op cultuurresponsief klassenmanagement?

Deze pagina biedt een overzicht van het MSc-programma International Organisation aan Universiteit Leiden in Den Haag. Je leest over curriculum, thesis, groepsgrootte en stage-opties.

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De docenten van de cursus Gendergerelateerd geweld zijn Marieke Liem en Mischa Dekker.

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. This course examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy,…

Promotor: B. vd Water, T. Schmidt, Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood

De Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid verricht hoogwaardig onderzoek naar acht onderzoeksprogramma's.

Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.

In the search for sustainable energy solutions, the idea of artificial photosynthesis has been proposed as an approach with which to use water and sunlight to produce hydrogen.

Artificial intelligence algorithms govern in subtle, yet fundamental ways, the way we live and are transforming our societies. The promise of efficient, low‐cost or ‘neutral’ solutions harnessing the potential of big data has led public bodies to adopt algorithmic systems in the provision of public…

Microbial rhodopsins are photosensitive pigments implemented in the growth and adaptation of a large population of microorganisms.

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M. Bongards (Cologne University)

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans