This thesis examines the impacts and challenges of water use of electric power system. This thesis found that there are large differences in water use of electricity technologies, with hydropower and thermal power being two large water users.

CMLCA is a software tool that supports the technical steps of the Life Cycle Assessment. The focus of the program is on advanced computational aspects of life cycle inventory calculations.

The main object of study in this thesis is an Arakelov inequalitywhich bounds the degree of an invertible subsheaf of the direct image ofthe pluricanonical relative sheaf of a semistable family of curves.

Teaching the Future: AI-Enhanced Education for Student Engagement and Ethical Learning.

Promotor: G. J. Kroes

Lezing

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

The effective treatment of tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health.

Galaxies form and live inside dark matter haloes. As a consequence, they are exposed to the tidal fields generated by the surrounding matter distribution: this imprints a preferential direction to the galaxy shapes, which leads to a coherent alignment on physically close galaxies, called intrinsic a…

Promotor: T. Schmidt

Solar energy harnessed by plants and algae has great potential to be converted into biofuels for future generations.

Carbohydrates, or sugars, are the most diverse and most abundant biomolecules known. However, the isolation of carbohydrate samples in sufficient amounts and purity is often impractical or even impossible, so the chemical synthesis of glycosides becomes relevant. The glycosylation reaction, in which…

The adsorption of D2 and CO2 on catalyst surfaces is studied using a molecular beam in ultra-high vacuum.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink, Co-promotor: G. Siegal

In this thesis, two potential therapeutic targets for diabetic nephropathy were dentified and investigated. First, we show that glomerular clusterin is upregulated in diabetic nephropathy and demonstrated that recombinant clusterin protein can protect the podocytes against oxidative stress in vitro.…

Promotor: Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: V. Sidoravicius.

De Nederlandse krijgsmacht is de afgelopen jaren op vele fronten veranderd. Letterlijk en figuurlijk. Deze uitgave brengt de laatste kennis en inzichten over het functioneren van dit belangrijke instituut bijeen. Een handboek voor praktijk, wetenschap en onderwijs.

The electrochemical hydrogenation reaction is an alternative approach for the transformation of unsaturated bonds without the use of flammable dihydrogen gas.

‘Religie is overal’ – dat is de eerste zin uit de missie van het nieuwe Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). Na intensieve voorbereiding en in nauwe samenwerking met het Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), is LUCSoR vandaag van start gegaan. Dit nieuwe centrum…

Fellowships are awarded to an international cast of researchers with the purpose of promoting the use of the Special Collections at Leiden University

Dit onderzoek gaat over de vormen, functies, betekenissen, en sociaal-culturele waarden die in Palenda besloten liggen, met als doel te begrijpen hoe dit concept via metaforen de wereldbeschouwing van de Muna-volk (Mieno Wuna) weerspiegelt en vormgeeft.

Onthullingen van ongewenst en seksueel overschrijdend gedrag in de televisie- en sportwereld hebben de maatschappelijke discussie over sociale veiligheid opnieuw doen oplaaien. Binnen de universiteit wordt de preventie van ongewenst en grensoverschrijdend gedrag gezamenlijk voortgezet en bijpassend…

This dissertation is an experimental study of laser-generated, atmospheric pressure, transient toroidal helium plasmas.

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

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

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. P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: B. de Smit

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Promotores: Wim Jiskoot; Ferry Ossendorp

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.J. Batenburg

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.K. Richardson

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

Arithmetic geometry concerns the number-theoretic properties of geometric objects defined by polynomials. Mathematicians are interested in the rational solutions to these geometric objects.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotores: M.F.E. de Jeu, B. de Pagter

Bacterial biocatalysis constitutes a sustainable alternative for high-value chemicals production by enabling the utilization of renewable feedstocks.

Ice, the solid state of water, plays an important role on our planet as well as the entire universe.Despite the fact that an individual water molecule has a very simple structure, its chemical bonding in the solid phase can be surprisingly complex.

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg, Co-promotor: A.W. van der Vaart, B. de Smit

Following the Big Bang, structure in the Universe started collapsing under the force of gravity. This resulted in the formation of the first stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

We strive to address the challenge of constructing a modeling language to write software which can take advantage of recent hardware developments (multicore, cloud) without compromising in its abstraction levels.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. C.A. Mandemakers, Co-Promotor: G. Bloothooft

Phosphorylation affects all four major biomolecules – proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids – and plays a pivotal role in the most fundamental cellular functions.

With tomography it is possible to reconstruct the interior of an object without destroying.

Regeneration is the ability of an organism to restore damaged or lost tissue with a functional replacement, and without scarring. Many lizards can regenerate their tails.

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.

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) has become the standard for business processes diagrams.

Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…

A tidal basin is an inland sea which is almost entirely enclosed by land and connected to the open sea by a tidal inlet. Through the tidal inlets interaction takes place between the tidal basin and the open sea.

Op 11 november 2021 verdedigde Evelien Campfens het proefschrift 'Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. N.J. Schrijver en prof.dr. W.J. Veraart (VU Amsterdam).