De onstuitbare opmars van de N.V. Zuid-Korea

Promotores: S.F. Portegies Zwart, E. M. Rossi

Learning from small data sets in machine learning is a crucial challenge, especially when dealing with data imbalances and anomaly detection. This thesis delves into the challenges and methodologies of learning from small datasets in machine learning, with a particular focus on addressing data imbalances…

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Biological cells, the basic building blocks of all life forms, are surrounded by a lipid membrane. More than half of the membrane is occupied by membrane proteins, which can regulate the cell functionality through specific arrangements.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).

Patients share valuable advice and experiences with their peers in online patient discussion groups.

The intracluster medium (ICM) is a hot, tenuous and X-ray emitting gas that pervades galaxy clusters.

Patterned detectors are an existing technology that can be found in almost all color cameras.

The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.

For optimization problems, it is often unclear how to choose the most appropriate optimization algorithm. As such, rigorous benchmarking practices are critical to ensure we can gain as much insight into the strengths and weaknesses of these types of algorithms.

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Om beter om te kunnen gaan met de druk van het moderne leven doen Koreanen aan GiCheon: intensieve oefeningen voor lichaam en geest. Rondom deze bewegingsleer is de uitgevonden traditie van bergasceten ontstaan, maar GiCheon is vooral een modern stedelijk fenomeen. Dat concludeert promovendus Victoria…

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: Roeland M.H. Merks

Promotor: J.P. Abrahams, Co-promotor: T. Grüne

Professor Ra Jong-yil is één van de bekendste wetenschappers op het gebied van internationale betrekkingen in Noordoost-Azië. Ra geeft op 7 mei in Leiden een lezing over het menselijke prijskaartje van de verdeling van het Koreaanse schiereiland. Een prijskaartje dat meestal niet zichtbaar is.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Wout Broekema, Wouter Jong en Sara Perlstein het ontwerp en de beoordeling van crisisonderzoeken vanuit een leerperspectief.

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

Hydrocarbonylation of alkenes with carboxylic acids in synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides is relatively less explored. We herein present a study and optimization of a palladium-catalyzed hydrocarbonylation reaction of alkenes using carboxylic acids as the nucleophile, by which acid anhydrides can…

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. P.G. van Dokkum (Yale University)

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

The class-imbalance problem is a challenging classification task and is frequently encountered in real-world applications. Various techniques have been developed to improve the imbalanced classification performance theoretically and practically.

In this thesis, we study different curved single crystals because of the diversity of surface structures across their curvature.

Carbohydrates are present on the surface of bacteria making them suitable antigen candidates for vaccine development. This thesis deals with the synthesis of two carbohydrate-based components; the capsular polisaccharide of S. aureus type 5 and teichoic acids from staphilococci and enterococci speci…

In our research protein translocation from Agrobacterium into yeast and plant cells is studied to obtain fundamental insights in the translocation process

This thesis advances automata learning, a key area in computer science, with applications in software verification, biological analysis, and autonomous technologies. It explores three main themes: first, it introduces a passive learning algorithm for generating compact probabilistic models from positive…

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Gedragsbioloog Peter Dijkstra en twee collega’s onderzochten voor het eerst hoe het Koreaanse geadopteerden vergaat op de relatiemarkt. Conclusie: heteroseksuele mannen van Koreaanse afkomst die als adoptiekinderen in het Westen zijn opgegroeid, zijn vaker single en hebben meer problemen met daten dan…

Large areas of space are filled by molecular clouds that consist of gas and dust grains that are the remnants of dead stars. When these clouds start collapsing, the decreasing temperature and increasing density cause gas particles to start accreting onto dust grain surfaces.

The aim of this thesis is to expedite and ensure the systematic accuracy of clearance scaling from adults to paediatric patients, with a special focus on drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism.

In this course, you will explore the organs involved in our food digestion and discover the common causes of abdominal and pelvic pain. The latest graphics and animations will give you new insights and understandings of this part of the body.

Glycoconjugate vaccines are composed of microbial poly- or oligosaccharides covalently linked to a carrier protein.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi

Koreaspecialist Koen De Ceuster heeft zo’n 1200 posters uit Noord-Korea samengebracht in een database. De posters zijn volgens De Ceuster van onschatbare waarde voor wetenschappers die het gesloten land beter willen bestuderen. De database wordt op 15 juni gepresenteerd in Leiden.

De opleiding Koreaanse taal en cultuur heeft een prestigieuze Koreaanse subsidie van € 700.000 in de wacht gesleept voor het project History as Social Practice: Unconventional Historiographies of Korea. Het bedrag wordt over een tijdsspanne van vijf jaar uitgekeerd.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

In this thesis, we consider various (electro)chemical phenomena at surfaces and nanoparticles and their underlying atomistic processes, which we studied using first-principles methods such as density functional theory.

IoT technology poses serval opportunities to supply chains. This thesis employs grey correlation and forecasting models, system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and ex-ante LCA to investigate and quantify the opportunities and risks of IoT-enabled sustainable supply chain operations from both industrial…

In this thesis, the role of mast cells in atherosclerosis and novel therapeutic strategies to inhibit atherosclerosis progression are discussed. The first part of the thesis specifically focuses on the relation between mast cells and advanced human atherosclerotic plaque characteristics.

Promotor: J.S. Kaastra Co-promotor: E. Constantini

Promotor: Jaap Brouwer, Co-promotor: Remus Th. Dame

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.W. Canters, Prof.dr. T.J. Aartsma