The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

This thesis focuses on addressing four research problems in designing embedded streaming systems.

A recent study on reintroduced tigers in Panna Tiger Reserve in India reveals that risks from tigers increased more because of human behaviour and people's livestock husbandry practices.

Promotores: F.H.J. Redig, W.T.F. den Hollander

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Als centrum voor migratieonderzoek biedt Leiden ruimte aan historici, economen, juristen, politicologen en antropologen om samen te werken. Experts onderzoeken wie migreert, waarom, en de impact op samenlevingen. Ze analyseren overheidsbeleid, de rol van media en hoe samenlevingen omgaan met etnische…

Kim Jong Il, leider van Noord-Korea is dood. Zijn jongste zoon Kim Jong Eun is de gedoodverfde opvolger. Maar wordt hij dat ook? Remco Breuker, Leids hoogleraar Koreastudies maakt een profielschets voor de nieuwe leider.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en de Noord-Koreaanse leider Kim Jong-un ontmoetten elkaar op de nucleaire top in Singapore, een historisch moment. Maar hoe zal deze top de geschiedenisboeken ingaan? Hoogleraar Koreastudies Remco Breuker blikt in de media terug op de top: Kim wint, zijn onderdanen…

The research described in this Thesis was aimed at designing and synthesizing nature-inspired compounds as part of TB vaccine discovery.

This thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of activity-based probes and inhibitors targeting enzymes involved in the degradation of specific plant glycans.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.M. de Groot, Co-promotor: Francesco Buda

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

hotocatalysis has emerged as a powerful tool for enabling challenging transformations in organic synthesis. This thesis explores the development of several photocatalytic reactions designed to form carbon-heteroatom bonds from less-functionalized precursors.

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

This dissertation focused on computational methods based on first principles calculations using the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework. Emphasis was laid on affordable methods that can provide a tradeoff between computational expense and accuracy.

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a biologically inspired algorithm, highly capable at processing images and videos.

Op 23 juni 2020 verdedigde Santy Kouwagam haar proefschrift 'How lawyers win land conflicts for corporations: Legal Strategy and its influence on the Rule of Law in Indonesia'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. A.W. Bedner en prof.dr. C.E. von Benda-Beckmann.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves opened the possibility of mapping the Universe via this new and independent messenger.

Promotors: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr.ir. H. Hilgenkamp

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

Nature uses a special class of histone proteins, histone variants, to modulate the properties of chromatin at defined genomic locations.

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

In this thesis, we explore a Hochschild homology and cohomology-like notion for logarithmic schemes.

This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.

Chapter 1,contains the numerical verification of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for hundreds of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves of genus 2, 3, 4 and 5.

This thesis consists of three papers that are centered around the common theme of Hausdorff uo-Lebesgue topologies and convergence structures on vector lattices and on vector lattices and vector lattice algebras of order bounded operators.

Protoplanetary disks are the gas and dust environments where planetary systems form around young stars. Using observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) this thesis analyses the gaseous molecular reservoir, using multiple tracers to resolve the 3D structure of protoplanetary…

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: K.J. Batenburg

The research group Science Communication and Society aims to understand how science communication works to improve the interaction between science and society. Central themes are ‘Bridging the gap between experts and the general public’ and ‘Evaluating Science Communication’.

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotores: M.G. Vijver, J.P.M. Vink

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.

Supply risks are not new. But the aggravation of power conflicts on the international stage coupled with global shifts towards energy transition and digitalization has triggered the next supply risk research era.

When a star is born in our Galaxy, it is quite likely that it has formed within a massive cluster, which hosts numerous high-mass stars bathing their lower mass neighbours in UV radiation.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

The work in this thesis demonstrates how to obtain an atomic-scale picture of a diverse set of complex surface structures observed using STM, under disparate conditions.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

The Low Frequency Array enables studies of low-frequency carbon radio recombination lines with unprecedented sensitivity, spectral and spatial resolution.

One of the major limitations in culturing complex tissues or organs is the lack of vascularization in the cultured tissue. Development of a functional capillary bed could overcome this problem.

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, F. Andreatta

During the course of drug discovery translational steps are made.

This thesis mainly focuses on multimodal understanding and Visual Question Answering (VQA) via deep learning methods. For technical contributions, this thesis first focuses on improving multimodal fusion schemes via multi-stage vision-language interactions.

This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris