Afgestudeerd antropologe Ildikó Plájás heeft op het internationale Astra Film Festival in Sibiu, Roemenië, de prijs gewonnen voor beste documentaire in de studentencompetitie.

A single self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot in a high-finesse optical microcavity - the subject of this thesis - is an interesting quantum-mechanical system for future quantum applications. For instance, this system allows trapping of an extra electron and thus can serve as a spin quantum memory,…

Nanoparticles can be used as delivery systems for both small molecules and macromolecules such as proteins, peptides or oligonucleotides. This thesis focuses on the use of liposomes, nanometric vesicles formed by a lipid bilayer enclosing an aqueous core. Liposomes are highly versatile delivery syst…

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

A.s. zondag 29 april om 15.25 zendt Omroep Friesland een documentaire uit over David Gorlaeus (TV Nederland 2). Dit naar aanleiding van zijn 400e sterfdag op 27 april. Op die 27e april (a.s. vrijdag) is er in Cornjum een herdenkingssymposium.

Op 12 juli jl. sprak Wim Voermans in de ZDF-heute documentaire 'Glamour, Gold und die Liebe: Europas Königshäuser'

Over the past years it has been discovered that the population of extra-solar planets is large and diverse.

Vanaf de koloniale tijd tot heden hebben grote aantallen Javanen hun woonplaats verlaten om zich in andere delen van Indonesië of veel verder weg te vestigen. Vaak was deze spreiding gedwongen, vaak met traumatische gevolgen.

Promotor: H.J.A. Röttgering, Co-promotor: M. Haverkorn

This thesis addresses the chemical processes that determine the compositions of giant planet atmospheres.

Prematurely born neonates require, amongst others, pharmaceutical therapy. Dosing guidelines for these therapies are often based on data from term born neonates or older infants, while these are not necessarily similar to prematurely born neonates.

The investigations described in this thesis lay out strategies aimed at advancing antibiotic research and development. The examples presented revolve around two main approaches: understanding drug-target interactions and target identification.

This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.

Streptomyces are bacteria abundant in soil that participate in diverse and complex interactions. These bacteria are the main producers of the antibiotics we currently use in the clinic.

Throughout the history of computer science, a major challenge has been how to assert that software is free of bugs and works as intended. Software bugs can lead to serious negative impacts on any software system. Throughout the main body of the thesis, we implemented a series of studies on exploring…

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Zaanen, Prof.dr. K.E. Schalm

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. C. Dominik (UvA)

We have studied shape with a particular focus on the zebrafish model system. The shape is an essential appearance of the phenotype of a biological specimen and it can be used to read out a current state or response or to study gene expression.

This dissertation presents new cryptographic protocols, which can be divided into two families.

Electoral Systems and Turnout: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd op de website SAGE research methods, bespreken auteurs Jaroslaw Kantorowicz en Tobias M. Hlobil hoe een Regression Discontinuity Design uitgevoerd kan worden.

In dit artikel onderzoeken Thijs van Dooremalen en Philip Smith hoe het publieke discours over hittegolven is verschoven in Britse kranten.

Dit project bekijkt het Oudgrieks vanuit het perspectief van de alledaagse schrijvers. Een corpus van meer dan 60.000 Griekse teksten op papyrus, van privébrieven tot petities en contracten geeft ons toegang tot de Griekse taal zoals die werd geschreven door gewone mensen in de oudheid (van 300 v.Chr.…

This Thesis describes the synthesis of D-alanylated ribitol-based wall teichoic acids from S. aureus to probe their interaction with immune-binding partners.

Deze week ging de documentaire ‘Einstein’s Light’ tijdens het Leiden International Film Festival (LIFF) in première.

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

Irene Khan, expert op het gebied van mensenrechten, werpt een aantal vragen op: Wat kan men verstaan onder een ‘Culture of Justice’? Wie bepaalt wat 'Justice' is? Hoe realistisch is de bevordering van ‘Rule of Law’ en ‘Justice’ in landen waar sprake is van ernstige conflictsituaties en armoede?

Van documentaires, zines en tentoonstellingen tot een video-installatie. Studenten van de master Visual Ethnography haalden alles uit de kast om hun studie op een fantastische manier af te sluiten.

With an emphasis on developing novel miktoarm star polymers termed PeptoMiktoStars, this thesis leverages asymmetric polymeric polypept(o)ide frameworks to advance their effectiveness in delivering hydrophobic drugs and nucleic acids.

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Dit artikel gaat in op de onderzoekskloof door te onderzoeken hoe deze instanties hun personeel zo kunnen inzetten dat ze maximale prestaties leveren met het personeel dat ze hebben.

The Sun and all the stars in the night sky reside in the Milky Way galaxy. In the at-rest reference frame of the Galaxy, typical stars travel with velocities of about 100-200 kilometres per second.

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

Jan van den Berg heeft zij proefschrift op 8 november 2018 verdedigd.

Stars and planets form within cold, dense clouds of gas and dust drifting through interstellar space. Although dust makes up only a small fraction of this material, it plays a key role in shaping the chemical evolution of these environments.

Om de klimaatcrisis het hoofd te bieden, kan een bepaalde nederigheid van de mens ten aanzien van de natuur van groot belang zijn. Tegelijkertijd kan nederigheid ook politieke overheersing in de hand werken. Hoe kunnen mensen zich op een bescheidener manier tot de natuur verhouden zonder hun vrijheid…

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

Dit artikel levert een bijdrage aan een groeiend aantal onderzoeken naar radicalisering. Het richt zich specifiek op het onderscheid tussen individuen die radicalisering en daardoor betrokken raken bij terroristisch geweld en individuen die radicaliseren maar niet betrokken raken bij geweld.

Nowadays, it is well known that hydrogen and helium (and small traces of lithium and beryllium) were created shortly after the Big Bang, while the heavier elements are created in the cores of stars at different evolutionary stages. When these stars explode as supernovae, they expel metals synthesised…

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

The aim of this thesis was to study phage infection in Streptomyces, focused on cell wall-deficient cells. Bacteriophages (or phages in short) attach to the cell wall of bacteria after which they replicate and lyse the host cell.

Innovation plays an essential role in firms' competitiveness and long-term success. It varies from different types, ranging from run-of-the-mill innovation that brings incremental changes to existing technologies to radical innovation that breaks from existing trajectories.

Self-assembly offers a promising route to create complex structures and materials using simple building blocks. Through, colloidal self-assembly, we can understand the governing principles of the self-assembly process and unlock its potential in diverse applications in materials science, photonics and…

The thesis describes experimental steps towards reduction of friction on the macroscopic scale by scenarios of thermo- and superlubricity well-known on the nanoscale.

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

The origin and evolution of galaxies are closely linked to many different physical phenomena.

Streptomyces are filamentous bacteria that produce more than two-thirds of known antibiotics.

De auteurs onderzoeken de afhandeling van cybermisdaadzaken door rechtshandhavers.

Ramesh Ganohariti onderzoekt de juridische identiteit in drie post-Sovjet aspirant-lidstaten en schetst in dit artikel vier veelvoorkomende scenario's.