Continuous optimization is never easy: the exact solution is always a luxury demand and the theory of it is not always analytical and elegant.

This thesis investigates how quantum, quantum-inspired, and hybrid quantum-classical computation can enhance key points of the automated machine learning (AutoML) pipeline under the constraints of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices.

In this thesis it is posed that the central object of preference discovery is a co-creative process in which the Other can be represented by a machine. It explores efficient methods to enhance introverted intuition using extraverted intuition's communication lines.

The Sundanese people, the largest ethnic group in West Java, have been using traditional medicine for a long time. Known as ubar kampung, Sundanese indigenous knowledge, beliefs and practices of traditional medicine are based on local people’s knowledge and use of Medicinal, Aromatic, and Cosmetic (MAC)…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

Discover "Meta Analysis" at Boerhaave Nascholing. Explore risk analysis, models, and advanced topics. Elevate your understanding. Read more here.

Op 23 februari 2022 verdedigde Cale Davis het proefschrift 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. C. Stahn en dr. J.C. Powderly.

Boekpresentatie

Lezing, Unfolding Finitudes

LA cuidadora: Latin American female migration and elderly home-care work in Europe

It researches (the possibilities for) the development of a set of principles and best practices for insolvency office holders by comparing multilateral treaties and soft law recommendations and national legislation within Europe.

The deeper understanding of an organism's pathology is important for developing treatments. Over centuries of systematic research, clinical researchers have demonstrated that the more information they acquire about the cellular properties and their organisation in the tissue, the better they can understand…

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

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…

The thesis deals with the study of giant radio galaxies (GRGs), which are radio galaxies of megaparsec sizes.

Lezing

Afscheidscollege

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-Promotor: E. Vijgenboom

Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).

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.

Where does the urge to collect come from? What are the explicit or underlying reasons for gathering large amount of objects?

Statistical considerations guide the design and implementation of the experiments that scientists perform. For instance, in a clinical trial about a the efficacy of a treatment, its effect in a certain minimum amount of patients has to be observed in order to make confident assertions about the efficacy…

Promotie

Promotie

Waarom bestudeerden negentiende-eeuwse geleerden Oudengelse religieuze teksten? Dit onderzoek laat zien hoe geloof, naast politiek en literatuur, hun interesse stuurde en hoe deze teksten het christelijke denken beïnvloedden in Europa.

De STAP-studie onderzoekt de kosteneffectiviteit van Written Exposure Therapy (WET) voor PTSS-symptomen in de huisartsenpraktijk.

De Leidse hoogleraar astronomie Mike Garrett zoekt naar tekenen van buitenaardse intelligentie. In zijn Kaiser Lentelezing op 23 april zet hij uiteen hoe ver de wetenschap op dit punt is.

Statistische modellen doen betere voorspellingen over toekomstig gedrag dan psychologen die gedrag louter verklaren. Daarom moeten psychologen zich meer richten op de ontwikkeling van accurate statistische voorspellingsmodellen. Dat stelt Mark de Rooij, hoogleraar Methodologie en Statistiek van Psychologisch…

Hoe maak je relevante lessen over toen voor leerlingen van nu? Daarover ging het op de ICLON-nascholingsdag Geschiedenis, want geschiedenisonderwijs kan bijdragen aan de burgerschapsdoelen in het onderwijs.

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

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.

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

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft, Prof.dr. G.A. van der Marel

Humans share meaning through language. Over time, repeated interactions have shaped languages into forms that match our cognitive preferences, making them structured, expressive, easy to learn, and ultimately, meaningful.

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

N-acylethanolamines (NAEs), including N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide, AEA), N-palmitoylethanolamine (PEA) and N-oleoylethanolamine (OEA), are signaling lipids that play an important role in different physiological process.

Uncertainty and noise are frequently-encountered obstacles in real-world applications of numerical optimization. The practice of optimization that deals with uncertainties and noise is commonly referred to as robust optimization.

We are living in an information era where the amount of image and video data increases exponentially.

Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is widely used to automatically build a suitable practical Machine Learning (ML) model for an arbitrary real-world problem, reducing the effort of practitioners in the ML development cycle for real-world applications. Optimization is a key part of a typical AutoML…

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

In this thesis, topics relating to the optimization of high-throughput pipelines used for imaging are discussed. In particular, different levels of implementation, i.e., conceptual, software, and hardware, are discussed and the thesis outlines how advances on each level need to be made to make gains…

Despite being the second largest transmembrane protein family after GPCRs, the SLC superfamily has only gained significant attention in early drug development over the past decade.

Oratie

Lezing

OB associations are loose groups of young, massive stars. They constitute the last stage of the massive starformation process, and the context in which new stars are formed.