The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

Op 21 november 2018 verdedigde Lieke Kools haar proefschrift 'Essays on wealth, health, and data collection'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. K.P. Goudswaard en prof. dr. C.L.J. Caminada.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh, C.J.M. Musters

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

The subject of this thesis, ‘Approach to Markov Operators on Spaces of Measures by Means of Equicontinuity’, combines an analytical and probabilistic approach to Markov operators.

Low-carbon (LE) technologies have a significant potential to reduce the total carbon emissions in China.

In een tijdperk vóór GoogleDocs en LinkedIn vertrouwden 19e-eeuwse wetenschappers op het schrijven van brieven voor samenwerking, peer-feedback en het opbouwen en onderhouden van academische netwerken. Brieven waren een snelle, efficiënte manier om inzichten, gegevens en ontdekkingen te delen. Correspondentie…

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

Anthropogenic noise has been shown to affect marine animals in various ways, this may have fitness consequences at individual and population level. This thesis aims to increase insight into the quantification of sound-induced behavioural responses that are relevant to fitness, and into factors that…

Hoe kunnen studenten in mbo- en hoger onderwijsinstellingen het beste worden ondersteund in hun studiekeuze en studieloopbaan met het oog op soepele in- en doorstroom in opleiding en werk?

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

The thesis mainly contributes to the characterization of Majorana fermions as they appear in the Condensed Matter context.

The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.

Op 18 september 2019 verdedigde Huw Llewellyn zijn proefschrift 'An Institutional Perspective on the United Nations Criminal Tribunals: Governance, Independence and Impartiality'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. N.M. Blokker en prof.dr. L.J. van den Herik.

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

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

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

The research described in this thesis combines the latest insights in lysosomal function with lysosome centred cell signalling.

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

Welke impact hebben discussies over en bewezen beschuldigingen van etnisch profileren op organisaties en de (grens)politieagenten die op operationeel niveau werken? Gedurende een periode van drie jaar (november 2023 – november 2026) zal dit innovatieve transdisciplinaire onderzoeksproject zich richten…

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

This thesis describes the synthesis and biochemical evaluation of a variety of cyclophellitol based activity-based probes and inhibitors targeting various endo- and exo-acting retaining glycosidases. In the last two decades a variety of probes and inhibitors for (hemi)cellulose degrading enzymes have…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.M. van Ruitenbeek, Prof.dr. R.M. Tromp

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

Spectroscopic studies on fluorescent single molecules in organic condensed matter does not only provide information about the molecule itself, but also its near environment. By suppression of phonon-induced broadening of spectral lines through cooling to low temperatures, small changes in the spectral…

Promotores: C.A.J. Knibbe; J.N. van den Anker, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen; B. van Ramshorst

Building a Deep Cross-media Transfer Network to extract visual relations that relieve the problem of insufficient training data for visual tasks.

To meet the rising demand for minerals driven by the global shift to clean energy technologies, ensuring responsible and resilient supply chains is critical. Minerals like cobalt, lithium, and nickel for batteries, neodymium and zinc for wind turbines, and indium for solar panels are essential.

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.J.A. Rottgering

Songbirds as vocal learners learn their songs and song preference from social tutors⁠. Tutor choice for both song and preference learning are important to characterize for understanding individual learning performance and cultural transmission of song⁠.

Including modelling as part of software development appears to have various benefits.

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

This thesis describes the synthesis, analysis of various tetrazine bearing compounds and use in bioorthogonal chemistry.

De Dominicaanse Republiek begint massadeportaties van Haïtianen. Wetenschapper Patricio Silva licht bij RTL Nieuws de achtergrond van deze uitzettingen toe.

This thesis describes the use of an activity-based proteomics method to study the endocannabinoid system.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Haring

In this thesis, I targeted the orchid genus Lepanthes, one of the six genera of angiosperms that surpasses 1,000 species in the Neotropics, as a study model to investigate the evolutionary processes that promoted species diversifications.

This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.

In deze publicatie verkennen Sarah Louise Carthy en Bart Schuurman de realiteit van het benaderen en interviewen van moeilijk bereikbare bevolkingsgroepen.

Europees samenwerkings- en trainingsproject om fakenews te identificeren, voorkomen en te bestrijden.

Kantorowicz en Voigt onderzoeken of federale systemen, met hun meerdere bestuursniveaus, leiden tot hogere constitutionele naleving.

Promotor: J.W.M. Frenken Co-Promotores: I.M.N. Groot; L.B.F. Juurlink

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Deze scriptie onderzoekt de complexiteit van wetsbesluiten binnen de EU, met een specifieke focus op de Raad van de EU.

Promotores: Prof.dr. H Lenstra, Prof.dr. A Facchini (Padova University)

De auteurs vergelijken aannames over het normatieve nut van de term 'milieuvluchteling' met empirische bewijs van die term anders dan 'milieumigrant'.

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The studies in this thesis are focused on the physical effects in the flat band materials. The results contain the discovery of strong enhancement of RKKY spin-spin interactions with specific geometric arrangement and dynamical generation of excitonic order parameter with high magnitude.

In unconventional high temperature superconductors, supercurrent vortices are known to spoil the Landau levels. In this thesis the emergence of Landau levels is studied in different types of superconductors: Weyl superconductors, and the Fu-Kane heterostructure.

The aim of this thesis was to develop aluminium salt-based nanoparticles that may ultimately be used as adjuvant in human vaccines.