Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. E. Deprettere

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

The different kinds of cultural perspectives on health and disease of the participants are related to their knowledge, beliefs, values and practices manifested in various forms of lifestyle in Indonesia. The cultural diversity of the population is also related to differences in health behaviour.

Het mededingingsrecht zorgt ervoor dat bedrijven op een eerlijke wijze concurreren. De Nederlandse Autoriteit Consument & Markt (ACM) handhaaft het mededingingsrecht in Nederland en kan bedrijven die oneerlijk concurreren bestraffende en herstellende maatregelen opleggen. Deze bedrijven hebben, wanneer…

Following the Big Bang, structure in the Universe started collapsing under the force of gravity. This resulted in the formation of the first stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

The redox-conversion reaction of metal-disulfide and metal-thiolate complexes are important, as they may shed light on electron-transfer reactions that often occur in Nature.

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer, Co-promotor: D. Clarke

SDN (Software-Defined Networking) represents a revolutionary approach to network architecture that enables the dynamic and flexible management of network resources through software-based control. This dissertation introduces the idea of SDN and its southbound protocol OpenFlow, then presents the formal…

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

The lipids in the uppermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum (SC), play an important role in the skin barrier function. The three main SC lipid classes are ceramides (CER), cholesterol and free fatty acids.

Promotor: A.P. IJzerman

Human language is constantly evolving with its linguistic structure being shaped by language users at both individual and population levels. Focusing on the interplay between processes of language acquisition and communicative need in shaping human languages, this thesis introduces a novel computational…

We found that, next to the effectiveness of the intervention, it’s also very likely that the intervention is cost-effective compared to attention only.

Fungal food spoilage often starts with a contamination with spores. Experimental data strongly indicate the existence of subpopulations of spores with different levels of resistance to preservation methods.

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

Tuberculosis is a major global health problem caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, claiming more than a million lives annually.

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-promotors: A.I. Yanson, L.B.F. Juurlink

Promotor: E. F. van Dishoeck, Co-promotor: C. Walsh

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

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

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

International trade has played a major role in defining the modern global economy. Trade, however, entangles the environmental pressures of economic sectors, giving the illusion of environmental improvements, while the opposite may be occurring.

Ben Wielstra onderzoekt balanced lethal systems, waarin de helft van het nageslacht al voor de geboorte sterft. In vakblad Current Biology legt hij op toegankelijke wijze uit hoe zoiets nadeligs kan ontstaan in de natuur.

De auteurs zoeken en beoordelen systematisch relevante definities van Security by Design (SbD) in vergelijking met Privacy by Design (PbD).

Dit proefschrift omvat vier deelstudies naar de inhoud en structuur van de opvattingssystemen van natuurkundedocenten over het leren en onderwijzen van natuurkunde in het voortgezet onderwijs (VO) in Nederland.

Technologies that help to enhance our educational environments can be found everywhere.

NWO heeft een subsidie toegekend voor nieuw onderzoek naar Complex en Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Todor Stefanov Associate Professor aan het Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), en Andy Pimentel, Associate Professor aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam ontvingen in totaal…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.S. Overkleeft

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the cancers with the highest mortality rate, despite a relatively low incidence.

Single-molecule spectroscopy has become a powerful method for using organic fluorescent molecules in numerous applications.

Promotor: A.H. Meijer, Co-promotor: B.E. Snaar-Jagalska

Diverse types of exoplanets such as gas giants on close-in orbits (hot Jupiters) and young massive giants on wide orbits (super Jupiters), with no analogs in the Solar System, pose challenges but also opportunities to our understanding of planet formation and evolution.

In summary, the collective results described in this thesis show that nanoparticulate vaccines can be delivered intradermally by coated and hollow microneedles and evoke antigen-specific immune responses.

Het Mathematisch Instituut is verantwoordelijk voor het onderzoek en onderwijs in de wiskunde en de statistiek aan de Universiteit Leiden.

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

Op 15 en 16 december nam Simona Demková deel aan een afsluitende conferentie en boekpresentatie van het doctorale opleidingsprogramma van de Universiteit van Luxemburg over ‘Enforcement Challenges in Multilevel Regulatory Systems – DTU REMS.

This thesis describes the implementation and on-sky demonstration of high-resolution integral-field spectroscopy for extreme adaptive optics systems that are used to find and characterize exoplanets.

Een lijst met wetenschappelijke publicaties samengesteld door het team van het TRIXY Expertisecentrum.

Promotor: R.D. Gill, F. Taroni

Research

Microglia support the central and peripheral nervous system by forming the first line of defense against hazardous events. Microglia are increasingly acknowledged as critical players in neurodegenerative diseases, highlighting them as potential therapeutic targets.

Een goede taalontwikkeling is van belang voor de cognitieve en sociale ontwikkeling, om te kunnen communiceren en om te kunnen leren. Als de taalontwikkeling niet verloopt zoals verwacht, kan dit allerlei consequenties hebben. Kinderen met een extra X of Y chromosoom hebben een verhoogd risico op problemen…

One of the key discoveries in exoplanet research over the past decade is the abundance of small planets in our Milky Way. Despite their high numbers, our understanding of their atmospheres remains limited, and it is unknown if they possess atmospheres at all.

Leren fietsen zonder handremmen, sorry zeggen als je te laat komt op college en die vreemde Nederlandse klanken doorgronden. De nieuwe internationale studenten krijgen in hun introductieweek een snelle inburgeringscursus in de Nederlandse cultuur.

This thesis aims to improve the detection from ultra-weak single emitter by enhancing their emission properties with plasmonic nanostructures. We exploit the wet-chemically synthesized single crystalline gold nanorods (GNRs) as our basic frameworks in the whole studies, simply because of their unique…

In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

Het belangrijkste doel van dit onderzoek is om de steden van het Romeinse Nabije Oosten in de keizertijd in kaart te brengen, met een focus op locatie, stadsgrootte en stedelijke kenmerken, om de vorm van het stedelijke systeem en de niveaus van integratie te bestuderen.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F. van Lunteren, Prof.dr. F.S. Gaastra