There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

A complex community of microbes develops in the infant gut shortly after birth. We call this community the infant gut microbiota. The microbiota influences the health of the infant, which makes the composition and function of the infant gut microbiota an important topic to study.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. Bouwman, Co-promotor: S. Bonnet

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen (Università degli studi di Milano), Co-Supervisor: Ronald M. van Luijk

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

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. B.R. Katzy

In this thesis we study the landscape of gravitational models which modify GR by introducing an additional scalar degree of freedom (d.o.f.) to source Cosmic Acceleration.

Supervisor: S.F. Portegies Zwart Co-Supervisor: A.G.A. Brown

Trigonostemon Blume is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 59 species.

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. T. Hankemeier, Prof.dr. J.C.T. Eijkel (Twente University)

This thesis presents pioneering work on the panchromatic emission of some of the most luminous galaxies in the early Universe: star forming galaxies and active galactic nuclei.

Op 3 december 2019 verdedigde Meda Couzens haar proefschrift 'The application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by national courts'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. T. Liefaard en prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen.

Op 27 juni 2019 verdedigde Barry Bussey zijn proefschrift 'The Legal Revolution Against the Accommodation of Religion: The Secular Age v. The Sexular Age'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. dr. P.B. Cliteur.

Op 17 november 2021 verdedigde Cyril-Igor Grigorieff het proefschrift 'The Regime for International Air Carrier Liability'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.dr. P. Mendes de Leon en prof.dr. V. Correia (University Paris Saclay).

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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.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Uniting an international consortium of scholars, the Skandapurāṇa Project comprises a team of researchers working in fields across the Humanities. We are creating a critical edition of a foundational work of purāṇic literature and, in doing so, tracing the dynamics of a textual tradition to better understand…

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

Promotoren: R. Tijdeman, A.K. Lenstra, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

In this research I assess the impact of the recently discovered gas reserves south off Cyprus on the escalation of the Cyprus conflict.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Schilthuizen

Op 19 december 2019 verdedigde Reza Eftekhar zijn proefschrift 'The Role of the Domestic Law of the Host State in Determining the ratione materiae Jurisdiction of Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. E.…

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.

Op 11 mei 2016 ontving het Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law Robert Pickel voor de elfde Hazelhoff Guest Lecture, getiteld ‘The Deadliest Sin of the Financial Crisis’.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

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Dit boek onderzoekt de impact van het VN-Verdrag inzake de Rechten van het Kind (IVRK) op nationale en internationale rechtspraak, sinds de aanname van dit verdrag in 1989. Het boek verschaft inzicht in de functies, uitdagingen en beperkingen van het IVRK in nationale, regionale en internationale juridische…

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets

Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo en Dr. R. Heijungs

Op de eerste dag van jouw nieuwe baan heb je zweethanden, ben je nerveus en onzeker, maar een paar maanden later zijn die gevoelens al weer verdwenen. Je hebt jouw nieuw rol eigen gemaakt en je bent nu onderdeel van de organisatie. Het proces dat daar naar toe leidt heet

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

In this thesis, a system pharmacology approach, integrating metabolomics, pharmacology and chemical biology, was applied to understand and modulate the endocannabinoid system across different model systems (cells, zebrafish, mice and humans).

Promotor: H.W. Lenstra

Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe. Its properties cannot be explained with the known laws of physics and elementary particles.

Dit artikel onderzoekt de clusters van crisiscommunicatieonderzoek in de literatuur, waarbij overlappingen en raakvlakken tussen verschillende vakgebieden worden onderzocht.

Pectin is a plant cell wall polysaccharide made of mainly D-galacturonic acid (GA) subunits. The potency of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger to naturally secrete high amounts of pectinases to degrade pectin has been utilized for the industrial production of pectinases.

The adenosine receptors are proteins that reside in the extracellular membranes of cells. Activation of adenosine receptors plays a role in many physiological and pathological processes, such as immune responses and cancers.

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.