How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

Promotor: H.P. Spaink, A.H. Meijer Co-promotor: R. Marin-Juez

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

This thesis studied in depth the energy use and CO2 emissions of the industrial sector in China.

The endocannabinoid receptors CB1R and CB2R are involved in a plethora of processes, and consequently are involved in many pathological conditions. Their wide distribution makes the CBRs both an interesting therapeutic target and hard to study.

Assessing the risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) solely on the basis of experimental assays is time-consuming, resource intensive, and constrained by ethical considerations (such as the principles of the 3Rs of animal testing). The adoption of computational toxicology in this field is a high p…

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

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

This thesis describes the development and validation of new high-contrast imaging techniques, with the ultimate goal of enabling the next generation of instruments for ELT-class telescopes to directly image Earth-like extra-solar planets orbiting around nearby stars.

Op 11 juni 2020 verdedigde Sabine Witting haar proefschrift 'Child Sexual Abuse in the Digital Era: Rethinking Legal Frameworks and Transnational Law Enforcement Collaboration'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.mr. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen en prof.dr.mr. S. van der Hof.

Even though more than 4000 extra-solar planets are known today, only a small fraction of these has been captured in an image. To better understand the planet formation mechanisms in solar-like environments we started the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES).

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

A difficulty of studies on chemical kinetics are the reaction time scales and detection of their intermediates.

The ongoing increase in antimicrobial resistance combined with the low discovery of novel antibiotics is a serious threat to our health care.

In this Ph.D. thesis, we characterized two novel upstream regulators of JUB1, HB40, and HB22, in Arabidopsis thaliana. In Chapter 2, we described functions of HB40 in modulating growth and development via the regulation of JUB1 and GA inactivation genes GA2OXs.

The Summer School History of the Book, organized by the Allard Pierson Museum, introduces a new course in English: Introduction to the Archaeology of the Book, taught by Prof. Malcolm Walsby (2-6 September 2024).

How to make a quantitative assessment of the relative contribution to toxicity of ions and particles? Is the toxicity of nanoparticles related to their size or shape? Which physicochemical property of nanoparticles is an appropriate dose metric of nanoparticles?

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Van 21 augustus tot en met 8 september zijn de workshops en cursus van de jaarlijkse Summer School on the History of the Book van het Allard Pierson en de vakgroep Boekwetenschap. Drie weken lang is er elke werkdag een cursus, workshop of lezing over thema’s die te maken hebben met de geschiedenis van…

Does the presence of Ring-necked parakeets negatively influence feeding and feeding behaviour of native bird species on artificial bird feeders and if so, what are possible solutions?

LUC is the first to confer the diploma of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, the new Faculty name since January 2016 making this graduation an extra special occasion.

This thesis focusses on the temperature structure in protoplanetary disks. The relation between structures seen in the dust and gas-phase molecules is investigated.

Sound is everywhere in the marine environment and hearing is therefore a very important for stimuli for fish. They use sound for orientation and communication, during migration, aggregation and spawning, but also for detection of prey and predators.

The 7th European Congress of Medieval Studies of the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales (FIDEM) will be organized by the Department of Arts, Media, and Philosophy of the University of Basel, Switzerland. There is a number of slots for papers (20 minutes) and special sessions…

Suzan Verberne is nominated by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) to be granted the C.J. Kok Public Award, also known as the award for the ‘Discoverer of the Year’.

Scott Waitukaitus is namens LION genomineerd als Discoverer of the Year 2017. Breng snel je stem uit!

Het boek 'The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child' is het resultaat van internationale wetenschappelijke congres - '25 Years CRC' – dat plaatsvond in november 2014 in Leiden ter gelegenheid van de 25e verjaardag van het VN-Kinderrechtenverdrag.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

Stem voor de Ontdekker van het jaar 2017! Wie van deze onderzoekers verdient volgens jou een prijs voor zijn of haar werk? Vanaf nu kan je stemmen!

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.

De Race of the Classics is het grootste studentenzeilevenement van Europa. Dit jaar werd de race van 4 t/m 10 april gevaren, met achttien schepen. Daan Kok, tweedejaars Fiscaal recht voer mee in team Leiden op de Tecla, een logger uit 2015. En legt uit hoe het Reesgevoel ontstaat.

Donderdag 16 april jl. verwelkomde Campus Den Haag een belangrijke gast. De Italiaanse Federica Mogherini, Hoge Vertegenwoordiger van de Europese Commissie op het gebied van Buitenlandse Zaken en Veiligheidsbeleid bezocht Den Haag.

As Leiden Law students, we are now in the digital age, 'where we believe law and technology should go together.' After all, for us, it is important to look beyond trodden paths of established legal knowledge. The books on law and case law surely will not be sufficient for the lawyer of the future. That…

The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…

On June 26-28, 2024, the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology will take place. The theme this year is "The End: Finiteness, Death and Completion in Medieval Theology". Deadline for paper proposals: 20 December 2023.

Wil jij helpen van de wereld een mooiere plek te maken? En wil je in contact komen met de jonge wereldleider van vandaag en morgen? Meld je dan aan voor de One Young World Summit in Den Haag! De Universiteit Leiden sponsort twee studenten om met deze top mee te doen. Lees hieronder hoe je meedoet.

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Op 20 november, ter gelegenheid van de Universele Dag van het Kind, hebben de Raad van Europa en het EU Bureau voor Grondrechten (FRA) het Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child gelanceerd.

Trui Steen, universitair hoofddocent bij het Instituut Bestuurskunde, heeft donderdag 27 november 2014 de NIG Supervisor of the Year Award 2014 gewonnen.

In de categorie bestuursrecht is Paul Adriaanse, samen met acht andere kandidaten, genomineerd voor de landelijke verkiezing van de Magna Charta Lawyer of the year. Het publiek kiest wie de advocaat van het jaar gaat worden.

De redactie van Biophysical Journal heeft een publicatie van Daniela Kraft uitgeroepen tot Paper of the Year 2017. De prijs wordt uitgereikt ter erkenning van buitengewone bijdragen van jonge onderzoekers.

Op dinsdag 11 februari 2020 verdedigde Clara van Dam haar proefschrift ‘Guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order’.

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’.

Do e-waste workers display enhanced effects of adverse health effects due to informal e-waste processing in Nigeria? Is there a difference between the health outcomes of the exposed and the control groups? Are there difference in health effects within and between job groups (collectors, dismantlers,…

The thesis describes the use of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, in continuous wave and pulse modes, to address the interaction of α-Synuclein (αS) with membranes and the aggregation of αS.

Graag nodigen wij u uit om abstracts in te dienen voor het congres rondom het thema ‘H2OLAW - Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law’. Het congres wordt georganiseerd door het Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies van de Universiteit Leiden en vindt plaats op 26…

Dr. Moritz Jesse, universitair hoofddocent Europees Recht bij het Europa Instituut Leiden, heeft de leden en het publiek van het panel