2,072 search results for “pattern recognition” in the Public website
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Not only full professors: the entire examining committee can now wear academic dress
Permission was recently given for all members of the examining committee and co-supervisors at PhD ceremonies to wear academic dress, even if they’re not full professors. How historic is this change?
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Back to the source
Provenance and distribution of raw materials
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Landscapes of Survival
Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan’s Black Desert (200 BC to 800 AD)
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Staging Power: A Study of Narrative Patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
PhD defence
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Predicting dementia
In the future, physicians may be able to identify dementia much earlier than they can today because a computer algorithm will be able to predict from brain scans how our memory is going to develop.
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The role of auxin in somatic embryogenesis
What is the role of auxin in the initiation and process of somatic embryogenesis?
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Comparative ecology and genetics of sympatric wild cats in relation to human wildlife conflict in Bardia National Park, Nepal
What is the population size/structure and distribution of tiger and leopard inside the Bardia National Park (BNP) compared with the population outside? What is the movement and home range and conflict pattern in time and space of tigers and leopards inside the BNP compared with outside? What constitutes…
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Museums, Heritage and Material Culture
Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture
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Joost Batenburg about AI Leiden style: 3D images and ensuring AI belongs to everyone
Joost Batenburg is a mathematician and computer scientist who works to build bridges to other disciplines. He hopes to bring intelligent software to fields where it can make a difference. Conversely, he also seeks connections to the disciplines that are needed to make AI a success.
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Using smartphone behaviour to understand healthy ageing and neurological disease
Leiden University researchers and their collaborators report the development of new research frameworks that use day-to-day smartphone behavior gathered from a large sample of healthy people to help understand aging, and how aging alters with epilepsy and stroke. These reports occupy two back-to-back…
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Non-canonical gender systems
Grammatical gender is famously the most puzzling of the grammatical categories. We have a solid typology of gender systems, yet exciting and unexpected patterns keep turning up which defy easy classification and straightforward analysis. Some of these question, stretch or threaten to cross the outer…
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Cities of Roman Asia Minor
The main research objective is to map the cities of Roman Asia Minor in terms of location, size, urban amenities and juridical status, with the specific aim to understand the reasons how this urban settlement pattern arose.
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Hybrid zone dynamics in amphibians
Hybrid zones occur where two species meet and produce offspring (hybrids). Typically, hybrids show a considerable reduction in fitness. In this thesis two hybrid zones are treated.
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Nutrition
Radiation can be used to determine the isotope ratio of a skeleton. This provides information about where our ancestors lived and what they consumed. Dr Andrea Waters has developed a revolutionary method that can trace patterns of consumption from tens of thousands of years ago.
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Physiological responses to a social-evaluative situation
How is the development of physiological responses to social evaluation in adolescence affected by other normative developments, such as pubertal, socio-cognitive and psychosocial development? Are social anxiety and public speaking anxiety associated with characteristic patterns of stress responses…
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Latest articles
Browse the latest articles and issues of Inter-Section.
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IIAFSARS - Identification of irregular archaeological features in northern South America forest using remote sensing methods
Researchers using remote sensing technologies have characterized pre-Columbian regularly-shaped earthworks in forests in Central America and the Amazon. In tropical forested mountains in South America, two challenges arise when identifying archaeological sites through remote sensing. Firstly, sites…
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Jonathan Silk receives Guggenheim Fellowship
The Guggenheim Fellowship is a prestigious award for US nationals. There are more than 3,000 applications every year, and this year only 188 were honoured. Professor Jonathan Silk is one of these 188, the first ever at Leiden University, and he tells us more about the fellowship and what he will do…
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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from patient experience repositories
This project develops a scientific method to extract clinically relevant new information from patient forum websites that discuss patient experiences concerning e.g. medication, nutrition, co-morbidities, genetic factors etc.
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Grave Reminders
Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory
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Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace
Jelena Vićić and Richard Harknett offer an analytical construct to better understand the mechanism by which cyber-enabled influence operations work
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Data Science
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Structure-reactivity relationships in glycosylation chemistry
In a typical glycosylation reaction, a donor is activated to form a (variety of) electrophilic species which can react with a nucleophilic acceptor, following a reaction mechanism having both SN1 and SN2 character.
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Real-time foresight: preparedness for dynamic innovation networks
Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer
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EU H2020 RISE Social Media Analytics
LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).
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Eigen haard is goud waard?
On 16 January 2020, Maaike Wensveen defended her thesis 'Eigen haard is goud waard?'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. P. Nieuwbeerta and Dr. J.M.H. Palmen.
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Clock disruption in diurnal versus nocturnal migrating fish
Does Artifical Light at Night (ALAN) disrupt seasonal physiological and behavioral patterns in migrating freshwater fish?
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The Acquisition of English Vowels by Javanese and Sundanese Native Speakers
On February 19th, Arum Perwitasari succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Arum on this great result.
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25 Years of Lethal Violence
How many men and women die per year at the hands of others? What are the motives behind these killings? Are there as many homicides today as years ago? How can we explain the rise and fall of homicides over time? And: What is the influence of (early) childhood and adolescence on the likelihood to commit…
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Bargaining in intrastate conflicts: The shifting role of ceasefires
It is widely known that conflict parties engage in ceasefires for a variety of reasons, but how do these reasons relate to the military and political aspirations of conflict party leaders?
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Tone in Saxwe
On the 6th of November, Virginia Beavon Ham successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Virginia on this achievement.
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Quantitative biology of polar auxin transport and plant development
The availability of complete plant genome sequences together with the ever increasing amount of data on the molecular, cellular and physiological mechanisms of plant development require mathematical and computational models to obtain a complete overview of and generate new insights into the quantitative…
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All living creatures have to cope with environmental demands and threats that challenge their physical or emotional homeostasis.
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Verbal art of the Fon (Benin)
This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.
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The 3Generation study: Stress and Emotions in a Family Context
What is the role of neuronal emotional reactivity in the intergenerational transmission of abuse?
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The Early and Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Greece
Current status and future prospects
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Enclosing Executive Secrecy, Arguments & Practices in the German Bundestag
Parliaments in democratic systems serve as the people’s representatives, legislators and overseers of the executive. They have the power to define the framework in which the executive can act and must report about its action. For parliaments to fulfil their roles, though, they depend on access to information.…
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Distance-based analysis of dynamical systems and time series by optimal transport
Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel
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Non-target effects of GM potato: an eco-metabolomics approach
Promotors: Prof.dr. P.G.L. Klinkhamer, Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield
- Institute of Urban Environment
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The Miliuseae revisited: phylogenetic, taxonomic, and palynological studies in a major clade of Annonaceae
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets
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Governance and Global Affairs
The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Persatuan pemuda muslim se-eropa: identity,encouragement for giving, and network,1971-2009
Mr. Sujadi defended his thesis on 29 June 2017
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The Complete Archaeology of Greece
This book covers the story of Greece and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era (400,000 BP) to the early modern period (1950 AD).
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Human Mobility in Archaeology
This third issue of Ex Novo gathers multidisciplinary contributions addressing mobility to understand patterns of change and continuity in past worlds; reconsider the movement of people, objects, and ideas alongside mobile epistemologies, such as intellectual, scholarly or educative traditions, rituals,…
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Spatio-temporal dimensions of human-carnivore interactions in Chitwan National Park, Nepal
This is a joint PhD of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Leiden University and the Evolutionary Ecology Group at Antwerp University.
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The social brain in adolescence
What is the neural basis of social decision-making across childhood, adolescence and adulthood and what are the developmental patterns in terms of behavior and brain activation?
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National Culture and Africa Revisited: Ethnolinguistic Group Data From 35 African Countries
This study seeks to partially fill the knowledge gap about national culture in Africa, basing its research on data on ethnolinguistic groups (instead of administrative regions).
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Crime and Migration in an Age of Transformation
The nineteenth century truly was an age of transformation. Throughout Europe processes of industrialization and urbanization, nationalization and centralization, changed the structures of society. It was an age in which the number of people living in urban communities grew substantially.