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Developing drugs with artificial intelligence
Developing new drugs is a difficult process. With the aid of artificial intelligence, Pharmaceutical scientist Xuhan Liu has developed methods that can help make drug design cheaper and faster. PhD defence on 15 February.
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Improving the prospects of at-risk youth
How can mentors and social workers foster the vocational identity of at-risk youth and improve their prospects? This is the subject of Rineke Keijzer-Groot's thesis. She is a dual PhD candidate at ICLON and Dual PhD Centre. Defence on 18 November.
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Lingling Weng aims to improve clinical practice with placebo and nocebo effects
The placebo effect was completely new to her when Lingling Weng began the PhD project in Leiden. She is now a postdoc in China. 'It would be great to investigate the underlying mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects with my current knowledge of EEG and fMRI.' PhD defence on 17 October.
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize
Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children, Bosma previously won the Klokhuis Science Prize and the Campus Fryslân Science Prize.
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Fighting for power in Mali: 'Land resources are crucial'
In the Malian Dogon region, various militias have been fighting for power since 2015. Land resources play a major role in this, doctoral student Ibrahima Poudiougou discovered. 'Power in the area is intrinsically linked to control over land and its resources.’
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Question fire for ambassadors Germany and France during debate
Europe lives! This became clear last Friday when students debated with the French ambassador to the Netherlands, H.E. Luis Vassy, and his German colleague, H.E. Dirk Brengelmann, on a range of topics relating to Franco-German relations and the European Union.
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Wopke Hoekstra in gesprek met studenten over de NAVO-top
Wopke Hoekstra, outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Campus The Hague on 6 July to talk to students about the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius.
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How do we listen? 'There is no such thing as a natural disposition'
How is our perception of sound informed by the way we participate in the world? That is the question PhD candidate Gabriel Paiuk has been pondering in recent years. 'The way we experience sound is informed by material, technical and collective conditions that influence our interaction with the envir…
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A quick call on the war in Ukraine: 'Putin has made a diplomatic end almost impossible'
The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase with the announcement of a partial Russian military mobilisation and the intention to annex four Ukrainian regions. Why is Putin making these decisions just now and what consequences will they have for the course of the war? We talk to professor and Russia…
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Child Friendly Justice European Network and Leiden's Child Law department signs MOU
Memorandum of Understanding Signed Between the Child Friendly Justice European Network and Leiden Law School - Child Law Department
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Prison reward systems do not work well and prisoners are the ones who pay
Ten years ago, a new reward system was introduced in Dutch prisons: the only way prisoners could earn extra ‘freedoms’ was through good behaviour. Jan Maarten Elbers concludes that this system does little to encourage behavioural change and can even be counterproductive.
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European Union as a Global Security Actor: Common Security and Defense Policy and its Challenges in the 2011 Libya Crisis and 2014 Ukraine Conflict
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Re-inventing the Nineteenth-Century Tools of Unprescribed Modifications of Rhythm and Tempo in Performances of Brahms’s Symphonies and Concertos
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Binge- eating disorder in the Arabic world and the Netherlands
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Optimization of quantum algorithms for near-term quantum computers
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Affinity-Based Profiling of the Adenosine Receptors
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Exploring chemical space in covalent and competitive glycosidase inhibitor design
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Emotions through the eyes of our closest living relatives
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Single-molecule microscopy in zebrafish embryos
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Staging Power: A Study of Narrative Patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
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Plant-soil interactions determine ecosystem aboveground and belowground processes in primary dune ecosystems
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Species Literacy: The perception and cultural portrayal of animals
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A Tale of One City
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Superlattices in van der Waals materials A Low-Energy Electron Microscopy study
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Harnessing zebrafish xenograft models for ocular melanoma treatment discovery
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Universidades Privadas Independientes en Chile
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Proof techniques in the quantum random-oracle model
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
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Medievalisms on the 19th-century English Stage
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Development of nanoparticulate adjuvants based on aluminium salts
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Large Scale Structure and Gravitational Waves as probes of gravity
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Tinder for orang-utans: comparing sexually selective cognition among Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus) and humans (Homo sapiens)
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Safe Anytime-Valid Inference: from Theory to Implementation in Psychiatry Research
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Social Communication in Young Children with Sex Chromosome Trisomy
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Parents, Teachers, and Media: Agents of Biased Socialization
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Benchmarking Discrete Optimization Heuristics
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Return to sender: A multi-method study of guardianship against transnational sexual exploitation of children
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Philo of Alexandria on Divine Forgiveness
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Lessons from Europe for the study of international central bank cooperation
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Innovative sample preparation and handling strategies for automated and high-throughput metabolomics
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Self-Assembly of Flexible and Rigid Structures
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Overcoming Ruptures: Zande identity, governance and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda
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Molecular inheritance from cloud to disk
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Resistance against the Achaemenid Empire: The Egyptian Rebellions of 521 and 487/86 BC
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The power of one qubit in quantum simulation algorithms
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Mediating from Within
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We Navel-String Bury Here
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Settling in
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Identification and characterization of viral Xrn1-resistant RNAs
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Neutral Outflows in High-Redshift Dusty Galaxies
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