1,043 search results for “defence” in the Staff website
-
Researcher develops Google for archaeologists
An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this manually. And that is a real chore. Archaeologist Alex Brandsen has now used deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to develop a search engine…
-
Status update in the evolutionary race between humans and resistant bacteria: two steps forward for us
A patent for what may be a potent, new antibiotic. And: a clear overview of promising approaches to overcome a crucial resistance tactic employed by bacteria. In the span of one week, two researchers from Leiden are receiving their PhDs, each of them on an important step in the battle against bacteria…
-
Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard'
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer in public spaces. Student Anne van der Linden made an online exhibition about this.
-
61st Leiden-London Meeting on the EU’s strategic autonomy
On Saturday 25 June, the Europa Institute of Leiden University hosted the 61st Leiden-London Meeting, an annual event organized jointly by the Europa Institute and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). This year’s meeting had “Interdependence, cooperation and strategic…
-
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.’
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…
-
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…
-
Subject-specific building blocks keep teaching interesting
Teachers have to find a balance between routine and renewal of their teaching repertoire. Eveline de Boer (PhD student at ICLON) investigated how didactic building blocks can help them with this. Defence on June 15.
-
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
-
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.
-
European Union as a Global Security Actor: Common Security and Defense Policy and its Challenges in the 2011 Libya Crisis and 2014 Ukraine Conflict
PhD defence
-
Re-inventing the Nineteenth-Century Tools of Unprescribed Modifications of Rhythm and Tempo in Performances of Brahms’s Symphonies and Concertos
PhD defence
-
Computational speedups and learnability in quantum machine learning
PhD defence
-
Chinese Assertiveness and the Rise of Xi Jinping
PhD defence
-
Unfolding the regulation of stress response pathways upon liver injury
PhD defence
-
Integrating palaeoproteomics into the zooarchaeological analysis of Palaeolithic bone assemblages
PhD defence
-
Jeu d'argile: céramique, identité culturelle, créolisation; Une étude archéo-anthropologique de la céramique des sociétés caribéennes multiculturelles
PhD defence
-
Achieving decent work in China
PhD defence
-
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Far: Observing Radio Bright AGN into the Cosmic Dawn
PhD defence
-
Orchid Mycorrhizal Interactions
PhD defence
-
Measuring Sustainability: An Elaboration and Application of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Indonesia
PhD defence
-
Dormancy in stochastic interacting systems
PhD defence
-
Contributions to the phylogeny of the haplolepideous mosses
PhD defence
-
Protection of Aviation Security Through the Establishment of Prohibited Airspace
PhD defence
-
The effects of birth environment of a star on its planetary system
PhD defence
-
Photoinduced Processes in Dye-Sensitized Photoanodes under the Spotlight
PhD defence
-
Anxiety in older adults: Prevalence and low-threshold psychological interventions
PhD defence
-
Informatiemakelaar en schietschijf
PhD defence
-
Discovery of selective diacylglycerol lipase β inhibitors
PhD defence
-
The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia)
PhD defence
-
Heteronormativity and Gender Norms
PhD defence
-
The Relevance of Impact: bibliometric-enhanced legal information retrieval
PhD defence
-
The Development and Socialization of Children's Ethnicity-Related Views in the Netherlands
PhD defence
-
The characteristics of galaxies with powerful radio jets
PhD defence
-
Taking Centre Stage: Understanding How EU Account-Holders Enact Their Accountability Roles
PhD defence
-
Galactic substructures as tracers of dark matter and stellar evolution
PhD defence
-
Interactions from Lipid Membrane Deformations
PhD defence
-
Frequentist properties of Bayesian procedures
PhD defence
-
Integrating cellular and tissue dynamics with cell fate decisions through computational modeling
PhD defence
-
Zorginkoopovereenkomst
PhD defence
-
Framing the Conquest
PhD defence
-
Between persistence and flexibility - The neuromodulation of cognitive control
PhD defence
-
Empirical Analysis of Social Insurance
PhD defence
-
Innovative (electro-driven) sample preparation tools for metabolomics study of muscle aging
PhD defence
-
The electrode-electrolyte interface in CO2 reduction and H2 evolution: a multiscale approach
PhD defence