1,711 search results for “universe awareness under” in the Public website
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George Miley
Science
miley@strw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5849
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Odile Hoogzaad
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
o.t.c.hoogzaad@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2035
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Marijke van Kester
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
m.j.j.van.kester@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3626
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Mariëtte Keuken
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
m.w.keuken@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2035
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Heritage under Threat (HuT)
global challenges and possibilities
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A renewed awareness: Reinvigorating preparedness research for crisis and disastermanagement
In this article Jeroen Wolbers and Sanneke Kuipers take a closer look at disaster preparedness to reinvigorate the academic debate.
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Anita Keizers
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
a.g.m.keizers@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2035
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Universe Awareness celebrates tenth anniversary
Universe Awareness (UNAWE), an international programme that inspires children from the age of four to twelve with our wonderful cosmos, exists ten years.
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Tax Professionals Under Societal Pressure
On 22 February, Elody Hutten defended the thesis 'Tax Professionals Under Societal Pressure: A Dutch Case Study on Responses to BEPS'. The doctoral research was supervised by Henk Vording en Jan Vleggeert.
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Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism
In 2019, Aliaksandr Lukashenka marks a quarter of a century as the first, and so far only president of the Republic of Belarus. This new book by Dr. Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, offers the most up-to-date analysis of government and politics in a country usually…
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Dynamic Capacity Investment under Competition
What is the optimal investment policy according to which a firm adapts its capacity in a competitive market?
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Sweeping vacuum gravitational waves under the rug
PhD defence
- Brought under the law of the land
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Writing Novels under the New Order
On the 31 March 2022 Mr. Taufiq Hanafi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Blarel, Mischief under the Nuclear Umbrella
Political scientist Nicolas Blarel (Leiden University) analsyses how non-state actors can (directly or directly) attempt to provoke conditions for a crisis between state actors that have nuclear capabilities. He argues that there is an urgent but complicated and understudied task to understand and manage…
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Universe Awareness one of the most innovative programmes in education
Educational programme Universe Awareness (UNAWE) is one of HundrED's 100 Global Inspiring Innovations in Education. This was announced on 4 October 2017 at the HundrED Innovation Summit.
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
w.otterspeer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7242
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Universe Awareness presents home-made laser show in Botswana
How do you offer high-quality and interesting education with simple means? Universe Awareness of Leiden University spoke about this during the annual science festival in Botswana. With among others a laser experiment compiled of household materials, they showed the possibilities to interest young people…
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Putting dental calculus under the microscope
Doctoral Thesis
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activity: The impact and changeability of stressful cognition without awareness
The research question is that unconscious perseverative cognition (UPC) is responsible for a considerable part of cardiovascular (CV) activity that occurs even in the absence of threats and other stressors that one may encounter in one’s daily life.
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Universe Awareness finalist van de WISE Awards 2015
Universe Awareness is one of fifteen projects chosen by WISE for providing compelling and innovative solutions to today’s most pressing challenges in education.
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Chiral Pyrroline-Based Ugi-Three-Component Reactions Are under Kinetic Control
Although it is often assumed that the stereochemistry in Ugi multicomponent reactions is determined in the final Mumm rearrangement step, experimental and computational evidence that Ugi reactions on hydroxylated pyrrolines proceed under kinetic control is reported.
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Educational practices in promoting awareness of the indigenous heritage in Caribbean countries
The main research question of this PhD project focus on how educational policies and practices can contribute to the promotion and understanding of archaeological indigenous heritage among teachers and students in the Caribbean?
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Le roi sublime. Overwhelming Politics and Performance under Louis XIV
This project will clarify how these concepts operated in theoretical writings on performance ,this broadened conceptual framework will not only give us a clear view on how sublime effects in performance were theorized, it will also provide us a concrete apparatus to understand the cultural and political…
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Space Awareness launches free online course
On 5 September 2016 Space Awareness launched their first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on teaching with space and astronomy in the classroom.
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The EU under Strain? Current Crises Shaping European Union Politics
When EU member states signed the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, they did not anticipate the manifold crises in store for them over the following years. Instead of the intended consolidation of a Union which had just gone through its most profound modernisation and biggest round of enlargements, the EU has…
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Patrick Gouw
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
p.gouw@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7749
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Refugee children explore cosmos with Universe Awareness
In September 2016, the educational programme Universe Awareness (UNAWE) implemented a series of educational activities at Basisschool De Verrekijker, a primary school for refugee children in Katwijk, the Netherlands.
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Universe Awareness’ Universe in a Box wins Best Science Education Resource Award
Universe in a Box has been recognised for its educational value by Scientix — the European Network of Science Education. Universe in a Box is the low-cost, inquiry-based astronomy education resource of Universe Awareness (UNAWE). On Friday 22nd May this resource was awarded the Scientix Resources Award…
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Swimming Bass under Pounding Bass: fish response to sound exposure
Promotor: C.J. ten Cate, Co-promotor: H.W. Slabbekoorn
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Optimal decision-making under constraints and uncertainty
We present an extensive study of methods for exactly solving stochastic constraint (optimisation) problems (SCPs) in network analysis. These problems are prevalent in science, governance and industry.
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Japan’s local governments and governance under population decline
In this chapter, Kohei Suzuki aims to provide a brief overview of Japan’s local government system.
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Under Construction. Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Extended Lexical Units
This dissertation investigates Extended Lexical Units (ELUs), elements that are bigger than just one word and which are stored in the Lexicon.
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Straightjacket: Same-Sex Orientation under Chinese Family Law
‘Visibility and secrecy are both valuable tactics and should not be antagonized in LGBT movements, ’ says Jingshu Zhu. Zhu defended her dissertation on Wednesday 21 February.
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Michiel Hooykaas
Science
m.j.d.hooykaas@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Writing under Wartime Conditions: North and South Korean Writers during the Korean War (1950-1953)
Writing under Wartime Conditions is a study into North and South Korean literature written during the Korean War.
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United in incoherence – Private law concepts under pressure from European financial law
Just published: United in incoherence – Private law concepts under pressure from European financial law (in Dutch), in: Tijdschift voor privaatrecht 2017-4
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New publication on dispute settlement by Christa Tobler under EU Association regimes
The EEA enforcement system includes, in particular, the mechanism pursuant to Article 111 EEA for the settlement of disputes between the Member States with respect to the interpretation and the application of EEA law.
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Plasmonic enhancement of single-molecule fluorescence under one- and two-photon excitation
This thesis aims to improve the detection from ultra-weak single emitter by enhancing their emission properties with plasmonic nanostructures. We exploit the wet-chemically synthesized single crystalline gold nanorods (GNRs) as our basic frameworks in the whole studies, simply because of their unique…
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Fate, accumulation and ecotoxicity of copper nanoparticles under environmentally relevant conditions
Fate and toxicity of copper nanoparticles was related to the water chemistry of the environment and pristine size.
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Political Legitimacy under Debate: Democracy and Authority in the Netherlands in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s
Debates on political legitimacy in Dutch parliament in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s
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Political Networks and Social Movements: Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016
Book by Soledad Valdivia Rivera
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Restraint under conditions of uncertainty: Why the United States tolerates cyberattacks
This new article by Monica Kaminska is part of a special issue for Journal of Cybersecurity, based on a selection of contributions from THe Hague Program for Cyber Norms' 2019 Conference.
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Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece. Under the Spell of Stories
Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies.
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Structural characterization of the cell envelope of Actinobacteria under changing environments
Bacteria have the ability to alter their morphology in order to adapt to changing environments.
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Photoinduced processes in dye-sensitized photoanodes under the spotlight: a multiscale in silico investigation
With increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and their detrimental effect on the global climate, modern society needs to push for more renewable energy sources. Storing widely accessible and abundant solar energy in chemical bonds in the form of molecular fuel via artificial photosynthesis…
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Pieter Slaman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
p.j.slaman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2789
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Guiding safe and sustainable technological innovation under uncertainty: a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaics
A framework for prospective/ex-ante life cycle assessment (LCA) and ecological risk assessment (ERA) of emerging technologies is developed and applied to a case study of III-V/silicon photovoltaic panels.
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The conduct of hostilities under international humanitarian law - challenges of 21st century warfare
The central question is whether the current regime of international humanitarian law governing the conduct of hostilities in armed conflict is still adequate to deal with modern conflict scenarios, or whether it needs revision or amendment.
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Universe Awareness on Euronews: Raising young peoples’ eyes to the stars
Space, stars, and galaxies. The wonders of the universe can be captivating and studying them is helping us unravel their mysteries. This edition of 'Learning World' looks at some projects that are offering classroom experiences that are truly out of this world.