998 search results for “disease prevention” in the Staff website
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How does the government spend taxpayers’ money fairly?
Public procurement is not a hot topic for the average citizen. That’s a pity, says PhD candidate Erik Plas, who did research on the fair spending of public money: 'If a council project goes completely haywire, because it costs more than expected, it could even mean that local taxes will have to be r…
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Medical Delta professor: ‘You can talk about collaboration until the cows come home but at some point, you actually have to start doing it’
Patients and healthcare providers use Remote Patient Management platforms to exchange information with each other. New methods like this are desperately needed to future-proof our healthcare systems. Professor Maaike Kleinsmann is working to scale up these systems and implement them nationwide.
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‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
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Volgens hoogleraar Sarah Wolff zijn EU-migratiedeals een slechte oplossing voor een niet bestaand probleem
Nu in heel Europa rechtse partijen hoog scoren in de peilingen is de verwachting dat de discussie omtrent migratie flink opgeschud gaat worden. Desondanks maant hoogleraar Sarah Wolff tot kalmte.
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‘A culture of dignity and respect takes constant work and attention’
As staff, we can help every day to create a culture of dignity and respect, says HR specialist Bregje Speet. ‘It boils down to the question of how to treat each other normally. And what we consider normal to be.’
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Can extreme antisocial behaviour be traced back to the brain?
The brain structure of young people with conduct disorder differs significantly from that of their typically developing peers. This is the conclusion of an international study that analysed more than two thousand MRI scans, recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Dr Moji Aghajani, one of the principal…
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Reading list - our favourite books this summer
Did you also read a lot this summer? We made some real headway on our bookshelves. After all, nothing beats reading a beautiful or thrilling book outside. In this reading list, you'll find our favourite books for the summer of 2022. If you have any suggestions, let us know via Twitter, Facebook or I…
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Work balance: 5 tips from education coaches
Work balance is an important issue within the Faculty of Humanities. Education coaches Astrid Van Weyenberg and Maarten van Leeuwen also deal with this regularly during their coaching sessions with lecturers. They have listed their most important tips.
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SSH labs: a place to be inspired by your colleagues
The new SSH labs will offer great opportunities for FSW and FGW staff engaged in experimental research. The labs will be a place of inspiration, not only because of the state-of-the-art equipment, but also as a result of the increased interaction with colleagues in other disciplines.
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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’
How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff tried to answer at the Staff Symposium on Student Well-being.
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IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now
Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports released this week, the panel calls on governments worldwide to develop coherent policies that address biodiversity, climate change, water, food and health.…
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Last starlight for space telescope Gaia
ESA’s space telescope Gaia, which maps the Milky Way, completes its active phase of scanning the sky on 15 January. Over the past decade, Gaia has made more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other cosmic objects. ‘Gaia is already the discovery machine of the decade,’ Leiden…
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As a parent, you have a big influence on your child’s anxiety (though there’s no need to worry about it)
How do parents communicate anxiety to their child via body language and words? Psychologist Cosima Nimphy studied this question for her PhD research. Experiments show that children of anxious parents are not more sensitive to their parents’ signs of anxiety.
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Science & Cocktails: Why do People Fight?
Why do people start and support violence against other groups? Why do people attack others? How are game theory and evolution biology used to study such phenomena? How is the choice to attack influenced by hormones? With dwindling resources (due to climate change), can we expect more violence?
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Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace and How to Restore It
In their October monthly seminar, The Hague Program on InternationaL Cyber Security welcomes Lucas Kello, Associate Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He will present his new book Striking Back: The End of Peace in Cyberspace - And How to Restore It.
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Jan Kleijssen, Hans Franken-lecture 2023
Lecture
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Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
The 11th Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture will be delivered by Professor Jason De León as part of the TAKING CARE conference.
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Narratives of Vulnerability
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Who's Watching Brussels? Why the EU deserves better watchdogs
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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IMPACT with science communication
Communication, Outreach
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Statistical modelling of time-varying covariates for survival data
Prof. M. Fiocco Samenvatting Time-varying covariates are a challenging task in clinical research, as they represent dynamic patterns which affect patient's health status and disease progression. This dissertation focuses on developing new mathematical and statistical methods to properly represent time-varying…
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Getting personal: Advancing personalized oncology through computational analysis of membrane proteins
PhD defence
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Finding the right fit
PhD defence
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Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
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Prioritizing Global Responsibilities: The Ethics of Global Priority-setting
Lecture
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EuroScience Open Forum Leiden
Leiden is hosting the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) conference in 2022. This is the largest multidisciplinary scientific conference in Europe. Its tenth edition will be held in Leiden from 13 to 16 July 2022, in close collaboration with EuroScience in Strasbourg. Read all about the ESOF conference and…
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LIBC Colloquium
To meet their survival needs, organisms must constantly choose not only which sensory stimuli to attend to, but also how much attention to pay. Global arousal is key to attention, but it is not clear if and how organisms self-regulate their arousal to facilitate matching the intensity of their attention…
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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Semisynthetic Glycopeptide Antibiotics
Prof. N.I. Martin Summary: The accelerated appearance of drug-resistant pathogens continues to present a growing threat to modern medicine’s capacity to fight infectious disease. A recent Lancet study estimates that in 2019 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was directly responsible for a staggering 1.27…
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LIBC Colloquium
What do bacteria, cells, organs, people and social communities have in common? At first sight, perhaps not much. They involve totally different agents and scale levels of observation. On second thought however, perhaps they share everything. A growing body of literature suggests that living systems…
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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IBL Symposium 2022
On Friday 20 May is the annual symposium of the Institute of Biology Leiden. Programme Welcome 09:00-09:15 Welcome & coffee 09:15-09:30 Gilles van Wezel: Welcome Session I: Bioactive molecules (09:30-10:45) 09:30 – 10:00 Tanja Schneider: Tear down the wall: Targeting bactoprenol-bound cell…
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New Year's Reception
Conference
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Inhibitors and activity-based probes for retaining β-D-glucuronidases, heparanases and β-L-arabinofuranosidases
PhD defence
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Bioengineering and Biophysics of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
PhD defence
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Statistical Learning and Prediction
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Work Stress Week 2023
Workshops
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Family Matters
This dissertation describes the findings of six studies on mental health problems in the family context, specifically focusing on the associations with the parent-child relationship, parenting behaviors and experiences of childhood maltreatment. The aim is to better understand the risk factors, development…
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Enhancing understanding and effective communication in teaching
Course
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European-wide ecosystem responses and their vulnerability to intensive drought
PhD defence
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Lecture by Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren: 'Handing Over Responsibility'
Lecture
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A Tax Treaty Policy for Curaçao
Prof. P. Kavelaars Prof. I. Mosquera Valderrama
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Country Meeting: Violent Resistance - Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique
This event will take place both online and physically in Leiden. All registrees will receive a link to the online platform one day before the start of the event. Please register via the ASCL website. During this country meeting Dr Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University) will present her new book 'Violent…
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To Register or Not to Register? Legal Identity and Birth Registration of Migrant Children in Morocco
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multivariate Time Series Prediction and Anomaly Detection
Prof. T.H.W. Bäck Prof. W. Konen (Cologne University) Summary: In many real-world applications today, it is critical to continuously record and monitor certain machine or system health indicators to discover malfunctions or other abnormal behavior at an early stage and prevent potential harm. The demand…
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Enhancing understanding and effective communication in teaching
Course
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Burnout First-aid Kit
Personal development, Working effectively
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'Butts off our campus' day at Pieter de la Court
Although smoking has been banned at the University since August 2020, cigarette butts still litter our campus and the surrounding area. To raise awareness of this problem, we will be holding a ‘butts off our campus’ day on Thursday 6 October at the Pieter de la Court building. About ‘butts off our campus’…
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'Butts off our campus' day at Wijnhaven
Although smoking has been banned at the University since August 2020, cigarette butts still litter our campus and the surrounding area. To raise awareness of this problem, we will be holding a ‘butts off our campus’ day on Thursday 15 September at Wijnhaven as part of our ‘Smoke-Free University’ campaign.…