1,825 search results for “is a and the work” in the Public website
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Trinidad, Tobago and the Lower Orinoco interaction sphere
An archaeological/ethnohistorical study.
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The State, Entrepreneur, and Labour in the Establishment of the Iranian Copper Mining Industry: The Sarechhemseh Copper Mine 1966-1979
Abdolreza Alamdar Baghini defended his thesis on 5 December 2019.
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Algorithmic governance
Artificial intelligence could help make the work of public sector organisations, professionals, policy- and decision makers more effective, more efficient, and ideally could make it more rationalised and evidence-based.
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Differentiated instruction in practice: a teacher perspective
Many teachers in secondary education take differences between pupils into account . PhD research by Saskia Stollman (ICLON) shows that they need room to experiment and the support of the school management
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The Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Warfare in Streptomyces
The soil-dwelling, filamentous bacteria of the genus Streptomyces are renowned for their production of useful secondary metabolites including antibiotics. The work described in this thesis provides new insights on the role and regulation of antibiotic production and resistance in these bacteria.
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The role of the tumor suppressor Lkb1 in energy homeostasis
The work in this thesis describes the fundamental role of Lkb1 as a conductor of metabolism-related processes in zebrafish larvae.
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How Electrostatic Interactions Drive Nucleosome Binding of RNF168 & PSIP1
The studies presented in the work show the potential of the integrative use of biophysical data in defining the structural basis of protein interactions.
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‘Human trafficking is a huge grey area’
Human trafficking is much more than kidnapping and selling people. Those who commit labour exploitation can, for example, also be sentenced for human trafficking. Criminologist Masja van Meeteren hopes to simplify the complexity of the phenomenon by charting the different forms of labour exploitati…
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Galaxies and the structures in which they are embedded
Researchers at Leiden Observatory study the fundamental physics that creates structure in the Universe. These processes collect matter into galaxies and gas into stars. With the use of powerful telescopes and advanced calculations and computer simulations, Leiden astronomers seek to understand the origin,…
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Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
The goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people’s interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.
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On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City
Discover the impact of Instagram on our daily lives in the book On Display. Boy and Uitermark delve into the platform's influence on our social interactions.
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Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
This edited volume provides a synthesis on the question of business attitudes towards and its influence over the development of the modern welfare state. It gathers leading scholars in the field to offer both in-depth historical country case studies and comparative chapters that discuss contemporary…
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Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages
This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.
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The symmetry of crystals and the topology of electrons
Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic
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The interplay between lipids and the immune system in atherosclerosis
Cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent causes of death in the world. The main underlying pathology of cardiovascular diseases is the development of atherosclerosis in the medium and large-sized arteries.
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Surface Temperature and the Dynamics of H2 on Cu(111)
Heterogeneous catalysis is one of the fundamental processes of modern life, being common in industrial refinery and hydrogen vehicles, all the way to the living cell. The dissociation of H2 on Cu(111) is an important benchmark system for studying heterogeneous catalysis, with a large and varied amount…
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Lithium-ion batteries and the transition to electric vehicles
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) reduces vehicle emissions to combat climate change. EVs raise concerns regarding the production of lithium-ion batteries and related emissions; while batteries can also provide energy storage services for the electricity system.
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South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations
This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of the discipline of International Relations.
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Brain networks and the initial stages of dementia
Dementia is a progressive disease, diagnosed at a relatively late stage when intervention may not be effective. Aim of the research is to study scans of brain networks to help discover the early network changes related to dementia. Early diagnosis may benefit effectiveness of future treatment.
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Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities
This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences…
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Uncontrollable: Data subject rights and the data- driven economy
On 7 February 2019, Helena Ursic-Vrabec defended her thesis 'Uncontrollable: Data subject rights and the data- driven economy'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. S. van der Hof.
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Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India: A Contradictory Manifesto
In contemporary India, the regional state of West Bengal has often been perceived as somewhat of an aberration in the wider context of a rather chaotic democracy, as the Left Front (spearheaded by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, CPIM) demonstrated a rare instance of political stability, decisively…
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and Authority in Late Antique Egypt: Bishops of the Theban region at work
Renate Dekker defended her thesis on 7 November 2017.
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Deep Hanging Out in the Age of the Digital; Contemporary Ways of Doing Online and Offline Ethnography
A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.
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Sub-projects
The buildings will be developed one by one. The work will vary from the major redevelopment, refurbishment or renovation of existing buildings.
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Online Course International Law in Action: Investigating and Prosecuting International Crime
This course provides an insider perspective into the work of international criminal courts and tribunals. You will learn about the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in The Hague.
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Immigration and the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits in OECD Countries
Samir Negash, PhD candidate at Leiden University and Olaf van Vliet, Professor by special appointment Comparative Welfare State Analysis at Leiden University wrote a paper regarding the topic of immigration and the conditionality of unemployment benefits in OECD countries.
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Rough-and-tumble play and the regulation of aggression in preschoolers
How does preschoolers’ play style relate to their aggressive impulses?
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Galaxy formation and the structure of the Universe
Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye, Prof.dr. S.D.M. White (MPA Garching)
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Bergson and the Aristotelian model of immanent teleology
This dissertation addresses the different use of the same philosophical model: immanent teleology. In this work Aristotle, the founder of the study of final causes, is put in relation with the modern French evolutionary thinker Henri Bergson, the philosopher of time. The dissertation tackles the two…
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Progress improvement measures for working environment Institute of Education and Child Studies
This week, several media reported on a confidential research report in response to internal investigation into the working environment at the Institute of Education and Child Studies. The Board of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences wants to repeat its commitment to a safe working environment…
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Fires, Food and the Evolution of Human Detoxification Capabilities
A study by a Leiden-Wageningen group shows that present-day humans are biologically poorly equipped to deal with the toxins they are regularly exposed to in smoky environments: compared to earlier hominins, we modern humans are probably even worse off. The study appeared in Molecular Biology and Evolution.…
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Princes and Prophets: Democracy and the Defamation of Power
On 1 June 2022, Tom Herrenberg defended the thesis 'Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. P.B. Cliteur and Prof. B.R. Rijpkema.
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Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State
This book offers novel perspectives on the national and international dimensions of the post-war welfare state in Western Europe and North America.
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The use of activity based protein profiling to study proteasome biology
Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea
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Crossing through Europe at full speed
On 12 December, Anke van der Hoeven defended the thesis 'Crossing through Europe at full speed - The work situation of international truck drivers: constructions and perceptions'. The doctoral research was supervised by Joanne van der Leun, Yvonne Erkens and Masja van Meeteren.
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The Role of Modern International Commissions of Inquiry
On 5 September 2017, Alessandro Tonutti defended his PhD dissertation
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Towards a mechanistic understanding of nanoparticle behavior using zebrafish
The work described in this dissertation contributes to a better mechanistic understanding of nanoparticles in vivo. To achieve that goal, we used the zebrafish as a highly predictive pre-screening model of nanoparticles.
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Framing Late Antique Religion
This research programme encourages the analysis of nascent Islam within the framework of religious studies.
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The ‘harpe organisée’, 1720‐1840, Rediscovering the lost pedal techniques on harps with a single‐action pedal mechanism
The “harpe organisée”, 1720-1840: Rediscovering the lost pedal techniques on harps with a single-action pedal mechanism, is the title of Maria Christina Cleary's PhD thesis. This is the first monographic study on harp pedal techniques, tracing the historical way to pedal on the early pedal harps with…
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Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983
Peyman Jafari defended his thesis on 11 October 2018
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The Demographics of Protoplanetary Disks: from Lupus to Orion
The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.
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Access to Justice and Institutional Development in Libya
An analysis of people’s access to justice and the working of (legal) institutions in post-conflict, democratic Libya
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Rethinking Ostia
A Spatial Enquiry into the Urban Society of Rome’s Imperial Port-Town
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Assessing Legislation for Libya’s Reconstruction
An assessment of Libyan legislation
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More laws, more problems? The role of (Roman) law in society according to Cornelius Tacitus
Whether implicitly or explicitly, we all have ideas about how the law is supposed to function, whose interests it should represent, and what role it should play in society. This project explores the ways in which these questions are addressed in the works of the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus…
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Assessing Learning in Higher Education
Assessing Learning in Higher Education addresses what is probably the most time-consuming part of the work of staff in higher education, and something to the complexity of which many of the recent developments in higher education have added. Getting assessment ‘right’– that is, designing and implementing…
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Disadvantage and the Legitimation of the System and its Representatives
Does powerlessness and dependence lead to the legitimation of the social, political, and economic status quo and of those in authority?
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Working on Labor. Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 9
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.
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What Works in Preventing Emerging Social Anxiety: Exposure, Cognitive Restructuring, or a Combination?
Programs that aim to reduce symptoms of social anxiety in children generally include multiple components, such as exposure and cognitive restructuring. It is unknown if separate components yield positive intervention effects in children or whether a combination of components is required.