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Fisheries in the Waza Logone Floodplain. An Analysis of the Status of the Fisheries Sector and Mitigation of Conflicts within the Sector in North
Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh
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From Wife to Presidential Partner: the Policy Agenda of the First Lady of the United States
In this article, Kuipers and Timmermans analyze the first lady's relationship with policy problems in the period 1945-2013.
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Towards a greater understanding of the presence, fate and ecological effects of microplastics in the freshwater environment
This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.
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In memoriam emeritus professor Jan Schmidt
On March 17, our dear colleague Jan Schmidt passed away after a fruitful and valuable life.
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Inquiry-based learning: smart tools help lecturers adapt their courses
Engaged, active students who can see the links within their discipline. These are key aims of the University vision on teaching and learning, but how do you achieve them? An interdisciplinary research team led by ICLON has developed an inventive method that helps lecturers do just that.
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Resolving conflicts between states
In the event of disagreements between states, a tribunal or arbitration may offer a solution. International dispute settlement is a relatively new but fast-growing field within law, Professor Eric de Brabandere explains. Inaugural lecture 23 February.
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Studying with a disability: 'Accessibility alone is not enough'
How can we make studying easier for students with a functional disability? This will be the key question during a public conference on 20 April. Romke Biagioni (Fenestra) explains why there is such a need for this conference. Are you going to be there?
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The stories behind the women's portraits
An anatomical model of a heart, a mechanical digger or photos of mother and grandmother. Research interests and personal motivations have been given a place in the thirteen new portraits of women now on display in the Senate Chamber. ‘That cat isn't just a cute lap cat.'
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Tour of Asia success in spite of rain
The Tour of Asia, an afternoon filled with science and culture about Asia, attracted many visitors. In spite of the heavy rain, the visitors chose from among dozens of lectures and debates. This knowledge festival marked the opening of the Asian Library earlier in the day.
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PhD candidate makes predictions on production and detection of sterile neutrinos
Physicists propose the existence of sterile neutrinos that would explain three big mysteries in nature. To actually find them in particle accelerators, researchers need to know how they are produced and how they decay. PhD candidate Kyrylo Bondarenko has made predictions about this, which are currently…
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Skin Lipids: Localization of Ceramide and Fatty Acid in the Unit Cell of the Long Periodicity Phase
The lipid matrix of the skin's stratum corneum plays a key role in the barrier function, which protects the body from desiccation. The lipids that make up this matrix consist of ceramides, cholesterol, and free fatty acids, and can form two coexisting crystalline lamellar phases: the long periodicity…
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National award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba 2013 for Dr. Roberto Valcárcel Rojas and international team
From indigenous space to colonial setting. Archaeological investigations at El Chorro de Maita in Cuba wins prestigious prize.
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Leiden master's student in Labour Law is ‘student intern of the week’ in Dutch magazine Mr.
Eva Lammers is currently studying for a master's degree in labour law at Leiden University and expects to graduate in autumn 2023. Lammers did her internship at law firm JPR in Deventer and was thrown in at the deep end from the start. 'Assignments aren’t arranged for you, you've got to arrange them…
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Understanding the ecology of the Bornean Pygmy Elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis) in the Sebuku Forest, Nunukan District, North Kalimantan
What is movements and corridors of the Bornean pygmy elephant in Sebuku forest? What is the nature of human-elephant conflict in Nunukan District in time and space? What are the diets of the Bornean elephants related to crop raiding?
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Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities in the formative years of the modern Middle East (1920-1950)
This project aims to revisit the ways in which religious minorities in the Middle East participated in, contributed to, and opposed the Arab nationalism of the post-war years, when the British and French ruled the region via the Mandates. Research question: How did religious minorities in the Middle…
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(im)possibilities of addressing election interference and the public core of the internet in the UN GGE and OEWG
Article by Dennis Broeders in the Journal of Cyber Policy on the (im)possibilities of addressing election interference and the public core of the internet in the UN GGE and OEWG.
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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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Wetland Farming in the area to the south of the Meuse estuary during the Iron age and Roman period
An environmental and palaeo-economic reconstruction.
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Another Brick in the Wall: The role of the actinobacterial cell wall in antibiotic resistance, phylogeny and development
Streptomyces are multicellular, Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum of actinobacteria which produce a high amount of bioactive natural products of which the expression is tightly coordinated with the life cycle.
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“Solidarity” and “Truth” in the work of the Jewish Author and Poet Jacob Israël de Haan (1881-1924)
How De Haan is using language in general and his specific style of language in particular to provide truth, solidarity and justice for both the individual and the collective?
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A search for transient reductions in the speed of sound of the inflaton in cosmological data, and other topics
Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Achucarro
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?
During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend their territories in continental Europe from an Allied naval invasion. The defensive line went right through the Dutch city of The Hague. The material remains…
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’
There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned professional streaming gear long before he could apply this in his education. Now he lectures on ancient Assyria while sitting in an Assyrian palace, moving…
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Public Health Perspectives. Results from population-based studies of the Dutch and the Indonesian populations
PhD defence
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Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China
On Thursday 10 November, the GTGC organized a research seminar. During this seminar Saori Katada presented her paper on Regional Approach to Financial Statecraft: Japan and India in the Face of Rising China.
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Cross-craft interaction in the cross-cultural context of the Late Bronze Age East Mediterranean
In tracing intra-site, local and regional craft networks in Late Bronze Age Tiryns (Greece) the project aimed to understand technological changes, (dis)continuities and social practices from the Late Palatial until the Post Palatial periods in Mycenaean Greece.
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Rob van Wijk has won the oral presentations of the National PhD Competition during the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days
He presented his PhD research entitled “Kick-starting drug development; translational systems pharmacology using innovative zebrafish experiments and advanced computational modelling”. During his presentation, Rob highlighted the advancements he made in using zebrafish as model in system pharmacolog…
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Second issue JLGC published
On 1 February 2014 the second issue of the Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference, titled 'Death: Ritual, Representation and Remembrance', was published.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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FAQ clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology
Below you will find the answers to some of the frequently asked questions about admission to the clinical specialisations of the Master in Psychology.
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Catholics were slow to respond to the Revolt in the Netherlands
Historians have long known that Catholics played a significant role in the Revolt of the Netherlands (1520-1635). But what did the Revolt mean to individual Catholics? Professor of Early Modern Dutch history Judith Pollman has published a book on the subject.
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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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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LCN2 Seminar: Sparse random graphs with many triangles.
Lecture
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Iber Kasehatan in Sukamiskin: Utilisation of the Plural Health Information and Communication System in the Sunda Region of West Java, Indonesia
This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.
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Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia
Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse
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The Radicalization of the Left in Turkey and Iran in the 1970s and a Comparative Analysis the Activist Women's Experiences
Sevil Cakir-Kilincoglu defended her thesis on 18 December 2019
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Rival women at the Court of The Hague
Dr Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in Early Modern Literature and postdoctoral researcher in Leiden, has written a new book to accompany the exhibition on Elizabeth Stuart and Amalia von Solms at the Historical Museum of The Hague. ‘They were like goddesses, constantly trying to upstage one another,’ says…
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The agency of the Burgundian-Habsburg duchesses and the creation and continuation of court-city relations in the Low Countries (ca. 1430-1503)
In this project diverse aspects of the duchesses’ roles in the complex and dynamic relations between town and crown are studied on the basis of systematic research in the account books of four cities (Ghent, Bruges, Leuven and Mechelen) in the Burgundian Netherlands (ca. 1430-1503).
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Dancing around the throne: networking in the time of King William I
Showing your face at dinners and parties at court: it was the way to get noticed by the king in William I's time. Joost Welten's latest book reveals how, during the reign of William I, the elite danced around his throne both literally and figuratively.
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Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS)
The project GRADIENTS investigates what it meant to be European in colonial Africa where identification as European often did not depend on skin colour and was understood on a spectrum with many gradients.
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Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
The Swahili coast has a long-standing history of transoceanic Islamic connections dating back to the 25th century. Yet, print, has changed the world – not only ours. This project unravels unique forms and archives of intellectual history emerging from within South-South connections. In East Africa Indian…
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corde in seno’: history, repertoire and playing techniques of the Italian salterio in the eighteenth century
This research aims to fully recall these lost sound aspects of the eighteenth century and is, therefore, a study that passionately advocates the diversity of musical experience in the context of historical performance practice.
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On safari in the Bio Science Park
It is a warm day. The sun is shining brightly while biologist Marco Roos makes his way through the bushes towards a peculiar little plant. Insects buzz, birds chirp. In the background rises the LUMC: at the Bio Science Park in Leiden, people and nature come together in a special way.
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theories of Moses Mendelssohn and Johann Georg Sulzer in the Berlin salon music of the 1750–80’s
My research focuses on theories of the sublime by the Berlin Enlightenment philosophers Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86) and Johann Georg Sulzer (1720–79).
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Roman Fake News? Documentary Fictions in the Roman Empire
How can theories about modern disinformation help to understand how Roman documentary fictions functioned?
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longitudinal analysis of different dimensions of the desistance process among long-term prisoners in the Netherlands
On 5 September 2019, Jennifer Doekhie defended her thesis 'Dimensions of desistance: A qualitative longitudinal analysis of different dimensions of the desistance process among long-term prisoners in the Netherlands'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. P. Nieuwbeerta.