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INFLANET - Training European Experts in Inflammation: from the molecular players to animal models and the bedside
How is inflammation in tuberculosis controlled by interplay between autophagy and inflammasome signalling?
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Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe
In the Brill series Intersections a new volume has been published, entitled Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe.
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What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya
What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya. In this article, published on the website SAGE Journals in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the authors Geoff Dancy, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Tessa Alleblas, Eamon Aloyo examine the attitude towards international…
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Global Interactions
Fostering multi-polar perspectives that engage more connected, nuanced and pluralistic understandings of the world. Global Interactions encourages and supports research that provides significant new insights on these global processes across time and space.
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Emancipation in Postmodernity: Political Thought in Japanese Science Fiction Animation
Mari Nakamura defended her thesis on 14 March 2017
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Online library
Immerse yourself: read books, listen to podcasts and watch films about racism, discrimination and the colonial past.
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Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of the two-party system in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1868
The project examines the political conflict in the Red River Valley of Louisiana between the majority-black Republican Party and the overwhelmingly white Democratic Party by studying the composition and actions of each party.
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The development of an assessment procedure for beginning teachers of English as a foreign language
This dissertation reports on the requirements for the design and development of teacher assessments, and examines the possibility of developing an assessment procedure that complies with the formulated requirements.
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Projects
An overview of Quantitative Pharmacology projects
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Inflammafish: Cross-talk between inflammation and autophagy in tuberculosis
Effective host defence against tuberculosis bacteria depends on a properly balanced level of inflammation. The Inflammafish project uses zebrafish larvae to study how autophagy controls this inflammation and vice versa.
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Medieval MasterChef
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways
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Staphylomics: Identifying host factors involved in staphylococcal infection
How can Staphylococcus aureus bacteria subvert the host immune system?
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Cardiovascular Pharmacology
The Cardiovascular Pharmacology research group headed by Ilze Bot aims to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie atherosclerotic plaque destabilization, which is the key process that leads to acute cardiovascular syndromes such as a myocardial infarction or stroke.
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Digital Humanitarian Networks: Crisis Management as a Social System
Intelligence of the crowd, or in other words, intelligence of a large, random collective, exists mostly in social media platforms such as twitter. The collective does not comprise (at least not necessarily) experts on crises, just regular people mostly. Nevertheless, there is valuable intelligence to…
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EmbRace: The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging
The project 'EmbRace: The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging' investigates the embodied and sensorial dimension of the racialization of Muslims and its intersections with gender, class and religion.
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Dynamic biogeography – Hybrid zone movement
Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint?
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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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Effect of demonstration experiments on the quality of the micro-macro thinking of chemistry students
Demonstration experiments are a potentially powerful instrument to improve the micro-macro thinking of students in secondary education. Therefore we want to design a practical and generative approach to assist teachers to develop lessons with a demonstration experiment.
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Multilingualism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity
Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region.
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THE BLACK ARCTIC
Since the Middle Passage is in the North Atlantic, and the North Atlantic has a relationship with the arctic, what relationship does the Arctic have with the Middle Passage? How can this relationship be used to provide a space of healing by uncovering Afro/diasporic counter narratives?
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'social Subjecthood?’ the Inclusion of Imperial Citizens in the Dutch Post-War Welfare State
Emily Wolff, PhD candidate at Leiden University, wrote a paper about the inclusion of imperial citizens in the Dutch post-war welfare state.
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Venue
The Kroese-Duijsters symposium will be held in the heart of the Leiden city centre.
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Stress Less Project: Effectiveness of school-based intervention programs
What is the effectiveness of two school-based skills-training programs in promoting mental health?
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European Citizen Science (ECS)
The overall objective of ECS is to widen and strengthen the European Citizen Science community through capacity building and awareness raising activities such as the creation of a European Citizen Science Academy and the establishment of a network of 28 ECS Ambassadors.
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Visiting Professorship
In the spring semester of each academic year, Visiting Professors from Austria visit Leiden University to teach about their specialisms (alternating between history, music, art, literature, often dealing with 19th and 20th century themes). They teach a lecture course and a seminar, usually at the bachelor…
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Born to be shy?
An international mega-analysis on the neurobiological link between inhibited temperament and social anxiety disorder
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Macro-level assessment of environmental implications of changes to circularity
How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?
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Meijerssymposium 2024
Conference
- Week 6: 10-16 February 2019
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Control of early plant development by light quality
This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants.
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Xiamen (CN)
Xiamen is a a city in the Chinese province Fujian. It currently has about 4.3 million citizens in the city. It is therefore the largest city of the province.
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A Sense of the Past
Studies in current archaeological applications of remote sensing and non-invasive prospection methods edited by Hans Kamermans, Martin Gojda and Axel G.
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Narrative Science: Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800
Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries.
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Vermeerderd en verrijkt
PhD defence
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OceanVisions
OceanVisions is a project funded by a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship to Dr. Francesco Colona and it explores how different research infrastructures in marine science (ranging from ocean-going research vessels to scientific diving operations) and their funding scheme influence the research process:…
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Team 4 electives 5th semester & connection of education to labour market
This team will focus on the elective credits in the fifth semester.
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Conference workshops
Our call for workshop proposals was met enthousiastically by various people, and we are happy to announce that the following four workshops were unanimously selected by the organising committee.
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Leiden University scientists - Working at Leiden University
Nobody is better qualified to tell you what it is like to work at Leiden University than the employees themselves. Watch the videos and meet your future colleagues. They will be happy to share their experiences with you.
- Writing research grant proposals
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Social Distance in International Relations
This project studies social distance—the degree of sympathetic understanding that exists between people—in relation to state foreign policy making. Does, and if so how does, social distance shape political biases, aid narratives, and, ultimately, state foreign policy priorities and decisions?
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Golden Horde Project
The Golden Horde Project was initiated by Dr. Marie Favereau and Dr. Gabrielle van den Berg. The initiative is funded by Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT) and Leiden Global Interactions (LGI) research profile areas.
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Archaeological Studies Leiden University
ASLU (Archaeological Studies Leiden University) is a peer-reviewed book series produced by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.
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Conference on Counterclaims in International Law
Conference
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Public Key Note of Mari Hvattum on the impact of style
Lecture
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The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia)
PhD defence
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Gender in ethnically mixed relationships of immigrants from Dutch former colonies in the Netherlands, 1945-2005
Subproject of
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
Lecture
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Public Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe: Theatrical Entertainments for the State Journeys of English and French Royals into the Low Countries
One way for governments to conduct foreign policy and promote national interests is through direct outreach and communication with the population of a foreign country. This is called public diplomacy. Historians such as Helmer Helmers and William T. Rossiter have shown that printed media were already…
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Guadeloupe
Between 1993 and 2000 the Faculty of Archaeology had a formal cooperation with the Service Régional de l’Archéologie de la Guadeloupe, Direction Regional des Affaires Culturelles (DRAC) and the then director André Delpuech. During that period surveys and excavations were carried out at a number of s…
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Scleral pigmentation leads to conspicuous, not cryptic, eye morphology in chimpanzees
Researchers of the National University of Singapore and Leiden University have discovered that chimpanzees and bonobos share the contrasting colour pattern seen in human eyes, which makes it easy for them to detect the direction of someone’s gaze from a distance.