1,928 search results for “literature en nieuwe media” in the Public website
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Collegecolumn: Cyberveiligheid is een verantwoordelijkheid van ons allemaal, maar hoe doen we dat?
Het zal niemand ontgaan zijn dat de digitale dreigingen blijven toenemen. Uit monitoring door onze cybersecurity-experts blijkt dat er continu wordt geprobeerd om ook onze systemen binnen te dringen. Wat doen wij daartegen en hoe kan jij als medewerker bijdragen aan onze cyberveiligheid?
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Combined technique measures nanostructures ten times better than before
Researchers at Leiden University and TU Delft have combined two techniques that are used to measure the structure of biomolecules, creating a method that is ten times more sensitive.
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Human rights are like elephants: magnificent, but under threat
What is the current situation of human rights in relation to detention under criminal law and immigration law, now that more and more parties are becoming involved in the administration of detention and crimmigration is on the rise? PhD defence on 21 January 2020.
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Football molecule explains 100-year-old astronomical problem
Exactly a century ago, astronomers observed the first two diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in space. A DIB manifests itself as a colour of light that is missing in the radiation from stars behind an interstellar cloud. Although about 500 DIBs are yet discovered, they remained inexplicable until recently.…
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Archaeologists of the future dig for traces of the past
Forty archaeology students are holding a shovel somewhat awkwardly in the fields at Oss. This is their first day of fieldwork and they are going to use muscles they didn’t even know they had.
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First LUF Snouck Hurgronje Grant awarded to Past-at-Play Lab
At the end of 2018, the LUF announced a new annual grant: the Snouck Hurgronje Grant. This annual grant is awarded to innovative interfaculty research and teaching projects. Three project teams secured a place on the shortlist with their research proposals. They were invited to present their plan to…
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Leiden Law Cast #5: Esther Kentin on PFAS, (micro)plastics & policy
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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The surgeon who wants to make her operations unnecessary
Lotje Zuur sometimes has to perform disfiguring operations. As a head and neck surgeon, she removes parts of the mouth, throat or face of people with cancer. Now a promising treatment may make such operations unnecessary. What would this mean for patients? This is what her inaugural speech on 19 September…
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‘As a former refugee, I want to give something back’
Niloufar Rahim, from Afghanistan, fled to the Netherlands with her family. She studied medicine in Leiden and now shares her knowledge with students of medicine in Afghanistan.
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Rutte-III coalition agreement: never has there been so little democratic renewal
The Rutte-III coalition agreement has been presented and the commentary is flooding in. Public administration experts Arco Timmermans and Gerard Breeman examined the new agreement – as they have done for every coalition agreement since 1963 - and made a systematic analysis of it: it is very much about…
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Queen Beatrix writing history
This is a good time for it to happen, in the opinion of Professor of Fatherlands History, Henk te Velde. The abdication of Queen Beatrix is a good starting point for celebrating 200 years of the Dutch monarchy, in 2013. Te Velde is a member of the National Committee for 200 Years of Monarchy: 'By standing…
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Barista Sander Snel: ‘Every customer deserves a friendly welcome’
On a busy day, Sander Snel sees three hundred people at his coffee counter in the Herta Mohr building. ‘It's fun to remember everyone's favourite drink.’
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'Impact of information technology on Marechaussee’s border controls is limited'
The Schengen Agreement has resulted in systematic border controls between EU Member States largely ceasing to apply. Solutions for the associated security risks are often sought in information technology. Tim Dekkers investigated how such technology is applied in this context and will defend his PhD…
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Executive Board column: Trust in one another’s abilities makes us more agile
People in leadership roles are unlikely to discuss leadership skills with their colleagues. But that is precisely what we as a university would like them to do. Because trust in one another’s abilities will make us an agile university that innovates and makes room for talent.
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HOPping in The Hague: introduction week for students in The Hague
Kitesurfing, colonising the Binnenhof and most important of all - meeting fellow students. More then 700 students of Leiden University in The Hague get to know the city and one another during the HOPweek.
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep?
Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforced digitalisation has brought us valuable innovations and smart tools. The question is: what’s going well and what could we do differently? I’d love to…
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Executive Board column: Energy and new insights at the strategic conference
It’s become somewhat of a tradition at Leiden University: the strategic conference at the end of June each year. About a hundred staff including the faculty boards, academic directors, directors of the expertise centres and Administration and Central Services, the representative councils and student…
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How do you measure democracy? Leiden political scientist collaborates on international freedom report
Wouter Veenendaal, a political scientist at Leiden University, is an analyst for the Freedom House report. Freedom House is an American non-profit organisation dedicated to democracy, political freedom and human rights. In short, the report describes the degree of freedom and the state of democracy…
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Study Day “Dead Sea Scrolls”
Lecture, Workshop and Egeria Lecture
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Blade Runner 2025?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Saxophone Without Mouthpiece
PhD defence
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Een korte geschiedenis van de Cornelii Scipiones
PhD defence
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Comparative wood anatomy and evolution of Apocynaceae and Sapotaceae
PhD defence
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Release and transport of endocannabinoids
PhD defence
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When and Why People Do Not Make Financial Decisions: Definition, Measurement, and Implications of Financial Inertia
PhD defence
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Klimaatstrafrecht: De rol van het strafrecht binnen het juridische antwoord op klimaatverandering
PhD defence
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Probing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics using a Cold Mechanical Force Sensor
PhD defence
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Bioorthogonal tools to study fatty acid uptake in immune cells
PhD defence
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Advancing the LeiCNS-PK3.0 model for prediction of CNS Pharmacokinetics Nonlinear BBB Transport, Inter-species Scaling, and Machine Learning
PhD defence
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De Storm der Hartstogten Woedt
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Social Mobility and Integration of Amsterdam Jews: The Ethnic Niche of the Diamond Industry, 1850-1940
PhD defence
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Computer Says No: Understanding Digital Authority
PhD defence
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Securing the Future of Black Labor: Covert Attempts to Reopen the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Louisiana, 1853-1861
PhD defence
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Biophysical studies of intracellular and cellular motility
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Colonial Calvinism: Colonial Ideologies of Dutch Clergymen in Batavia, ca. 1700-1850
PhD defence
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Improving targeted gene editing in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Miniaturized metabolomics methods for enabling the study of biomass- restricted samples
PhD defence
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The social ties that bind
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Deception, risk, and evasion: The politics of sovereign debt in emerging markets
PhD defence
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Separating quantum and classical computing: rigorous proof and practical application
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Optimal Test Statistics for Anytime-Valid Hypothesis Tests
PhD defence
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Artificial Intelligence, Games and Education
PhD defence
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Maintaining Self While Adapting: Chinese Foreign Language Teachers’ Identity Development in an Intercultural Context
PhD defence
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The Situative Portrait
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Optical Near-Field Electron Microscopy
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Exploring the Versatility of Human β-Glucosidases and Related Glycosylated Metabolites with Novel Chemical Tools
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Enhancing Autonomy and Efficiency in Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
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The Cultural Network: Javanese Imaginings of Indonesia, 1918-1966
PhD defence
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CD8+ T-cells in atherosclerosis, recognizing their contribution
PhD defence
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The Regulation of Financial Benchmarks
PhD defence