Multilingualism and Wellbeing is an innovative text that combines sociolinguistic, psychological and philosophical approaches to explore multilingualism as a source of wellbeing. It challenges the “monolingual bias” and the common assumption that multilingualism is solely driven by utilitarian, formal,…

Exploring the application of game-theoretic frameworks to quantum physics, this study creates novel AI training methods for the precise control of quantum systems.

Exploring the application of data-driven AI optimizations, this work leverages past software performance to reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption of powerful computing applications.

This project aims to develop a portable, real-time intelligent system tailored for speech disorder therapy.

Explore how skateboarding functions as a prefigurative learning tool in 'Skate/worlds.' This volume examines skateboarding's therapeutic potential, its role in queering and decolonizing education, and its impact on parenting and care work through perspectives from writers, educators, and activists.

The debate about Africa’s changing relations with the world has rapidly evolved over the past decade. The initial emphasis on China’s role in Africa has given way to a more diversified approach, acknowledging that other emerging global players have also become important.

D.P. Kok defended his thesis on 10 October 2017

Histories Connected seeks to explore social, cultural, and political issues that connect people of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Europe throughout different periods of time.

Investigating the making of knowledge in anthropology and natural history in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia.

In this 3-volume set of primary sources, Lionel Laborie and Ariel Hessayon bring together a wide range of vital sources for the study of prophecy in the early modern world. This meticulously edited collection includes rare material and fascinating manuscripts published in English for the first time.

OpenML empowers scientists to conduct transparent, reproducible, and collaborative AI-driven research.

On Thursday 29 January 2026 Uğur Derin successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

This book explores the reception of foreign news during the late sixteenth-century civil wars in France and the Netherlands.

This book is a celebration of the work of Professor Frans Theuws and was published in conjunction with the symposium held at the University of Leiden on June 29, 2018.

What are the humanities? As the cluster of disciplines historically grouped together as “humanities” has grown and diversified to include media studies and digital studies alongside philosophy, art history and musicology to name a few, the need to clearly define the field is pertinent.

Promotor: Prof.dr. W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Kros

On 24 January 2023 Tobias Jones successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) is the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School with its strong tradition in logic and its scientific approach to philosophy. Twardowski’s unique way of doing philosophy, his method, is of central importance for understanding his impact as a teacher.

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This practical guide introduces students to the language and other skills needed to deliver a presentation in English. Concise and accessible, the guide will be particularly helpful to learners of English.

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Constant Hijzen and Simon Willmetts have released Spies, Culture, and Society, a collection of essays, published by Georgetown University Press, exploring the relationship between intelligence agencies and the societies and cultures they inhabit.

Search and conversational systems have become central to how people access information and perform tasks.

The Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry focuses on the preparation and processing of bioarchaeological remains for various biomolecular methods including especially isotopic, hormonal, and microscopic analyses.

This project investigates language choice and language use among Swiss mercenaries in the VOC and in the Dutch Colonial Army.

In Chapter 1 we provide some background information about modular forms, describe the correspondence between half-integral and integer weight modular forms and explain how the coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms encode the central values of L-functions of twisted modular forms.

This project aims to explore stories about archaeology, identity, and personal connection with the island's landscape and heritage.

In this thesis, both the obscured and unobscured star formation of high-redshift galaxies (UV-bright galaxies and serendipitously identified [CII]-emitters) is investigated.

In cryptography, generic transformations are often used to strengthen simpler but weaker schemes, into more sophisticated and stronger ones.

How is the soil microbiome related to the nutritional value of the crop onion?

Didactics

Didactics

How should we protect ourselves from water-borne catastrophe? By “ecologizing safety

PhD defence

PhD defence

Deep learning has revolutionized image processing, enabling remarkable advances in fields from autonomous driving to medical diagnostics.

This article introduces Affected Circles, a framework for crisis communication that focuses on communication with people directly affected by crises, including victims and their next of kin.

How did courts navigate reform, revolution, warfare, and restoration between 1780 and 1830?

PhD defence

Since the global COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus responsible (SARS-CoV-2) has been extensively probed for promising protein targets to establish drug-based therapies.

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

PhD defence

This project explores how changes in diet helped early hominins expand from Africa into the colder and more seasonal environments of Europe.

PhD defence

PhD defence

This book reconstructs the life of Lie Alma, a Dutch teacher and antifascist activist, and her role in international women’s peace politics and the struggle against fascism, poverty and social inequality.