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Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019)
On 1 June 2022, Bruno Braak defended his thesis entitled 'Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019).' The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.dr. J.M. Otto, Dr.ir. C.I.M. Jacobs, and Dr. C. Leonardi…
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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from patient experience repositories
This project develops a scientific method to extract clinically relevant new information from patient forum websites that discuss patient experiences concerning e.g. medication, nutrition, co-morbidities, genetic factors etc.
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The innate immune response against mycobacterial infection: analysis by a combination of light and electron microscopy
Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn, Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf
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Tone and intonation processing: From ambiguous acoustic signal to linguistic representation
On November 1st, Min Liu succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Min on this great result.
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Sound of Mind: electrophysiological and behavioural evidence for the role of context, variation and informativity in human speech processing
In this dissertation, electrophysiological (EEG) and behavioural measures are used to investigate how allophonic tonal variants and sub-phonemic features are processed during Mandarin and Dutch speech production, visual processing of written words and reading aloud.
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Plural Gender: Behavioral evidence for plural as a value of Cushitic gender with reference to Konso
On July 5th, Mulugeta Tarekegne Tsegaye succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Mulugeta on this great result.
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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Global Challenges
Global Challenges is the research programme of the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.
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Virus-host metabolic interactions: using metabolomics to probe oxidative stress, inflammation and systemic immunity
Promotores: T. Hankemeier; R. Berger, Co-promotor: R.J. Vreeken
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Distributing the dead
Settlement burials in the pagus Texandrië and the transformation of Merovingian society c. 700 AD (Southern Netherlands)
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Indo-Slavic lexical isoglosses and the prehistoric dispersal of Indo- Iranian
On the 2nd of July, Axel Palmér successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Axel on this achievement!
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The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt
New Approaches to the Study of Textual Material from the Early Pharaonic to the Late Antique Period
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Analecta Praehistorica leidensia 45
Excerpta archaeologica leidensia: Corrie Bakels & Hans Kamermans (eds) (2015)
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Human-lion conflict around Nairobi national park
Large carnivore population is globally declining as a result of the fragmentation of habitat, large prey depletion and retaliatory killing by pastoralists.
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Who Owns the Hills? Ownership, Inequality, and Communal Sharing in the Borderlands of India
In his historical analysis of upland societies of the Zomia massif, James Scott (2009) emphasizes how the modern state strives to control and “make taxable” all of its subjects. For Tania Murray Li (2014), the development of neoliberal markets is the primary driver of change, as she shows based on long-term…
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The neurobiology of depression and the relation between stress, mental health, ageing and chronic illness
I want to understand the overlap between physical health, mental health, and healthy aging and whether/how stress (behaviorally and biologically) may tie these concepts together.
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EuDEco
EuDEco (Modelling the European Data Economy) is a Coordination & Support Action (CSA) receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
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Flat but not shallow. Towards flatter representations in deep semantic parsing for precise and feasible inferencing
Simulating human language understanding on the computer is a great challenge. A way to approach it is to represent natural language meanings in logic, and to use logical provers to determine what does and does not follow from a text. What logic is best to use and how natural language meanings are best…
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The limits of tolerance: before and after Brexit and the German Refugee Crisis
This study investigates how two social and political developments, in the UK and Germany, impacted on the experiences of minorities and the attitudes of majorities vis-à-vis tolerance in those two countries. The results provide a thought-provoking picture of the views of minority and majority groups…
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Transforming Innovations in Africa
The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) have been appropriated in African societies in order to be acceptable and relevant to local conditions, expectations and demands.
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Optimizing antifungal treatment through pharmacometrics: dosing considerations to enhance outcome
Fungal infections pose a significant threat to individuals with compromised immune systems and despite advancements in diagnosis and treatment, they continue to jeopardize patient’s health.
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Ecology and conservation of spotted hyena in human dominated landscapes in northern Ethiopia
Promotors: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. H. Leirs (Univ. Antwerpen), Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh
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Printed Keyboard Intabulations of Secular Vocal Works and Dances in 16th-century Italy
Understanding the nature, characteristics and function of the secular vocal intabulations and dances found in Italian printed keyboard sources in the 16th century
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Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Dreizehnter Band
Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten, Dreizehnter Band. Herausgegeben von F.A.J Hoogendijk und A. Jördens. Zusammengestellt von J.M.S. Cowey und F.A.J. Hoogendijk (Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2017).
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LUCAS PhD Community
As a PhD, there are many ways to participate in the academic life of the Institute and the University. We strongly encourage you to do this, as it will greatly enrich your PhD period. LUCAS has a vibrant PhD community, which organizes several initiatives. All PhDs are warmly invited to join, either…
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Higgs dynamics in the early universe
In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.
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Insights from scanning tunneling microscopy experiments into correlated electron systems
This thesis presents insights from our study of various correlated electron systems with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). In ordinary metals, electron-electron interactions exist, but get substantially screened due to the sheer number of electrons.
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Interaction between legal systems
Interaction between Legal Systems acknowledges that law-making and law enforcement are increasingly taking place on various levels: in a global context, in EU context, on a national level and in a private law framework. These levels influence each other, sometimes directly, on the basis of a hierarchical…
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Constructions Emerging: A Usage-Based Model of The Acquisition of Grammar
This dissertation is concerned with the development of grammar. Starting from a usage-based perspective, which holds that children use domain-general learning mechanisms to acquire the grammatical patterns of their mother tongue, Beekhuizen shows how to operationalize various concepts from this tradition…
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
Autophagy is a fundamental degradative process, maintaining cellular homeostasis and functions in host defense against intracellular pathogens, including mycobacteria and Salmonella.
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Language diversity in the psycholinguistic study of sentence form variation
On the 12th of December, Eleanor Dutton successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Eleanor on this achievement.
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Unde venisti? The Prehistory of Italic through its Loanword Lexicon
On the 1st of November, Andrew Wigman successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Andrew on this achievement!
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How does the brain process smartphone interactions?
Smartphone behaviors are so common but how does the brain generate this behavior? The Cognition in the digital environment laboratory (CODELAB) investigated the brain activity surrounding smartphone interactions with the help of Artificial Intelligence. According to their research, the brain fluidly…
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The development of the speech production mechanism in young children: evidence from the acquisition of onset clusters in Dutch
On October 31st, Margarita Gulian succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Margarita on this great result.
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The Legend of Saint Aūr and the Monastery of Naqlūn: The Copto-Arabic Texts
Clara ten Hacken defended her thesis on 16 December 2015
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Institutional trust
Trust in public institutions in the Tata Steel case and beyond
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'We are already 1-0 behind': Perceptions of Dutch Muslims on Islamophobia, securitisation, and de-radicalisation
This article presents the findings of an explanatory study into the perceptions of Dutch Muslims in The Hague concerning pre-emptive counter-extremism and de-radicalisation policies.
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Remote prototype labs and student engagement and achievement in higher education
How do learners engage during project-based learning (PBL) and what is the impact of PBL on their learning outcomes?
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When Art Isn’t Real
How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
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First-pass and systemic metabolism of cytochrome P450 3A substrates in neonates, infants, and children
Growth and development affect the metabolism of drugs administered to neonates, infants, and children.
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Perovskite-based Photoelectrochemical Investigations for Artificial Photosynthesis
Inspired by natural photosynthesis, perovskite-based photoelectrochemical (PEC) systems are being developed for artificial photosynthesis, aiming to enhance solar-to-hydrogen conversion for green energy.
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A community computational challenge to predict the activity of pairs of compounds
Source: Nat Biotechnol, Volume 32, Issue 12, pp. 1213-22 (2014)
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Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism
The eleven innovative essays in this volume explore the notion that all forms of modern mass politics, including liberal democracies, need such a form of sacralization of politics to function.
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Gut Feelings: Vagal Stimulation Reduces Emotional Biases
Stimulating the vagus nerve, which provides a direct link between the gut and brain, makes people pay less attention to sad facial expressions. This research study by psychologists Katerina Johnson and Laura Steenbergen is published in the journal Neuroscience, and made it to the cover.
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Lab facilities Social and Organisational Psychology
Observational, cognitive and physiological measurements in social contexts.
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Behavioral Public Administration Lab
The Behavioral Public Administration Lab (BPA Lab) conducts behavioral science to generate, share, and apply insights about human behavior to improve governance, policy, and management in the public sector.
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The Acquisition of English Vowels by Javanese and Sundanese Native Speakers
On February 19th, Arum Perwitasari succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Arum on this great result.