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Science & Cinema
In films kunnen de meest wonderlijke acties plaatsvinden. Maar zijn die acties in de 'echte' wereld ook mogelijk? En in hoeverre houden filmmakers ons voor de gek? Tijdens het Leiden International Film Festival komen film en wetenschap samen.
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Booming cities, new entrepreneurs
Exponential population growth and rapid urbanisation are prompting the development of gigantic African metropolises that must be supplied with resources such as food, water and energy. This creates economic opportunities, drives migration and presents political challenges. Researchers from Leiden combine…
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New student information
You’re about to join Leiden University as a study abroad or exchange student. Make sure you are well prepared and get your studies off to a good start!
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Word order and information structure in New Testament Greek
Ancient Greek is well-known for displaying relatively free word order. This dissertation examines word order variation in the Koine Greek of the New Testament Greek in a variety of domains: declarative clauses, questions and relative clauses. In particular, I examine the way in which word order corresponds…
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Apply for new diploma
A diploma is a valuable document that the University issues only once. If somebody loses his or her diploma, he or she can download a copy in the diploma register.
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New handbook “EU State Aids”
The Europa Instituut is pleased to announce that on 21 November 2016 a new handbook “EU State Aids” (31 Chapters, 1500 pages) was published.
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Towards a “New” Sonic Ecology
How can we let the sonic speak in public urban environments? What is the function and position of sound in our daily encounters with urbanity? How do we experience cities aurally? This was the topic of Marcel Cobussen's inaugural lecture on November 28th, 2016.
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Perfect for designing new molecules
Even a small quantum computer should be able to simulate exactly the properties and behaviour of new molecules. This would take chemistry to an entirely new level. Better solar panels, more powerful batteries, saving lots of energy in the chemical industry: the applications have the potential to transform…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Finding and valorizing new antibiotics using AI
Antibiotics are a class of medicine most people take for granted. But pathogenic bacteria are becoming more and more resistant to our antibiotics, and this poses a great challenge for future treatments. There is thus a great societal need to identify new molecules that can address new targets and be…
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Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality.
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Mesoamerican manuscripts: new scientific approaches and interpretations
Mesoamerican Manuscripts: New Scientific Approaches and Interpretations brings together a wide range of modern approaches to the study of pre-colonial and early colonial Mesoamerican manuscripts. This includes innovative studies of materiality through the application of non-invasive spectroscopy and…
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Formation of synthetic fuel: new insights!
Navarro Paredes
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- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Osteosarcoma: searching for new treatment options
Promotores: B. van de Water; P. Hogendoorn; J. Bovée Co-Promotor: E.H.J. Danen
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Writing Novels under the New Order
On the 31 March 2022 Mr. Taufiq Hanafi successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Lattice Cryptography, from Cryptanalysis to New Foundations
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New Methods for (f)MRI Analysis
Analysis of neuroimaging data requires multiple steps where statistics play a crucial role. The MRI methods research group develops new statistical methods that are accurate, transparent and easy to use.
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Empirical Legal Studies
Empirical Legal Studies in Leiden focuses on building an interdisciplinary community of legal scholars and social scientists who collaboratively explore legal questions on the intersection of law and behavior using a variety of methods.
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Living (Il)legalities in Brazil: : Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge
This book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in Brazil, a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions.
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The quest for new medicines against tuberculosis
Can drug screening for tuberculosis treatment be made more efficient?
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A new window on the Universe
Rottgering
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Towards a New Vision on Public Leadership
In their vision trajectory, the Office for the Senior Civil Service (in Dutch: Bureau Algemene Bestuursdienst) communicated its plan to renew its vision on public leadership. Over the course of 2021, the Leiden Leadership Centre contributed as a scientific partner to the substantiation of this visio…
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New generation alum based vaccine adjuvants
Aluminium-based adjuvants, such as aluminium hydroxide and aluminium phosphate, are well-known for their immune-stimulating properties.
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New perspectives on English in Scotland
Exploring the language of the lower classes in the nineteenth century
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The Articulation of a 'New Neolithic'
The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC)
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Managing the News in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
This special issue of Media History (22-3/4, 2016), co-edited with Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam), develops a new perspective on the early modern communication revolution. It discusses news as a specific kind of information – by its nature continuous, unreliable, and diffuse – which needed…
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Fall of Misinformation Series: Ionica Smeets
Misinformation spreads easily and fast. It gets presented as news, whereas actual news gets dismissed as fake. Conflicting streams of information allows all sides to cherry-pick whatever is most comfortable, boosting degrees of confidence and confusing the deliberation of both politicians and voters.…
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Chronicling novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands, 1500-1850
How did early modern people find out about new knowledge? And did that make them more willing to accept innovation? In the coming years, we will study how and to what effect, new knowledge anchored among the wider public in the early modern Low Countries.
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Six new members join the Young Academy Leiden
We are happy that from September 2022, six new members will join our present group of 23 members. We extend a warm welcome to:
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The infrastructure of news: Newsroom ethnography in Chile
Research on the process and construction of news stories about human rights issues in Latin American newspapers.
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Conquering the fortress: New strategies for the treatment of tuberculosis
Can we exploit the cell death machinery of the host to develop new host-directed anti-TB treatments?
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A much-needed new class of antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the phenomenon that pathogens become insensitive to the antibiotics that we use against them. A growing number of pathogens is becoming resistant, with methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) as the most famous example. But while the threat of AMR represents a slow-moving…
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Smartmix: A new generation of efficient biomedical research
Can we find and commercialise new treatments for chronic disease that affect our ageing population? And how can we customise this research and development programme to the small but highly-developed Netherlands research economy?
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Year in review FSW 2023
In this year in review we show you various projects we're very proud of. Driven by our values at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
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Development of new antibiotics from plant-originated products
Utilization of plant-originated products as new antibiotics
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Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability
Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities.
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Probing new physics in the laboratory and in space
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.
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KORWAR – Northwest New Guinea ritual art according to missionary sources
Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay.
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NO-ESKAPE New Strategies for Overcoming the ESKAPE Pathogens
Natural product inspired antibiotics to address resistance
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Erasmus+ Project on Fact-Checking and Media Literacy
A European cooperation project on disinformation and fact-checking training empowering current and future media and media education professionals, to identify, prevent, and combat fake news spread over digital networks.
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Hunting for new physics in the primordial Universe
This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.
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New publication on arbitration in the EU's external relations
‘Schiedsgerichte in den Aussenverträgen der EU. Neue Entwicklungen unter Einbezug der institutionellen Verhandlungen Schweiz–EU’, Jusletter 28 May 2018
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EU H2020 RISE Social Media Analytics
LIACS is a partner in RISE_SMA, an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).
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International courts in an era of smartphones and social media – improving human rights accountability?
Videos shared on social media have become important evidence to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable. What does this increased use of digital open source evidence mean for the quality of international human rights accountability? Through an innovative experimental design, this project…
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HJD Diplomacy Reading Lists
Since 2006, HJD has made an important contribution to shaping diplomatic studies as an international academic field. Our new HJD Diplomacy Reading List presents a diverse collection of analyses categorized into forty-five topics published in HJD over the years. We hope these lists prove a valuable resource…