1,019 search results for “working from home” in the Public website
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Weidong Zhang on achieving decent work in China
On 23 March 2023 Weidong Zhang defended his thesis in Leiden on achieving decent work in China. This research analyses to what extent China is achieving decent work based on a case study of decent working time. The word ‘achieving’ underlines that China is still in the process of securing this aim.…
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Serge Rombouts: 'AI is learning from brain scans and helping find a diagnosis'
Serge Rombouts is a physicist whose PhD thesis was about functional MRI (fMRI). This visualises activity in regions of the brain. The appealing images of glowing brain regions that emerge from the computer are the result of calculations. According to Rombouts, this isn’t proper artificial intelligence.…
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Conversation with Dr Graça Machel: intergenerational justice from a human rights perspective
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
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The indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago from the first settlers until today
This study relates the vicissitudes of the Amerindian peoples who lived or still inhabit the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, from the earliest occupants, ca. 8000 BC, until at present.
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Alumni exhibit their "Magische Korstmossen" work at Cinekid MediaLab 2021
We are proud to see the work "Magische Korstmossen" by our alumni Carolien Teunisse and Sabrina Verhage exhibited at the Cinekid MediaLab 2021. Via augmented reality, "Magische Korstmossen" lets children interact with the magical world of lichens.
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Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking: Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise
This book is the first comparative study of estimative intelligence and strategic surprise in a European context, complementing and testing insights from previous studies centred on the United States. It does extensive empirical analysis of open-source material and interviews in relation to three cases…
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How to scale clearance from adults to children for drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism?
The aim of this thesis is to expedite and ensure the systematic accuracy of clearance scaling from adults to paediatric patients, with a special focus on drugs undergoing hepatic metabolism.
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How personnel allocation affects performance:Evidence from Brazil's federal protected areasagency
This paper addresses the gap that explores how agencies might allocate their personnel so as to maximise performance with the personnel they have.
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Maya Architecture and Urbanism, a holistic approach from the fields of astronomy and landscape
This work represents the final results of several years of research within the Maya region. It deals with the relations between architecture and urbanism with landscape and astronomy.
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Measuring emotional competence across cultures in children and adolescents from 1 to 15 years old
Development and validation of instruments that can measure different aspects of emotional competence in children with normal and atypical development, and in different cultures
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Far From the Truth: Distance, Information, and Credibility in the Early Modern World
This book examines the critical role of information and knowledge in early modern Europe's global pursuits, exploring challenges in trusting distant information, the development of doubt in intercultural encounters, and the impact of misinformation.
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Netherlands in violation of international convention on work incapacity
The UN is highly critical of the Netherlands over the effect of its Work and Income (Capacity for Work) Act (WIA). Contrary to agreements, workers who are less than 35% incapacitated for work receive no benefits and the income of their partner is taken into account when they apply for welfare benefits.…
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Dutch universities work together in times of corona
How are Dutch universities working together in times of corona, and which solutions are they offering? On 15 May VSNU chairman Pieter Duisenberg presented the e-zine ‘Universities in times of corona’ (LINK) to Ingrid Van Engelshoven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science. The e-zine contains a…
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MOOC: EU Policy and implementation: making Europe work!
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Is it time to amend Dutch work disability system?
The research report by the independent committee on the future of the work disability system in the Netherlands ('Onafhankelijke Commissie Toekomst Arbeidsongeschiktheidsstelsel' (Octas)) was published this week. While the number of people unable to work has dropped considerably, the system is still…
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Executive Board column: Working together to save energy
The rising energy prices cannot have escaped anyone’s notice. They have dominated the news in recent months. As a university, we too face a big challenge as the prices continue to rise. We will all have to do our bit in the coming months, also in view of the climate crisis that we want to help resol…
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Executive Board column: Working on internationalisation with European universities
Our university recently joined the European university alliance Una Europa. Staff from the 11 affiliated universities met in Leiden last week to discuss our collaboration.
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What sets extremists who use terrorist violence apart from those who do not?
This paper contributes on an increasing body of work on radicalisation. It specifically focuses on what distinguishes individuals whose behavioural radicalisation includes involvement in terrorist violence from those whose behavioural radicalisation does not.
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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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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Synthesis of oligosaccharide libraries from GBS capsular polysaccharides for structure-based selection of vaccine candidates
Glycoconjugate vaccines are composed of microbial poly- or oligosaccharides covalently linked to a carrier protein.
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Safe anytime-valid inference: from theory to implementation in psychiatry research
Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.
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TARGETBIO: Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and Engineered DNA from Transgenic Biosystems in Nature
This project aims to assess the risk of spread of antimicrobial resistance genes in the environment derived from currently used synthetic biology approaches in the field of drug discovery.
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LOCVS. Memory and Transience in the Representation of Place From Italic Domus to Artistic Environment
This study links up the concept of place with memory, with the idea of transience and the transition from life to death.
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to estimate the growth effects of economic liberalisation: Evidence from transition economies
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Rok Spruk examine the contribution of institutional reforms to economic growth.
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Regionalism and Modern Europe : Identity Construction and Movements from 1890 to the Present Day
Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present.
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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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From Descriptive to Predictive Pharmacology in Children using Semi-Physiological population modelling
An integrated approach of physiological concepts, advanced statistical approaches and large clinical datasets.
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The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age. Temple - monument - lieu de mémoire
The Iseum Campense, the impressive sanctuary for Isis and the Egyptian gods on the Campus Martius and arguably one of ancient Rome’s most notable absent presences, is a monument central to various debates.
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United in incoherence – Private law concepts under pressure from European financial law
Just published: United in incoherence – Private law concepts under pressure from European financial law (in Dutch), in: Tijdschift voor privaatrecht 2017-4
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Thomas Morgan (1671/2-1743):from Presbyterian Preacher to Christian Deist
Mr. Jan van den Berg defended his thesis on 8 November 2018
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The Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
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Basso continuo sources from the Dutch Republic c. 1620-c1790
Between 1600 and 1800 countless manuals appeared on the subject: the improvised bass part on the harpsichord, pianoforte or organ. Musician and researcher Kathryn Cok unravels the secrets of the Dutch basso continuo accompaniment for modern-day musicians.
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‘I want to do meaningful, intellectually stimulating work’
‘To be honest, I knew very little about the Netherlands when I arrived in 1998. But studying law in Leiden was a very enriching experience.’ Nathalie van den Berge grew up in a number of different European countries, and now works at a UN office in Tanzania, where she lives with her Dutch husband and…
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‘Hiding sexual preference causes more stress at work'
How tolerant is the Netherlands on the work floor? Jojanneke van der Toorn, Professor of the Workplace Pride Chair, the first in the world dealing exclusively with LGBT inclusion in the workplace, answers questions on the International Day against Racism and Discrimination.
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Thirty Sixth Series of the Next Kind of Series
The subject of the research is ‘difference and repetition’, an area which bears a direct relationship to Wjm Kok’s practice, in which the production of work always emerges and passes through series.
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DRIVE: A radical shift in understanding how extremism works
‘We want to say something very different from the norm. We are the radicals now.’ Tahir Abbas is lyric about the DRIVE project he will be leading from Leiden University in The Hague. This is a short introduction to the research that will be carried out in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and the United…
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Transitioning From Military Interventions to Long-Term Counter-Terrorism Policy
These three repors are part of a research project that assesses how military interventions can best prepare the ground for an effective long-term counter-terrorism policy. Three different cases have been studied, and they have each provided the input for the policy relevant recommendations that are…
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(Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch
In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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The Rocky Road from Experience to Expression of Emotions—Women’s Anger About Sexism
Sasse, van Breen, Spears & Gordijn demonstrated an anger gap in response to sexism which was larger for women than for men and found evidence that expressed anger was associated with instrumental concerns.
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Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries
From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…
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Tromble, From Nomadic Traditionalists to Sedentary Scripturalists? Reexamining Ethno-Religious Discourse in Central Asia
Religion and ethnicity are inextricably linked in discourse within and about Central Asia. One common narrative suggests that as a result of differences between historically sedentary and nomadic populations, ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks are naturally more religious and more likely to radicalise than their…
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Feedback from deeply embedded low- and high-mass protostars. Surveying hot molecular gas with Herschel
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Co-Promotor: G.J. Herczeg
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Observing what cannot be observed: computational electrochemistry from carbon to hydrogen
In this thesis, we consider various (electro)chemical phenomena at surfaces and nanoparticles and their underlying atomistic processes, which we studied using first-principles methods such as density functional theory.
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Insights from modeling metabolism and amoeboid cell motility in the immune system
This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.
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Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent
This is the first reference work to describe the history of embroidery throughout Central Asia, the Iranian Plateau and the Indian Subcontinent from the medieval period through to the present. It offers an authoritative guide to all the major embroidery traditions of the region and a detailed examination…
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Discovery of novel Antibiotics from Actinomycetes by Integrated Metabolomics & Genomics Approaches
Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: Y.H. Choi
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The Modern Devotion. Spirituality and Culture from the Late Middle Ages onward
The Modern Devotion: pone of the most influential religious initiatives in the late medieval Low Countries.
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Non-citizen voting rights and political participation of citizens: evidence from Switzerland
In this article, Meier & Nadler suggest that while non-citizen enfranchisement boosts participation across all citizens, citizens with immigration backgrounds are more reactive to the NCV rights in terms of higher turnout. In this way, the paper adds a critical nuance to individual-based explanations…
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formation of complex organic molecules in dense clouds-Sweet results from laboratory
Large areas of space are filled by molecular clouds that consist of gas and dust grains that are the remnants of dead stars. When these clouds start collapsing, the decreasing temperature and increasing density cause gas particles to start accreting onto dust grain surfaces.