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On the efficacy of digitized storybooks for young learners with attention problems
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Scholarly Dogmatism: A Rhetorical History, 1800-2000
This project traces how, why, and under what circumstances scholars invoked the trope of “dogmatism,” especially in controversies. Relevant controversies from various fields, periods, and countries will be subjected to in-depth rhetorical analysis.
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Sustainability in Research
duurzaamheidsthema's onderzoek
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Crime and Migration in an Age of Transformation
The nineteenth century truly was an age of transformation. Throughout Europe processes of industrialization and urbanization, nationalization and centralization, changed the structures of society. It was an age in which the number of people living in urban communities grew substantially.
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Remote sensing-based assessment of functional diversity for polar ecosystems
1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…
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‘Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze’ revisited
The current project aims to revive the idea that sound inventories are structured according to a small set of universal principles by applying insights from current phonological theory and by making use of modern database technologies and data assessing methodologies.
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Differences that make all the difference: Gender and Migration
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Exile memories
This subproject examines how memories of flight and persecution shaped new social and religious identities in the Netherlands.
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Targeted biomolecule production for therapeutic use
We aim to develop a drug-delivery method based on the production of biomolecules directly at the target site.
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Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections
The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.
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Perception of multidimensional speech sounds in humans and songbirds
Do humans and zebra finches share cognitive mechanisms that are important for speech perception?
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Research assessment
As part of the process of safeguarding the quality of our research, our institutes are audited regularly by a committee of external experts.
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From methanol to medicine – Sustainable microbial production of polyketide antibiotics
Can the pink-pigmented microbe Methylobacterium extorquens be genetically engineered to convert the sustainable raw material methanol into antibiotics?
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Information Flows along the Central African Republic – DR Congo border
How do Central African refugees navigate through uncertainty in a new and hostile environment in the DR Congo?
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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 mechanism of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of eukaryotic cells
We aim to unravel the molecular mechanisms involved in the transformation of eukaryotic cells by Agrobacterium.
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Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature and the Arts Vol. 1
The first of the two volumes of this co-authored study has just been published by Metzler. The study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity.
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Taalportaal (Language Portal)
This proposal aims at the construction of a comprehensive and authoritative scientific grammar for Dutch and Frisian in the form of a virtual language institute: het Taalportaal/the Language Portal.
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Episcopal social networks and patronage in late antique Egypt: Bishops of the Theban region at work
The proposed research project examines the social role of two monk-bishops in seventh-century Egypt, Abraham of Hermonthis and Pesynthios of Koptos, by reconstructing their social networks on the basis of their archival documents.
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Understanding the uptake and internal distribution of metallic nanoparticles in Danio rerio larvae
The aim is to discover where differently shaped metal nanoparticles distributes in Danio rerio, linking the distribution with genomic responses and so come up with a Mode of Action.
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Bhattacharyya Lab - Quantum transport in 2D materials
The research group of Semonti Bhattacharyya at the Leiden Institute of Physics studies quantum transport measurements in Van der Waals heterostructures.
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Founding an Inclusive Space: Legacies of Alternative Archiving Practices in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom
The project ‘Founding an Inclusive Space’ investigates the histories of various LGBT+ archives in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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Neurogenomics of vocal learning
How does FoxP1 affect auditory perception on a behavioural and genomic level?
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Live or let die: the intracellular fate of pathogenic mycobacteria
How do mycobacteria subvert the defenses of host immune cells?
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Prosody in whispered speech: retrieving alternative cues to pitch
The goal of this study is to systematically investigate how intonation (speech melody) is conveyed in whispered speech.
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Institute for Chemical Immunology
Overkleeft
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Experimental Linguistics
How do we process language and speech? How do we integrate information at different levels – intonation, sentence structure, meaning, tone, words, sounds - and how does information at one level interact with information at another level?
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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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Gibbs processes and applications
Gibbs processes, g-measures, fuzzy Gibbs states
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Longitudinal brain development (Brain Time study)
How is structural and functional brain development related to behavioral change in cognitive-control, impulse regulation, and socio-emotional functioning?
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Frontiers of Nanoscience (NanoFront)
Can we make quantum devices from quantum surprises? And can we explore and build life from the nanoscale up?
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Pottery in Hellenistic Alexandria
This publication brings together two contributions born of different intentions but which are both dedicated to Hellenistic pottery of the Alexandria region.
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Memory in Early Modern Europe 1500 - 1800
For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone.
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Who we are
The Risk and Regulation Lab is co-directed by:
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De-escalation of value conflict: Justice and intervention
What are the mechanisms involved in the reconciliation of value conflicts and which interventions are capable of resolving such disputes?
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Escher and the Droste effect
Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher
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Arabic and its Alternatives
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.
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FragmEndoscopy: Medieval fragments in early modern book spines
During the early modern period, many medieval manuscripts were cut up into strips of parchment which were reused to reinforce the bindings of newly printed books. Until recently, these reused pieces of medieval manuscripts only came to light when the early modern book binding was damaged and/or subjected…
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Change Leadership in times of crisis
Public organizations have been confronted with severe budget cuts as a result of the most recent crisis. Public managers are tasked with the implementation of cutbacks. Using different case studies within Dutch ministries and the prison sector, we assess public managers’ change leadership in times of…
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Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Μodern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth
Barbarism: from the 18th century to the present.
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Between duress and interconnectivity: Mbororo refugees at the Cameroun-CAR border
French title: Entre la “détresse’’ et l’inter-connectivite : le case de Mbororo réfugies sur les frontières Cameroun-Centrafrique. This research project investigates the meaning of duress in the lives of nomadic refugees in Cameroon and investigates if and how the accessibility of new ICT’s allow them…
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Protecting democracy in Europe
It can no longer be taken for granted that EU member states are stable democracies. What should the EU do to protect democracy given increasing democratic backsliding in some member states?
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Gender differences in crime and prosecution policies in 19th century Europe
My current research focuses on criminality and gender interactions in nineteenth-century Europe. This project uses a comparative methodology to explain gender constructions in a criminal and in a court setting.
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Macromolecular Biochemistry
Macromolecular Biochemistry is a section of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University, comprising the PIs Marcellus Ubbink, Remus Dame, Aimee Boyle, Lars Jeuken and Anne Wentink.
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Postdoctoral Researcher on the Adaptive Capacities of States to Transboundary Crises
Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Public Administration
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Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders
In 'Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800', Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, both of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and also affiliated with the History Institute of Leiden University, assemble an internationally acclaimed selection of authors,…
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Beyond Utopia: New politics, the politics of knowledge and the science fictional field of Japan
This project aims to uncover a series of sites of difference and innovation. In particular, it locates itself in two kinds of distancing: geo-cultural (ie. in the non-European space of Japan) and medial (ie. in innovative expressive media).
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Beyond the Myth of Westphalia: States, International Law, and the Monopolization of the Right to Wage War
States, we are told, have monopolized the legal right to wage war since the seventeenth century and this arrangement has provided some basic stability in international relations. But is this really true? This project challenges this classic account and opens the way for rethinking the contemporary laws…
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Dynastic Juniors in Europe and Asia
Subproject of