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‘Participation and Learning in Detention (PALD)’
European legislation stipulates that the deprivation of liberty is a sufficient punishment entailing that all other aspects of prison life should be as similar as possible to life outside prison.
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(Dis)Information and Governance
The public sphere in contemporary society has shifted dramatically in the past two decades, and these changes have had an impact on the functioning of democracy.
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A General Theory for Distributed Reactive Programming
Reactive programming is getting ever more popular. Many frameworks and programming languages exist. However, most of them are:
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Accurate and Intelligent State-of-X estimation – Including Sensing Techniques
The integration of smart functionalities plays an essential role to increase safety, reliability and cycle life of lithium ion batteries.
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Alternative chemistries for self-healing materials
At the Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science (FYSC) research group we have years of experience using the reversible Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction between furan and maleimide functional groups to create polymer network systems that could be formed in a dynamically reversible fashion.
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Analytic theory of tensor C*-categories
Tensor C*-categories are categories with a monoidal structure and a compatible operator algebra structure on their endomorphism spaces. One instance of a tensor C*-category is obtained by considering the category of finite dimensional representations of a compact group.
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Architecture and War in Early Modern Europe
Pieter Martens’ research is concerned with military architecture, engineering, urbanism, siege warfare and urban iconography in early modern Europe (1450-1700). His research has focused mainly on the Low Countries, within a European perspective.
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Asymmetric, Organocatalytic Halofluorination of Alkenes
About one third of all new active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in drug applications contain one or more fluorine substituents. Furthermore, the three-dimensional structure (i.e. stereochemistry) of those APIs is becoming significantly more complex.
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Audiovisual Fiction and Politics
While interplays between politics and media are widely acknowledged, recent scholarly attention has gone overwhelmingly to traditional non-fiction media such as documentary film, television news and journalism.
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Bio/inorganic interfaces at the molecular level; The special case of amino acids and amorphous oxides
Despite the intensive experimental work performed on peptide bond formation using silica, clays, alumina and other materials as catalysts, there is still no detailed molecular picture available for these processes.
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