Academic Ceremonies March 2010
Promotion dhr. Javier de Cendra de Larragán LL.M.
Faculty of Law
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. M.G. Faure,
- prof.dr. M.G. Peeters.
Thursday 4 March 2010, 10.00 hours
“Distributional choices in EU climate change law and policy. Towards a principled approach?”
This thesis analyses, from the perspective of legal principles, choices made in EU law concerning the distribution of benefits and costs arising from climate change policies. It recommends making a number of changes to EU climate change law, to reduce tensions between choices and principles. Examples are: review EU policy on biofuels, particularly in relation to imported biofuels; review the approach of the EU to burden sharing between Member States, to ensure that old Member States do not profit from past inactions; monitor closely the interactions that may take place among mitigation measures recently adopted, in order to swiftly correct undesired (distributional) impacts; reconsider the EU approach to burden sharing at international level, in particular the equal per capita approach, and start considering at theoretical level the feasibility of EU-wide personal carbon trading.
Key words:
climate change policies, EU law
Promotion mw. Veronique E.J.M. Bruggeman
Faculty of Law
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. M.G. Faure;
- prof.dr. T. Hartlief.
Thursday 4 March 2010, 12.00 hours
“Compensating catastrophe victims; a comparative law and economic approach”
Promotion drs. Gerard J.A.M. Brouns
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. H. Philipsen;
- prof.dr. A. Knotter;
Co-supervisor:
- dr. J.P.M. Diederiks.
Thursday 4 March 2010, 16.00 hours
“Sociaal-Psychiatrische verpleegkunde: de ontwikkeling van een verpleegkundig specialisme in het domein van de Nederlandse sociale psychiatrie”
Promotion drs. Tim G.A.M. Wolfs
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. W.A. Buurman.
Friday 5 March 2010, 12.00 hours
“Toll-like receptors in development, health and disease”
Promotion drs. Franciscus A. Spaapen
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. J.P.M. Geraedts;
co-supervisor:
- dr. J.W. Voncken.
Friday 5 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“Replicating DNA at Top Speed – Chromatin at Risk”
Promotion mw.drs. Yvonne Bol
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. F.R.J. Verhey;
- prof.dr. R.M. Hupperts;
- prof.dr. J.W. Vlaeyen.;
co-supervisor:
- dr. A.A. Duits.
Friday 5 March 2010, 16.00 hours
“Understanding fatigue in multiple sclerosis. From a psychological perspective”
Promotie mw. Lili Bai
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. E. Biessen;
- prof.dr. M.J. Daemen;
co-supervisor:
- dr. S. Heeneman.
Wednesday 10 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“Immunosuppressive and anti-proteolytic therapy in vascular diseases”
Promotion mw. Jessica S. Hagen-Zanker
Faculty of Humanities and Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. C. de Neubourg;
co-supervisor:
- Dr. P. Kaczmarczyk, Warsaw;
- dr. C. Azzarri.
Friday 12 March 2010, 10.00 hours
“Modest expectations; causes and effects of migration on migrant households in source countries”
This research, mainly looking at Albania and Moldova, investigates the reasons why people migrate internationally and send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and how it affects the relationship between family members. It shows that migrant households earn higher incomes after migration, but are worse off in many aspects, e.g. housing. This is because they live in poor, semi-legal conditions and because migration is an expensive investment. Consequently, family solidarity remains high after migration, especially financial and good transfers.
Keywords:
Migration, remittances, Albania, Moldova, family, transfers
Promotion mw.drs. Ruth J.P. Dalemans
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Supervisors:
- Prof.dr. L.P. de Witte;
- Prof.dr. W. van den Heuvel;
- Prof. D. Wade.
Friday 12 March 2010, 12.00 hours
“Stroke survivors with aphasia and their social participation”
Promotie mw. Eva R. Rieter
Faculty of Law.
Promotor:
- prof.mr. Th. Van Boven.
Friday 12 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“Preventing Irreparable Harm Provisional Measures in International Human Rights Adjudication”
Promotion mw.drs. Ingrid J.M. Scheffers
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. P.W. de Leeuw;
co-supervisors:
- Dr. A.A. Kroon;
- dr. J.H.M. Tordoir
Friday 12 March 2010, 16.00 hours
“Carotid baroreflex activation; a novel method to treat resistant hypertension”
Promotion drs. Abdoireza Afrasiabi
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. H.C. Hemker;
- prof.dr. P. Manucci,
- dr. F. Peyvandi, Milan, It.
Wednesday 17 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“Molecular Genetic Analysis of Patients with Rare Bleeding; disorders in South Iran”
Promotion drs. Hans Manner
School of Business and Economics
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. F. Palm;
- prof.dr. J.P. Urbain.
Thursday 18 March 2010, 16.00 hours
“Modeling asymmetric and time-varying dependence”
This research is concerned with developing and extending models for dependencies between economic variables. Many techniques exist to capture such co-movements and this thesis focuses on a class of functions called copulas or dependence functions. Although with the help of copulas one can model and capture very distinct forms of dependence, most of the literature assumes that the type and degree of dependence remains constant over time. This research shows how one can relax this restriction, and it shows the usefulness of these so called time-varying copulas for investment decisions and by studying the contagion of financial crisis.
Key words:
economic variables, copulas
Promotion mw. Ivona Brasnjevic
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. H.W.M. Steinbusch;
co-supervisors:
- dr. B. Rutten.
Friday 19 March 2010, 10.00 hours
“Molecular and cellular alterations in the aging and Alzheimer’s disease brain: implications for therapeutic and preventative strategies”
Promotion dhr. Alvaro Moreno Sánchez
Faculty of Humanities and Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. P. Martens;
co-supervisors:
- Dr. B. Amelung.
Friday 19 March 2010, 12.00 hours
“Climate change and tourism”
Promotion mw.drs. Saskia P.A. Nicolai
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. M.H. Prins;
co-supervisors:
- dr. J.A. Teijink, Eindhoven;
- dr. E.V. Rouwet, EUR.
Friday 19 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“The impact of supervised exercise therapy on intermittent claudication”
Inaugural lecture prof.dr. Thomas Dohmen
Inaugural lecture prof.dr. Thomas Dohmen, appointed Professor Education and the Labor Market and director Researchcentrum voor Onderwijs en Arbeidsmarkt (ROA). Faculty of Business and Economics.
Friday 19 March 2010, 16.30 hours
“Waarom sommigen liever leraar worden en anderen beter geen bankier kunnen worden”
Promotion mw. Pia A.E. Ägren
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. C.E. Blanco;
- prof.dr. L. Zimmermann;
co-supervisors:
- Dr. E. Villamor, dr. A.L. Cogolludo-Torralba, Madrid.
Thursday 25 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“The chicken embryo as a model for ductus arteriosus developmental biology”
Promotion mw.drs. Bea Zoer
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. C.E. Blanco;
- prof.dr. J.G. De Mey
co-supervisors:
- dr. E. Villamor.
Thursday 25 March 2010, 16.00 hours
“Oxygen Stress; effect on pre- and perinatal development and vascular reactivity”
Promotion drs. Martijn Tennekes
Faculty of Humanities and Sciences
Supervisors:
- prof.dr.ir. R.L.M. Peeters;
co-supervisors:
- dr. J.J.M. Derks;
- dr.ir. J. Kuipers;
- dr. F. Thuijsman.
Friday 26 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“Network Formation Games”
Promotion drs. Adrianus H.J. den Reijer
School of Business and Economics.
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. F.C. Palm;
- prof.dr. L.H. Hoogduin, UvA.
Friday 26 March 2010, 16.00 hours
“Macroeconomic Forecasting using Business Cycle Leading Indicators”
Promotion mw.drs. Hélène G.M. Vossen
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisors:
- prof.dr. J. van Os;
- prof.dr. H. Hermens, OUN;
co-supervisor:
- dr. R. Lousberg.
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 12.00 hours
“Cortical processing of pain: a bridge between experimental findings and clinical applications”
Pain is a subjective experience. This means that not only psychical factors but also psychological, cognitive, social and environmental factors influence the way pain is perceived. This subjective character makes direct measurement of pain impossible. Pain Event-Related Potentials (pain-ERP) represent the cortical response to pain and are thought to be a more objective measure compared to self-report measures such as Visual Analogue Scales. However, the pain-ERP is a rather complex measure which contains considerable variability. This variability most probably is caused by other (pain-related) information which needs to be identified. This thesis discusses the use of Event-Related Potentials in pain research. More specifically, it discusses methodological concerns and ideas about unravelling the pain-ERP.
Promotion mw.drs. Magdalena Wullink
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Supervisor:
- prof.dr. G.J. Dinant,
- prof.dr. J. Metsemakers;
- prof.dr. H.M. Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, RUN.
Wednesday 31 March 2010, 14.00 hours
“Towards an inclusive society; healthcare for people with intellectual disability”