Frontaliers atypiques dans la Grande-Région SaarLorLux

E-print/Working paper (2016)

The Greater Region is characterised by the singular independence of its labour market between its different sectors. Cross-border commuting across national borders has been facilitated in a tangible way ... [more ▼]

The Greater Region is characterised by the singular independence of its labour market between its different sectors. Cross-border commuting across national borders has been facilitated in a tangible way by the process of European unification, as a result of which the status of cross-border commuters has been defined from the point of view of social and fiscal rights. This definition does not distinguish between border workers who migrate from their "home region" to the neighbouring country and those who come from the neighbouring country to the "home region" to join their place of work. The last-mentioned atypical border phenomenon is becoming increasingly important in the Greater Region. It is therefore in the context of residential mobility and atypical mobility of cross-border employees that the motivations of the latter as well as questions relating to the spatial organisation of daily practices are analysed in the context of the change of domicile. Aspects of social life at the place of residence will also be investigated and the subjective evaluation of residential migration will be detailed. The evaluation of each of these elements is based on the comparative study of atypical commuting at the border between Luxembourg and Lorraine/Saarland. [less ▲]

Possessions en prêt au Haut Moyen Âge des Abbayes de Gorze et Wissembourg, de 661 à environ 860

E-print/Working paper (2016)

In the medieval world, the abbey had multiple meanings. On the one hand, it was a place of spiritual life where the abbey community lived, prayed and worked according to the strict ideals of the rule. The ... [more ▼]

In the medieval world, the abbey had multiple meanings. On the one hand, it was a place of spiritual life where the abbey community lived, prayed and worked according to the strict ideals of the rule. The schools, libraries and scriptoriums in which manuscripts were copied and partially decorated, also made it a centre of learning and the spread of knowledge. On the other hand, the abbeys were one of the largest landowners in the Middle Ages and their abbots were not only the superiors of religious communities but also the directors of large economic centres. The endowments for their foundation and donations from royalty or nobility provided the abbeys with considerable property. These assets were by no means a coherent mass in the vicinity of the abbey, but were rather scattered over long distances. The abbeys of Wissembourg and Gorze, through the cartularies that have come down to us, lend themselves to a more precise examination of the abbeys' economy. [less ▲]

Sites du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO dans la Grande Région SaarLorLux

E-print/Working paper (2016)

In 2017, the Greater Region SaarLorLux has no less than twelve sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. They date from different periods, from prehistory to the beginning of the 20th century, and belong ... [more ▼]

In 2017, the Greater Region SaarLorLux has no less than twelve sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. They date from different periods, from prehistory to the beginning of the 20th century, and belong to different categories. Architectural and industrial monuments are part of the Greater Region's World Cultural Heritage, as are squares and entire cities, fortifications and cultural landscapes. The World Heritage sites bear witness to the rich European history and are a sign of the Greater Region's exceptional cultural diversity. They are also exceptionally beautiful and picturesque. Each of the World Heritage Sites is related to many other monuments, while providing its own context, history and spatial, cultural and social coordination system. In recent years, global and transnational aspects have gradually led to the listing of ensembles of sites and cultural landscapes. [less ▲]

Identification, recovery, and refinement of hitherto undescribed population-level genomes from the human gastrointestinal tract

in Frontiers in Microbiology (2016), 7(884),

Linking taxonomic identity and functional potential at the population-level is important for the study of mixed microbial communities and is greatly facilitated by the availability of microbial reference ... [more ▼]

Linking taxonomic identity and functional potential at the population-level is important for the study of mixed microbial communities and is greatly facilitated by the availability of microbial reference genomes. While the culture-independent recovery of population-level genomes from environmental samples using the binning of metagenomic data has expanded available reference genome catalogs, several microbial lineages remain underrepresented. Here, we present two reference-independent approaches for the identification, recovery, and refinement of hitherto undescribed population-level genomes. The first approach is aimed at genome recovery of varied taxa and involves multi-sample automated binning using CANOPY CLUSTERING complemented by visualization and human-augmented binning using VIZBINpost hoc. The second approach is particularly well-suited for the study of specific taxa and employs VIZBINde novo. Using these approaches, we reconstructed a total of six population-level genomes of distinct and divergent representatives of the Alphaproteobacteria class, the Mollicutes class, the Clostridiales order, and the Melainabacteria class from human gastrointestinal tract-derived metagenomic data. Our results demonstrate that, while automated binning approaches provide great potential for large-scale studies of mixed microbial communities, these approaches should be complemented with informative visualizations because expert-driven inspection and refinements are critical for the recovery of high-quality population-level genomes. [less ▲]

Original oder Untertitel? Gleich-Berechtigung aller Kunstsparten: Zwei Beispiele

in Positionen - Texte zur aktuellen Musik (2016), 106

RPSL meets lightning: A model-based approach to design space exploration of robot perception systems

in RPSL meets lightning: A model-based approach to design space exploration of robot perception systems (2016)

The design space of a robotic application defines at a meta level what are all of its possible implementations. Those possibilities are called design alternatives and differ on many different aspects, one ... [more ▼]

The design space of a robotic application defines at a meta level what are all of its possible implementations. Those possibilities are called design alternatives and differ on many different aspects, one being preferred to the other depending on how, where, when or what the application should do. Design Space Exploration (DSE) is the process of reviewing those design alternatives, prior to their implementation, with intention to verify that the set of all design alternatives to be implemented covers all the possible scenarios in which the application is to be executed. In this paper we address two challenges related to DSE, namely, (1) the formal definitions of design spaces, a non-trivial task due to the many dimensions to be taken into consideration, and (2) the automatisation of DSE, that is, enabling a domain expert to review design alternatives corresponding to a given design space effortlessly. In this paper, we address those challenges in the context of robot perception software systems by combining two already existing technologies, namely RPSL for the specification of robot perception system's design spaces and Lightning, a language workbench that we use to formalise RPSL and obtain, from RPSL specifications, corresponding design alternatives. [less ▲]

Expressing Receipt-Freeness and Coercion-Resistance in Logics of Strategic Ability: Preliminary Attempt

in The International Workshop on AI for Privacy and Security (PrAISe), 2016. (2016)

Voting is a mechanism of utmost importance to social processes. In this paper, we focus on the strategic aspect of information security in voting procedures. We argue that the notions of receipt-freeness ... [more ▼]

Voting is a mechanism of utmost importance to social processes. In this paper, we focus on the strategic aspect of information security in voting procedures. We argue that the notions of receipt-freeness and coercion resistance are underpinned by existence (or nonexistence) of a suitable strategy for some participants of the voting process. In order to back the argument formally, we provide logical ``transcriptions'' of the informal intuitions behind coercion-related properties that can be found in the existing literature. The transcriptions are formulated in the modal game logic ATL*, well known in the area of multi-agent systems. [less ▲]

Wechselrahmen : medienhistorische Fallstudien zum Romananfang des 13. Jahrhunderts

Book published by Winter (2016)

Die Studie unternimmt eine medien- und sozialhistorische Neubeschreibung des Erzählanfangs mittelhochdeutscher Romane. Im Kontext der semi-oralen Rezeptions- und Performanzsituation des Mittelalters ... [more ▼]

Die Studie unternimmt eine medien- und sozialhistorische Neubeschreibung des Erzählanfangs mittelhochdeutscher Romane. Im Kontext der semi-oralen Rezeptions- und Performanzsituation des Mittelalters werden Varianzen in der Überlieferung des Texteingangs nicht als Verderbnis betrachtet, sondern ihnen wird eine kommunikative Funktion zugeschrieben. Anhand detaillierter Einzelanalysen dreier Romane aus dem 13. Jahrhundert (Flore und Blanscheflur, Wigalois, Wigamur) wird die erzähltechnische und rezeptionslenkende Funktion des variablen Anfangsrahmens untersucht, die Rückschlüsse auf die (epochenspezifische) Wahrnehmung von Welt erlaubt. Mit dem textanalytischen Modell des ›Wechselrahmens‹ und der detaillierten Betrachtung paratextueller Elemente eröffnet die Studie neue Perspektiven auf den Erzählanfang als integralen Bestandteil des mittelalterlichen Romans. [less ▲]

Reified Input/Output logic - a position paper

in Proceedings of Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Justice (AI4J), collocated at the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016) (2016)

Systems biology integration of proteomic data in rodent models of depression reveals involvement of the immune response and glutamatergic signalling

in Proteomics. Clinical Applications (2016)

Purpose The pathophysiological basis of major depression is incompletely understood. Recently, numerous proteomic studies have been performed in rodent models of depression to investigate the molecular ... [more ▼]

Purpose The pathophysiological basis of major depression is incompletely understood. Recently, numerous proteomic studies have been performed in rodent models of depression to investigate the molecular underpinnings of depressive-like behaviours with an unbiased approach. The objective of the study was to integrate the results of these proteomic studies in depression models to shed light on the most relevant molecular pathways involved in the disease. Experimental design Network analysis was performed integrating pre-existing proteomic data from rodent models of depression. The IntAct mouse and the HRPD were used as reference protein-protein interaction databases. The functionality analyses of the networks were then performed by testing over-represented GO biological process terms and pathways. Results Functional enrichment analyses of the networks revealed an association with molecular processes related to depression in humans, such as those involved in the immune response. Pathways impacted by clinically effective antidepressants were modulated, including glutamatergic signalling and neurotrophic responses. Moreover, dysregulations of proteins regulating energy metabolism and circadian rhythms were implicated. The comparison with protein pathways modulated in depressive patients revealed significant overlapping. Conclusions and clinical relevance This systems biology study supports the notion that animal models could contribute to the research into the biology and therapeutics of depression. [less ▲]