Assessing dimensions of inclusion from students’ perspective – measurement invariance across students with learning disabilities in different educational settings

in European Journal of Special Needs Education (2020), 35(3), 187302

Schumann's Eck - an interactive documentary

Computer development (2020)

Interactive web documentary realised by the students of the Bachelor Course in Contemporary History of Luxembourg (Summer Semester 2019) in collaboration with the National Museum of Military History ... [more ▼]

Interactive web documentary realised by the students of the Bachelor Course in Contemporary History of Luxembourg (Summer Semester 2019) in collaboration with the National Museum of Military History, Diekirch. [less ▲]

A stereo perception framework for autonomous vehicles

in 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring) (2020)

Photoluminescence-Based Method for Imaging Buffer Layer Thickness in CIGS Solar Cells

in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (2020)

Befangene Dichter, befangene Texte? Guillaume de Machauts Jugement im Verdacht mäzenatischer Befangenheit

Scientific Conference (2020)

Gut microbiome signatures of risk and prodromal markers of Parkinson's disease

in Annals of Neurology (2020)

Objective: Alterations of the gut microbiome in Parkinson disease (PD) have been repeatedly demonstrated. However, little is known about whether such alterations precede disease onset and how they relate ... [more ▼]

Objective: Alterations of the gut microbiome in Parkinson disease (PD) have been repeatedly demonstrated. However, little is known about whether such alterations precede disease onset and how they relate to risk and prodromal markers of PD. We investigated associations of these features with gut microbiome composition. Methods: Established risk and prodromal markers of PD as well as factors related to diet/lifestyle, bowel function, and medication were studied in relation to bacterial α-/β-diversity, enterotypes, and differential abundance in stool samples of 666 elderly TREND (Tübingen Evaluation of Risk Factors for Early Detection of Neurodegeneration) study participants. Results: Among risk and prodromal markers, physical activity, occupational solvent exposure, and constipation showed associations with α-diversity. Physical activity, sex, constipation, possible rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), and smoking were associated with β-diversity. Subthreshold parkinsonism and physical activity showed an interaction effect. Among other factors, age and urate-lowering medication were associated with α- and β-diversity. Physical inactivity and constipation were highest in individuals with the Firmicutes-enriched enterotype. Constipation was lowest and subthreshold parkinsonism least frequent in individuals with the Prevotella-enriched enterotype. Differentially abundant taxa were linked to constipation, physical activity, possible RBD, smoking, and subthreshold parkinsonism. Substantia nigra hyperechogenicity, olfactory loss, depression, orthostatic hypotension, urinary/erectile dysfunction, PD family history, and the prodromal PD probability showed no significant microbiome associations. Interpretation: Several risk and prodromal markers of PD are associated with gut microbiome composition. However, the impact of the gut microbiome on PD risk and potential microbiome-dependent subtypes in the prodrome of PD need further investigation based on prospective clinical and (multi)omics data in incident PD cases. [less ▲]

Probing the stability and magnetic properties of magnetosome chains in freeze-dried magnetotactic bacteria

in Nanoscale Advances (2020)

History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet.

Book published by De Gruyter (2020)

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still ... [more ▼]

This book focuses on the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from its origins in the mid-19th century to nowadays. ITU was the fi rst international organization ever and still plays a crucial role in managing global telecommunications today. Putting together some of the most relevant scholars in the fi eld of transnational communications, the book covers the history of ITU from 1865 to digital times in a truly global perspective, taking into account several technologies like the telegraph, the telephone, cables, wireless, radio, television, satellites, mobile phone, the internet and others. The main goal is to identify the long-term strategies of regulation and the techno-diplomatic manoeuvres taken inside ITU, from convincing the majority of the nations to establish the offi cial seat of the Telegraph Union bureau in Switzerland in the 1860s, to contrasting the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance (supported by US and ICANN). History of the International Telecommunication Union is a trans-disciplinary text and can be interesting for scholars and students in the fi elds of telecommunications, media, international organizations, transnational communication, diplomacy, political economy of communication, STS, and others. It has the ambition to become a reference point in the history of ITU and, at the same time, just the fi rst comprehensive step towards a longer, inter-technological, political and cultural history of transnational communications to be written in the future. [less ▲]

Autonomous model-based assessment of mechanical failures of reconfigurable modular robots with a Conjugate Gradient solver

in 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2020)

Luxembourg: Grand-Duke Henri’s refusal, in 2008, to sign the bill legalizing euthanasia

in Hazell, Robert; Morris, Bob (Eds.) The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy. European Monarchies Compared (2020)