Déconstruction du processus cumulatif et d’amplification des souffrances

Presentation (2014, May)

Le thème de la souffrance occupe une place prépondérante dans les approches socio-écologiques, et biopsychosociales actuelles, les réflexions éthiques sur la qualité de vie et le bien-être et sur la ... [more ▼]

Le thème de la souffrance occupe une place prépondérante dans les approches socio-écologiques, et biopsychosociales actuelles, les réflexions éthiques sur la qualité de vie et le bien-être et sur la recherche du bonheur. Qu’il s’agisse de la fatigue professionnelle ou la fatigue d’être soi, la problématique des souffrances est au cœur des discours et des rapports sociaux. De même, elle est au centre des interventions qui tentent d’y faire face de façon individuelle ou communautaire dans les soins de santé, les soutiens psychologiques, les actions sociales, etc. Le but de cette session qui s’appuyera sur des travaux de recherches empririques, n’est pas de se demander « y a-t-il plus ou moins de souffrance ? », mais plutôt de s’interroger sur l’émergence des souffrances, elles-mêmes produits sociaux, l’identification des facteurs impliqués et la compréhension des processus en jeu. La souffrance est la résultante d’une conduite, elle-même sociale, dont les valeurs culturelles la rendent plus ou moins supportables. Issue d’une vision que l’individu a sur sa propre existence, les déterminants culturels qui contribuent à développer ces souffrances, à les cumuler, les amplifier, les maintenir de génération en génération seront des objectifs auxquels nous chercherons à répondre. Décomposer ces souffrances et comprendre les liens qu’elles peuvent avoir avec une douleur physique, une privation affective, une carence éducative, pourront être des pistes de discussion. Enfin, face aux mobilités, aux multiplicités, nous tenterons de répondre à la question de la souffrance liée au fait de vivre ensemble dans un contexte démographique, économique et politique changeant. [less ▲]

Croyances et pratiques déclarées des futurs enseignants luxembourgeois en regard des apprentissages mathématiques au préscolaire

Presentation (2014, May)

Studying Pre-service Teacher Preparation for Lingusitic Diversity in Education : Methodological and Analytical Reflections

Presentation (2014, May)

HPC platforms @ UL: Overview (as of 2014) and Usage

Presentation (2014, May)

Model and mesh-burden reduction for multiscale fracture: applications to polycrystals, delamination and surgical simulation

Presentation (2014, April 23)

ABSTRACT We present recent results aiming at affording faster and error-controlled simulations of multi scale phenomena including fracture of heterogeneous materials and cutting of biological tissue. In a ... [more ▼]

ABSTRACT We present recent results aiming at affording faster and error-controlled simulations of multi scale phenomena including fracture of heterogeneous materials and cutting of biological tissue. In a second part, we describe methodologies to isolate the user from the burden of mesh generation and regeneration as moving boundaries evolve. Results include advances in implicit boundary finite elements, (enriched) isogeometric extended boundary elements/finite element methods for multi-crack propagation and an asynchronous GPU/CPU method for contact and cutting of heterogeneous materials in real-time with applications to surgical simulation. ABOUT THE PRESENTER In 1999, Stéphane Bordas joined a joint graduate programme of the French Institute of Technology (Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics) and the American Northwestern University. In 2003, he graduated in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics with a PhD from Northwestern University. Between 2003 and 2006, he was at the Laboratory of Structural and Continuum Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2006, he became permanent lecturer at Glasgow University’s Civil Engineering Department. Stéphane joined the Computational Mechanics team at Cardiff University in September 2009, as a Professor in Computational Mechanics and directed the institute of Mechanics and Advanced Materials from October 2010 to November 2013. He is the Editor of the book series “Advances in Applied Mechanics” since July 2013. In November 2013, he joined the University of Luxembourg as a Professor in Computational Mechanics. The main axes of his research team include (1) free boundary problems and problems involving complex geometries, in particular moving boundaries and (2) ‘a posteriori’ discretisation and model error control, rationalisation of the computational expense. Stéphane’s keen interest is to actively participate in innovation, technological transfer as well as software tool generation. This has been done through a number of joint ventures with various industrial partners (Bosch GmbH, Cenaero, inuTech GmbH, Siemens-LMS, Soitec SA) and the release of open-source software. In 2012, Stéphane was awarded an ERC Starting Independent Research Grant (RealTcut), to address the need for surgical simulators with a computational mechanics angle with a focus on the multi-scale simulation of cutting of heterogeneous materials in real-time. [less ▲]

Adaptive methods for multiscale fracture and surgical simulation


Presentation (2014, April 11)

“Negociating Power Relations and Interactional Order in a Retirement Home in France”

Presentation (2014, April 11)

Multiscale simulations of fracture, mesh burden reduction with applications to surgical simulation

Presentation (2014, April 10)

ABSTRACT We present recent results aiming at affording faster and error-controlled simulations of multi scale phenomena including fracture of heterogeneous materials and cutting of biological tissue. In a ... [more ▼]

ABSTRACT We present recent results aiming at affording faster and error-controlled simulations of multi scale phenomena including fracture of heterogeneous materials and cutting of biological tissue. In a second part, we describe methodologies to isolate the user from the burden of mesh generation and regeneration as moving boundaries evolve. Results include advances in implicit boundary finite elements, (enriched) isogeometric extended boundary elements/finite element methods for multi-crack propagation and an asynchronous GPU/CPU method for contact and cutting of heterogeneous materials in real-time with applications to surgical simulation. ABOUT THE PRESENTER In 1999, Stéphane Bordas joined a joint graduate programme of the French Institute of Technology (Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics) and the American Northwestern University. In 2003, he graduated in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics with a PhD from Northwestern University. Between 2003 and 2006, he was at the Laboratory of Structural and Continuum Mechanics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2006, he became permanent lecturer at Glasgow University’s Civil Engineering Department. Stéphane joined the Computational Mechanics team at Cardiff University in September 2009, as a Professor in Computational Mechanics and directed the institute of Mechanics and Advanced Materials from October 2010 to November 2013. He is the Editor of the book series “Advances in Applied Mechanics” since July 2013. In November 2013, he joined the University of Luxembourg as a Professor in Computational Mechanics. The main axes of his research team include (1) free boundary problems and problems involving complex geometries, in particular moving boundaries and (2) ‘a posteriori’ discretisation and model error control, rationalisation of the computational expense. Stéphane’s keen interest is to actively participate in innovation, technological transfer as well as software tool generation. This has been done through a number of joint ventures with various industrial partners (Bosch GmbH, Cenaero, inuTech GmbH, Siemens-LMS, Soitec SA) and the release of open-source software. In 2012, Stéphane was awarded an ERC Starting Independent Research Grant (RealTcut), to address the need for surgical simulators with a computational mechanics angle with a focus on the multi-scale simulation of cutting of heterogeneous materials in real-time. [less ▲]

Pollution and child mortality: the case of tropospheric ozone in sub-Saharan Africa

Presentation (2014, April 03)

Les propriétés stylistiques de "l'écriture blanche"

Presentation (2014, April 02)

Multiculturalisme et démocratie libérale

Presentation (2014, April)

Deux concepts de liberté. Plaidoyer pour une lecture des classiques du libéralisme classique

Presentation (2014, April)

Minors as victims of cross-border human trafficking in Europe

Presentation (2014, April)

The Limits and Possibilities of the Sciences of Education

Presentation (2014, April)

Libéralisme et néo-libéralisme

Presentation (2014, April)

The EU’s trouble with mashups: From disabling to enabling a digital art form

Presentation (2014, March 28)

New tools for editing of digital images, music and films have opened up new possibilities to enable wider circles of society to engage in ’artistic’ activities of different qualities. User generated ... [more ▼]

New tools for editing of digital images, music and films have opened up new possibilities to enable wider circles of society to engage in ’artistic’ activities of different qualities. User generated content (UGC), a term that already transmits a notion of amateur artists, has produced a plethora of new forms of artistic expression. One type of UGC are mashups, which are compositions that combine existing works (often) protected by copyright, and transform them into new original creations. The European legislative framework has not yet reacted to the copyright problems provoked by mashups. Whereas the flexible US fair use doctrine has accommodated mashups rather easily, the strict corset of limitations and exceptions in Art 5 (2)-(3) of the InfoSoc Directive does not leave any, or only very lit-­‐ tle, room for this innovative and widely popular form of artistic expression for commercial or non-­commercial purposes. The paper analyzes the current Euro pean legal framework and identifies its insufficiencies with regard to enabling a legal mashup culture. By comparison with the US approach, an attempt is made to suggest solutions for the European legislator, based on the policy proposals of the EU Commission’s “Digital Agenda” and more recent policy documents (e.g. “On Content in the Digital Market”, “Licenses for Europe”). In this context a distinction is made between noncommercial mashup artists and the emerging commercial mashup scene. [less ▲]

Yoko Ono und die Macht der Kunst

Presentation (2014, March 25)

La petite marchande d’allumettes, le chiffonnier et le paysan, ou comment le canal du Rhône-au-Rhin se révéla être le plus court chemin vers Bourail (Nouvelle-Calédonie).

Presentation (2014, March 14)

Cette intervention est consacrée à l’analyse et à la mise en perspective d’un fait divers criminel que nous avons découvert fortuitement, au cours de nos recherches menées sur les transformations de la ... [more ▼]

Cette intervention est consacrée à l’analyse et à la mise en perspective d’un fait divers criminel que nous avons découvert fortuitement, au cours de nos recherches menées sur les transformations de la vallée du Doubs dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, dans le cadre de notre programme de recherche « malaise dans la ville ». En quelques mots, voici les faits : en 1875, un paysan relativement aisé et sa maîtresse, une Bohémienne Sinti, Bellissante Brenet, marchande ambulante, assassinent le mari (Hippolyte Besançon, un chiffonnier) de cette dernière et se débarrassent du corps dans le canal du Rhône-au-Rhin. Le meurtre a lieu à Blussans, village de la vallée du Doubs, situé en aval de Montbéliard. L’affaire s’inscrit dans un contexte particulier, qui est celui de l’industrialisation rapide de L’Isle-sur-le-Doubs. En cette seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, des populations nouvelles affluent dans les bourgs agricoles. Pour beaucoup d’habitants « historiques », il s’agit d’une situation difficile à accepter, ressentie comme une intrusion ; pour nombre d’arrivants, c’est un déracinement, dont les conséquences sont diverses et quelquefois dramatiques. Beaucoup de départements « industriels », notamment ceux de la périphérie métropolitaine, accueillent une forte proportion d’habitants nés hors du département. Ce fait divers est emblématique, à la fois de l’impossibilité de certains nouveaux arrivants à trouver leur place dans les villages en plein changement, de la stigmatisation de certains groupes – les nomades, permanents ou saisonniers –, ainsi que du rôle des nouvelles voies de communication. Ces événements mettent donc en lumière les antagonismes existant entre les membres d’une société villageoise sédentaire et relativement fermée, quoiqu’en voie de déstabilisation, et deux membres d’une communauté de Tsiganes, pour reprendre une dénomination de l’époque. [less ▲]

Contre la nature ontologique des catégories du lieu et du non-lieu : lorsque les émotions renouvellent la perception des espaces

Presentation (2014, March 14)

L’anthropologue Marc Augé a laissé une empreinte si forte dans la manière d’appréhender l’espace en distinguant deux catégories, à savoir le lieu et le non-lieu, que durant les deux dernières décennies ... [more ▼]

L’anthropologue Marc Augé a laissé une empreinte si forte dans la manière d’appréhender l’espace en distinguant deux catégories, à savoir le lieu et le non-lieu, que durant les deux dernières décennies, il est devenu presque mécanique d’appeler « non-lieu » tout ce qui relève des espaces créés par la modernité : hypermarchés, bretelles d’autoroute, abords des voies périphériques, parkings, zones industrielles, etc. Il faut certes concéder qu’Augé n’a jamais radicalisé la dichotomie « lieu/non-lieu » qu’il avait lui-même créée. Selon lui, aucune de ces deux catégories n’existe sous une forme pure : « Le lieu et le non-lieu sont des polarités fuyantes : le premier n’est jamais complètement effacé et le second ne s’accomplit jamais totalement. » (Augé 1992, p. 101) C’est, me semble-t-il, une manière d’éluder les problèmes que pose une partition stricte entre ces deux catégories, et surtout une façon d’évincer la présence de l’individu et de ses émotions comme sources d’une appropriation subjective de l’espace. [less ▲]

Mahara@bsce.uni.lu: expériences vécues et leçons apprises

Presentation (2014, March 13)

Un marché de l’emploi intégré? Le travail frontalier et ses dimensions socio-économiques

Presentation (2014, March 13)

« Le concept de domination dans l’appréhension de la maison de retraite : outil ou oeillère ? »

Presentation (2014, March 11)

The role of national courts for the protection of consumers: a European Union law perspective

Presentation (2014, March 03)

This paper presents the case-law of the Court of Justice on the powers of national courts to raise ex officio protective provisions of consumer contract law. It demonstrates the implications of this ... [more ▼]

This paper presents the case-law of the Court of Justice on the powers of national courts to raise ex officio protective provisions of consumer contract law. It demonstrates the implications of this jurisprudence for national procedural laws. [less ▲]

Concurring jurisdiction, ne bis in idem and transfer of criminal proceedings

Presentation (2014, March)

Non-cognitive assessment and 21st century skills. A research agenda

Presentation (2014, March)

Gas und Geld – Finanzierungspraktiken der Biogaserzeugung

Presentation (2014, February 22)

Fonctions d'agrégation pour l'aide multicritère à la décision

Presentation (2014, February 21)

Raumverhältnisse der Biogaserzeugung

Presentation (2014, February 19)

« Savoirs d’expertise et rapport aux savoirs dans la prise en charge des personnes âgées à l’heure de l’ humanisation des maisons de retraite »

Presentation (2014, February 11)

They Even Gave Us Pork Cutlets for Breakfast: Foreign Tourists Easting Practices in Socialist Romania of the 1960s-1980s

Presentation (2014, February 07)

Sustainable Migration Policies

Presentation (2014, February)

Nonparametric estimation of returns to scale

Presentation (2014, January 30)

On equidistribution of signs and the Sato-Tate conjecture

Presentation (2014, January 27)

The talk concerns our joint work with Sara Arias-de-Reyna and Ilker Inam about the equidistribution of signs of coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms. The basic idea is to apply the Shimura ... [more ▼]

The talk concerns our joint work with Sara Arias-de-Reyna and Ilker Inam about the equidistribution of signs of coefficients of half-integral weight modular forms. The basic idea is to apply the Shimura lift to get into integral weight modular forms, where one can make use of the Sato-Tate theorem. The importance of error terms for the Sato-Tate theorem is stressed in this context. [less ▲]

Historique des apprentissages en éducation musicale

Presentation (2014, January 20)

Phonon dispersion and optical properties of layered materials: influence of the environment

Presentation (2014, January 16)

Forschungsbasierte Lehre im BScE

Presentation (2014, January 10)

Pour les écoles. Avec les écoles. Dans les écoles. La conférence abordera le concept de « l’enseignant-chercheur » du Bachelor en Sciences de l’Education (BScE) et donnera un aperçu de quelques projets ... [more ▼]

Pour les écoles. Avec les écoles. Dans les écoles. La conférence abordera le concept de « l’enseignant-chercheur » du Bachelor en Sciences de l’Education (BScE) et donnera un aperçu de quelques projets réalisés dans le cadre des ateliers d’apprentissage (Lehr-Lernwerkstätten) en illustrant la perspective de différents participants (étudiants, parents, enseignants de l’école fondamentale et du BScE). Conférence multilingue en luxembourgeois, allemand et français. Une traduction simultanée en français sera offerte. [less ▲]

Komplexes Problemlösen im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht

Presentation (2014, January)

Qualitätssicherung der Itementwicklung zur Überprüfung der luxemburgischen Bildungsstandards

Presentation (2014, January)

Benefits of computer-based assessment. Perspectives and examples

Presentation (2014, January)

Zehntropie

Presentation (2014, January)

Die Online-Testplattform OASYS

Presentation (2014, January)

Commodity taxation and regulatory competition

Presentation (2014, January)

The police: Are they doing a good job?

Presentation (2014, January)

Social and Educational Sciences and the Problem of Change

Presentation (2014)

War Children in the War and the Post-war

Presentation (2014)

Great Expectations: The Persistent Effect of Institutions on Culture

Presentation (2014)

This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the ... [more ▼]

This research exploits the event of immigration to establish that institutions have a persistent effect on culture. It is argued that immigrants coming from corrupt countries, tend to overtrust the institutions at the host country. This inflated trust of immigrants is documented as the Great Expectations effect. This result is interesting and intriguing for several reasons. First, it highlights the persistent effect of institutions (at the origin country) on the cultural attitudes of immigrants. Interestingly, this effect is rather persistent and can be detected even to the second generation immigrants. Second, the analysis explores whether mean attitudes at the origin country have an effect on immigrants' attitude. The findings suggest that mean attitudes do not confer a statistically significant effect, whereas a horserace between origin institutions and origin culture suggests that it is the effect of institutions that prevails. Last, the analysis establishes that the inflated trust of immigrants affects their political attitudes. Immigrants coming from corrupt countries tend to be less interested in politics, to overtrust the host governments and to be less active in the political arena. In a globalized world where international immigration is rather extensive, pinning down the cultural differences across immigrants and thus the differences in their political attitudes is of an essence. [less ▲]

Dissecting the Act of God: An Exploration of the Effect of Religion on Economic Activity

Presentation (2014)

This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long ... [more ▼]

This research establishes that religiosity has a persistent effect on economic outcomes. First we use a sample of migrants in the US to establish that religiosity at the country of origin has a long lasting effect on the religiosity of migrants. Second, exploiting variations in the inherited component of religiosity of migrants, our analysis uncovers the causal effect of religiosity on economic activity using a panel of countries for the period 1935-2000. The empirical findings suggest that i) church attendance has a positive impact on economic outcomes; ii) religious beliefs in the existence of god, hell, heaven and miracles have no systematic effect on economic outcomes, and iii) stronger faith is associated with prosperity. Moreover we extend our analysis to uncover the channels via which religiosity operates. Notably, the positive effect of religious participation and of stronger faith on economic outcomes operates via the creation of social capital and the development of traits, such as hard work and thrift, that are conducive to growth. [less ▲]

Is what they get, what they want? Freshmen and university’s support services

Presentation (2014)

Sozio-historische Konstruktion des Sozialstaats und der Sozialen Arbeit in Luxemburg

Presentation (2014)

Dynamics of income volatility 1971-2007 in the US: Increasing income instability among the poor

Presentation (2014)