Alles ist käuflich! Zur Pathologisierung weiblicher Sexualität im frühen 20. Jahrhundert.

Presentation (2012, July 05)

Projektpräsentation IDENT2 – Regionalisierungen als Identitätskonstruktionen in Grenzräumen

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Transforming Under Growth Pressure: Grassroots Sprawl or Top Down and Smart

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At the turn of the millennium, it was decided that Luxembourg should target four percent economic growth in order to best sustain existing quality of life standards. This target has largely been met as ... [more ▼]

At the turn of the millennium, it was decided that Luxembourg should target four percent economic growth in order to best sustain existing quality of life standards. This target has largely been met as Luxembourg’s growth, which was mainly driven by the financial industry and a non-resident labour force, has averaged around five percent annually. Emerging out of a quasi-rural and industrial landscape, Luxembourg has come under the considerable growth pressures associated with a tertiary economy. It is thus facing particular challenges with respect to sustainable development. As a result, Luxembourg planning officials formulated spatially integrative sustainable development guidelines that postulate a polycentric growth model while targeting sufficient provision of housing, preventing sprawl, preserving green spaces, densifying growth poles, and enhancing public transportation. This research examines these strategies that are designed to manage growth and compares it with existing local land use practices. The small size of the Grand Duchy and narrow functional relationships between the capital city and the rest of the country justify treating the whole country as an integrated city region. The absence of a regional administrative level implies direct and strong policy dependencies between the national political and administrative levels. In this paper, particular attention is given to national policy mechanisms and their translation and implementation at the local level. The analysis reveals a number of challenges particularly with respect to enforcement and interpretation related to existing power relationships and different development visions adopted by the municipalities. Observations of the organization and capital flows of retail and commerce, housing and real estate development patterns, and the governance patterns that structure both illustrate how national smart growth policies of integrated smart growth can turn into grassroots sprawl or a governance of dispersal. [less ▲]

An ethnographic comparison of glocalized French/French-inspired shop names of food and beverage and beauty businesses in Singapore

Presentation (2012, July)

Loosely coupled systems? The public discours on education and its effects.

Presentation (2012, June 29)

Les choix linguistiques en milieu scolaire plurilingue, entre l’explicite et l’implicite

Presentation (2012, June 20)

The epistemic role of experience

Presentation (2012, June 12)

The ECJ and General Principles Derived from the Acquis Communautaire

Presentation (2012, June 01)

Overview of the S-adic conjecture

Presentation (2012, June)

Sustainable Spatial Development: Discourse Yes, Implementation Maybe

Presentation (2012, June)

This paper presents progress achieved within the context of SUSTAINLUX (a research project funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg) and collaborative studies with the Worcester Polytechnic ... [more ▼]

This paper presents progress achieved within the context of SUSTAINLUX (a research project funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg) and collaborative studies with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.The research has aimed at critically examining the approach of sustainable development, in the context of Luxembourg’s urban and regional governance structures (Carr, Hesse, and Schulz 2010), that have transformed and rescaled (Brenner 1999) against tertiarization of the economy, and Europeanization of the political arena (Schulz 2009; Becker forthcoming) – processes that have had significant impact on the affordability of housing and infrastructure for mobility. To date, the research methods have included mapping the literature and actors relevant to the sustainable integrated development discourse in Luxembourg, performing interviews with practitioners in the field and exploring the role and limitations of this normative discourse in Luxembourg’s social spatial transformation (Carr 2011). Particular attention was paid to structures of decision-making and its relationship to the prevailing real estate market. In addition, comparative research was performed in collaboration with Prof. Krueger. This presentation will talk about the results and conceptualize them within the framework of policy mobility, as has been discussed in recent literature such as Ward (2006), Temenos and McCann (forthcoming), and González (2010). In this way, clear barriers to implementation to sustainable development goals can be identified. References Becker, Tom. forthcoming. “Europäisierung der Städtepolitik ? Das Beispiel ‚CIPU’ in Luxemburg.” Europa Regional. Brenner, Neil. 1999. “Global as Reterritorialisation: The Re-Scaling of Urban Governance in the European Union.” Urban Studies 36(3):431-451. Carr, Constance. 2011. “Luxembourg Sustainable Spatial Development Policy: General Milestones and Circuits.” Laboratoire de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire. Carr, Constance, Markus Hesse, and Christian Schulz. 2010. “Sustainable Spatial Development in Luxembourg (SUSTAINLUX).” Laboratoire de Géographie et Aménagement du Territoire. Retrieved (http://wwwen.uni.lu/research/flshase/laboratoire_de_geographie_et_amenagement_du_territoire/research/ongoing_projects). González, Sara. 2010. “Bilbao and Barcelona ‘in Motion’. How Urban Regeneration ‘Models’ Travel and Mutate in the Global Flows of Policy Tourism.” Urban Studies 1-22. Schulz, Christian. 2009. “Luxemburgs Wirtschaft.” Pp. 116-117 in Der Luxemburg Atlas du Luxembourg, edited by Patrick Bousch et al. Calbe: Hermann-Josef Emons Verlag. Temenos, Christina, and Eugene McCann. forthcoming. “The local politics of policy mobility: Learning, persuasion, and the production of a municipal sustainability fix.” Environment and Planning A. Ward, Kevin. 2006. “‘Policies in Motion’, Urban Management and State Restructuring: The Trans-Local Expansion of Business Improvement Districts.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30(1):54-75. [less ▲]

On modular Galois representations modulo prime powers

Presentation (2012, May 30)

Assessment of 21st century skills

Presentation (2012, May 24)

L’influence du droit de la consommation sur le droit des obligations, une conséquence de la régionalisation du droit des contrats

Presentation (2012, May 10)

Large-scale assessments and Collaborative Problem Solving: An impossible mix?

Presentation (2012, May 04)

Correlation functions of the spin misalignment in magnetic small-angle neutron scattering

Presentation (2012, May)

Integrated “omics” for uncovering cryptic ecological and evolutionary processes in mixed microbial communities

Presentation (2012, May)

Vision/Respective on the Egyptian Constitutional Draft Articles

Presentation (2012, May)

The consequences of the accession of the EU to the ECHR on the jurisdictional architecture of Europe

Presentation (2012, April 20)

L'apprentissage du français en contexte multilingue (dans la formation des enseignants au Luxembourg)

Presentation (2012, April)

Bilingualism Enriches the Poor: Enhanced Cognitive Control in Low-Income Minority Children

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Urban Development in Luxembourg: sustaining ambiguous fault lines of power

Presentation (2012, April)

Do mothers, grandmothers and adolescents in Germany and Poland differ in their ideas about having children or not? A closer look at the negative Value-of-Children and its further implications.

Presentation (2012, March 29)

Whereas reasons for having children, i.e. positive VOC, have been a central focus within the framework of the Value-of-Children approach, reasons for not having children, namely negative VOC, have been ... [more ▼]

Whereas reasons for having children, i.e. positive VOC, have been a central focus within the framework of the Value-of-Children approach, reasons for not having children, namely negative VOC, have been given less attention so far. Perceived negative aspects of parenthood may, however, be of particular importance for the individual decision of having children or not, and may be related to the actual quality of intergenerational relationships. The aim of the present study was therefore to focus explicitly on negative VOC and to examine in how far negative aspects of having children are related to further variables characterizing intergenerational relationships in three different cohorts (mothers of adolescents, mothers of small children and adolescents) living in western and eastern Germany as well as in Poland. Participants took part in the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary Value-of-Children study. The study design allowed taking into account not only generational/cohort and country effects, but also effects of social change. A comparison of the reasons for not having children (negative VOC) between the different subsamples showed that whereas roughly the same negative aspects were most prominent in all subsamples (with problems related to job being rated highest by all participants), young mothers from West Germany and mothers from Poland as well as adolescents from all three subsamples were overall more bothered about having children compared to old and young mothers from East Germany and old mothers from West Germany. Higher negative VOC went along with mothers’ reported ideal number of children or with the actual number of children in the German mother subsamples. Negative aspects of having children had also an impact on adolescents’ ideas about having children: Whereas in Germany, adolescents’ intention of having children (or not) in the future was related to the level of negative VOC, in Poland, apart from that also the intended number of future children was related to negative VOC. [less ▲]

Challenges and potentialities of online archives

Presentation (2012, March)

Luxembourg Governance through Sustainable Development Policy Mobility

Presentation (2012, March)

Students' transition from primary to secondary school: Cognitive determinants and prognostic validity of teachers' transition decision

Presentation (2012, March)

Singular representation and teleosemantics

Presentation (2012, February 17)

Differences between Dyscalculic children, Typical Children and Adults during a Visuo-Spatial and Addition task

Presentation (2012, February 17)

Französisch in Kindergarten und Grundschulen – wie können wir Brücken zum Elternhaus bauen?

Presentation (2012, February 02)

Four lectures on modular forms and Galois representations

Presentation (2012, February)

Status of the Somalia Piracy under International Humanitarian Law

Presentation (2012, February)

Symplectic Galois representations and applications to the inverse Galois problem

Presentation (2012, January 19)

Méthodes géométriques pour la résolution d’une équation aux dérivées partielles

Presentation (2012, January)

Vivre à domicile, deux ans après un AVC : Etude auprès des patients et des aidants du Luxembourg.

Presentation (2012)

Au Luxembourg, une recherche pluridisciplinaire a été réalisée auprès de 797 personnes victimes d’un accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC). Une enquête nationale a été menée comportant un volet ... [more ▼]

Au Luxembourg, une recherche pluridisciplinaire a été réalisée auprès de 797 personnes victimes d’un accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC). Une enquête nationale a été menée comportant un volet épidémiologique effectué par le CRP-Santé, qui a rassemblé des données médico-administratives et des données cliniques issues des dossiers d’hospitalisation, et un volet de sociologie médicale par l’Université qui a interrogé 94 patients vivant au domicile, deux après la survenue de l’AVC, et leurs 62 aidants informels principaux. Des recommandations majeures de santé publique et de politiques sociales peuvent être formulées sur la nécessité de mettre en place : 1) un système de surveillance des AVC, indispensable pour orienter les politiques de santé en termes de promotion, prévention et intervention; 2) une filière de soins AVC plus visible, mieux structurée et coordonnée; 3) un suivi social et éducatif par un « gestionnaire des familles AVC » (patients, mais aussi et surtout aidants) et des aides financières pour développer un véritable soutien à domicile à moyen et long terme; 4) une prévention primaire en faveur des aidants que les souffrances physiques, psychiques et la faible qualité de vie sociale amènent à devenir une « population à risque » du système de santé, situation qui touche directement, ou sera susceptible de concerner dans un avenir proche, la plus grande partie d'entre nous. [less ▲]

Wann lohnt ein Umstieg von aerober Schlammstabilisierung auf Schlammfaulung?

Presentation (2012)

Präsentation der Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes SORES - Social responsibility as a strategicc concept of prevention work.

Presentation (2012)

Die Ko-Konstruktion von Qualität im Handlungsfeld der Offenen Jugendarbeit. Eine neo-institutionalistische Fallanalyse.

Presentation (2012)

Wenn Lehrer sich verschätzen : Warum Lehrkräfte die Intelligenz ihrer Schülerinnen und Schüler falsch einschätzen : Und welche Folgen das hat.

Presentation (2012)

Präsentation der Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojektes SORES -Social responsibility as a strategic concept of prevention work-

Presentation (2012)

Die Studie befasste sich mit der Frage, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen es mit Hilfe von Kampagnen gelingt, durch lokale Netzwerkbildung bei Erwachsenen eine soziale Verantwortung für Gefährdungen von ... [more ▼]

Die Studie befasste sich mit der Frage, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen es mit Hilfe von Kampagnen gelingt, durch lokale Netzwerkbildung bei Erwachsenen eine soziale Verantwortung für Gefährdungen von Jugendlichen durch Alkoholkonsum zu entwickeln und zu stärken. Die Evaluation der Kampagne und ihrer Wirkungen setzte bereits bei der Frage nach den organisationalen Managementprozessen der Kampagne an, befasste sich mit der Identifizierung und Analyse der lokalen Netzwerke und schloß mit einer Untersuchung der Perspektiven und Reaktionen der Jugendlichen auf die Kampagne. [less ▲]

Modeling default correlation in a US retail loan portfolio

Presentation (2012)

Session: Border Studies meet Migration Studies: Similarities and Differences

Presentation (2012)

Making meaning of war experiences: Polish ex-combatants settled in Belgium and in Poland

Presentation (2012)

East-West Comparisons

Presentation (2012)

In their own words. War experiences of Polish child forced labourers

Presentation (2012)

Tělesnost a politika

Presentation (2012)

Paper presentation: Teachers and Nationalisation in Belgian-German and Polish-German Borderlands

Presentation (2012)

Border Studies meet Migration Studies? Similarities and Differences

Presentation (2012)

Modeling default correlation in a US retail loan portfolio

Presentation (2012)

The Paradox of Comparative Studies: The Representation of the Others as Exclusions and Abjections

Presentation (2012)

Paper presentation: War Memories, Border Regions, Children and Migrants in Europe

Presentation (2012)

The Interplay between Educational Success, Well-Being, and Gender

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