text:
References of "Scientific journals"
Showing results 1001 to 1100 of 16962
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Suspending is Believing
Raleigh, Thomas
in Synthese (2021), 198
Precoding for Satellite Communications: Why, How and What next?
Mysore Rama Rao, Bhavani Shankar ; Lagunas, Eva ; Chatzinotas, Symeon et al
in IEEE Communications Letters (2021)
Detailed reference viewed: 108 (15 UL)
Animal Faces: the Question of the Gaze
Roelens, Nathalie
in Lexia (2021)
On the construct validity of interoceptive accuracy based on heartbeat counting: cardiovascular determinants of absolute and tilt-induced change scores
Schulz, André ; Back, Sarah N.; Schaan, Violetta K. et al
in Biological Psychology (2021), 164(1), 108168
Interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) as assessed with the heartbeat counting task (IAccHBCT) may be affected by a range of factors including (1.) the ability to adequately detect cardiac signals, indicated by ... [more ▼]
Interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) as assessed with the heartbeat counting task (IAccHBCT) may be affected by a range of factors including (1.) the ability to adequately detect cardiac signals, indicated by IAcc in a heartbeat discrimination task (IAccHBDT), (2.) cardiac signal properties, affected by sympathetic and parasympathetic tone, and (3.) non-interoceptive processes, including time estimation accuracy (TEAcc). In the current study we investigated the contribution of these factors to absolute and Δ IAccHBCT scores, induced by passive head-up and head-down tilt in 49 healthy individuals. A set of hierarchical regression models showed IAccHBDT scores as the strongest and, across different orthostatic (tilt) conditions, most stable (positive) predictor of absolute and Δ IAccHBCT scores. Neither indicators of cardiac signal properties (except for HR in head-down-tilt), nor TEAcc predicted absolute or Δ IAccHBCT scores. These findings support the convergent and discriminant validity of absolute and Δ IAccHBCT scores. [less ▲]
Article 47 of the Charter in the Opinion procedure
Neframi, Eleftheria
in European Papers (2021)
This paper affirms that external relations are outside the scope of Article 47 of the Charter. This does not however mean that the principle of judicial protection and the right of access to an ... [more ▼]
This paper affirms that external relations are outside the scope of Article 47 of the Charter. This does not however mean that the principle of judicial protection and the right of access to an independent tribunal have only an internal EU law dimension. In Opinion 1/17, The Court of Justice could assess the CETA's compatibility with the right of access to an independent tribunal without having recourse to Article 47 of the Charter, on the ground either of the principle of autonomy or of the compatibility with the substantive provisions of the common commercial policy. This paper argues that while judicial protection as part of the autonomy claim could meet some conceptual limits, promoting judicial protection as part of the common commercial policy could reinforce the perception that the Union is a credible and influential actor in international trade and in international procedural law. [less ▲]
Detailed reference viewed: 136 (9 UL)
The mainstreaming of EU affairs: a challenge for parliamentary administrations
Högenauer, Anna-Lena
in Journal of Legislative Studies (2021)
Past research has identified a trend towards the bureaucratisation of the parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs. It highlighted the role of parliamentary staff in selecting relevant issues, advising on ... [more ▼]
Past research has identified a trend towards the bureaucratisation of the parliamentary scrutiny of EU affairs. It highlighted the role of parliamentary staff in selecting relevant issues, advising on subsidiarity and procedures and drafting of opinions and resolutions. However, while administrators clearly play a role, less is known about the Europeanisation of parliamentary administrations. In particular, the impact of the growing Europeanisation of sectoral committees on the Europeanisation of staff is unexplored. This article presents data from a survey of parliamentary administrations in 2021, which shows that the Europeanisation of parliamentary administrations extends beyond the main units in charge of EU affairs and affects sectoral committee staff more generally. At the same time, it reveals that the organisation of staff support for EU affairs varies greatly across the national parliaments depending on the organisation of the political scrutiny, on administrative capacity and on pre-existing units. [less ▲]
La pratique luxembourgeoise en matière de droit international public 2019
Kinsch, Patrick ; Friden, Georges
in Annales de droit luxembourgeois (2021), 30
Kulturen des Reparierens und die Lebensdauer der Dinge (Teil 1)
Krebs, Stefan ; Schabacher, Gabriele; Weber, Heike
in TU: Zeitschrift für Technik im Unterricht (2021), 46(2), 5-13
Illusory gender-equality paradox, math self-concept, and frame-of-reference effects: New integrative explanations for multiple paradoxes
Marsh, Herbert W.; Parker, Philip D.; Guo, Jiesi et al
in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2021)
Promoting physical activity for mental health in a refugee camp: the Skaramagas project
Adamakis, Emmanouil
in British Journal of Sports Medicine (2021)
Precoding with Received-Interference Power Control for Multibeam Satellite Communication Systems
Lagunas, Eva ; Perez-Neira, Ana Isabel; Martinez, Marc et al
in Frontiers in Space Technologies (2021)
Zero-Forcing (ZF) and Regularized Zero-Forcing (RZF) precoding are low-complexity sub-optimal solutions widely accepted in the satellite communications community to mitigate the resulting co-channel ... [more ▼]
Zero-Forcing (ZF) and Regularized Zero-Forcing (RZF) precoding are low-complexity sub-optimal solutions widely accepted in the satellite communications community to mitigate the resulting co-channel interference caused by aggressive frequency reuse. However, both are sensitive to the conditioning of the channel matrix, which can greatly reduce the achievable gains. This paper brings the attention to the benefits of a design that allows some residual received interference power at the co-channel users. The motivation behind this approach is to relax the dependence on the matrix inversion procedure involved in conventional precoding schemes. In particular, the proposed scheme aims to be less sensitive to the user scheduling, which is one of the key limiting factors for the practical implementation of precoding. Furthermore, the proposed technique can also cope with more users than satellite beams. In fact, the proposed precoder can be tuned to control the interference towards the co-channel beams, which is a desirable feature that is not met by the existing RZF solutions. The design is formulated as a non-convex optimization and we study various algorithms in order to obtain a practical solution. Supporting results based on numerical simulations show that the proposed precoding implementations are able to outperform the conventional ZF and RZF schemes. [less ▲]
Detailed reference viewed: 61 (10 UL)
Development and Validation of the Revised Multicultural Ideology Scale in Germany and Luxembourg
Stogianni, Maria ; Berry, John; Grigoryev, Dmitry et al
in Psychological Reports (2021)
A revised version of the Multicultural Ideology Scale (rMCI; Berry 2020; Berry et al., 1977) is currently being developed to measure endorsement of multiculturalism in different cultural contexts. The ... [more ▼]
A revised version of the Multicultural Ideology Scale (rMCI; Berry 2020; Berry et al., 1977) is currently being developed to measure endorsement of multiculturalism in different cultural contexts. The current study, which is part of this cross-cultural research project, presents the first assessment of the rMCI scale in the German language. The measure aims to cover several attitudinal dimensions of multiculturalism, relevant to the integration of different ethnocultural groups: Cultural Maintenance, Equity/Inclusion, Social interaction, Essentialistic Boundaries, Extent of Differences, and Consequences of Diversity. Two independent datasets were acquired from Germany (N = 382) and Luxembourg (N = 148) to estimate the factor structure of the rMCI using different confirmatory factor analysis techniques. The findings suggest that a 4-factor solution, including Cultural Maintenance, Equity/Inclusion, Social interaction, and Consequences of Diversity, was the best fit for the data. Most of these subscales demonstrated adequate psychometric properties (internal consistency, convergent, and discriminant validity). The 4-factor model of the rMCI was partially invariant across the two ethnic groups and full measurement invariance was established across gender. [less ▲]
Unerhört anders oder »wenn nur der Geist neu ist«. Interkulturalität und Novelle
Heimböckel, Dieter
in Zeitschrift für Interkulturelle Germanistik (2021), 12(1), 23-40
Subpulse Processing for Unambiguous Doppler Estimation in Pulse-Doppler Noise Radars
Tedgue Beltrao, Gabriel ; Alaeekerahroodi, Mohammad ; Mysore Rama Rao, Bhavani Shankar et al
in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2021)
Detection & Identification of On-Orbit Objects Using Machine Learning
Perez, Marcos; Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Adel ; Garcia Sanchez, Albert et al
in European Conference on Space Debris (2021), 8(1),
Living and Learning in Times of Corona
Badder, Anastasia ; Zhang, Yimin ; Olmo, Mara et al
in The Ends of Humanities (2021)
Coverage Probability of Double-IRS Assisted Communication Systems
Papazafeiropoulos, Anastasios; Kourtessis, Pandelis; Chatzinotas, Symeon et al
in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2021), 10(8), 1722-1726
In this paper, we derive the coverage probability of a double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless network and study the impact of multiplicative beamforming gain and correlated Rayleigh ... [more ▼]
In this paper, we derive the coverage probability of a double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless network and study the impact of multiplicative beamforming gain and correlated Rayleigh fading. In particular, we derive a novel closed-form expression of the coverage probability of a single-input single-output (SISO) system assisted by two large IRSs while being dependent on the corresponding arbitrary reflecting beamforming matrices (RBMs) and large-scale statistics in terms of correlation matrices. Taking advantage of th large-scale statistics, we achieve to perform optimization of the RBM of both IRSs at every several coherence intervals rather at each interval. This property, based on statistical channel state information (CSI), is of paramount importance in multi-IRS assisted networks, which are accompanied with increased computational complexity during their RBM optimization. Numerical results validate the tightness of the analytical results even for small IRSs and reveal insightful properties. [less ▲]
UAV-UGV-UMV Multi-Swarms for Cooperative Surveillance
Stolfi Rosso, Daniel ; Brust, Matthias R. ; Danoy, Grégoire et al
in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021), 8
In this paper we present a surveillance system for early detection of escapers from a restricted area based on a new swarming mobility model called CROMM-MS (Chaotic Rössler Mobility Model for Multi ... [more ▼]
In this paper we present a surveillance system for early detection of escapers from a restricted area based on a new swarming mobility model called CROMM-MS (Chaotic Rössler Mobility Model for Multi-Swarms). CROMM-MS is designed for controlling the trajectories of heterogeneous multi-swarms of aerial, ground and marine unmanned vehicles with important features such as prioritising early detections and success rate. A new Competitive Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm (CompCGA) is proposed to optimise the vehicles' parameters and escapers' evasion ability using a predator-prey approach. Our results show that CROMM-MS is not only viable for surveillance tasks but also that its results are competitive in regard to the state-of-the-art approaches. [less ▲]
Cultural representation in Luxembourgish street naming practices
Purschke, Christoph
in Linguistics Vanguard (2021), 7(s5), 111
On the distribution of the order and index for the reductions of algebraic numbers
Sgobba, Pietro
in Journal of Number Theory (2021)
Let \alpha_1,...,\alpha_r be algebraic numbers in a number field K generating a subgroup of rank r in K*. We investigate under GRH the number of primes p of K such that each of the orders of (\alpha_i mod ... [more ▼]
Let \alpha_1,...,\alpha_r be algebraic numbers in a number field K generating a subgroup of rank r in K*. We investigate under GRH the number of primes p of K such that each of the orders of (\alpha_i mod p) lies in a given arithmetic progression associated to (\alpha_i). We also study the primes p for which the index of (\alpha_i mod p) is a fixed integer or lies in a given set of integers for each i. An additional condition on the Frobenius conjugacy class of p may be considered. Such results are generalizations of a theorem of Ziegler from 2006, which concerns the case r=1 of this problem. [less ▲]
Normalization as a mediator of emotion during unemployment
Houssemand, Claude ; Rosato, Valeria; Thill, Steve et al
in Anxiety, Stress and Coping (2021)
Meta-analyses indicated detrimental effects on some psychological dimensions from job loss and extended periods of unemployment. This study analyses three phenomena: causes attributed to unemployment ... [more ▼]
Meta-analyses indicated detrimental effects on some psychological dimensions from job loss and extended periods of unemployment. This study analyses three phenomena: causes attributed to unemployment; processes for coping with unemployment; and the emotional impact of joblessness. Using an SEM approach, a model is created in which unemployment normalization acts as a mediator between locus of control and emotions. Method: questionnaires from 260 unemployed people in Luxembourg provided data on perceived control, coping, and emotions. Participants who attribute their situation to bad luck, believe more strongly that unemployment is due to external factors beyond their control, and recognize unemployment as being a common occurrence in life. Such cognitive attribution of unemployment has effects on job seekers' emotions. Those who perceive unemployment in a more positive light experience more positive emotions and fewer negative affects. Negative perceptions of unemployment have no effect on the generation of positive emotion, but have an influence on negative affects. Finally, the influence of perceived-control on emotion is not direct, but is mediated by processes of unemployment normalization. Understanding how unemployed people perceive and experience their situations could help them be more effective in their search for new employment [less ▲]
Waiting as probation: selecting self-disciplining asylum seekers
Vianelli, Lorenzo ; Gill, Nick; Hoellerer, Nicole
in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2021)
This article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum ... [more ▼]
This article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum adjudication in Europe. Focusing on Austria, Germany and Italy, we explore the use of integration-related considerations in asylum appeal processes by looking at the ways in which these considerations permeate judges' decision-making, particularly, but not exclusively, on the granting of national, non-EU harmonised protection statuses. Building on insights from the literature on conditional integration we question the implicit sociopolitical biases and moral assumptions that underpin this permeation. We show that the use of integration-related considerations in asylum appeals transforms migrant waiting into a period of probation during which rejected asylum seekers' conducts are governed and tested in relation to the use of time. More than simply waiting patiently, rejected asylum seekers are expected to wait productively, whereby productivity is assessed through the neoliberal imperatives of entrepreneurship, autonomy and selfimprovement. We thus contribute to scholarship on migrant waiting by showing how time is capitalised by state authorities even when – and actually because – it offers opportunities for migrants. [less ▲]
Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing
Palermo, Giovanna; Sreekanth, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu; Maccaferri, Nicolò et al
in Nanophotonics (2021), 10(1), 295314
Sensor technology has become increasingly crucial in medical research and clinical diagnostics to directly detect small numbers of low-molecular-weight biomolecules relevant for lethal diseases. In recent ... [more ▼]
Sensor technology has become increasingly crucial in medical research and clinical diagnostics to directly detect small numbers of low-molecular-weight biomolecules relevant for lethal diseases. In recent years, various technologies have been developed, a number of them becoming core label-free technologies for detection of cancer biomarkers and viruses. However, to radically improve early disease diagnostics, tracking of disease progression and evaluation of treatments, today's biosensing techniques still require a radical innovation to deliver high sensitivity, specificity, diffusion-limited transport, and accuracy for both nucleic acids and proteins. In this review, we discuss both scientific and technological aspects of hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing. Optical metasurfaces have offered the tantalizing opportunity to engineer wavefronts while its intrinsic nanoscale patterns promote tremendous molecular interactions and selective binding. Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces support high-k modes that proved to be extremely sensitive to minute concentrations of ultralow-molecular-weight proteins and nucleic acids. [less ▲]
La proposta di direttiva sui salari minimi adeguati nella prospettiva di contrasto all'in-work poverty
Ratti, Luca
in Diritto delle Relazioni Industriali (2021)
Does Physical Activity Moderate the Influence of Sedentary Behavior on Health in Young People?
Schembri, Emanuel ; Heinz, Andreas ; Samuel, Robin
in Medicine Science in Sports Exercise (2021), 53(8S), 183--184
PURPOSE: High level of sedentary behavior (SB) may cause a number of health complaints (nHC) and lead to reduced self-rated health (SRH) in young people. The purpose of this study was to determine the ... [more ▼]
PURPOSE: High level of sedentary behavior (SB) may cause a number of health complaints (nHC) and lead to reduced self-rated health (SRH) in young people. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between SB, the magnitude of nHC, SRH, body mass index (BMI), and whether the amount of physical activity (PA) moderates this relationship. METHODS: The data was obtained from Youth Survey Luxembourg 2019 (N = 2802). The population characteristics include sociodemographic data such as age, gender, and socio-economics status (SES) (0 = low to 18 = high). The severity of nHC was the sum score of headaches, stomach aches, back aches, depression, irritableness, nervousness, dizziness, and difficulty falling asleep (0 = low to 32 = high). BMI was calculated by dividing body weight to the square of body height (kg/m2). SRH was measured on a 5-point scale (1 = very good to 5 = very bad). PA and SB were generated from factor analyses of the questionnaire items. SB is separated between leisure and gaming. Multiple regression analysis, adjusted for age, gender, and SES, was used to determine the relationships between SB, nHC, BMI, and SRH, and the moderating effect of PA. RESULTS: Out of the participants, 54% were female and 46% were male with the mean age of 22 ± 4 years (16-29 years). The mean SES was 9.3 ± 2.2 (1-13), BMI was 23 ± 4 kg/m2 (14-47 kg/m2), severity of the nHC was 9 ± 6 (0-32), and SRH was 1.8 ± 0.6 (1-5). The multiple regression analysis shows that high SB through leisure is associated with more severe nHC (unstandardized coefficient b = .49, p < .01). However, PA can decrease nHC (b = .39, p < .01) for participants with high leisure SB. No association has been found between SRH, BMI, and leisure SB. Furthermore, an increase in SB through gaming is associated with higher BMI (b = .35, p < .01) and worse SRH (b = .09, p < .00). A relationship between the severity of nHC and gaming is not found. In all cases, a higher PA shows a significantly better nHC, SRH, and BMI. CONCLUSIONS: The results show that PA has a positive moderating effect of the relationship on leisure SB and nHC in young people in Luxembourg. Increased SB causes higher nHC, worse SRH, and higher BMI and young people who do more PA have lower severity in nHC, and better BMI and SRH. Therefore, it is important for young people to reduce SB and implement a sufficient amount of PA to improve overall health. [less ▲]
Post-growth perspectives in Economic Geography
Schulz, Christian ; Braun, Boris
in Die Erde (2021), 152(4), 213-217
Visual Acquaintance, Action and the Explanatory Gap
History in the Era of Massive Data
Clavert, Frédéric
in Geschichte und Gesellschaft (2021), 47(1), 175--194
Abstract This article draws on the experience of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) research project, ``\#ww1 the centenary of the Great War on Twitter,'' to contemplate ... [more ▼]
Abstract This article draws on the experience of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) research project, ``\#ww1 the centenary of the Great War on Twitter,'' to contemplate what it means to use born-digital and big data primary sources, both as a methodology and as a contribution to the field of memory studies and contemporary history more broadly. It discusses the notion of distant reading in order to show the interest of multiscale reading in the framework of big data. It also elaborates upon the use of reflexive thinking in terms of what we really study when using this kind of primary source materials (tweets and, more generally, feeds of borndigital sources), namely: temporalities and information circulation. [less ▲]
First law of quantum thermodynamics in a driven open two-level system
Juan-Delgado, Adrian; Chenu, Aurélia
in Physical Review. A (2021)
Assigning the variations of internal energy into heat or work contributions is a challenging task due to the fact that these properties are trajectory dependent. A number of proposals have been put ... [more ▼]
Assigning the variations of internal energy into heat or work contributions is a challenging task due to the fact that these properties are trajectory dependent. A number of proposals have been put forward for open quantum systems following an arbitrary dynamics. We here focus on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of a two-level system and explore in addition to the conventional approach, two definitions motivated by either classical work or heat in which the driving Hamiltonian or the trajectory itself, respectively, are used to set up a reference basis. We first give the thermodynamic properties for an arbitrary dynamics and illustrate the results on the Bloch sphere. Then, we solve the particular example of a periodically driven qubit interacting with a dissipative and decoherence bath. Our results illustrate the trajectory-dependent character of heat and work and how contributions originally assigned to dissipation in the Lindblad equation can become a coherent part assigned to work. [less ▲]
Le voyage de Bartlebooth ou le tour de son Monde
Raus, Tonia
in Cahiers Georges Perec (2021), 14
Dense and Sparse 3D Deformation Signatures for 3D Dynamic Face Recognition
Shabayek, Abd El Rahman ; Aouada, Djamila
in IEEE Access (2021), 9
Multi-informant assessment of bullying in Austrian schools
Paljakka, Antonia; Schwab, Susanne; Zurbriggen, Carmen
in Frontiers in Education (2021), 6(712318),
Der Kalte Krieg und sein Wetter
Nanz, Tobias; Pause, Johannes
in Dritte Natur. Technik - Kapital - Umwelt (2021), 3
ELIXIR and Toxicology: a community in development
Martens, Marvin; Stierum, Rob; Schymanski, Emma et al
in F1000Research (2021), 10
Toxicology has been an active research field for many decades, with academic, industrial and government involvement. Modern omics and computational approaches are changing the field, from merely disease ... [more ▼]
Toxicology has been an active research field for many decades, with academic, industrial and government involvement. Modern omics and computational approaches are changing the field, from merely disease-specific observational models into target-specific predictive models. Traditionally, toxicology has strong links with other fields such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology and medicine. With the rise of synthetic and new engineered materials, alongside ongoing prioritisation needs in chemical risk assessment for existing chemicals, early predictive evaluations are becoming of utmost importance to both scientific and regulatory purposes. ELIXIR is an intergovernmental organisation that brings together life science resources from across Europe. To coordinate the linkage of various life science efforts around modern predictive toxicology, the establishment of a new ELIXIR Community is seen as instrumental. In the past few years, joint efforts, building on incidental overlap, have been piloted in the context of ELIXIR. For example, the EU-ToxRisk, diXa, HeCaToS, transQST, and the nanotoxicology community have worked with the ELIXIR TeSS, Bioschemas, and Compute Platforms and activities. In 2018, a core group of interested parties wrote a proposal, outlining a sketch of what this new ELIXIR Toxicology Community would look like. A recent workshop (held September 30th to October 1st, 2020) extended this into an ELIXIR Toxicology roadmap and a shortlist of limited investment-high gain collaborations to give body to this new community. This Whitepaper outlines the results of these efforts and defines our vision of the ELIXIR Toxicology Community and how it complements other ELIXIR activities. [less ▲]
Entwicklung und erste empirische Überprüfung des Fragebogens zur Erfassung des generellen emotionalen Selbstkonzepts in der frühen Adoleszenz (FEGESK-A)
Schmidt, Philipp; Zurbriggen, Carmen
in Empirische Pädagogik (2021), 35(2), 183201
The general emotional self-concept (GESC) is highly relevant to psychosocial development in adolescence. However, the GESC is hardly considered within empirical education and educational science. This is ... [more ▼]
The general emotional self-concept (GESC) is highly relevant to psychosocial development in adolescence. However, the GESC is hardly considered within empirical education and educational science. This is also mirrored by the lack of appropriate measurement instruments. The aim of this paper is the development and first empirical evaluation of a questionnaire assessing the general emotional self-concept in early ado-lescence (QAGESC-A). The development of the QAGESC-A was based on the hierarchically structured Marsh/Shavelson model of the general self-concept. Two working models were generated. According to working model I, the GESC contains three dimensions (perception, expression, coping), whereas model II comprises two dimensions (perception, modulation). In accordance with these self-concept dimensions, 24 items were generated. Based on a sample of a pilot study with 142 students (MRageR = 10.98 years, SDRageR = 0.89 years), the questionnaire was then reduced stepwise to 12 items and evaluated for factorial validity and reliability. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis provide first evidence that the two-factor model fitted slightly better than the three-factor model. The questionnaire shows good reliability (α = .82, ω = .85) and the scales exhibit acceptable internal consistencies (α / ω = .75). [less ▲]
FAIR-ifying the Exposome Journal: Templates for Chemical Structures and Transformations
Schymanski, Emma ; Bolton, Evan E.
in Exposome (2021)
Abstract The exposome, the totality of lifetime exposures, is a new and highly complex paradigm for health and disease. Tackling this challenge requires an effort well beyond single individuals or ... [more ▼]
Abstract The exposome, the totality of lifetime exposures, is a new and highly complex paradigm for health and disease. Tackling this challenge requires an effort well beyond single individuals or laboratories, where every piece of the puzzle will be vital. The launch of this new Exposome journal coincides with the evolution of the exposome through its teenage years and into a growing maturity in an increasingly open and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) world. This letter discusses how both authors and the Exposome journal alike can help increase the FAIRness of the chemical structural information and the associated metadata in the journal, aiming to capture more details about the chemistry of exposomics. The proposed chemical structure template can serve as an interoperable supplementary format that is made accessible through the website and more findable by linking the DOI of this data file to the article DOI metadata, supporting further reuse. An additional Transformations template provides authors with a means to connect predecessor (parent, substrate) molecules to successor (transformation product, metabolite) molecules and thus provide FAIR connections between observed (i.e., experimental) chemical exposures and biological responses, to help improve the public knowledgebase on exposome-related transformations. These connections are vital to extend current biochemical knowledge and to fulfil the current Exposome definition of "the cumulative measure of environmental influences and associated biological responses throughout the lifespan including exposures from the environment, diet, behaviour, and endogenous processes". [less ▲]
Casual Leisure in Rich-Prospect: Advancing Visual Information Behavior for Digital Museum Collections
Morse, Christopher ; Niess, Jasmin; Lallemand, Carine et al
in Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (2021), 14(3),
As digital cultural collections become increasingly sophisticated in their scope and functionality, there is a need to build an in-depth understanding concerning the information behaviors of users in this ... [more ▼]
As digital cultural collections become increasingly sophisticated in their scope and functionality, there is a need to build an in-depth understanding concerning the information behaviors of users in this new domain. Research has demonstrated that many digital museum visitors are engaged in casual leisure during exploration of a collection, suggesting that they do not have an inherent information goal but rather seek new experiences or learning opportunities based on personal curiosity and moments of discovery. Consequently, understanding how to translate casual leisure contexts into meaningful interaction design may play a critical role in designing engaging digital collections. Our study reports on the user experience of a largely unexplored user interface design framework called rich-prospect, which was originally developed to enhance browsing and discovery for complex visual collections. We performed a mixed-method, within-subjects study (N=30) that simulated a casual leisure approach to information browsing and retrieval across three different rich-prospect interfaces for digital cultural heritage. Our results show that rich-prospect scores well in the hedonic facets of its user experience, whereas pragmatic aspects have room for improvement. Additionally, through our qualitative analysis of participant feedback, we derived salient themes relating to the exploratory browsing experience. We conclude with a series of design implications to better connect interactive elements with casual leisure contexts for digital cultural collections. © 2021 Owner/Author. [less ▲]
Anterior cingulate cortex activity during rest is related to alterations in pain perception in aging
Terrasa, Juan L.; Montoya, Pedro; Sitges, Carolina et al
in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (2021)
Jérôme Denis, Le Travail invisible des données. Éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales Paris, Presses des Mines, 2018, 206 pages
Schafer, Valerie
in Questions de Communication (2021), 38
Recension de Jérôme Denis, Le Travail invisible des données. Éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales, Paris, Presses des Mines, 2018, 206 pages
Optimal Detection of Multiple Symbol-Slotted Random Access based Packet Transmissions
Kisseleff, Steven ; Gerstacker, Wolfgang H.
in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2021)
European Embeddedness and the Founding of Luxembourg's 21st Century Research University
Braband, Gangolf; Powell, Justin J W
in European Journal of Higher Education (2021)
At the heart of Western Europe and culturally embedded in the "Greater Region," Luxembourg for centuries sent its youth abroad for tertiary education, without its own national university. Evolving ... [more ▼]
At the heart of Western Europe and culturally embedded in the "Greater Region," Luxembourg for centuries sent its youth abroad for tertiary education, without its own national university. Evolving provisions of postsecondary education after 1945 followed construction of several teaching and research institutes that did not offer full-fledged tertiary education certification. With global higher education expansion and European developments providing a window of opportunity, the critical juncture occurred in 2003, with the founding of the national flagship University of Luxembourg (uni.lu)—since leading to an extraordinary case of university institutionalization. Traditions were explicitly maintained, but reshaped, in the new university, with student mobility continuing to bolster the national elite's pan-European networks and internationalization. Reflecting its hyper-diversity and multilingual culture as well as porous national borders, Luxembourg's investments in higher education capacity-building, via a 21st century research university, have been thoroughly European. Today, Luxembourg has the highest proportion of workers with tertiary attainment and of internationally mobile students, testament to its maintained mobility tradition and national policy change facilitated by global models and European norms. [less ▲]
Vom Vertrag zur Anerkennung : Claudia Nitschkes neue Studie "Anerkennung und Kalkül" analysiert politische Legitimationsfiguren in der Literatur
Kohns, Oliver
in Literaturkritik.de (2021)
Optimization of the Return Link Carrier Planning for a Constant Coding and Modulation Satellite Network
Lacoste, Clément ; Maturo, Nicola ; Chatzinotas, Symeon et al
in Frontiers in Communications and Networks (2021), 2
In this paper, we propose an approach to optimize the frequency plan and associated bandwidth allocation in the return link of a broadband satellite network, by exploring several design techniques for ... [more ▼]
In this paper, we propose an approach to optimize the frequency plan and associated bandwidth allocation in the return link of a broadband satellite network, by exploring several design techniques for carrier allocation plans. Since bandwidth is a limited resource in satellite telecommunications, the minimization of bandwidth usage is a core issue that satellite communication service providers must solve, in particular for networks using a constant coding and modulation plan, which lacks the flexibility found in newer satellite communication products and can be subject to hardware constraints. This problematic led us to raise the following question: how can the long term bandwidth requirement of the network be minimized, given a set of ground terminals, of Modulations and Codings, and of discrete bandwidths. In this document we formally define the long-term carrier allocation problem and analyze current practical solutions. We subsequently investigate two other potential solutions, found to be more bandwidth-efficient: one based on heuristics and another based on integer linear programming. Finally, we look at the impact of several parameters on the performance of those three methods. Overall we observed marginal reductions in bandwidth, however significant gains were reached for networks with small return links with low committed information rate, a case in which some constant coding and modulation networks could fall. We concluded that those networks could benefit from our methods and see a significant reduction in bandwidth, and subsequently operational costs, at low implementation costs. [less ▲]
Die Offenbarung des Geheimen? Mittelalterliche Gottesurteile als Erkenntnisquelle und ihr Niederschlag in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur
Sieburg, Heinz
in Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte 15 (2021), 15
Kyriakopoulou E. and Picard PM (2021), On the Design of Sustainable Cities: Local Traffic Pollution and Urban Structure, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 106, March 2021, 102418.
Picard, Pierre M ; Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia
in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2021), 107
This paper investigates the impact of local traffic pollution on the formation of residential and business districts. While firms benefit from local production externalities, households commute to their ... [more ▼]
This paper investigates the impact of local traffic pollution on the formation of residential and business districts. While firms benefit from local production externalities, households commute to their workplaces with private vehicles and exert a local pollution externality on the residents living along the urban transport networks. The spatial location of firms and residents endogenously results from the trade-off between the production and pollution externalities and the commuting costs. The analysis shows that in monocentric cities the benefits associated with a fall in per-vehicle pollution are absorbed by rents paid to absentee landlords. When a city includes business and residential districts as well as a district mixing both agents, a lower per-vehicle pollution enlarges the residential districts and shifts the business districts closer to the geographical center of the city. The paper finally studies the optimal city structure. The first-best policies that fully internalize the externalities still foster business agglomeration. [less ▲]
Killing Stubborn Mutants with Symbolic Execution
Titcheu Chekam, Thierry ; Papadakis, Mike ; Cordy, Maxime et al
in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2021), 30(2), 191--1923
Compétence pour ordonner la mainlevée d'une saisie conservatoire transfrontière
Cuniberti, Gilles
in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2021), (1), 157
Educational Videogame to Learn the Periodic Table: Design Rationale and Lessons Learned
Traver, V. Javier; Leiva, Luis A. ; Martí-Centelles, Vicente et al
in Journal of Chemical Education (2021)
The periodic table allows students to easily understand the chemical elements and predict the behavior of theoretical yet undiscovered new elements. Many memorization techniques have been used for ... [more ▼]
The periodic table allows students to easily understand the chemical elements and predict the behavior of theoretical yet undiscovered new elements. Many memorization techniques have been used for learning the periodic table, yet serious games (i.e., designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment) have been underexplored to complement or even replace such memorization techniques. Since CHEMMEND, an existing physical card game, was found to assist with learning the periodic table, we explore the potential of E-CHEMMEND, a digital version of the game as an aid to memorize the group and period numbers of the elements. E-CHEMMEND is a single-player serious game to explore the effect of four different game conditions involving two experimental factors that account for different educational scenarios. The first factor investigates the role of playing through levels of increasing difficulty versus playing with all elements from the very beginning. The second factor investigates the role of displaying the group and period numbers of the chemical element along with its symbol versus only displaying the element symbol. Preliminary results show that E-CHEMMEND is perceived as more enjoyable when the group and period numbers are displayed. In contrast, the game is found to better assist learning when this information is hidden and levels are shown. Taken together, our results suggest that a variety of educational purposes can be accommodated with a range of game settings. Ultimately, the design rationale and the lessons learned while testing E-CHEMMEND will be valuable for chemistry instructors and education researchers. A desktop-based Windows executable version of the game is available at http://www.chemmend.uji.es/game. [less ▲]
Sergey Kichko, Pierre M. Picard, (2021), Effect of conformism on firm selection, product quality and home bias, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 185, pp. 402-418.
Picard, Pierre M ; Kichko, Sergey
in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2021), 185
Bisimulations for Verifying Strategic Abilities with an Application to the ThreeBallot Voting Protocol
Belardinelli, Francesco; Condurache, Rodica; Dima, Catalin et al
in Information and Computation (2021), 276
We propose a notion of alternating bisimulation for strategic abilities under imperfect information. The bisimulation preserves formulas of ATL$^*$ for both the {\em objective} and {\em subjective ... [more ▼]
We propose a notion of alternating bisimulation for strategic abilities under imperfect information. The bisimulation preserves formulas of ATL$^*$ for both the {\em objective} and {\em subjective} variants of the state-based semantics with imperfect information, which are commonly used in the modeling and verification of multi-agent systems. Furthermore, we apply the theoretical result to the verification of coercion-resistance in the ThreeBallot voting system, a voting protocol that does not use cryptography. In particular, we show that natural simplifications of an initial model of the protocol are in fact bisimulations of the original model, and therefore satisfy the same ATL$^*$ properties, including coercion-resistance. These simplifications allow the model-checking tool MCMAS to terminate on models with a larger number of voters and candidates, compared with the initial model. [less ▲]
Tagungsbericht: Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities
Derian, Maxime ; van de Maele, Jens
in Moderne Stadtgeschichte (2021), (1), 145-150
The history of (Western) European industrial cities is often told as a tragic tale of rise and decline: from rapid industrialisation in the late 19th century and economic prosperity during the Trente ... [more ▼]
The history of (Western) European industrial cities is often told as a tragic tale of rise and decline: from rapid industrialisation in the late 19th century and economic prosperity during the Trente glorieuses to the structural changes of the late 1970s and the subsequent deindustrialisation of the 1980s and 1990s – decades in which most mines and steelworks closed down, unemployment rates went up, new social problems emerged, workers' identities eroded, and once prosperous urban centres became faced with shrinking populations and empty stores in their shopping streets. Finally, since the 2000s, former industrial towns have tried to reinvent themselves as creative and cultural centres. If we take a closer look, however, we can see that the socio-economic, demographic and cultural transitions were more complex than suggested by a simple rise-and-decline narrative. [less ▲]
Compte-rendu de « Trotot Caroline, Autoportraits, autofictions de femmes à l'époque moderne - Savoirs et fabrique d'identité, Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. Masculin/féminin dans l'Europe moderne, 2018 »
Barthelmebs-Raguin, Hélène
in Acta Fabula: Revue des Parutions en Théorie Littéraire (2021)
Long-term Relevance and Interrelation of Symbolic and Non-symbolic Abilities in Mathematical-numerical Development: Evidence from Large-scale Assessment Data
Braeuning, David; Hornung, Caroline ; Hoffmann, Danielle et al
in Cognitive Development (2021), 58
Gendered Prices
Kräussl, Roman ; Adams, Renee B.; Navone, Marco A. et al
in Review of Financial Studies (2021), 34(8)(3789-3839),
Local Social Interaction and Urban Equilibria
Picard, Pierre M ; Augeraud-Veron, Emmanuelle; Maruhenda, Fransico
in Mathematical Social Sciences (2021), 112
In this paper we investigate the effect of local interaction in a simple urban economics model. Agents interact with others if and only if their interaction benefit outweighs their travel cost and ... [more ▼]
In this paper we investigate the effect of local interaction in a simple urban economics model. Agents interact with others if and only if their interaction benefit outweighs their travel cost and therefore meet others only within finite geographic windows. We show that two or more cites may co-exist at the equilibrium provided that they are sufficiently distant. For any interaction surplus function, there exists a unique spatial equilibrium on not too large city supports. The population density within a city is determined by a second order advance-delay differential equation, whose solutions are fully characterized for linear interaction surplus functions. Numerical analyses show that more localized interactions yield flatter population density and land rents over larger extents of the city support. They do not give support to the idea that multiple subcenters can be caused by small and finite geographic windows of interaction. [less ▲]
Ageism and Older People's Health and Well-Being during the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Moderating Role of Subjective Aging
Kornadt, Anna Elena ; Albert, Isabelle ; Hoffmann, Martine et al
in European Journal of Ageing (2021), 18
iPSC-Derived Microglia as a Model to Study Inflammation in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease.
Badanjak, Katja ; Mulica, Patrycja ; Smajic, Semra et al
in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology (2021), 9
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with unknown cause in the majority of patients, who are therefore considered "idiopathic" (IPD). PD predominantly affects dopaminergic neurons in ... [more ▼]
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with unknown cause in the majority of patients, who are therefore considered "idiopathic" (IPD). PD predominantly affects dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc), yet the pathology is not limited to this cell type. Advancing age is considered the main risk factor for the development of IPD and greatly influences the function of microglia, the immune cells of the brain. With increasing age, microglia become dysfunctional and release pro-inflammatory factors into the extracellular space, which promote neuronal cell death. Accordingly, neuroinflammation has also been described as a feature of PD. So far, studies exploring inflammatory pathways in IPD patient samples have primarily focused on blood-derived immune cells or brain sections, but rarely investigated patient microglia in vitro. Accordingly, we decided to explore the contribution of microglia to IPD in a comparative manner using, both, iPSC-derived cultures and postmortem tissue. Our meta-analysis of published RNAseq datasets indicated an upregulation of IL10 and IL1B in nigral tissue from IPD patients. We observed increased expression levels of these cytokines in microglia compared to neurons using our single-cell midbrain atlas. Moreover, IL10 and IL1B were upregulated in IPD compared to control microglia. Next, to validate these findings in vitro, we generated IPD patient microglia from iPSCs using an established differentiation protocol. IPD microglia were more readily primed as indicated by elevated IL1B and IL10 gene expression and higher mRNA and protein levels of NLRP3 after LPS treatment. In addition, IPD microglia had higher phagocytic capacity under basal conditions-a phenotype that was further exacerbated upon stimulation with LPS, suggesting an aberrant microglial function. Our results demonstrate the significance of microglia as the key player in the neuroinflammation process in IPD. While our study highlights the importance of microglia-mediated inflammatory signaling in IPD, further investigations will be needed to explore particular disease mechanisms in these cells. [less ▲]
Chemical vapor deposition of CoFe2O4 micropillar arrays with enhanced magnetic properties
Aspe, B.; Malyeyev, Artem ; Vakilinejad, A. et al
in Journal of Alloys and Compounds (2021), 890
Changes in Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Older Americans' Cognitive Functioning
Settels, Jason ; Leist, Anja
in Health and Place (2021)
Background: While associations of neighborhood conditions with cognitive functioning at older ages have been established, few studies have investigated with a dynamic perspective if changing neighborhood ... [more ▼]
Background: While associations of neighborhood conditions with cognitive functioning at older ages have been established, few studies have investigated with a dynamic perspective if changing neighborhood socioeconomic conditions affect older residents' cognitive declines, and which putative factors mediate this relationship. Method: Using data from waves 2 (2010–2011) and 3 (2015–2016) of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) survey (n = 1837), ordinary least squares regressions and mediation analyses were conducted, adjusting for multiple confounders and testing eight putative mediators. Results: Worsening neighborhood socioeconomic circumstances were associated with cognitive declines. Changes in depressive symptoms, sizes of close social networks, and physical activity substantially mediated this relationship. Discussion: While 18.10% of the total effect occurred through these mechanisms, further pathways may work through contextual- and individual-level variables not assessed in the NSHAP. [less ▲]
Is serine racemase (SRR) a second hit target for LRRK2-G2019S induced Parkinson's disease?
Nickels, Sarah Louise ; Schwamborn, Jens Christian
in Neural Regeneration Research (2021)
Predictive and interpretable models via the stacked elastic net
Rauschenberger, Armin ; Glaab, Enrico ; van de Wiel, Mark
in Bioinformatics (2021), 37(14), 20122016
Motivation: Machine learning in the biomedical sciences should ideally provide predictive and interpretable models. When predicting outcomes from clinical or molecular features, applied researchers often ... [more ▼]
Motivation: Machine learning in the biomedical sciences should ideally provide predictive and interpretable models. When predicting outcomes from clinical or molecular features, applied researchers often want to know which features have effects, whether these effects are positive or negative, and how strong these effects are. Regression analysis includes this information in the coefficients but typically renders less predictive models than more advanced machine learning techniques. Results: Here we propose an interpretable meta-learning approach for high-dimensional regression. The elastic net provides a compromise between estimating weak effects for many features and strong effects for some features. It has a mixing parameter to weight between ridge and lasso regularisation. Instead of selecting one weighting by tuning, we combine multiple weightings by stacking. We do this in a way that increases predictivity without sacrificing interpretability. Availability and Implementation: The R package starnet is available on GitHub: https://github.com/rauschenberger/starnet. [less ▲]
Stein's method of exchangeable pairs in multivariate functional approximations
Döbler, Christian ; Kasprzak, Mikolaj
in Electronic Journal of Probability (2021), 26
Entre 'dette du sang' et 'military labour migration': les Luxembourgeois engagés dans la Légion étrangère (1831-1914)
Vecchiato, Sébastien; Kolnberger, Thomas
in Revue Historique des Armées (2021), 302
Design of a 2-Bit Neural Network Quantizer for Laplacian Source
Peric, Zoran; Savic, Milan; Simic, Nikola et al
in Entropy (2021), 23(8), 933
Achieving real-time inference is one of the major issues in contemporary neural network applications, as complex algorithms are frequently being deployed to mobile devices that have constrained storage ... [more ▼]
Achieving real-time inference is one of the major issues in contemporary neural network applications, as complex algorithms are frequently being deployed to mobile devices that have constrained storage and computing power. Moving from a full-precision neural network model to a lower representation by applying quantization techniques is a popular approach to facilitate this issue. Here, we analyze in detail and design a 2-bit uniform quantization model for Laplacian source due to its significance in terms of implementation simplicity, which further leads to a shorter processing time and faster inference. The results show that it is possible to achieve high classification accuracy (more than 96% in the case of MLP and more than 98% in the case of CNN) by implementing the proposed model, which is competitive to the performance of the other quantization solutions with almost optimal precision. [less ▲]
Attentive Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling of Stroke Gestures Articulation Performance
Kumar T., Lokesh; Leiva, Luis A.
in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2021), 51(6),
Preface of the special issue 'Logic, argumentation and AI' in JLC
Dong, Huimin; Pang, Jun ; Wang, Yi
in Journal of Logic and Computation (2021), 31(8), 1901-1902
No Interface, No Problem: Gesture Recognition on Physical Objects Using Radar Sensing
Attygalle, Nuwan T.; Leiva, Luis A. ; Kljun, Matjaž et al
in Sensors (2021), 21(17),
Stochastic Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Electronic Circuits: A Realistic Framework for Computing Around kT
Freitas, Nahuel; Delvenne, Jean-Charles; Esposito, Massimiliano
in Phys. Rev. X (2021), 11(3), 031064
Le recours collectif luxembourgeois à l'épreuve du droit européen
Menetrey, Séverine
in Annales du Droit Luxembourgeois (2021)
Measurement Invariance of Test Anxiety Across Four School Subjects
Schneider, Rebecca; Sparfeldt, Jörn R; Niepel, Christoph et al
in European Journal of Psychological Assessment (2021)
In Vitro Red Blood Cell Segregation in Sickle Cell Anemia
Claveria, Viviana; Connes, Philippe; Lanotte, Luca et al
in FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS (2021), 9
Red blood cells in sickle cell anemia (sRBC) are more heterogeneous in their physical properties than healthy red blood cells, spanning adhesiveness, rigidity, density, size, and shape. sRBC with ... [more ▼]
Red blood cells in sickle cell anemia (sRBC) are more heterogeneous in their physical properties than healthy red blood cells, spanning adhesiveness, rigidity, density, size, and shape. sRBC with increased adhesiveness to the vascular wall would trigger vaso-occlusive like complications, a hallmark of sickle cell anemia. We investigated whether segregation occurs among sRBC flowing in micron-sized channels and tested the impact of aggregation on segregation. Two populations of sRBC of different densities were separated, labeled, and mixed again. The mixed suspension was flowed within glass capillary tubes at different pressure-drops, hematocrit, and suspending media that promoted or not cell aggregation. Observations were made at a fixed channel position. The mean flow velocity was obtained by using the cells as tracking particles, and the cell depleted layer (CDL) by measuring the distance from the cell core border to the channel wall. The labeled sRBC were identified by stopping the flow and scanning the cells within the channel section. The tube hematocrit was estimated from the number of fluorescence cells identified in the field of view. In non-aggregating media, our results showed a heterogeneous distribution of sRBC according to their density: low-density sRBC population remained closer to the center of the channel, while the densest cells segregated towards the walls. There was no impact of the mean flow velocity and little impact of hematocrit. This segregation heterogeneity could influence the ability of sRBC to adhere to the vascular wall and slow down blood flow. However, promoting aggregation inhibited segregation while CDL thickness was enhanced by aggregation, highlighting a potential protective role against vaso-occlusion in patients with sickle cell anemia. [less ▲]
Crowdsourced COVID-19 Collections: A brief overview
Zumthurm, Tizian
in International Public History (2021)
Subjective Well-Being of Adolescents in Luxembourg, Germany, and Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Engel de Abreu, Pascale ; Neumann, Sascha; Wealer, Cyril et al
in Journal of Adolescent Health (2021)
Purpose: This study explores adolescent well-being during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in two high-income countries from Europe and one middle-income country from South America. The aim is to ... [more ▼]
Purpose: This study explores adolescent well-being during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in two high-income countries from Europe and one middle-income country from South America. The aim is to investigate the correlates of different dimensions of subjective well- being in 10- to 16-year-olds from different cultural contexts. Methods: An online, self-report questionnaire was completed by 1,613 adolescents in Luxembourg, Germany, and Brazil between May and July 2020. The outcome variables were measures of life satisfaction and emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study included a range of sociodemographic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal covariates. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and latent variable structural equational modeling. Results: A two-factor model of subjective well-being, consisting of life satisfaction and emotional well-being latent constructs, fitted well with this sample data for Luxembourg, Germany, and Brazil. Results showed that gender, socioeconomic status, intrapersonal factors, quantity and type of schoolwork, and relationships with adults were important common predictors of individual differences in subjective well-being during COVID-19. Fear of illness emerged as the strongest correlate of emotional well-being across the three countries. Conclusions: This study indicates that girls and adolescents from low-income homes may be especially vulnerable to negative secondary impacts of COVID-19 that can affect mental health. It identified several common correlates of subjective well-being in adolescents from different cultural settings, including factors that may be changeable, such as the following: the way adults listen to adolescents, schoolwork during distant learning, and fear of illness. Findings can inform the development of quality interventions for promoting the well-being of adolescents during a global pandemic. [less ▲]
Red blood cell phenotyping from 3D confocal images using artificial neural networks.
Simionato, Greta; Hinkelmann, Konrad; Chachanidze, Revaz et al
in PLoS computational biology (2021), 17(5), 1008934
The investigation of cell shapes mostly relies on the manual classification of 2D images, causing a subjective and time consuming evaluation based on a portion of the cell surface. We present a dual-stage ... [more ▼]
The investigation of cell shapes mostly relies on the manual classification of 2D images, causing a subjective and time consuming evaluation based on a portion of the cell surface. We present a dual-stage neural network architecture for analyzing fine shape details from confocal microscopy recordings in 3D. The system, tested on red blood cells, uses training data from both healthy donors and patients with a congenital blood disease, namely hereditary spherocytosis. Characteristic shape features are revealed from the spherical harmonics spectrum of each cell and are automatically processed to create a reproducible and unbiased shape recognition and classification. The results show the relation between the particular genetic mutation causing the disease and the shape profile. With the obtained 3D phenotypes, we suggest our method for diagnostics and theragnostics of blood diseases. Besides the application employed in this study, our algorithms can be easily adapted for the 3D shape phenotyping of other cell types and extend their use to other applications, such as industrial automated 3D quality control. [less ▲]
The application of factorial surveys to study recruiters' hiring intentions: comparing designs based on hypothetical and real vacancies
Gutfleisch, Tamara; Samuel, Robin ; Sacchi, Stefan
in Quality & Quantity (2021), 55
Factorial survey experiments have been widely used to study recruiters' hiring intentions. Respondents are asked to evaluate hypothetical applicant descriptions, which are experimentally manipulated, for ... [more ▼]
Factorial survey experiments have been widely used to study recruiters' hiring intentions. Respondents are asked to evaluate hypothetical applicant descriptions, which are experimentally manipulated, for hypothetical job descriptions. However, this methodology has been criticized for putting respondents in hypothetical situations that often only partially correspond to real-life hiring situations. It has been proposed that this criticism can be overcome by sampling real-world vacancies and the recruiters responsible for filling them. In such an approach, only the applicants' descriptions are hypothetical; respondents are asked about a real hiring problem, which might increase internal and external validity. In this study, we test whether using real vacancies triggers more valid judgments compared to designs based on hypothetical vacancies. The growing number of factorial survey experiments conducted in employer studies makes addressing this question relevant, both for methodological and practical reasons. However, despite the potential implications for the validity of data, it has been neglected so far. We conducted a factorial survey experiment in Luxembourg, in which respondents evaluated hypothetical applicants referring either to a currently vacant position in their company or to a hypothetical job. Overall, we found little evidence for differences in responses by the design of the survey experiment. However, the use of real vacancies might prove beneficial depending on the research interest. We hope that our comparison of designs using real and hypothetical vacancies contributes to the emerging methodological inquiry on the possibilities and limits of using factorial survey experiments in research on hiring. [less ▲]
'It's the political economy..!' A moment of truth for the eurozone and the EU
Dani, Marco; Chiti, Edoardo; Mendes, Joana et al
in International Journal of Constitutional Law (2021), 19(1), 309327
The article discusses the Weiss dispute from a political economy perspective. It first sets this litigation in its wider context, namely the protracted transformation of the Economic and Monetary Union ... [more ▼]
The article discusses the Weiss dispute from a political economy perspective. It first sets this litigation in its wider context, namely the protracted transformation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) over the last decade, a decade which has revealed the structural flaws in its design. It then briefly sketches the changing role of central banking, from a fixation on fighting inflation to a more recent focus on combating deflation. This helps to explain the problematic character of the Weiss rulings and the commentaries they have provoked, illustrating a general failure to consider the limits of law, the result of clinging to different parts of the EMU wreckage, on the assumption that the current constitutional framework remains viable. Finally, the article emphasizes the transformative potential of the Weiss saga. The judicial conflict lays bare the unsustainability of the present arrangements, and reveals the necessity of a choice between genuinely federal integration and coordinated dismantling of EMU. [less ▲]
CONSOLE: intruder detection using a UAV swarm and security rings
Stolfi, Daniel H.; Brust, Matthias R. ; Danoy, Grégoire et al
in Swarm Intell. (2021), 15(3), 205--235
Soft law Evropských orgánů dohledu: nezávazné unijní akty se závaznými vnitrostátními účinky
Hubkova, Pavlina
in Právní rozhledy (2021), 29(17), 573-583
In the EU, some tasks in the area of financial regulation were delegated to the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). These EU agencies are empowered, among others, to issue guidelines and ... [more ▼]
In the EU, some tasks in the area of financial regulation were delegated to the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). These EU agencies are empowered, among others, to issue guidelines and recommendations, i. e. soft law acts. From the Union's point of view, these acts are not legally binding. However, in the Czech context and mainly due to their enforcement by the Czech National Bank (CNB), these acts become practically binding for their main addressees - financial institutions. Such a setting demonstrates how multilevel regulation and enforcement in the EU work. The article analyses the Czech regulatory context and the practice of the CNB in order to show that ESA soft law acts may be genuine soft law in the relation between the EU and the Member States, but they are capable to induce binding legal effects on the national level when the national competent authority decides, within its discretion, to comply with them. Based on this analysis, the article also addresses issues related to the control and possible judicial review of ESA soft law. [less ▲]
(Re)créer l'histoire des femmes. La biofiction au service du genre
in Revue Critique de Fixxion Française Contemporaine (2021), 21
Integrated likelihood based inference for nonlinear panel data models with unobserved effects
Schumann, Martin; Severini, Thomas A.; Tripathi, Gautam
in Journal of Econometrics (2021), 223
Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs?
Yang, Deheng; Liu, Kui; Kim, Dongsun et al
in Empirical Software Engineering (2021), 26(6), 1--33
Radio Frequency Interference Detection Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
Silva, Felipe B.; Cetin, Ediz; Alves Martins, Wallace
This work proposes a new pre-correlation interference detection technique based on nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. The proposed technique uses ... [more ▼]
This work proposes a new pre-correlation interference detection technique based on nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. The proposed technique uses NMF to extract the time and frequency properties of the received signal from its spectrogram. The estimated spectral shape is then compared with the spectrogram's time slices by means of a similarity function to detect the presence of radio frequency interference (RFI). In the presence of RFI, the NMF estimated spectral shape tends to be well-defined, resulting in high similarity levels. In contrast, in the absence of RFI, the received signal is solely comprised of noise and GNSS signals resulting in a noise like spectral shape estimate, leading to considerably reduced similarity levels. The proposal exploits this different similarity levels to detect the presence of interference. Simulation results indicate that the proposed technique yields increased detection capability with low false alarm rate even in low jammer-to-noise ratio environments for both narrow and wideband interference sources without requiring fine-tuning of parameters for specific RFI types. In addition, the proposal has reduced computational complexity, when compared with an existing statistical-based detector. [less ▲]
Rosy or blue? Change in recall bias of students' affective experiences during early adolescence
Zurbriggen, Carmen ; Jendryczko, David; Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.
in Emotion (2021)
Localization System for Lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Inspection Tasks
Benjumea, Diego; Alcántara, Alfonso; Ramos, Agustin et al
in Sensors (2021), 21(17 5937),
This paper presents a localization system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially designed to be used in infrastructure inspection, where the UAVs have to fly in challenging conditions, such as ... [more ▼]
This paper presents a localization system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) especially designed to be used in infrastructure inspection, where the UAVs have to fly in challenging conditions, such as relatively high altitude (e.g., 15 m), eventually with poor or absent GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal reception, or the need for a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) operation in some periods. In addition, these infrastructure inspection applications impose the following requirements for the localization system: defect traceability, accuracy, reliability, and fault tolerance. Our system proposes a lightweight solution combining multiple stereo cameras with a robotic total station to comply with these requirements, providing full-state estimation (i.e., position, orientation, and linear and angular velocities) in a fixed and time-persistent reference frame. Moreover, the system can align and fuse all sensor measurements in real-time at high frequency. We have integrated this localization system in our aerial platform, and we have tested its performance for inspection in a real-world viaduct scenario, where the UAV has to operate with poor or absent GNSS signal at high altitude. [less ▲]
Detailed reference viewed: 6 (0 UL)
What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization
Keller, Patrick ; Kabore, Abdoul Kader ; Plein, Laura et al
in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2021)
Recent successes in training word embeddings for NLP tasks have encouraged a wave of research on representation learning for sourcecode, which builds on similar NLP methods. The overall objective is then ... [more ▼]
Recent successes in training word embeddings for NLP tasks have encouraged a wave of research on representation learning for sourcecode, which builds on similar NLP methods. The overall objective is then to produce code embeddings that capture the maximumof program semantics. State-of-the-art approaches invariably rely on a syntactic representation (i.e., raw lexical tokens, abstractsyntax trees, or intermediate representation tokens) to generate embeddings, which are criticized in the literature as non-robustor non-generalizable. In this work, we investigate a novel embedding approach based on the intuition that source code has visualpatterns of semantics. We further use these patterns to address the outstanding challenge of identifying semantic code clones. Wepropose theWySiWiM("What You See Is What It Means") approach where visual representations of source code are fed into powerfulpre-trained image classification neural networks from the field of computer vision to benefit from the practical advantages of transferlearning. We evaluate the proposed embedding approach on the task of vulnerable code prediction in source code and on two variationsof the task of semantic code clone identification: code clone detection (a binary classification problem), and code classification (amulti-classification problem). We show with experiments on the BigCloneBench (Java), Open Judge (C) that although simple, ourWySiWiMapproach performs as effectively as state of the art approaches such as ASTNN or TBCNN. We also showed with datafrom NVD and SARD thatWySiWiMrepresentation can be used to learn a vulnerable code detector with reasonable performance(accuracy∼90%). We further explore the influence of different steps in our approach, such as the choice of visual representations or theclassification algorithm, to eventually discuss the promises and limitations of this research direction. [less ▲]
AST-MTL : An Attention-based Multi- Task Learning Strategy for Traffic Forecasting
Buroni, Giovanni; Lebichot, Bertrand ; Bontempi, Gianluca
in IEEE Access (2021)
Intraoperative discrimination of native meningioma and dura mater by Raman spectroscopy
Jelke, Finn; Mirizzi, Giulia; Borgmann, Felix Kleine et al
in Scientific Reports (2021)
The Geostationary Ring: Practice and Law, Martha Mejia-Kaiser, Nijhoff/ Brill, Leiden 2020
Hofmann, Mahulena ; Blount, Percy
in Air and Space Law (2021), 46(3), 475-478
The book is a comprehensive analysis of the international regime of the geostationary orbit.
Le programme one2one dans l'enseignement secondaire au Luxembourg. D'un objectif en termes d'équipement à des objectifs en termes de compétences
Milmeister, Marianne ; Baumann, Isabell Eva
in Rapport sur l'éducation 2021 (2021)
Interoception in preschoolers: New insights into its assessment and relations to emotion regulation and stress
Opdensteinen, Kim D.; Schaan, Luca; Pohl, Anna et al
Interoception may play an important role for emotion regulation and stress, thereby affecting mental health in children and adults. Yet, little is known on interoception in preschool children. Therefore ... [more ▼]
Interoception may play an important role for emotion regulation and stress, thereby affecting mental health in children and adults. Yet, little is known on interoception in preschool children. Therefore, we investigated interoceptive accuracy using the adapted Jumping Jack Paradigm (JJP) and its relationship with emotion regulation and stress. In Study I, 40 preschoolers completed the JJP and an emotion regulation task, demonstrating a positive relationship between interoceptive accuracy and emotion regulation at trend level (R² = 0.231, p = .023; β = .278, p = .073). In Study II, 31 preschoolers completed the adapted JJP before and after an acute laboratory stress test. Higher total cortisol output following acute stress induction were associated with reduced interoceptive accuracy (r = -0.670, p = .017). Extending earlier findings in adults and school-children, the relationship of interoceptive accuracy with emotion regulation and stress highlights the importance to investigate interoception in early childhood. [less ▲]
COBREXA.jl: constraint-based reconstruction and exascale analysis
Kratochvil, Miroslav ; Heirendt, Laurent ; Wilken, St Elmo et al
in Bioinformatics (2021)
COBREXA.jl is a Julia package for scalable, high-performance constraint-based reconstruction and analysis of very large-scale biological models. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the integration of ... [more ▼]
COBREXA.jl is a Julia package for scalable, high-performance constraint-based reconstruction and analysis of very large-scale biological models. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the integration of modern high performance computing environments with the processing and analysis of large-scale metabolic models of challenging complexity. We report the architecture of the package, and demonstrate how the design promotes analysis scalability on several use-cases with multi-organism community models.https://doi.org/10.17881/ZKCR-BT30.Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online. [less ▲]
Spelling patterns of plural marking and learning trajectories in French taught as a foreign language
Weth, Constanze ; Ugen, Sonja ; Fayol, Michel et al
in Written Language and Literacy (2021), 24(1), 81-110
Although French plural spelling has been studied extensively, the complexity of factors affecting the learning of French plural spelling are not yet fully explained, namely on the level of adjectival and ... [more ▼]
Although French plural spelling has been studied extensively, the complexity of factors affecting the learning of French plural spelling are not yet fully explained, namely on the level of adjectival and verbal plural. This study investigates spelling profiles of French plural markers of 228 multilingual grade 5 pupils with French taught as a foreign language. Three analyses on the learner performances of plural spelling in nouns, verbs and pre- and postnominal attributive adjectives were conducted (1) to detect the pupils' spelling profiles of plural marking on the basis of the performances in the pretest, (2) to test the profiles against two psycholinguistic theories, and (3) to evaluate the impact of the training on each spelling profile in the posttest. The first analysis confirms the existing literature that pupils' learning of French plural is not random but ordered and emphasizes the role of the position for adjectives (pre- or postnominal) on correct plural spelling. The second analysis reveals the theoretical difficulties of predicting spelling of adjectival and verbal plural. The third analysis shows that strong and poor spellers both benefit from a morphosyntactic training and provides transparency and traceability of the learning trajectories. Together, the descriptive analyses reveal clear patterns of intra-individual spelling profiles. They point to a need for further research in those areas that have empirically provided the most inconsistent results to date and that are not supported by the theories: verbs and adjectives. [less ▲]
Role of the Industry in the Enforcement of the Tobacco Policy: Between Necessary Mistrust and Necessary Cooperation
Tosza, Stanislaw
in Utrecht Law Review (2021), 17(1), 5972
Tobacco products are heavily regulated because, in particular, of their acknowledged harmfulness to health, with highly elevated prices as one of the most important means of discouraging consumption. One ... [more ▼]
Tobacco products are heavily regulated because, in particular, of their acknowledged harmfulness to health, with highly elevated prices as one of the most important means of discouraging consumption. One of the most serious threats to the effectiveness of the tobacco policy comes from the trafficking of illicit tobacco, which is much cheaper, often of lower quality, and which reduces state and EU revenues. The achievement of tobacco policy objectives, in particular the combatting of illicit tobacco trade, depends on the participation of private actors, amongst which big industry plays a crucial role. Yet, the legal landscape of enforcement duties of the tobacco industry is a patchwork of instruments, unevenly affecting different players. In particular it includes controversial agreements between the major tobacco producers and the EU and Member States, to which three out of four major producers are subject. The agreement with the fourth – PMI – was not extended by the Commission in 2016. The decision as to the extension of the remaining agreements is looming. The objective of this article is to analyse the framework of duties of the tobacco industry in the enforcement of the tobacco policy, especially against illicit tobacco, and to reflect on whether the enforcement model, including the agreements with the tobacco producers, should be kept or abandoned. [less ▲]
Inequality of educational opportunity at time of schooling predicts cognitive functioning in later adulthood
Leist, Anja ; Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis
in SSM - Population Health (2021), 15
Objectives. Our understanding of how societal conditions and educational policies influence cognitive development across the life course is improving. We tested the extent to which inequality of ... [more ▼]
Objectives. Our understanding of how societal conditions and educational policies influence cognitive development across the life course is improving. We tested the extent to which inequality of educational opportunity (IEO), the country- and cohort-specific correlation of parents' and their offspring's length of schooling, offers systematically different opportunities to contribute to cognitive development, which in turn influences cognitive abilities up to older ages. Methods. A total of 46,972 individuals of three cohorts born 1940–63 from 16 European countries and Israel provided up to six cognitive assessments and information on covariates in the SHARE survey 2004–2017. Individual-level data were linked to indicators of IEO at time of schooling, and economic, health, and human development, provided by World Bank, WHO, and the UN. Results. In multilevel (mixed-effects) models with random individual and country-cohort effects and adjusted for a large set of confounders, higher IEO was associated with lower levels of cognitive functioning in men and women. Interaction analyses suggested lower cognitive levels particularly of women who were schooled in higher IEO contexts and had lower educational attainment. Associations with rate of change in cognitive functioning were present only in women, however there was little clinically relevant cognitive decline across the window of observation. Result patterns were mostly consistent after including additional contextual indicators, and in a subsample with childhood information. Discussion. Findings suggest that IEO is able to substantially influence cognitive development with long-lasting impacts. Lower-educated women of the cohorts under investigation may have been particularly vulnerable to high-inequality educational contexts. [less ▲]
SNR-Based GNSS-R for Coastal Sea-Level Altimetry
Tabibi, Sajad ; Sauveur, Renaldo ; Guerrier, Kelly et al
in Geosciences (2021), 11(9 391),
Geodetic Global Navigation Satellite System reflectometry (GNSS-R) uses ground-based signals of opportunity to retrieve sea levels at an intermediate spatial scale. Geodetic GNSS-R is based on the ... [more ▼]
Geodetic Global Navigation Satellite System reflectometry (GNSS-R) uses ground-based signals of opportunity to retrieve sea levels at an intermediate spatial scale. Geodetic GNSS-R is based on the simultaneous reception of Line-of-Sight (LoS) and its coherent GNSS sea surface reflection (non-LOS) signals. The scope of this paper is to present geodetic GNSS-R applied to sea level altimetry. Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) measurements from a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) geodetic-quality GNSS station at the Haiti Coast Guard Base in Port-au-Prince is used to retrieve sea levels in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2014 (ITRF2014). The GNSS-R sea levels are compared with those of the OTT Radar Level Sensor (RLS) installed vertically below the GNSS antenna. The Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE) between the geodetic GNSS-R sea levels and OTT RLS records is 3.43 cm, with a correlation of 0.96. In addition, the complex differences between the OTT RLS records and 15-min GNSS-R sea levels using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Globalnaya Navigazionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (or Global Navigation Satellite System; GLONASS) signals for all the eight major tidal constituents are in mm-level agreement. Therefore, geodetic GNSS-R can be used as a complementary approach to the conventional method for sea level studies in a stable terrestrial reference frame. [less ▲]
La neutralité algorithmique à l'épreuve de ses effets discriminatoires
in Revue de Droit du Travail (2021)
Using social marketing for the promotion of cognitive health: a scoping review protocol
Barbier, Mathilde ; Schulte, Caroline; Kornadt, Anna Elena et al
in BMJ Open (2021)
Introduction: The use of social marketing strategies to induce the promotion of cognitive health has received little attention in research. The objective of this scoping review is twofold: (i) to identify ... [more ▼]
Introduction: The use of social marketing strategies to induce the promotion of cognitive health has received little attention in research. The objective of this scoping review is twofold: (i) to identify the social marketing strategies that have been used in recent years to initiate and maintain health-promoting behaviour; (ii) to advance research in this area to inform policy and practice on how to best make use of these strategies to promote cognitive health. Methods and analysis: We will use the five-stage methodological framework of Arksey and O'Malley. Articles in English published since 2010 will be searched in electronic databases (the Cochrane Library, DoPHER, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, PsycInfo, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus). Quantitative and qualitative study designs as well as reviews will be considered. We will include those articles that report the design, implementation, outcomes and evaluation of programmes and interventions concerning social marketing and/or health promotion and/or promotion of cognitive health. Grey literature will not be searched. Two independent reviewers will assess in detail the abstracts and full text of selected citations against the inclusion criteria. A Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses flowchart for Scoping Reviews will be used to illustrate the process of article selection. We will use a data extraction form, present the results through narrative synthesis and discuss them in relation to the scoping review research questions. Ethics and dissemination: Ethics approval is not required for conducting this scoping review. The results of the review will be the first step to advance a conceptual framework, which contributes to the development of interventions targeting the promotion of cognitive health. The results will be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. They will also be disseminated to key stakeholders in the field of the promotion of cognitive health. [less ▲]
1918, 1945, 1989: Childhood in Times of Political Transformation: Part I
Kind-Kovács, Friederike; Venken, Machteld
in Journal of Modern European History (2021), 19(2),
The Mask of Evil : Moriarty, Fu-Manchu, Mabuse
in Cultural Express (2021), 6
DyPS: Dynamic, Private and Secure GWAS
Pascoal, Túlio ; Decouchant, Jérémie ; Boutet, Antoine et al
in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2021)
Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) identify the genomic variations that are statistically associated with a particular phenotype (e.g., a disease). The confidence in GWAS results increases with the ... [more ▼]
Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) identify the genomic variations that are statistically associated with a particular phenotype (e.g., a disease). The confidence in GWAS results increases with the number of genomes analyzed, which encourages federated computations where biocenters would periodically share the genomes they have sequenced. However, for economical and legal reasons, this collaboration will only happen if biocenters cannot learn each others' data. In addition, GWAS releases should not jeopardize the privacy of the individuals whose genomes are used. We introduce DyPS, a novel framework to conduct dynamic privacy-preserving federated GWAS. DyPS leverages a Trusted Execution Environment to secure dynamic GWAS computations. Moreover, DyPS uses a scaling mechanism to speed up the releases of GWAS results according to the evolving number of genomes used in the study, even if individuals retract their participation consent. Lastly, DyPS also tolerates up to all-but-one colluding biocenters without privacy leaks. We implemented and extensively evaluated DyPS through several scenarios involving more than 6 million simulated genomes and up to 35,000 real genomes. Our evaluation shows that DyPS updates test statistics with a reasonable additional request processing delay (11% longer) compared to an approach that would update them with minimal delay but would lead to 8% of the genomes not being protected. In addition, DyPS can result in the same amount of aggregate statistics as a static release (i.e., at the end of the study), but can produce up to 2.6 times more statistics information during earlier dynamic releases. Besides, we show that DyPS can support a larger number of genomes and SNP positions without any significant performance penalty. [less ▲]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


A career in business can take many forms, but earning a graduate business degree is your key to taking your career to the next level. With a b-school degree, you'll gain knowledge that allows you to access exciting opportunities, earn a higher salary, and create an expansive network of business professionals.
Expand your portfolio of work experience and demonstrate your commitment and dedication to potential employers by enrolling in a summer internship. Internships can up your professional game by giving you skills and experiences you can't always get in the classroom.
They're a great way to try out different industries or professions and confirm your career path. Plus, they expand your network and can help you get a foot in the door with desirable employers, increasing your chances of full-time employment down the road.
Finding a mentor who can guide you on college, career, and GMAT prep is a crucial step to ensuring long-term career success. Mentors have access to tools and expertise that can advise and inform the critical steps along your professional path and how to best prepare for success.
The LinkedIn profile is today's digital resume. If you don't already have one, set up a LinkedIn account to showcase your academic and professional accomplishments.
Expand your profile by adding details such as work history, unique skills, and how your accomplishments have made an impact. Include information about your extracurricular activities and volunteerism to give a more complete representation of your skills and interests. Use your account to connect with peers and professionals you meet throughout the summer, and beyond.
Choosing a business school is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming with more degree opportunities and choices than ever before. Give yourself time to research different programs and decide if they fit your interests, goals, and learning style, starting with School Finder on mba.com.
Schedule school visits and get a sense of campus culture by talking to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Once you've narrowed your options, research Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) score ranges and benchmark yourself against fellow test takers. Then, formulate a GMAT prep plan and set milestones to help you achieve your personal goals.
With your test-taking abilities at their absolute peak, there's no better time to take the GMAT exam than now. Math and verbal skills are fresh in your mind and you have access to the best test-prep resources. Your score is good for five years so you'll have plenty of time to decide where or when you want to apply. And with 600+ testing centers across the United States, you can take the exam wherever (and whenever) it's convenient for you.
Undergrads can save $100 on exam fees, visit gmat.com/forte for exclusive pricing.


Go Bold Or Go Home Show Your True Colors Shelves Pinterest Red Front Door Colors Uploaded by totalemul on Thursday, January 3rd, 2019 in category Decor and Design.
See also Red Front Door Colors Posh Front Door Colours For Red Brick House Red Front Door Paint from Decor and Design Topic.
Here we have another image Red Front Door Colors This Door In Behrs Morocco Red Makes A Great Complementary Pairing featured under Go Bold Or Go Home Show Your True Colors Shelves Pinterest Red Front Door Colors. We hope you enjoyed it and if you want to download the pictures in high quality, simply right click the image and choose "Save As". Thanks for reading Go Bold Or Go Home Show Your True Colors Shelves Pinterest Red Front Door Colors.


text:
Cannabis Can't Cancel Out Opioid Deaths
A new study contradicts earlier findings that legalizing medical marijuana reduces the rate of fatal opioid overdoses,
Tobacco's Persistent Toll
Tobacco is a big reason that the world isn't on track to meet a key Sustainable Development Goal: Cut NCD premature mortality by one-third by 2030, the WHO reports.
Juul's Full Court Press for the FDA
Armed with tempting sums of cash, Juul Labs has been aggressively recruiting e-cigarette researchers in a bid to show the FDA—by 2022—that its blockbuster vape products are a "net public health good" when it comes to promoting smoking cessation, Sheila K
Big Tobacco's War on Islam
The tobacco industry tried to undermine smoking bans in many Muslim countries, attempting to recruit Islamic scholars and reinterpret religious teachings, according to an investigation by Mark Petticrew from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine demonstrated.
Big Tobacco Cares?
Counterintuitive moment: Big tobacco companies are pushing for more controls on e-cigarettes including health warnings, product testing requirements, etc. Concern for consumers? Big tobacco says it's providing leadership in the burgeoning industry. Smaller competitors say…
Decaying Ethics, Decaying Teeth
Sugar industry ties to US government in the 1960s and 70s influenced approaches to prevent tooth decay in American children, UC San Francisco researchers have found. Although sugar consumption was known to lead to tooth decay, NIH concluded in 1969 that focusing on…
Subscribe to Smoking


Win a Kenwood Blender worth £199!
With street food well and truly stealing the show in 2014, many new cuisines and exotic influences have sprung up along our pavements and cobbled streets. Our tastebuds have been tantalised and tickled by food from all over the world, and we've scrapped plates and cutlery in favour of laps and napkins.
But out of the array of world cuisines, one in particular has cast a spell over us Brits. Seoul street food is something we're embracing wholeheartedly. Korean food has soared to the top spot as our all-time favourite street food; it has captivated us and satisfied our craving for spice. While we might not be quite up to eating silk worm larvae or live octopus on our lunch breaks, we are lapping up the kimchi and bibimbap. Food festivals such as The Real Food Market now boast Korean barbecues and, this year, Gizzi Erskine went down a storm at Taste London with her Korean masterclasses.
Korean restaurants are nothing new; they have been prevalent on the London scene since the 1960s, but its recent pavement phenomenon is something that has organically flourished as part of the street food vibe. Street food is part of Korean life. Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is notoriously stacked to the brim with food vendors and so perhaps it was only a matter of time before it found a home on our narrow streets – and when something hits the pavements of Shoreditch you know it's something to stand up and take notice of. Korean pop-ups and street vendors have been slowly growing in number. On the Bab, for example, and Korrito are among those to have made a home in London's trendy Shoreditch and The Busan BBQ, has taken the trend to the next level, hailing the 'AmeriKorean dream'.
Korean food is built upon some fairly strong flavours and fresh vegetables and it's the combination the bright, vivid colours and the medley of hot, sour and sweet flavours that has got us all hooked. Korean cuisine offers so much variety that it lends itself to most tastes and diets appeals to a wide range of people. What you might not know is that it also boasts a number of health benefits.
Kimchi is traditionally served with every meal in Korea. It's a tangy, pickled concoction of vegetables such as cucumber, cabbage, red onion and spring onion which is then given an additional kick with a blend of chillies, ginger, garlic and salt. Some find it an acquired taste, but there are plenty of different ways of making this dish to suit. What you need to know about kimchi, is that it not only tastes amazing, but it's also filled with antioxidants. It supposedly helps to combat cancer, diabetes and obesity and is known for its anti-ageing properties.
The main component of kimchi is cabbage which is already known for its detoxifying properties, and kimchi is also high in Vitamin C and good bacteria that can control the appetite and help with weight loss. In fact this understated Korean side dish is simply overflowing with health benefits. Fermenting foods, such as you do with kimchi, is thought to be one of the most effective way of preserving nutrients. Perhaps this is why scientists spent years developing 'space kimchi'. Although one of the most difficult of Korea's national dishes to make space-friendly, it was nevertheless deemed one of the most necessary to accompany the first Korean into space. "If a Korean goes to space, kimchi must go there, too," said food scientist, Kim Sung Soos.
Bibimbap is another popular Korean dish and translates as simply 'mixed rice'. White rice topped with a layer of sautéed vegetables and finished with sliced meat and a raw egg. This is a bit of snazzy dish: the hot stone bowl that bibimbap is served in continues to cook the meat and egg as all the ingredients are traditionally stirred together before tucking in.
Our taste for world dishes was never going to stop in the street; we're far too creative for that! Now that the winter days are drawing in, bring the food inside and give it a place in your kitchen. Kenwood have recently released a comprehensive cook book, comprised of recipes from all over the world, compiled from a variety of talented chefs including street food champion, Andy Bates, familiar face Matt Tebbutt and culinary author Celia Brooks. There's enough in there to have you cooking up your own street food party, with recipes from across the globe.
To help you on your way to the perfect kimchi, we're giving away a Kenwood Pro X to one lucky Food Festival reader. Just pop your email address in the box to be in with a chance. No one need know you didn't chop all those vegetables by hand!
Competition is now closed. Thank you all for entering. Winner has been notified by email - please check your inbox.


text:
Kaibigan Movie Advocacy and Ministry
The Kaibigan Movie Lead Actors Jesse and Christian Perkins have been touring the Philippines with the Department of Education (DepEd) for the past three years. On tour, they inspire the youth advocating "doing the right thing," which includes no drinking, no drugs, no smoking, no bullying and purity. They have performed over 1200 schools and in over 100 malls – all FREE of charge.
Support the advocacy. Join the ministry. Donate now.
The movie Kaibigan is produced by Perkinspiredflix, Inc., a company whose goal is to produce Films and TV Shows that are God-glorifying, Faith-based Family-friendly and Values-oriented.
© 2018-2020 All rights reserved, PERKINSPIREDFLIX INC.
Made with ❤ by DawalTech
error: Sorry, Content is protected !!