Master in Gerontologie

in Steffgen, Georges; Ferring, Dieter; Michaux, Gilles (Eds.) Psychologie in Luxemburg - Ein Handbuch (2014)

Essential Inputs and Unbounded Output: an Alternative Characterization of the Neoclassical Production Function

E-print/Working paper (2014)

The Inada (1963) conditions constitute a defining property of the neoclassical production function with capital and labor as arguments. Are these conditions justifiable on economic grounds? Yes, they are ... [more ▼]

The Inada (1963) conditions constitute a defining property of the neoclassical production function with capital and labor as arguments. Are these conditions justifiable on economic grounds? Yes, they are: we show that a production function with positive, yet diminishing marginal products and constant returns to scale satisfies the Inada conditions if i) both inputs are essential and ii) an unbounded quantity of either input leads to unbounded output. This allows for an alternative characterization of the neoclassical production function that altogether dispenses with the Inada conditions. Moreover, we establish that the marginal product of capital vanishes as capital goes to infinity if labor is an essential input. Given the intuitive appeal of the latter feature, we conclude that the neoclassical growth model is a theory of eventual stagnation. [less ▲]

Workplace Relocation and Mobility Changes in a Transnational Metropolitan Area: The Case of the University of Luxembourg

in Transportation Research Procedia (2014, December), 4

The aim of this paper is to study the utility variation related to the commuting mobility of University staff members due to their future workplace relocation. During the year 2012, a travel survey was ... [more ▼]

The aim of this paper is to study the utility variation related to the commuting mobility of University staff members due to their future workplace relocation. During the year 2012, a travel survey was completed by a total of 397 staff members, representing 36.4% of the university employees, who filled in a questionnaire which revealed complex decision making patterns due to the special traveling scenario involving four countries at once. A Multinomial Logit model has been used to anticipate the impact of university relocation from the capital city to a developing area in the south of the country which will happen between 2015 and 2018 and that will affect most of the employees. The effects of several Travel Demand Management measures are discussed based on the analysis of alternative scenarios [less ▲]

Trajectories and repertoires as conceptual tools for a sociolinguistics of globalization

E-print/Working paper (2014)

This is the third in a series of research briefs in the STAR project. STAR stands for “Sociolinguistic trajectories and repertoires: Luso-Luxo-African identifications, interactions and imaginations”, and ... [more ▼]

This is the third in a series of research briefs in the STAR project. STAR stands for “Sociolinguistic trajectories and repertoires: Luso-Luxo-African identifications, interactions and imaginations”, and is a three-year CORE research project funded by FNR, Luxembourg. This multi-sited project contributes to the field of sociolinguistics of globalization by investigating language and migration between the global South (Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau) and North (Luxembourg) from the perspective of both accomplished and aspiring migrants. In this third research brief we outline the key conceptual concepts guiding the project, sociolinguistic trajectories and repertoires. [less ▲]

ChIP-seq profiling of the active chromatin marker H3K4me3 and PPARγ, CEBPα and LXR target genes in human SGBS adipocytes

in Genomics Data (2014), 2

Transcription factors (TFs) represent key factors to establish a cellular phenotype. It is known that several TFs could play a role in disease, yet less is known so far how their targets overlap. We ... [more ▼]

Transcription factors (TFs) represent key factors to establish a cellular phenotype. It is known that several TFs could play a role in disease, yet less is known so far how their targets overlap. We focused here on identifying the most highly induced TFs and their putative targets during human adipogenesis. Applying chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with deep sequencing (ChIP-Seq) in the human SGBS pre-adipocyte cell line, we identified genes with binding sites in their vicinity for the three TFs studied, PPARγ, CEBPα and LXR. Here we describe the experimental design and quality controls in detail for the deep sequencing data and related results published by Galhardo et al. in Nucleic Acids Research 2014 [1] associated with the data uploaded to NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (). [less ▲]

Stadtentstehungsgeschichten aus Nordwesteuropa im Mittelalter

in Jungblut, Marie-Paule; Pauly, Michel; Reif, Heinz (Eds.) Luxemburg, eine Stadt in Europa. Schlaglichter auf mehr als 1000 Jahre europäische Stadtgeschichte (2014)

Assessing partial observability in network sensor location problems

in Transportation Research. Part B : Methodological (2014), 70

The quality of information on a network is crucial for different transportation planning and management applications. Problems focusing on where to strategically extract this information can be broadly ... [more ▼]

The quality of information on a network is crucial for different transportation planning and management applications. Problems focusing on where to strategically extract this information can be broadly subdivided into observability problems, which rely on the topological properties of the network, and flow-estimation problems, where (prior) information on observed flows is needed to identify optimal sensor locations. This paper contributes mainly to the first category: more specifically, it presents a new methodology and an intuitive metric able to quantify the quality of a solution in case of partial observability, i.e. when not all flow variables are observed or can be uniquely determined from the observed flows. This methodology is based on existing approaches that can efficiently find solutions for full observability (i.e., the set of sensors needed to make the system fully determined), and exploits only the algebraic relations between link, route and origin-destination flow variables to quantify the information contained in any arbitrary subset of these variables. The new metric allows, through its adoption within simple search algorithms, to efficiently select sensor locations when the number of available sensors is limited by, for example, budget constraints and is less than the number needed to guarantee full observability. The chosen positions aim at selecting those locations that contain the largest information content on the whole network. This is an important contribution in this field, since even in small sized networks the solution for full observability requires an exceedingly large amount of sensors. The assessment of partial observability solutions, based on explicit route enumeration, allows one to categorize families of full observability solutions, and shows that these contain different information potential. This way, it is possible to rank solutions requiring a lower number of sensors while containing the same information content. We tested this new methodology both on toy networks, in order to analyse the properties of the metric and illustrate its logic, and to explain and test heuristic search algorithms for optimal sensor positioning on a real-sized network. Analysis of partial observability solutions shows that the basic search algorithms succeed in finding the links that contain the largest deal of information in a network. [less ▲]

Altern und Lebensspannenentwicklung

in Ferring, Dieter; Steffgen, Georges; Michaux, Gilles (Eds.) Psychologie in Luxemburg - Ein Handbuch (2014)

Reproducible Research Results R3

Poster (2014, December)

Psychologie in Luxemburg - Ein Handbuch

Book published by University of Luxembourg/Société Luxembourgeoise de Psychologie A.s.b.l. - Editions Guy Binsfeld (2014)

Psychologie in Luxemburg: Ein Handbuch stellt das Fachgebiet der Psychologie in seinen vielfältigen Facetten vor. Neben dem Blick auf die historische Entwicklung des Fachs und der Beschreibung der ... [more ▼]

Psychologie in Luxemburg: Ein Handbuch stellt das Fachgebiet der Psychologie in seinen vielfältigen Facetten vor. Neben dem Blick auf die historische Entwicklung des Fachs und der Beschreibung der nationalen Psychologenverbände liefert das Buch einen umfassenden Ueberblick der aktuellen Anwendungsfelder sowie der schulischen und universitären Aus- und Weiterbildung in Psychologie. Vervollständigt wird das Handbuch durch die Darstellung der international vernetzten, wissenschaftlichen psychologischen Forschung in Luxemburg. Das Handbuch erlaubt es, sich ein fundiertes Bild über die vielfältigen aktuellen Angebote der Psycholgie in Luxemburg zu verschaffen. [less ▲]