Master in Gerontologie

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

Rozansky-Witten-type invariants from symplectic Lie pairs

in Communications in Mathematical Physics (2014)

We introduce symplectic structures on “Lie pairs” of (real or complex) Lie algebroids as studied by Chen et al. (From Atiyah classes to homotopy Leibniz algebras. arXiv:1204.1075, 2012), encompassing ... [more ▼]

We introduce symplectic structures on “Lie pairs” of (real or complex) Lie algebroids as studied by Chen et al. (From Atiyah classes to homotopy Leibniz algebras. arXiv:1204.1075, 2012), encompassing homogeneous symplectic spaces, symplectic manifolds with a g-action, and holomorphic symplectic manifolds. We show that to each such symplectic Lie pair are associated Rozansky–Witten-type invariants of three-manifolds and knots, given respectively by weight systems on trivalent and chord diagrams. [less ▲]

PROPAGATION OF HARMONICAL VIBRATIONS IN PEAT

in International Journal of GEOMATE (2014), 7(2), 1101-1106

In order to check the reliability of man-made vibration prediction methods, vibration tests were performed on one of polders in the North-West of the Netherlands. The polder was chosen because it has a ... [more ▼]

In order to check the reliability of man-made vibration prediction methods, vibration tests were performed on one of polders in the North-West of the Netherlands. The polder was chosen because it has a rather homogenous, thick and soft peat top layer. Here sufficient harmonical vibrations could be generated by a rather small shaker. The shaker was designed and manufactured in order to produce harmonical vibrations at the soil surface. It consists of two counter rotating electric vibrators (with rotating eccentric masses) in order to produce a vertically oscillating force. For the recordings of the vibrations, six 2D or 3D geophones were placed on the soil surface and one 2D geophone was placed on top of the shaker. The measured vibration amplitudes of the vertically oscillating shaker were compared with 1. Two different analytical methods used for the design of vibrating machine foundations, 2. The Confined Elasticity approach and 3. The Finite Element Method, for which Plaxis 2D software was used. Also the measured vibration amplitudes at the soil surface were compared with Barkan-Bornitz’s solution and Finite Element Modeling. [less ▲]

Music (Education) from the Cradle to the Grave

Book published by Margraf Publishers (2014)

This book deals with music as a life time companion that serves several functions across the life span. The combination of music with age includes music practice, music listening, music therapy and music ... [more ▼]

This book deals with music as a life time companion that serves several functions across the life span. The combination of music with age includes music practice, music listening, music therapy and music education. The contributions clarify the relations between music education, music animation and music therapy. They deal with music in a medical and in a geriatric environment. They give impressing insights about music therapy that helps people to die in dignity. An innovative form of therapy illustrates how music can be benefitial in relation to pain. Two contributions give examples of music education and its challenges for elderly people in proposing didactic models and in highlighting how choir singing becomes a matter of informal learning for seniors. [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 ▲]

Shape optimisation with isogeometric boundary element methods

Presentation (2014, December)

Collaborative problem solving in large-scale assessments. Experiences from the field.

Presentation (2014, December)

Performance Analysis of Cloud Environments on Top of Energy-Efficient Platforms Featuring Low Power Processors

in Proc. of the 6th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'14) (2014, December)

Energy efficiency remains a prevalent concern in the development of future HPC systems. Thus the next generations of supercomputers are foreseen to be developed as hybrid systems featuring traditional ... [more ▼]

Energy efficiency remains a prevalent concern in the development of future HPC systems. Thus the next generations of supercomputers are foreseen to be developed as hybrid systems featuring traditional processors, accelerators (such as GPGPUs) and/or low-power processor architectures (ARM, Intel Atom, etc.) primarily designed for the mobile and embedded de- vices market. Also, a confluence with the Cloud Computing (CC) paradigm is anticipated, driven by economic sustainability factors. However, the performance impact of running Cloud middleware on such crossbred platforms remains to be explored, especially on low power processors. In this context, this paper brings two main contributions: (1) the design and implementation of BACH, a framework able to execute automated performance evaluations of Cloud and HPC cluster environments; (2) the concrete validation of the framework for the evaluation of the modern OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) middleware, deployed on a cutting-edge cluster based on ultra low power energy efficient ARM processors. The efficiency in itself is measured with synthetic HPC benchmarks: HPCC (incorporating the well known HPL), HPCG and real world applications from the bioinformatics domain - GROMACS and ABySS. The experimental evaluation revealed an average 24% performance drop in performance for compute-intensive tasks and 65.6% drop in communication capacity compared to the native environment without the IaaS solution, showing a non-negligible impact on the tested platform. To our knowledge, this is one of the first studies of this type, since deployment attempts of the OpenStack infrastructure on top of ARM platforms are in early stages, and are generally performed only for demonstration purposes. [less ▲]

H-infinity dynamic observer design for linear time invariant systems

in 2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los Angeles, USA (2014, December)

This paper proposes an H-infinity dynamic observer (DO) for a class of linear time invariant (LTI) systems in the presence of disturbances. It generalizes the existing results on the proportional observer ... [more ▼]

This paper proposes an H-infinity dynamic observer (DO) for a class of linear time invariant (LTI) systems in the presence of disturbances. It generalizes the existing results on the proportional observer (PO), the proportional integral observer (PIO) and the DO. The design method is derived from a new formulation of linear matrix inequality (LMI), based on the solutions of the algebraic constraints obtained from the unbiasedness conditions of the estimation error. A numerical example is provided to show the applicability and performances of our observer. [less ▲]

Global flows, local conflicts and the challenge of urban governance: Managing the city-­airport interface in London, UK

E-print/Working paper (2014)