"Outreach Youth Work-Maisons des Jeunes" - Eine Perspektive für Jugendliche in schwierigen Lebenslagen. Abschlussbericht der externen Evaluation eines Pilotprojektes in Luxemburg.

Report (2018)

Outro. American Skin

in Scuto, Denis; Susanne, Jaspers (Eds.) This Hard Minett Land (2022)

Outside-In region-building: The role of border integration zones in Andean regional integration

in Nadalutti, Elisabetta; Kallscheuer, Otto (Eds.) Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation: New Evidence from Four Continents (2018)

The Outsourcing of Legal Service to India: Trends, Challenges and Potential

Doctoral thesis (2014)

The outsourcing of legal services to India is becoming increasingly popular among U.S. and U.K. law firms and corporations. This thesis seeks to discuss three main topics surrounding legal process ... [more ▼]

The outsourcing of legal services to India is becoming increasingly popular among U.S. and U.K. law firms and corporations. This thesis seeks to discuss three main topics surrounding legal process outsourcing (LPO): its emerging trends, the legal challenges it raises and the hitherto unrecognized potential it holds. Firstly, this thesis clarifies concepts of LPO and its operating models practiced by U.S. and U.K. law firms and corporations. Whenever there is outsourcing in the manufacturing or service sectors, concerns over job losses in the domestic territory are raised by politicians and policy-makers. Accordingly, this research critically discusses the impact of outsourcing on unemployment with a particular focus on legal sector jobs. Secondly, the outsourcing of legal services creates significant challenges for ethics rules and data protection laws. The act of sending legal work overseas by U.S. lawyers may violate American legal ethics rules including those related to conflicts of interest, supervision, fee- sharing, client confidentiality, and attorney-client privilege. Self-regulation is the hallmark of the U.S. legal profession. This thesis therefore reflects, in the first instance, upon the issue of the independence of lawyers who have established a ‘sheltered’ industry for themselves by creating rules that prevent non-lawyers from practicing law. Thereafter, acknowledging the presence of the U.S. legal ethics rules, this thesis provides an explanation as to how a U.S. lawyer could outsource legal works to India without compromising core legal ethics rules. Thirdly, this research explores the hidden potential of LPO to improve access to justice. The outsourcing of legal services to India suffers from a negative image among certain sections of the American legal profession, but has only been discussed so far in the context of law firms and corporations. This thesis develops an altogether new proposal where Indian LPO professionals could help alleviate the access to justice problem among indigent and low-income populations of the United States. [less ▲]

Ouverture d'une "boite noire". Un appercu de l'organisation et de la pratique des structure privées d'accueil de jour des enfants au Luxembourg

Report (2016)

L’ouvrier mineur au travail (1870-1914)

in 75 Joër fräi Gewerkschaften: contributions à l’histoire du mouvement syndical luxembourgeois (1992)

Over 15% efficient wide-band-gap Cu(In,Ga)S2 solar cell: Suppressing bulk and interface recombination through composition engineering

in Joule (2021), 5

Over-educating the World? Exploring a Taboo in the International Development Discourse.

Scientific Conference (2014)

Mass education is now a worldwide feature of modern nation-states. This is true for primary and secondary education and increasingly for higher education and more recently lifelong learning. Strongly ... [more ▼]

Mass education is now a worldwide feature of modern nation-states. This is true for primary and secondary education and increasingly for higher education and more recently lifelong learning. Strongly standardized forms of school organization, curriculum and educational purposes have spread rapidly throughout the world often highly detached from local realities and with clear signs of over-education, which can only be explained if education is understood as an ideology promoted at the world cultural level by international organizations. These are the main tenets of neoinstitutionalist world polity research on global educational expansion and will serve as a theoretical frame for this paper, which is based on qualitative analysis of education documents from a wide array of international organizations. [less ▲]

The Over-Indebtedness of European Consumers after the Financial Crisis: The case of Greece

in Domurath, Comparato and Micklitz (Ed.) The Over-indebtedness of European consumers – A view from six countries (2014)

The present national report studies the recent crisis' repercussions to the social, legal and economic framework in Greece, with regard to the over-indebted consumer.

Overcome of bed-joint imperfections and improvement of actual contact in dry-stacked masonry

in Construction and Building Materials (2020)

Several researchers studied dry-stacked masonry walls (DSM) and inferred that the actual contact surface between the different block rows and the compressive strength in such walls are reduced by bed ... [more ▼]

Several researchers studied dry-stacked masonry walls (DSM) and inferred that the actual contact surface between the different block rows and the compressive strength in such walls are reduced by bed-joint imperfections as well as by height differences between different masonry blocks leading both to high stress concentration. This paper concentrates on the first type on imperfections. Through experimental tests, it analyses the influence of bed-joint roughness on the load bearing capacity and investigates a strategy to improve the load-bearing capacity of DSM by placing an additional horizontal layer on the top face of raw masonry blocks. First, different contact layers using conventional and auxetic materials were applied. Then 20 dry-stacked masonry prisms built with raw and improved masonry blocks were tested under axial compressive load until failure. Prescale Fujifilm strips were used to measure the actual contact in the bed-joints. Experimental tests show that the use of a contact layer with well-defined material properties enables firstly to increase the actual contact area in the bed-joints from 23% to 98% of the nominal contact area and secondly to increase the load-bearing capacity by 14 to 97%. In addition, the contact layer with an auxetic material shows a significant capacity in altering the lateral expansion in the block units. The outcomes show that although the bed joint roughness influences the stress distribution in a dry-stacked masonry block, a contact layer with well-defined material properties enables to overcome the roughness induced by the bed-joint imperfections. [less ▲]