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Parkinson’s disease is an insidious disease: by the time it manifests as the typical motor dysfunctions such as tremors or muscle rigidity, portions of the brain have already been irreversibly destroyed. By this stage, the disease will have often begun already decades earlier.
In search of an early portent of the disease, researchers led by Prof. Paul Wilmes, head of the Eco-Systems Biology Group at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg, may now have found one in the gut: they have shown that the bacterial community in the gut of Parkinson’s patients differs from that of healthy people even at a very early stage of the disease. The researchers present their results in the scientific journal “Movement Disorders”. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Parkinson
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With ELIXIR, the European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information, fifteen European countries have established a secure hub-and-node infrastructure in which biological data will be permanently accessible for research.
On Thursday, 7 September 2017, the Luxembourg ELIXIR node (ELIXIR-LU), an important interface in the field of translational medicine, will start its activity.
Funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, ELIXIR-LU will henceforth allow researchers across Europe to have access to personalised biomedical data stored centrally at the Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg.
“Providing these data for other researchers and analysing them in different contexts could lead to new diagnostic methods, better therapies, or hitherto unknown approaches in the prevention of certain diseases,” stresses Dr Reinhard Schneider, head of ELIXIR-LU. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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Dirk Zetzsche, professeur et chercheur auprès de l’Université du Luxembourg, s’est associé à deux autres spécialistes des fintech, Douglas Arner à Hong Kong et Ross Buckley à Sydney, pour faire avancer la recherche sur la réglementation des fintech.
L’Université du Luxembourg a annoncé ce mercredi que l’un de ses membres, le professeur Dirk Zetzsche, titulaire de la chaire Ada en finance inclusive, s’était associé à deux autres chercheurs – le professeur Douglas Arner, de l’université de Hong Kong, et le professeur Ross Buckley, de l’université de Sydney – pour faire avancer la recherche sur le droit et la réglementation des fintech. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=FinTech http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg
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July 25, 2017 3:00 PM
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A language-free method of teaching maths to multilingual children to put early learners on an equal footing regardless of their home language has been tested in Luxembourg schools. The programme for iPad, created by two Luxembourg University PhD students, visually interacts with young children, eliminating the added difficulties learning maths through a non-native language may pose. A study carried out in 2011 showed young children learning basic maths in a non-native language performed worse than those who were taught in their mothertongue. The iPad tool, which is now in its final stages, was tested in five 'cycle one' classrooms (five to six-year-olds) at two schools, in Grevenmacher and Steinsel. PhD student and trained psychologist and researcher in developmental psychology, Véronique Cornu, came up with the idea of developing the tool which overcomes language barriers in early maths. It teaches children through videos, without words or spoken language, using images to explain tasks and give instructions and providing visual-only feedback. "Instruction in early education such as kindergarten is very verbal," Cornu explained. "Children who attend a kindergarten in a language which is not their first language sometimes miss the instruction and this makes learning basic maths more difficult for them. "By creating a non-verbal tool, all children can profit from the same instruction from the start." Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Digital+4+EDUcation http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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July 15, 2017 5:18 PM
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Das „Luxembourg United“-Team auf dem Weg nach Japan.
Mit den Erfolgen hätte wohl niemand gerechnet; das Robo-Lab der SNT-Universität Luxemburg, das erst seit rund einem Jahr besteht, hat sich nicht nur für das „German Open“-Turnier qualifizieren können, sondern hat sich wesentlich besser behaupten können, als gedacht.
So konnte das junge Team alte Hasen wie die Teams aus Zürich, Frankfurt oder Rom schlagen und in seiner Klasse (oder Kategorie) als Nummer eins aus dem Turnier gehen. Damit nicht genug: Das Team hat sich auch für den „RoboCup“ in Japan qualifizieren können - und wird ab dem 25. Juli Luxemburg und die Uni direkt vor Ort in Nagoya auf dem Turnier vertreten. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Robotics
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New key systems allows car owners to enter and start their vehicle without ever touching a key. But the technology is not entirely safe. That is why two ICT experts from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg partnered up with Honda R&D Europe to address security vulnerabilities.
Prof. Thomas Engel and Dr Florian Adamsky signed a 30.000 euro grant agreement with the automotive giant in the Spring of 2017 to collaborate on secure key systems.
Security risks of remote unlocking
Much like contactless payments, the new key technology lets individuals unlock their cars just by getting close to it. Conversely, walking away from a vehicle locks it. The only security measure is thus the limited range of key systems that is about 10 meters.
Car thieves can buy off-the-shelf products from the black market to amplify the key signal. This enables them to unlock and start the car and drive away while its owner is just a few meters away. It is such a clean theft that no traces are effectively left behind, making a claim with insurance difficult to nearly impossible.
Unknown to most car owners, passive key entry systems carry this new kind of vulnerability that causes major headaches to insurance companies and authorities. The so-called relay attacks have been around since 2011, but the problem has been growing exponentially and gaining increased attention. Several automobile clubs have begun alerting the population (in German), such as the German automobile club (ADAC). Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Cars
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The 12th international Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2017 (DILS2017) is to be held in Luxembourg on 14 & 15 November 2017, organised by the University of Luxembourg and Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).
The DILS conference aims to promote research and innovation in data and knowledge integration, sharing and exchange in the domain of life sciences. The notion of life sciences is expansive including the domains of biology and bioinformatics, biomedical data, medical data, environment data, and clinical and health information.
Researchers, informaticians, students and entrepreneurs from biology, medicine, computer science and engineering, and clinical informatics are invited to share their knowledge and experience.
The topics to be addressed include:
* Life Science Data Modelling - "Big Data" infrastructure - Data integration systems - Data models and standards - Ontology and its evolution - Architectures and data management techniques
* Analysing, Indexing, and Querying Life Sciences Datasets - Linked Open Data - Machine Learning - Query formulation, processing and optimization * Annotating, Matching, and Sharing Life Sciences Datasets - Data annotation and maintenance - Ontology and Schema Matching
* Privacy and Provenance of Life Sciences Datasets - Ethical, legal and social issues - Data owner sensitive data sharing - Privacy-preserving data integration and management - Sharing, updating and propagating data Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg
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The University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of Standardisation, Accreditation, Safety and Quality of Products and Services (ILNAS) strengthen their collaboration in the field of Smart ICT and standardisation. A formal signing ceremony took place on Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at the Ministry of the Economy. Following the launch of the University Certificate “Smart ICT for business innovation” in September 2015, the creation of a new Master’s degree and the development of research activities are on the top of the agenda. The existing Certificate is aimed at experienced ICT professionals and consists in a one-year programme hosted at the University and supported by industry partners as well as European standardisation organisations. This training aims at strengthening professional skills and expertise in important aspects of Smart ICT (e.g. Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Big Data) as well as illustrating their applications in concrete business cases. The curriculum is building on the latest technical standardisation advances that represent a key source of knowledge and support for the development of the related technical areas. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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Professor Björn Ottersten, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded an Advanced Grant (AdG), the most prestigious award offered by the European Research Council (ERC).
Björn Ottersten will receive 2.5 million Euros in funding over the next five years. He will use the grant to develop a novel overarching technical framework that could be used to simplify the design and operation of complex systems in different areas such as automotive radar, caching, and wireless networks. This is the second ERC Advanced Grant to be awarded to Luxembourg-based researchers, with both recipients at SnT.
Many automated systems, such as parking assist systems in cars, process data acquired from sensors and make decisions autonomously based on machine learning, a sub-field of artificial intelligence. However, such systems can be enhanced using mathematical models. For example, in parking assist systems, a mathematical model provides methods for focussing the scan area around the vehicle to obtain reliable data about the scene. The intelligent algorithms will then better recognise from the sensor data that there is, for example, a bin and a person nearby. The model will automatically focus attention on the person as the critical element. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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All scientific publications of the University of Luxembourg are now available on the National Library of Luxembourg’s online repository. Open Repository and Bibliography — ORBilu — is now accessible on the a-z.lu search engine, with more than 26,000 publications including 8,000 which are available in full text Open Access. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
The SnT conducts internationally competitive research in information and communication technology, ICT, with high relevance creating socio-economic impact. In addition to long-term, high-risk research, SnT engages in demand driven collaborative projects with industry and the public sector. Therefore the centre has set up a Partnership Programme with now 32 members targeting strategic areas addressing challenges confronting industry and the public sector in ICT. These resulting concepts present a genuine, long-lasting competitive advantage for companies in Luxembourg and beyond.
SnT has undergone a rapid development since its launch in 2009; recruiting top scientists, launching over 40 EU and ESA projects, creating a technology transfer office (TTO), protecting and licensing IP, launching two spin-offs, and creating a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment with some 260 people. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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People can intuitively recognise small numbers up to four, however when calculating they are dependent on the assistance of language. The bilingual brain calculates differently depending on the language usedDuring the tests, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure the brain activity of the subjects. This demonstrated that, depending on the language used, different brain regions were activated. With addition tasks in German, a small speech region in the left temporal lobe was activated. When solving complex calculatory tasks in French, additional parts of the subjects’ brains responsible for processing visual information, were involved. During the complex calculations in French, the subjects additionally fell back on figurative thinking. The experiments do not provide any evidence that the subjects translated the tasks they were confronted with from French into German, in order to solve the problem. http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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Two professional bachelor degrees are to launch at the University of Luxembourg in September, marking a milestone in the history of further education in the Grand Duchy. Born as a partnership between three educational institutions, the study programmes target holders of a technical diploma known as brevet de technicien supérieur (BTS) and will help students specialise in accounting and taxation. The launch of these new programmes comes as a government response to address the lack of specialists in the two fields, given that access to professions in accounting and taxation is conditioned by strict academic requirements corresponding to a bachelor's degree. Graduates of BTS courses are also credited for having requested a framework that allows the transfer of their existing technical skills to a more advanced programme. According to a government statement, an increasing number of students in Luxembourg wish to continue their studies and obtain a bachelor's degree. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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July 15, 2017 7:32 AM
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The University of Luxembourg's faculty of law, economics and finance ended the academic year by gaining a certification of standards for the third straight time, striking global partnerships and introducing a new programme on inclusive finance.
The faculty's dean, Professor Stefan Braum, who has been in the post for five years, presented a review of the past year. Professor Katalin Ligeti takes over the position from September.
European law and building contacts with the financial sector and its emerging fields has been a focus for the faculty.
In January it launched a new professional education programme -- the certificate in law and regulation of inclusive finance.
There has been further research within the FinTech sector to compete on the same level as other global financial places. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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Innovating history
The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is the University of Luxembourg’s third interdisciplinary research centre, focusing on high-quality research, analysis and public dissemination in the field of contemporary Luxembourgish and European history. It promotes an interdisciplinary approach with a particular focus on new digital methods and tools for historical research and teaching. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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The first LuxBlockHackathon will be held on 8th & 9th May 2017 at SnT Luxembourg. Organized by Melufina, a blockchain Think tank created by Radu State (SnT), Evan Schwartz (Ripple) & Frank Roessig (Telindus).
Over 10 teams with 50+ blockchain coders are coming to Luxembourg from San Francisco, Kiev, London, Paris, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Cologne… and will be working with Stellar, Hyperledger, Ethereum, Monero.
The best-of-the-best seek a blockchain solution to a Financial Sector Challenge.
During this 36-hour event, the teams have to build an innovative blockchain-based solution to a challenge affecting the Luxembourg Financial Industry. The hackers will also have the option to work-off secured nodes provided as part of the InfraChain initiative by various players, notably Telindus. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Blockchain http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=SnT
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Stem cells are unspecialised cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body. So far, however, scientists only partially understand how the body controls the fate of these all-rounders, and what factors decide whether a stem cell will differentiate, for example, into a blood, liver or nerve cell.
Researchers from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg and an international team have now identified an ingenious mechanism by which the body orchestrates the regeneration of red and white blood cells from progenitor cells. “This finding can help us to improve stem cell therapy in future,” says Dr. Alexander Skupin, head of the Integrative Cell Signalling group of LCSB. The LCSB team has published its results in the scientific journal PLOS Biology.
Although all cells in an organism carry the same genetic blueprints – the same DNA – some of them act as blood or bone cells, for example, while others function as nerve or skin cells. Researchers already understand quite well how individual cells work. But how an organism is able to create such a diversity of cells from the same genetic template and how it manages to relocate them to wherever they are needed in the body is still largely unknown.
In order to learn more about this process, Alexander Skupin and his team treated blood stem cells from mice with growth hormones and then watched closely how these progenitor cells behaved during their differentiation into white or red blood cells.
The researchers observed that the cells’ transformation does not occur in linear, targeted fashion, but rather more opportunistically. Each progenitor cell adapts to the needs of its environment and integrates itself into the body where new cells are needed. “So, it is not as though the cell takes a ticket at the beginning of its differentiation and then travels straight to its destination. Rather, it gets off frequently to look around and see which line is best to take,” Alexander Skupin explains. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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