Thank you for inviting me to this celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Faculty of Business and the Faculty of European Studies. It can be considered strange how the events of history unfold. How is it that I am here today? My first visit to Cluj and Babes Bolyai University was back in 1988.
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Keywords: Kyrgyzstan; energy; gas; Osh; Uzbekistan; Gazprom; shortage;
Tens of thousands of households in southern Kyrgyzstan have been making do without natural gas for cooking, and worries have begun about heating homes when the summer sun has gone.
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Keywords: Tudor Arghezi; literary work; scientific research; operă literară; cercetare ştiinţifică
The academic community of the Western University “Vasile Goldis” of Arad participated, on 21 May, 2009, in a moment of great importance for the Romanian culture: the inauguration of the RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE LITERATURE OF TUDOR ARGHEZI, as part of the “Vasile Goldis” Institute for Studies and Research, in association with the Romanian Academy and the National Foundation for Culture and Art in Bucharest. On this occasion, a profound homage was brought, to the 129th anniversary of the birth of the immortal creator of “Proper words”, Tudor Arghezi.
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Keywords: Czech premier Jifií Paroubek; Václav Klaus; Czech billionaire Radovan Krejcir; Czech press
"The ease with which Paroubek’s arrogance can wrong-foot the vast majority of Czech journalists is yet another reminder of their collective weakness."
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Keywords: Tajikstan; arts; miniatures;
A Tajikistani couple work to keep the art of miniature painting alive in a country where it once flourished.
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Keywords: work groups; cooperative; education system;
Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle visionary said that all those who pondered over the secret to govern the city concluded that it depended on how the city was educated in general. Therefore, according to the paradigm which says that “education is the basis of the society”, reconsidering the importance of education to society in general and restoring confidence in education and school are key issues for our time. These issues go beyond the theoretical because the progress of nations, large and small, depends on education rather than on the economical factor, the latter couldn’t achieve its goals as long as education and its products haven’t paved its way. The conclusion which is self-evident is that investment in education is compulsory and those who delay to do it will face increasing costs that they will never be able to pay.
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Keywords: international trade; economic integration; FDI
In this paper, we analyse the material structure of Poland’s exports of goods to the European Union and to the United States. In a general presentation of Polish exports, we aggregate all other trade partners than the EU and the U.S. to the ‘Rest of the World’ (RoW). We use descriptive statistics to check what goods are subject to export from Poland. We analyse data on various levels of aggregation. We prove that Polish exports aggregated to the CN sections and HS2 product groups to both destinations seem to be of higher technological advancement than export disaggregated to the HS6 product classification. On the higher level of aggregation, the material structure of Poland’s exports to the EU and the U.S. look more similar than those analysed on the more disaggregated level. We look at the material structures of exports to both partners from the point of view of the producers as well. We study Poland’s exports of goods to the EU and the U.S. based on the HS6 classification and analyse the leading producers of the most important goods in sales to both partners. We show that most of them are affiliates of the foreign companies.
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Keywords: innovation; industry; technology; sectoral patterns;
Research background: Contemporary research on industry concentrates on the relations between enterprises and their environment. Research on industrial structures conducted throughout the world, including Poland, are not extensive and limited due to the confidentiality of statistics. K. Pavitt (1984) was the first researcher who evaluated the relationship between industry structure and innovation activity. According to Pavitt, innovation dynamics and trajectory depend on the structure of domestic industry and is unique. In Poland T. Rachwal (2010) determined that over the studied years, changes in the indicator defining diversification in industrial divisions were minimal, but at the same time there was an observable fall in the importance of traditional divisions, such as the production of clothing, textiles, and the leather. In contrast, divisions as the production of metal, rubber, and plastic goods increased their share in terms of employees, as did furniture and vehicle manufacturing. Purpose of the article: The purpose of the paper is to identify sectoral patterns of innovation cooperation as revealed by data on about 5209 Polish enterprises. The authors attempt to find the answer to the following three questions: (1) Is the domestic aggregation sufficient for stimulating innovation cooperation in the Polish industry? (2) Is there any sectoral heterogeneity in innovation cooperation? (3) Are enterprises representing high technology industries the most involved in innovation cooperation? The main goal of the study was an attempt to seek out the directions and influence of various industries on the innovation cooperation of enterprises in Poland. Methods: Empirical data that served as the basis for conducting calculations were collected with the help of a questionnaire survey sent to industrial companies throughout Poland. A total of 5,209 properly completed forms were collected. The average rate of return was 11,6%. The collection was held over the years 2008–2013. The methodological part of the study was developed using the logistic regression method based on probability theory of the study. Findings & Value added: The study has shown that the higher the technology, the more often enterprises cooperate in the area of innovation. The research has not only shown the specifics of the domestic industrial system as well its level of technological advancement, but it has also taken into account the significance and input into the analyzed system.
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Keywords: business people; patrimony; damage; mode of operation; information network; flagrant crime; search; forensic expertise;
Frequently, thefts have as material object goods with a considerable economic value, reason for which they are committed on people with a good material situation, usually being businessmen or foreign investors. Robbery is one of the most serious crimes, damaging the heritage and life, implicitly the health of the person, and through serious consequences it has a negative effect on the population. In order to combat the criminal phenomenon, it is useful to determine the areas and environments in which the crimes of theft and robbery are committed with predilection. In addition, the authorities may contact the representatives of the companies that are located and operate in those areas/environments to guide them in order to ensure proper security and the installation of surveillance systems. The crime prevention must be accompanied by a socio-cultural approach to maximize its impact on the entire population.
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Keywords: Sarmatian graves; Barbaricum; grave looting; Late Roman Age; Banat;
The four graves were identified during a rescue research determined by a ditch digging in the area of the archaeological site of Moșnița Veche–„Dealul Sălaș” (Timiș County) for underground utility. The unauthorized interventions there deranged some of the described graves. We might note that they had intervened since olden times on the grave No 3. Only the inferior part of the skeleton remained in the anatomical connection, the skull was identified on pelvis and the bones of the upper part, in the grave padding. We take this intervention after inhumation for graves plundering, a practice of the Sarmatians in the area of the Romanian Banat, northern Serbia, and eastern Hungary, largely documented since now. SN is the general orientation of the graves; the funerary furniture consists in ceramic vessels and metallic findings. Vessels consist in truncated cone-shaped bowls and pitchers in a fine and well worked paste, burnt by reduction, specific to that age. The pitcher with a trickling tube from Grave No 1 is the one to attract our attention and dates the grave to a period between the last third part of the 4th century AD and the first half of the 5th century AD. Grave No 3 might be dated to the same age as the fragment of an iron fibula certifies, belonging to the type of fibulae with the spring behind the body. The funeral furniture from Grave 2 and Grave 4 certify a largest dating of the two archaeological complexes, to the 3rd – 4 th c. AD.
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Keywords: residency; international; collaboration; culture; art;
Iași Art Residency is an artistic residency program that takes place in Iasi and involves the monthly invitation of an international visual artist, in order to materialize a specific art project related to the experience lived in the cultural space of Iasi. The program aims to connect the students of the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design within “George Enescu” National University of Arts in Iași with the invited artists, in order to exchange artistic experiences. This article will briefly present the activity of the American resident artist John Dillard whuch took place here, in Iasi, in January and February 2019
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Keywords: historical society; Hunedoara county; museum; Téglás Gábor; heritage;
In 1880 was founded the History and Archaeology Society of Hunedoara County which the main objective was to investigate the relics of the past. One of the main goals of this endeavour was the establishment of a museum, in order to gather the different categories of artefacts which spoke of the past of Hunedoara’s lands. The members of the Society wished that those items would be scientifically valorised through presentations and articles, but, at the same time, that they would be exhibited towards the public. Throughout its existence, the Society’s Museum had three directors, active members of the Society with a remarkable scientific activity: Téglás Gábor (1880-1903), Mailand Oszkár (1903-1913) and Mallász József (1913-1920, 1920-1933).After the Great War, the herytage of Society passed to the newly founded county museum.
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Keywords: Culture change; involvement, learning; quality
As our society changes, the values and culture of its members changes with it.Businesses need to adapt their organization to these changes in culture in order tobe successful. The Chrysler Corporation was failing as an organization until theyembraced culture change. By involving people, focusing on learning, andemphasizing quality, they were able to adjust and are now a profitable business. Bycomparing Family Health West’s process to Chrysler’s process, one can betterunderstand the process of culture change in business
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Keywords: Digital gastromania; Semiotics
Since the adoption of Web 2.0, the Internet has chosen food and nutrition as its favorite topic. The Chowhound boards, for example, have been active since ‘97, a fact which speaks volumes about how much we owe the “great conversation” of online social media for the culinary megatrend we call — according to Marrone (2014) — gastromania. Indeed, food and discussion on the Internet are intrinsically linked, a now inseparable combination.
More...Keywords: Meiji restoration; modernization; Japonismе; influence; exotisme
The interruption of Japan's foreign relations, which has lasted since the beginning of the 7th century, was interrupted by the signing of the treaty of Kanagawa and the seizure of power by the emperor Mutsuhito, who called his reign the Meiji period, or „Enlightened rule.” It was during this period that the foundations for modernization of today's sophisticated Japan were laid. Japan begins to open up to the world, but it retains its independence, combining tradition and modernism in all segments. The journey and the exchange of ideas that have inspired many literary works, not only by the French writer Pierre Loti, on whose work this paper is partially based, then artistic ideas and artefacts, aim to explore the author of this paper, which focuses on the presentation of elements of Japanese art and culture at the Exibition Universelle in Paris, 1867. The analytical-comparative method used in this paper shows the remarkable place of Japan in the cross-section that transported silk from the Mediterranean to East Asia, which has become a symbol of the connection between East and West and metaphors for various myths and legends from previous periods, and today the link between western and eastern cultural development models, whose proximity and distance are constantly changing, leaving a strong mark on all societies.
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Keywords: facilities performance, higher education institutions; hostel facilities;
The study aimed to assess the level of students' satisfaction with the hostel facilities in the Gubi Campus of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi to evaluate the performance of the hostels. A survey approach was used to collect relevant data for the study. Two hundred forty-three students were selected to participate in the study using a systematic random sampling strategy. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study revealed that the students were delighted with the alternative power supply, artificial lighting, and the room's natural lighting. It was also found that students were dissatisfied with the bathroom facilities, handheld fire extinguishers and toilet facilities. The result of the ANOVA revealed that there is no significant difference among the students occupying different blocks of hostels regarding their satisfaction with the facilities provided similarly. The t-test showed that there is no significant difference between male and female students in satisfaction with the hostel facilities offered.
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Keywords: urban research; public space; Modernist housing estates; Sofia; inclusive urban regeneration;
A case-study based qualitative research on public space and public life in four housing estates in the north-western periphery of Sofia provides the basis for re-thinking urban legacy and the Modernist concept of public interest, once placed in the core of urban planning. The expert estimation of the current physical state and functioning of open public space in the housing estates, initially developed from the 1960s to 1980s, is compared to current inhabitants’ estimations of the potential of public space to respond to their needs and visions regarding its quality. The capacity and limitations of local inhabitants to articulate a common vision of public space in dialogue with experts and authorities are discussed. The authors claim that further urban research is needed to conceptualize present visions for public interest, public life, and public space in the transforming housing estates in Central and Eastern Europe in order to enhance the effectiveness of inclusive planning approaches for urban regeneration.
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Keywords: Laser scanning; TLS; 3D database; smart city; 3D modeling
Laser scanning technology is considered to be a fairly new active remote sensing technology and it finds its application in various fields. The data acquired trough terrestrial or aerial laser scanning is beneficial in representation of three-dimensional space. Huge dataset allows detailed modeling of single objects or even whole cities. The data can be stored in 3D database and displayed trough many applications.
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