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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.
More...Igor Tabak is a Croatian independent military analyst in Zagreb. Since the early 1990’s, he has written for the official magazines of the Croatian Ministry of Defense. In addition, since 2003 he has often commented on military and security issues for various national and regional media. Ante Raic, a journalist with Croatian National Television and Balkanalysis.com editor in Zagreb, recently surveyed Mr Tabak to gain his insights on issues related to Croatia’s programme of defense reforms before joining NATO, public and media perceptions regarding the defense sector, politically-sensitive cases involving military procurement issues, and the overall main security threats facing the country today.
More...Keywords: Lamont Center; physical disabilities; Paralympics; Romanian Federation of Sports for People with Disabilities
A Romanian community center offers disabled people both camaraderie and independence, and it also devotes plenty of time to fun and games.
More...Keywords: OSCE; parliamentary elections; Mikhail Arda; Lukamol; Belarusian officials; fair elections; Respublika; Uladzimir Parfenovich; Belarusian Labor Party
As the authorities continue to turn the screws on the opposition, the OSCE backs off, issuing a controversial joint declaration with the Belarusian parliament.
More...Keywords: Romania; corruption; sport; Romanian Gymnastics Federation; Octavian Belu; Oana Petrovschi;
Are illegal kickbacks in Romanian gymnastics a sign of a deeply corrupt society?
More...Keywords: nurses; war; Sisters of mercy Communities; pre-revolutionary Russia; Russian women
The article examines the role of women during the war between the Russian and Ottoman Empires (1877 – 1878). The author describes the activities of the Sisters of mercy Communities that have provided medical care for the wounded and sick soldiers at both front and rear. The structural and quantitative management of the Sisters of mercy Communities as well as their administrative and legal position are analyzed. The author examines the large influence of the mass participation of the Sisters of mercy in the war on the further development of nursing education in pre-revolutionary Russia. As a result, it turns out that this war has shown not only the Slavophil and patriotic feelings of Russian women but also reflected their desire to participate actively in social and political life.
More...Keywords: Ion Toderaş; National Institute of Zoology; biology;ecophysiology;
A representative personality in the field of biology, author of a remarkable number of scientific papers (original articles, treatises, monographs, university textbooks, papers and patents), trainer at a prestigious school of animal ecophysiology in the Republic of Moldova, professor of high academic and moral respect at the Moldova State University from Chişinău, director of the National Institute of Zoology, Mr. Ion Toderaş is one of the most important personalities among the zoologists and hydrobiologists of our countries, appreciated and recognized worldwide. He was awarded, throughout 45 years of his scientific, didactic and organizational activity, numerous titles, diplomas, medals and prizes of both the former USSR Academy of Sciences and that of the Republic of Moldova (he is a member of the latter). At the same time, Mr. Ion Toderaş is a great collaborator and friend of Romanian biologists who is close to us at all scientific meetings. For his rich and valuable scientific activity, in 2016, he was elected as a honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Personally, and on behalf of the Romanian biologists, I wish him „Happy Anniversary!” in full health, on the occasion of his 70th anniversary.
More...Keywords: Janina Ludawska
The author presents his personal recollections of Janina Ludawska, a Polish theatre scholar of Jewish origins who passed away in 2019 in Stockholm. Ludawska spent a significant part of her life in Sweden, where she found refuge during the war when she studied chemistry. She returned to Warsaw after the war and she started taking an interest in the theatre. In the late 1940s and early 1950s she studied in Moscow in The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS). Back in Poland, she devoted her energy to the establishment of a new Polish theatre. When the anti-Semitic policy of the communist government caused her to leave Poland again in 1968, she found a new home for herself and her son in Stockholm. In 1970 she was employed at the library of the Department of Theatre Studies at Stockholm University, and she pursued her scholarly work. Interested in Polish Romantic drama, she published an anthology in Swedish: Poetic Political Theatre: On Polish Romantic Drama and Its Scenic Traditions. She also defended her doctoral dissertation on three Swedish productions of Gombrowicz’s The Marriage. Ludawska saw theatre, with its aesthetics, its history, and its social functions, as one of the pillars of democratic institutions.
More...Keywords: Astronomer and aviation hero Constantin Pâr vulescu; the International Astronomical Union; minor planet 2331 Parvulesco; astronomer Carina Parvulescu; mathematical physicist and acoustician Antares P
This review highlights the most notable ideas in the monography entitled Constantin Pârvulescu. Erou și cercetător al cerului (1890–1945) (Constantin Pârvulescu. Aviation hero and astronomer: 1890–1945), elaborated by the Romanian researcher Magda Stavinschi and published in 2015 by Grafoanaytis Publish ing House, Ploiești. The book shows that astronomer Constantin Pârvulescu lived a short but eventful life: as an air observer he contributed to his country’s defense during World War I, which brought him a series of war medals; as a teacher he influenced the lives of many pre university and university students in Romania and abroad, as a researcher he was esteemed and honoured by fellow colleagues all over the world. Thus, it seems only natural that in 1936 a minor planet was named 2331 Parvulesco, to honor both him and his offspring, astronomer Carina Parvulescu and mathematical physicist and acoustician Antares Parvulescu.
More...Keywords: motivation; clusters; AHP; consistency; perception; military; formal rewards;
During our life time, we experience situations in which we must motivate or be motivated, to overcome the challenges. We learn what tools to use and how to do it, by observing what our parents or elders do, or by the education we receive. Most organizations have formal motivating systems, which consist of formal rewards and guidance, when and how these tools should be used, by whom and towards whom. Leaders’ personal know-how reveals that besides the formal rewards, there are informal rewards that might be used to motivate employees, which augment the formal rewarding system. These informal rewards are derived from the structural improvement of the organization, are adapted in accordance with the managerial conduct and act as an interface between employees’ queries and their supervisors’ good will. Nevertheless, they are mostly used for situations which are not covered by the formal rewarding system or, when an informal reward might better fulfill employees’ needs. The aim of this paper is to understand if the use of informal rewards influences the use of the formal ones within a military organization, using the cluster method of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).
More...Keywords: Professor Jānis Stradiņš; Latvian Academy of Science; obituary;
Academician of the Latvian Academy of Science (LAS), Professor Jānis Stradiņš has passed away on November 29, 2019, at the age of 85.
More...Keywords: psychology; romanian psychologist; Mihai Ralea; culture;
Mihai Ralea remains in the consciousness of specialists as an exceptional personality with a rich scientific contribution to the development of and the elaboration of many innovative ideas for a series of fields of culture. An unsurpassed creator and visionary, with a vast work he marked the orientation of many scientific fields and laid the foundations of modern psychology.
More...Keywords: numismatics; collection; medal collection; Heisu;
The impressive object collection that priest Vasile Heisu has donated to Bacau Museum, includes over 1500 pieces, collected over the decades that the collector has dedicated to this activity. Irrespective of whether they are of archeological nature (tools, ceramics), ethnographic (folk clothes, household items), numismatics (coins, medals) or church art items, as well as the rarity of the old Romanian or foreign books – all bear the marks of the collector’s noble passion. Among the few items of numismatic value, donated by the priest, we have found a medal dated from year 1802. In the paragraphs below we are trying to identify the origins of this numismatic item.
More...Keywords: Andrew MARANISS;
Review of: Andrew MARANISS. 2019. Games of deception: The true story of the first US Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany. New York: Philomel Books, 240 pp. ISBN 9780525514633
More...Keywords: culture; history; Eugenia Umińska; music;
Review of: Marta Taranczewska, Eugenia Umińska. A Chronicle of Life, a Contribution to Biography, Publishing House of the Academy of Music in Kraków, Cracow 2020, pp. 604.
More...Keywords: Union of Polish Communities in Europe; federation of Polish diaspora organisations; Polonia in Europe; integration;
This article presents the calendar of the most important events related to the Union of Polish Communities in Europe (EUWP), a federation of Polish diaspora organisations from all over Europe. The EUWP was established in 1993 in London with the aim of promoting Polonia-related and Polish affairs in the process of Poland’s integration with the democratic West, cooperating with Polish communities around the world and providing assistance to Polish organisations in post-communist countries. For 28 years, the Union of Polish Communities in Europe has been involved in promoting Polish culture and integrating Polish communities, organising and taking part in various scientific and cultural events, conferences and competitions.
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