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Prolegomena to a Better Definition of Intercultural Communication: The Concept of Culture

Prolegomena to a Better Definition of Intercultural Communication: The Concept of Culture

Author(s): Cristinel Munteanu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: intercultural communication; culture; communication; essential distinctions; unitary designation

The aim of our paper is to lay the foundations for an adequate definition of intercultural communication, a very important and highly used notion nowadays due to the present complex reality it refers to. Since the terminological phrase “intercultural communication” involves the previous knowledge of two other concepts, communication and culture, both equally “polysemantic”, we will try to establish, first of all, the “common core” for each of them in turn. For the beginning, we will attempt to clarify here, by means of essential distinctions, the concept of culture, planning to discuss the concept of communication in another paper.

Ethnic Identity and Historiographical Discourse

Ethnische Identität und geschichtliche Erklärung über die Konstruktion unterschiedlicher Bilder der Stadt Temeswar

Author(s): Vasile Docea / Language(s): German / Publication Year: 0

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Performance of Organizations

The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on the Performance of Organizations

Author(s): Nicoleta Cristache,Irina Olimpia Susanu,Adrian Ciprian Ghinea,Ana Maria Stan,Marius George Munteanu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); MCDA-C model; performance of organization

The present study addresses some relevant aspects concerning the impact of CSR upon the performance of organizations. The MCDA-C model was used due to its capacity to encapsulate the perceptions of the company’s managers on the situation under scrutiny and also due to the possibility to provide conditions for assessing the specific elements of CSR management as well as suggestions for improving performance. Moreover, a set of performance indicators can be identified thanks to this model, which characterize the company’s sustainability and asses its commitment both at the individual and global level. The model also enables establishing the company’s strategy that should take into account the economic, social and environmental criteria, showing that stakeholders will advocate the company’s CSR profile under to circumstances of optimum communication.

Improving Transition from School to Active Life: What Contribution of the European Social Funds

Improving Transition from School to Active Life: What Contribution of the European Social Funds

Author(s): Ionut Florin Bratiloveanu,Gabriela Munteanu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Internships; European Social Fund; transition from school to active life;

The paper objective is to assess the impact of the ESF additional funding for transition from school to work schemes. The paper will explore, in particular, the added value of the European Social Fund in funding students’ internships in Romania in terms of number of students benefiting of transition from school to active life schemes, students’ expected benefits and labor market insertion. The paper is based on the assumption that internships are significantly improving students’ learning outcomes considering that internships give to the students the opportunity to see through personal learning experience and they are means of gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace and a viable tool in obtaining the first job. Based on this, it is expected that additional funding to support students internships should lead to increased recent graduates insertion rates and shorter period for their first job. Under 2007-2013, about 0.3 bill Euro were allocated to support transition from school to active life projects of which benefited over 260,000 persons. Since official data about the labor market insertion of the ESF support beneficiaries are not available, it is limiting the in depth analysis of the effectiveness of the ESF support to specific cases.

Promoting the Development of Creativity in Education

Promoting the Development of Creativity in Education

Author(s): Ramona Elena Rotaru / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Creativity; primary education, motivation; critical thinking; creative environment;

Creativity is progressively recognized as a key element of success in education. The various aspects and conditions of creativity have been identified by researchers, but currently, it appears to seem as a more important subject of interest towards many scientists. This article highlights the importance of developing the creativity of primary school children in the context of education. In a creative learning environment, primary school children expand their skills and strategies on various aspects of creative development. Creativity is an important part of education, making learning itself a social activity. The success of progress and evolution should be at the forefront of developing children creativity. First, it should be able to organize, select the right information, secondly to develop critical and original thinking and, last but not least, to manifest its creativity in its own affections and desires. The critical thinking and inner motivation of children influence the development of creativity. Personality, skills and talent highlight what a child can do when motivation indicates what will happen. Certainly, the creative environment can have a significant impact on children's motivation, but motivation rather than talent is more useful for the creative spirit. Moreover, the creative development of primary school children should be considered in two positions: individual creativity of each child and group creativity of the whole class. Many approaches which studied creativity that include the major orientations on explaining this phenomenon describes the complexity of the creativity, highlighting the development of this process as an expression of creativity and stimulates creative behaviour.

The Use of Tanks in Main Military Conflicts

The Use of Tanks in Main Military Conflicts

Author(s): Nicolae Plesanu,Ghiţă BÂRSAN,Sorin Pînzariu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: tank; battle chariot; fast war; campaign; blitzkrieg;

Since appearing on the battlefield, in less than a decade, tanks have revolutionised theart of war. This article focuses on the use of tanks from the beginning to nowadays. We willshowcase some battles in which the tanks were used, in the First World War, in the Campaignsof East, West and North Africa of the Second World War and the conflicts of the last decades.

Gheorghe Dabija - Soldier, Diplomat and Writer

Gheorghe Dabija - Soldier, Diplomat and Writer

Author(s): Gabriel-George Patrascu / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Brigadier General Gheorghe Dabija; First World War; Romanian military writer; military attaché;

Gheorghe Dabija became known in the Romanian military journalism through his studiesand works of military pedagogy, where he approached various aspects of the training andeducation of the troops. Within the period 1910-1913 he was a military attaché in Sofia andBelgrade. He participated in the Reunification War 1916-1919, commanding different militarystructures, a fact that enabled him, after the finalization of the military operations, to dedicatehimself to the military history, drafting an exceptional monography dedicated to the battleactions developed within the period 1916-1918.

Romania's relations with its neighbouring countries (1918-2018)

Relațiile României cu vecinii (1918-2018)

Author(s): Alina Gherghina / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Romania; neighbouring countries; 1918-2018;

Romania 1918-2018. One century of geopolitical concerns (Full eBook)

România 1918-2018. Un secol de frământări geopolitice (Full eBook)

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 2018

Keywords: Romania; Romanian Centenary (1918-2018); geopolitics of Romania; the Romanian school of geopolitics; Geopolitics and Business MA; geography; Bucharest University of Economic Studies

The volume entitled Romania 1918-2018. One century of geopolitical concerns (coordinated by Associated Professor Marius-Cristian Neacșu, PhD) is the fruit of the efforts and scientific research of the Geopolitics and Business Master Program, within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, with the participation of both consecrated (professors) and early staged researchers (final year MA students), in a perfect symbiosis, on one hand by virtue of a noble ideal - the appearance in and under the auspices of ASE Bucharest in this important anniversary year, the Centenary of the Great Union (1918-2018) – and, on the other hand, as a proof of the Romanian higher education quality, through relevance, rigor and scientific accuracy of the information. Thus, the paper presents a particular interest, with regards to the subjects as well as its contribution to the understanding of the context and the geopolitical and geoeconomic Romanian framework, its dynamics over the last 100 years, with current implications on the regional and national business environment.The thematic area underlying this volume of studies and researches is Geohistory, Geopolitics and Geoeconomics, being structured in 15 studies, within three parts: Part I. The Centenary of Romania (1. The complicated geopolitical position of Romania, Marius-Cristian NEACȘU); Part II. One century of geopolitical concerns (2. Romania in World War I, Marian TUCĂ; 3. Nicolae Iorga and the Great Union. Geopolitical and geohistorical contributions, Clara NAE; 4. Romania between 1918 and 1944, Beatrice AVRAM; 5. The population of Romania in the interwar period, Bogdan ȚEBREAN; 6. The economy of Romania in the interwar period, Cătălin CONSTANTINESCU; 7. Romania during the communist regime, Roxana MATEI; 8. Romania after 1989, Laura-Iulia CIUPERCĂ; 9. Romania's relations with its neighbouring countries 1918-2018, Alina GHERGHINA, 10. Romanian-Russian relations 1918-2018, Marian TUCĂ); Part III. Geography and Geopolitics. The Romanian School (11. Simion Mehedinți, precursor of the Romanian school of geopolitics, Marius-Cristian NEACȘU; 12. Romania in the Romanian geopolitical studies in the first half of the 20th century, Silviu NEGUȚ, Marius-Cristian NEACȘU; 13. The contribution of Romanian geographers to the construction of modern Romania. Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920, Marius-Cristian NEACȘU, Gheorghe VLĂSCEANU; 14. Simion Mehedinți, the great absent of Paris Peace Conference, 1919-1920, Marius-Cristian NEACȘU; 15. A long century of geography at Bucharest University of Economic Studies. The Master Program of Geopolitics and Business, Marius-Cristian NEACȘU).

Why Management of Education?

De ce un management al educaţiei?

Author(s): Laura Cernica - Nistor / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Management; education; performance; organization; imagination; economy;

For longer than twenty years, the concept of Critical Management Studies has become iconic to a plethora of management scholars; to such an extent, in fact, that it has completelely transformed the classical understandings of management and the teaching proper.It is, indeed, vital, that resources and fund management be judiciously implemented in the system of education, which in turn entails human-resource factors: teachers, head teachers, inspectors, students, and not only. However, can or should principles traditionally revolving around the field of business be applied to schooling to such a high degree?

Some Measures to Prevent Domestic Violence

Some Measures to Prevent Domestic Violence

Author(s): Adriana Tulus / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: domestic violence; protection; prevention; victim

The Romanian Constitution guarantees the equality of citizens before the law and public authorities without privileges or discrimination, as well as the rights and freedoms of all persons. It also provides that no person shall be subjected to torture or to any other degrading or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Following the legislative changes in 2004, the National Authority for the Protection of the Family and the Rights of the Child was born in Romania, which was established by taking over the attributions of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, the Pilot Center for Assistance and Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence of Information and Consultancy for the Family and of the National

Costinești: History and Balneotherapy

Costinești – istorie și practică balneară

Author(s): Oana - Nicole Stoican,Mirela Stoican,Daniela Varvaruc / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Costinești; Balneotherapy; Medical tourism; Spa resources

Costinești resort is the symbol of the seaside for young people, which is why it has attracted a significant number of high school or student tourists. But the therapeutic importance of these resorts was not and should not be neglected by the presence of valuable spa resources, especially for diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The present paper aims to identify the importance of these resorts for medical tourism, to make a brief description of its evolution over time and to identify current tourist activity. In this sense, the natural and anthropic tourist objectives are mentioned, the spa resources at its disposal, as well as the treatment and leisure base. The natural resources of these resorts bring it to the forefront, as a resort for leisure but also for spa tourism.

Aesthetics and Creativity. Identity Configurations

Aesthetics and Creativity. Identity Configurations

Author(s): Livia Durac / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: arts;aesthetics;creativity;society;

Reflecting on human attitude towards reality, together with deciphering the emotional code that accompanies it, has configured - in time – the aesthetic universe, open to human reflection, creation, and evaluation. Aesthetics appears through the way in which consciousness reacts and capitalises upon things in nature and society, or which belong to human subjectivity, including on artistic work, which have an effect on sensitiveness due to their harmony, balance and grandeur. As a fundamental attribute of the human being, creativity is the engine of cultural evolution, meaning the degree of novelty that man brings in his ideas, actions, and creations. Aesthetical values, together with the other types of values, contribute to what society represents and to what it can become, hence motivating human action and creation. Their role is to create a state of mind that encourages the cohesion, cooperation, and mutual understanding of the society. Integrating a chronological succession of the evolution of the concepts that objectify its structure, its aesthetics and creativity, this article stresses the synergetic nature of the two dimensions of human personality, paving the way to beauty, as a form of enchantment of the human spirit.

Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu ‑ Bodoni, General Prozorovski and Galaţii

Mitropolitul Gavriil Bănulescu‑Bodoni, Generalul Prozorovski şi Galaţii

Author(s): Eugen Drăgoi / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Russian ‑ Turkish War; 18th, 19th century; Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu ‑ Bodoni; General Alexandr Aleksandrovici Prozorovski;

Războiul Ruso‑Turc din anii 1806‑1812 a adus, aşa cum se cunoaşte, importante schimbări în viaţa politică şi religioasă a Principatelor Române Moldova şi Valahia. Comunicarea noastră doreşte să îndrepte atenţia participanţilor către colaborarea a doi din protagoniştii acestor evenimente, anume mitropolitul Gavriil Bănulescu‑Bodoni şi generalul Alexandr Prozorovski, şi, în final, să propună câteve elemente noi referitoare la legătura lor cu oraşul nostru Galaţi.

Natural Law and Positive Law in Criminal Law

Natural Law and Positive Law in Criminal Law

Author(s): Cristian Dan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: natural law; criminal law; psychology; criminal act; positive law

The essence of rights is the fact that they largely correspond to the surrounding nature and the way humans relate to it. In this sense, over the course of time, from antiquity to the present day, two major directions have been distinguished in which the law, in general and the laws in particular, must be thought about, interpreted and applied. One of the great currents of thought in law has its essence in the natural norms of nature and the environment of which we are also a part. The second one refers more to the applicative character of the law, in the sense that a legal norm must be thought of in the extent to which it produces its effects and not in one in which it prohibits their production. The problem that arises in criminal law is that of the prohibition of certain behaviors, being considered at the same time to be Positive Law. The article aims to treat, briefly, this issue by identifying the aspects that link criminal law to the two great currents of legal thought, showing through concrete examples what exactly this science has gathered from each of them. Some conclusions at the end of the paper will aim to unify all the information and synthesize the paper.

Man in the force fields. Tibor Toró (1931–2010)

EMBER AZ ERŐTEREKBEN. TORÓ TIBOR (1931–2010)

Author(s): Barna Bodó / Language(s): Hungarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Tibor Toró; Hungarian community in Transylvania; János Bolyai; nuclear physics; particle physics;

For the Hungarian community in Transylvania, Tibor Toró was synonymouswith the scientist. From Szeklerland, he came to the university in Timişoaraand graduated from the then recently established pedagogical institute. Aftergraduation, he was a teacher at the institute, which later became a university.Talented graduates with good results were hired regardless of nationality. In aninterview, he confessed: “In Timişoara, I was attracted by the problem of the atom.I realized that the secret of the stars is also hidden in nuclear physics and particlephysics.” He chose atomic physics at a university little known at the time. Torówalked his path alone, without a personal tutor, and reached the highest peaks ofphysics. His book on the neutrino (1969) in Romanian is of historical importancein physics: it describes a completely new fi eld of science at a time when synthesispapers did not exist. He was an exceptional teacher. Professor Toró pushed hisstudents forward: he gave impulses, drew attention to new interpretations, urgedyoung people to read. Tibor Toró was interested in all fi elds of culture. He had ahuge collection of Madách’s masterpiece, The Tragedy of Man: his collection wasclose to fi fty volumes in about 20 languages. Toró presents in a study dedicatedto Madách a historical prediction of his: Madách correctly intuited how thesun and other stars can be replaced as sources of energy. In other studies, Toródemonstrates that the poet Attila József, beyond being an original and extremelytalented poet, was a deep thinker. The poet correctly intuited the problem ofsymmetry and the violation of symmetry. In his essays, Toró demonstrates hisinterest in philosophy and interdisciplinarity. From the 1990s, his attentionturned primarily to János Bolyai. As a Bolyai researcher, he did everything forBolyai to have commemorative signs in Timişoara (commemorative plaque,statue, memorial room). It is the moral duty of the people of Timişoara today andtomorrow to keep Tibor Toró’s memory alive and evoke him with commemorative signs.

ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF LAND COVER CHANGES AND LANDSCAPE STABILITY IN THE NITRA RIVER BASIN (SLOVAKIA)

ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF LAND COVER CHANGES AND LANDSCAPE STABILITY IN THE NITRA RIVER BASIN (SLOVAKIA)

Author(s): Matej Vojtek / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: landscape; land cover; stability; GIS; Nitra River Basin;

The impact of human society on landscape is also documented by changes in land cover. Land cover/use changes in a basin frequently result in increased surface runoff, reduced groundwater recharge or transfer of pollutants. On the other hand, landscape stability refers to the share of (stable) areas that are identically used during the whole studied period. The aim of the paper is to analyze and assess land cover changes and landscape stability in the Nitra River Basin (Slovakia) in the years 1990 and 2012 based on CORINE Land Cover data. Geographic information systems (GIS) were used to compare and quantify the size of land cover classes (LCC). The landscape stability was determined by the overlay method using GIS. The LCC 211 recorded the most significant decrease by 1.97% (8826.64 ha). On the other hand, the share of LCC 313 increased the most by 1.22% (5469.72 ha). The total stable area represents 88.48% out of the total basin area. The largest share out of the total stable area was recorded in LCC 211 (50.85%) and 311 (27.11%). Economic development, accession to the EU and processes of (sub)urbanization were dominant driving forces behind the land cover change in the Nitra River Basin.

Investigation

Ancheta

Author(s): Hugó Ágoston,Adâm Anavi,Imre József Balázs,Béla Bíró,Mircea Cărtărescu,Péter Demény,Paul Drumaru,Läng Zsolt,Martin Mircea,Carmen Mușat,Anamaria Pop,Ion Pop,Mircea Popa,Júlia Szilágyi,Szabolcs Szonda,Geo Șerban,Júlia Vallasek,Daniel Vighi,András Visky / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Romania; Hungary; culture; relations; political climate; literature; translations;

Investigations by: Âgoston Hugo, Anavi Âdâm, Balâzs Imre-Jôzsef, Biro Béla, Mircea Cărtărescu, Demény Péter, Paul Drumaru, Läng Zsolt, Mircea Martin, Carmen Mușat, Anamaria Pop, Ion Pop, Mircea Popa, Szilâgyi Julia, Szonda Szabolcs, Geo Șerban, Vallasek Jûlia, Daniel Vighi, Visky Andrâs.

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE NATIONAL SPIRIT BY TRANSLATING CULTURE-SPECIFIC ELEMENTS

ASPECTE TEORETICE ALE TRADUCERII CULTUREMELOR, CA MARCĂ A SPECIFICULUI NAŢIONAL

Author(s): Bianca Oana Han / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: culture-specific elements; interlinguistic and intercultural transfer;

The article presented is part of a research project entitled Communication of the national spirit by translating culture specific elements, as part of a postdoctoral scientific research. It aims to view aspects related to the translation of literature from Romanian into English, focusing mainly upon problems related to the interlinguistic and intercultural transfer of terms that manage to maintain and preserve the local atmosphere and air specific to every nation. We are interested in that special category of untranslatable terms, real ‘millstones’ for the translators, as they bear geographical, historical, socio-cultural experience: the so-called ‘culture-specific elements’ (CSEs).

Aspects of air flow through the intake manifold of a marine turbine engine

Aspecte ale fluxului de aer prin galeria de admisie a unui motor marin cu turbină

Author(s): George Bălan,Amado Ștefan,Vasile Năstăsescu / Language(s): Romanian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: marine; police; border; law; law enforcement;

The paper presents aspects related to the flow of air through the intake manifold of a turbine engine, for its maximum operating regime. The manifold pressure losses are calculated using the analytical relations. For a more accurate calculation, the flow is calculated with numerical methods.