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This article focuses on a current issue of interest: the accession of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights. The approach thereof includes, firstly, a close examination of the current legal setting of the European Union regarding fundamental rights and the relation between the European Union Law and the right outlined by the European Convention of Human Rights. The article will also show the response of the Court of Justice of the European Union, materialized in the Opinion concerning the Accession draft Agreement of the European Union to the European Convention of Human Rights.
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The paper approaches the problematic of the motivation for learning in Higher Education. The study emphasizes the results of a recent research accomplished using a semi-structured essay addressed to 130 students, aged between 19 and 24 years, from various faculties from University of Bucharest. Therefore is divided into two sections, one that substantiates the importance of the motivation of students and second section are presented the main reasons to learning in opinion the students. Results of the analysis of research data shows that students consider a major motivation for learning in the classroom.
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For the French writer Maxime Du Camp, who remained in the literary history as Gustave Flaubert’s close friend, the travel writings often represent a valorization of his vast culture, illustrating a mediated vision on life, since the space that he visits passes through the filter of the author’s culture, which connects him to the outside world. Thus, Alexandria, Cairo, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Damascus, Rhodes, Beirut, Spart, etc, make up not only a spatial, but also an inner, spiritual journey.
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”The texts featuring ads for cosmetic products represent a rich material for the study of the language mechanisms and complex meaninggenerating strategies during the discursive interaction. The general basis for the writing of good ads is the permanent dialogue with the reader, marked by the use of the second person singular or plural, verbs in the imperative, interrogative sentences, interjections etc. The advertising language of cosmetics constitutes an instrument of publicitary communication aimed at imposing products and services or amending current views and opinions. As a form of propaganda, it presents particular construction rules, subordinate to the intention to inform, persuade and manipulate the receiver as the virtual buyer / consumer.”
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Although considered an entirely new approach, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) reiterates a number of roles and core values of education. Thus, aiming a quality education, which is indispensable, essential for sustainable development are moral education and humanistic education that must accompany the profesional specialized education. Environmental education, which in the early stages used to match perfectly across ESD, remained an important part of it. A central element, with a degree of novelty, is critical thinking, the transversal ability of reasoning, needed to understand the complexity of processes and phenomena and to quickly find viable solutions in global, continuously changing economic and social environment. Transdisciplinary areas of study should be taken into account.
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History is often rewritten because of various reasons and there are different types of texts referring to history. As Patricia Fumero also states, there are two main differences between fiction writers and historians: on one hand, historical novels offer the writer the possibility to recreate those events that are incompletely represented in the primary sources, and, on the other hand, the research done on sources related to a certain historical character can help the writer draw certain conclusions or think of certain hypotheses. Unfortunately, a historian or a biographer cannot benefit from such privileges.
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The present paper shows how the international productivity and competitiveness of a country depend on the rapid accumulation of knowledge based on the entrepreneurial innovative education and on the real transfer of the new technologies and positive experience. Although there is no explicit relationship between investments in education and the GDP variation the paper shows the existence of an influence of the education and scientific research on the economic growth of a country. We made a long term evolutionary analysis of the GDP and we showed that investments in education and research made four-five years ago are implicitly reflected in the GDP growth. By studying the investments evolution in education and research the paper demonstrates the existence of a similitude between the previous shape of the investments' curve in education and research and an ulterior shape of the GDP's curve.
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The paper addresses the specific issues related to the development of transversal competences within collaborative learning and cybergogy paradigms. The paper is focused on presenting the contribution of the collaborative learning for increasing the students’ creativity and the efficiency of the learning process. The study is based on the results provided by the desk research and applied research conducted in a private university in Romania. The main research goal consists in emphasizing the importance of using collaborative learning methods, especially the project based learning, related to the development of creative thinking for facilitating the identification of innovative solutions to various practical issues. In addition, it highlights the benefits of using the online resources and interactions for enhancing the cooperation within the project teams. Besides the acquisition of knowledge and specific skills, cooperative learning facilitates the development of transversal competences necessary for the graduates’ better social insertion. In this respect, the paper encompasses some of the specific results obtained at the Faculty for Education Studies, through the implementation of project-based learning for the development of digital competences. The study provides a holistic approach integrating the theoretical and pragmatic perspectives, according to the lessons learnt during the teaching/learning processes.
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In the last decades “figuration” became a central theme in some scholarly groups who are advocating even for a figurational sociology. The aim of the article is to outline Norbert Elias’s (1939/2002) concept of figuration and to discuss how this might apply in the case of the night time workers of a call centre from Bucharest. The present paper reflects on Elias’s (1939/2002) concept of figuration and applies it by rereading the data gathered for a previous research. It was a qualitative study on transformations of sleep patterns of those working in a call centre. Rereading the data, I argue that there are three major figurations which appear to clash among those who sleep during the day and work during the night. These figurations are: (1) family and friends that work only during the day; (2) friend and strangers that have a similar work pattern and (3) the largest figuration - society.
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Germany has a long tradition in the context of federalism. The roots of this tradition can be traced back to the time of pre-national unity era in 1871. The main issue of our case will be to evaluate the historical dimension of German federalism and therefore we will examine the period between 19th century where the foundations of the modern German State was laid until the Federal Republic of Germany which is established in the following century.
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This study first explains the constructs ethical leadership style and depersonalization. Then, relationships between ethical leadership styles, depersonalization and demographic characteristics are investigated on a sample of banking employees. The purpose of the study is to determine the potential effect of ethical leadership style on depersonalization within banking sector. The effects of demographic characteristics on depersonalization are also examined. The research sample consists of banking sector employees in Edirne Province. Within this scope data were gathered from 110 employees. Frequency analysis, factor analysis and reliability tests, simple linear regression test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test, t-test and one-way Anova were carried out. According to the findings of the study, ethical leadership style has a significantly negative effect on depersonalization and the 22-29 age group displays a relatively higher level of depersonalization. The study concludes with the limitations of the current study and recommendations for future researches.
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According to Article 51 of UN Treaty, states’ right to use force in the face of an attack within the framework of self-defense is recognized in international law. In Nicaragua Case that was conducted based on BM Treaty, the scope of self-defense was interpreted differently by International Court of Justice and the situations in which states gain the right to self-defense against “armed attack” were determined. The USA after-9/11 Bush Doctrine that came up with the so-called struggle against terrorism and weapons of mass destruction and made it easier to use force, differs both from Nicaragua Court decisions and UN Treaty, and it shows to what extent the rule of law could be stretched and capitalized on to the benefits of powerful states.
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and service quality approaches are the most effective ways for retail stores to compete for creating long term brand and customer loyalty by way of ensuring customer satisfaction. Retaining the increasingly sensitive and selective customers has become vital for the retail stores in today’s competitive environment. Within this context, retail stores offer similar services to both sustain their profitability and ensure customer loyalty. Specifically, these stores offer transportation services, run various campaigns, and try to provide effective solutions within their customer services units. The cost of carrying out these activities plays a pressing role. However, the fact that avoiding these costs will lead to customer loss prompts retailing stores to analyze service quality in CRM. In this study, the concepts of service quality and brand loyalty are co-analyzed. The service quality of customer services department of Başakşehir/İstanbul branch of Migros has been measured with a satisfaction survey among customers. The effect of the service quality on brand loyalty is analyzed via structural equation modeling. As a result and based on the Migros example, this study concludes that Migros attaches particular importance to CRM and the service quality contributes significantly to the brand loyalty.
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In spite of having a rapid growth during the last three decades, the mobile phone handset market faces severe competition. Mobile phones, which have been complex technological products, meet more than one need and exceed the line of being only a communication tool. Especially young consumers’ needs, wants, and desires play major role in the existing severe competition among the brands and the formation of mobile phone market itself. In this regard how young consumers make their mobile phone handset decisions is concerned both from academic and industrial points of view. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that influence the mobile phone handset choices of university students. It presents the findings from a survey carried out to the students in Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University, Bishkek. The study reveals that young consumers primarily use cellular phones for internet, talk, listening to mp3 and radio, taking pictures, and wireless inter-device connections (bluetooth) and accordingly give more importance to the factors that make their phones more usable in their choices. For university students product quality, brand, price, warranty, and model as non-physical features and battery life, color screen, esthetic and appearance, screen resolution, and screen size are important factors as physical features in choosing their mobile phone handsets.
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Project performance models should serve as managerial measurement tools that evaluate the various aspects of projects with a holistic approach. However, predate models in the literature generally focus on limited performance indicators of projects - such as budget and time - for performance assessment and they lack broad perspective. In this respect, we aimed to introduce and propose a new model for the quantitative, effective and holistic evaluation of projects. The proposed model is originally developed as a conceptual approach by Livvarcin (2013) and entitled as The Bridge Model. In this study we enlarged the study and embodied the project performance parameters. In this study, we examine project performance by focusing on two different parameter groups: Process parameters and indicator parameters. Process parameters include seven elements of The Bridge Model, these are preparation phase, initiation phase, implementation phase, closing phase, post-project phase, project atmosphere and project actors. Indicator parameters are measures that are similar to the project parameters used in existing project performance models and they include cost, time, quality, performance of outcomes, motivation, development and competitiveness. We also performed a pilot study to figure out the performance of 42 different projects by using the performance parameters of the proposed model. We proved the validity and reliability of our model by using both quantitaive and qualitative methodologies.
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The opening of the accession negotiations with the EU was an important threshold in implementing important legal and institutional reforms in the field of migration in Turkey. When we come to 2011, it is possible to see a remarkable development, The Law on Foreigners and International Protection in Turkey was drafted and approved by Parliament on 4 April 2013 after some revisions. While the significant reforms are implemented in this policy area, Turkey still maintains the geographical limitation to the 1951 Geneva Convention although removing this limitation is one of the requirements for the EU membership. In this regard, it is important to examine the concerns of decision makers. In other words, Europeanization process that the existing literature mainly indicates, is insufficient to explain the whole picture, it is now necessary to explore domestic dynamics. By using elite interview data, this study argues that it is necessary to conduct an institutional analysis while examining migration policies. What is more, it is indicated that financial concern –based discourses appear one of the important determinants that needs to be addressed.
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The purpose of this study is to make suggestions about improving recycling consciousness through analyzing recycling and environmental protection awareness and defining attitudes and behavioral tendencies of consumers. Two socio-economically distinct neighborhoods were selected as research population and recyclable waste of these two districts were analyzed. In the next stage, data were collected through in depth interviews with the residents of respective neighborhoods about their environmental and recycling awareness and attitudes, which was followed by data analysis. Results indicate that participants interpret various definitions of the environment from different viewpoints and they are not aware of how their environment protection behaviors which are supposedly true, could lead to pollution.
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