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Improve Wastewater Treatment Methods from Brewing Industry

Author(s): Casen Panaitescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

nalyzing the current waste water treatment possibilities in the brewing industry, finds that an extra amount of oxygen in the system can lead to improved water quality. Also, the need to improve the anaerobic stage may be a technically and economically efficient method. Taking into account these two premises, the paper presents the results obtained by applying the two methods of treatment, and present a comparative study of the water quality before and after the improvement of the purification process.

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Addressing the Acceptance of Students 'Studies in Other Countries in the Context of National Policies and Security Strategies

Author(s): Casen Panaitescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Access to education outside applicants' country of origin has increased in recent years for some countries, but has also created numerous barriers for others. Thus, for certain specializations, age groups have become representative. Countries with lower taxes and engineering specialties sought on the labor market have applicants from the age group 25-34 years. The other developed countries have a higher proportion of older students in MA and other postgraduate studies, including doctorate. Such countries are Australia, Germany, the Netherlands.The Participation of foreign students in the education system does not take into account the traditional view. Thus, in this paper, a non-random component was developed that uses two tools as evaluation tools: state laws where the prospective student applies and proximity to the applicant's university.

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The Possibility of Meeting University Studies by Migrants

Author(s): Casen Panaitescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Effective integration policies must be considered as a priority on the migration agenda of any government, regardless of whether migrants are temporarily staying or permanently settling in the country. Integration is essential for all stakeholders to benefit from migration and the contribution it brings to the security, prosperity and stability of society.Addressing the role of online socialization platforms in the mobility period knows in the literature a duality of experts' opinions. That is why the present work focuses on the advantages of socializing in the virtual environment, in the sense that these interactions facilitate the integration in the new academic environment and overcome the cultural shock, against the voices who believe that the use of these instruments favors the phenomena of loneliness, social anxiety, etc.

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The Byzantine Influence on the Italian Renaissance

Author(s): Ionut Alexandru Plescau / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In the 15th century, there was a massive emigration from Byzance to Italy. Because of the Ottoman Empire, the intellectual elite of Byzantine scholars started to come with their families, by sea, to Venice and Florence. We have some Scholars émigrés who influenced the culture and the thinking process of their time, in Italy. They were Manuel Chrysoloras, Georgios Gemisthos Pletho, and others. They brought thousands of manuscripts, and with Cosmos’s help, they achieved academic jobs. Even Marsilio Ficino recognized that The Platonic Academy in Florence was a project started with Gemistos Plethon, the famous Platonist professor. Also The Florence Council (1438 – 1439) was a cultural revelation between two different civilizations. By the presence of the Byzantine intellectuals in Italy, the Latins experienced a new form of meditation on the world and on the purpose of life. In particular, the return to Greek culture and ancient ideas triggered the desire of freedom in the Quattrocento thinkers. Some revolutionary ideas have taken shape in the aristocratic houses of Tuscany, Venice and Rome. It happens that some groups of scholars gather around Byzantine masters, such as Ioannes Arghyropoulos, or Bessarion. Thanks to the generosity of Cosmo de Medici and his family, many young people could afford a comfortable life dedicated to study and scientific research. Some Latin, others Byzantine.

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Museum Communication and Entrepreneurial Thinking

Author(s): Cristina Claudia Popescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Museums need to become competitive and to maximize their limited resources. To do so they need help from their visitors and from other institutions, they need to exchange and remix information in order to create relevance and innovation, and also they need money for various investments. Updating museums is often thought of in a commercial manner, inspired by commercial organizations that use marketing and entertainment in order to increase their profit or competitiveness. This entrepreneurial thinking can make museums to be self-sufficient and to avoid collaboration. The collaboration between museums and other institutions (commercial, cultural, nongovernment, publishing) or with the general public is thus neglected and also the need for a personal relation and a personalized experience for the visitor. The relationship approach is connected with the notion of reciprocation which, according with sociologists, is central to the well-being of any society. Even though reciprocation isn’t always equal or fair, both economic entrepreneurs and members of the publishing industry have social preoccupations, tied to the idea of awareness. Museums and other cultural institutions, due to bureaucracy, are insufficiently interested in the idea of reciprocity witch, in museum studies terms, could also be called participation and it is associated with the idea of awareness.Museum communication can be seen as a kaleidoscope combining four discursive approaches: promotion (marketing), awareness (NGO-s), information (journalism), education (more or less institutionalized and open to the new).

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Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of the Means of Strengthening the Technical Element - Shooting with the Laces Finalization

Author(s): Adrian Pricop / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study seeks to improve the process of strengthening the technical elements aimed at completing the attack actions by shooting with the lace’s finalization. The aim of the paper is to promote a complex of methods and means to strengthen the shooting techniques. We have conducted our study was on a 24 students sample practicing football in the representative team of the University Politehnica of Bucharest.The athletes were organized in two groups: the experimental group (12 subjects) and the control group 12 (subjects). The age of those taking part in the study ranges from 19 to 23 years old. The research took place between October 17 and March 23, 2018, during which we used, in training the subjects, a set of methods and means to strengthen the technical element, the shoot to the gate finalization.In the training process, the experimental group specifically practiced, 20 minutes in each lesson, programs based on strengthening the shoot to the gate finalization while the control group followed the classical training program.The main research methods we utilized are these: the scientific documentation, the experiment, the observation, the graphic method and the statistical mathematical interpretation.Following the research conducted and by processing the results obtained, we observed outstanding progress in final test compared to initial test.The comparison of the results obtained in the final evaluation shows statistically significant differences between the two groups. Using the complex of methods and means contributes to making efficient the process of instruction and education.

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Considerations on Legal Conflicts of a Constitutional Nature between the President and Other Authorities

Author(s): Crina Mihaela Verga / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study aims, first of all, to present a specific attribution of the Romanian Constitutional Court, introduced by the 2003 revision of the Constitution, namely the settlement of legal conflicts of a constitutional nature between public authorities.In the second part of this article, we comment upon the Constitutional Court’s decisions on the legal conflicts of a constitutional nature between the head of state and different state institutions, in the recent years.Our analysis reveals a permanent deterioration of the relationships between the President and other public authorities, fact which has led to an obvious disruption in the democratic exercise of government.

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The Romanians between the Orient and the Occident

Author(s): Adrian Ignat / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Christianity has forever marked the lives of the peoples who have embraced it. Through it, people have understood that this life is not the sole purpose of their existence, that preparing for the encounter of the living God, the One who sacrifices himself on the cross, then to overcome death by the resurrection, is the destination to which we are heading. That is why our entire existence must be placed in the service of God and others, so that we may be placed at the right of the Fair Judge (Matthew 25).This study aims to present some aspects regarding our Latinity and Orthodoxy - as a true bridge between East and West. Also, the influence of the Byzantines in the life of the Romanian people will be analysed as well as the adoption of the Byzantine-Slavonian rite in our medieval culture. Thus, a complex image of our Romanian culture and spirituality specific to the 9th-14th centuries can be drawn.

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Rosenberg’s Questionnaire for Self-esteem Evaluation. Psychometric Considerations. Recalibration

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

Rosenberg’s Questionnaire [5] was elaborated for the global evaluation of self-esteem as a unifactorial construct. In the present research I have followed the actualization of the psychometric data of the scale, for the population of Romania, as well as the highlighting of some aspects concerning this one’s factorial structure. The last calibration of the questionnaire was made more than 20 years ago , Baban [1]. I have found, for general population, new values concerning the calibration limits as well as a bi-factorial structure of the items, already signaled in previous research, starting from 2002. I have found, also, differences concerning the standards between participants from the emerging-adult and adult categories. I have built up-to-date standards for the global as well as for the factorial score. The psychometric data have highlighted a good stability of the scale in the test-retest and a consistency good enough (α=0,836) which confirms the usage of the results for research as well as for individual evaluations. This research was made in the time period 2014 – 2018, on a representative sample. 413 participants from the general population of Romania, above 18 years old.

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A Non-Parametric Efficiency Perspective on the Research-Active European Universities Performance

Author(s): Simona Raluca Grădinaru,Anamaria Beatrice Aldea,Alexandru Coser / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Higher Education Institutions often struggle to optimally use their available resources in pursuance of both educational and research outputs, while competing for gathering funds. Furthermore, increasing teaching burden for academic workforce may shrink their time dedicated to research, which may also negatively impact the budget. The aim of this paper consists in examining the efficiency of two important dimensions of European universities (teaching and research), together with a possible ranking based on the models we employ for each of these two perspectives. Our target is to also explore any possible compromises between education and scientific research. We employ non-parametric efficiency analysis using FDH (Free Disposal Hull) and Hyperbolic efficiency estimators for a sample of 264 universities for the year 2014, from the RISIS-ETER facility, a database of European Higher Education Institutions and their indicators. Filters are applied to the initial heterogenous dataset in order to obtain adequate efficiency models that analyse universities performance from both research and teaching perspectives. Teaching efficiency is defined by how well the institutions manage to use their government allocation and academic staff in producing the maximum amount of undergraduate degrees, whereas the research efficiency is given by how well the universities perform in maximizing their research outputs considering only the personnel involved in research activities. The results illustrate that many institutions are focusing into a single direction and some efforts need to be undertaken in order to improve the academic balance between teaching and research. An analysis of each sample is provided and gives us an interesting insight into the European universities’ activities.

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Cechy osobowości i „uczucie niepokoju językowego”: analizując ponownie motywację wewnętrzną

Author(s): Larysa Sanotska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

This paper reports on the outcomes of the comparative study on motivation of learners of English in further-education English Philology programme in Ukraine and Poland. The research aims to determine principle characteristics of intrinsic motivation, which is among the most effective personal management strategies and as such helps build appropriate L2 study skills. Alongside with inborn personality features, such as extraversion/introversion,such traits as conscientiousness, openness, risk-taking and self-efficacy are formed by sociocultural, and in some cases, historical factors. The students from Ukraine and Poland were chosen for the reason of similarities in historical development of the two countries, as well as relatively different ‘paths’ of development in the more recent period. Similarity and diversity factors retrieved from observation, interviews with students an danswers to an open-ended questionnaire provided data which allows to determine the scale of influence of social and historical aspects on decision making and performance of the students alongside with their personal beliefs and expectations. The study also aimed to establish the connection between the systems of individual beliefs of the learners of both countries in the sphere of L2 learning.

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Wpływ nabywania języka pierwszego przez niewidome dzieci na naukę języka drugiego — implikacje dydaktyczne dla nauczycieli języków obcych

Author(s): Małgorzata Jedynak / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The paper focuses on learners with special educational needs who are visually impaired due to vision loss. Typhlomethodology has already recognized a potential of these learners in the field of second language acquisition, particularly in the phonological domain. The comparative analysis of blind and sighted learners provides a great deal of information about the nature of language acquisition. In the paper the author has insights into L1 acquisition of pronunciation and lexis by blind children since the command of these phenomena allows better understanding of L2 learning process and application of more effective foreign language methodology for the blind. A discussion on the above-mentioned issues seems particularly relevant in the light of the fact that the Council of Europe promotes in Education and Training 2020 the idea of FL teaching to learners with special educational needs, including these with vision loss.

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Blended learning jako przykład wdrożenia nowoczesnych technologii w proces nauczania języków obcych

Author(s): Ewelina Basińska / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

"Blended Learning" is about effectively integrating ICTs into course design to enhance the teaching and learning experiences for students and teachers by enabling them to engage in ways that would not normally be available or effective in their usual environment, whether it is primarily face-to-face or distance mode. The mission of "Blended Learning" is to encourage excellence and innovation in language in the form of online software, which houses all the materials and ICT tools that learners need in one central web platform. Some of the core concepts underlying its design are multimodal L2 input exposure (Plieger, 2006), enhanced input, learner-fit content delivery, interaction (human-computer, human-human, and intrapersonal) through computer supported collaborative and individual learning tasks, as well as a more human-like dimension for positive and corrective feedback. This paper describes the elements of the b-learning model and issues connected with its implementation. "Blended Learning’s" potential for developing skills in a foreign language is examined in the light of academic literature as well as the author’s personal teaching experience and observation.

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Projekt edukacyjny Unii Europejskiej formą poznania kulturowo- zawodowego

Author(s): Edyta Bochnia / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The processes of globalisation and the development of a common, united Europe entail the migration of people to various parts of our continent. Nowadays migration is mostly related to the search for employment by people at various stages of their lives. The contact with a different cultural and professional reality might be surprising and often arouses feelings which are far from positive. In the context of these processes intercultural competence, now called a key competence, a prerequisite for functioning in the post-modern, multicultural world, is assigned a particular significance. Equally central is, however, becoming familiar with the conditions of a country’s professional culture. Only then can we talk about effective functioning on the European job market. Numerous young people at the stage of high school education declare the will to build their future abroad. Therefore, it is necessary to search for tools which would render it possible for trainees to enter into professional life and cultural reality of a foreign country. One of such tools are the Leonardo da Vinci mobility programmes, which help students grow to know chosen professional fields while simultaneously “immersing themselves” in the deepest cultural strata of a given country. The essence of the above subject matter shall be discussed on the example of a mobility programme carried out in Germany, in the Construction Training Centre.

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Ile historii potrzeba na lekcji języka niemieckiego? Rola treści historycznych w procesie uczenia się i nauczania języka niemieckiego

Author(s): Marta Trzybulska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Language is always used in a socio-cultural context. It is a part of culture; therefore, it is impossible to teach and learn a foreign language excluding knowledge about culture and society. Culture and society studies as an auxiliary discipline of glottodidactics have an interdisciplinary character. They are connected with other fields focused on human and their surroundings, including history. This article aims to show history as an auxiliary discipline of culture and society studies, its role in learning and teaching process and possible criteria of historical contents selection. Also, the results of a questionnaire filled out by students of third grades of high school on the meaning of historical contents during German as a foreign language lessons will be presented.

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Wpływ predyspozycji muzycznych na umiejętność wymowy w języku obcym

Author(s): Agnieszka Połać / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

This paper aims at presenting the results of a study which addressed the issue of language aptitude with special attention to the influence that musical education exerts on foreign language pronunciation skills. The study was conducted on the basis of the Danish language and consisted of a task that pertained to the production of Danish words and phrases. The participants in the study were two groups of students: musicians from Academy of Music and non-musicians from The Institute of English Studies at the Łódź University. In the present paper the author discusses the results of the task concerning pronunciation skills of both groups of respondents, taking into consideration the point of view of an external consultant, who assessed the performances of the respondents. Moreover, the results of musicians will be juxtaposed with those gained by non-musicians in order to reveal the previously mentioned correlation between musical training and foreign language aptitude. On the basis of the obtained results, it can be concluded that this research indicates that musical and linguistic skills are interconnected.

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Dostosowanie wymagań edukacyjnych z języka obcego do indywidualnych potrzeb rozwojowych i edukacyjnych oraz możliwości psychofizycznych uczniów w młodszym wieku szkolnym na podstawie diagnozy psychologiczno-pedagogicznej

Author(s): Werona Król-Gierat / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

According to ministerial directives, foreign language teachers are obliged to adapt educational requirements to pupils’ individual developmental and educational needs as well as psychophysical abilities. Translating recommendations of psycho-pedagogical service centres into specific tasks is teachers’ responsibility and is brought into fruition while being in direct contact with pupils in their charge. At the same time, the planned actions have to ensure the realization of the core curriculum. The interpretation of psycho-pedagogical statements or opinions may cause difficulties for teachers not qualified in special education. Making an effort to meet their needs, the present article focuses on translating bureaucratic paperwork into teaching practice.

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Czy testy mierzą to, co mierzyć powinny? O trafności testów maturalnych sprawdzających rozumienie ze słuchu

Author(s): Emilia Podpora-Polit / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Validity is considered the most important criterion for the quality of a language test. As Bolesław Niemierko (1999: 179) states, validity guarantees that “everything and only what was supposed to be measured was measured”. The aim of this article is to present the validity notion from the theoretical as well as from the practical point of view. The paper should answer the following questions: What does test validity mean in practice? How can it be recognized that a listening comprehension test is valid? Do school leaving exams in German fulfill the validity criteria?

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Słowotwórstwo w wybranych gramatykach do nauczania języka polskiego jako obcego

Author(s): Mateusz Gaze / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The purpose of this article is to analyze derivational issues presented in the grammar books for teaching Polish as a foreign language. Both the variety of issues presented and their graphic design were analyzed. Gramatyka języka polskiego. Podręcznik dla cudzoziemców by B. Bartnicka and H. Satkiewicz transpired to be too difficult for a foreigner because of the complicated scientific style used when describing analyzed phenomena. In Odkrywamy język polski by L. Madelska and M. Warchol-Schlottmann errors appeared, often connected with incorrect classification of derivatives to derivational categories, which may cause chaos in learners` mental dictionaries. Gramatyka języka polskiego dla cudzoziemców by Z. Kaleta does not include derivational issues at all. Word formation, despite being often overlooked by Polish teachers, plays a vital role in the process of teaching / learning Polish as a foreign language. Derivation is one of the most important processes of the formation of new words. Linguistic changes are lexical changes to a great extent. Word formation helps organize lexis (to classify the new words to appropriate categories, and thus determine their meaning). Derivational formations also show the linguistic perception of reality by the users of a given language.

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Jacy oni są? Językowy obraz polskiej rodziny oraz szata graficzna w wybranych podręcznikach do nauczania języka polskiego jako obcego

Author(s): Paula Góralczyk-Mowczan / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents selected elements that contribute to a linguistic and graphic image of a Polish family, namely appearance, personality, age, names and surnames. As a source of the research materials I used selected textbooks for all levels of proficiency (from A1 to C2), which first edition appeared in or after 1989. So how does a “typical” textbook family look like? The head of the family is thirty-nine-year-old Jan/Adam/Paweł Kowalski/ Nowak. He is a handsome brown-haired man with a beard and moustache. His wife is thirty-three-year-old Maria, an elegant blonde. They have two school-age children — Monika and Marek/Jan. Monika is pretty and resembles her father while Marek/Jan is tall and very slim. The present article also deals with the relationships between the emerging picture of the family and the textbook, its level and the date of issue.

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