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The project "EVERYTHING IS VERY NORMAL - DIALOGUE WITHOUT TABOOS." is organized by the Replika Cultural Association and co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration - AFCN.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the international community, causing a terrible shock among people everywhere. An invisible enemy that has spread all over the globe and left behind death and suffering, lockdown, unemployment, weakened national economies, a whole new depressing and frightening reality. Were there any other pandemics? Could this pandemic have been better managed? Has this threat been identified in national security strategies? Did the states act separately or unitarily? After almost two years, were there lessons learned? I reviewed the US national security strategies from 1987 to 2021 in order to see if the pandemics were mentioned as threats to the security of the American people. Then I did the same with Romania's last two security strategies. I looked for documents that showed the interest of states for the consequences of a pandemic similar with the one in 1918, which would show that pandemics were perceived as security threats before theCovid-19 pandemic broke out. I also looked for concrete actions of the states for the management of a pandemic, pandemic preparedness plans. I also highlighted the challenges states were facing following the outbreak of theCovid-19 pandemic in the medical field and in the economy. Although the management of the pandemic was initially a race against the clock, each country trying to cope with the large number of people hospitalized and lacking medical equipment, it later became clear that cooperation between states and organizations and mutual aid is the solution to get out faster from this health crisis.
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Entertainment is a particular area of public communication, due to the aesthetic component of the messages. Artistic expression is primarily about emotionality, not rationality, and the originality of creation gives artistic value. Entertainment nowadays tends to contaminate the other functions of communication, namely information and persuasion. In contemporary society, the production of entertainment is industrialized. Contemporary culture is dominated by entertainment industry, especially in the fields of publishing, music, film and games. In this article, we shall summarize the content and specifics of entertainment as premises of the creative industries’ social impact.
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COVID-19 pandemic affected millions of people worldwide and challenged the ability of national and international institutions to help suffering people and prevent others from being infected. From a theoretical point of view, this pandemic was framed as a human security crisis by officials of the United Nations, politicians, and researchers because it had a severe impact on human lives as a result of posing a threat to their health. The centrality of human beings for the concept of human security allowed the COVID-19 pandemic to be connected to human security and thus to be subjected to the process of securitization. A further aspect that significantly contributed to establishing this correlation was the fact that pandemic had been included in the concept of human security since it gained prominence back in 1994, becoming one of its characteristic constituents. Understanding how COVID-19 pandemic had been associated with human security and what made possible for them to be related contributes to explaining the present relevancy of human security, helps clarifying the theoretical basis of its application to this pandemic, facilitates the framing of potential future pandemics as a threat to human security and improves the use of this theoretical outlook in relation with pandemics.
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Over the course of history, the decision-making process was at stake for many military commanders and their ability to act in critical situations. All historical events occurred as a result of powerful people making either a beneficial or detrimental decision. Therefore, the first part of the paper will be focused on the importance and the main elements of the decision-making process. Furthermore, the complexities of this process will be displayed along with the limitations that can influence the decision-maker. Also, the approach that a leader might choose affects the outcome of a specific situation. In the second part, attention will be directed at intuition as a favorable attribute for the leaders of the armed forces and how it can be taught in order to achieve the intuitive judgement necessary in the military. This paper’s goal is to analyze the effectiveness of using intuition in the military decision-making process rather than the rational evaluation that has been used and taught for years. Because military circumstances are so fluid these days, the decision-making process is hampered by a dangerous tempo of action, disordered intelligence, and agitated activity rather than a basic,easy-to-implement approach. In such situations, decision-making is rarely clear and objectively rational but rather intuitive.
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In this paper, I want to present the value that the human resources department brings to the organization of which it is part. It consists in its ability to fulfil its role of activating the development of human capital and its sustainability. Long-term performance and market leadership could not be achieved by organizations without motivated, hard-working employees and a strong sense of loyalty to the employer. Throughout the process that employees go through since joining the organization, the human resources module needs to be aware of the importance of actively implementing performance management tools in order to monitor key activities. In order for performance management to function optimally in a department, the objectives and functions to be performed by this team must be identified in accordance with the organization's strategy. Then, the most representative and relevant key performance indicators are chosen for the mutually agreed objectives. And in the second part of the paper, I will present a case study of the application of these key performance indicators on the units of the Romanian Army.
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The concept of cognitive warfare is steadily gaining more and more attention in security and defense discourse. By employing a cognitive psychology perspective, the article is examining how perception and/or misperception factor into cognitive mapping of strategic and operational concepts. The central aim of the paper is to outline that the approach to the human domain is deeply rooted in nationally conditioned perception. The article is looking to achieve this academic goal by comparing the NATO conceptualization of cognitive warfare to the Russian Federations'. The structure is as follows: first, there is a brief review of the cognitive psychology paradigm, especially key concepts as they relate to the scope of the paper. The subsequent sections compare the NATO cognitive warfare approach to the opposing view, namely the one of the Russian security and defense apparatuses. The "special military operation" in Ukraine initiated by the Kremlin in 2022 confirmed that in the event of a territorial aggression against a NATO member state, the alliance as a whole remains the basis of European security and defense posture. It is for this very reason that the alliance ought to objectively analyze how Russian decision makers perceive Western perspective in the cognitive realm.
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IoT, big data analytics, and machine learning advancements have made the concept of a smart city a reality. The goal of a smart city, as we all know, is to give efficient answers to its residents using modern technology and data analytics collected by sensors. The idea of a smart city was something SF for many people in the 20th century, that was anyway pictured just in the popular media. Cities are becoming smarter not just in terms of how we can automate regular operations for individual people, buildings, and traffic systems, but also in terms of how we can monitor, comprehend, analyze, and design the city in real time to increase efficiency, equity, and quality of life for its population. A smart city goes beyond utilizing digital technology to improve resource efficiency and reduce pollution. It entails improved urban transportation networks, updated water and waste disposal facilities, and more energy-efficient lighting and heating systems. It also entails a more involved and responsive local government, safer public areas, and addressing the needs of older people. In this paper we will approach the actual smart city, what is it today; how they developed in recent years, the domains where is implemented (traffic management, healthcare, and public safety for example) and the future of smart cities in the whole world.
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With security incidents and breaches growing each year, email is still used as the major entry point to server malicious content that results in credential theft or malware infections enabling malicious threat actors to mount complex attacks. This paper is intended to document a new approach for detecting suspicious and malicious emails leveraging techniques such as security analytics, natural language processing to discover the intent of the email, as well as artificial neural networks to support more complex rules for classification. This solution can be used in a basic mode to flag which emails are safe and which are not, at the same time it can also be used by security analysts to gain a better understanding of the attack vectors and speed up the investigation process.
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In the following we present a part of an environmental awareness programme developed for the lower primary school. An important element of the programme is the playful introduction of knowledge, exploration and action-based involvement, which not only changed the children's attitudes but also their patterns of action. They have been able to find information on the topic independently and to see the connections between the local and the global. They recognised bad routines and were able to transform the actions of themselves and their surroundings for a more sustainable future.
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Flipped classroom method is a pedagogical approach in which the traditional concept of classroom-based learning process changes, students are already familiar with the teaching material before the lesson, so they can spend classroom time by activities and tasks facilitated and managed by the lecturer. The study presents the principles of the flipped classroom method and also its practical steps and methodological possibilities. In addition - by the presenting good practices and inspiring examples - it describes possibilities and experiences of the university implementation of the method.
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Flipped classroom method is a pedagogical approach in which the traditional concept of classroom-based learning process changes, students are already familiar with the teaching material before the lesson, so they can spend classroom time by activities and tasks facilitated and managed by the lecturer. The aim of the study is to present the results of a questionnaire survey mapping the application of the flipped classroom method in university education in Slovakia. The questions of the questionnaire used in the research on the one hand research to what extent the flipped classroom method is known and applied in the practice of university education, and on the other hand to find out what the experiences and feedback of the lecturers during the implementation of the method.
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„Innovation is an economic phenomenon." According to Schumpeter's economic theory, economic development is due to innovation in a dynamic environment, where old markets are destroyed and replaced by new ones - the so-called creative destruction. The object of the study in this report are enterprises in the tourism sector with a subject of activity in the Southern Black Sea region. Subject of the research - the relation "innovation - blue growth“ in the tourism industry. The main purpose of the study is to conduct a survey to summarize the opportunities for innovation in enterprises applicable in the tourism sector, whether they lead to increased competitiveness, whether companies generate higher profits after the introduction of innovations, whether the number of their employees, what investments they use to realize the innovations. The survey is specialized and therefore the representative sample includes opinions of managers from the highest management level - 67 representatives of the tourism business in the period June 2017 to January 2019. The topic of innovation in tourism will be increasingly developed and will arouse increasing interest, given the dynamic development of the sector and technology.
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The current challenges facing traditional colleges and universities — including higher tuition, budget cuts, and course shortages — cause many students to search for alternatives. Online education offers many benefits and advantages while still providing programs and courses of high quality. All levels of certificates and degrees are available online. Here, you can learn about some of the positives to pursuing an online education. Some of the advantages to online learning include course material accessibility, flexible scheduling, more academic options, and the opportunity to build valuable skills.This paper is presents the challenges of online learning on the accounting and finance disciplines.
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Long-term care for people in need (elderly, children, people with disabilities) is carried out in Romania under a fragmented, unclear and contradictory legislation. In addition, control bodies (and primarily the labor inspectorate) have so far shown little concern for identifying cases of undeclared work and, in general, for the protection of long-term home care workers. The paper presents the legal grounds in which this type of activity can be performed and presents aspects of the dysfunctionality of the current regulations, which are generally centered only on the needs of the beneficiaries, not including worker protection rules.
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The expansion of the Internet technologies in the 21st century brings intellectual property, and in particular copyright, as a key element in the digital age. The modern media is no longer just a means of mass communication, it is something much more comprehensive that merges media, computers, telecommunications, and dominates in social and cultural life. Information is just one of the many types of cultural media content. This paper presents a ULSIT’ project to raise awareness of copyright and related rights in the university environment and the opportunities that the protection and use of intellectual property rights in the media provides for the economic development.
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Flood risk management is a dynamically evolving field that covers all aspects of flood protection. A circumstantial reading of foreign and Bulgarian specialized literature can establish a complete similarity in the understandings of flood risk management.
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The management of civil aviation safety is one of the main responsibilities of the state. It develops, implements, implements and constantly improves strategies and processes in order to ensure control over all aviation activities, complying with all international and national standards for ensuring safe, scheduled, efficient and economical air transport.
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In any economic dynamic, starting new businesses is vital because it generates new jobs, increases income and added value through new ideas, technologies and products needed in society. New businesses accelerate change at the structural level and pursue the evolution of resources to produce goods and services adapted to the market (GEM, 2022). In this context, the key factors which interconnect entrepreneurship, and the labour market are public institutions and the profile of the company. Based on this nexus, the salary and social insurance policies are established, restrictive agreements are applied, aspects regarding work safety are established, all these modelling the attractiveness of the entrepreneurial environment. Consequently, employers' practices regarding salaries, investment in training, opportunities for advancement and others outline the trajectory of employee’s careers (Burton, Fairlie and Siegel, 2019). Entrepreneurship ant labour market intersect in many ways through the human capital involved and the profile policies which affect entrepreneurial performance. The correlation between political factors and entrepreneurship can lead to increased employment and reduced unemployment (Parker, 2009). In addition, the current crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are affecting the economic environment, implicitly entrepreneurship, in the EU Member States. Therefore, through this paper we want to identify the problems underlying the development of entrepreneurship interconnected with the labour market in the EU, and to outline the prospects of entrepreneurship-labour market construct.
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For many years, the IT industry has been quite globalized, as companies started looking for talent outside of their national borders and specialists were willing to relocate in order to get interesting jobs. The restrictions in place during the COVID-19 pandemic took the IT industry to a completely new level of globalization, as it became a full work from home exercise that lasted, depending on the country, from a few months to two years. This brought along both challenges and opportunities for candidates and for companies in the world of IT. From the perspective of developing countries that play an important role in software development, Romania included, there are important effects that generated changes in the preferences of the local workforce and drove salary levels up, close to those in Western Europe. The current exploratory study aims at identifying the perspective of IT recruitment companies in Romania on the changes that occurred on the market since March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
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