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Research and Science Today · 1/2014

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pp. 6–13

ROMANIAN CONFESSIONAL EDUCATION DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY. CASE STUDY ON THE GREEK-CATHOLIC DEANERY OF OAŞ COUNTRY

THE UNITED AND ORTHODOX CHURCH REMAINED IMPORTANT STRONGHOLDS OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT AND WAS THE ONLY NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR ROMANIANS, ACORDING TO THE LAWS ENACTED DURING THE DUALISM. AFTER THE 1848 REVOLUTION, BOTH IN OAȘ COUNTRY AND IN OTHER AREAS OF TRANSYLVANIA, CULTURAL LIFE ENJOYED SISTEMATIC DEVELOPMENT EVEN WITH IMPEDIMENTS OF HUNGARI…
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pp. 14–21

HISTORICAL COLLAGE-NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS’ PARTY – ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

THIS PARALLEL INGRESSION INTO THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALIST AND THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTIES ATTEMPTS TO TRACE, USING A COMPARATIVE APPOACH, THE SERIES OF STAGES IN THEIR ACCESSION TO POWER AS WELL AS THE CONTEXT AND SEQUENCE OF EVENTS THAT ULTIMATELY ALLOWED THESE PARTIES TO BECOME TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN 20 th CENT…
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pp. 22–28

AUSTERITY-AN EFFECTIVE CURE-ALL PILL OR A TRULY DANGEROUS IDEA

GOVERNMENTS TODAY IN BOTH EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES HAVE SUCCEEDED IN CASTING GOVERNMENT SPENDING AS RECKLESS WASTEFULNESS THAT HAS MADE THE ECONOMY WORSE. IN CONTRAST, THEY HAVE ADVANCED A POLICY OF DRACONIAN BUDGET CUTS - AUSTERITY - TO SOLVE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. WE ARE TOLD THAT WE HAVE ALL LIVED BEYOND OUR MEANS AND NOW NEED TO TIGHTEN OUR …
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pp. 29–40

CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE NON-PROLIFERATION CHECKING MECHANISM

THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS SEEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONVENTIONAL CONFLICT DEVELOPMENT IS COMPLEX; THE FUNDAMENTAL THESIS OF A POTENTIAL CONFLICT SUSTAINING THAT NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION SHOULD DISCOURAGE OTHER STATES” AGGRESIVITY WHILE, AT THE SAME TIME, PREVENTING NUCLEAR STATES F ROM BECOMING MORE AGGRESSIVE. THE PROLIFERAT…
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pp. 41–50

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CENTRALIZATION AND POLITICKING OF ROMANIAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE INTERWAR PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

ANALYZING THE EVOLUTION AND THE CONTENT OF IDEAS AND PRINCIPLES THAT SERVED AS GUIDING LINES FOR THE ROMANIAN POLITICIANS DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD IN THEIR EFFORT TO CONFIGURE THE ROMANIAN EDUCATIONAL POLICY, ONE OF THE TOPICS THAT HAS DRAWN OUR ATTENTION WAS THAT OF CENTRALIZATION AND POLITICKING IN UNIVERSITIES. THEREFORE, THIS ARTICLE BRINGS T…
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pp. 51–60

FROM HUMAN SECURITY TO RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT

AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE PARADIGM THAT HUMAN SECURITY IS PART OF THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT. A SERIES OF FOREGOING EVENTS OFFER A START POINT IN FUNDAMENTING THIS CONCEPT .BASED ON HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES, THIS CONCEPT, THOUGH AMBIGUOUS, PREVAILS DUE TO ITS ALTRUISM. BY CLEARING AMBIGUITIES, THIS CONCEPT MIGHT TURN INTO A REVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE…
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pp. 61–68

WHY RELIGION IS NEEDED IN POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION

THIS PAPER BRINGS INTO QUESTION THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION PROCESSES, BEING A RES EARCH APPROACH BY WHICH WE INTEND TO CAPTURE INTERACTIONS AND DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE TWO. ON THIS LINE WE WILL FOCUS ON VIOLENT CONFLICTS BASED ON DIVERGENT RELIGIONS AND RECONSTRUCTION PROCESSES, BY EMPHASIZING THOSE ASPECTS…
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pp. 69–80

THE MIGRATION POLICIES AND MULTICULTURALISM OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

THE POPULISM OF SOME EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS DOES NOTHING BUT CONTRIBUTES TO AGGRAVATING THE SENSE OF INSECURITY NOT ONLY AMONG THE IMMIGRANTS BUT ALSO AMONG THE NATIVE CI TIZENS OF THE RECEIVING COUNTRIES. ESTABLISHING A COMMON APPROACH TO MIGRATION MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND THE HARMONIZATION OF MIGRATION POLICIES OF THE MEMBER STATES IS ONE OF THE MOST …
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pp. 81–85

DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST STATES- IMPOSITION OR NECESSITY

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRANSITION, MUST BE CONSIDERED THE REASON FOR THIS. WE CAN NOT SAY THAT A TRANSITION TO A DESIRED STATE , IF ALL GOES WELL , BUT CERTAINLY WE CAN SAY THAT THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN COMMUNIST STATES WAS WANTED. FOR THE TRANSITION TO WORK, THE COMMUNISM HAD TO DISAPPEAR. WERE LAUNCHED VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF COM…
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pp. 86–94

THE SOVEREIGN WITH ITS WINGS CLIPPED

SOVEREIGNTY IS DEFINED AS THE POWER THAT A STATE POSSESES, THE POWER TO ELABORATE IT`S OWN SET OF LAWS AND TO TRANSFER LAW INT O PRACTICE.SOVERAIGNTY IS EQUIVALENT WITH INDEPENDENCE. AFTER THE INTEGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, ROMANIAN CITIZENS REGARDED THE STATUS OF ROMANIA AS ONE THAT COULD OFFER MORE FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND OF ACTION, IN WHICH TH…
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pp. 95–102

ASPECTS REGARDING TO THE DESIGN OF THE FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS USED AT STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS

THE PAPER PRESENTS A GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM WHICH CAN BE APPLIED IN SIGNAL PROCESSING IN ENGINEERING AREA, FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS ALGORITHM IS TO EXTRACT THE FEATURE FROM A NOISED SIGNAL BY TWO DIFFERENT METHODS: DENOISING (NOISE REMOVAL) WAVELET TRANSFORMS METHOD AND WHITE NOISE CORRELATION METH…
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pp. 103–110

MAIN FACTORS OF TARTRATE STABILITY IN YOUNG WINES

WINE STABILITY REPRESENTS A CRITERION FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN THE CASE OF ALL CATEGORIES OF WINE. TARTRATE STABILITY IN WINES IS DETERMINED BY THE TARTARIC COMPOUNDS BALANCE WHICH MAY FORM SPONTANEOUSLY SMALL WHITE -GRAY POTASSIUM BITARTRATE CRYSTALS IN THE BOTTLE IN CASE OF IMBALANCES. DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY COMPOSITION OF WINE IT IS DIFFICULT TO…
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pp. 111–116

THE ROUGHNESS OF THE COMPOSITE CHIPBOARDS PLATED WITH ALUMINUM FOIL -PAL-Al

THIS PAPER PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON THE ROUGHNESS OF THE COMPOSITE CHIPBOARDS PLATED WITH ALUMINUM FOIL. EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN THE LABORATORY OF TESTING OF THE P ROCESSING ACCURACY OF THE FACULTY OF WOOD ENGINEERING, BRASOV. THE ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT WAS PERFORMED ON THE CHIPBOARD (PAL) WITH FINE FACES, CHIPBOARDS …
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pp. 117–123

AN EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF NOISE CAUSED BY TRAFFIC IN A POPULATED AREA OF BRAILA CITY

THIS STUDY ANALYSES NOISE CAUSED BY TRAFFIC IN A HIGHLY POPULATED AREA OF BRAILA CITY. TO DETERMINE SOUND P RESSURE LEVEL AT GRO UND LEVEL, 4 SOUND L EVEL METERS WERE PLACED INTO THE AREA S OF INTEREST. FOR T HE SOUND PRESSURE LE VEL ANALYSIS 4 SOUND LEVEL METERS WERE PL ACED IN THE NEARB Y BLOCKS, INSIDE THE EXPOSED APARTMENTS, BETWEEN THE FIRST A…
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pp. 124–131

ANALYSIS OF VOLATILE COMPOUNDS IN THREE GRAPE VARIETIES OF LOCAL SELECTION FROM REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

THE CURRENT STUDY A IMS TO EXPLORE THE AROMATIC COMPOSITION OF THREE GRAPE VARIETIES OF LOCAL SELECTION FROM REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA. THE GRAPES WERE ANALYZED USING A HEADSPACE (HS) TECHNIQUE COUPLED TO A GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) SYSTEM COMPOSED FROM A SINGLE QUADRUPOLE MASS -SPECTROMETER (MS) AND A THREE - DIMENSIONAL AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR THE INJECTION…
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pp. 132–137

METHODS USED IN PREVENTING MECHANICAL DAMAGES AT POTATOES

POTATOES ARE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS THAT ARE SENSIBLE TO AMBIENTAL FACTORS AND MANIPULATIONS, THUS TO MECHANICAL DAMAGES. THIS PAPAER HAS THE ROLE OF HIGHLITHING THE MAIN ELEMENTS FROM THE TECHNOLOGICAL FLOW OF HARVESTING, SORTING AND STORING OF POTATOES THAT MAY HAVE AN INFLUENCE ON THE APARITION AND EVOLUTION OF THE PHENOMENON OF MECHANICAL DAMAGE…
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pp. 138–144

SHORT COMPARATIVE CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING BIGAMY in FRENCH AND ROMANIAN CRIMINAL CODES

FRENCH CRIMINAL LAW HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR THEORISTS AND PRACTITIONERS OF LAW IN ROMANIA, SO THAT THIS SUCCINCT ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN CRIMES RELATING TO FAMILY LIFE IN THE FRENCH CRIMINAL CODE REPRESENTS AN ELEMENT OF REFERENCE TO SIMILAR OR SEMBLABLE PROVISIONS IN THE ROMANIAN CRIMINAL CODE. IN THIS ARTICLE ARE OUTLINED SOME SPE…
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pp. 151–157

MARKETING RESEARCH ON QUALITY OF FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES USED BY SMEs FROM BRAŞOV COUNTY

THIS PAPER PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A QUANTITATIVE MARKETING RESEARCH ON THE PERCEPTIONS AND THE BEHAVIORS OF THE SMES FROM BRAŞOV COUNTY ON THE QUALITY OF THE FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES USED. THE RESEA RCH SHOWS THE MAIN BARRIERS TO CHANGE THE PROVIDER OF THE FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES, THE SATISFACTION OF THE MANAGERS IN SMEs WITH THE QUALITY OF…
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pp. 158–165

THE BURDEN OF LEGACY IN NADINE GORDIMER’S BURGER’S DAUGHTER

IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE RISE OF APARTHEID AS A LEGITIMATE RULING SYSTEM IN THE 1950S AND THE 1960S BROUGHT ABOUT A REVIVAL OF THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT THAT WOULD DIVIDE THE SOCIETY EVEN FURTHER. THUS, GORDIMER’S NOVELS WRITTEN AFTER THE SHARPEVI LLE MASSACRE WILL FOCUS ON THE SHIFT FROM A PEACEFUL STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTH EID TOWARDS A RADICAL SOLUT…
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pp. 166–171

PUBLISHED POETS IN THE ROMANIAN TEXTBOOKS BETWEEN 1948-1964

THE PRESENT PAPER AIMS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE MIXTURE OF VALUES IS A FREQUENT PRACTICE FOR THE COMMUNIST REGIME IN ROMANIA. THE ROLE OF STUDYING POETRY IN SCHOOLS IS MAINLY TO FORM THE POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PUPILS, NOT THE LITERARY ONE. THE CHILDREN’S POETRY, TURNED INTO A PROPAGANDA TOOL, IS DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE IDEOLOGICAL GOALS. VALUABL…
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pp. 172–176

SATIRICAL SPIRIT OF I.L.CARAGIALE

BY ADOPTING AN ATTITUDE OF SYMPATHY AND HIGH UNDERSTANDING, ACCOMPANIED ALMOST ALWAYS OF FUN AND LAUGH, SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS REFLECTING THE FULL RANGE OF EMOTIONAL TONES OF HUMAN SPIRIT, MATERIALIZED INTO ARTISTICAL FORMS BEGINNING IN A SIMPLE PLAY ON WORDS, OF THE ASPECTS OF UMOR, CHEERFUL, KINDLY, AGREEABLE, CLOSE, AND UP TO SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT…
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pp. 177–182

FICTION TO FILM-THE EVERLASTING INSISTENCE ON FIDELITY

FILMS BASED ON LITERARY SOURCES ARE ALMOST ALWAYS JUDGED ACCORDING TO HOW FAITHFUL THEY ARE TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT(S). HOWEVER, THE ISSUE O F FIDELITY HAS BECOME MORE AND MORE CONTROVERSIAL. ON THE ONE HAND, THERE ARE CRITICS WHO CONTEND THAT THE “TRANSLATION” OF A PIECE OF LITERATURE INTO A FILM SHOULD BE BASED ON A QUITE LITERAL INTERPRETATION. AND…
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pp. 183–187

ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND ITS DIALECTS

THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE, THE CONTINUANCE OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN THE EASTERN PARTS OF THE FORMER ROMAN EMPIRE, COMES WITH ITS FOUR DIALECTS: DACO - ROMANIAN, AROMANIAN, MEGLENO -ROMANIAN AND ISTRO -ROMANIAN TO COMPLETE THE EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC PALETTE. THE ROMANIAN LINGUISTS HAVE ALWAYS SHOWN A PERMANENT CONCERN FOR BOTH THE IDENTITY AND THE S…
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pp. 188–193

CRITICISM BETWEEN 1906 AND 1915 ON THE GERMAN INFLUENCE IN THE WORK OF MIHAI EMINESCU

WE CONSIDER THIS STUDY IS NECESSARY, BECAUSE EVEN MANY RESEARCHERS POINTED OUT THE AFFINITY OF EMINESCU'S WORK WITH GERMAN LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE, THERE ARE STILL SOME LACKS IN THIS SENSE. THUS WE ANALYZED HOW THE GERMAN INFLUENCE IN EMINESCU'S WORK WAS PERCEIVED IN TIME, AND FOR THIS WE TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1906 A…
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pp. 194–202

FOSTERING CREATIVITY THROUGH EDUCATION – KEY FACTORS, AND ACTION DIRECTIONS

THOUGH MOST RESEARCHERS AGREE THAT CREATIVITY CAN BE THOUGHT, THERE ARE VERY FEW EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES SPECIFICALLY AIMED TO IMPROVE CREATIVITY OF THE STUDENTS., THIS PAPER IS A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE VAST LITERATURE DEDICATE D TO THE STUDY OF CREATIVITY FROM A PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE, AIMING TO IDENTIFY THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE CREATIVITY IN A POSI…
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pp. 203–213

THE PARADIGM AND PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF DOMINATION AND VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE ( I )

THIS ARTICLE IS A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF A S OCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STUDY, MUCH MORE EXTENSIVE, ON THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE EXERCISE OF POWER, DOMINATION AND VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE. THE GAP BETWEEN THEO RY AND PRACTICE, BETWEEN THEORY AND PARADIGM, SHOULD BE ELIMINATED BY SUPPORTING PARADIGM SHIFT. THE PROPOSED METHODOLOGY IS NOT ONLY A CRITICAL ANALYSIS…
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pp. 214–220

THE MAIN FEATURES OF HUNTING VOCABULARY IN OLD GREEK

THIS PAPER LOOKS AT THE MAIN FEATURES OF GREEK HUNTING VOCABULARY. MORE PRECISELY, WE WILL FOCUS ON THE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SPECIALIZATION OF THE HUNTING VOCABULARY IN OLD GREEK. FIRST OF ALL, WE WILL REFER TO THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORDS BY PROVIDING A SHORT CLASSIFICATION OF THE HUNTING TERMS (BORROWED WORDS, DERIVATES ETC.). ALTHOUGH WE DEAL WITH…
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pp. 221–228

THE IDENTITY GAMES IN PAUL AUSTER’S THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS

PAUL AUSTER’S NOVEL THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS BRINGS UNDER THE MAGNIFYING GLASS ONE OF HIS PRIMARY CONCERNS: IDENTITY IN AN EVER CHANGING WORD, DOMINATED BY LOSS AND NECESSITY OF PERMANENTLY INVENTING ONESELF.
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pp. 229–235

LYRICISM AND OPPOSING FEELINGS IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY AND IN GRAHAM SWIFT’S THE LIGHT OF DAY

THE PAPER SHOWS HOW WOOLF AND SWIFT WROTE SIMILAR NOVELS IN TWO DIFFERENT CONTEXTS: THAT OF MODERNISM AND THAT OF POSTMODERNISM. THE PAPER TRIES TO FIND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THEIR NOVELS AS FAR AS LYRICISM IS CONCERNED. OPPOSING FEELINGS ARE USED TO CREATE LYRICISM. MOMENTS OF BEING AND PERCEPTION ARE ASPECTS WHICH ARE ANALYSED WITH RESPECT TO THEI…
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pp. 145–150

GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE JUSTIFIED CAUSES IN ROMANIAN CRIMINAL LAW

SUPPORTING CAUSES ARE THOSE CA SES COVERED BY CRIMINAL LAW, WHEN AN OFFENSE IS COMMITTED, CORRESPONDING LEGAL MODEL INCRIMINATION BECOMES PERMITTED (LAWFUL) IN RELATION TO THE WHOLE ORDER OF LAW. THESE CAUSES ARE: SELF -DEFENSE, NECESSITY, EXERCISE ANY RIGHT OR PERFORMANCE OF AN OBLIGATION, CONSENT OF THE INJURED PARTY.
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