bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Accuracy of in vitro radiographs in determining the remaining dentin thickness below deep dentin caries in deciduous molars
Authors: Demirel Akif , Demirci Olgu , Ökte Zeynep
Published: August 2020

Background/Aim: The determination of remaining dentin thickness (RDT) is quite critical in providing appropriate treatment indications especially in deciduous molars. The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy of in vitro pre-operative radiographs before caries removal in RDT measurement. Material and Methods: This in vitro study was conducted with 30 lower deciduous second molars with deep approximal dentinal caries. Following the standardized digital radiographs were obtained, RDT was measured by determining the closest distance between the carious lesion and the pulp chamber on the computer software. After caries removal, the samples were sectioned in mesio-distal direction and photographed. RDT was measured on photographs similarly to radiographic measurements. In statistical analysis, Interclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC), Wilcoxon-Signed and Bland Altman Plot (BAP) tests were performed to determine the agreement and statistically difference. Results: The mean RDT value in photographs was found to be 10% higher than measured on radiographs. Although, correlation coefficient was within confidence interval, both RDT values showed good but not excellent agreement (correlation coefficient= 0.812). Also, BAP test did not demonstrate strong agreement. In descriptive statistics, significant difference was found between two measurements (p<0.05). Conclusions: Pre-operative radiological examination can not alone provide reliable results regarding the accurate determination depth of caries lesions. Clinicians should also consider operative diagnostic criteria for appropriate treatment options in deciduous teeth.
The role of gender as a moderator in the relationship between disease perception and coping with stress strategies among psychiatric patients
Authors: Kłak Marta , Ozga Wioletta Karina
Published: August 2020

Introduction: The perception of disease depends on the patient’s beliefs related to the nature of the illness, the previous personal or family experiences and his/her attitude to them. Patients try to understand and cope with health problems. The purpose of the present study was to answer the question which components of the relationship between the strategies for coping with stress and mental disease perception are moderated by gender.

Material and Methods: The study involved 98 patients with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, alcohol related disorders. The research of the variables was carried out using the COPE Inventory and Disease Perception Questionnaire.

Results: It has been noticed that in men, when their perception of the mental disorder as beneficial increases, the religious strategies for coping with stress become more frequent. Furthermore, the opposite sex pattern emerged. In the situation when an individual’s perception of the illness as a threat increased, female patients less frequently employed religious coping and planning. Furthermore, in women, when the perception of the mental disease as a weakness increases, the frequency of using emotional social support and acceptance decreases.

Conclusions: The result indicated that there are opposite patterns of gender specific coping strategy dependent on the mental illness perception.
Legal Implications of the Norms Conflict in the Governance Regulation of the Water Resources
Authors: Budiono Indro , Bakri Moch. , Fadli Moh. , Koeswahyono Imam
Published: August 2020

Arrangements for water resources or irrigation governance designs from the colonial era to the reform order always cause controversies and problems. In physiological issues, there is not known change in the meaning of water as a public good being a private good. Theoretical problems, the basis for the design of the theory of management of chaotic water resources is in line with the existence of Law No. 17 of 2019 concerning water resources. The purpose of this study is to analyze and find the implications of norm conflicts in water resources governance arrangements, both vertically between Law No. 17 of 2019 on Water Resources with Article 33 (2) and (3) with the 1945 NRI Law, and horizontally with RI Law Number 5 of 1960 concerning Basic Regulations on Agrarian Principles. This research uses normative legal research methods with various approaches, including the statute approach, historical approach and conceptual approach. The analytic part of this research is using an investigation strategy. The results showed that the article in Law No. 17 of 2019 proves that the production branches that are important for the State that control the public interest can not be controlled by the State, therefore the article in Law No. 17 Hold 2019 is contrary to Article 33 paragraph (2) and (3) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia cause that water is a State asset and national assets cannot be used so much for the prosperity of the people, therefore article 46 paragraph (1), Article 47, Article 48, Article 49, Article 51, Article 52 Law No.17 of 2019 is contrary to Article 33 paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.
Dirofilaria immitis in Bulgaria: the first genetic baseline data and an overview of the current status
Authors: Panayotova-Pencheva M. , Šnábel V. , Dakova V. , Čabanová V. , Cavallero S. , Trifonova A. , Mirchev R. , Hurníková Z. , Vasilková Z. , Miterpáková M.
Published: August 2020

Dirofilaria immitis, the agent of canine dirofilariosis, is a common parasite of domestic and wild carnivores with zoonotic potential and worldwide distribution, being endemic in many countries. Bulgaria is among European countries recognized as endemic for this heartworm parasite. In the present study, D. immitis adults recovered from pulmonary arteries of domestic dog and golden jackal originating from the Pazardzhik region in southern Bulgaria, and from red fox originating from the Plovdiv region in central-southern Bulgaria, were genetically analyzed in nuclear targets. The first PCR amplification of the internal transcribed region 2 (ITS2) of the ribosomal DNA with previously published D. immitis-specific primers yielded single fragments in size of 302 bp that is characteristic for these heartworms. PCR products of three isolates, resulted from the second amplification of the 5.8S-ITS2 region (235 bp) with pan-filarioid primers, were subjected to direct DNA sequencing. Identical nucleotide composition was detected across the screened target region for these Bulgarian isolates. When the 5.8S-ITS2 sequences were phylogenetically compared to the GenBank-retrieved D. immitis sequences in a worldwide context, the neighbor-joining analysis has shown three discrete clades. The first clade was composed of D. immitis isolates from Europe (including the studied Bulgarian samples), Asia and South America, in the second clade samples from Asia and South America were placed, whereas the third clade was formed by two Brazilian dog isolates originated from the north and southeast part of the country. The purpose of the present study was to verify the taxonomic characterization of D. immitis nematodes from Bulgaria based on morphology and compare their genetic structure with filariae obtained from the different world regions using molecular assays. It also summarizes previous epidemiological and ecological studies on the parasite distribution and prevalences in different hosts and regions undertaken so far in Bulgaria.
The Success and Failures of Sari-Sari Stores: Exploring the Minds of Women Micro-Entrepreneurs
Authors: Gano-An Jonathan C. , Gempes Gloria P.
Published: August 2020

In the past decades, the unprecedented number of women in entrepreneurship has been overwhelmingly increasing. This was fueled by their motivation to earn independently and to uplift their economic condition. This paper magnified the stories of success and failures of women micro entrepreneurs in managing their ‘sari-sari’ stores. Informants of this multiple case study were five women micro-entrepreneurs who had been in business for at least five years. An in-depth interview was done and cross case analysis was employed. Results revealed that new investments, enhanced family income, productivity, and resourcefulness were the stories that they highlighted as success. On the stories of failures, they emphasized that business breakdowns and personal crisis once confronted their operation. They also revealed that failures framed them to be determined, faithful, diligent, and optimistic. Lastly, they shared significant insights that women entrepreneurs must be business oriented, develop people skills, and employ a strong will power. These women entrepreneurs have their own way of defining moments relative to success and failures in micro entrepreneurship. What is worth noting is the fact that the innumerable failures which confronted them shaped the entrepreneurial traits they now possessed and achieved the optimum success in their entrepreneurial journey.
Capital Flows and Bank Risk-Taking Behavior: Evidence From Indonesia
Authors: Rumondor Bayront Yudit , Bary Pakasa
Published: August 2020

This paper investigates the impact of capital flows on bank risk-taking behavior. It undertakes two levels of empirical estimations, namely (i) single-country industry-level; and (ii) multi-country industry-level estimations, covering emerging market economies. The results suggest that capital inflows, in the form of portfolio investment, is significant in raising risk-taking behavior. Large banks are less aggressive in their risk-taking behavior vis-à-vis smaller banks. Such impact of portfolio investment on risk-taking behavior is also shown in the multi-country level estimates.
Financial Vulnerability and Economic Dynamics in Malaysia
Authors: Kuek Tai-Hock , Puah Chin-Hong , Arip M. Affendy
Published: August 2020

This study attempts to develop a financial vulnerability indicator serving as a composite indicator for the state of financial vulnerability. The indicator was constructed from 10 variables of macroeconomic, financial and property market by extracting a common vulnerability component through the dynamic approximate factor model. On the feedback and amplification effects, the outcome revealed that financial vulnerability shock catalysed significant negative effects on economic activity in a high-vulnerability regime, while the impact was negligible in periods of low vulnerability. This study highlighted the usefulness of composite indicators as an early warning mechanism to gauge vulnerabilities in the Malaysian financial system.
Macroprudential Liquidity Stress Test: An Application to Indonesian Banks
Authors: Taruna Aditya Anta , Harun Cicilia Anggadewi , Nattan Raquela Renanda
Published: August 2020

This paper develops a macroprudential liquidity stress test model for Indonesian banks. Our model incorporates two factors driving liquidity runs: (i) idiosyncratic factors; and (ii) macroeconomic factors. We estimate this model using a sample of 113 banks over the period of January 2011 to June 2018, and dynamic panel data estimators. We establish significant transmission channels from macroeconomic and idiosyncratic (bank idiosyncratic risks) factors to liquidity runs. By using the macroeconomic scenario transmission, we find the liquidity stress test to be more consistent with the solvency stress test.
Influence of Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Credit Supply on Dividend Repatriation Policy of U.S. Multinational Corporations
Authors: Tahir Muhammad , Ibrahim Haslindar , Zulkafli Abdul Hadi , Mushtaq Muhammad
Published: August 2020

This study aims to examine the effect of exchange rate fluctuations and credit supply on the dividend repatriation policy of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) around the world. The difference generalised method of moments (GMM) estimator was applied to estimate the dynamic dividend repatriation model. The results suggest that the appreciation of host-country currency against the USD leads to higher dividend repatriation by the foreign subsidiaries of U.S. MNCs. Moreover, results reveal that higher availability of private credit in the host country results in lower dividend repatriation by the U.S. MNCs’ foreign subsidiaries.
Indonesian Household Payment Choice: A Nested Logit Analysis
Authors: Hasniawati Nur Annisa , Lase Eva R. , Hutabarat Akhis R.
Published: August 2020

We examine the preferences of respondents for six types of payment instruments, namely cash, debit and credit cards, card and server-based electronic money, and internet or mobile banking. By applying a nested logit model to 500 household data covering six provincial capitals in Indonesia, we find that the decision to choose payment instruments is made sequentially. Socio-economic characteristics, including education, age, income, and transaction objectives or functionality have a significant effect on the probability of using non-cash electronic payment instruments. We find a substitution pattern between payment instruments, not only between cash and non-cash instruments but also between non-cash instruments. In light of these findings, appropriate payment system policies are in order to hasten the use of non-cash payment.
Accessibility of public services in districts of Warsaw: a comparative study
Authors: Małachowski Aleksander , Dąbski Maciej , Wilk Waldemar
Published: August 2020

The aim of this work is to verify whether accessibility to public services in city districts of Warsaw, corresponds to real-estate prices. We introduce a new index named the “Urban Services Accessibility Index” (USAI) which compares the availability of public services within districts of a city in three dimensions: access to healthcare, access to education, and availability of public transport. We found that the districts of Śródmieście, Ochota and Żoliborz have the highest apartment prices and USAI values. Warsaw exhibits a clear distance-decay pattern in USAI values which correlates well with average apartment prices. This pattern results from poor development of public services in peripheral city districts (e.g. Bemowo, Białołęka, Wilanów) while the central district of Śródmieście stands out as the unquestionable leader in terms of accessibility to the mentioned services. USAI proved itself to be a robust method in the comparative analysis of city districts’ development.
Production of Hydrogen from Coke Oven Gas in JSW Group
Authors: Szeszko Tomasz
Published: August 2020

The publication analyses the possibility of separating hydrogen from coke oven gas for further use in the transport sector in the FCEV segment (fuel cell electric vehicles). The construction of the separation installation using the PSA (pressure swing adsorption) method guaranteeing high purity of hydrogen was assumed, according to the requirements of ISO 14678-2:2012 and SAE J-2719 standards. The PSA technology is widely used in industrial gas separation processes, however, due to the composition of coal gas, which apart from hydrogen and methane consists of impurities in the form of hydrocarbons, sulphur compounds, chlorine, etc., it needs to be adapted to the needs of separation of hydrogen from coke oven gas. The study shows the total possible hydrogen production potential and then, in agreement with the JSW Group’s Coking Plants, limits were set for hydrogen production in PSA technology at Przyjaźń, Jadwiga and Radlin Coking Plants, without the negative impact of the separation installation on technological processes associated with coke oven battery firing, operation of existing power units, gas compression systems and taking into account securing the needs of external customers for coke oven gas. Additionally, in order to determine the Polish market demand for high-purity hydrogen, an analysis was carried out which indicates that in 2030 the share of FCEVs will be 2%, so the demand for hydrogen in this segment would be negligible compared to the supply of hydrogen produced in a large-scale installation. Due to the need to build such a market and adapt the parameters of the installation to the variable parameters of coke oven gas, the pilot scale of the installation and the target location of the installation at the Przyjaźń Coking Plant were indicated as the most optimal.
The Cutting Resistance of Rock Salt in Function of Temperature
Authors: Kotwica Krzysztof , Stopka Grzegorz
Published: August 2020

Currently over then 16 percent of the total worldwide salt production is excavated in underground mines. Salt deposits often lie at great depths up to 1000 m, where the temperature of the surrounding rocks reaches 50°C and even exceeds it. A large part of it is exploited using mechanical methods, mainly with the use of road headers and continuous miners. When excavating salt rock, the cutters of the road header mining head come into contact with the rock. This generate friction and in consequence a rise in temperature. In AGH University of Science and Technology the laboratory tests were carried out to determine the effect of temperature on cutting resistance and selected mechanical properties of rock salt. On the special laboratory test stand the rock salt sample was cutted at three different temperatures - 20, 50 and 80°C. The cuttability index and the side chipping angle were measured for each temperature. Additionally the same tests were performed in the case of salt sample after cooling to room temperature. The selected mechanical parameters of rock salt - compressive, tensile and shear strength were also measured for the same temperature values. The obtained results were compared and described in the paper.
Conical Picks for Undeground Mining
Authors: Bołoz Łukasz
Published: August 2020

Mechanical cutting in underground mining faces increasingly difficult challenges. Deteriorating working conditions result in the development of automation and robotization, and the insufficient durability of cutting tools remains a serious problem. In addition to drilling, the technology of cutting provides a huge market for tools. Currently, mainly conical picks are used in the process of cutting. The cutterheads of shearers are equipped with at least several dozen conical picks, which, due to their workability and abrasiveness, sometimes work for merely a few hours. Hence the interest of users and manufacturers in the development of tools with increased durability. The article briefly presents the applied solutions of conical picks, their construction, dimensions and materials used. Attention was paid to the issues related to the protection applied and its marking. A review and analysis of commonly known construction solutions for picks and holders have also been carried out, and proprietary patent pending solutions for the pick and holder have been presented.
Review of a Modern Technical Solution in Continuous Miner Machine Technology
Authors: Mężyk Arkadiusz , Pawlak Mariusz , Kania Jan , Klein Wojciech
Published: August 2020

In this paper is presented the overview of Continuous Miners available on the market. Numbers describe machines from 1 to 41 and parameters obtained from manufacturers catalogues are presented on diagrams. The statistical analysis of some of parameters are carried out by linear approximation to show factors determining, for example, the total power of installed engines to the power of the cutting head drive, the total power of installed engines to the total mass, cutting height to the cutter diameter and cutting height to the cutting width, etc. Thin layers of coal less than 1.2 m thick and remnants of seams that require work on a system of boards and columns constitute an increasing share of coal deposits. Geometric restrictions, in this case, are closely correlated with the construction form of the machine and they must have high performance with limited geometric dimensions. This type is called “Continuous Miner”, and is closely correlated with those restrictions. The paper reviews the technical solutions used in these machines, which are currently used around the world. Particular attention is paid to the new concept of the cutting drum drive system, in which permanent magnet motors are proposed. Placing them in a cutting drum improves the efficiency of the mining process and the possibility of modular configuration depending on the required working conditions.
Męskość I Ojcostwo A Wyzwania Kultury Współczesnej
Authors: Więcławska Anna
Published: August 2020

Abstrakt

Ojcostwo jest tematem tak ważnym i poważnym, bo faktycznie od ojcostwa, od tego, jakich mamy mężczyzn, mężów i ojców, ogromnie wiele zależy. Jeżeli miejsce, które w wychowaniu dzieci zarezerwowane jest dla ojca pozostaje puste, to powstanie luka, której nie da się odrobić ani zapełnić.

Obecnie brak ojca w rodzinie stał się nie tylko zjawiskiem zauważalnym, ale wręcz powszechnym. Mamy do czynienia z kryzysem męskości. Jest to poważny problemem, który stale przybiera na sile, i który z pewnością w najbliższym czasie nie zniknie.

Zgodnie z coraz powszechniej przyjmowanym nowym paradygmatem męskości, oczekuje się od mężczyzn pełnego zaangażowania w życie rodzinne i równego podziału obowiązków. Krytycznie ocenia się rolę ojca jako nieobecnego w procesie wychowania dzieci. Eksponuje się korzyści płynące z nowych doświadczeń, jakie przynosi angażowanie się mężczyzn w życie rodzinne i opiekę nad dzieckiem.

Trudno jest odpowiedzieć na pytanie „Kim ma być dziś mężczyzna”? Kryzys męskości pociąga za sobą także kryzys ojcostwa. Można powiedzieć, że jego wizerunek stał się kruchy. Często nawet zadajemy sobie pytanie: czy obraz ojca nie rozpadł się definitywnie na kawałki? W dzisiejszych czasach pytania te nie są bynajmniej oczywiste. Warto abyśmy sobie na nie odpowiadali, uświadamiali kryzys współczesnego rodzicielstwa i starali się szukać szans na jego odbudowanie.
The Presentations of Poverty in Global Education
Authors: Aleksiak Dobrawa
Published: August 2020

This article aims at analyzing the presentations of poverty in global education with a focus on Polish publications. The study demonstrates poverty definitions, categorizations and poverty in the global context – measuring methods and the causes and consequences that sustain global poverty cycles. To achieve the purpose of this article I refer to the history of global education and the comparison of two approaches, soft and critical. These elements outline specific ways of understanding poverty in global education discourse. Along with the historical, political and social context, two visions of poverty are clarified: the one focusing on helplessness of the poor and compassion and the one focusing on injustices of global systems and solidarity. The theoretical content is confronted with the analysis of three Polish global education publications for teachers and educators. The outcome of this article is a vision of poverty that seems to be majorly based on the principles of critical global education.
Sharing Stories: Students’ Experiences in Archaeological Education
Authors: Kozicka Magdalena , Wielocha Ewa
Published: August 2020

Society of Archaeology Students (SAS), in Polish: Koło Naukowe Studentów Archeologii (KNSA), is one of the oldest student societies working within the Institute of Archaeology of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In recent years SAS began to work in cooperation with other archaeological, historical and educational organisations, as well as with museums and open-air archaeological reservations. Most of our work is focused around building and maintaining the archaeological consciousness in contemporary society – not only through participating in various mass events but also through preparing workshops for people from local communities, as well as through adding archaeological impressions to various museum events and mass outdoor reenactment festivals. Within the current outlook on archaeological methodology, those actions are linked to so-called public archaeology – the concept that is still somewhat new in many areas of archaeological activities in Poland.

The following article concerns strategies that are present in the SAS’ archaeological popularisation initiatives, as well as our reflections and inquiries on the topic of archaeological education in contemporary reality, with its numerous homogenised, standardised or idealised concepts of the past, often mirrored in many historical festivals’ conventions. Through our observations based upon various experiences, we would like to try to determine how the archaeological education and popularisation could be more widely recognised not only as a valuable but rather as an inseparable part of being an archaeolo-gist – university scholar or a field-working one.
ADHD – Genetic or Cultural Conditions?
Authors: Antoniak Jagoda
Published: August 2020

This article discusses the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Attention Deficit Disorder) with attention deficit disorder. The publication contains an attempt to explain and characterize the hyperkinetic team. The issues in it concern the causes and effects of the occurrence of the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. The methods of functioning of a child with ADHD in the school and family environment are also presented. The author presents suggestions for helping students with ADHD as well as forms of cooperation with their parents. The article indicates positives resulting from the student’s statement of a hyperkinetic group. The author does not focus only on negative features of a given phenomenon, but presents them in a diversified perspective, she tries to see the values reflected in the culture of everyday life.
Tutor and Tutoring in the History of Education (to the Great French Revolution)
Authors: Szuba Ludwik
Published: August 2020

The article aims at presenting the history of tutoring and the role of a tutor in one of the most significant educational concepts in the world starting with the ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China or the countries of Europe-Greece, Rome, England, Ireland, Kingdom of the Franks, the Roman Empire, France, Poland, Italy, ending with the immense social transformations sparked by the French Revolution. Throughout the centuries the role of tutors was of great significance since by staying in homes of their pupils not only did they educate but by the direct relation between a master and an apprentice, based on friendship and mutual trust, which initiated honest discussion, they influenced to a great extent the shaping of their pupils` personalities…
Personalist Concept of Tutoring and Education
Authors: Skotnicki Wojciech Jerzy
Published: August 2020

The purpose of the article is to show the personalistic dimension of education as consciously and intentionally organized social activities, aimed at causing changes in human personality, shaping the right attitudes, beliefs and assimilation recognized by specific social environments – family, school, group – values, norms, behavior patterns and goals life, which is a dynamic and complex process that usually occurs in personal interaction.

In particular, I would like to strongly emphasize the fact that in philosophy, education is included in metaphysical, anthropological, ethical and axiological aspects. The beginnings of philosophical reflection on upbringing date back to the Greek παιδεία – the ideal of formation for mature humanity through harmonious physical, mental and moral development towards good and beauty. In the circle of European culture, this ideal has become synonymous with universal principles of education.

The contemporary multiplicity of the concept of upbringing forces researchers to holistically capture the essence of up-bringing, which can be provided by realistic philosophy and the personalistic concept of man embedded in it. In this perspective, the basics of upbringing and self-education are rooted in the ontical structure of the human being, its potentiality and contingency. For this reason, the European pedagogical tradition is not exhausted either in collectivism or in individualism. The educational tradition of Europe is παιδεία and a stream of philosophical realism complemented by Christian culture. This tradition is guided by the principle of personalism in upbringing, and the truly personalistic upbringing concerns the real man, it is an update of the living abilities inscribed in human nature. This applies by all means to tutoring.
Innovation capability assessment tools in social enterprises
Authors: Argatu Ruxandra
Published: August 2020

Innovation is among the pursuits of any modern organization nowadays, constituting the core of collective progress and of competitive advantage. The global rising tendency in competitiveness urges companies, public institutions and other community actors to adhere to this naturally evolutionary pattern that occurs in any kind of system. To achieve welfare in a context of continuous changes, an organization has to make sure that its processes are perfectly aligned to its mission. Additionally, having a clear picture on its innovation capability, meaning the ability of producing a valuable output by transforming internal collective knowledge, enables it to follow the road to success. In the case of traditional enterprises, which pursue profit accumulation, evaluating the innovation capability is done on the basis of clearly defined instruments, but when referring to social enterprises, a variety of factors come in place and make the evaluation more difficult. The scarce current research done concerning the assessment of innovation capability for social enterprises makes this topic meaningful to be explored, so their societal purpose can be better delivered. Thus, the aim of the paper is to formulate a framework for determining the innovation capability of Romanian social enterprises by building on the good practices reflected by innovation projects in the social field, funded through the Horizon 2020 programme at EU scale. The research methodology resides on two pillars. In the first place, it contains literature review on the concepts of innovation, social innovation, innovation capability and the instruments used to assess it. Secondly, it brings together the exemplary undertakings of multiple social innovation projects delivered through the Horizon 2020 programme and concentrated into online reports, accessible through its website.
Determinants of entrepreneurial intentions: the case of Southern Romania
Authors: Toma Sorin-George , Marinescu Paul , Constantin Ionuț
Published: August 2020

The study of entrepreneurial intentions has become a topic of interest in the last decades. As most of the decisions to launch a new firm are assumed to be planned for some time, it means that they are preceded by an intention to do so. Thus, identifying and analyzing the factors that influence the entrepreneurial intention represents a key issue in the entrepreneurship research. A review of the scientific literature shows that the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions are to be found in both the psychological approach and the behavioral approach. The psychological approach stresses the importance of various factors such as the locus of control, the propensity to take risk, the self-confidence, the need for achievement, or the innovativeness. On its turn, the behavioral approach puts accent on other elements such as the subjective norms or the personal attitude. The purpose of the paper is to identify and analyze the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in the case of the Romanian entrepreneurs located in the Southern part of the country. In this respect, it takes into account several factors such as gender, experience or propensity towards risk. The methodological approach was based on a quantitative research method. The method of data collection was a survey by self-administered questionnaire. The paper illustrates the existence of various correlations between the above factors and the entrepreneurial intentions. It contributes to the enrichment of the scientific literature by emphasizing the role played by some of the main determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in the developing of entrepreneurship in Southern Romania.
Infrastructure free indoor positioning system
Authors: Obretin Alexandru Marius
Published: August 2020

Latest technological advancement uncovered new social and entrepreneurial opportunities in fields like civil engineering and facility management. While most outdoor location challenges have been addressed in the past few years, with declassified military technologies such as Motion Imagery Standards Board and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Digital Motion Imagery Standard being integrated into solutions that enhance real-time emulation of surveillance video streams over digital maps, there is plenty of room for innovation when indoor location is considered. The market associated to indoor positioning is expected to significantly grow in the following decade since people spend more and more time indoors and promising advantages of such technologies have been identified in healthcare, retail, logistics and leisure. Yet, conventional indoor positioning systems mostly rely on costly and difficult to maintain infrastructure. Discordantly, the hereby paper is introducing an infrastructure free indoor positioning web application designed for routing people inside facilities and building evacuation scenarios. The proposed architecture is independent on external hardware or beacons, relying on a generic sensors framework that exposes the underlying capabilities of a mobile phone for data collection and internet connection for assessing current location and providing guidance in respect with an already known topography. Therefore, this design might be easily extended to various facilities, individualizing through no initial costs for sensors deployment and light resource consumption for the user, since data is not processed on a native application. Such flexibility is considered to optimize the navigation inside large public places and reduce the time required to find products, people or shops, offering the users more time for what matters.
Innovation indicators in the context of Romanian SMEs: A research agenda
Authors: Onea Ioana Alexandra
Published: August 2020

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the theoretical connection between key terms such as innovation indicators and entrepreneurship, highlighting the main trends of innovative activities and practices in the context of Romanian small and medium enterprises. Innovation management has gained an increased interest nowadays since it provides tools for creating competitive advantage and economic growth for enterprises. In this sense, at global and European Union level, innovation indicators have been identified in order to measure the efficiency of innovation. In addition, innovation and entrepreneurship have been connected by scholars, since their application provides business opportunities. Starting from the Europe 2020 Strategy that has innovation as a pillar for reaching economic growth, the present study provides a descriptive analysis of the Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2019 report, followed by a comparative analysis of the European Innovation Scoreboard reports published in the last 5 years. The present paper contributes to the existing knowledge regarding the actual application of innovation indicators in Romanian SMEs. The paper provides an answer to the research questions, which focus on depicting what are the exact innovation indicators that characterize the activities of Romanian SME and what are the trends and weaknesses in the actual business environment in terms of innovative endeavors. This paper provides some recommendations in terms of improvement of innovative efforts for the enterprises that operate in the Romanian market.
The most innovative lean practices deployed in transportation and their effects on the financial and operational performance
Authors: Popescu Mihaela Cornelia
Published: August 2020

The new lean paradigm defines the necessary management tools and techniques that create more value for the customers using lean resources. By reducing the non-value activities in one hand, and emphasizing on continuous improvement on the other hand, the lean practices implemented open the path for superior level of financial and operational performance. The purpose of this paper is to highlighting the strong correlation between the combination of the TQM, JIT, TMS, TPM and RFID as the most important lean practices employed by the transportation companies surveyed and its financial and operational performance. The correlation between the lean practices deployed within the transportation companies analyzed and their financial or operational performance has been established due to applying the SPSS quantitative methods, factor analysis and linear regression.
The fintech ecosystem in Romania
Authors: Bălţoi Ion-Costel-Marius
Published: August 2020

Increasing the rate of use of mobile devices and the Internet, as well as the development of new technologies, is rapidly impacting the financial market and electronic payments, in particular. Thus, Romania has become one of the countries in which the users have a lot of variants for managing individual funds, purchasing goods and services through digital channels. Also, we can say that Romania represents at regional level one of the countries with growth potential both due to the size of the market, as well as the innovation potential of entrepreneurs and big companies / financial institutions. The purpose of the present research is to carry out an analysis on electronic payments in Romania, of the way in which fintech applications develop and of the environment in which they operate. To this end, a qualitative research will be carried out by studying the available scientific resources that address the topic of fintech applications, specialized articles that address the topic of electronic payments, as well as the features that fintech applications offer to users. The first part will present an introduction and a statistical analysis of the data regarding fintech applications and market dimensions. Next, the article proposes for research the fintech ecosystem in Romania from the point of view of the Romanian fintech services and a SWOT analysis of the Romanian market will be performed.
The Digital Transformation and Disruption in Business Models of the Banks under the Impact of FinTech and BigTech
Authors: Mărăcine Virginia , Voican Oona , Scarlat Emil
Published: August 2020

The explosive development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data methods in the last 10 years has been felt in the financial-banking field which has subjected to profound changes aimed at determining an unprecedented increase in the efficiency and profitability of the businesses they carry out. The tendencies of applying the concepts coming from AI, together with the continuous increase of the volume, complexity and variety of the data that the banks collect, store and process have acquired the generic names of FinTech, respectively BigTech. Five main areas exist where Fintechs and Bigtechs can provide improvements in business models for the banks: introducing specialized platforms, covering neglected customer segments, improving customer selection, reduction of the operating costs of the banks, and optimization of the business processes of the banks. We will present some of these improvements, and then we will show how the business models of the banks dramatically transform under the influence of these changes.
The impact of fake news on the real estate market
Authors: Onete Cristian Bogdan , Chita Sandra Diana , Vargas Vanesa Madalina
Published: August 2020

We are living in an extremely globalized and digitalized world where social media represent the core of our existence whether for personal or professional reasons. Social media impact on business in general caught the attention of researchers (Grizane & Jurgelane, 2017) during the last years, especially to measure the impact of their use in business growth, increasing sales and/or customer loyalty. There are more and more studies that focus on the harmful effect of fake news on specific markets, news that may appear easily and are difficult to control. Fake news can affect both the customers and/ or the business depending on the context. The purpose of this study is to identify how are the fake news appearing in a world where access to information is so simple and everybody can check the truthfulness of information and what kind of barriers are used to protect the business from being affected and the customers from being misinformed. Data for this paper are gathered using in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs from real estate businesses. The results show that the level of increasing fake news is affecting the trust building process. Recommendations are put forward for organizations to analyze more user behavior and use it for the decision-making process in order to limit the negative effects of fake news. Also, customers need to learn to identify quality brand communication, pay attention to details and be very precautions while taking decisions based on news that may be fake.
Some Flavors of Russian Neocolonialism in Central Asia
Authors: Gherasim Alexandru Ioan
Published: August 2020

The term “neo-colonialism” is attributed to Kwame Nkrumah, who considers it to be the last stage of imperialism and means “the exercise of power but not of responsibility by the powerful exploiters without alternatives for the dominated”. An introspection at the level of the specialized literature allows to find that there are many definitions of this concept, being able to speak even about a series of regional versions of the term (African, Asian or Latin American). Research by many analysts has revealed the deep vulnerabilities of the state of fact that can be categorized as a neo-colonial type. In this paper we start from the hypothesis that the states of Central Asia are in a unique situation because it is not possible to speak of complete independence if most of their resources are still used in the interest and development of those who are in the vicinity of the region or at distances greater than this. Throughout this paper, sustainable arguments are made in support of the idea that some factual states attributable to neocolonialism can be attached to the relations that Russia has today with the former components of the USSR that have declared their autonomy and are developing as independently as possible. The analysis is focused on aspects such as: the great difficulties encountered by the states in this region during the processes of capital accumulation, endowment with modern technologies and the approximation of the most sustainable managerial practices; the almost complete repatriation of the profits obtained by the foreign investors in these regions which are so deprived of important own sources of financing, determining them to remain dependent on the foreign investors and vulnerable to the seismic or asymmetric economic shocks; the special sensitivity of the external debt vector used with great ability by both international financial institutions and the commercial banking system in developed countries to radically influence macroeconomic and sectoral policy decisions; the continued use of these states as a field of confrontation between the great powers.
Math approach of implementing ISO 27001
Authors: Stoica Liviu Adrian , Candoi-Savu Robert Adrian
Published: August 2020

The objective of this paper work is to create a mathematical approach that can quantify the need of implementing the ISO 27001 in a company and the actual benefits of doing so. The scope is to identify the factors that determine vulnerabilities, what damages are caused by these factors, the risk and impact level of the factors. The approach is from the point of view of costs caused by implementing the standard compared with costs of potential damage by not implementing.
Incorporating artificial intelligence in knowledge creation processes in organizations
Authors: Neştian Andrei Ștefan , Tiţă SilviuMihail , Guţă Alexandra Luciana
Published: August 2020

In organizations, the knowledge creation remained an exclusive attribute of humans until the emergence of artificial intelligence. The role of information systems in organizations expanded continuously, including recording, organizing, processing, storage, dissemination and making available the information, until the revolutionary emergence of artificial intelligence. The role of knowledge creation is no longer exclusive to humans. Artificial intelligence becomes a partner entity of employees in knowledge creation processes in organizations. This article investigates how artificial intelligence can be incorporated in knowledge creation processes. Starting from the study of scientific literature, this article presents concepts and taxonomies associated with the use of artificial intelligence in the processes of knowledge creation in organizations. The study is a first step in a larger research, which aims to identify the main consequences, on employees and organizations, of the incorporation of artificial intelligence in the processes of knowledge creation.
Knowledge risk management in aviation
Authors: Gheorghioiu Nicolae
Published: August 2020

Aviation is one of the most important domains nowadays from the perspective of the economy and security of a nation. When we talk about aviation, we can say that it is divided into two categories, civil aviation and military aviation. Though they share the same base characteristics, an aircraft departing from an airport and safely landing on another airport, they are parted by a lot of aspects. One of the common things that they share is the risk involved every time an aircraft is prepared for departing and the actual flight, until the safe landing at the designated airport. The two involve different risks that I will approach during the current article. When we narrow the discussion to risk, we can tell for sure that the risk involved in the Romanian Air Force is higher due to the specifics of the mission. The importance of knowledge in aviation is an aspect that involves all of our attention because we have to take into consideration both tacit and explicit knowledge. Knowledge risk management represents a gap in the aviation domain. Except for the explicit knowledge that is necessary to be assimilated in order to be able to play a part in aviation, tacit knowledge is an important part of this activity domain.
Methods and Devices to Improve the Complex Human Being Functioning
Authors: Mândrea Lucian T. , Curta Ioan I. , Velcea Marian N. , Chirilă Aurel I. , Deaconu Dragoș D.
Published: August 2020

The research presents in the first part of the article an original experiment recorded with a Thermo-Vision camera. It reveals the possibility of the human being to direct energy inside the own body but also to the exterior, to heal other persons. The subject, the first author of this article, sent continuously energy to his palms about five minutes. During this time the temperature of his hands grew with more than two degrees Celsius. The subject did not move at all. The energy can be thus directed then further to other persons in need, to help them recover their health. The second part of the article reveals how our inventions rewarded with a lot of gold medals and not only, the Bio-Chips Doctor Tech, can be used to improve the human general state. A very significant experiment is presented, where with the help of these devices the first author of the paper reached for example a general balance of 99.98%. The third set of measurements presented in the article was made by means of three original types of Keshe devices. The first author of the article changed the energy at the level of the own third eye by means of the devices and could significantly improve his own state. These results are also presented in the last part of this article. For the second and the third sets of measurements, the general state of the person was evaluated by means of a Bio Well device. All the three previous types of the measurements are very original and suggestive for how we can help the others. The general purpose of the article is to show that we can do more in different ways for the others, about their health, their level of energy and their level of performance.