bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
PLATFORM FOR INFORMAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL NETWORKING TO INCREASE AWARENESS REGARDING NUCLEAR VULNERABILITIES
Authors: Olteanu Adriana , Lacatusu Marian , Ionita Anca daniela , Lacatusu Florin
Published: February 2023

For the last ten years, social networking sites have experienced an extraordinary adoption rate, becoming for many people a way to spend their free time. This trend grew out of their desire to be informed and connected to each other, and it developed into the use of social media for transmitting news and for communicating in case of critical events. This background leads to the idea that social networking may be exploited with respect to various vulnerabilities that currently preoccupy people around the globe. The platform presented in this paper concerns the nuclear vulnerabilities, which are of increasing interest due to our geolocation and to the international context. As it is a proof of concept, the implementation does not use consecrated socializing social network services, but it leans on an open source engine that is integrated in a multiple-node architecture. Consequently, when information reaches a node, it is subsequently sent to the entire network. The domain specific content was created based on documentation elaborated by specialists in nuclear physics and engineering, within a national research project for monitoring vulnerabilities induced in environment, infrastructure, and population, by nuclear facilities. Thus, authenticated users can gain knowledge and discuss on this topic of great importance. Beyond simple posts and comments, the platform also has the role to provide informal education and awareness regarding new and historical events, as well as recommended procedures for prevention and emergency response. So far, the work focused on the technical aspects, and the functionality is accessible through a web portal and an Android application. Future work will investigate the potential impact of the educational and collaborative components to various audiences.
REENGINEERING LEARNING SCENARIOS WITH TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
Authors: Pietraru Radu nicolae , Nicolae Maximilian , Anghel Magdalena
Published: February 2023

The ubiquitous computing is meant to integrate electronic computing systems into everyday life. This increases the level of comfort of life but also increases the efficiency of using the environmental resources. One of the most important features of these systems is intuitive use. Simple integration into various processes is also an advantage. Reengineering learning scenarios using ubiquitous computing make only to accelerate the learning process and to ease the connections between the learning domains. Common development platforms such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi can be excellent tools for applying ubiquitous computing principles to the learning process at all levels: from primary school to higher education. This paper presents two real case studies on the use of ubiquitous computing in higher education through which the learning process has been enriched both as a didactic technique and as an attractiveness for students. The use of cheap platforms that students can experience both within the university and at home is a way to allow them to continue their studies outside of the mandatory laboratory hours and even encourage them to attend additional study hours. Experimenting and creating an environment where creativity plays an important role is an attractiveness factor without which modern education cannot be conceived. The ability to integrate individual tasks with existing content networks such as Youtube or Moodle is an additional argument in the reengineering of learning scenarios. The use of Internet community specialists as a complement to the classical learning process is the last ingredient proposed in the presented scenario.
A PROPOSED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR ESP CLASSES FOR ACCELERATED ELEARNING
Authors: Bocianu Irina ioana
Published: February 2023

The highly technologized present society allows students to easily access information and develop skills much easier than in the traditional education system. Besides using technology for teaching and evaluating purposes, it can also be converted in a means of self-assessment to evaluate students' personal progress. Thus, knowledge terminology appropriation can also be technology mediated with the purpose to review the already studied terminology in view of the final examination facilitated by accelerated learning strategies consisting of condensed exercises designed to review specific terminology in the fields of humanities and sciences. For the beginning, the software would be available for the students from the University of Bucharest whose study is oriented towards specialised English terminology. With this purpose in mind, the present paper proposes a system architecture designed with a simple interface to facilitate students' access to information. The platform interface should be simple and easy to use. Also, a mobile version would be desirable to design so that it become accessible from any device. The exercises proposed follow each unit studied during the semester with a strong focus on terminology and vary in range and form, all in reference to the unit studied at the seminar. When applying these learning strategies, the challenges are represented by the limited period of time necessary to complete each task - the newness of the platform is that the exercises are timed so that they simulate real-life exam situations, thus making the eLearning process more effective and efficient. The software will also indicate a progress bar and the mistaken answers will come with explanations. An important aspect worth mentioning is the fact that these exercises do not focus on building competition among students, therefore no forum or chat rooms will be designed. As a result, students develop learning skills, become more confident in their language appropriation and acquisition due to the real-life simulations and practice IT skills. The limited period of time for answers stimulates students to appropriate learning strategies by accelerating the process.
THE INTERNET - FRIEND OR FOE OF ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM
Authors: David Irina , Grosuradulescu Luciamihaela
Published: February 2023

Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP) is a complex field, in which students are encouraged not only to develop their proficiency skills in the four main areas of language development – i.e. reading, listening, writing and speaking – but also to acquire and develop a series of competences that would enhance their creativity, flexibility, information processing and problem-solving ability. This multifold approach could justify why one of the major issues in teaching ESP is represented by efforts to eliminate plagiarism from the students’ written work. As the Internet has become more and more part of students’ research and of their academic, as well as personal life, plagiarism has increased significantly. Although researchers are still debating whether the Internet is one of the causes of the expansion of plagiarism in the academic world or it is simply a tool that makes plagiarism easier to track than in the past, one cannot fail to observe that there is a strong connection between technological advancement and wide-spread access to the Internet and plagiarism. This article aims to provide a twofold analysis of this connection. On the one hand, it will present ways in which the Internet can actually contribute to students’ tendency to plagiarise. On the other, it will show how it can help ESP teachers identify cases of plagiarism, as well as provide support to both students interested in improving their work and avoiding plagiarism and to teachers through anti-plagiarism software. Among other examples of software aimed to track plagiarism, references will be made to the anti-plagiarism programme used at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies to check bachelor’s graduation papers and master’s dissertations before they are accepted and proposed for the defence exam.
NEW CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ESP - THE CASE OF ENGLISH FOR SCIENCES
Authors: Dimitriu Anda , Mihaes Lorena clara
Published: February 2023

As the second part of a larger study, this article will mirror our first enterprise in aim, structure and methodology and, as such, it will constitute the natural continuation to our research dedicated to students enrolled in Business programmes. Therefore, starting from the premise that students with different majors and academic backgrounds offer an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) instructor distinct challenges and specific opportunities, the present work will, on the one hand, focus on the profile of students who have chosen Biology or Geology as their primary specialisation, and, on the other hand, it will provide concrete examples of how their various language skills can be improved by the introduction of technology in the English class curriculum. What is more, with the profile and needs of students who strive to perfect their Business English well established in the first part of the study, the present article will also engage in a comparison between the two types of students, emphasizing the role technology can fulfill in one case, but not the other. In this sense, unlike learners of Business English, students who specialize in hard sciences most commonly prove themselves to be proficient in reading and above average at academic writing tasks, yet they tend to be quite reluctant speakers. Consequently, students enrolled in Biology or Geology programmes need the support of additional teaching methods and assignments which, through their use of technology, will engage and encourage these timid learners to express their personal and professional opinions in an English-speaking context.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING - FUTURE TRENDS IN TEACHING ESL AND ESP
Authors: Istrate Ana mihaela
Published: February 2023

Starting from a presentation of the new trends and differences between artificial intelligence, machine learning and artificial neural networks, the present paper focuses mainly on the way in which e-Learning will be shaped in the future decades by the advances made in artificial intelligence, in the particular case of English as a Second Language and English for Specific Purposes. A future trend in ESP refers to the adaptability of e-Learning programs to the students' level of knowledge. If universities will be able to develop artificially intelligent e-Learning platforms, adapted to the level of knowledge of the enrolled students, through the incorporated e-Learning chat bots, then a new trend and useful tool for teaching ESP and ESL will be developed, focusing on the individual's accomplishments, offering more opportunities for success, in the acquisition of the new language. The new trends in artificial intelligence, mainly the incorporation of chat bot technology in the particular case of English for Specific Purposes or English as a Second Language, at academic level, would be the next step towards a virtual assistant to replace the human academia, obviously until a certain level. Although controversial, this very innovative solution would be able to bridge the gap between technology and education. The implication of chat bots would create an interactive learning experience for the student, similar to the one-to-one with the teacher. The advantage, especially in teaching ESP/ESL, is a simplification on the routine tasks, giving professors an opportunity for more involvement in the one-to-one interaction, particularly in the case of large groups of students. With an appropriate choice of teaching material and technology, chat bots could serve as platforms for the most appropriate guidance for students of totally different level of knowledge.
HOW TO KEEP FEEDBACK EFFECTIVE: IMMEDIATE ONLINE RESPONSE
Authors: Nistor Cristina mihaela , Comanetchi Doina
Published: February 2023

Feedback is essential to any kind of learning, but its instrumental role in facilitating progress seems to be even more important in the language class. Teachers provide feedback with the purpose of helping the students either to improve specific points (pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, writing, etc.) or to plan their own learning. The teachers’ ability to offer effective feedback goes hand in hand with the encouragement of autonomous learning and the individualization of the teaching/learning process. Feedback is seen as a powerful teaching tool, but what really matters from the students’ perspective is that it should become an equally powerful learning tool. For this to happen, feedback needs to be accepted and acted upon. Whether the feedback recipients will feel motivated to improve or discouraged and disengaged from the learning process will depend not only on what feedback is given but on how it is delivered as well. This paper presents the findings of a questionnaire administered to two categories of students, Romanian students learning English and foreign students learning Romanian. The design of the questionnaire has taken into account the well-known fact that using the internet and mobile devices has become a second nature with the young generations. Consequently, the respondents have been asked to express their opinions and preferences regarding online feedback versus the traditional face-to-face one, which they receive on their performance in activities developing oral communication skills. The most challenging aspect of the research has been offering students a viable online alternative for immediate feedback, which is considered by the two teachers who have carried out the survey more effective than delayed feedback where oral activities are concerned.
USING THE INTERNET FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Pricope Mihaela
Published: February 2023

Teachers are a professional category who needs constant and continuous learning and development in order to adapt to the new generations’ learning needs and styles. Teachers’ knowledge, skills and attitude are very important for the education process. Even if they are no longer the perceived authorities but their role has changed into a facilitator and guide, the teacher remains a mentor in learners’ lives as long as he/she is concerned with continuous professional and personal development. The difference between training and development is that the latter offers the possibility of choosing one’s path to develop the needed knowledge, skills and attitudes according to one’s own personal choice and interests. If training is provided for teachers according to a certain curriculum which doesn’t necessarily fit their interests the teacher trainers may encounter reluctance and even resistance to their courses. On the other hand, professional development is seen as a personal choice to fill the gaps in one’s professional development which leads to the creation of a development plan. The present article asks the question of how important the internet tools and resources are in order to meet teachers’ needs for professional development and what tools and resources are used by the language teachers in a Romanian technical university to enhance their specialized knowledge, to develop their teaching skills and to exchange information with their learning communities. Our expectations are that the language teachers are open to learning with technology and that the internet deserves to be explored from the professional development point of view. It is an available resource for everyone and can offer tools for reflection, peer enquiry and collaboration. We have to be aware, though, that not all the internet resources are valid and have to be trusted. The teachers show prudence at using internet resources as a means of professional development. Face to face interaction in workshops, conferences and round tables are still important for the academic community, which gives teachers opportunities of interaction and exchange of professional ideas which can help their members reflect on their own experiences and develop personally, but a viable alternative which offers anyone thinking time over a specific issue and provides opportunities of learning are the Web tools such as social networks, blogs, webinars and all virtual learning platforms.
UNIVERSITY CURRICULA, ELEARNING AND LANGUAGE LEARNING PLATFORMS. AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO LEARN LANGUAGES WITH AND WITHOUT A TEXTBOOK
Authors: Soare Ioanlaurian , Munteanubanateanu Mariacristina
Published: February 2023

Student Andrei M. is studying at the University Politechnica, Bucharest/Romania. He is in the second term. He started learning German from scratch as a Foreign Language within the Language Curriculum Portfolio the Politechnica is offering. He is studying 2 hours a week. For about 2 months he is attending by his own language courses on a computer-assisted language learning platform. After two months on this platform his level in German has increased considerably. Studying a foreign language at the university has been a motivational starting point for Andrei, so that he further chose a second source for learning the language. The present article aims to analyze language (e)Learning issues on a university level in English, French, German and Spanish language Teaching Programs. Computers have been, for some time now, an integral part of our modern life. Needless to say that computer-programs can help us learn. The niche market of language learners is growing, they are a segment of people that need more than a textbook and a teacher in order to acquire a language. This paper explores the benefits of eLearning programs, more specific, CALL courses on internet platforms. The study comprises two related areas: a presentation of language learning platforms as a theoretical basis and a case study. What is the impact of CALL services on the students in Politechnica? Should the efficiency in language learning by means of CALL programs rely on their ability of assisting learners with interactive teaching instructions? In what way motivation plays a role in language eLearning? Not in the least: how innovative a CALL program can be? The article tries to answer the questions and highlight the main issues in this domain.
ADAPTING YOUR TEACHING TO ACCOMMODATE THE NET GENERATION/Y-GENERATION OF LEARNERS
Authors: Chicioreanu Teodora daniela , Amza Catalin gheorghe
Published: February 2023

The higher education is undergoing a continuous change due to both the students, and the newly developed technologies. The evolution of technology is undergoing a constant make-over and it affects the teaching - learning strategies all over the world. The integration of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), MR (mixed or merged reality), TBL (team-based learning) in the teaching activity gives new opportunities to teachers and students alike to teach/learn new information in various contexts, different from the traditional ones. Concurrently, the teachers/trainers are now faced with the challenge of adapting their teaching styles in order to foster a new generation of students/trainees. The iGen / Generation Z, now entering university, as well as the current Generation Net / Generation Y / Millennials, have new learning expectations, styles and needs, different from the students in the past. In the theoretical part, this paper offers some examples of how the teaching strategies can be shaped in order to best adapt to the new generations and to the new technologies given the preferences of the former (experiential learning and interactivity). In the second part, the paper offers only some of the results obtained during a research (given the limited space) coming to confirm these theoretical aspects, a research which was performed within the GEX project - Optimizarea performantelor academice prin utilizarea mLearning-ului (Optimisation of academic performances by using mLearning), a research funded by the POLITEHNICA University in Bucharest. The target group consisted of 94 students/respondents studying in 8 faculties (the Automatics and Computer Faculty , the Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management Faculty, the Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty, the Technological System Engineering and Management Faculty, the Biotechnical System Engineering Faculty, the Electrical Engineering Faculty, the Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages, and the Applied Science Faculty).
IMPLEMENTATION OF E-LEARNING CONCEPT FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM. A CASE STUDY
Authors: Calofir Vasile , Fagarasan Ioana , Iliescu Sergiu stelian , Calofir Emil , Stamatescu Iulia , Arghira Nicoleta , Stamatescu Grigore
Published: February 2023

The University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest enlarges the range of teaching methodologies by introducing e-learning and teaching using Web technologies. The engineering studies are the most costly direction of education system. The quality of engineering studies is strongly related to used equipments and professional training. To build new laboratories or replicate ones for teaching and learning of each discipline in engineering sciences is not reliable. The development of hardware and software techniques helps us to create virtual version of real equipments and to efficient share of existing resources for teaching. This paper presents the design and implementation of a web application for process simulation with micro-service system architecture. The implemented solution is using an embedded PC with Modbus communication for data acquisition. A RESTful Web Service (API) with Spring Boot framework is used for designing the micro service and additional technologies as Java, Mysql/mongodb, AngularJS, HTML5, JQuery, etc., are used for its implementation. Seeing its nature, a platform for eLearning, will not scale well in a monolithic architecture, that why we look for alternatives such as micro-service architecture, which its strong points: scalability and flexibility. The nature of this platform is presented to be a cluster of different applications that will coexist and interact on environments that suits the course installations and already present infrastructure (hardware and software). The presented case studies of e-learning laboratories for control engineering sciences are from the power system field. The implemented system allows simulating the industrial process and design or testing the implementation of different control scheme in simulation or using industrial automation components as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) or embedded computers.
IS Q FOR DQ? APPLYING Q-METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCHING DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE
Authors: Manasia Loredana , Negreanu Mirela cristina , Macovei Melania
Published: February 2023

Most approaches to investigating research topics in the field of education and educational psychology are based on objectivity criteria. In some cases, subjective perceptions are considered to be biased and unreliable. The present paper draws upon a growing interest in emphasizing the use of Q-methodology in the field of education research. The article suggests that Q-methodology could be appealing for the research of digital intelligence as well as for other topics related to the area of education research. This positional paper aims to expand knowledge about the use of subjective methodologies and to set theoretical and methodological grounds to apply this specific methodology in the process of data collection and analysis. Therefore, the article depicts a corpus of scholar opinions to analyzing the concept of digital intelligence. Given that the concept of digital intelligence has a strong self-explanatory note, most of the authors preferred omnibus definitions for its enlightenment. The authors assert the need to formulate a definition of the construct rather than focusing on its dimensions. Thus, they use the Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory (CHC model) of intelligence to create the definition of digital intelligence. Based on this theoretical ground, methodological considerations and case studies are discussed in relation to applying Q-methodology to researching subjective views of students. The Q-methodology is described as an approach to providing a systematic study of the human subjectivity. Drawing on a study on digital intelligence, the utility of the method is illustrated. To expand the use of the Q-methodology, relevant examples of studies conducted by other authors are discussed.
ADDRESSING ETHICAL VALUES IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE. AN ESSAY
Authors: Tebeanu Ana voichita , Macarie George florian
Published: February 2023

Teaching ethical aspects in the social sciences has always been a challenge, both for the professors and students involved. Ethical values and dilemmas can be presented through educational movies, examples from clinical, organizational or pedagogical practice, or even through personal disclosures offered with 'pros' and 'cons' arguments. In the past few years we took over this challenge, when conducting classes and seminaries at the disciplines "Educational Psychology" and "Foundations of Pedagogy" with first and second year students enrolled in the Teachers' Training Module, at the University "POLITEHNICA" of Bucharest. Several themes for applications (e.g., designing and conducting a social experiment; naive subjects; cooperation and empathy; obedience and authority; manipulation of external variables in a social context, e.g. a laboratory or a classroom) tackled the concept of how the moral values develop from childhood and adolescence through adulthood. For their exemplification we chose from time to time to present the series of experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram. In this classical, yet impossible to repeat nowadays experiment, he concluded that people- from various walks of life- obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative, even when acting against their own better judgment, moral values and desires. Discussing with the students about the results of this experiment left us, almost every time, with a controversial state- students divided themselves into 'those who obey' vs. 'rebels', with some of them situating in between ("obeyed but blames themselves') (exactly as the participants in the original experiments!) In the long run, due to this extraordinary reaction we had from our students, these applications used for educational purpose became more complex. Thus, we translated a topic for an essay used by us in a Master of Bioethics program in the USA (2014-2015) and we reframed it for educational purpose. The topic refers to "Death and dying" and presents 6 types of killing which are legally sanctioned in the United States, including, for example, killing in self-defence or the capital punishment. The initial task we had in the Master program was, leaving legality aside and focusing only on morality, to rank each six of the categories in order--most immoral (#1) to least immoral (#6) according to our personal values. In doing so, we were also asked to provide a moral argument to justifying our ranking. Also, we were told that for the purposes of this essay, religious or legal arguments are not acceptable. This essay presents in extenso a personal exemplification of a possible ranking of these categories, the results of the exercise performed with the students, and proposes furthermore an educational framework- ready to be used by them. Thus, we hope to offer a relevant and actual application for teaching ethical issues in an university setting, which goes beyond a mere description of theoretical concepts and provides ethical tools for understanding the social life.
A COMPARATIVE E-DEMONSTRATION OF USING ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR DEVELOPING PATTERNS OF FLEXIBLE GARMENTS FOR WOMEN
Authors: Avadanei Manuela , Loghin Emil constantin , Ionescu Irina , Ursache Mariana , Ionesi Savin dorin , Dulgheriu Ionut
Published: February 2023

Fashion trends vary year by year and from a season to another. These trends are expressed by different combinations of materials, colours, lines, styles, and finally, all of these lead to new models of garments. Designers must understand and transpose all this information into useful, unique and desirable models of clothes for all consumers. They must also have a good intuition and perception of the lines and shadows (2D/3D geometry for fashion), as well as skills and competencies in patterning and knowledge in technology. By understanding and processing all the data, the designers have to elaborate the proper solution for sizing and shaping the new patterns, by taking into consideration the shape of the human body and the properties of the materials from the structure of the garment. Nowadays, they often have to use advanced construction techniques in developing ready-to-wear products by using tools and functions from two CAD systems. The virtual environments allow the user to define a garment surface in relation with the 3D body model and to verify the dimensional correspondence and balance of the product on the human body. The designer also checks if the virtual prototype looks the same as its picture representation and if there is something to be changed. This paper presents comparative e- demonstrations of how to select and use functions and tools from two CAD systems in order to design a specific model of a garment, in a proper and logical sequence of steps, with a good quality level from the designing stage.
SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR THE SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF SENSORIAL COMFORT OF FABRICS FOR WOMEN'S NIGHTCLOTHES
Authors: Budeanu Ramona
Published: February 2023

The research in the field of comfort is extremely important worldwide. Not only for the researchers in universities, but also for the industry itself, for fashion designers, even for consumers. The comfort of a clothing product is directly influenced by the characteristics of the used textile materials, such as finesse, hygroscopicity, elasticity, hydrophilicity etc. Consumer preferences for clothing products are determined by comfort, especially by sensory characteristics. Therefore, the production of high quality clothing products, which offer high comfort according to the consumers requirements, is one of the current concerns of the research and the industry. The sensory comfort is a universal and fundamental requirement for consumers. The defining and assessment of comfort is approached in two ways, namely objective and subjective. Likewise, the sensory comfort is a relation influenced by the subjective sensations, the same ones perceived by direct contact of the human skin with the surface of the fabric. In the framework of this study of the analysis of sensory comfort from a subjective point of view was applied the tactile assessment, which consists of passing a gentle touch of the fingertips over the surface of the fabrics placed on a flat surface. The use of an unbalanced comparative assessment scales was also used, which includes the descriptors relating to the tested samples. The purpose is the subjective assessment of sensory comfort studied on a series of different fabric samples, designed for women's nightclothes. The study presents the results obtained from the questionnaire as a research tool in terms of testing the analysis and subjective assessment of sensory comfort on the samples tested. The questionnaire was used for a case study on the sensorial comfort analysis from a subjective point of view of a group of 50 female subjects aged 20 to 30.To reduce the volume of work and to be more efficient, the paper presents and offers a software solution in the form of an application that can be used as an e-learning tool.
A PROPOSAL FOR A MIXED ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS ON FACILITIES OFFERED BY GOOGLE AND MOODLE
Authors: Buhu Adrian , Buhu Liliana
Published: February 2023

Evaluating how the training is done online is essential because, in this way, we can measure the effectiveness of teaching methods chosen. At the same time is a great way to determine if the skills and abilities acquired by students in the course are aligned with the objectives and requirements of the course. When learning online first took off nearly two decades ago, one of the big attractions was paperless grading: students could send work to LMS and the teacher could provide feedback without exhausting their supply of pens or straining their back carrying weighty papers. Nowadays, even the smallest LMS includes assessment features, but Moodle still leads the way in both the wide-ranging options available and the sound educational basis behind them (Group assessment, Peer, and self-assessment, Automatic assessment, Anonymous assessment, like Quizzes, Workshops, Seminars, etc.). Since 1997 when the domain Google.com was first registered, it has become an omnipresent source of information. Google also provides a growing list of instruments that can make teachers and students’ day easier and more interesting. Google offers a wealth of tools that can bring information, collaboration and increased efficiency in the classroom. The most popular tools are: Google translate, Google images, Gmail, Google drive, Google maps, etc. Google Apps for Education is a core suite of productivity applications that Google offers to schools and educational institutions for free. These apps, that include Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sites, are available when the teacher creates a Google account. The account unlocks access to dozens of other collaborative tools supported by Google. All of these applications exist completely online (or in the cloud), meaning that all creations can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection. In this paper is presented another approach to student’s evaluation, is a mixed evaluation based on online tools and combined with evaluation based on a quiz sustained in the exam period. After students complete all work that requires physical presence, evaluation is done online. For this purpose, they enroll on a Moodle cloud platform where you have to solve two types of tests. A laboratory test work, conducted using Google Forms, which based on add-ons allow quick scoring by the teacher. Another type of test is created based on the Moodle facilities, with which, starting from a certain date, they can assess students preparing for the exam. The final step of evaluation is made with a quiz, where students must be in person.
TEACHING TEXTILE TECHNOLOGIES FOR NON-TEXTILE ENGINEERS
Authors: Ehrmann Andrea
Published: February 2023

In the Faculty of Engineering and Mathematics of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, a new module "Textile Technologies" was started two years ago. Offered for all study directions in the faculty as well as for the students from the Faculty of Design, the module has to be based on blended learning due to the impossibility to find a time in which all interested students could join a lecture or a seminar. Lectures are thus presented in the usual form for those who have time to listen; the other students find the learning material in their Ilias group in the intranet. Instead of meeting at strictly defined times for seminars or practical courses, the students form groups during the first two weeks of the semester and find a research topic of their interest on which they work regularly during the semester, mostly in the lab, but also partly at home. The exam is correspondingly conducted in the form of "project work", opposite to written or oral examination. Although most of the students never hear the lectures "live", the projects are usually successful, with several of them resulting in reviewed papers or posters presented during conferences. Especially the broad range of interdisciplinary skills and topics leads to completely new ideas and solutions for diverse problems. Working together with designers, biotechnologists, mechanical engineers, industrial engineers, students of regenerative energies, mechatronics, and other study directions enables covering a wide area of textile-related subjects. In this way, the students not only learn a lot about textile technologies, but also get an insight into scientific methods.
E-LEARNING STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK ON ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES
Authors: Herghiligiu Ionut viorel , Pislaru Marius , Vilcu Adrian
Published: February 2023

Organizations orientation and commitment in environmental issues have become a real variable in all the scenarios of the present competitive context (Gonzalez-Benito and Gonzalez-Benito, 2005). Thus, the organizational implementation of an Environmental management system represents an important “strategic move” which can bring many benefits and could become that “advantage lever” in front of competitors. Therefore the Environmental management system (EMS) implementation and its real integration at the organizational general management level bring along the “routinization” (application in day-to-day organizational activities) of certain environmental practices, which will be the main topic of this work. Having in view the idea mentioned above, the literature presents the fact that organisations mainly adopt two types of attitudes towards the environmental issues (“marginal attitudes types”), as follows: (a) a reactive attitude towards the environment as an effect of the necessity to comply with it, and (b) a proactive attitude towards the environment that can be characterised as a volunteer action of the organisations that wish to reduce the negative impact upon the environmental factors. Consequently scholars approach the organisations orientation dynamics between these two marginal attitudes types towards the environmental protection issues; they presents the diversity of environmental practices implemented having in view the environmental strategies elaborated and integrated at the organisations’ level. Concluding, this paper develops an e-learning training program framework associated to the current organizational environmental practices ([1] environmental planning and organisation, [2] environmental operational practices, [3] communicational practices specific to environmental management) because e-Learning is the most efficient and effective method to institutionalize/ integrate inside organizations different training programs.
BENCHMARKING EVALUATION OF INNOVATION IN TEXTILE ENTERPRISES
Authors: Radulescu Ionrazvan , Ghituleasa Carmen , Visileanu Emilia , Surdu Lilioara , Almeida Luis , Vannucci Roberto , Stjepanovic Zoran , Blaga Mirela
Published: February 2023

The competitiveness of the textile industry is given by the ability of the enterprises to implement innovation. The improvement of the innovation capacity in textile enterprises is supported by the Knowledge matrix for innovation (KMI), an economic instrument meant for the quantification of the intangible assets. The intangible assets of a company, such as training methodology, IP rights, client / suppliers portfolio etc, are going to be better structured by using the KMI. The Erasmus Plus strategic partnership project “Knowledge matrix for innovation and competitiveness in textile enterprises” has as main aim the implementation of the KMI. The project’s partners have defined in the first year the structure of the KMI, with Elements, Criteria and Factors. Based on this structure, an online questionnaire was configured on the Moodle e-learning instrument in all of the partners languages, meant for completion by textile enterprises. 64 enterprises on consortium level answered the questionnaire. The related Benchmarking Report was performed at European, national and enterprise level. The results present relevant data for the enterprises, in order to improve the knowledge inventory, eliminate redundant assets, improve exploitation of non-productive assets and bridge knowledge gaps. The benchmarking reports include the relative position of the textile enterprises with regard to the national average, the European average and the average built by the enterprises of the same size. These Open Educational Resources are going to be presented in e-learning format to the target group of young professionals and decision-making factors in textile enterprises and are available on the e-learning instrument at the URL addresses www.texmatrix.eu and www.advan2tex.eu/portal .
APPLICATION OF TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING THE ELEMENTS IN WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
Authors: Potop Vladimir , Grigore Vasilica , Boloban Victor
Published: February 2023

This study aims at showing the application of transfer technology based on computerized video analysis in the improvement of learning the elements in women’s artistic gymnastics. This scientific approach led to an experimental study organized during the period 2012 – 2014 with 14 female athletes of 12 to 15 years old, members of junior national team of Romania. Methods of research: computerized video analysis, using the specialized programs -”Kinovea” and ”Physics ToolKit”; method of movement postural orientation for the analysis of sports technique key elements; statistical method (KyPlot) and the method of results graphical representation. During the study there were analyzed, in terms of biomechanics, a number of 125 technical elements executed in three national competitions, namely: 36 Yurchenko-type handspring vaults; 32 dismounts off uneven bars by double back salto; 22 dismounts off balance beam by layout salto with 360°-1080° turn and double back salto and 35 acrobatic elements on the floor with double back salto. The computerized video analysis, made according to the specific character of each apparatus, highlighted the key elements of sports technique regarding the preparatory phase – the launching posture, the basic phase – multiplication of body posture / position (tucked, pike or layout) and the final phase – concluding posture – landing. The study results point out the efficient application of transfer technology (vertical, horizontal and mixed one) and its influence on the improvement of learning the elements on each apparatus of women’s artistic gymnastics. The development of long-term programs by means of didactical technologies within the macro-methods for elements learning contributed to the improvement and increase of difficulty and also to the possibility to use them on other apparatus of women’s artistic gymnastic in order to achieve better performances in competitions.
TEACHING SPORTS PEDAGOGY THROUGH FACEBOOK: A CASE STUDY
Authors: Isidori Emanuele , Sandor Iosif , Salvador garcia Celina , Fazio Alessandra
Published: February 2023

Sports pedagogy is a subject matter, which is taught in all sports sciences courses in all Italian Universities, which offer programs of this kind. Being this discipline entirely new in Italy, the impact of its teaching on students has been scarcely studied and explored by scholars. Also, the subject has never been innovated by adopting new teaching and learning models. Starting from this genesis, our study aims to reflect on the possibility of innovating the teaching of sports pedagogy through the technologies offered by Web. 2.0. In our research, we show that this innovative way of teaching sports pedagogy in the University can be found in social networks and Facebook when it is conceived of and used as an online learning environment capable of integrating all media and e-tools provided by Web 2.0. As evidence of this, in the second part of our paper, we will present a case study conducted in Italy at the University of Rome Foro Italico in which Facebook has been utilized as an online learning environment for teaching sports pedagogy in a blended modality and tutoring the students who couldn't attend the classes. After describing the scenario of the case study, we will show the results of a questionnaire administered to a group of sports sciences bachelor’s degree students involved in the case study. In conclusion, we will analyze and interpret the data from the questionnaire and answer the question whether Facebook as an integrated online learning environment and model can be, as it is, an innovative and useful tool to teach sports pedagogy or it needs a revision or adjustment to a better implementation.
DEVICE FOR ASSISTANCE OF PATIENTS PRESENTING ORTHOSTATIC CONDITIONS
Authors: Fuior Robert , Gheorghita Andrei , Ionite Catalin
Published: February 2023

Incorrect posture is a problem that becomes increasingly wide-spread in today’s world. It can lead to short and long term pain in the back and neck areas, and has further been linked to depression. Modern lifestyle facilitates poor posture, especially because of the increasing amount of time people spend sitting. Even individuals that are considered physically active often still spend a considerable amount of time in sedentary behaviors. The spine presents itself with 3 physiological curves in the sagittal plane: concave cervically, convex thoracically, concave in the lumbar region. With the increase of curvature degrees in kyphosis come along the following risks: vertebral fractures, intervertebral discs degeneration, loss of bone density, and increase in mortality, reduction of physical activity, altered respiratory function, and implicitly, loss of quality of life. This project outlines an educational concept, which meets the need for the development of a postural educational system, based on sound signaling, meant to enforce an anatomically correct posture. It is based on the idea that every human has a ‘flex point’, a point where the body bends when one slouches. In other words: it is impossible to have a poor posture and keep the front of the body straight. The system consists of two main hardware parts: the controller and the bending sensor. According to specifications, the physician will define the anatomically correct position for the patient. After posture memorization, the device will send a sound signal for any deviation greater than 10% off the posture the doctor established.
A GUI FOR COMPUTING ANEURYSM GEOMETRY, A POSSIBLE TOOL TO PREDICT THE RISK OF RUPTURE OF BLOOD VESSELS
Authors: Ilea Mihai , Rotariu Mariana , Gheorghita Andrei
Published: February 2023

The aneurysm geometry is an important factor in analyze and predict the risk of rupture but also in selection of patients suitable for surgical intervention, e.g. endovascular Guglielmi detachable coiling. The most used actually technique for evaluation the risk for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture is the maximum diameter (Dmax) of the aorta, but also other dimensions are used for assessment of risk for cerebral aneurysm. In most of the cases, the aneurysm geometry is measured manually using computed tomography (CT) or three-dimensional (3D) angiography. By this method, the accuracy and reproducibility can vary substantially from user to user and even in the case of the same user, during the repeatedly measurements. We propose software based on GUI for automatic and semi-automatic usage for processing of 2D images, containing aneurysm, useful in virtual education or e-learning process. The image is first segmented, and the user can select points to perform automatically extract of geometrical parameters using algorithms from computational geometry. The various parameters that describe the shape of reproducibility are statistically analyzed if the user selects this option. The software for intracranial aneurysm geometry quantification has a separate module used for prediction the risk of rupture. A specialized module is used for work with original image; the operations in this case are based on interactive selections made by user: points and polygons with option to extract different shape descriptor for feature selection. The prediction in this stage can be manually selected from two options related to a set of data: a liner one and a nonlinear one based of simple regressive nonlinear model. The results are very encouraging and the future developments are taken into account.