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The need for internships and school practices as a method of bridging the gap between education and industry in Romania
Authors: Miricescu Dan , Tăbuşcă Diana 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This paper presents the current situation of school practice and internships as ways of reducing the gap between the labor market and education. In the first part, there is highlighted the current situation of Romania comparing with other European countries when it comes about graduates finding a job in their field of studies. Among the biggest issues encountered by a young graduate we see that "Lack of experience” play a big role in not finding a proper job in our country after graduation. So the need to reduce this problem is vital in order to ease finding a job in the studies areas for graduates. A list of advantages is presented to encourage internships/school practice among the students. Observing the upsides aspects of having such an experience, a research was done among 13 companies in Sibiu to see if indeed they taking into consideration candidates for a serious job, having done an internship/school practice. The results of this survey are presented below, seeing if indeed for a Romanian student is valuable to have an experience like that.
Knowledge transfer in the field of Supply Chain Management
Authors: Dumitrașcu Manuel , Kifor Claudiu Vasile 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the actual state of research in the field of supply chain management and to identify eventual gaps of knowledge and potential research directions in the field concerned. The research has been accomplished using various bibliographical sources, books, scientific reports, internal reports and information material. This paper analyses different national and international studies in the field of supply chain management, converge to identify eventual differences concerning authors’ opinion, problems and research gaps. It has been found that the specialty literature analyses in general subjects such as supply chain management, supplier performance, suppliers’ selection and evaluation, suppliers’ development, performance management and do not take into consideration also the supply chain management performance, so that various gaps concerning the specialty literature in the field of supply chain management performance evaluation have been identified. It is thus proposed that these research results are disseminated with the aid of a knowledge transfer eLearning platform within the “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu. This platform allows university personnel and its students gain access to specific academic findings.
Cost effective teaching and research tools for automotive dynamics
Authors: Bățăuș Marius , Stoica Ionuț , Oprean Mircea 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The paper examines the problem of developing cost effective teaching and research tools for automotive dynamics. Different available solutions are presented and the need of human feedback is emphasized. Based on the demands from industry and academia (benchmarking, virtual prototyping, comparative testing of alternative technologies, development and tuning of the automotive control etc.) a solution is proposed. At the core of the proposed tool is a H2iL (humanand- hardware-in-the-loop) simulator based on an electric vehicle. An architecture is elaborated for the simulator and the proof of concept is done in three steps.
An Extension of the VSM Documents Representation using Word Embedding
Authors: Morariu Daniel , Vințan Lucian , Crețulescu Radu 
Published: January 2018

AbstractIn this paper, we will present experiments that try to integrate the power of Word Embedding representation in real problems for documents classification. Word Embedding is a new tendency used in the natural language processing domain that tries to represent each word from the document in a vector format. This representation embeds the semantically context in that the word occurs more frequently. We include this new representation in a classical VSM document representation and evaluate it using a learning algorithm based on the Support Vector Machine. This new added information makes the classification to be more difficult because it increases the learning time and the memory needed. The obtained results are slightly weaker comparatively with the classical VSM document representation. By adding the WE representation to the classical VSM representation we want to improve the current educational paradigm for the computer science students which is generally limited to the VSM representation.
Dropout of first year undergraduate students: A case study of engineering students
Authors: Bungău Constantin , Pop Adrian Petru , Borza Adriana 
Published: January 2018

AbstractThe phenomenon of drop out studies appears in the current Romanian context as an acute problem of the national education system. In the present research we will try to identify how factors such as the average obtained in the baccalaureate exam, the place of provenance and the number of credits obtained at the end of the first year of study influence the abandonment. Using a bivariate analysis method, we followed the correlation between the variables "number of students expelled after the first year of study" in the case of students enrolled in the first year of study and having obtained a "grade less than or equal to 7 in the baccalaureate exam" and, respectively the correlation between the variable "number of students expelled after the first year of study" and the origin from urban or rural areas. As can be seen from the data collected, an obvious need to investigate the expectation of students at high risk of drop out - as regards the teacher-student relationship - can be presumed: what are the most effective ways of transmitting knowledge and what communication is acceptable by college students.
ECTS in Romania – a regulated counterexample
Authors: Isoc Dorin 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Building a grading system compatible of a uniform but performing university structure of the European Community was a good time subject of analysis, competition and criticism. Far for being abandoned, the idea must recur by means of individual initiatives but also by systematic applications. The present work resumes the principles of ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) grading in the conditions when these became in Romania the subject of a law. Further the principles are analyzed, also as the practical experiments and the baleful consequences of an obtuse and profound limitative law which restricts the progress and the university initiative. The analysis manner is a comparative one, emphasizing the close but also the lasting time consequences.
Sense pedagogy through humanities recovered into real sciences
Authors: Balanescu Dan , Fetecau Catalin 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
There is a fracture at the level of teaching - between the content of the courses and the meaning that the individual person extrapolates at personal level, and it is from this level of the individual sense that the intrinsic motivations which lead people to fulfillment start. The sense distance is noted in the field of all areas when teaching focuses on information transfer within the respective subject matters, so that the bases of the theories taught are considered nonnegotiable. In this context, the individual cannot be aligned and is basically bound to become a professional and social machine. The solution proposed is to design a motivational seminar to synchronize students with the significant values and histories of each subject matter.
Raising Bursary Value and Student Efforts to Increase Grades – Preliminary Finding
Authors: Rusu Bogdan 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
This exploratory paper aims to identify and explain student’s opinions on such significant increase of bursary value, their track record of receiving bursary, the efforts they made to increase grades and explore four key factors that form student’s background characteristics: their relations with family, colleagues, friends/ acquaintances, and partner/ spouse. Data collection based on interviews with 33 Engineering students in two phases: individual and group-based written format and included both bursary and non-bursary students. Group-based interviews were designed and performed based on preliminary data analysis and enabled a better understanding of the interactions regarding bursary increase among the same group of students. Data analysis revealed complex interactions among factors that determine increased effort for learning influenced by amount of effort and family’s financial support, pride of accomplishment and being part of the best students as well as personal ambition and competitiveness. The relations with family and financial support provided (or lack of it) have in most cases a critical impact upon Engineering student’s efforts on learning and getting the grant. Entourage, cohort colleagues and close friends also influence student behavior through imitation and by selfarranging students into categories: with bursary (excellent or just good grades), no bursary (grades close or away from bursary trash hold) with dynamic positioning depending on context.
Study on Social Responsibility Learning Needs to Capacitate the Responsible Education in Business Engineering
Authors: Fleacă Elena 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The advent of digital era and the growing competition require higher education providers to equip graduates with the right mix of skills needed for competing in a technology rich environment, delivering value-added to the market and to the economy at large. The responsible education has a pivotal role in addressing current business issues related to professional business conduct, citizenship and equity values, social and civic skills, and sustainable development concerns. The paper aims to investigate the implications of social responsibility concept in the education area and to examine the learning needs of business engineering students with respect to business, environment, and social concerns deeply embedded in the social responsibility framework. The results enable ranking the attitudes and perceptions, knowledge and skills of business engineering students and bring to light their straightforward expectations with respect to better promoting social responsibility strategies and practices, and the need to bring the world of work with toughest social and innovation issues in the world of education. Considering the research findings, the author paid attention to the responsibility of education to fulfill its role in society by adjusting the business engineering education towards sustainable development and by augmenting education through social responsibility teaching and learning components into the improved curriculum.
Circular economy - foundament of challenges for business environment
Authors: Dobrotă Gabriela , Dobrotă Dan , Petrescu Valentin 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Circular economy is one of the fundamental pillars of sustainable development. The limited character of resources, the demographic explosion, the urban agglomerations and the high volume of waste have become extremely sensitive issues in the current period. As a result, the implementation of policies based on fundamental objectives such as material recycling, energy consumption from renewable sources and the design of products that meet the recycling and re-use requirements must be a priority for the worldwide. The paper aims to highlight the principles underpinning the circular economy and to identify the challenges faced by important areas in terms of the capacity to ensure their respecting, so as to achieve a real process of sustainable development Also, a descriptive analysis of the situation of the circular economy indicators for the period 2000 - 2015, at the level of the EU28 and of some member countries is carried out. The findings from the study demonstrate the need for a complex waste management process and the implementation of clear action lines to change the current economy model, based on consumption and elimination, with another, based on rational consumption and re-use, amid on improvements of the technologies of the industrial field and in the implementation of business stimulus strategies. As a result, it is necessary to change the mentality of the business environment in order to ensure a healthy socio-economic development, even if the short-term profits are lower.
How Bell Canada Capitalises on the Millennial: Affective Labour, Intersectional Identity, and Mental Health
Authors: Peters Meg 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
Since 2010, the large telecommunications company, Bell Canada, has invited Canadians to “break the stigma” around mental illness through a campaign called #BellLetsTalk. The campaign claims to donate millions to mental health initiatives, aiming to also “start a conversation” about mental health online. In large part, the Bell Let’s Talk campaign depends on the position of the millennial as a social media user with a real stake in conversations revolving around mental health. I highlight how the term “mental health” is often correlated to normative affect and behaviour, pointing to the importance of an intersectional understanding of mental health. Colonialism is also at play here, as the Bell campaign donates to Indigenous communities, but fails to address how psychiatric intervention is often a colonial process in itself. Through a feminist and critical disability studies lens, I critique Bell for its seemingly apolitical ad campaign, arguing that it bolsters normative narratives around psychological distress and its place in neoliberal corporations and colonial Canada.
This Pussy Grabs back: Humour, Digital Affects and Women’s Protest
Authors: Bore Inger-Lise Kalviknes , Graefer Anne , Kilby Allaina 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The “affective” turn has enabled many scholars to theorise media representations not only as texts that can be distantly decoded but also as a matter of emotional attachments, intensities of feelings, synesthetic sensations, and embodied experiences. Yet, what has been less often theorized is how this affective meaningmaking is (re)shaped by the dynamic and interactive nature of social networking systems such as Facebook or Twitter. How do images and the affective qualities that “stick” to them, travel and transform through user engagement where “users grab images and technologies by which they are grabbed in return” (Paasonen, Carnal Resonance 178; Senft 2008). We aim to explore this question further through examples of humorous images from the January 2017 Women’s March, considered within the digital contexts of Facebook and Twitter. Social movement scholars argue that emotional engagement can be a powerful and positive motivating factor in getting people involved in political life, and we here suggest that these humorous images can move the reader in new critical directions, encouraging them to challenge systems of inequality and oppression in contemporary society.
Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection: Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage”
Authors: Šavelková Lívia 
Published: January 2018

AbstractIn Said´s notion of “Orientalism” as a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East, the Czech Republic (or former Czechoslovakia) in particular, and so called Eastern Europe in general, has been viewed by “the West” as a space inhabited by “exotic other”. The former socialist countries (and the so called post-socialist countries) have been constructing their own “Orients” and “exotic others” as well including Noble Savage stereotype of Native Americans. This paper focuses on a visual (re)presentation of a meeting between people who might have mutually constructed each other as the “exotic other”. Based on filming of a visit of a Native American sport team competing in the Czech Republic, the paper would like to discuss who are the “exotic ones” and for whom and the methodological issues related to the creation of the cross-cultural ethnographic films.
Study on Electrical conductivity and Activation Energy of doped Ceria nanostructures
Authors: Priya N. S. Chitra , Sandhya K. , Rajendran Deepthi N. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract Ce0.8Gd0.2O2−δ (GDC) and Ce0.8Sm0.2O2−δ (SDC) nanocrystalline materials are prepared by a solid state reaction method. The synthesized nano crystalline solid solutions have cubic fluorite structure as evident from XRD patterns. The materials are qualitatively analyzed by FTIR. The morphology, size and shape of grains etc. are identified from the SEM images. The grain size of GDC is smaller than that of SDC. The better morphology is obtained for GDC. Hence, this is electrically characterized. The activation energy is calculated from the slope of Arrhenius plot (showing variation of conductivity with temperature).
Cauda Equina Syndrome Due to Lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Literature
Authors: Kapetanakis Stylianos , Chaniotakis Constantinos , Kazakos Constantinos , Papathanasiou Jannis V. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractCauda equina syndrome (CES) is a rare neurologic condition that is caused by compression of the cauda equina. Cauda equina consists of spinal nerves L2-L5, S1-S5 and the coccygeal nerve. The compression of these nerve roots can be caused mainly by lumbar disc herniation (45% of all causes). The diagnosis consists of two critical points: a) detailed history and physical examination and b) MRI or CT. The gold standard of the treatment of this syndrome is the surgical approach in combination with the timing of onset of symptoms. The surgery as an emergency situation is recommended in the fi rst 48 hours of onset of symptoms. Any delay in diagnosis and treatment leads to a poor prognosis of CES.
Enteritis-associated Acute Febrile Neutrophilic Dermatosis with Acute Monoarthritis
Authors: Papadatos Stamatis S. , Zissis Christos , Deligiannis Georgios , Mylonas Stefanos 
Published: January 2018

AbstractFebrile neutrofilic dermatosis is an uncommon entity with complex pathophysiology, usually secondary to an infection, a malignancy or an autoimmune disease. Extracutaneous manifestations of the disease are very rare as well. We report a patient with histologically confirmed acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis caused by viral enteritis that was presented with painful rash along with acute monoarthritis and treated with oral corticosteroids.
Carbapenemase Production of Clinical Isolates Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa from a Bulgarian University Hospital
Authors: Petrova Atanaska P. , Stanimirova Irina D. , Ivanov Ivan N. , Petrov Michael M. , Miteva-Katrandzhieva Tsonka M. , Grivnev Vasil I. , Kardjeva Velichka S. , Kantardzhiev Todor V. , Murdjeva Mariana A. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractBackground: Production of Bla OXA-23, OXA-24, OXA-58 and hyperexpression of OXA-51 due to ISAba1 insertion sequence are the leading causes of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. The loss of OprD transmembrane protein and the overexpression of some effl ux pumps are considered to be the main factors for carbapenem resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa whereas metallo-enzymes’ production has a secondary role. Aim: Тo examine the carbapenem resistance due to carbapenemase production among clinically signifi cant Gram-negative non-fermenters from St George University hospital, Plovdiv: A. baumannii and P. aeruginosa. Materials and methods: Forty three A. baumannii and 43 P. aeruginosa isolates, resistant or with intermediate resistance to imipenem and/or meropenem were included in the study. They were collected from patients admitted in 14 various hospital wards between 2010 and 2014. Both phenotypic and genetic methods were used for identifi cation and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Results: All A. baumannii demonstrated carbapenemase production determined by a modifi ed Hodge test whereas P. aeruginosa isolates did not show this phenomenon. OXA-23 genes were determined in 97.7% (42 out of 43) of A. baumannii isolates indistinguishable from the sequence of the classical ARI-1 gene. OXA-24, OXA-58 and overexpression of OXA-51 were not registered in any of the isolates. All P. aeruginosa were negative for blaVIM and blaIMP genes. Conclusion: The leading cause of carbapenem resistance in A. baumannii isolates from our hospital is the carbapenemase production due to the expression of OXA- 23 gene, whereas in P. aeruginosa - the loss of transmembrane OprD protein and the effl ux pumps’ hyperexpression are suspected to be the main mechanisms.
Theory and Practice in Nature Conservation – Where to Seek Sustainability?
Authors: Mirek Zbigniew , Witkowski Zbigniew 
Published: January 2018

AbstractContemporary nature conservation is the subject of serious disputes, with biocentrists emphasising the superiority of the good of nature, while anthropocentrists believe that conservation space should also take account of the good of humankind. The dispute concerns two very important values perceived differently, and not resolvable within any scientifi c framework. The authors postulate a return to the Christian roots of our civilisation. It was God who gave human beings the goods He had created, expecting them to be used in line with His plan. The man who lost God’s plan, destroys the life of nature as well as his own. The postulated solution is the proper shaping of conscience, to condition biodiversity conservation in line with the idea of sustainable development.
Is Intra-Industry Trade Specialization a Precondition to Business Cycle Synchronization When Joining the Euro Area? The Case of Poland
Authors: Kawecka-Wyrzykowska Elżbieta 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
The first objective of this paper is to present theoretical approaches to the impact of trade growth (induced by monetary integration) on business cycle synchronization which is an important factor of a country’s readiness for a currency union accession. The main conclusion from the first part of the analysis is that business cycle convergence and the cost of the lack of an autonomous monetary policy depend on intra-industry trade (IIT) intensity rather than on general trade growth. The second objective is to assess - using the IIT index as a measure of business cycle synchronization (and of susceptibility to asymmetric shocks transmitted mostly through trade channels) - preparedness of the Polish economy to the euro adoption. Calculations reveal that the IIT intensity in Poland is already relatively high (in particular in relations with the euro area members) and continues to rise. This confirms the increasing complementarity of Poland’s economy with the economic structures of the euro area partners which reduces the probability of asymmetric shocks.