Expert System for Quality Assessment in "Tibiscus" University

The periodical evaluation of the teaching staff in "Tibiscus" University is based on the specification of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS), namely "The quality of teaching and researching staff: The universities must dispose of teaching staff which, as number and functional base must be correctly allocated to the total number of students, depending on the study domain and regarding the qualifications it must depend on the specific of the study program and the proposed quality objectives." This paper presents the implementation of an expert system, offering to the students the possibility to perform the evaluation in a modern way and to the evaluation committee a quick access to all necessary data.Comment: 10 pages, exposed on 2nd "European Conference on Computer Science & Applications" - XA2008, Timisoara, Romani

Computer Based Interpretation of the Students' Evaluation of the Teaching Staff

The goal of this paper is to offer a full support for universities and quality assessment committees in retrieving the feedback from their students regarding to their teaching staff. The computer based application presented before ([Cri07]) collects data from the students. Another part of the application, presented in this paper, processes this data and presents the statistical results concerning each teacher.Comment: 8 pages, exposed on 5th International Conference "Actualities and Perspectives on Hardware and Software" - APHS2009, Timisoara, Romani

Why in-House Live Client Clinics Won\u27t Work in Romania: Confessions of a Clinician Educator

Romanians eat our Big Macs, wolf down pizza slices at Pizza Hut, and guzzle Coca-Cola. They wear baseball caps, Nike clothing, and tennis shoes. They listen to American rap and pop music, see American movies with Romanian subtitles, and watch all of our old television shows. Romanians of all ages, but especially the young, hunger and thirst for all things Western, particularly from the United States. Doesn\u27t it follow, then, that Romanian law schools ought to have - and, indeed, Romanian law professors would want - that symbol of an innovative, modern American law school curriculum: a live client clinical program? The answer is a resounding no. Most Romanian educators are not familiar with clinical legal education and are too busy to be seriously interested in any curricular reform. Those professors who are knowledgeable about clinical education generally believe that in-house live client clinics are completely unworkable in the Romanian context. From my perspective, these Romanians are absolutely correct. Given the existing structure of Romanian education, the nature of the Romanian system, and the limited resources available to Romanian law schools, pedagogically sound in-house live client clinics are not feasible. Nevertheless, Romanian legal educators - and those of other countries of the region - are being pressured and cajoled by some American consultants and outside funding entities to add in-house live client clinics to their curriculum. Based upon my experiences as a CEELI1 Legal Specialist in Romania, I believe the Romanians should resist the pressure to add live client clinical programs and instead focus on developing other badly needed courses that will provide their students the skills and values they need to be good lawyers. The development of such courses will not, however, be easy.This essay begins by examining why in-house live client clinic programs are, indeed, not viable in Romania or in most of the other economically struggling countries of the region. The essay next highlights some of the serious hurdles facing a country such as Romania seeking to achieve meaningful legal education reform. Finally, it concludes by reminding American educators promoting American-style clinical legal education in other countries of the limits of their role and by urging potential donors to provide funding that promotes, rather than frustrates, meaningful curricular reform

Application of Particle Swarm Optimization to Formative E-Assessment in Project Management

The current paper describes the application of Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm to the formative e-assessment problem in project management. The proposed approach resolves the issue of personalization, by taking into account, when selecting the item tests in an e-assessment, the following elements: the ability level of the user, the targeted difficulty of the test and the learning objectives, represented by project management concepts which have to be checked. The e-assessment tool in which the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm is integrated is also presented. Experimental results and comparison with other algorithms used in item tests selection prove the suitability of the proposed approach to the formative e-assessment domain. The study is presented in the framework of other evolutionary and genetic algorithms applied in e-education.Particle Swarm Optimization, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Algorithms, Formative E-assessment, E-education

Gesture Control of a Mobile Robot using Kinect Sensor

This paper describes a methodology for gesture control of a custom developed mobile robot, using body gestures and Microsoft Kinect sensor. The Microsoft Kinect sensor’s ability is to track joint positions has been used in order to develop software application gestures recognition and their mapping into control commands. The proposed methodology has been experimentally evaluated. The results of the experimental evaluation, presented in the paper, showed that the proposed methodology is accurate and reliable and it could be used for mobile robot control in practical applications

Performance Management at National Savings Bank

This research identify those methods are used to measure performances in public sector organization in Pakistan. The results and consequences of the method and recommendations to improve the procedures. This research covers all those areas that why public sector organizations still using old methods and what are the results and how such methods can be improved. Moreover it also discuss those hurdles that organization facing to make changes and reforms in new systems. There is qualitative methodology adopted for data collection. Interviews were conducted by the employees of public sector organization for developing case study in order to identify measurement practices in organization and various issues arising. Results shows that organization is still facing old methods and techniques for measuring performances. There is a need to redirect concerned persons for implementing advanced methods for better results and ensure accuracy. The research may also provide guidance for future studies. It explains the real business scenario for public sector organizations in developing countries like Pakistan. This study may also helpful to reduce gap between strategies and the results of performance evaluation methods. Keywords: National savings bank, Public sector bank, Old methods, Pakistan, Performance appraisa

Topographical Analyses of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Very High-Resolution Digital Surface Models for Archaeological Sites

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide very useful image data sets for exploring structures at archaeological sites. The digital surface model (DSM) is a type of data set that can be derived from UAV images by using photogrammetric materials and methods. The aim of this research is firstly to obtain a very high-resolution DSM and secondly, to perform geographic information system (GIS)-based topographical analyses of the archaeological site at Sebastopolis. The ancient city of Sebastopolis is in the Sulusaray district of the Tokat province in Turkey\u27s Black Sea region; the site belongs to the Hellenistic/Roman period. This study shows that the multirotor type of UAV is particularly useful for applications that require flying at very low altitude above archaeological sites and that DSMs that can be derived in this way are very effective for analysing the topographical structure of archaeological sites in detail

Speculation and Justification in Policy-Making on Neuroenhancement

Los descubrimientos de las neurociencias permiten intervenir en el cerebro humano para mejorar su estado o sus capacidades sin indicación médica. Este fenómeno es conocido como “Neuroenhancement” y está sujeto a un amplio debate ético. Como “Neuroenhancement” es un fenómeno evolutivo, el debate de aspectos éticos está necesariamente orientado al futuro y depende de la información sobre el posible desarrollo de la tecnología y sus consecuencias para la sociedad. Sin embargo, hay que establecer límites para la formulación de previsiones especulativas en argumentos éticos y justificaciones políticas. Propongo distinguir argumentos con tres propósitos distintos: la formación de intuiciones éticas, el reflejo sobre el futuro de la sociedad y justificación de normativas y políticas. Para cada uno de ellos necesitamos estándares adecuados. Es tarea de la filosofía política desarrollar un estándar para los argumentos justificadores.Neuroscientific findings allow interventions in the human brain to improve its function or modify mental states even without medical indication. This procedure, termed as neuroenhancement, is subject to a broad ethical debate. As neuroenhancement is an evolving phenomenon, the debate is necessarily future-oriented and highly dependent on information about future developments. It remains an open question to what degree uncertain forecasting or even speculation should be considered in the ethical debate and policy-making. I propose to distinguish between arguments with three different purposes: intuition-forming, self-reflecting and justifying arguments. Adequate standards are required for all kinds of future-oriented arguments. The development of these standards for justifying arguments is a task for political philosophy

The War in Ukraine: News Consumption Pattern of Serbian Citizens

News about the war in Ukraine is still present on the daily agenda in Serbia and the world, more than a year after the Russian invasion commenced. In times of crisis, such as this, citizens increasingly rely on the media for truthful and relevant information. However, the media have experienced a decline in trust in the last decade, and the circulation of disinformation and fake news has become part of everyday life. This is particularly the case in Serbia, where the political polarization has spread to editorial policies, media reporting and the selection of the news. This paper focuses on citizens’ media habits and perceptions of journalistic reporting regarding the war in Ukraine. It is a part of a broader research, which aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of citizens' relationship with news, especially in the digital environment. It was modeled according to the questionnaire for Digital News Report developed by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The basic questionnaire for 2022 was utilized, along with some questions from the previous years and a supplementary questionnaire on the conflict in Ukraine. A quota sample was used, consisting of a total of 2,027 adult citizens of Serbia. The results show that people in Serbia rate the media's work much worse than citizens of other countries when it comes to the war in Ukraine. However, respondents who are closer to the Russian side in the conflict evaluate media reporting more positively. Unlike other countries, where people turn to television as the main news source, the results indicate a significant use of apps and websites of mainstream media in Serbia in this regard. The importance of this research is that it provides insight into how citizens assess reporting on the war, a perspective often missing when discussing the media and conflict

Sport Ethics. The challenges of 21st century sport

DIRECTORES Ramón A. Feenstra Universitat Jaume I (España) Elsa González Esteban Universitat Jaume I (España) SECRETARÍA TÉCNICA Martha M. Rodríguez Coronel Universitat Jaume I (España) Maria Medina-Vicent Universitat Jaume I (España) CONSEJO DE REDACCIÓN Victoria Camps Cervera Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (España) Adela Cortina Orts Universitat de València (España) John Keane The University of Sydney (Australia) Txetxu Ausin Díez Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España) Emilio Martínez Navarro Universidad de Murcia (España) José María García Gómez-Heras Universidad de Salamanca (España) Antonio Ariño Villaroya Universitat de València (España) José Félix Lozano Aguilar Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (España) Mercedes Alcañiz Moscardó Universitat Jaume I (España) Domingo García-Marzá Universitat Jaume I (España) Alfredo Alfageme Chao Universitat Jaume I (España) Salvador Cabedo Manuel Universitat Jaume I (España) Daniel Vicente Pallarés Domínguez Universitat Jaume I (España) CONSEJO ASESOR Sonia Alonso Social Science Research Center Berlin -WZB- (Alemania) Fermín Bouza Álvarez Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España) Mauricio Correa Casanova Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) Paul Dekker Universiteit van Tilburg (Paises Bajos) María Das Dores Guerreiro Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL (Portugal) Félix Duque Pajuelo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España) Joám Evans Pim Center for Global Nonkilling (United States) Jerry Hoeg The Pennsylvania State University (United States) Alain Montaclair IUFM Besançon, Université de France (Francia) Eulalia Pérez Sedeño Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas -CSIC- (España) Juana Sánchez Gey Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (España) Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte Universitat de València (España) José María Tortosa Blasco Universitat d´Alacant (España) Ciprian Valcan Tibiscus University Timişoara (Rumanía) Sonia Reverter Bañón Universitat Jaume I (España) Delamar José Volpato Dutra Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina -UFSC- (Brasil) USUARIO/A Nombre de usuario/a Contraseña No cerrar sesión Iniciar sesión AVISOS Logotipo de Atom Logotipo de RSS2 Logotipo de RSS1 IDIOMA Seleccionar idiomaEntregar CONTENIDO DE LA REVISTA Buscar Ámbito de la búsqueda Buscar Examinar Por número Por autor/a Por título Otras revistas INFORMACIÓN Para lectores/as Para autores/as TAMAÑO DE FUENTE Make font size smallerMake font size defaultMake font size larger Servicio de ayuda de la revista SPORT ETHICS. THE CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY SPORT. RESUMEN La filosofía del deporte, al igual que la pedagogía, la historia y otros estudios humanísticos alrededor del fenómeno deportivo, ha permanecido tradicionalmente en un segundo plano en facultades e instituciones educativas, incluso en aquellas cuyo fin es, precisamente, comprender adecuadamente cómo y por qué jugamos del modo que lo hacemos y con qué finalidades (Kretchmar, 2005). En una reciente editorial de la revista Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Michael McNamee (2015) hace un repaso de la actualidad, exponiendo cómo a pesar de que la disciplina no para de crecer y ganar protagonismo, sobre todo en el ámbito editorial, no acaba de hacerse el hueco pertinente en la academia