MODERN APPROACHES IN THE MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

The study analyses the determining role that the knowledge-based management has in the modern society. In this context, an analysis is conducted with regard to the decisive role of knowledge in the foundation of the new management system. Finally, assessments are made with regard to the conception and practice of the knowledge-based management in the organizational environment.knowledge society; knowledge-based organization; knowledge management; intellectual capital

Modern approaches in the management and knowledge society

The study analyses the determining role that the knowledge-based management has in the modern society. In this context, an analysis is conducted with regard to the decisive role of knowledge in the foundation of the new management system. Finally, assessments are made with regard to the conception and practice of the knowledge-based management in the organizational environment. 

Human Factor’s Involvement in the Consumer Protection Management

The study emphasizes the results of the excellence research dedicated to theoretical and practical basics for the human factor involvement in the consumer protection management between 2008 – 2009 at the level of National Authority for Consumer Protection, the Region Committee for Consumer Protection Sibiu, and the Brasov County Committee for Consumer Protection. The article presents several elements regarding consumer protection management and the manager’s profession in the consumer protection field. In order to reflect the human factor’s degree of involvement in the consumer protection management we carried out a survey at the level of National Authority for Consumer Protection (NACP). The findings of our study imply that consumer protection and its management represent a new step of human civilization, a better quality life style, implying the intensive use of information from various fields, involving the human factor not only as a producer, but also as a consumer, with a great economic and social impact. Under these circumstances, consumer protection management at the level of NACP and its local institutions is an important source of information and decision; this is not only as a way of data processing. Moreover, in order to be socially efficient visible it is necessary to imply operational and top management in fields of planning-decision, organization-coordination, training-leading and controlling-monitoring, all of them being in a special position of priority. All these allowed us to present some solutions for improving the activity of NACP, from the point of view of the human factor’s involvement in this institution’s management.consumer protection, human factor, consumer protection management, manager in the field of consumer protection, NACP

Accuracy Assessment of Very High-Resolution Multispectral Images Derived Data for River Flow Modelling

AbstractThe increased frequency of disaster events and the need for a rapid response for the prevention and remediation of flood disasters require realization of flood risk maps with very good precision based on high performance hydrodynamic river models using advanced hydroinformatics tools. Modelling performance, topographical data quality and quantity, hydrological and hydro meteorological surveys as well have very important for correct understanding and interpretation of all hydraulic aspects for minor and major riverbed. These are key factors in the need for new sources of data for hydrological modelling and flood risks management process. In this regard the actually development of satellite sensors, data, availability, Geographic Information System (GIS), and on the Hydroinformatics based river flow modelling techniques gives new opportunities in the analysis of the floods phenomenon. Use of the Very High Resolution remote sensing raster images to derive data useful for hydrological modelling is inviting and the answer to the question of accuracy of the data derived from remote sensing images is very important.In the present paper is investigated the methodology for using of multispectral satellite images acquired by Worldview2, SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 sensors for deriving hydrological model data and its corresponding accuracies. A case study using multispectral images related to rivers Timiş, Bega and Timiş-Bega canal in Romania and river flow model is foreseen for the future to verify the results of the methodology

Numerical Experiment to Analyse the Reliability of Coarse Grid Based Numerical Methods for Modelling Groundwater Flow by Drainage Objects Like Wells in Confined Aquifer

AbstractAt the neighbourhood of several drainage objects types in shallow aquifer like fully penetrated wells, partially penetrated wells, well with laterals, horizontal drainages etc. groundwater flow forms contain frequently 2D/3D singular behaviours (e.g. logarithmical or polar singularities), which require special attention by coarse grid simulations Groundwater reservoir modelling. The first objective of the paper is to test the accuracy of Finite Volume Methods with specific reference to one of the most used standard reservoir modelling software in groundwater modelling PMWIN/MODFLOW (i.e. Processing MODFLOW for Window), Chiang (2001). The numerical experiment will be accomplished mainly for fully penetrating well (W) and partially penetrating well (ppW) using various discretization size.It will be shown that the standard Well Index method (Peaceman 1983), currently used by coarse grid simulations, allows the local correction in well blocks only for hydraulic head (or pressure) in the wellbore obtained by coarse grid simulation for imposed global discharge/recharge rate of the well. In the paper an extension of the WI based method will be proposed which allows also the well discharge rate correction by coarse grid modelling for imposed hydraulic head (imposed pressure) in the well. The proposed method is proved with several numerical simulation examples for fully wells and ppWells

Synthesis and Pharmacological Research Regarding New Compounds with Quinazolin-4-One Structure

The quinazoline scaffold is found in the chemical structure of many marketed drugs used in CNS disorders as antidepressants, anxiolytics, or hypnotics. Also, the carbamate ester derivatives have different certain therapeutic actions, such as hypnotic or parasympathomimetic ones. We have obtained new 4(3H)-quinazolinones by bringing together in the same structure the quinazoline nucleus and carbamate ester group. The compounds named Q1–Q5 were characterized by measuring the melting points, by determining the infrared and NMR spectra, and by elemental analysis. The pharmacological tests evidenced that the compounds have a very low acute toxicity, lethal doses being >2000 mg/kg bw. The compounds had different actions observed in forced swimming test (FST), tail suspension test (TST), or elevated plus maze (EPM), probably influenced by the presence of different radicals on the nucleus. Thus, Q1 with a nitro group in structure manifested the highest antidepressant effect, showing a reduction of immobilization time in FST and TST. On the other hand, Q3 and Q5, with two groups methoxy, respective ethoxy, had a slight anxiolytic effect, highlighted by an increase of the time spent in open arms and a decrease of the time spent in closed arms of EPM

P systems with control nuclei: The concept

AbstractWe describe an extension of P systems where each membrane has an associated control nucleus responsible with the generation of the rules to be applied in that membrane. The nucleus exports a set of rules which are applied in the membrane region (only for one step, but in the usual maximal-parallel way), then the rules are removed and a new iteration of this process takes place. This way, powerful control mechanisms may be included in P systems themselves, as opposed to using the level of “strategies” previously exploited for simulating P systems. The nuclei may contain general programs for generating rules, ranging from those using information on the full system, to more restricted programs where only local information in the nuclei themselves and the associated membranes is used. The latter approach, mixed with a particular mechanism for the representation of the control programs, the rules, and the export procedure is powerful enough for modeling complex biological applications, e.g., to develop a detailed model for cell growth and division in normal and abnormal (tumoral) evolution of biological systems

Damages associated to 1995-2006 floods and flash-floods in the east of the Apuseni Mountains

During 1995–2006, the Eastern Apuseni Mountains was affected by floods which generate damages almost every year, observing an increase of their frequency towards the end of the mentioned period, when, in only two years (2004–2005), there were manifested nine episodes of such phenomena. The damages analysis was achieved by direct questioning, based on the observation data and reports of the County Inspectorates for Emergency Situations and other competent authorities during the period 1995–2006. Counting the direct damages generated by the floods in the region during the above mentioned period, the total summed 75.624 million US dollars. Among the main socio-economic objectives, traffic infrastructure proved to be by far the most susceptible to the unfavorable action of the floods (72.1% of the damages overall)