Adaptive Sustainable Academic Management Practices

The unpredictable evolution at global level, in all aspects of society, as a whole, requires close attention from all socio-economic and even political entities, as well as from human decision-makers at various levels, in order to find viable solutions for what a robust and harmonious development of the whole society means. From this perspective, an essential role must be taken by academics and universities. Universities can be considered the true engines of society in terms of promoting, spreading and acquiring the elements that are defining sustainable development. University decision-makers have an obligation to resort to practices adapted to the evolution of the concept of sustainable development in relation to what is happening in the economic, social, political, demographic, ecological or technological spheres. A state of acceptance and awareness has to be created by all of what the society needs to prepare for future generations

Integrated p-NOI Structures on Nanoporous Material Designed for Biodetection

Pesticides are utilized to protect the crops, destroying or controlling any pest. Unfortunately, pesticides pollute the entire environment: plants, organisms, soil, and water. This chapter describes a paraoxon pesticide biosensor that includes nanostructures and porous materials integrated on silicon (Si), as convergent objectives of the green microelectronics strategy. The transducer element is in an interdigitated capacitive electrode that recently highlighted a special nanostructure—the planar nothing on insulator (p-NOI)—included in the capacitive detection system. The biodetection is based on the hydrolysis of the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme as biosensor receptor. So, the final application is an enzymatic biosensor that utilizes the nanoporous Si layer for the enzyme adsorption, with p-NOI capacitive transducer, for the environmental monitoring

FACTS AND FIGURES REGARDING THE ROMANIAN OIL INDUSTRY UNTIL 1948

The development of the Romanian oil industry covers a relatively short period of only 160 years, but the interest that oil has produced has been and still remains enormous. The influx of foreign capital in the Romanian oil industry has undoubtedly contributed to its development, but foreign capitals have monopolized almost all the oil industry in the country. Romania has experienced the consequences of this situation, which has marked the future general development of the country. The year 1947, or "the final year of the Romanian oil industry based on private capital", did not complete the period of restoration, despite the aggressive intervention of the communist power. The Nationalization of the Romanian and foreign oil companies from June 11, 1948, made the first step towards the absolute management and control of the Romanian oil industry, the clear signal of Romania's political and economic isolation, with all its consequences, at least until 1964. Hence, in the year 1918, when Romania celebrates 100 years from it's formation as an Unitary State, this paper aims at presenting some facts and figures about the Romanian oil industry from year 1918 up to 1948 (the year of Nationalization)

ANALYSIS REGARDING GLOBAL APPROACHES ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR EFECTIVENESS RESEARCHES

The concept of organizational culture is fundamental to explain critical phenomena in the functioning of organizations, phenomena such as the creation of a hierarchy of values on which depends either the strategic direction of the system or the determination of fundamental attitudes towards the internal and external environment. The paper presents comparative results of GLOBE research in various countries, research based on the correlation between national culture, organizational culture and leadership. In order to determine main differences, in terms of organisational culture and leadership between countries are took in account important countries from different continents and regions.For the study relevance are considered countries from different clusters in terms of societies and related to the cultural dimension

BRANDING IN SPORT

Sport has been and continues to be a fun way for the masses and a long tradition since the ancient Greek and Roman times. People have always used sport to escape from their everyday problems. Emotions are the ones that lead sports fans to continue to support their favorite athletes and teams. Over the centuries, sports events have evolved into billions of dollar industries through large investments from corporations who want to associate the brand with a team or athlete. Most people, when they hear branding or branding, think about logos, but branding is much more than that. A brand has DNA, personality, identity, and so on. Brand is the essence of the product, and the logo is a small part of this complex set of elements. This paper aims at presenting some theoretical elements on the link between branding and sport, describing the branding process, the strength of the personal brand, trying to explain the reasons for choosing an athlete as an influencer for a particular brand. The paper is structured on several sections. The first section presents the concept of branding, the importance of branding in sports and the reasons why athletes are chosen to represent some of the world's largest brands. The following section presents the study carried out in this paper, the methods used and the results obtained. The last part of the article outlines the conclusions, limitations and suggestions for future work

Researches on the impact of the 2011 normative acts on authorising agrotourist guesthouses in Romania

In this paper, we aimed at analysing the impact of the normative acts elaborated by the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism in 2011 on authorising agrotourist guesthouses in Romania. The survey targeted the comparative analysis of the minister’s orders in 2008-2010 and of the Minister’s Order No. 1051/2011 regarding the agrotourist guesthouses classification criteria and classification procedure. In the second part of the survey, we performed a comparative analysis of the number of agrotourist guesthouses classified by the ministry in the interval January-June 2010 as compared to 2011. A first conclusion of this survey is represented by the fact that the Minister’s Order issued in 2011 simplified the bureaucracy of authorising agrotourist guesthouses and the other accommodation and public catering units. Practically, according to the new regulations, the authorisation file contains an application and three more documents, as compared to the old requirements, according to which the file was quite sizeable. Through the adopted measures, the interval between the date the standardised statement accompanied by the full classification documentation is submitted and the date the classification certificate is issued is decreased to 30 days. The fulfilment of the classification criteria is verified after the authorisation within the control activities performed by the representatives with specific responsibilities within the central public administration authority responsible in the field of tourism. A second conclusion is that there is an increase in the number of classified agrotourist guesthouses and that they progress from the black tourism market area to that of the authorised, legal tourism

Researches into the spanish tourist policy aimed at developing agrotourism

In this paper, we aimed at analysing and providing a model for the development of agrotourism in our country. We considered that agrotourism in Spain may represent a model for the sustainable development of agrotourism in Romania, due to the geographic, political and economic context in the two countries. In order to achieve a more profound analysis, we selected three representative autonomous communities, namely Castilla and Leon, Castilla - La Mancha, Cataluña. As a result, we noticed that in Spain the concept of agrotourism was introduced based on the diversified tourist development in a small area, called „rural tourist nucleus”. Also, in other areas, the development of rural tourism was initiated, starting from the agrotourism stage. We identified other situations as well in which global rural development strategies were implemented in order to guide the local, regional and national agents through a diversity of supplementary measures. An essential aspect of the Spanish context which our research focused on is that the legislation related to tourism in Spain is normative and it has a sectoral character, namely it regulates various types of accommodation in the rural environment. The autonomous legislation has a general character, at territorial level, so that 15 Autonomous Communities, except for Madrid and Canary Islands have specific rural tourism regulations. In conclusion, agrotourism in Spain provides a complex model for the development of agrotourism at European Union level. The tourist policies of the Spanish Government and of the autonomous communities, may all be absorbed by the Romanian Government and the local public authorities for the sustainable development of agrotourism in our country