THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE WORLD ECONOMY

The globalization of the world economy is characterized by a huge amplification of the interconnections collaborations and interdependencies between the national states generated from the tendency of the economical objectives and interests to exceed the national borders. Using this obvious truth as a starting base, economical researchers tried to define the globalization in various ways. In this study we will analyze some different opinions from economic literature, regarding the globalization phenomenon and the mechanisms appeared in this process. We will also analyze the evolution of globalization process during the XX-th century period. At the end of this study we will analyze commercial policies and practices of the EU as one of the main three integration blocs.globalization, "waves" of globalization, "First Era of Globalization", General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), Common Market

Un oltean din New Mexico a primit medalia de aur pentru ştiinţă!

Printre cei 10 oameni de ştiinţă (2 din Australia, 2 din Italia, 2 din SUA, câte unul din Egipt, India, Israel, şi Rusia) care au primit în 12 iunie 2010 la Universitatea din Pécs,Ungaria, Medalia de Aur pentru Ştiinţă acordată de către Academia de Ştiinţe "Telesio-Galilei" (organizaţie neguvernamentală internaţională cu sediul în Marea Britanie), s-a aflat şi prof. univ. dr. Florentin Smarandache (n. 10.12.1954, Bălceşti, Vâlcea), cu dublă cetăţenie, româno-americană, de la Facultatea de Ştiinţe din Universitatea „New Mexico", Gallup, statul New Mexico, SUA. Această medalie a răsplătit două realizări ştiinţifice ale conjudeţeanului care este şi corespondent special al ziarului nostru: introducerea noţiunii de „Neutrosofie" în logica matematică şi enunţarea „Ipotezei Smarandache" în fizica teoretică

Il martirio del principe e la fine del mondo: Constantin Br\ue2ncoveanu nei canti narrativi tradizionali romeni

The Prince\u2019s Martyrdom and the End of the World: Constantin Br\ue2ncoveanu Romanian Heroic Epic Songs This paper aims to reconstruct the mythical background of the romanian epic-oral song about Constantin Br\ue2ncoveanu\u2019s martyrdom. The historical figure of Br\ue2ncoveanu, prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714, who was beheaded by the Ottomans, in romanian folklore is conceived not simply as a saint and a sacred figure but as a cosmic figure as well

Towards generalisable and calibrated synthetic speech detection with self-supervised representations

Generalisation -- the ability of a model to perform well on unseen data -- is crucial for building reliable deep fake detectors. However, recent studies have shown that the current audio deep fake models fall short of this desideratum. In this paper we show that pretrained self-supervised representations followed by a simple logistic regression classifier achieve strong generalisation capabilities, reducing the equal error rate from 30% to 8% on the newly introduced In-the-Wild dataset. Importantly, this approach also produces considerably better calibrated models when compared to previous approaches. This means that we can trust our model's predictions more and use these for downstream tasks, such as uncertainty estimation. In particular, we show that the entropy of the estimated probabilities provides a reliable way of rejecting uncertain samples and further improving the accuracy.Comment: Submitted to ICASSP 202

Pelvic floor disorders in gynecological malignancies. An overlooked problem?

Cervical, endometrial, ovarian, vulvar, and vaginal cancers affect women of a broad age spectrum. Many of these women are still sexually active when their cancer is diagnosed. Treatment options for gynecological malignancies, such as gynecological surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, are proven risk factors for pelvic floor dysfunction. The prevalence of urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and sexual dysfunction before cancer treatment is still unclear. Hypotheses have been raised in the literature that these manifestations could represent early symptoms of pelvic cancers, but most remain overlooked even in cancer surviving patients. The primary focus of therapy is always cancer eradication, but as oncological and surgical treatment options become more successful, the number of cancer survivors increases. The quality of life of patients with gynecological cancers often remains an underrated subject. Pelvic floor disorders are not consistently reported by patients and are frequently overlooked by many clinicians. In this brief review we discuss the importance of pelvic floor dysfunction in patients with gynecological malignant tumors

From Periphery to Centre.The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe

The volume From Periphery to Centre. The Image of Europe at the Eastern Border of Europe gathers the papers presented at the international symposium of the same name held in Oradea, Romania, on June 4-8, 2013. The studies aim to uncover distances between centre and periphery and their common traits as well, as they are revealed in the various images of Europe and of its Eastern border. The articles cover a time span that goes back to the early Middle Ages and reaches the present, increasing their number for the modern and contemporary eras. The volume benefits the approach of more than one discipline, as the authors are not only historians, but also philologists, archaeologists and geographers. The introductory article reveals the aims of the volume and the means to reach them, while also describing the current issues it addresses. The editors propose a double perspective: on the one hand periphery viewed from the centre and on the other periphery as it sees itself. The articles of the first chapter cover a large space, from Western to Eastern Europe, from Rome to Byzantium and to the Ottoman Empire, ending with a study on the theoretical issues concerning otherness. The articles of the second chapter seem more focused on the Romanian space, especially on Transylvania. The chapter commences with a theoretical approach concerning the border concept and its various meanings. Further on, in chronological order, the authors discuss subjects concerning anthroponimy, demography, social and religious history, which, together, draw several self-images of Romanians and of the space they inhabited. Differences are set aside in the third chapter – European Identities – as the common denominator of centre and periphery is revealed in the articles reunited here. The authors discuss subjects ranging from early attempts of a European aggregation to Romanians’ alignment with European ideas and policies

The switch from patented medicine to the generic one: an option or a necessity?

This paper assesses the influence of a number of factors taken into account when a brand name drug is replaced by a generic one. It also evaluates responses of health professionals – physicians and pharmacist—and patients regarding the issue of switching. We compared and contrasted their responses in order to identify new points of cooperation for the intended benefit of the patient. Thus, the sample drew from all three groups, consisting of 50 doctors, 50 pharmacists, and 50 patients. We collected information regarding the age, residence, income level, and education level for the patients, and age and experience for the specialists. Based on responses to the survey, replacing the original medication with a generic one raises many issues, such as lack of information for the patient and specialist, lack of collaboration between physician and pharmacist, ineffective communication between specialist and patient, and the influence of the overall profit motive