INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTEROPERABILITY OF THE E-GOVERNMENT APPLICATIONS BASED ON SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES

The e-Government interoperability is the ability of ICT components/applications to work together, in other words it is the ability of two or more diverse government (ICT) systems or components to sharing and re-use of information-services, inter-linking of administrative tasks, within and between sectors are essential factors for the delivery of high quality, innovative, seamless and customer-centric e-services. The organizational interoperability refers to the cooperation way of the public administrations processes, by defining the communication interfaces between processes. This approach addresses the interoperability of e-government applications at organizational and semantic level, adopting Web services (WS) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) as technological solutions. The e-Government interoperability is becoming an increasingly crucial issue, especially for developing countries that have committed to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 . Enhanced government efficiency and effectiveness coupled with the delivery of basic public services to all citizens are essential components required to achieve such goals. In this context, most governments have finalized the design of national e-government strategies and are busy implementing priority programmes. Today the data needed by policy makers to make better decisions is available but inaccessible. Policy makers are faced not only with overlapping and uncoordinated data sources, but also with the absence of common terms of reference and means of representing these data. This results in the time consuming and complex cost of comparing data that is represented differently. Interoperability will allow data compiled by different agencies to be used together to make faster and better decisions. An important goal of governance is to enable the citizenry to have easier and faster access to government information and services. The seamless flow of data from one government office to another provides the policy maker with the information needed to draft sound policy and deliver better services. In this paper we present an approach, which addresses the interoperability of e-government applications at organizational and semantic level, adopting Web services (WS) and Semantic Web Services (SWS) as technological solutions. The main objective of this work consists in designing and developing a distributed network of semantic registries in order to publish, find and execute the Web services. The publishing in registries of the Web services consists in the execution of syntactic and semantic matching algorithms between the attributes of the registries and the attributes of Web services.e-government application, interoperability, semantic registries, WSDL standard

STUDY REGARDING QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTS ON THE ZLATNA MARKETPLACE (ALBA COUNTY)

The present work approaches a few problems related to the quality parameters of the food products starting from the present demands of the market economy. We have included in our study a large range of products that are permanently present market place, in a industrialized area. Some of them are vegetable products like: corn, potatoes, cabbage, carrot, spinach, together with other products. The study results highlight the degree of heavy metals contamination of these goods.vegetable products, heavy metals contaminations

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE

The concepts of organizational culture and climate are used to describe the general characteristics of an organization showing the way it behaves in relation to its members. The culture along with the climate influence directly the performance of the organization due to the fact that subjective attitudes and perceceptions of the individuals sometimes clash with the norms established by managers

Overcoming European internal borders: towards a genuine single European market

This article focuses on analysing the implications for European integration of overcoming the internal economic borders between the 27 member states and of moving towards a fully-functioning single European market. For examining the continuous process of eliminating barriers and reviewing shortcomings within the single market, an analysis of official EU documents and reports and of specialized literature on the topic of the European single market is conducted. As history has shown, the process of establishing the single European market and making it deliver at its full potential was a continuous struggle to overcome the borders between the EU member states. The analysis has pointed out that the efforts towards completing the single market are characterised by a mixture of negative (i.e. removal of barriers) and positive (i.e. creation of common institutions and regulations) integration strategies. Given the existence of both functional and political spillovers in the evolution of the single market, the neo-functionalist approach seems to be the most suited to explain the process of integration which takes place through the single European market

THE "CREDIBILITY CRISIS" OF AUDITING PROFFESION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN ROMANIA

For decades the accountancy profession has responded to the "credibility crisis" by coining, reciting and hiding behind the phrase "audit expectation gap" - a phrase which denotes the differences between the public's and Auditors' perceptions of the role of an audit function. This paper reports the findings of a questionnaire survey on the audit expectation gap conducted in Romania. The aims of the study are to examine whether an expectation gap exists in Romania among the auditors, auditees and audit beneficiaries in relation to the auditors' duties The results proved the existence of an audit expectation gap in Romania. The study shows that the auditees and audit beneficiaries placed much higher expectations on the auditors' duties when compared with what auditors have perceived their duties to be. The analysis of the expectation gap indicated the existence of unreasonable expectations of the part of users.audit, audit expectation gap

Studies on the Seed Germination Changes after Thermal Decontamination of Crude Oil Polluted Soils

AbstractGiven that the world population will reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, removing all the causes that result in reduced yields of cereals and technical plants is vital. It is known that soil affects plants through its physical (texture, structure, density), chemical (nutrients content, pH) and biological characteristics (microbiological activity, soil fertility).Soils are the key environmental tank to pollutants, storage and persistence of pollutants in soil being dependent on a number of factors: the exchange of air, the burying of pollutants and their biodegradability. This paper aims to emphasize the germination of plants after a polluted soil sample was decontaminated by a thermal method. The soil sample was polluted with 5% oil. The soil sample was characterized by capillarity, being established the maximum height of the moistened layer of 7.6cm and 14.1cm for oil, but also permeability of 218.5 cm3/h for water and 70.83 cm3/h for oil. Knowing the average permeability, it can be determined the corresponding retention capacity: 873.14kg/m3 for water and 776kg/m3 for oil. Restoration of the germination potential for the analyzed soil also determined the presence of nutrients required before and after remediation. The analyzed nutrients were nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The soil sample had no nitrogen, but phosphorus and potassium were in medium concentration. The soil sample that was polluted with oil and decontaminated by a thermal method, has nitrogen, the potassium content does not change, but the phosphorus content increases

Biodegradation study of some food packaging biopolymers based on PVA

Abstract Polymers are a common choice as protective materials since they combine flexibility, variable sizes and shapes, relatively light weight, stability, resistance to breaking, barrier properties and perceived high-quality image with cost-effectiveness. Currently, mainly non-biodegradable petroleum-based synthetic polymers are used as packaging materials for foods, because of their availability, low cost and functionality. However, biopolymers can be made from renewable resources without the environmental issues of petroleum-based polymers and with the additional advantage of being available from renewable sources or as by-products or waste-products from the food and agriculture industries. The aim of this study was to test some food packaging biopolymers based on PVA. In this respect, some biopolymers for food packaging applications were subjected to biodegradation tests by covering the tested samples with soil. The samples were incubated in known temperature and humidity conditions. The experiment lasted 45 days, after that the samples were washed, weighed and the biodegradation degree was calculated. The obtained results shows that PVA is a promising material for food packaging usage, as it is made from renewable resources and it is environmentally friendly.Â

WIND ENERGY – ECOSUSTAINABILITY ENGINEERING SOLUTION

Renewables provides increased safety energy supply and limiting imports of energy resources, interms of sustainable economic development. The new requirements for sustainable development have determinedthe world to put the issue of energy production methods and increase the share of energy produced fromrenewable energy. This paper presents the history of wind power, advantages and disadvantages of renewableenergy, particularly wind energy as an alternative source of energy. Windmills can be horizontal axis or verticalaxis Savonius and Darrieus rotor. Latest innovations allow operation of variable speed wind turbines, or turbinespeed control based on wind speed. Wind energy is considered one of the most sustainable choices betweenvariants future wind resources are immense

ON THE ROLE OF BENCHMARKING IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Increasing competition, demands for accountability, and higher volumes ofavailable information are changing the methods of how institutions of higher educationoperate in nowadays. For higher education to enact substantial and sustainable changesin efficiency and productivity a new way of thinking or paradigm that builds efficiencyand a desire for continual learning must be integrated into institutional structures. Toolsare also being developed that measure or benchmark the progress and success of theseefforts. Among the improvement strategies and techniques, benchmarking has emerged asa useful, easily understood, and effective tool for staying competitive. This is why thepresent article aims to emphasize the importance of benchmarking in the highereducation quality assessment.benchmarking, higher education, quality, management