Intercultural Education Important Component of Lifelong Learning

AbstractAdult education is a response to modern society and which continues to “move”, keeping as a goal, the adult education in areas of interest such as foreign languages, ICT, parental education, and so on; the adults are the heart of the education process and it helps them to identify their place in society and become better and able to adapt to the requirements of this world. This paper presents a Grundtvig partnership project aimed to improve the adults’ quality of life through transnational cooperation, by engaging them in artistic and literary activities, promoting knowledge and understanding of different European social and economic cultures

CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COMMON BEAN (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS L.) LANDRACES BY NORTH – NORTH-WESTERN EXTREMITY OF ROMANIA

The aim of our study was to characterize beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), one of the most important legumes at the international level, by examining their physical and biochemical properties, to highlight the importance of preserving local bean varieties in Romania, beans which are kept in the collection of the Mihai Cristea Suceava Plant Genetic Resources Bank. Local cultures of Phaseolus vulgaris, have been best preserved, especially in the Maramureș area, followed by Suceava area. Based on all 28 samples from the common bean germplasm collection, the mean values for seed size characteristics were seed length (L) 14.64 ± 2.24 mm and seed width (W) 8.93 ± 1.51 mm. The average weight of the 1,000-seed characteristic was 521.34 g, with the minimum and maximum values ranging from 136.96 to 1,045 g for all 28 samples. The highest coefficient of variation was calculated for 1,000-seeds weight (39.9 %) and the lowest for L/W (13.2 %). The protein content determined for 16 samples from the common bean germplasm collection was 23.79 ± 2.49 g/ 100 g of dry matter. The amount of protein varies between 18.84 g/ 100 g of dry matter (sample F23) and 26.69 g/ 100 g of dry matter (sample F27). The free amino acid content varies between 0.56 g/100 of dry matter and 1.29 g/100 g of dry matter, and the boiling time between 35 and 80 minutes. Boiling time is dictated by the variety of beans, but a very interesting thing, observed from the analyses carried out, is that the boiling time varies inversely with the percentage of protein. So, in sample F27 we have a boiling time of 35 minutes and a protein content of 26.69 g/ 100 g of dry matter. The sample with the highest protein content has the lowest boiling time. At the same time, sample F19 has a boiling time of 80 minutes and a protein content of 19.44 g/ 100 g of dry matter

Implications and Consequences of SL(2R) as Invariance Group in the Description of Complex Systems Dynamics from a Multifractal Perspective of Motion

Possible implications and consequences of using SL(2R) as invariance groups in the description at any scale resolution of the dynamics of any complex system are analyzed. From this perspective and based on Jaynes’ remark (any circumstance left unspecified in the description of any complex system dynamics has the concrete expression in the existence of an invariance group), in the present paper one specifies such unspecified circumstances that result directly from the consideration of the canonical formalism induced by the SL(2R) as invariance group. It follows that both the Hamiltonian function and the Guassian distribution acquire the status of invariant group functions, the parameters that define the Hamiltonian acquire statistical significances based on a principle of maximizing informational energy, the class of statistical hypotheses specific to Gaussians of the same average acts as transitivity manifolds of the group (transitivity manifolds which can be correlated with the multifractal-non-multifractal scale transitions), joint invariant functions induced through SL(2R) groups isomorphism (the SL(2R) variables group, and the SL(2R) parameters group, etc.). For an ensemble of oscillators of the same frequency, the unspecified circumstances return to the ignorance of the amplitude and phase of each of the oscillators, which forces the recourse to a statistical ensemble traversed by the transformations of the Barbilian-type group. Finally, the model is validated based on numerical simulations and experimental results that refer to transient phenomena in ablation plasmas. The novelty of our model resides in the fact that fractalization through stochasticization is imposed through group invariance, situation in which the group’s transitivity manifolds can be correlated with the scale resolution