Use of LANDSAT data for resources investigation in the lower basin of Danube and Danube Delta

The author has identified the following significant results. A most important is that bands 4 and 5 very clearly show the sedimentary discharge into the sea and the spreading regime in the sea at the mouth of the Danube and out at sea at great distances to over 100 km. Another particularly significant result is shown by bands 6 and 7, presenting the successive stages of sediments in the Danube Delta, with the clear marking of the separation between the fluvial and marine delta. The survey of floods and of some of their effects may also be studied on all of the bands in the complex area of the Danube Delta and in the lower basin of the Danube

Use of LANDSAT data for natural resources investigation in the lower basin of Danube and Danube Delta

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTELLIGENT CARDS AND THE ROMANIAN MARKET

This paper will try to describe the close relationship between the economic evolution and technology, especially how the technical aspects of debit/credit cards interact with the economical aspects. There are approached concepts related to smart card and especially the use of cards in different economic purposes. Since the introduction of the first cards there has been an accelerated growth of the use of smart cards. One of the essential growth factors has been the progress in the electronic industry and the accelerated development of the software companies, which allowed the emergence of interactive financial services such as e-banking, mobile banking, smart cards being considered the access key to these modern services.Smart cards, credit cards, debit cards, card market in Romania, card payments

The Real Economy and Competition Policy in Periods of Retrenchment

Competition policy works well when markets are given time to evolve and drive improved efficiency; but this takes time. However, under current turbulent times, the short-run survival actions may be insistently sought by policy-makers under the pressure of trade unions and the exit of failing firms may be perceived to be more costly for society. Actually, the immediate costs that existing businesses, employees and consumers have to incur may be up-front and visible, while the benefits of competition may be less visible. As a consequence, times of severe financial and economic crises bring about a severe questioning of market mechanisms with unfailing regularity and the stance of the competition policy against this backdrop. We shall therefore look in the current paper at the role of competition authorities in a time of severe economic and financial crisis and in particular, at how the crisis will impact the application of competition law. In the end, we will conclude in favour of the need to preserve competition policy as well in difficult times even if we admit that a certain flexibilisation in procedures (but not in rules) may be probably necessary.retrenchment, antitrust and merger control, state aid policy, competition authority

Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy.

This is a review of last published book of Joseph Stiglitz.&nbsp

The theory and practice of resonance Raman spectroscopy

The thesis proposes a new method of obtaining molecular structural data from resonance Raman spectroscopy: the experimental, theoretical and numerical aspects of the method are presented, and some of the results are included. The first chapter describes Raman and resonance Raman scattering and introduces the instrumentation, methods and procedures used in obtaining Raman data. The sources of error in measuring band intensities and excitation profiles are analysed, and corrections to the errors are proposed. Some original experimental results are presented in Appendix 2 for the purpose of illustrating the technique and the sources of errors. Chapter 2 describes an advanced theoretical model of secondary radiation, and its interpretation in terms of Raman and fluorescence radiation; in Chapter 3 the model is applied to relating resonance Raman data to molecular structure, by using the physical assumptions of the model and the corresponding mathematical approximations. The result is a set of equations relating microscopic parameters describing the molecular structure to the macroscopic quantities to be measured experimentally. A new mathematical procedure for solving the equation set obtained at the end of Chapter 3 is proposed in Chapter 4; the numerical and computational implementation are described in this chapter and the computer programs used in practical applications are presented in appendices 4 and 5. The results of applying the new method are presented in Chapter 5 in the form of tables containing the calculated parameters and of graphs comparing the experimental and the simulated excitation profiles; chemical systems belonging to three different geometries have been investigated

An insight of the economic development patterns in the Gulf countries

This paper aims to investigate the economic development status in the Persian Gulf region and investigate the underlying base for international competitiveness. The focus is on this geographic area because it comprises the wealthiest and fastest growing economies in the world and it provides a proper framework for studying the connections between these concepts. The main objective is to compute a development diagnosis and based on its results to reveal what could be done for further advancement as they are shifting from resource-based to knowledge-based economies. The countries considered in this study are Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and UAE. The methodology is based primary on qualitative analysis. The diagnosis revealed that even though in international reports these countries tend to be described roughly in the same terms, the reality is different. Qatar and UAE are prepared to turn into knowledge-based economies despite of being in different stages of economic development. The United Arab Emirates is the only economy from the region that has reached the most advanced stage of development because of its diversified structure. The findings pinpoint that a cluster-based development is a proper path for these countries to follow in the future, while building resilience is a must. Finally, enhancing the regional coordination is yet another solution to a steady, competitive economic development in the Persian Gulf. This study has an extensive, realistic perspective and it’s a contribution to the field as it uncovers the traits of the region in terms of economic upgrading.&nbsp

En busca de la belleza, entre espejismo(s) y eficacia(s). El impacto de la publicidad para productos cosméticos adelgazantes: El rol moderador de las estrategias de comparación social

The article discusses how media discourse, particularly advertisers, build some imaginary on the body that, from a psychosocial perspective, have an impact on the way audiences perceive their own physicality. Through the examination of a case-about the construction of female body image-there are examinetes the social comparison strategies deployed about these body media models and how these definitions affect gender identity and female audiences.    El artículo discute el modo en que los discursos mediáticos, especialmente los publicitarios, construyen ciertos imaginarios sobre el cuerpo que, desde una perspectiva psicosocial, tienen impacto en el modo como las audiencias perciben su propia corporalidad. A través del examen de un caso -sobre la construcción de la imagen del cuerpo femenino -se examinan las estrategias de comparación social desplegadas a propósito de estos modelos mediáticos de cuerpo y cómo estos inciden en las definiciones identitarias y de género de las audiencias femeninas