THE EFFECTS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENTS ON ROMANIAN ECONOMY

The Romanian economy is marked by great micro and macroeconomic instability generated by the transition to a functional market economy. The direct foreign investments play an extremely important role among others in the formation of fixed capital necessarForeign investments, economic development, transnational corporations

The Impact of Economic Crisis on Direct Foreign Investments

The direct foreign investments play an extremely important role in the economic development of a country through technological and know - how transfer, the export promotion with favorable effects on commercial and payments balance by attracting and training the available work force. The world crisis manifested by the restriction of access to financing sources, through some more restrictive loan conditions, the sales reduction, of profits therefore of financing resources destined to self - finance activities, to the achievement of acquisitions and mergers at international levels, as well as the severe reduction of stock exchange causing problems to transnational in financing from the capital market- all this have negatively influenced the direct foreign investment flows.foreign investments, transnational corporations, financial and economic crises

THE NECESSITY OF IMPROVING MANAGERIAL ACTIVITY IN ROMANIA

The condition of the Romanian economy has become worse during this period of crisis, the organizations in Romania are facing many financial problems and the impossibility of adapting to the new economic and social context having to pass through painful restructuring which could have been avoided if managers had been more prudent. These are the reasons for which we believe that an analysis of the managers in Romania, an analysis of the impact of their personality and an analysis of the way they influence the performance of the organizations they lead are all necessary

PIAŢA UNICĂ COMPONENTĂ ESENŢIALĂ A INTEGRĂRII EUROPENE

The functioning of the Europen Internal Single Market, that stands in the creation of a space withoutfrontiers in which it is assured the free circulation of goods , of work- force, of services and capitals, waspossible both due to competition as reguards USA and Japan, but also from political considerations.By Romania’s integration into the EU the internal market will furnish the latter major benefits: theencrease of competition between firms, the improvement of competition by the the restructuring of industry andby a more factors of production, a diversification of goods and services sat competitive prices, the creation ofnew working places but also a raised mobility of workers and unemloyed the intensification of cohesion andconvergence among the UE regions. The internal market can sustain Romania to become a country with afunctional economy, capable to determine in its turn the welfare at comunity level

THE EFFECTS OF THE CRISIS ON THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMES) AND THEIR NEED FOR DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have a substantial contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP), to the creation of new jobs, to the creation of the gross added value in the economy, by boosting competition on the market. In Romania, even from the beginning of the crisis, hundreds of thousands of companies have suspended their operations or were removed. Therefore, I consider it important to analyse the factors that have generated this development of the SMEs as well as the measures that have to be taken for this sector to flourish in our country

The Impact of Direct Foreign Investments on the Economic Growth in Romania

In the actual context of world economy, the foreign investments tend to become, beside the resources of each country, the main financing and stimulating source of economic development. The foreign investments represent a way by which, in the economy of host country it is introduced the behaviour specific to the market economy and where an improvement of production factors quality takes place. The present paper tries to analyze the foreign investments contribute to the growth of Romanian economy.foreign investments, economic growth, Romania

Advantages and Risks Offered by Romanian to Foreign Investors

Romania a EU member state confronts with serious economic and social problems increased by the world economic crisis. Since the foreign investments represent the engine of economic development, the paper proposes to analyze the reasons which determines the foreign investors to make placements in different areas of the world and also the factors existing in Romania. The study makes use of the data base offered by specialty international publications such as World Investment Report, UNCTAD as well as by data offered by National Bank of Romania, National Statistics Institute, Romanian Agency for Foreign Investments. The results of the study show that Romania represents interest to investors largely because of its natural resources and skilled workforce but remunerated by competitive prices, because of its fiscal advantages such as 16% taxation, and of advantages offered by the market and its strategically position. The conclusions of the paper show that the solution of weak points, of so much necessary infrastructure of improving, the educational system as well as the adjustment of corruption and bureaucracy problems may determine the drawing of a larger volume of DFI which are vital for Romania in order to overpass the economic problems it faces nowadays.foreign investors, economic and social problems, Romania

Abstracts from the 23rd Italian congress of Cystic Fibrosis and the 13th National congress of Cystic Fibrosis Italian Society

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) occurs most frequently in caucasian populations. Although less common, this disorder have been reported in all the ethnicities. Currently, there are more than 2000 described sequence variations in CFTR gene, uniformly distributed and including variants pathogenic and benign (CFTR1:www.genet.sickkids.on.ca/). To date,only a subset have been firmily established as variants annotated as disease-causing (CFTR2: www.cftr2.org). The spectrum and the frequency of individual CFTR variants, however, vary among specific ethnic groups and geographic areas. Genetic screening for CF with standard panels of CFTR mutations is widely used for the diagnosis of CF in newborns and symptomatic patients, and to diagnose CF carrier status. These screening panels have an high diagnostic sensitivity (around 85%) for CFTR mutations in caucasians populations but very low for non caucasians. Developed in the last decade, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has been the last breakthrough technology in genetic studies with a substantial reduction in cost per sequenced base and a considerable enhancement of the sequence generation capabilities. Extended CFTR gene sequencing in NGS includes all the coding regions, the splicing sites and their flankig intronic regions, deep intronic regions where are localized known mutations,the promoter and the 5'-3' UTR regions. NGS allows the analysis of many samples concurrently in a shorter period of time compared to Sanger method . Moreover, NGS platforms are able to identify CFTR copy number variation (CNVs), not detected by Sanger sequencing. This technology has provided new and reliable approaches to molecular diagnosis of CF and CFTR-Related Disorders. It also allows to improve the diagnostic sensitivity of newborn and carrier screeningmolecular tests. In fact, bioinformatics tools suitable for all the NGS platforms can filter data generated from the gene sequencing, and analyze only mutations with well-established disease liability. This approach allows the development of targeted mutations panels with a higher number of frequent CF mutations for the target populationcompared to the standard panels and a consequent enhancement of the diagnostic sensitivity. Moreover, in the emerging challenge of diagnosing CF in non caucasians patients, the possibility of customize a NGS targeted mutations panel should increase the diagnostic sensitivity when the target population has different ethnicities