Vocatie si regionalizare cultural-spirituala a locurilor geografice. Relevanta pentru planificare spatiala/speciala

The study is based on the assertion that any inhabitable space carries in itself a cultural vocation, i.e. the favorability for a specific cultural product, and spirituality is one of its major dimensions, sometimes associated up to synonymy to culture. Among the range of cultural, artistic, political, economic and social categories, religion has represented a noticeable manifestation, and the monastic phenomenon in particular represents a constant whose regional materializations are various and active. The European orthodox cultural area to which the subject of this article is subscribed reveals a well defined contemporary contour of the phenomenon and a density of its material manifestations, accentuated by the favoring political changes of the last two decades. Banishing the restrictions imposed by the communist ideology has generated on the level of religious material culture a true “explosion” of worshiping places, both parishional and monastic. The number of orthodox monasteries alone in the entire European area goes beyond 1700, which cannot remain without an impact upon the various components of social and economic life and therefore, as far as we are concerned, upon the aspects connected with their regionalizing and the influence upon the physical and spatial territorial planning. Starting from a general, continental and macro-regional distribution and going down to the local level of internal clippings to which monasteries and skytes are subscribed, the major analysis of this paper is focused on the situation in Romania which reunites over 500 monastic establishments (second to Russia numerically but on the top of the list according to social density indicators). The aspects connected with the geographical distribution correlated with architectonic, historic and structural identifiers constitute a topic that has interested along the years either only a specialized audience, or a more recent category of users that have taken into consideration their touristic potential and, through this, the secularizing component of the market and economic value. The scientific literature is nevertheless poor from the viewpoint of studies regarding the role of the monasteries in shaping the spatial culture and in organizing space, and even poorer if we think of land planning in the contemporary world, few bibliographical references being hardly available. The western reasons are related to the relict character of the active monastic phenomenon, and in the east-European societies the reestablishment of spiritual life within the framework of democracy is still fresh. Due to the amplitude (at least material) of its reestablishment, the religious life becomes an important local cultural element that has to be taken into account in the contemporary European politics. The present paper, written mainly on the basis of field research and analysis, is structured into two parts: - the analysis of monasteries spatial distribution and the internal regionalization of monastic spaces using geographical criteria and the degree of accessibility; - the relevance of this material and spiritual identity level of the Romanian space for the directions and actions of land planning, as a special form of spatial planning. Since the paper is part of larger scientific endeavor, the present study is organized mainly as an argument for at least two questions: (i) which are the relations between the Romanian Christian spirituality and culture and the European spatial planning, and (ii) what role does local culture play in the process of regional spatial planning.regionalization, cultural, Romania, spatial planning

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT - A COMPLEX, DYNAMIC AND EVOLUTIONAL PROCESS

The human capital is the essential element of the value of an organization. Quality assessment of human resources management, identifying the “measurement units”, as well as ways of understanding and analysis of information related to this capital, will allow the organization to focus on what must be done in order to find, preserve, develop and build human capital which it holds. Value quantifications and quality assessment of the human resources management, provides the basis of the HR strategies directed towards success, which aim at developing the basic competencies of the organization. The assessment can be used to track the status of reaching the human resources objectives and, in general, to assess the quality and efficiency of human resources practices.assessment, quality, management, resources, human capital

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT ON THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY

Considering that entrepreneurship is closely related to the environmental evolution and dynamism in which it take place, and depending of all its factors: economical, social, cultural, etc., this study tries to outline an overview of what the social and cultural environment, the entrepreneurial activity and the connection between these two mean. The analysis of social and cultural environment on the entrepreneurial activity highlights the importance of social and cultural factors in the entrepreneurial activity because its evolution depends from country to country, depending on the culture, values, norms and importance the respective country give to entrepreneurship.impact, environment, entrepreneurial activity

Instruments for Students’ Self Evaluation

Having in mind that quality is realized at the level of main educational relationship, it is obviously understood that the first main way of evaluation, analysis of the quality is the school itself. Evaluation of education quality within „Mihai Viteazul†Combat Units Training School PiteÅŸti, is based on three main processes: internal quality assurance, quality control and external quality evaluation. Taking into account evaluation as general method of evaluation and interpretation of the training process it was drawn up the Model of evaluation of educational quality at the school level. The way by which students’ competences are formed, as they are presented in the "Graduate Model", is realized according to the standing operation Procedure which concerns students’ evaluation. Changing the role of student from passive one to an active one within the training process, this becoming one who has equal rights within an educational relationship which is based on a “pedagogical contractâ€, needs the improvement of self evaluation importance, this one becoming the main element of the evaluation strategy. The paper presents the main instruments of student’s self evaluation that are used within tests in the 2006-2007 education year, the new Conception concerning development of the new educational curriculum in „Mihai Viteazul†Combat Units Training School of PiteÅŸti. Having in mind that quality is realized at the level of main educational relationship, it is obviously understood that the first main way of evaluation, analysis of the quality is the school itself. Evaluation of education quality within “Mihai Viteazul†Combat Units Training School Pitesti, is based on three main processes: internal quality assurance, quality control and external quality evaluation. Taking into account evaluation as general method of evaluation and interpretation of the training process it was drawn up the Model of evaluation of educational quality at the school level. The way by which students’ competences are formed, as they are presented in the “Graduate Modelâ€, is realized according to the standing operation Procedure which concerns students’ evaluation. Changing the role of student from passive one to an active one within the training process, this becoming one who has equal rights within an educational relationship which is based on a “pedagogical contractâ€, needs the improvement of self evaluation importance, this one becoming the main element of the evaluation strategy. The paper presents the main instruments of student’s self evaluation that are used within tests in the 2006-2007 education year, the new Conception concerning development of the new educational curriculum in „Mihai Viteazul†Combat Units Training School of PiteÅŸti.self evaluation, student role, quality assurance, evaluation of educational quality

Transforming Knowledge into Business Value: The Bilingual Glossary of Knowledge Management Terms and Definitions

The paper presents the reasons for compiling a corpus of concepts related to information generation and sharing in the 21st century organization, which resulted in the bilingual glossary of Knowledge Management. The latter contains terms defined throughout the sources consulted, as well as the most common terms a reader will encounter in the Knowledge Management literature. The glossary offers its users an easy to access body of definitions and explanations of key terms and phrases related to Knowledge Management concepts and practices, along with their translation into Romanian. By focusing attention on the importance of transforming knowledge into business value, the research made prior to the identification of the glossary entries was based on an approach designed to facilitate a better understanding of the links between Knowledge Management practices and organizational goals

Tuning infrared emission from microstrip arrays

Earlier work has shown that a narrow-frequency-band, wide-angle emission is produced by an array of metal patches supported on a thin dielectric layer covering a ground plane. The modes responsible for this emission are local plasmons trapped under the metal patches. As the dielectric layer thickness, $h_d$, is increased, the resonant emission fades in strength because the plasmon modes can no longer be trapped under a single patch. Further increases in $h_d$, making it comparable to the light wavelength in the dielectric layer, lead to a collection of new emission peaks. These are narrower than the one peak found for small $h_d$ but they are not well separated. We have found that some of these peaks can be suppressed over a narrow range of $h_d$. This leaves one with well-separated, narrow-band emission peaks. We have identified the physical mechanism for this selective suppression of emission peaks

Instruments for Students' Self Evaluation

Having in mind that quality is realized at the level of main educational relationship, it is obviously understood that the first main way of evaluation, analysis of the quality is the school itself. Evaluation of education quality within "Mihai Viteazul" Combat Units Training School Piteşti, is based on three main processes: internal quality assurance, quality control and external quality evaluation. Taking into account evaluation as general method of evaluation and interpretation of the training process it was drawn up the Model of evaluation of educational quality at the school level. The way by which students' competences are formed, as they are presented in the "Graduate Model", is realized according to the standing operation Procedure which concerns students' evaluation. Changing the role of student from passive one to an active one within the training process, this becoming one who has equal rights within an educational relationship which is based on a "pedagogical contract", needs the improvement of self evaluation importance, this one becoming the main element of the evaluation strategy. The paper presents the main instruments of student's self evaluation that are used within tests in the 2006-2007 education year, the new Conception concerning development of the new educational curriculum in "Mihai Viteazul" Combat Units Training School of Piteşti. Having in mind that quality is realized at the level of main educational relationship, it is obviously understood that the first main way of evaluation, analysis of the quality is the school itself. Evaluation of education quality within "Mihai Viteazul" Combat Units Training School Pitesti, is based on three main processes: internal quality assurance, quality control and external quality evaluation. Taking into account evaluation as general method of evaluation and interpretation of the training process it was drawn up the Model of evaluation of educational quality at the school level. The way by which students' competences are formed, as they are presented in the "Graduate Model", is realized according to the standing operation Procedure which concerns students' evaluation. Changing the role of student from passive one to an active one within the training process, this becoming one who has equal rights within an educational relationship which is based on a "pedagogical contract", needs the improvement of self evaluation importance, this one becoming the main element of the evaluation strategy. The paper presents the main instruments of student's self evaluation that are used within tests in the 2006-2007 education year, the new Conception concerning development of the new educational curriculum in "Mihai Viteazul" Combat Units Training School of Piteşti

SILVER TOURISM AS A POSSIBLE FACTOR FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. A CASE STUDY IN THE SOUTH-EAST REGION OF ROMANIA

As a result of the growing ageing, senior tourists will become a powerful group in the near tourism future. According to this statement, our research asses that the silver tourism could represent, in the next years, a real instrument for the regional development. The aim of our study is to highlight the opportunity of capitalizing the aging phenomenon by the administrative institutions and local tour operators that might regenerate economically the southeast Romanian region. Methodologically, we used a survey based on two questionnaires. The first one was applied to a group of seniors enrolled at the University of Third Age Galati city. For now, this type of structure is unique in Romania.  The second questionnaire containing a single question was applied to four categories of actors possible to be responsible and/or involved in the developing regional tourism process. The results  reveals the connections existing between the main options of elderly and the forms of tourism developed at regional level, one the one hand, and the very minor attention paid by the local factors to it, on the other hand.</em