Issues SMEs Face Within the Internationalisation Process

The paper presents the correlation between different variables and internationalisation, such as: the size of the company, the activity field, the level of innovation. It also emphasizes the barriers the SMEs face in the process. In the end of the paper, one presents some of the solutions proposed in order to sustain the SMEs overcome these barriers.SMEs, internationalisation, innovation, success.

ENERGY PLANTS ALTERNATIVE TO FUTURE BIOFUEL PRODUCTION

Replacing fossil fuels with alternative renewable energy sources is a very current issue worldwide. The development of energy plant (lingo-cellulosic) crops represents the promising solution, for the future production of biofuels in order to produce renewable energy and replace fossil fuels. For the implementation of energy crops were elaborated a series of technologies and technical equipment that respond to the requirements of these crops. The paper addresses these technologies, technical equipment and technologies for valorizing energy crops

Resuscitating Old Forest Models to Meet Present Environmental Reporting Needs

A plethora of forest models were developed by transforming dependent variable, which introduces bias in estimation if appropriate correction are not applied when back-transforming to the original units. The need for accurate reporting of environmental statistics to national and international agencies lead to improvement of existing models or development of new ones. However, in many instances, not only were no original models established, but original data sets are no longer available, which recommends ad-hoc bias corrections of existing models. The present research presents a procedure for bias correction based on information extracted from summary statistics, specifically coefficient of determination and standard error. The transformations considered in this study are trigonometric (i.e. sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, and arctangent), hyperbolic (i.e., sine, secant, and tangent), power, and logarithm. The method was applied to site index equations of Douglas Fir and Ponderosa Pine [Hann and Scrivani, 1987], and tree volume of 27 species from Romania [Giurgiu, 1974]. Using only the information describing the models, such as variance or range, the proposed method corrected the bias, and proved that estimates can change from 1% (the site index equations of Hann and Scrivani) to 40% (the tree volumes of Giurgiu)

Identifying limitations of Permanent Scatterers Interferometry for buildings monitoring

. The Permanent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) represents one of the most advanced monitoring techniques from space. In the current paper, the technique is applied for observing the movement behaviors of buildings found in the center of Romania’s capital, Bucharest, in order to verify whether there is a possibility to differentiate among patterns. The main hypothesis of the research is that buildings respond to ground movement differently depending on their characteristics, such as age, construction material, and structure or height regime. Twenty-seven images acquired by the German TerraSAR-X (TSX) satellite, were processed in order to depict ground level deformations. The buildings were analyzed by classifying them in different categories, depending on their earthquake vulnerability, height and location. The results suggested that the movement patterns identified by the satellite depend mainly on the spatial distribution of the buildings

Monitoring historical urban infrastructure using multi-temporal InSAR techniques

Ranked tenth in the world regarding seismic risk, Bucharest is the most seismically exposed capital in Europe and has the highest risk among Romanian cities. Location on two faults, high population and preponderantly old buildings make Bucharest even more vulnerable to strong earthquakes that occur periodically in Romania. In order to prevent major live and material losses in the future, authorities are trying to generate a map of buildings classified according to the risk of collapsing at the next earthquakes. In an attempt to reduce the time necessary to identify buildings at high risk we propose using InSAR technology that detects fine movements of objects. In our study we are interested to find out if satellite measurements are able to distinguish between effects produced by damage and those brought about as a result of changes in for example non-structural components and the environmental conditions. Also it is important to consider whether the dynamic characteristics can be identified with the required accuracy using InSAR techniques. In this purpose we compare building behavior identified from satellite data with that resulted from terrestrial monitoring using high precision techniques. In the current paper, we present the methodology of rating buildings using health indices, and discuss possible outcomes

Performance optimization – "sometimes" – result creativity

Seen first as an art, " dell'arte della scrittura venezziana " as he called Luke Paciolo accounting became in turn a technique , a science , a language formalized a social game and, more recently , a techno- science. Long preserved and still used the phrase " art of manipulating figures " which is not far from the truth if we consider the professional accountant freedom to choose between two or more accounting policy choice of the best options is dependent a multitude of factors including its ingenuity . Ingenuity , as well as imagination , novelty , originality and creativity are attributes that led the accounting field coverage of a certain reality , as desired and as there are not . Talking about the performance is natural to ask the following questions : is there a dose of fiction in it ? , That the steps in obtaining and menţienerea performance management may be considered constructive practices and practices with negative meanings