The Influence of Societal Values on Organizational Culture at Company Level –the Romanian Case

The present study aims to analyze the influence of societal values in modelling the organizational culture at company level. Studies conducted by different researchers highlighted the differences of perception between peoples’ values in their society in relation with the values of their colleagues of different nationalities. Finally, these values influence the importance that people grants to work, leisure, family and social status. The purpose of this paper is to draw the highlights of a new instrument for assessing the organizational culture at company level, a tool better adapted to the Romanian business and social environment, by measuring simultaneously the cultural values rooted from society values and behaviours and the cultural dimensions at company level. The assessment instrument has to be able to determine the employee’s societal values and the organizational culture of the company providing the link between those behaviours and attitudes which increase the social and economic performance of the organization and those that demotivate the Romanian employees.organizational behaviors, organizational culture and climate, societal values, cultural styles and dimensions, assessment instruments.

Law’s disappearance: the state of exception and the destruction of experience

This paper explores the philosophical, political and memorial consequences of the contemporary status of law present in the work of Giorgio Agamben with specific reference to the field of legal history. My intention is to offer a genealogical reading of the relation between Agamben’s theory of the state of exception animating his political and legal philosophical writings in the Homo Sacer trilogy and his earlier interest in the philosophy of language and history. While exploring this path, I shall follow his indictment of modernity construed as a drive fracturing the relation between knowledge and experience. By further analyzing the destruction of experience as a feature of modern times, I intend to map out the political and legal consequences of the crisis of authority befalling our contemporary nomos, one which is inherently connected to the decoupling between narrative and experience. In this way, I aim to provide a broader philosophical context to Agamben’s concept of the state of exception which otherwise tends to be disregarded within receptions of his work in the field of legal studies. In a first part, I shall map the relevance of Agamben’s concept of the state of exception as an intellectual tool for approaching the contemporary status of law as well as its historical unfolding. Secondly, I shall insist on Agamben’s understanding of the destruction of experience as a feature of a modern intellectual dynamics dissolving the traditional structures of knowledge and the production of authority. In a third part, I shall explore the consequences of Agamben’s reading of the dissolution of law and the destruction of experience for the writing of legal history

Environment protection through detection of hot spots using thermography in coal deposits before self ignition

In this paper is presented a way to contribute to the environmental protection when it comes to coal which waits in big deposits to be burned for energy production. Because of certain parameters, in some places, the deposited coal could overheat and self ignite, thus loosing its caloric properties and even lead to fire. In this case the losses could be even higher, and the effect on the environment even worse. In order to prevent this self ignition to happen, an infrared camera can be mounted on a system, and the camera together with software which interprets the thermographic images, can alarm the personnel who is in charge with coal surveillance that the coal will ignite unless they take immediate measures. Also, there will be presented the limits we have found by now in the way of finalizing the application.environmental protection, coal deposits, lignite, oxidized, coal, carbon monoxide

Judging the Conducător: fascism, communism and legal discontinuity in post-war Romania

The proposed chapter aims to further the engagement with the past by bringing to the fore the legal and memorial dynamics at work in the post war trials dealing with Romanian participation to the Holocaust. While work in this area of Romanian legal history is still exploratory, this chapter aims at filling a gap in relation to understanding the constitutional, jurisprudential and ideological aspects of the Antonescu trial. In doing so it also aims to reflect on the legal, political and symbolic consequences entailed by the communist attempts at dealing with Romanian participation to the Holocaust. In this sense, this chapter attempts for the first time to articulate jurisprudentially and historically the significance of the trial of the Romanian military dictator in office between 1940 and 1944

Audit evidence – top argument for final audit opinion

The following research aims to emphasize the importance of audit evidences, their quality characteristics and the professional judgment used to measure and to evaluate them in order to express their final audit opinion. There is no mathematical formula, neither a specific model in order to evaluate the quality of audit evidences. Their quality depends upon the professional judgment concerning the audit technical standards, the accounting references and nevertheless upon the auditor’s ethics. This is one of the reasons for which the financial audit is one of the edges of economical research, highlighting the credibility of financial statements.audit evidence, documentation, quality characteristics, audit procedures, professional judgment.

Boosted protease inhibitor monotherapy in HIVinfected adults: outputs from a pan-European expert panel meeting

While the introduction of combination highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens represents an important advance in the management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients, tolerability can be an issue and the use of several different agents may produce problems. The switch of combination HAART to ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor (PI) monotherapy may offer the opportunity to maintain antiviral efficacy while reducing treatment complexity and the risks of toxicity. Current European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) guidelines recognise ritonavir-boosted PI monotherapy with twice-daily lopinavir/ritonavir or once-daily darunavir/ritonavir as a possible option in patients who have intolerance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, or for treatment simplification. Clinical trials data for PI boosted monotherapy are encouraging, showing substantial efficacy in the majority of patients; however, further data are required before this approach can be recommended as a routine treatment. Available data indicate that the most suitable candidates for the use of boosted PI monotherapy are long-term virologically suppressed patients who have demonstrated good adherence to antiretroviral therapy, who do not have chronic hepatitis B, have no history of treatment failure on PIs and are able to tolerate low-dose ritonavir