Since 1996, the academic journal Studia Europaea, issued by the Faculty of European Studies, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. The journal is refereed by international specialists and officially acknowledged by the Romanian National University Research ouncil (CNCSIS). Studia Europaea is covered by several prestigious databeses, such as ProQuest CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest CSA Sociological Abstracts or Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL). Each article is reviewed by two independent academics in a “double-blind” system. Senior as well as junior academics from Europe and from the United States have found in Studia Europaea a way of expressing thir preoccupations by publishing academic articles that have focused on the European experience and perspectives in various fiels of social science.
More...Since 1996, the academic journal Studia Europaea, issued by the Faculty of European Studies, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. The journal is refereed by international specialists and officially acknowledged by the Romanian National University Research Council (CNCSIS). Studia Europaea is covered by several prestigious databeses, such as ProQuest CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest CSA Sociological Abstracts or Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL). Each article is reviewed by two independent academics in a “double-blind” system. Senior as well as junior academics from Europe and from the United States have found in Studia Europaea a way of expressing their preoccupations by publishing academic articles that have focused on the European experience and perspectives in various fields of social science.
More...Since 1996, the academic journal Studia Europaea, issued by the Faculty of European Studies, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. The journal is refereed by international specialists and officially acknowledged by the Romanian National University Research Council (CNCSIS). Studia Europaea is covered by several prestigious databeses, such as ProQuest CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest CSA Sociological Abstracts or Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL). Each article is reviewed by two independent academics in a “double-blind” system. Senior as well as junior academics from Europe and from the United States have found in Studia Europaea a way of expressing their preoccupations by publishing academic articles that have focused on the European experience and perspectives in various fields of social science.
More...Since 1996, the academic journal Studia Europaea, issued by the Faculty of European Studies, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. The journal is refereed by international specialists and officially acknowledged by the Romanian National University Research Council (CNCSIS). Studia Europaea is covered by several prestigious databeses, such as ProQuest CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest CSA Sociological Abstracts or Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL). Each article is reviewed by two independent academics in a “double-blind” system. Senior as well as junior academics from Europe and from the United States have found in Studia Europaea a way of expressing their preoccupations by publishing academic articles that have focused on the European experience and perspectives in various fields of social science.
More...CALL FOR PAPERS for: Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2011, General Issue
More...Since 1996, the academic journal Studia Europaea, issued by the Faculty of European Studies, has been representing an open arena for promoting research endeavours. The journal is refereed by international specialists and officially acknowledged by the Romanian National University Research Council (CNCSIS). Studia Europaea is covered by several prestigious databeses, such as ProQuest CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest CSA Sociological Abstracts or Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL). Each article is reviewed by two independent academics in a “double-blind” system. Senior as well as junior academics from Europe and from the United States have found in Studia Europaea a way of expressing their preoccupations by publishing academic articles that have focused on the European experience and perspectives in various fields of social science.
More...Keywords: cryptocurrencies; time series; volatility
Because of an increasing interest in cryptocurrency investments, there is a need to quantify their variation over time. Therefore, in this paper we try to answer a few important questions related to a time series of cryptocurrencies. According to our goals and due to market capitalization, here we discuss the daily market price data of four major cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC). In the first phase, we characterize the daily returns of exchange rates versus the U.S. Dollar by assessing the main statistical properties of them. In many ways, the interpretation of these results could be a crucial point in the investment decision making process. In the following phase, we apply an autocorrelation function in order to find repeating patterns or a random walk of daily returns. Also, the lack of literature on the comparison of cryptocurrency price movements refers to the correlation analysis between the aforementioned data series. These findings are an appropriate base for portfolio management. Finally, the paper conducts an analysis of volatility using dynamic volatility models such as GARCH, GJR and EGARCH. The results confirm that volatility is persistent over time and the asymmetry of volatility is small for daily returns.
More...Sentence linkers rank among the principal cohesive devices in formal written texts. The paper analyses the distribution of the main categories of sentence linkers in essays written by advanced non-native users of English and compares the results with the variety and frequency of sentence linkers used in academic papers produced by native users. It tests the hypothesis that non-native writers are more inclined to overuse sentence linkers as an easy and ready-made tool to achieve cohesion of a text. Influence of teaching formulaic writing patterns is also discussed in the paper.
More...Keywords: English Department; Faculty of Philosophy; Niš University; collection of papers
The purpose of this text is to make a review of the collections of papers published by the Faculty of Philosophy of Niš University on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of English Studies as a unit of this higher education institution in Serbia. It presents an overview of the six volumes of paper collections that were published in the period between 1980 and 2007, and attempts to highlight the most significant contributions and authors that form part of this three-decade long tradition. The overview includes a reference to the papers published, their authors, as well as a discussion of the most prevalent traits and/or contributions of the individual papers, focusing on the most influential ones. This paper, written as a celebratory retrospective of one area of the activities of the department, is primarily meant to emphasise the place and role these publications have had in the transition of the department from a newly-established organisational section to a well-known scholarly collective with a half-century long tradition of noted scientific effort and quality education of sought-after professional Anglicists.
More...Keywords: call for papers; rhetorical moves; Serbian; academic discourse; humanities; social sciences
Along with international research in the diverse field of genre analysis of academic discourse, there has been a steady increase in the number of studies of Serbian academic texts and comparative studies between Serbian and other languages. However, in the variety of researched academic genres, calls for papers (CFPs) have received comparatively little attention. In this study, the author compares the schematic structure of a sample of 16 Serbian and 16 English calls for papers of international conferences in humanities and social sciences in order to analyze differences in the production of rhetorical moves according to Swales’ (1990) CARS model and Yang’s (2013; 2015) models of rhetorical moves in CFPs. The results of qualitative and quantitative analyses show that Serbian CFPs in humanities and social sciences do contain a set of rhetorical moves which differs from the English calls in the ordering of the opening steps, the contents of the infopromotional Move 3 and the concluding moves, as English calls offered more follow-up websites and Serbian authors opted for a cordial greeting. The author concludes that the results reveal different practices in the two languages that may be culturally determined
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