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PROMOTING NANOSCIENCE TOPICS IN FORMAL EDUCATION

Author(s): Gabriel Gorghiu,Laura Monica Gorghiu,Ana-Maria Aurelia Petrescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

In general, considering a reasonable and relative periodicity, the school curriculum has to pass a processof updating and/or reform - in many cases, in strong connection to the nature and extent of the changesthat occurred in each educational system, but also linked with what is happening in the society.Nowadays, many opportunities for getting knowledge and developing personal and social affirmation ofeach individual are related to the spectacular advancement of science and technology. In the actualcontext, significant changes are noticed in the labor market, pushing the educational systems to anticipatethe needs of the near-future society, not just to react to technological developments. In this respect,creativity, entrepreneurial and managerial skills, responsible use of technology, responsible research andinnovation, are already present in the education of the 21st century. In this respect, nano-education hasbeen introduced and developed in Romania, and recording an entire process of consolidation, especiallyat the level of higher education - promoting nano-area as one of the most dynamic big domains in theworld of research since the beginning of the century. However, in secondary education, thepreoccupations remain sporadic, several positive aspects being recorded especially in non-formaleducation. This paper tries to offer an answer related to how important nano-education is for the actualgeneration of youngers, and what are the main problems that teachers face when trying to promote aspectslinked with the nano-world.

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PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE MOUTH OF THE DANUBE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Author(s): Ionuţ-Alexandru DRĂGHICI / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

This paper analyzes the European Commission of the Danube (ECD) attempt to provide its sanitaryvision, on a modern basis, in an unhealthy area. The need to impose a public health policy at the mouth ofthe Danube was given by Sulina's position as the gateway to Europe, subject to intense transit thatbrought with it mobility of the disease. Doctors Jellinek, Vignard, Petrescu Hagi Stoica, were some of thepillars that formed the basis of the formation of this health policy, which through their work andobservations, made Sulina has known worldwide, not only in commercial importance but also in health.The epidemic waves, but also the doctors' findings, led to the construction of adequate medical facilities.Starting with 1878, after the involvement of the Romanian authorities, combining the social model withthe medical one, a series of measures are adopted, which confers a new dimension of public health at themouth of the Danube

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RELIGION AS THE SINGLE FOUNDATION OF SCIENCE

Author(s): Spyridon I. Kakos / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

For centuries, science was considered as something radically different from religion. Yet, thefoundations of true science are deeply religious in nature. This paper seeks to show how religionis the only foundation needed for the formulation of scientific theories, since it provides the coreprinciples on which the building of exact sciences is based upon. Our need to understand thecosmos and our faith in us being able to do so, are the main prerequisites for conducting science;prerequisites that are derived from our belief in us being the sons of God and, thus, being able toread His mind. From its birth on 7 March 1277 up to today, science seems to be the only logicalattitude of religious people towards the unknown cosmos.

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RELIGION LESSON- VECTOR FOR STUDYING ARTS. TRANSDISCIPLINARITY VIEW

Author(s): Monica Valentina Șerbănescu,Mariana DOGARU / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The astral time for Romania represented the time of celebrating the Great Union, on 1st December 1918,that attracts the attention of various media, but especially the subject of new projects at all levels ofeducation, promoters out of a sense of duty towards the ancestors who sacrificed themselves and theresponsibility they have in future perspective. The study would like, in this context, to value the vision ofteachers to link religious education to arts education in working with students at primary and secondaryschools, believing that the religion class is a true catalyst of knowledge in areas which meet naturallytherein. As a corollary, students are offered deciphering Romanian history as surprised by the GreatFresco from the Romanian Athenaeum, which values the entire journey from the perspective of worship,the Orthodox religion, in which the soul of the nation developed, from the first Christian century. The aimof the research is to demonstrate valences time religion, its value to facilitate the transfer of knowledgeand to provide students with a near fields of knowledge and the arts, particularly fine arts, in anexperiential manner, offering valuable knowledge and insight for training and personal development ofchildren aged 6 to 14. As research methods, we used the observation and teaching experiment in role playand analyse three-dimensional works, which were found constantly in exhibitions which were selectedand collected in an album that constitute the fruits of a study that lasted for almost ten years.

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REVELATION, COMMUNION AND COMMUNICATION - THE COORDINATES OF LIFE AND HAPPINESS IN CHRISTIANITY

Author(s): Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

We live in a pluralistic, secularized and technological society, wherein each person promotes personalinterests and seeks to solve the problems, most of the time, independently, without taking in considerationthe reality and social environment. In this context, the Church is involved in solving the problems ofpeople and society, especially the ones regarding the community, from the position and with the specificmeans. Mostly, the reality of the man locked in insufficiency, the human sufferance and of the otherdifficulties have always been problems to be solved for every society. Modern societies have created acomplex of social assistance structures and institutions based on modern social ethics and on strictlyinstitutionalized relationships. Even if modern society satisfies man's material desires, yet he does notdeal with the spiritual ones. Material pleasure is exhausted with its consumption, while the spiritual lifebears the feature of eternity.

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ROMANIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF THE 1918

Author(s): Mihaela Denisia Liușnea / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The beginning of 1918 was difficult for the whole of Eastern Europe, as it began with a strong imbalancein the system of power balance, through the disappearance of the former Tsarist Empire following the"Russian failure of 1917", as Marshal Al. Averescu, the chaos and the expansion as a scourge ofBolshevism among the soldiers on the front, still in the Entente camp, still alongside the Romanian army,on the front of Moldova, in front of the Austro-Hungarian army. Following the military anarchy, therevolt against the Russian commanders, and even their killing, resulted in the breaking of the front, theRomanians allies being themselves assaulted, so only a chance made this state of affairs no opportunityfor the Austro-Hungarians to dismantle the Romanian state. A tough year for Romania, which had lostsome of its territory and was blackmailed to choose between a territory that had been unjustly abducted in1812 - Bessarabia and another territory that belonged to Dobrogea - was recovered in 1877. In addition,on January 13, 1918, the state of war with Soviet Russia was established. On the other hand, internationalrelations presuppose arguments and justifications as the basis of discussions and negotiations, and thesewere offered not only by history but also by the actual decisions and actions taken by the King and thecountry, by its men, the military, the people politicians and diplomats.

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SCIENCE MEETING ART: VOCAL TECHNIQUE AND SPONTANEITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ACTING

Author(s): Ioana Visalon / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

In the contemporary theater, the actors needs to sound as normally and spontaneous as they do in everyday conversations. But in order to be heared by the audience in a large theater, they have to acquire voiceand speech skills. The search for an equilibrium between technique and emotional freedom is still one ofthe most important challenges that acting schools are facing. Bridging the creative, imaginative inner selfwith the skillful outer communicative one requires the most diverse contributions in an interdisciplinarydialogue combining physical disciplines like Alexander Technique or Yoga with the new insights into theworking of the mind, the body and the emotions provided by neuroscience. In the effort of shifting thecontrols from external, physical muscles to internal, emotional impulses I think that the scientificperspective offered by Antonio Damasio can give a great deal of help. The way in which this recentresearch can provide new approaches of the functioning of the human voice in the theater, a voice that isin direct contact with emotional impulses, is the main interrogation of this article.

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SCIENTIFIC LINGUISTICS, A NEVER-ENDING HISTORY

Author(s): Jacques Coulardeau / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

1866 was a turning point in scientific linguistics when the Linguistic Society of Paris banned all papers and presentations on the origin of language. De Saussure locked up the debate with two concepts, diachrony and synchrony. I intend to examine the emergence of the hypothesis of a single origin of human articulated languages, in Africa first, and then Black Africa. The phylogenic approach of biological studies has today spread to linguistics. Sally McBrearty rejected the idea of a Neolithic evolution. Consequently, Black Africa became a major field of archaeological research. Yuval Noah Harari stating the existence of a symbolic revolution around 70,000 years ago, rejected Black Africa along with the Americas, and the Denisovans. Asia has become a major archaeological field. Juliend’Huy implements phylogenetic arborescent technique to the study of myths. The oldest form of a myth is not the origin of it. In oral civlizations some literate individual had to tell the story behind representations for the people to understand, appreciate, and remember them. I will then consider structural linguistics(Noam Chomsky & Universal Grammar). UG has never been able to develop semantics within its own system (Generative Semantics & George Lakoff). Science is always a temporarily approximate vision of what it considers. First, what any science explores is constantly evolving following phylogenic dynamics that are contained in the very objects of such scientific studies. Second, any new knowledge appearing in the field concerned causes a complete restructuration of what we knew before.

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SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE ROMANIAN VILLAGE INTERWAR

Author(s): Ovidiu Soare / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Sociological research during the interwar period was meant to be a way through which the country couldbe known better, in other words, to make the Romanian realities better known, especially throughmonographic research, initiated by sociologist D. Gusti, considered to be the starting point of theRomanian Sociological School. After the achievement of the national ideal through the Great Union of1918, a new ideal was necessary, that could complete the former. The nation was in the process of findingitself. The social problems of the country would be understood by knowing the country. All theenthusiastic forces were called forth to help to raise awareness of the nation, which were to become partof the monographic research teams: school teachers, priests, secondary teachers and professors, doctors,agronomists, mayors and praetors, members of the community centres, and even “the superior religiousand civil rulers of the Nation, cultivating an Ethics and a Politics of Truth.” This study presents someaspects of the activity of the Community Centres in the rural area, the presence of the Royal StudentTeams and the compulsoriness of the Social Service in the villages.

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SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES OF YOUNG STUDENTS ON THE CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Author(s): Ovidiu-Dănuţ Soare / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

In today's European social context, freedom of opinion and expression, the social problem of religiouseducation in Romania is widely debated, not only in social and political environments, but also inacademic ones. The many pro and against attitudes highlight the importance of this issue, both for theRomanian society in general, and for the Church and the School in particular. The two institutions, theChurch and the School, are active in the social, cultural and educational space of Romania. On one hand,through the multitude of joint programs, which are carried out at the level of the two institutions, and inwhich young people are involved; and on the other hand, through the presence of a qualified and activeteaching staff in the field of religious education.Being aware that educational institutions have aconservative side, attached to the past, but also an innovative side, anchored in the present, we presentthis exploratory study that highlights the different social perspectives young students have on religiouseducation, the presence of the Church in their lives, and the ways in which these perspectives can improvethe religious educational approach, the relationship between the youth, the School and the Church, andthe ways in which they can all benefit in their social life

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SOCIAL PHENOMENON AND THEATRE. ECONOMIC MIGRATION IN CATINCA DRĂGĂNESCU’S PLAY „ROVEGAN”

Author(s): Elena Horghidan-Anghel / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Catinca Drăgănescu is one of the key figures in today’s Romanian theatre. As a playwright and stagedirector she’s inspired by Romania’s social realities, and she always militates towards a theatre ofconsciousness, a theatre that’s always grounded in `present tense.„Rovegan” as a play but also as a theatreshow represents a clear example of Drăgănescu’s proactive and focused approach towards Romania’ssocial problems. In „Rovegan” she approaches the problem of economic migration. This is one of themost important issues in Romania’s society today. The main factors that influence Romania’s citizens tomake this decision (leaving the country) are poverty and lack of perspective. These main subjects are keyelements in Catinca’s play. Following the script of the well-known fairy tale „Capra cu trei iezi” by IonCreanga, the play follows the story of a mother who goes abroad, in Italy to work and her children whoremain at home. The main subjects of the play, that brig up violent emotions in the audience, arecapitalism as we know it today in Romania and the separation between mother and children.

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SOME ASPECTS OF THE CONTROVERSIAL NEXUS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Author(s): Alexandru-Corneliu Arion / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The present paper takes into consideration a few aspects related to the relation between the two disputeddomains of knowledge: science and religion. After having pointed out the main eight warfare andnonwarfare models of interaction between science and religion, the study focuses on the motives ofEastern and Western Christianity breach, which resides on the very different attitude to Science andNature. The main part of depicting the nexus between the two fields of research is focusing on thedoctrine of creation, the one Christian theology truly revolutionized. The Christian Weltanschauung wasso new in comparison with Greek cosmology that it had to raise new questions and make radicalmodifications, especially regarding the understanding of space and time. The Fathers of the OrthodoxChurch were happy to use the science and philosophy of their time in their theological thinking. However,they did not pursue a natural theology in the sense the term is often now understood based on scholastictheology. According to the Orthodox understanding, the intellect provides not knowledge about thecreation but rather a direct apprehension or spiritual perception of the divine Logos (Word) incarnate inChrist, and of the inner essences or principles (logoi) of the cosmos components created by that Logos.The arguments of Orthodox Christian theology proof that the quantum universe was created out ofnothing and that it is kept in existence only by God's relationship with creation through Jesus Christ andthe Holy Spirit. In relation to itself, the universe is reduced to nothing, because God is in Himself, whileany other created thing is dependent upon Him, into an indissoluble connection with Him. According tocreation theology, God gives the world its rational, intelligible structure as described by the laws of naturethrough the transcendent and eternal act of bringing the world into existence ex nihilo. As immanentcreator, God also continues to create (creatio continua) and providentially direct processes and eventstowards their consummation in the eschaton. Overall, there is a poignant reason for keeping science andreligion together once “science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind” (Einstein).

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SOME MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF ABIOGENESIS

Author(s): Ago Omerbasic / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

In this paper, we try to modestly, but strictly, using a mathematical approach, show that life was createdwith a certain goal and that the possibility of accidental origin of life is equal to zero. To calculate theprobability of accidental creation of only one protein molecule, the basic building block of living systems,we selected a hemoglobin molecule that, because it is well studied, has become the standard for proteinresearch. For comparison, together with this calculation, we also made a calculation of the probability ofthe systematic stacking of chaotically scattered playing cards from a certain height on a certain surface, aprobability that is generally accepted as - improbably!

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SPECIFIC TOOLS OF ACTING: THE CONCEPT – A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING AND APROACHING CHARACTERS

Author(s): Florin Toma / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Actors are creators. They live on the stage and bring their own world with them. Sometimes, actors canlive under the impression that the inner world of a part is so far away from their personal experience thatthere is no other access path towards the core of the character than creating a substitute, a model thatwould be convincing enough, so that, through imitation, reproduction and simulation of reality, theymight go through with the scene. Some others might think that the simplest way to approach a part is toonly focus on the lines, enveloping themselves in the melody, in an incantation of sorts, thus making thetext, who had in the meanwhile become unclear, to surround them with a kind of fog that gives them thefeeling they experience something real, an actual state. Some other times it happens that actors findphysical actions to fill their own voids. It is a way to hide, and the actions are actually useless, and nonartistic. To find the way to a character one needs, first of all, to discover and understand the logicalmechanism it is built upon, that makes a character what it is.

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SPIRU HARET-REFORMER OF THE ROMANIAN SECONDARY EDUCATION

Author(s): Cristina - Mirela Barabaș / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

This article presents the activity of Spiru Haret, mathematician, scientist and an emblematic personality ofhis time, as his reform of the Romanian education system as as Minister of Education, a function he heldfor three terms during liberal governments at the end of the nineteenth century and early twentiethcentury. Appreciated for the rigor, work and professionalism he demonstrated throughout his entireactivity, and at the same time vehemently attacked by his political opponents, Spiru Haret understood thatreforming the education system lies at the heart of reforming Romanian society. He saw education as akey factor of social progress, despite the fact that the Romanian school was facing major problems at thattime: lack of qualified teaching staff, lack of infrastructure and poverty, but also the precariousness facedby pupils and their parents. After an in-depth analysis of the previous legislation, Spiru Haret capitalizedwhat he believed will improve the Romanian education. Considered the founder of the modern Romanianeducation, Spiru Haret aims to meet the needs of a country that had just acquired its independence, andthat was in the process of building an unitary national state.

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STEPHEN HAWKING AND DIVINITY IN HIS “GRAND PLAN”

Author(s): Ionel Ene / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Relationship between religion and science remains a permanent attraction of all people. As the simplestatheist is the most telling proof of the existence of God, as any attempt to change the message revealed byGod, is implicit recognition. This is also the attitude of the authors of the paper, great Plan StephenHawking and Mlodinow Leonad. That last reality of this world bears the imprint of the Holy Trinity, weeven say the authors, who are not as irreligious, as will appear. Speaking about quarks, they say thefollowing: "Curacii, which also we cannot see, I am a model explaining the properties of protons andneutrons from the nucleus of an atom. Although I think that protons and neutrons are obtained fromQuark, we won't be able to notice a Quark never, because the force between quarks increases enormouslyas they try to separate them, so there may be no free quarks in nature. They always occur in groups ofthree (proton and neutron) or in pairs Quark-Quark (mezonii), and behaves as if it would be connectedwith rebounding, (Stephen Hawking, 2012, 40).

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STEREOTYPES ABOUT BLINDNESS AND PEOPLE WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMNTS

Author(s): Daniela Rusu Mocănașu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Social representation of the abilities and potential of people with visual impairment are predominantlystereotypes, blindness being considered to be one of the most difficult and feared human conditions.Often the “sighted” people know very few real elements about the size of the disability, the education andthe possibilities of social-professional integration of the visually impaired, most of the informationcoming from stories conveyed in the collective mind, which create unrealistic, exaggerated images, manytimes in the fictional realm. The existing stereotypes regarding this category of people are both positiveand negative, the blind people being portrayed from objects of mercy, eternally unhappy individuals as aresult of a life marked by tragedy, to superheroes, people endowed with a range of mystical abilities,super powers, worthy to admire. Some of these stereotypes are still fund today in the Romanian society.The present paper aims to identify among the students of the “Dunarea de Jos” University, the dominantstereotypes about the visually impaired and the main meanings attached to the blindness.

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STYLISTIC LANDMARKS IN THE OPERETTA THE LAND OF SMILE BY FRANZ LEHÁR. STAGE DIRECTING CONCEPT

Author(s): Adrian Mărginean / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2019

Austro-Hungarian composer and conductor, a leading personality in the genre of the 20th centuryoperetta, giving this genre a new vitality, Lehár remained one of the best-known composers of the time,alongside Jacques Offenbach and Johann Strauss II. His most successful operetta - The Merry Widow -has earned a prominent place in the operetta repertoire over time. The romantic operetta in 3 acts TheLand of Smile premiered on October 10, 1929, at the Metropol Theater in Berlin, with tenor RichardTauber as Sou-Chong. This performance provided a revised version of the older version of the operetta,entitled The yellow jacket, presented in 1923 in Vienna. Operetta The Land of Smile by Franz Lehár is anexceptional musical work with a rich oriental coloring with melodies and orchestras rich in meaning,breathing a very modern air with well-crafted characters, both musical and dramaturgic, being the onlyoperetta from musical literature with a sad ending (according to my personal knowledge). In mydirectorial approach, I thought that the most important thing for beeing able to stage a show, so as toexcite the audience and bring it closer to the fascinating world of the musical theater, is to listen to themusic, to understand what it express, then to pass the information through the filter of your sensitivity andreason, putting the show on stage and being in your turn a creator, who translates the language of thecomposer and the librettist in your original way.

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TEACHING ENGLISH COLLOCATIONS AS MARKS OF LINGUSITIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

Author(s): Antoanela Marta Mardar / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Starting from the general view that collocations represent one of the most important tools that speakers can use in communication in order to manifest their linguistic and cultural identity, the present paper aims at demonstrating that teaching collocations should not be limited to highlighting their linguistic specificity, but should also take into consideration pointing out their cultural markedness. Moreover, since collocations are agreed to be restricted according to the context in which they are used, teachers should consider gradually moving from practicing collocations in general contexts to practicing collocations in specific contexts meant to raise the learners’ awareness of the various identities they may acquire when using such fixed lexical patterns. If emphasis is laid on both the linguistic and cultural specificity of collocations and on the possibility of using them according to a certain identity which is envisaged, learners may become more aware of how important the correct and appropriate use of collocations is in both their native language and in any foreign language they might learn. As a result, learners are likely to pay more attention to collocations, to use them more correctly, thus developing their native and foreign language - collocational competence.

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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF DUMITRU STĂNILOAE,

Author(s): Gheorghe F. Anghelescu,Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

This article presents the anthropological concept of Dumitru Stăniloae, priest, professor of theology and20th century Romanian thinker, who delineated a new scientific direction on man and the world, by hisiconic, patristic visions, starting from the Greek philosophy and having at its heart the status of the humanbeing and nature. The anthropology of Professor Dumitru Stăniloae represents a rediscovery of thepatristic theology but especially a pondering on the dialogue between religion and science cultivated inthe academic area today. The core of Dumitru Stăniloae’s thinking is man as image of the divinity, forthis reason, his anthropology is full of spiritual meaning. The progress (evolution) in man’s relation withnature is an authentic knowing rationality, the same with the progress in the knowledge of the sense ofhuman existence, simultaneous to deification or transfiguration. The main anthropological ideas this studyrelies on show that man is a personal being opened to the communion with God, with the world and withhis fellows, and the universe created by God represents a very artistic work of love and especially areality of language, communication and knowledge.

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