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SMART SERVICES AND THEIR BENEFITS FOR MANUFACTURERS FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Lucie Kaňovská / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Current manufacturers do not provide only tangible products to their customers, but also deliver services and integrated solutions in today’s globalized environment. Furthermore,they effort also on implementing ‘smart services’. Smart services allow by connected product service systems to exchange data between their customers and the service providers. Smart services offer many benefits for both manufacturing companies as service providers and as well as for their customers. The aim of this paper is to investigate which benefits of smart services are the most significant for manufacturing companies. To address the research objective, a qualitative multi-case study was conducted among seven Czech electrotechnical SMEs, which have already started with smart service provision. The respondents operate in the same industry,but they provide a wide range of products and services to their customers with varying degrees of smart service orientation. The empirical part of the paper involves in-depth interviews with owners or with experienced senior managers in each case organization. The interviews were done from April 2017 to January 2018. The findings show the most important benefits for small and medium manufacturers and their customers.

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GLOBAL E-TRENDS IN RUSSIAN HIGH EDUCATION SYSTEM AS ESSENTIAL TOOLS OF ITS CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Author(s): Anna Zotova,Valentina Mantoulenko,Kirill Primaka / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Modern "post-industrial" era is distinguished by such rapid global changes andalmost instantaneous copying of products and services that make it meaningless reaching thegoal of long-term retention of a certain market position. Constant perfection of design andservice accompanying provision of products and services, is becoming a condition forsuccessful business development. The strategy ceased to be only a long-term plan and wasformed as the concept of a management process which is characterized by a constantadjustment in the on-line regime. Today, the educational community is also subjected to thesechanges. The need for changes and adaptation to an ever-changing environment poses anumber of new challenges for educational institutions aimed at training specialists with a setof core competencies for the information society. Universities today are doing their best toattract international students. They are mobile young people (there are more than 5 millionpeople in the world), possessing great abilities. The war for talent leads to the rapiddifferentiation of educational institutions. Technological innovations came with a delay ofabout 10 years in the sphere of education. Today, the annual growth of the online educationmarket is 27%, the traditional - 5%. In 2016, more than 50 million people around the worldstudied using the largest online platforms. So the main task of this research work is to definethe influence of some educational global trends on Russian education system (regarding thesetrends as important tools of change management for educational institutions) and assess thereadiness of Russian universities to such influence.

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Once Upon a Time in Cyberspace: A Grim Reality about the Dangers of Cyberwarfare

Author(s): Gia Fernicola / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This Article addresses the issue of translating current international law norms and principles onto the borderless realm—cyberspace. This Article provides an overview of the United States’ and Russia’s approach to defend against a cyberattack. This Article concludes with an original, new test that resolves the discrepancies between all existing approaches to determine whether or not a cyber act is in fact an armed attack.

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Cybersecurity in the Making – Policy and Law: a Case Study of Georgia

Author(s): Vladimeri Napetvaridze,Archil Chochia / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The given article is an evaluation of the implementation and development of Georgia’s cybersecurity policy, and its influence on Georgia’s global cybersecurity index. The study covers the period from 2008 to 2018. In 2008 Georgia became one of the first victims of hybrid warfare. During the August 2008 Russo-Georgian war, Georgian government websites were attacked by hackers affiliated with Russia. In the given period, cybersecurity was not the priority direction for Georgia, therefore government portals were easy targets for cybercriminals and the government couldn’t prevent the cyberattacks. After 2008, the government decided to develop a state cybersecurity policy. In 2012 the country ratified the Council of Europe’s cybersecurity convention. At the same time, the “Law of Georgia on Information Security” which had become a basic document of the cybersecurity state policy implementation, had been adopted. The document was followed by a cybersecurity strategy. During the following years, based on cybersecurity strategy document, Georgia implemented 2 action plans and defined the relevant state agencies responsible for “cyber safety” of the country. As a result of the reforms, in 2017, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Cybersecurity Global Index, Georgia has been ranked among the top ten countries. The given article is a chronological description of a Georgian cyberpolicy and cybercapabilities evolution. It includes cases of organized cybercrime carried out against the state and examples of the development of Georgian cybersecurity policy which was reflected on the global international cybersecurity index of the country.

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Preservation and Rendition of Computer Data in Slovak Criminal Procedure Code

Author(s): Ivana Rabinská / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

The goal of this article is to analyse the Slovak legislation of preservation and rendition of computer data in accordance with section 90 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which was implemented in the Slovak legal order under the Convention on Cybercrime, Budapest, 23. 11. 2001. In particular, article 16 of the Convention on Cybercrime obliges the member states to adopt necessary legislative and other measures as may be necessary to enable its competent authorities to order or similarly obtain the expeditious preservation of specified computer data, including traffic data, that has been stored by means of a computer system, in particular where there are grounds to believe that the computer data is particularly vulnerable to loss or modify. In addition, the article examines the effects of the legislation adopted in practice, including the correlation problems that the legislator has not deal with and also brings up-to-date results of the fight against cybercrime.

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Identification and Authentication of Persons in Cyberspace in Selected States

Author(s): Jozef Andraško / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The author analyses different models of identification and authentication in selected states. First of all, the author explains the reason for choosing countries in question. Secondly, the author briefly analyses fundamental strategic documents and legal acts relating to eGovernment, in particular identification and authentication. In addition, the specific electronic identification means used in selected states will be analyzed. The analyze of different models of identification and authentication in selected states can lead to the identification of differences that arose within the comparison of various models. In the end, the author will summarize positive and negative aspects of analyzed models of identification and authentication. These findings are necessary in order to make a conclusion which electronic identification means could be applied in the Slovak Republic.

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Mobile Applications for Administrative Purpose in the EU and V4 – with Special Regard to Document Management

Author(s): Balázs Szabó / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The growing popularity of smartphones is undoubtedly one, if not the most important factor in widening the administrative application process for smartphone use. The widespread use of smartphones has changed the way that people communicate, which has also allowed governments the opportunity to create a new channel alongside traditional ways of connecting with citizens. In my opinion, people are less and less likely to use their smartphones to make phone calls classically, but instead to connect via email, social media services (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and use their smartphone features, applications to manage their daily tasks (e.g. banking transactions). Therefore, I believe that m-administration (mobile/ smartphone-based) can be a much more convenient way for the state and public administrations to connect with citizens. In this study, I intend to study mobile applications for administrative purposes made by the European Union and a V4 country, Hungary.

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CHANGE IN COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT ROLES DUE TO GLOBALIZATION: A CASE OF COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES MAPPED BY INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSOCIATIONS (2015-2020)

Author(s): Renata Matkevičienė,Lina Jakučionienė / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Research background: The role of communication has now become much more critical than during previous periods, not only to compete with other organisations in the stream of communicating messages but also to develop and implement organisational strategies and support the organisation’s top-level managers and decision-makers. The goal of public relations (PR) associations is to develop PR professionals’ competencies. Comprehensive research at the European level signals the need for constant improvement of competencies, especially business development and technologies (Zerfass et al., 2020; Adi, 2019). A vast majority of practitioners across Europe highlight the importance of digitalising stakeholder communications and building a digital infrastructure to support internal workflows (Zerfass et al., 2021). However, instead of technical and managerial training, PR practitioners continue to overwhelmingly offer communication training and development opportunities (Tench et al., 2013; Zerfass et al., 2018; MacNamara et al., 2017; Feldman, 2017; The USC Annenberg Centre for Public Relations, 2017; Communicating AI, 2019). There are discrepancies between the perceived importance of competencies and the current qualifications of professionals due to digital transformation and changes impacted by globalisation. Purpose: To identify changes in PR specialists' competencies due to the impact of globalisation. Methods: Content analysis of information provided in the webpages of international professional PR associations for the period 2015–2020. Findings and value added: The study results show that professional PR associations do not respond to the challenges of the changing environment in a timely manner by providing training, but present and discuss relevant topics with the help of specialists from other fields while encouraging the sharing of good practices. Such a functioning position occupied by professional PR associations in developing the model of competence for PR specialists reveals that PR associations are engaged in strengthening or maintaining competencies, but not developing them.

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Modernizarea dreptului administrativ în era transformării digitale. Actul administrativ electronic

Author(s): Emilia Lucia Cătană / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04/2019

This study aims to analyze the modernization of administrative law in the digital era, taking into account the positive law at European level and the comparative law, in the context of the digital society. This means the adoption of the electronic administrative act, which is customized by specific procedural forms, such as electronic signature and deletion of the stamp.

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Paradigmele axiologice ale Dreptului muncii

Author(s): Claudia-Ana Moarcăş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 03-04/2020

This paper aims at a brief analysis of the labour relationship in the 21st century while relying on the consecrated paradigms of the labour law. It focuses on the transformations of work (smart work) and their impact on the legal labour relationship and the worker’s/employee’s status as it attempts to emphasize the autonomy of the labour law as a specific branch of law and its mixed character even as it faces new paradigms mainly emerging from the intermediary workers’ category performing their jobs in atypical forms, including, inter alia, by resorting to new technologies.

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Efikasnije poslovanje preduzeća uz pomoć komunikacionih tehnologija

Author(s): Mirjana Tešić / Language(s): Bosnian,English Issue: 2/2016

The success of the modern enterprise depends not only on its ability to develop a good product / service, to form an adequate price and your offer makes available to customers, but also on how to communicate with the target audience. For the management of modern enterprises, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is a major challenge that all activities are carried out in a proper manner and that adds value to which the various interested stakeholders. In recent times, are very important, and information and communication systems in the new economy because the rapid technological progress in the ICT sector started the process of creating a new economy, a new growth and economic development. Successful management is increasingly based on interactive communication and the adopting of marketing communication new technologies, all of which contribute to more efficient business for a company.

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THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE WORKFORCE AFTER 2020

Author(s): Ana-Maria Coatu / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2022

This article analyzes the general impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the workforce with a special focus on Romania after 2020. Our hypothesis is that the COVID-19 has generated a speed-up change in how people work and their attitude towards work. As regards to the employers, COVID-19 made them adapt to the new sanitary conditions by allowing the employees to work from home, which has also led to an increasing trust in the work ethics of the employee and forced the managers to better allocate the tasks in order to continue to perform as a company. Also, this pandemic has led other employers and entrepreneurs to change and to reinvent their businesses. As pertaining to the employee, this pandemic made him more adaptable to change and to prefer work-from-home conditions or a hybrid system.

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PRATIQUES LANGAGIERES ET CONSCIENCE LINGUISTIQUE SUR LES MEDIAS SOCIAUX: D’UNE QUETE IDENTITAIRE AUX DEFIS DE REAPPROPRIATION DE LA CYBERLANGUE EN CONTEXTE CAMEROUNAIS/AFRICAIN

Author(s): Basile Difouo / Language(s): French Issue: 34/2022

This research work is entitled “Conscience and linguistic practices on social networks. From quest for identity to the challenge of reappropriation in the African context. A survey on a Cameroonian digital platform”.Commonly referred to as social media, digital platforms henceforth stand out as the most resorted to means of communication by the quasi-totality of social layers throughout the world. The dynamism of language also manifests itself in the same scene with a certain vigor notably through cyberlanguage. Based on a video posted by “Mediatude” and certain resulting commentaries, the present study investigates attitudes and language specificities of internet users, received or/and built ideas towards languages in context, and their challenges. The findings show that the French language, like other languages used in this framework, consistently undergoes the phenomenon of cyber-influence. The spelling, the lexicon, the morphology and the syntax permanently witness the assaults of communicational new demands with, first and foremost, the emergence of pictograms whose peculiarity is to transfer more concretely the emotions of speakers despite the virtual character of the communication situation, despite the distance between the interlocutors. However, in conformity with identity and self-assertion for an eventual renaissance, most speakers exteriorize an awareness which could redefine linguistic policies in Cameroon and in Africa. The major challenge, in its essence, squarely falls in line with the quest for freedom which is primarily linguistic and cultural, at least in terms of basic grounds.

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GAMIFICATION, TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY, AND SELF-EFFICACY IN ROMANIAN PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Author(s): Gabriel Cramariuc,Alina Ionescu-Corbu,Andreea Ursu / Language(s): English Issue: 34/2022

The aim of the present study was to analyze the associations between perceived usefulness of gamification, technology proficiency, teachers’ self-efficacy and gamification usage and to investigate the possible predictive role of perceived usefulness of gamification, technology proficiency, teachers’ self-efficacy for gamification usage among Romanian teachers. The study sample consists of 124 preschool and primary teachers, aged between 18 and 64years old (M = 33.31; SD = 9.98), with an average of 7.00 years (SD = 9.54) of teaching experience. Participants filled out the questionnaires online. Results showed positive correlations between perceived usefulness of gamification, technology proficiency, teachers’ self-efficacy and gamification usage. In addition, results from the regression analyses show that perceived usefulness of gamification, technology proficiency, and teachers’ self-efficacy predicted 14% of gamification usage variance.

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EL DERECHO DIGITAL. ANALISIS DE LA ENSEÑANZA DISRUPTIVA EN LA CARRERA DE DERECHO

Author(s): Sánchez Alcides Antúnez,Matos Hidalgo Leaned,González Cabrales Yamilé / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 2/2023

The article aims to analyse how the training process has been developed through disruptive teaching in the Law degree, with the use of computer technologies as mediators in the teaching-learning process in the period 2020-2021 in the during the COVID-19 pandemic, which had an impact on the promotion of the use of digital platforms and tools at the University of Granma within the Ministry of Higher Education, for the development of digital skills in teachers and students. The 21st century, the Knowledge Society is characterized by the appearance of digitization, leaving analog technologies behind and is based on the use of Information and Communication Technologies, telecommunications and the Internet on the web 2.0 platform. This paradigm shift has given way to the generation of an increasing volume of information; opening up a wide spectrum of new methods and techniques for the management of information and processes in dissimilar sectors, of which the university is no stranger in its training processes. Access to information changes, therefore, teaching methods must adjust to the new digital environment in which teachers and students operate in the 21st century, where the teacher is no longer the center of the class.

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The Role of Sentiment Analysis and Data Mining Solutions in the Study of Fake News and Countering Disinformation

Author(s): Constantin Bălan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

The proposed article highlights the importance of studying the phenomenon of fake news spreading based on sentiment analysis solutions (use of natural language processing techniques) and data mining (obtaining relevant information from the study of data), given the diversification and travel speed of these types of news, as well as the need to implement mechanisms to assist us, in a first stage, in gaining a thorough understanding of them and, subsequently, in taking the necessary steps to limit the spread of the phenomenon. The method of qualitative analysis of specialised studies was used for this article.

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The Main Risks and Threats to NATO’s Eastern Flank

Author(s): Alba-Iulia Catrinel POPESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Located within the Ponto-Baltic Isthmus, the North Atlantic Alliance’s (NATO) Eastern border faces a number of threats, which exceed in diversity and breadth the existing challenges at other border territories of the Alliance. In addition to the historical, permanent threats generated by the geographical and geopolitical position of the Eastern flank states, there are also new threats, that occurred in a pandemic context, especially in the context of the current technological era. This article aims to identify and analyse the main risks and threats facing NATO’s Eastern flank states and to argue the need for complex, multi-purpose support for the materialisation, consolidation and securitisation of the East-European North-South Corridor.

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Study of the Behavior and the Mechanical Properties of Adhesively Bonded Polymer Matrix Composites Under Mechanical Loading

Author(s): Daniela Spasova,Yaroslav Argirov,Plamen Petrov,Tatyana Mechkarova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Glass fiber reinforced Polymer matrix composites (PMCs) have a complex set of properties - high specific strength and hardness, good corrosion and chemical resistance, and most of all low relative weight, making them the preferred material over metallic materials in a number of industries (aircraft, boat building, renewable energy facilities and many others). The main aim set in the present work was reduced to the obtaining of PMCs made by adhesive bonding of two composites with a matrix of different types of resin (vinyl ester and epoxy) and the study of their behaviour in determining their mechanical properties. The studies were carried out with four types of adhesively bonded PMCs made in the form of laminates produced from a combination of three types of resin (two types of vinyl ester and one type of epoxy resin) and reinforced with biaxial fiberglass. The aim is to combine the lack of shrinkage of the epoxy resin with the better mechanical properties and better productivity of the vinyl ester resin. An analysis to determine shear strength, tensile strength and bending strength of the investigated composites was made. A macrostructural fractographic analysis to investigate the material behaviour under mechanical loads was carried out.

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CYBERSECURITY AND THE ECOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF DIGITIZATION

Author(s): Irina Zlătescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Digitization is one of the most relevant topics of the world today. No matter where we are or what we do, it became impossible to escape the use of artificial intelligence, and, unfortunately, the threats this progress brings, including to the environment. One cannot deny the advantages technology offers, but, on the other hand, cybercrime found its way to our daily life. The article aims to give a clear and honest perspective on the field of cybercrime and cybersecurity.

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Impactul digitalizării activității administrației publice asupra actului administrativ. Aspecte normative, jurisprudențiale și din perspectiva codificării procedurii administrative

Author(s): Emilia Lucia Cătană / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 03/2022

This study aims to analyze the impact of the digitization of public administration activity on the administrative act, in an interdisciplinary approach: normative, case-law and from the perspective of the codification of the administrative procedure. The discussions are generated by a paradigm shift, from the classical administrative act, exclusively in printed form, to the alternative or even to the rule of its electronic form, with electronic signature and no classic stamp. This paradigm shift is a challenge for doctrine, public administration practitioners, individuals and courts, in particular in the current context of the codification of the legislation governing the public administration activity.

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