Alexandru Ioan Cuza Research Articles

STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS ON DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. A PRELIMINARY STUDY.

A novel field of analyzing entrepreneurial entrepreneurship has been developed under the technological changes of the overall society, namely digital entrepreneurship. Digital entrepreneurship, defined as integrating information and communication technologies in entrepreneurial activities is seen as a significant topic, especially within the youngest generation. Thus, the main aim of the present research endeavor is to identify the business students’ perceptions and attitudes on digital entrepreneurship. In this regard, a survey was distributed among 346 students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania. According to the results, in the view of the young(est) generation, integrating digital technologies has become an alternative in entrepreneurial activity. Therefore, doing business in a global society is strongly connected with understanding technological progress.

Ceobanu, C., Cucoş, C., Istrate, O., & Pânişoară, I.-O. (Eds.) – Educaţia Digitală (II ed.) [Digital Education], Iaşi, Polirom, 2022.

The second edition of the book, published in 2020, Digital Education, is coordinated by Ciprian Ceobanu and Constantin Cucoş, Professors at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Olimpius Istrate and Ion-Ovidiu Pânişoară, an Associate Professor and a Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Bucharest. The studies gathered in this book include qualitative as well as quantitative analysis to help teachers expand and deepen the understanding of information for identifying solutions to the challenges of digitalization of education. Divided into thirty-four chapters grouped into five parts, the book analyses the impact of new technologies on training pathways. The reasons for which such study is extremely necessary is reflected in the concept of Education 4.0 that “although still insufficiently articulated and defined, tries to offer solutions for the changes to which the educational system must react in order to respond to the economic challenges of the beginning of the third millennium” (Ceobanu, Cucoş, Istrate, Pânişoară, 2022, p. 17).

Investigations Regarding The Contamination with Emerging Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Representative Rivers and Lakes in Romania

The presence of emerging pharmaceutical pollutants in the aquatic environment is generally related to anthropogenic activities such as domestic, industrial and hospital wastewater discharges and landfills. Special attention should be paid to the contamination of surface waters, as they are partly used for drinking water supply, since they directly collect partly untreated wastewater from wastewater treatment plant. Within this paper, the identification, quantification and distribution of pharmaceutical micropollutants, from different complex environmental matrices, respectively: surface water, sediment and biota in the river basins of Arges-Vedea, Buzau-Ialomita and Dobrogea-Litoral and of the Danube River, were achieved. Also, preliminary investigations were carried out regarding the contamination of lakes with active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) the metropolitan area of the municipality of Bucharest. Among the pharmaceutical micropollutants identified in the Arges-Vedea river basin, the most frequently detected was paracetamol with a frequency of 69% and antibiotics with a frequency of 65.52%, in the Dobrogea-Litoral basin paracetamol was detected with a frequency of 74.2% and antibiotics with a frequency of 54.84%, while antibiotics were identified in all surface water samples and paracetamol with a frequency of 80% in the Buzau-Ialomita river basin. Considering the contamination of sediments with pharmaceutical residues, these were identified in all studied areas and in biota samples (fish) up to 18.21 ng/g were detected. The preliminary identification of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from Lakes Plumbuita, Carol, Morii, Alexandru Ioan Cuza (IOR), Herastrau and Tei indicated the frequent presence of several items, such as paracetamol, tinidazole, carbamazepine, moxifloxacin, clarithromycin, and caffeine.

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Business Management and Strategy, Vol. 13, No. 2

Business Management and Strategy (BMS) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Many authors, regardless of whether BMS publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review for this issue.Reviewers for Volume 13, Number 2Ansar Abbas, Muslim Commercial Bank, PakistanDhanya Anna Kurian, Amity University, IndiaEddie John Paul Fisher, Universidad de Oriente, UKHalimahton Borhan, Universiti Teknologi Mara, MalaysiaIzabella Manukyan, Russian-Armenian University, ArmeniaNicoleta Nicoleta Dospinescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, RomaniaSoolakshna Lukea Bhiwajee, University Of Technology, Mauritius, MauritiusSulaiman Sheik Abdullah, Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar College, India Jean LeeBusiness Management and StrategyMacrothink Institute*************************************Add: 5348 Vegas Dr.#825Las Vegas, Nevada 89108United StatesTel: 1-702-953-1852 ext.508E-mail1: bms@macrothink.orgE-mail2: bms@macrothink.comWebsite: http://bms.macrothink.org

Strategii ale politeții în discursul televizual românesc actual. Invitat – Gigi Căciuleanu

The motivation for choosing the theme is based on the insufficient number of studies that analyze, exclusively, the strategies of negative and positive politeness, based on a corpus that includes cultural TV shows, such as talk-shows and television debates. The purpose of our study is to identify, inventory and analyze the main strategies of negative and positive politeness, because the cultural shows at which we stop provide the necessary material in terms of the analysis of the way and frequency in/ with which these strategies are used in the two television “genres”, talk-show and TV debate. Regarding the corpus, our study will analyze, from the perspective of the strategies of politeness that occur in discourse, four television shows that are part of the TV discourse and which have as a common element the guest of the show, Gigi Căciuleanu, a Romanian choreographer and dancer from the Diaspora: 1. the talk-show within the TV show Garantat 100% (moderator Cătălin Ștefănescu); 2. the TV debates Nocturne (moderator Marina Constantinescu) - TV shows included in Luminița Hoarță Cărăușu (coordinator), Corpus de limbă română vorbită actuală nedialectală, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Publishing House, Iași, 2013 (CLRVAN 2013: 244-251; 239-244); 3. the TV debate Branduʼ luʼ Chinezu (moderator Cristian China Birta); 4. the TV debate Cap de afiș (moderator and producer Andreea Știliuc). The last two TV debates are transcribed according to the transcription conventions mentioned in Corpus de limbă română vorbită actuală nedialectală (see supra) (CLRVAN 2013: 11).

Emanuela Ilie, Claudia Tărnăuceanu (COORD.), Surse Și Valori Ale Educaţiei. Perspective Pluridisciplinare, Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iaşi, 2021

Abstract Volume Surse și valori ale educației. Perspective pluridisciplinare (Educational Sources and Values. Multi-disciplinary Perspectives) (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Publishing House, Iași, 2021) consists of some of the works presented during the Valorile educației – educația valorilor din Antichitate până azi. Abordări teoretice, soluții practice (Educational Values – Education of Values from Ancient Times to Nowadays. Theoretical Approaches, Practical Solutions) National Symposium (5th edition, Iași, 2018, 6th edition, Iași, 2020) by researchers, academic professors and PhD candidates trained in different fields (linguistics, theory, history, literary critics, compared literature, philosophy, theology, visual arts, educational sciences). Grouped in three distinct sections (Antiqua, mediaevalia et humanistica; Moderna et contemporanea; Didactica), the studies highlight different perspectives on new research fields. Unlike the Symposium’s previous volumes, the coordinators dedicated a distinct section to the approach of educational processes from an axiological perspective and to the discussion of values as didactic landmarks (conceptual challenges, procedural difficulties and methodological solutions)

QUALITY OF CONTEMPORARY STUDENTS LIFE AND LIFESTYLE

Abstract. Quality of life is a concept, and at the same time, one of the basic concerns of all the management systems of modern society. Quality is a concept that refers to a subjective attitude of man, from the perspective of his intelligence and relates to human needs and desires. In order to improve the quality of life, any society creates an increasingly complex infrastructure through which all the multidimensional aspects of life are pursued. This was due to the fact that modern man is aware that all aspects contribute to the definition of his quality of life, both as an individual, as a member of human society, and as a universal entity. In the present research, we proposed a study on the evaluation of indicators related to the quality of life of students and the way in which students self-appreciate their lifestyle. The standardized questionnaire on quality of life - SF-36, was applied to a sample of 250 students from non-profile faculties within three higher education institutions: "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania; “Vasile Goldiş” Western University of Arad, Romania and the State University of Moldova, Chisinau, which aimed to assess the indicators regarding the quality of life of students, as well as the level of self-assessment of their healthy lifestyle.

The Political Role of the Orthodox Clergy in the Union of the Romanian Principalities (1859)

"The union of the Romanian Principalities was a decisive moment in the history and evolution of the modern Romanian state, but its realization cannot be separated from the actions of the bishops and clergy, who were co-opted in the electoral process from the very beginning. The activity of the clergy was not strictly limited to the bureaucratic management of the elections but revealed a set of political beliefs, actively supporting the idea of Romanians’ national unity. This paper aims to insist on the political partisanship of the clergy respectively, on the immediate consequences of their involvement in political life. Keywords: Romanian Orthodox Church, Union of the Romanian Principalities, State and Church, Sofronie Miclescu, Nifon Rusăilă, Alexandru Ioan Cuza"

A GREEK CORINTHIAN HELMET ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED IN IAȘI COUNTY, ROMANIA1

In 2014, a citizen from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza village, discovered in the waters of the Siret River a Corinthian type Greek helmet. Without realising the importance of the discovery, he took the helmet home. Although he did not appear to have any knowledge of the value of the object, the discoverer allowed an acquaintance to photograph and post the images on a social network. These photos started a judicial investigation that led to the identification of the author of the discovery and the recovery of the helmet, six years later. The artifact was recovered and included in the national cultural heritage, by submitting it in the custody of the National Museum Complex "Moldova", Iasi. The helmet is made of bronze, in the composition of which traces of lead (Pb) and iron (Fe) have been identified. It also displays traces of gilding. It is whole, but it has many marks and bends, some due to its engagement by the waters of the river, others as a result of blows with a hard body. The general condition is good.

The Effects of the Pandemics on Ethnic Roma

This article shows aspects captured in the research conducted at the beginning of 2021 with Roma ethnics from Iasi County and refers to the effects of the pandemic on Roma ethnics. For a start, the paper presents a short history of the Roma, their origins, their migrations around the world, the way they arrived on Romanian territory. The period of slavery of the Roma, their liberation, carried out by the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza around 1860, the period of the Holocaust in the Second World War, when due to a racist doctrine adopted by the Romanian State, the Roma were deported and subjected an extermination program, overcoming these unfortunate periods. The article also includes a brief description of the Roma from Iasi County and from the city of Iasi, continuing with the representation of the disease in the Roma; what does the disease mean for the Roma, how can they avoid it, what measures do they take to defend themselves against the disease, what kind of practical medicine. The article presents the research method used, the most suitable for the research group, this being the focus group. The subjects that were chosen for research are described and then the effects of the pandemic on Roma ethnics are presented, on a social, personal and psychological level. What they experienced from a social point of view during the pandemic, how social events unfolded for them, how they related socially; personally, how they managed this challenge from a personal point of view, what changes or improvements caused the pandemic; psychologically the feelings they had, the feelings they tried, the psychological struggle that took place inside them. The conclusions conclude this article by showing what the pandemic meant for the Roma ethnics and how they overcame it.

Variations of The Physicochemical Parameters of Water in Lake Titan 2 and Non-Conforming Sanitation Practices in The Alexandru Ioan Cuza Park in Sector 3 of Bucharest

Variations of The Physicochemical Parameters of Water in Lake Titan 2 and Non-Conforming Sanitation Practices in The Alexandru Ioan Cuza Park in Sector 3 of Bucharest

Investigations into the gas-phase photolysis and OH radical kinetics of nitrocatechols: implications of intramolecular interactions on their atmospheric behaviour

Abstract. The Environmental Simulation Chamber made of Quartz from the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” (ESC-Q-UAIC), at Iasi, Romania, was used to investigate the gas-phase reaction rate coefficients for four nitrocatechols toward OH radicals under simulated atmospheric conditions. Employing relative rate techniques at a temperature of 298 ± 2 K and a total air pressure of 1 atm, the obtained rate coefficients (in 10−12 cm3 s−1) were as follows: k3NCAT = (3.41 ± 0.37) for 3-nitrocatechol and k5M3NCAT = (5.55 ± 0.45) for 5-methyl-3-nitrocatechol at 365 nm, using CH3ONO photolysis as OH radicals source and dimethyl ether and cyclohexane as reference compounds, and k4NCAT = (1.27 ± 0.19) for 4-nitrocatechol and k4M5NCAT = (0.92 ± 0.14) for 4-methyl-5-nitrocatechol at 254 nm using H2O2 as OH radicals source and dimethyl ether and methanol as reference compounds. The photolysis rates in the actinic region, scaled to atmospheric relevant conditions by NO2 photolysis, were evaluated for 3-nitrocatechol and 5-methyl-3-nitrocatechol: J3NCAT = (3.06 ± 0.16) × 10−4 s−1 and J5M3NCAT = (2.14 ± 0.18) × 10−4 s−1, respectively. The photolysis rate constants at 254 nm were measured for 4-nitrocatechol and 4-methyl-5-nitrocatechol and the obtained values are J4NCAT = (6.7 ± 0.1) × 10−5 s−1 and J4M5NCAT = (3.2 ± 0.3) × 10−5 s−1. Considering the obtained results, our study suggests that photolysis may be the main degradation process for 3-nitrocatechol and 5-methyl-3-nitrocatechol in the atmosphere, with a photolytic lifetime in the atmosphere of up to 2 h. Results are discussed in terms of the reactivity of the four nitrocatechols under investigation toward OH-radical-initiated oxidation and their structural features. The rate coefficient values of the nitrocatechols are also compared with those estimated from the structure-activity relationship for monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and assessed in relation to their gas-phase IR spectra. Additional comparison with similar compounds is also presented, underlining the implications toward possible degradation pathways and atmospheric behaviour.

MIHAI VITEAZUL, DOMN CREȘTIN ȘI EROU AL NEAMULUI ROMÂNESC. CTITORIA MITROPOLITANĂ DE LA ALBA IULIA ȘI EPOPEEA OSEMINTELOR SALE. CÂTEVA CONSIDERAȚII

Ruler Michael the Brave’s acts, followed, under various forms, by the rulers of Wallachia or even by Transylvanian principles, taken over, later on, by political or military men of the West or of the East, will mark the Romanians’ First Great Union (1600), which he realized and which will be, centuries later, the spur for the Little Union (24 January 1859), under the Ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866, † 1873), but also for their Second Great Union (1 December 1918), under King Ferdinand I (1914-1927).

Inter regulam doctrinae et acceptationem. Some Reflections regarding the Church’s Fidelity to the Prince in the second half of the 16th Century Moldavia

Ioan-Augustin GURIȚĂ (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Faculty of History), Inter regulam doctrinae et acceptationem. Some Reflections regarding the Church’s Fidelity to the Prince in the second half of the 16th Century Moldavia Keywords: Orthodox Church, Moldavia, Christianity, 16th century, metro­politans. Abstract: The second half of the 16th century was, for Moldavia, Citiţi mai departe »

The Relationship between Alexandru Ioan Cuza and Dimitrie Alexandru Sturdza-Miclăuşanu

The Relationship between Alexandru Ioan Cuza and Dimitrie Alexandru Sturdza-Miclăuşanu

Some Thoughts on the Relevance of the Translation of Theodoret of Cyrus’ Church History by the Metropolitan Priest Veniamin Costachi

Daniel NIȚĂ-DANIELESCU (Faculty of Orthodox Theology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi), Some Thoughts on the Relevance of the Translation of Theodoret of Cyrus’ Church History by the Metropolitan Priest Veniamin Costachi Keywords: Theodoret, Veniamin, metropolitan, classical, Erbiceanu, Si­bies­cu. Abstract: In 1845, when he was retired in Slatina monastery, not long be­­fore passing Citiţi mai departe »

"The Buzoians During the Establishment of the Union of the Principalities "

"Through the double election, on January 5 and 24, 1859, through the extensive and complex program of reforms carried out during the 7 years of Alexandru Ioan Cuza's reign, the foundations of the modern Romanian national state were laid. The archive documents give us a correct picture of the events and personalities in the Buzău area. Following the elections of September 1857, the 7 deputies of Buzău county were: the bishop of Filotei, Scarlat Voinescu, Nicolae Pâcleanu, Costache Ciochinescu, Nae Stănescu, Vasile Serea and Costache Moglan. In accordance with those established in Buzău County, the members of the Elective Assembly were then elected, who on January 24, in the Concordia Hotel in Bucharest, together with the other Wallachian deputies, confirmed the double election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. They were: Scarlat Voinescu, Ion (Iancu) Marghiloman, Costache Deşliu, Mihail Pleşoianu and the bishop of Filota. In the evening of February 6, 1859, ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza was received by Buzoians with great pomp. A year later, on January 23, 1860, Prince Cuza celebrated the Union of the Romanian Principalities in Buzău."

Transylvanian Echoes of the Union of the Romanian Principalities

Based on documents and published literature, we will show how the Union of the Romanian Principalities in 1859 and the figure of the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza had echoes in Bihor and Maramureș, two Romanian areas in Western Transylvania which were subjected to a ruthless process of Hungarianization before 1918. It should be noted that the political event of 1859 and, above all, the figure of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, had lasting influences well after 1866, both in the lives of ordinary Romanians and in those of the cultural, religious and political elites. The examples provided by us will support the view that has been already established in our country’s ancient and modern historiography, according to which the pre-modern and modern times served as a consistent and sound foundation for the creation of Greater Romania in 1918, from a social, economic, cultural, political and moral perspective.

Arhipăstorirea mitropolitului Pimen Georgescu. Proiecţii şi reforme pentru clerul de mir (1909-1918)

"Abstract: The presentation contains the itinerary of my PhD research and the conclusion of my thesis, publically presented on October 30th, 2020, in the PhD School of History Faculty of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi. In the first part of the presentation included the main phases of my documentation, which lead me to an original perspective about how the Metropolitan Pimen Georgescu and his ecclesiastical institution (the Moldavian Metropolitanate) helped the Romanian war effort during the Great War. In its second part, I mentioned some of my research conclusions. Given that Pimen Georgescu is known in the Romanian historiography as the Metropolitan of the war and unification of the Romanian nation, I could state that my most important conclusion is perhaps that the implication of Metropolitan Pimen in supporting the Romanian war effort was not a purpose in itself, as the war was just a favorable context for materializing the perspective of the priestly extra-liturgical implication which he promoted when he was the Bishop of Galaţi and later on the Metropolitan of Iaşi."

Peculiarities of training specialists in the field of physical education and sports in higher education institutions of modern Romania

The article considers the peculiarities of training in the field of physical education and sports at specialized faculties on the example of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. Iasi, highlighted and characterized the main provisions of the charter of the faculty, curriculum and study programs, etc. It is determined that the faculty provides training in the specialties "Physical Education and Sports", "Physical Therapy" and "Sports and Physical Activity" (bachelor); "Fitness and body aesthetics", "Leisure and extreme sports", "Therapeutic physical training in sports traumatology", "Physiotherapy in sports traumatology" (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) and "School physical education and sports" (master's degree) future teachers of physical education and sports, coaches, physiotherapists, sports instructors, etc. The content and structure of syllabuses for the preparation of licensees / bachelors and masters are analyzed, the topics of lectures, seminars and practical academic classes are published, the hourly distribution is determined.