Babes-Bolyai University Research Articles

On-line learning platforms as virtual classrooms. Case study of initial primary teachers training at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract The paper presents the results of an experiment of using the learning platform BSCW (Basic Smart, Cooperate Worldwide) as a virtual classroom for preschool and primary school teacher training at Babes–Bolyai University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Three years of experimental program are presented in relation with the use of Internet as a fruitful learning environment. The defining features of BSCW will be presented, emphasizing on the platform’s characteristics that make it a real virtual classroom. Being defined by a variety of didactic options of communication, cooperation, organization of learning space, the BSCW platform represents a virtual classroom. Its use offered the university future teacher students the possibility to exercise own learning management skills, to improve own cooperation and learning tasks design abilities.

Promoting social competence development to reduce children's social aggression

The roles of schools are more and more diverse, schools is no longer just an institution with instructive objectives, but an essential environment for socialization and acculturation. Of course, the instructive function of school is still important, but, at the same time, the school has the role to regulate the social behaviours, by educating the emotional responses and developing students’ social abilities.There are a wide range of theories who try to explain the recrudescence of aggressive behaviours in children. The underlying theory of this paper is that childhood aggression could be correlated with deficient information processing skills and social-emotional maladjustment. In many cases, disruptive behaviours are not just deviations from socials norms, but the expression of wrong behavioural models, hence a result of imitating and interiorizing undesirable behaviours through social learning.The role of the adults who represent significant, reference figures for the child (parents, teachers, specialists, etc.) have to be more then just passively observe, label the children behaviours as misconduct and apply the punishment; they have to be pro-actively involved in child's nurturing and education, promoting a supportive and formative environment, filled with opportunities of learning pro-social behaviours. There are plenty proactive programmes designed to create opportunities for harmonious development of children's personality, to enhance their pro-social behaviours repertoire.In this paper, we present the innovative process of adaptation and implementation of the program Making Choices into a Romanian school, as part of the national project CNMP 91-063/2007 Project, Social diagnosis of academic performances through Social School Success Scale (SSSS) and the design of research-validated intervention methods, project coordinated by Professor PhD. Maria Roth, from Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj Napoca, financed by Romanian Ministry of Education and Innovation.Making Choices is a curriculum containing a series of cognitive problem-solving lessons intended to broaden children's social knowledge and skills for successfully interacting with peers and adults.We conduct this research in a school in Romania, at secondary level. The conclusions will sustain the necessity to allocate resources in this type of pro-active, preventive, school-based program in order to promote social competence and to reduce both overt and social aggression of children.

New Trends in Geometric Function Theory

1 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Mansoura, Mansoura 35516, Egypt 3 Department of Applied Mathematics, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, Republic of Korea 4 Department of Mathematics, Rzeszow University of Technology, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland 5 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Belgrade University, 1100 Belgrade, Serbia

The Problems of Higher Education Funding: The Case Study of “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Our study is intended to analyze: a) the issue of higher education under funding; b) the “disguised subsidizing” of higher education based on tuition fees; c) the supplementary revenues sources for universities; d) the funding mechanisms of higher education. We aim to incite debate on the relation between the educational policy and the funding strategy of higher education at both national and operational levels, instancing the case of the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. The fundamental guide marks of this analysis are: the average cost per student, the budgetary allowance and the tuition fee. What sources of supplementary revenues for universities are there? What kind of scientific research provides incomes? Which university services generate supplementary resources? How can the university infrastructure be “exploited”? In what measure the cooperation and partnership opportunities with the economic and social environment are being identified? Which are the facilities, the steering directions, the conditions and the benefits of accessing European Structural Funds? With the purpose of answering these questions we have conceived a funding strategy model, entailing: regulations, institutional infrastructure, working instruments, budgetary allowance distribution models, educational costs estimation methods, funding mechanisms, all these operating in a gearing meant to attain, by solving the problems, the objectives of higher education policy.

Concept, Trends and Application in Distance Learning, Case of BBU

The overwhelming, positive effects of the Internet and WWW for educational institutions and businesses of every type and size should not be underestimated.Numerous studies have shown substantial return on investment for organizations that adopt Internet technologies to enhance services. Distance learning as a concept is undergoing even today a more and more visible transformation, and at the level of practical application we can notice a very different approach from university to university, from the older web-based learning to on-line learning and e-learning based on IT platforms with different functions sometimes very particular ones depending on the target and the subjects submitted to the learning process. The BBU (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) case shows that at the level of the most known and competitive university from Romania the way chosen under specific circumstances for doing distance learning and the future directions for getting closer to the essence of the distance learning concept is the correct one but it is always submitted to adaptation to the academic environment and to the segments of students to which it is addressed.

Regulating Minority Issues through Standard-Setting and Mediation: The Case of the High Commissioner on National Minorities

On 17 February 2000 the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) submitted a recommendation to the Senate of the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU) in Romania. In this recommendation he formulated inter alia: “It is important for the staff of a University to reflect the University's multi-cultural character […] Therefore, an Equal Opportunity Commission should be established within the university to encourage the hiring of minority and female staff – on the basis of academic credentials – regulate guidelines on the recruitment and promotion of staff in this context and monitor performance against clear and transparent success/failure criteria.”

Redescription of Allolobophora dugesi getica Pop, 1947 and its allocation to the genus Cernosvitovia Omodeo, 1956 (Oligochaeta Lumbricidae)

The earthworm species Allolobophora dugesi var. getica Pop, 1947 due to the inadequate description has long been misinterpreted and consequently several synonym names were described. During a survey of the Pop collection kept in the Zoological Museum of the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj we discovered the type specimens of Allolobophora dugesi var. getica. A detailed examination of the adult type specimen revealed that its male pore is located on the clitellum. Consequently, A. dugesi var. getica should be placed to the genus Cernosvitovia. For the specimen revealed a new and more complete description is given, furthermore the taxonomy of several other Cernosvitovia species are discussed.

The Bolyai University and minority elite recruitment: 1944–1959

The Bolyai University was the Hungarian half of the current Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj/Kolozsvar, Transylvania. It was an independent Hungarian University until its merger with the Babes University in 1959. This merged institution is one of the most important centers of higher education in present-day Romania. However, it has a past that can be traced back to the 16th century within the context of the independent Translvania of John Sigismund and Stephen Bathory. It later evolved into a Habsburg institution, then a Hungarian and a Romanian University. Finally, during World War II it operated as two separate institutions with Hungarian and Romanian faculties respectively. The two were merged by the Gheorghiu-Dej communist government in 1959. Ever since, Hungarian minority intellectuals have called for the restoration of the independent Boylai University. The current paper focuses on the independent Bolyai University between 1944 and 1959. It reflects on its role as the premier institution for the recr...

1-2: Epithermal Pb–Zn–Cu(–Au) deposits in the Baia Mare district, Eastern Carpathians, Romania: Baia Mare district: Lat. 47°40′ N, Long. 23°34′ E

1–2: Epithermal Pb–Zn–Cu(–Au) deposits in the Baia Mare district, Eastern Carpathians, Romania Baia Mare district: Lat. 47°40’ N, Long. 23°34’ E K. Kouzmanov*, L. Bailly, C. Tamas , P. Ivascanu a Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland b BRGM, REM/MESY, 3, Av. Claude Guillemin, BP 6009, 45060 Orleans, France c Dept. of Mineralogy, Babes-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania d Geological Institute of Romania, Caransebes Str.1, 78344 Bucharest, Romania Received 19 November 2004, accepted 1 May 2005

Report on media use in Transylvanian Hungarians

The first issue of Transylvanian Society (2003) contained a comprehensive paper on the specific circles of the Romanian media's public. In the present issue, the same author, Tivadar Magyari, member of the Sociology Department of the Babes-Bolyai University, adds new, fresh data to the relatively stable general picture

Students political culture

The paper investigates and interprets results of a survey on participants of the Balvanyos/Tusnad/Tusvanyos Summer University and Students’ Camp, 2001. The authors (Kálmán Ercsei, Réka Geambasu) are sociologists, and work with the Babes-Bolyai University

„Charcoal-burners”

Although there are a large number of papers dealing with overpopulation and periodical migration, they seem to omit the village and its closer geographical environment. The changes of social structure and life-strategies in sekler villages has also been subject to investigation, but none of these researches deals with these problems as they arise in Farkaslaka. Besides following up the local aspects of changes on the macro level in sekler society, our questions focus on a determining aspect of social change in this village: the culture of entrepreneurship. The authors (Kinda Istvánand, Peti Lehel MA students of the Babes-Bolyai University, researchers in ethnology) claim that the emergence of the culture of entrepreneurship is one of the most important processes in the recent past and present of the village; and by describing it, they attempt to draw the image of a local society. The group in focus: charcoal-burners

2P-0356 The contributions of major-risk factors to the development of coronary artery disease in different sexes and ages in Koreans

The roles of schools are more and more diverse, schools is no longer just an institution with instructive objectives, but an essential environment for socialization and acculturation. Of course, the instructive function of school is still important, but, at the same time, the school has the role to regulate the social behaviours, by educating the emotional responses and developing students’ social abilities.There are a wide range of theories who try to explain the recrudescence of aggressive behaviours in children. The underlying theory of this paper is that childhood aggression could be correlated with deficient information processing skills and social-emotional maladjustment. In many cases, disruptive behaviours are not just deviations from socials norms, but the expression of wrong behavioural models, hence a result of imitating and interiorizing undesirable behaviours through social learning.The role of the adults who represent significant, reference figures for the child (parents, teachers, specialists, etc.) have to be more then just passively observe, label the children behaviours as misconduct and apply the punishment; they have to be pro-actively involved in child's nurturing and education, promoting a supportive and formative environment, filled with opportunities of learning pro-social behaviours. There are plenty proactive programmes designed to create opportunities for harmonious development of children's personality, to enhance their pro-social behaviours repertoire.In this paper, we present the innovative process of adaptation and implementation of the program Making Choices into a Romanian school, as part of the national project CNMP 91-063/2007 Project, Social diagnosis of academic performances through Social School Success Scale (SSSS) and the design of research-validated intervention methods, project coordinated by Professor PhD. Maria Roth, from Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj Napoca, financed by Romanian Ministry of Education and Innovation.Making Choices is a curriculum containing a series of cognitive problem-solving lessons intended to broaden children's social knowledge and skills for successfully interacting with peers and adults.We conduct this research in a school in Romania, at secondary level. The conclusions will sustain the necessity to allocate resources in this type of pro-active, preventive, school-based program in order to promote social competence and to reduce both overt and social aggression of children.

Structural chemistry of bismuth compounds. I. Organobismuth derivatives.

Bismuth chemistry has received much less attention in comparison with that of N, P, As, and Sb, but the last years have revealed an increasing interest in the investigation of both the inorganic and the organometallic chemistry of the heaviest element of the group 15 elements.1 There are several fields Cristian Silvestru (left) was born in Baia-Mare, Romania, in 1955 and graduated in chemistry at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, in 1979. He obtained his M.Sc. degree 1 year later. After 2 years as Chemist in a mining company, he was a Research Chemist at the Institute of Chemical and Biochemical Energetics from 1982 to 1989. He received his Ph.D. degree in the group of Professor Ionel Haiduc in Cluj in 1990, with his dissertation research on organometallic compounds with potential biologic activity. In 1990, he joined the Chemistry Department of the BabesBolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Since 1995 he has been a Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and since 1996 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Engineering Chemistry. He published a book, Organometallics in Cancer Chemotherapy (with I. Haiduc, 2 volumes, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1990), and in 1992 received the “Petre Spacu” award of the Romanian Academy for his contributions on the antitumor properties of organometallic compounds (with Dr. Carmen Socaciu and Dr. Adela Bara). Professor Silvestru spent several research stays in Germany (Bremen University 1993sVisiting Professor, 1996sDAAD Grant), Belgium (Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1993sEuropean Community Grant), and Mexico (Instituto de Quimica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1993−95sVisiting Research Professor, CONACYT Grant). His research interests include organometallic chemistry of main group elements, coordination chemistry of thioligands (mainly organophosphorus compounds), and biological (antitumor) properties of main group organometallics.

Remark on L‐Supermetric Spaces

ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und MechanikVolume 52, Issue 8 p. 496-496 Kleine Mitteilungen Remark on L-Supermetric Spaces G. Goldner, Corresponding Author G. Goldner Dept. of Math., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, RomaniaDept. of Math., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, RomaniaSearch for more papers by this author G. Goldner, Corresponding Author G. Goldner Dept. of Math., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, RomaniaDept. of Math., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, RomaniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 1972 https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.19720520808AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume52, Issue81972Pages 496-496 RelatedInformation