Modern Borders Research Articles

Van Gölü Havzası Urartu Dönemi Yol Güzergahları Yüzey Araştırması Ön Raporu (2017-2018): Muradiye ve Tuşba İlçeleri

For about two-hundred-fifty years between the mid-9th - early 6th centuries BC, the Urartian Kingdom established its hegemony in Eastern Anatolia and the neighboring regions of Northwestern Iran, Nakhchivan, and Armenia, as the most influential political, military, and economic power of its time. Despite the rugged geography and rough climatic conditions of this mountainous terrain, the Urartu thrived by developing a centralized administrative state apparatus. Urartu excelled in many areas of state-building, including road networks. Particularly textual sources and supporting archaeological evidence demonstrate the importance of road networks for the Urartian state. Surveys in Tushba and Muradiye districts have allowed us to identify the main route of the northern capital road, which continues north and reaches Muradiye Plain, and an alternative northern route that follows the Karasu Stream valley towards Muradiye Plain. An eastern route, which enabled the kingdom to exert control in Northwestern Iran, goes through Özalp district of Van province across the modern border to Iran and reaches Hoy and Salmas. These alternative and auxiliary routes along deep canyons that developed over time suggest that the Urartian state had established an intricate security web in its dominion.

Dynamics of the network of evacuation hospitals in Novosibirsk Region during the Great Patriotic War

The subject of this research is the dynamics of the network of evacuation hospitals that were formed and operated in Novosibirsk Region. The relevance of this topic is substantiated. Analysis is conducted on the available information on this topic in the scientific and local literature. Leaning on the archival materials, the author traces the formation, displacement, and dissolution of evacuation hospitals located on the territory of Novosibirsk Region in its modern borders. Description is given to the fundamental changes in the network of evacuation hospitals: dynamics in the number of hospital beds, and specialization of the evacuation hospitals. The dependence of changes in the network of evacuation hospitals in the region on the role and place assigned by the highest military sanitary administration to homefront hospitals overall. The novelty of this work lies in determination of the key stages in the dynamics of the network of evacuation hospitals based on the detailed tracking of changes. The first stage (July – October 1941) is characterized by expansion of the network of evacuation hospitals due to the local formations. The second stage (October 1941 – April 1942) is associated with violent fluctuations, substantiated by the rapidly changing situation at the front and, and thus, transformation of the views of the military medical administration upon on the role and place of the homefront hospitals, including Novosibirsk Region. The third stage covers the period from April 1942 up until Victory, marking gradual stabilization of the network of evacuation hospitals in Novosibirsk Region. They filled their niche by rendering medical aid to the wounded with long treatment periods, which justified the evacuation of the wounded from the front to remote Siberian hospitals.

War and Social Conflicts in Early Modern Border Areas: Colonel Ludovicus de La Borde and Satu Mare (Szatmár) Fortress (1673–77)

Abstract The social and economic dynamics of early modern borders in central and southeast Europe were marked by endemic warfare. The border between Habsburg Hungary and the Principality of Transylvania in the second half of the seventeenth century was affected by an almost constant state of war. The presence of an Ottoman province in the vicinity (Oradea, conquered by the Turks in 1660) further complicated the political and military situation. Large-scale military campaigns were accompanied by various forms of frontier warfare and rebellions. The aim of this article is to analyze the social impact of war on the fortress of Satu Mare (Szatmár) and the two neighboring market towns, Satu Mare (Szatmár) and Mintiu (Némethi), as reflected by three documents issued by, or referring to, Colonel Ludovicus de La Borde. In the first part of the article, I have presented a short overview of the history of the early modern fortification of Satu Mare (Szatmár) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, emphasizing the frequent border changes between Habsburg Hungary and the Principality of Transylvania.

Knowledge in an age of transition

Immanuel Wallerstein was one among those social scientists who constantly confront their analyses of the structures of injustice and inequality with the problem of the future. As a modern thinker, he provided rationalized forms of forecasting that proved correct previsions. He was right in anticipating the timing and configuration of the age of transition we are currently living, particularly as much as the pandemics informs global historical change and functions as a new social regulator across different arenas. Wallerstein engaged in the future as an expert as well as a public intellectual concerned about the present of world politics. This attitude is coherent with his understanding of global historical social change. For involving social theory into public debate may inform culture through knowledge and participate into ongoing transformations, in order to move towards a less unjust and less unequal world. This tension towards the future calls for a deep understanding of the political and transformative role of social theory in this age of transition, which can occur through the intellectual transgression of the spatiotemporal borders of modernity wherein social theory has given legitimacy to its own epistemological foundations.

LANGUAGE CONCEPTS OF THE IMAGE OF UKRAINE IN IVAN PEREPELIAK’S POETRY

The article embodies the idea to explore the linguistic concepts of the image of UKRAINE in the language of Ivan Mikhailovich Perepeliak. The concept of UKRAINE, according to our research, is the semantic center of the cognotype WORLD and is represented by the paradigm of the concepts TERRITORY, NATIVE LAND, SLAVED LAND, WILL, STATEHOOD, SPIRITUAL WORLD in relation to its history and expression. For Ivan Perepeliak, the space of his native land is associated with favorite rivers, cities, villages, trees, flowers, in a word, concepts that are connected with the Ukrainian space. Therefore, in the bosom of this artistic and semantic plane, attention is focused on the love of freedom, self-affirmation of independence, the spirituality of the country as a living being. The geographical space of Ukraine is perceived by the author as a territory within modern borders and marked by an organic component of Europe. Awareness of Ukraine as a European state is marked by complexity and ambiguity in the worldview and aesthetic views of Ivan Mikhailovich Perepeliak.

Chinese empire or a prototype of responsible global power: discussions on the Great Qing in China and the West

In the light of China’s rise, it is of great interest to consider the views that are widespread in the PRC on the nature of Chinese state and the proper mode of international relations. Considering that Chinese leadership has proclaimed the goal of "rejuvenation" of the Chinese nation, modern assessments of China's historical past allow us to take a fresh look at the prospects for China's internal development as well as Chinese foreign policy in Asia. In this regard the era of the Qing Dynasty is of particular interest. During that period Chinese territory expanded approximately to its modern borders, and the relations with the neighbors underwent a transition from the tributary system to the modern Westphalian type of international relations. There exist various interpretations of Chinese foreign policy’s traditions. Those interpretations are largely determined by the attitude to China's current behavior at the international stage. While the Chinese rulers have adopted the concept of traditional Chinese world order that is of Western origin, many Western researchers nowadays question this concept and tend to describe pre-revolutionary China as one of many expansionist empires in Eurasia. That point of view is subject to sharp criticism from Chinese authors. The portrayal of Qing China as one of the empires can entail serious consequences for international relations as well as the territorial integrity of the PRC. In order to achieve their goals in domestic and foreign policy, Chinese leaders strive to build a historical narrative in such a way that it combines the elements of various historical periods which are most profitable in the current circumstances, including the history of Silk Road.

СОВЕТСКО-АВСТРИЙСКИЕ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ КАК ПРОБЛЕМА ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ИСТОРИОГРАФИИ

This article is devoted to the trade and economic relations between the USSR and the Austrian Republic, whose modern borders were drawn up only at the end of the Second World War. The author aims to give a brief overview of the main scientific results (dissertation studies, monographs, scientific articles) of domestic – Soviet and Russian – historians and economists. The article attempts to analyze the influence of the state ideology on the development of domestic Austrian studies and to trace the reflection of the ideological confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War on the works devoted to the Soviet-Austrian relations. Analyzing the topics of key scientific works, the author identifies several large thematic layers in the study of the history of the modern Austrian Republic and its interaction with the USSR and the Russian Federation. Among them: the political life of Austria, its international interaction, the economic development of the Austrian Republic, as well as the Soviet-Austrian relations in the political sphere. Nevertheless, both in Soviet and Russian historiography, according to the author, there are still poorly studied areas – the least covered topic remains the trade and economic interaction of the modern Austrian Republic with the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century

Выбросы загрязняющих веществ в атмосферу от стационарных источников: анализ возможностей визуализации с помощью интерактивной инфографики

The article presents an analysis of the possibilities of visualizing data on emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere from stationary sources using interactive infographics. We used data posted on the official website of Rosprirodnadzor on various characteristics of emissions from the level of municipalities to Russia as a whole. Examples of visualization of similar data are presented in the reports of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the National Atlas of Russia and the Environmental Atlas of Russia. We have reviewed software products for creating interactive infographics, including geo-infographics. Among them, we chose the online service Datawrapper, where a template for a map of Russia in its modern borders is available to users. Methodological recommendations for displaying emission data using interactive infographics for different levels of information generalization are presented. Examples of interactive infographics have also been created: a map of polluting emissions by municipalities and bar charts of the dynamics of some specific pollutants emissions. The article contains links to online versions of the resulting interactive graphics. It is concluded that interactive infographics are a technological, convenient and accessible tool for a wide range of users to visualize data on emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. Visualization of this type of data is necessary for the field of environmental monitoring and management, in the field of environmental education and enlightenment activities. The integration of geoinformation technologies and technologies for creating interactive infographics is a promising direction for further research.

The potential of using the underground mineral waters of the Moscow region in the organization of medical rehabilitation and medical tourism

Moscow in modern borders is the largest metropolitan area in the country with a fairly high and unevenly distributed population density. This predetermines the need to address environmental regulation of urbanization in order to create the most comfortable living conditions for the population. Health care and the maintenance of health of all age groups are the leading role in the list of the most important tasks to ensure the social well-being of citizens. In the bowels of the Moscow region there are natural therapeutic resources: low-mineralized (M 3-5 g/l) sulfate sodium-magnesium-calcium drinking mineral water and chloride sodium bromine brine. The article presents the characteristics of the natural therapeutic resources of the Moscow region, the area of their therapeutic use, justified the possibility of wider use based on the available scientific data on the effect on the body of these waters and their analogues. All this provides an opportunity to achieve the main goal of medical resortology - the use of mineral water as a means of therapy, rehabilitation and prevention of most existing human diseases.

Communities beyond borders: internal boundaries and circulations in the 18th century

To understand the political, social and economic conditions which made possible a certain freedom of movement in early modern Europe, it is necessary to abandon the idea of a state sovereignty which expressed itself through the control of boundaries and its territory, which is a relatively recent notion in Western legal culture. Thus, in early modern Europe external borders were porous, and surveillance systems were organised in a plurality of jurisdictions and responded to multiple logics and interests. This article focuses on Turin, the capital of the States of Savoy, where boundaries were defined by the control of urban institutions responsible for the police of the city, as the Vicariate. To observe the process of defining these frontiers, I have chosen to use an emic perspective, attentive to the point of view of the actors. This contribution is interested in the strategies adopted by a group of people subject to high mobility�construction workers�when faced with internal borders. This approach allows us to consider the �relational� substance of the border, its multiple and changing nature.

Загадки Василькова на Днестре: история, география, топонимия, архитектура

The article provides a comprehensive historic-geographical, toponymic and architectural analysis of a unique monument of medieval religious and defensive architecture—the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Vasilkov on the Dniester and its surroundings, located on the modern state border of Moldavia with the Ukraine, and in the Middle Ages it served as the border point of the Principality of Moldavia with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Eastern outpost of the capital of the tsinut (county) of Soroky and its main fortification—the Soroka castle. The architecture of the rural temple with a bell tower, erected on the elevated cape with steep slopes, is a rare example of a preserved structure that combines the traditions of wooden architecture based on the proportions used in antiquity for the construction of stone churches. The medieval fortified point with a unique monument of the cult-defensive architecture together with a courtyard, a trading square, as well as an ancient trade road and a river crossing represent a united natural and historic-cultural complex. The solution of historic-geographical puzzles enveloping the monument of heritage is based on a comprehensive multiscale historic-cartographical analysis and the use of modern geographic information methods, including comparison of topographic maps with aerial and satellite images of the terrain, as well as high-precision digital elevation models, hydrography and other cartographic products. A method of comparing cartographic images of an area in chronological slices (in different historical periods) is supposed to be highly effective. It allows you to observe the historic-geographical evolution of the area. A research of the complex of toponymic problems associated with the territory under study reveals the processes of massive transfer of geographical names in antiquity, covering not only the North-Western Black Sea Region and adjacent territories, but also much wider spaces of the East European Plain, where modern toponymic landscapes were formed.

Digital Racial Borders

It is the core and intended function of borders to discriminate. Descriptively, their purpose is to differentiate or distinguish among different categories of persons, sorting those who may enter and belong from those who may not. But it is also a core function of modern borders to discriminate in the normatively prejudicial sense—they allocate fundamental human rights differentially on the basis of race, gender, class, national origin, sexual orientation, and disability status, among others. In this essay, I briefly sketch what I have described elsewhere as the contemporary system of racial borders: border regimes that variously allocate and curtail mobility and migration on a racial basis, largely relying upon facially race neutral mechanisms. Second, I reflect on the increasing prevalence of digital technologies in border regimes and their enforcement, with an emphasis on their racial implications, drawing from my recent report to the UN General Assembly on racial discrimination in digital border enforcement. The contribution of this essay is thus to reflect on the co-constituting and mutually reinforcing effects of racial borders and digital borders, which require specific attention together as digital racial borders.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ КОМУНІКАТИВНИХ СИТУАЦІЙ ПРОФЕСІЙНОГО ПРИКОРДОННОГО ДИСКУРСУ

Specific features of border discourse as a special form of social interaction are considered in the article. The characteristic features of communicative situations of border discourse are highlighted. The conditions under which modern border discourse takes place are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the professional speech of border guards, which is characterized by professional border guard vocabulary, depending on the field of communication. Discourse is a complex communicative event or sociolinguistic structure created by interlocutors in specific communicative, social and pragmatic situations. Border discourse exists in two forms: the oral form and written form. Oral border discourse is the communication between people in the line of duty. It can be a conversation between two servicemen, between an officer and a person crossing the state border of Ukraine, or a senior officer and a subordinate serviceperson. Written border discourse is secondary to oral speech. Written speech is actually dialogical. The material of the research is presented by normative documents, educational materials, materials of mass media, in which the communicative situations of the border discourse are presented. The place of speech situations of border discourse is determined by the sphere of activity of communicators and the method of communication: personal or indirect means of communication (telephone conversations, Internet, correspondence by regular or e-mail, mass media, etc. Participants in speech situations within this discourse are border guards, academics who teach disciplines related to the activities of border guards, members of the media who cover issues related to border activities, as well as ordinary citizens involved in border discourse when crossing the state border. Motives of communication and speech intentions of communicators are determining factors in the selection of language means to achieve the communicative goal. Areas in which the border discourse takes place are official receptions, meetings, conferences, press conferences, negotiations, command and staff exercises, conferences, training situations with the use of professional border guard vocabulary, regulations, official situations at checkpoints.

«Зүүнгарыг түвшидгэж тогтоосон явдлыг Гэдэнг ууланд тэмдэглэн байгуулсан гэрэлт хөшөөний бичиг»-ийн монгол бичээсийн эл хувилбарын ариутгал (= Каменная стела на горе Геденг: ойратский текст эдикта об усмирении джунгаров)

After the fall of the Dzhungar Khanate in the second half of the 18th century, "the highest approved" official works by order of the Qing authorities appear in Chinese historiography. They are devoted to the "description of the suppression of the Dzhungars". In addition to this, steles were also installed, proclaiming the victory of the Qing emperor over the Dzhungars. One of such steles was installed on Mount Gedeng, which is located near Mongolkure on the modern border of China and Kazakhstan. The stele is known under various names — "Stele on Gedeng Mountain", "Ili Stele on Gedeng Mountain", "Stele on Gedeng Mountain near Mongolkure". The text on the stone stele is written in four languages: Manchu, Chinese, Tibetan and Oirat (‘Clear script’). The article examines the ‘Clear script’ text containing 9 lines and 266 words.

ПІДГОТОВКА ФАХІВЦІВ ПРИКОРДОННОЇ СЛУЖБИ У ПЕРСПЕКТИВАХ РОЗВИТКУ СИСТЕМИ ВІЙСЬКОВОЇ ОСВІТИ

Introduction. Today, for Ukraine, in the context of an undeclared hybrid war, when there is a direct threat of loss of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state, the question of training military personnel of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies is acute precisely because it is necessary to protect national interests. In our opinion, this applies not only to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which in peacetime and during the war are constantly learning to defend the state, but also to all other military formations formed in accordance with Ukrainian legislation, including the State Border Service.Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the main problems of training modern border guards of Ukraine in the context of existing military threats to national security in the field of protection and protection of the state border and identify measures of state response to the development of military education.Methods. The article analyzes scientific works on improving the training of future military personnel for border units and their compliance with modern realities faced by the country.Results. The peculiarities of the system of selection and training of military personnel and border guards of European states are considered, the modern experience and the unified program of training of personnel of the armed forces, including for border guards in many countries of the European Union are analyzed.Originality. Given that today the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is part of the security and defense sector and performs tasks to protect the territorial integrity of the state, there is an urgent need to amend the main legal documents in the field of state border security and assign additional functions to the border service on participation in hostilities, which fundamentally requires a review of the training system for future border guards.Conclusion. The problem of forming a specialist in state border security, competent to address the localization of armed and other provocations, fighting with illegal military formations and sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy, patriotic and knowledgeable basis of the organization of combat, which unfortunately in a continuing military conflict in the country, remains unresolved.

Protectionism and the global trade stagnation

The protectionism of the last twelve years is forcing many countries to backtrack in the face of the devastating consequences of those policies on their economies and the world trade. The pandemic COVID-19 has highlighted even more how those policies may be destructive and produce impoverishment. The current global pandemic crisis is producing an abrupt and probably very long braking effect on international trade. However, it would be wrong to consider it as the exclusive or the most important cause of global trade stagnation. In fact, the ground had already been prepared by the economic-financial crisis of 2007–2008 and in particular by the choices of “economic nationalism” of neo-protectionist type, which made a precise political use of the modern linear border. Globalisation means mainly the overcoming of political barriers, borders, and the opening to the global free trade market. On the contrary, it is now still hindered by heavy political factors, among which protectionism has been the main one for many years. Those policies, implemented on the large areas by major world powers, have caused a long phase of “de-globalisation”, characterised by the renewed use of the modern border to enclose economies, well before the pandemic crisis.

LETTERS TO ODESA RESIDENT MYKHAILO KOMAROV FROM ST. PETERSBURG, MOSCOW, KUBAN AND OTHER REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE OUTSIDE UKRAINE, AS A MANIFESTATION OF THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT AT THE TURN OF THE ХIX AND XX CENTURIES

Letters to the Odesa bibliographer, writer and public figure Mykhailo Komarov (1844-1913) from the collection of manuscript fund of the Odessa National Scientific Library are examined in the publication. The letters written by the authors from the lands outside Ukraine within its modern borders, but within the territory of the former Russian Empire, are analyzed. In particular, letters from St. Petersburg and Moscow, including letters of such famous scientists and cultural figures as D. Yavornytskyi, D. Mordovets, O. Lototskyi, P.Stebnytskyi and others are examined. Letters to M. Komarov from the Kuban, in particular from Ya. Bihdai, M. Dykariv, V. Skyda and others; from the Voronezh province from B.Poznanskyi; from Ryazan province from H.Machtet, from Moldova from K.Shram; from Siberia from A. Fisun and others are also analyzed. It is emphasized that the cooperation in the exchange of printed materials and the promotion of Ukrainian-language publications and Ukrainian studies publications in various regions of the country, despite censorship prohibitions were the important factors for communication between Ukrainian cultural figures at the turn of the XIX-th and XX-th centuries. The article contains the texts of fourteen letters to M. Komarov from thirteen persons from the different regions of the empire. The texts of these letters indicate that one of the leading topics in the publishing and other spheres of the cultural national Ukrainian movement in the Russian Empire of this period were the study and the popularization of the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks and its leaders. In the investigation the author makes the conclusion that it is necessary to publish as soon as possible, with appropriate comments, of all letters to M. Komarov from the manuscript fund of the Odessa National Scientific Library – about 1000 shits – to provide to wider range of researchers opportunities for comprehensive analysis of their content

المعماري أنطونيو لاشياك (1856-1946) في سياق إعادة إحياء العمارة المملوكية

Antonio Lasciac was one of the most active of European architects working in Egypt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His output was as eclectic as it was prolific, comprising buildings and decoration in neo‑Renaissance, neo‑Gothic and neo‑Mamluk styles. This paper focuses on of the origins of the motifs on his buildings decorated in Mamluk revival style, and particularly on his villa at Rafut, in Slovenia, beside the modern border of Gorizia in Italy. The paper first gives a background to the rise of the neo‑Mamluk style in Egypt before analyzing Lasciac’s contributions to it. In one of his early buildings, the neo‑Renaissance palace of Yūsuf Kamāl at Matariyya, a newly‑discovered neo‑Mamluk room is discussed. The detailed analysis of his villa at Rafut and later buildings show the unusual extent to which the decorative motifs he used were accurately based on earlier Mamluk designs, reflecting his long‑standing involvement as a board member of the Comite de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ ІНСПЕКТОРІВ ПРИКОРДОННОЇ СЛУЖБИ В УМОВАХ ЄВРОІНТЕГРАЦІЇ

У статті висвітлено особливості професійної підготовки інспекторів прикордонної служби в умовах євроінтеграції. З’ясовано, що основним відомчим навчальним закладом підготовки інспекторів прикордонної служби є Головний центр підготовки особового складу Державної прикордонної служби України імені генерал-майора Ігоря Момота. Головний центр – це сучасний прикордонний багатопрофільний навчальний заклад, основними напрямами діяльності якого є підготовка, перепідготовка та підвищення кваліфікації особового складу. Для виконання завдань щодо підготовки персоналу в Головному центрі створено 5 центрів, які навчають фахівців за різними спеціальностями, та унікальну навчально-матеріальна базу, яка активно використовується для проведення міжнародних семінарів, тренінгів, курсів підвищення кваліфікації. Розкрито основні напрямки співпраці Головного центру з міжнародними інституціями, їх вплив на процес удосконалення професійної підготовки інспекторів прикордонної служби. Деталізовано деякі форми ефективної співпраці з європейськими правоохоронними навчальними закладами та міжнародними організаціями такими як: Міжнародна організація з міграції (МОМ), Організація з безпеки і співробітництва в Європі (ОБСЄ), Європейська Агенція з прикордонної та берегової охорони (FRONTEX), Європейська Комісія з надання допомоги в питаннях кордону в Україні та Республіці Молдова (EUBAM), Міністерство енергетики США, Державний департамент США. Особливу увагу авторка приділила висвітленню особливостей та ролі Головного центру у реалізації проекту “Нове обличчя кордону”. З’ясовано, що співпраця з міжнародними партнерами внесла корективи у програми підготовки інспекторів прикордонної служби. У сучасних навчальних програмах основна увага приділяється питанням здійснення прикордонного контролю, ідентифікації осіб та транспортних засобів, підготовці інспекторів прикордонної служби до професійної комунікації з особами під час процедури паспортного контролю, застосуванню методів профайлінгу, організації та здійснення провадження по адміністративним правопорушенням, іншомовній та психологічній підготовці, антикорупційному законодавству та дотриманню основоположних прав людини.

Anniversary Professor dr.ing. Gheorghe MARIA at 65 years old - teacher and scientist

Prof. Dr. Ing. Gheorghe Maria from University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPBuc.), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering is a valuable scientist in Romania, being the successor and continuer of the Romanian school of (bio)chemical reactors and reaction engineering, but also the creator of novel courses in the (bio)chemical engineer curricula at UPBuc. His research interests include a wide range of classic but also modern border fields, namely (bio)chemical reactors, kinetic modelling, bioinformatics, chemical reactors risk analysis, modelling dynamics of cell metabolic processes, of gene regulatory circuits, and of controlled drug release. Following the large number of international cooperations (20), its scientific productivity is impressive, including over 230 papers in ISI journals and intl. Conferences, 11 ISBN books (RO,USA), 5 teaching books (UPBuc., RO), and 6 ISBN book chapters abroad. Their practical realizations include the design and putting into operation of an industrial plant in Romania (at Petrochemical works /Refinery Brazi-Ploiesti, Romania, PWBP,1985), of a lab-scale pilot plant in Switzerland (Paul Scherer Inst., 1992-1998), or a safety-based optimization of a semi-batch (SBR) reactor (at CIBA-Novartis, Basel, 1994-1996). Based on these multiple contributions, it can be stated that Prof. Maria has had a significant impact on the science and the practice of Chemical and Biochemical Reaction Engineering in Romania and world-wide, his publications being well cited (Hirsch index 20, I10 index 49, more than 1400 citations). In 2019 he joined (unanimously by votes) the Romanian Academy. as a correspondent member.