89 research outputs found
Review of ”Brand-urile în era Web 2.0. Conținutul generat de consumatori” [Web 2.0 Brands. User-generated Content] by Rodica Săvulescu, Bucharest: Tritonic, 2016, 252 pages
No full textThe web 2.0 era has shifted brand ownership from communication specialists towards consumers. This is the main idea on which Rodica Săvulescu builds her argumentation in her recently published book, Web 2.0 Brands. User-generated content (2016). The emergence of new technologies blurs the lines between content producers and consumers. In this book, the author addresses the topic of democratization of content in relation with brand communication
Rodica Frenţiu, Yasunari Kawabata: "Dreams of the Floating World", Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023, 324 p.
No full textLiterary interpretation is a complex art which always involves more than the work being analysed and can never be reduced to a decoding of the author’s thoughts. As obviously important as those two aspects are, delving into them exclusively would mean ignoring the author as a person, both in the sense of ignoring the influence of one’s life on one’s writing style and thematic choices, but also in the sense of ignoring the societal trends in thinking that inevitably affect all people within that context. This explanation was necessary as avoiding that mentality is one of the qualities of Rodica Frenţiu’s book, Yasunari Kawabata: Dreams of the Floating World (2023). The work becomes almost as much about Japanese history, society, culture and the language as about the renowned Japanese author himself, all in an effort to make it more accessible to a European reader, while keeping it a thorough interpretation that does justice to the alterity of Kawabata by not trying to naturalise and explain his thinking using Western concepts
Erratum to: Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum: going beyond the first and second pharyngeal arch involvement (Neuroradiology, (2017), 59, 3, (305-316), 10.1007/s00234-017-1795-1)
No full textIn the article “Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum: going beyond the first and second pharyngeal arch involvement”, the list of author names was incorrect. Author names were inverted with the surname preceding first name. Davide Brotto 1, Renzo Manara 2, Sara Ghiselli 1, Elisa Lovo 1, Rodica Mardari 3, Irene Toldo 4 , Alessandro Castiglione 1, Giovanni Schifano 1, Valentina Stritoni 1, Roberto Bovo 1, Patrizia Trevisi 1, Alessandro Martini 1
The Lăzărița at the Karavlachs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Avatars of a Ritual
No full textIn this essay, the author tries to shed light on the role of the Karavlachs in transmitting the spring ritual called lăzăriţa and on the transformations it has gone through during this process. It is argued
that the ritual has been taken over by the Karavlachs from the surrounding populations out of economic reasons, but also because of their wish to identify with the majority. The author stresses their important role in preserving, transmitting and “giving back” the rituals to the majority populations (in our case, to the Serbs in BiH), also discussing the process of folklorization some rituals must undergo nowadays in order to survive
Between history and memory: the Bayash in Europe
No full textOn the basis of fieldwork recordings made in several Bayash communities from Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria, the author explores the way in which the interlocutors assume an identity and try to construct a past for their people, using etiological legends about the origin of their community which combine old and new historical information
Author Correction: WDR1 is a novel EYA3 substrate and its dephosphorylation induces modifications of the cellular actin cytoskeleton
No full textAn amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper
Development of an Integrated Set of Indicators to Measure the Quality of the Whole Traveller Experience
No full textAbstractThe EU project METPEX is developing a measurement tool for the perceived quality of the whole journey experience. Special emphasis is given on the contribution to the overall quality perception from different phases of such experience, from pre-trip information acquisition to the eventual joint use of different services, especially for multimodal trips. Differences among travel means and user groups are investigated as well. Rather than exclusively focusing on public transport, the project also investigates quality issues dealing with other modes, especially walk and bike. Within such framework, the paper presents some sets of indicators distilled through Principal Component Analysis that could be used in different assessment exercises, shortly discusses how such indicators are showing us the different facets of the “quality of transport” concept and identifies future research directions for the project
Contemporary Japanese Literature in Its Transition Towards the New Postmodern Humanism: Haruki Murakami
No full textAlthough Japan recorded no specific literary movement in the 1980s, in any classical sense of the term, we may say that today we are witnessing, in terms of our historical sensibility, a condensation of narrative viewpoints upon the present or, in other words, the transposition of the criteria of the present to another time, which is undoubtedly a consequence of the so-called “postmodern” will to reject grand narratives. This study aims to review and complete the inventory of the postmodern characteristics that specialised
literature has identified in Haruki Murakami’s works, seen from the perspective of what the author of the present paper considers to be the “new postmodern humanism.
5 Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: An Update on Immunopathogenic Significance, Clinical and Therapeutic Implications
No full textRomanian language and teaching Romanian in Vajska (North- Western Serbia): between high vitality and low prestige
No full textThis paper focuses on the Romanian speaking community in Vajska, a village in North-Western Serbia, near the Croatian border. This village is unique in that here functions the only school in Serbia where Romanian is taught outside the Banat and Eastern Serbia regions, with a large population of Romanians and Vlachs. The Romanian language speakers here claim Romanian origins, but part of the majority population considers them Roma, and they are known as Bayash in the relevant literature. Relying on the scarce ethnographic sources available and on her field research from 2016, the author presents the community and its vernacular, evaluates its vitality and prestige, to focus on the methods and framework of teaching the optional subject “Romanian language with elements of national culture” in the primary school in Vajska. The teacher’s background, personality and professional competence are also assessed, as they are elements of uttermost importance in the process of language maintenance and teaching
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