75 research outputs found
The homiletic creation in the romanian Church in the 2nd part of XXth century: hermeneutical principles
No full textThe present ThD work deals with the hermeneutical problem in a very difficult period of the Romanian Church - the communist period. There are three parts : an historical part, an analytical part and a comparative part. In the 1st chapter the author presents the situation of the Romanian Church in the 2nd part of XX century, the personality of the patriarch Justinian and the legal measures he addopted in order to save the Church. In the 2nd chapter the author analyses five important preachers: the archimandrite Cleopa Ilie, the intelechial monk NiColae Steinhardt, the professor Constantin Galerin, the metropolitan Antonie Plamadeala, and the blind monk Teofil Paraian. The last chapter compares the hermeneutical principles of the five preachers, in order to define an orthodox approach of the Bible.Η διατριβή ασχολείται με μία δύσκολη περίοδο της Εκκλησίας της Ρουμανίας - τη κομμουνιστική περίοδο. Χωρίζεται σε τρία μέρη : ένα ιστορικό, ένα αναλυτικό και ένα συμπερασματικό. Στο πρώτο μέρος παρουσιάζεται η κατάσταση της Ρουμανικής Εκκλησίας στο β' μισό του 20ου αιώνα, το πρόσωπο του πατριάρχη Ιουστιανιανού και τα μέτρα που έλαβε για να σώσει την εκκλησία. Στο δεύτερο αναλύονται πέντε ομιλητές, ο πατής Cleopa Ilie, ο μοναχός Nicolae Steinhardt, ο καθ. Constantin Galeriu, ο μητροπολίτης Antonie Plamadeala και ο τυφλός μοναχός Teofil Paraian. Το τελευταίο μέρος συγκρίνει τους πέντε ομιλητές στην προσπάθεια μια ορθόδοξης θεώρησης του ερμηνευτικού ζητήματος
PREDA: An R-package to identify regional variations in genomic data
No full textChromosomal patterns of genomic signals represent molecular ngerprints that may reveal how the local structural organization of a genome impacts the functional control mechanisms. Thus, the integrative analysis of multiple sources of genomic data and information deepens the resolution and enhances the interpretation of stand-alone high-throughput data. In this note, we present PREDA (Position RElated Data Analysis), an R package for detecting regional variations in genomics data. PREDA identies relevant chromosomal patterns in high-throughput data using a smoothing approach that accounts for distance and density variability of genomics features. Custom-designed data structures allow efciently managing diverse signals in different genomes. A variety of smoothing functions and statistics empower exible and robust workows. The modularity of package design allows an easy deployment of custom analytical pipelines. Tabular and graphical representations facilitate downstream biological interpretation of results. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
The Hegemonic Gaze and East-Central Europe - Challenging the Totalitarian Paradigm
No full textThe chapter introduces the notion of the "hegemonic gaze" in relation to the representation of East-Central Europe, demonstrating how the artist becomes interpellated as a regional subject, becoming simultaneously included and othered. It begins by examining the complexities involved in defining the region and the power dynamics involved in naming and being named. The author argues that different terms produce specific subject positions, reinforcing certain narratives about the region and foregrounding the end of communism and the failure of the socialist project.
Through the lens of Stuart Hall's theory of encoding and decoding, the chapter explores how exhibitions and artworks depicting socialist monuments and architecture often become simplified and reinterpreted within the global art discourse. The author shows how the ‘‘hegemonic gaze’’ reinforces existing narratives and imposes meanings. Despite artists' efforts to engage with the complexities of the past, their work is often interpellated within predetermined frameworks that limit its interpretation
Adversarial Authorship Attribution in Open-Source Projects
No full textOpen-source software is open to anyone by design, whether it is a community of developers, hackers or malicious users. Authors of open-source software typically hide their identity through nicknames and avatars. However, they have no protection against authorship attribution techniques that are able to create software author profiles just by analyzing software characteristics. In this paper we present an author imitation attack that allows to deceive current authorship attribution systems and mimic a coding style of a target developer. Withing this context we explore the potential of the existing attribution techniques to be deceived. Our results show that we are able to imitate the coding style of the developers based on the data collected from the popular source code repository, GitHub. To subvert author imitation attack, we propose a novel author obfuscation approach that allows us to hide the coding style of the author. Unlike existing obfuscation tools, this new obfuscation technique uses transformations that preserve code readability. We assess the effectiveness of our attacks on several datasets produced by actual developers from GitHub, and participants of the GoogleCodeJam competition. Throughout our experiments we show that the author hiding can be achieved by making sensible transformations which significantly reduce the likelihood of identifying the author’s style to 0% by current authorship attribution systems
Analysis of Centralized Public Procurement in the European Union, the United States of America and Romania
No full textWithin this article we made a study on centralized public procurement in countries in the European Union, the USA and Romania. We analyse the disadvantages and advantages of the centralized procurement of products or services and the situations in which the establishment of central procurement agencies and the achievement of centralized procurement are justified. It also outlines the main features and achievements of the most important central procurement agencies in the European Union and of the central procurement agency in the United States of America. The article also contains the stage of implementation of centralized public procurement in Romania
REAL COMPETITION LEADS TO SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS IN ROMANIAN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF VEHICLES?
No full textThe article analyzes the real competition in public procurement for the supply of vehicles in Romania and the size of the obtained savings. For this, a sample consisting of 185 procurement procedures was used, procedures that took place between 17.02.2015 and 22.07.2019 in Romania. The influence of competition on the savings obtained in public procurement procedures has also been studied by other authors. These authors found that as competition increases, the prices offered decrease, thus obtaining significant savings, but after receiving a certain number of offers, the decrease of the offered prices stops. The article aims to confirm / disprove these conclusions in the case of the analyzed sample, to determine the number of offers from which the offered prices do not decrease and if the realized savings are substantial. Also, within the article, a unifactorial linear regression was performed that verified whether the number of bidders was influenced by the size of the estimated value and a multifactorial linear regression was performed that verified whether the weight of the obtained savings was influenced by the number of offers received and the estimated value of the procedure
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CALCULATION ALGORITHMS USED IN THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES
No full textIn public procurement, knowing the types of calculation algorithms and choosing the right algorithm to establish the scores of the submitted tenders have a very important role. The wrong choice of the calculation algorithm may lead to deficiencies such as obtaining identical scores for different tenders received, or ignoring the actual benefits of a tender due to the inappropriate way of calculating the scores. The calculation algorithm must be set so as to objectively quantify the advantages which the contracting authority seeks to achieve by carrying out the procurement procedure. The article describes the main types of calculation algorithms used in public procurement procedures, a comparative analysis of the results of algorithms applied in case of a real bid and the advantages / disadvantages of using each type of algorithm analysed
Une communauté de lecteurs à l’aube de la Révolution: Dom Bougre aux états généraux (1789)
No full textDom Bougre aux États généraux (1789) is the first in a series of pamphlets published during the revolutionary period, offering different visions of contemporary events. Its main character is taken from L’Histoire de Dom Bougre by Gervaise de La Touche, an 18th century libertine bestseller. By exposing the depravity of the clergy, the corrupt ruling classes, and the ineffectiveness of the political reforms, the pornographic Dom Bougre fits into the social and political debate. While keeping in mind the contextual and intertextual references in the pamphlet, I will analyze the role of the reader in decoding the political message and the strategies adopted by the anonymous author to guide the interpretation of the text
Afilierea lui Mattei Dogan la sociologia românească (1990-2000)
No full textThe article reconstructs the mechanisms through which the work of the French scholar of Romanian origin, Mattei Dogan was brought to light in Romania after 1990 thanks to the efforts of the community of sociologists. Romanian sociologists used three methods to assimilate the author who is considered the founder of comparative political analysis and who left Romania immediately after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology under Henri H. Stahl supervision: they translated Dogan’s articles and books, they made him a member of prestigious institutions and they included him in the post-communist effort to reclaim the legacy of the school founded by Dimitrie Gusti. To capture the institutional and editorial strategies that were used, I conducted interviews with several protagonists of the Romanian sociology renaissance movement. I also used epistolary resources, sociology and political science journals, press articles, as well as documents from the archives of the University of Bucharest and from the Mattei Dogan Foundation. The article shows the success of some methods and the failure of others. It also brings to light a text that was ignored in the studies and bibliographies that discuss the work of the scholar who was born in Roman in 1920 and who went by the name of Matei Pinsler until 1945 (Preda, 2020). This research paper is relevant for various reasons. Firstly, it complements not only the biography of Dogan, but also that of Henri H. Stahl. Furthermore, it highlights the trajectory of a discipline in a period of dissociation with the communist past while restoring the connections with the interwar period
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