90 research outputs found
BOOK REVIEW: CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU NECUNOSCUT (CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU UNKNOWN), PUBLISHING BY ED. LIDANA, SUCEAVA, 3 EDIŢII, 2011-2013 (ISSN: 2284-712X)
No full textIn late May and early June of this year, organized by the Bucovina Cultural Center from Suceava, took place the third edition (2013) of the “Ciprian Porumbescu” European Festival of Arts, having among the guests of honour the Porumbescu’s family descendant, Mrs. Nina Cionca, author of a vast, detailed and richly illustrated monograph about Ciprian Porumbescu. Among a series of notable cultural representations made to celebrate 160 years of the birth of Bucovinean composer Ciprian Porumbescu, in June 1st at Stupca (today: Ciprian Porumbescu), at the Ciprian Porumbescu Memorial Museum, also held at the National Musicological Symposium. Within it have been presented the following papers dedicated to the composer\u27s life and activity: Leca Morariu and the Monumental Monograph Worshiped to Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Vasile Vasile – from the University of Piteşti); The Architectural and Tonal Support of the Dramaturgy of the “Crai nou” (New Philanderer) Operetta by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Gabriela Coca – from the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca); “Balada” (The Ballad) of Ciprian Porumbescu – a Representative Creation of the Art Music of Bucovina (19th century) (author: Zamfira Dănilă – from the “George Enescu” Academy of Art - Iaşi); The Reception of Ciprian Porumbescu’s Creation in Banat (author: Constantin Tufan Stan – from the Filaret Barbu School of Fine Arts of Lugoj); „Altarul Mănăstirii Putna” (The Altar of Putna Monastery) (author: Sever Paraschiv Dumitrache – from the Bucovina Cultural Center of Suceava); and The Musicological Trilogy “Ciprian Porumbescu Unknown” to an end (autor: Constanţa Cristescu – from the Bucovina Cultural Center - Suceava). These papers are all included, in this presented volume, with other two studies: Ciprian Porumbescu – Friends and his Collaborators of Braşov (author: the regretted musicologist professor Constantin Catrina from the Transylvania University of Braşov) and The Aspects of the Musical Language and of its Architecture in Compositions by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Ozana Kalmuski-Zarea – from the “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic of Bacău). In a special chapter, entitled Documenta, this volume contains the facsimile of the manuscript of the orchestra score of the vocal-symphonic work The Altar of Putna Monastery by Ciprian Porumbescu
BOOK REVIEW: CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU NECUNOSCUT (CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU UNKNOWN), PUBLISHING BY ED. LIDANA, SUCEAVA, 3 EDIŢII, 2011-2013 (ISSN: 2284-712X)
No full textIn late May and early June of this year, organized by the Bucovina Cultural Center from Suceava, took place the third edition (2013) of the “Ciprian Porumbescu” European Festival of Arts, having among the guests of honour the Porumbescu’s family descendant, Mrs. Nina Cionca, author of a vast, detailed and richly illustrated monograph about Ciprian Porumbescu. Among a series of notable cultural representations made to celebrate 160 years of the birth of Bucovinean composer Ciprian Porumbescu, in June 1st at Stupca (today: Ciprian Porumbescu), at the Ciprian Porumbescu Memorial Museum, also held at the National Musicological Symposium. Within it have been presented the following papers dedicated to the composer's life and activity: Leca Morariu and the Monumental Monograph Worshiped to Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Vasile Vasile – from the University of Piteşti); The Architectural and Tonal Support of the Dramaturgy of the “Crai nou” (New Philanderer) Operetta by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Gabriela Coca – from the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca); “Balada” (The Ballad) of Ciprian Porumbescu – a Representative Creation of the Art Music of Bucovina (19th century) (author: Zamfira Dănilă – from the “George Enescu” Academy of Art - Iaşi); The Reception of Ciprian Porumbescu’s Creation in Banat (author: Constantin Tufan Stan – from the Filaret Barbu School of Fine Arts of Lugoj); „Altarul Mănăstirii Putna” (The Altar of Putna Monastery) (author: Sever Paraschiv Dumitrache – from the Bucovina Cultural Center of Suceava); and The Musicological Trilogy “Ciprian Porumbescu Unknown” to an end (autor: Constanţa Cristescu – from the Bucovina Cultural Center - Suceava). These papers are all included, in this presented volume, with other two studies: Ciprian Porumbescu – Friends and his Collaborators of Braşov (author: the regretted musicologist professor Constantin Catrina from the Transylvania University of Braşov) and The Aspects of the Musical Language and of its Architecture in Compositions by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Ozana Kalmuski-Zarea – from the “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic of Bacău). In a special chapter, entitled Documenta, this volume contains the facsimile of the manuscript of the orchestra score of the vocal-symphonic work The Altar of Putna Monastery by Ciprian Porumbescu
Ciprian Pripoae-Șerbănescu, Subconștient, comunicare, sens (Subconscious, communication, meaning), TopForm, Bucharest, 2018, 95 p.
No full textThe volume Subconscious, communication, meaning, published in 2018, by TopForm Publishing House, within the Psychology collection, represents a real contribution in the field of intelligence studies. The author Ciprian Pripoae-Șerbănescu successfully summarizes the concerns in the field of psychology, critical thinking and intelligence, with an emphasis on the persuasive role of communication. After all, the paper can be a starting point for future research, especially due to the interdisciplinary perspective
Enabling dynamic interactions in large scale applications and scientific workflows using semantically specialized shared DataSpaces
No full textEmerging scientific and engineering applications use large-scale parallel machines to simulate, with higher accuracy, complex physical phenomena consisting of dynamically interacting processes. The workflows associated with these applications consist of parallel application codes that need to co- ordinate and interact at runtime. The interactions typically involve large volumes of data that must be exchanged and processed by the codes. The heterogeneous nature of the coupled codes, their numerical formulations, and their data decompositions lead to complex and dynamic interaction and data exchange patterns that are only defined at runtime. Moreover, these simulations often run on separate resources and progress at different rates, which adds to their complexity. Efficient and scalable implementation of these coupled application workflows present several challenging programming, orchestration, coordination, and data exchange requirements. Existing programming frameworks, however, are rigid and provide limited support for the dynamic inter- actions manifested by these applications. For example, existing frameworks need to gather global application knowledge, impose tight synchronization between applications, or demand pre-defined and static interaction patterns that must be known prior to execution. These constraints can introduce significant performance penalties and can limit application interaction programming expressiveness. This thesis explores a new communication and coordination model to enable flexible and asynchronous application coupling for coupled applications workflows. It derives from the tuple-space model and provides the abstraction of a virtual distributed shared-space, which is customized for the application data domain. It enables applications to coordinate and exchange data by inserting and retrieving data objects. This model does not impose any synchronization requirements between independent applications. Data stored on the space can be accessed by multiple applications, which can associatively query the space and retrieve data objects. Furthermore, it enables decoupled and dynamic interactions driven by application computations. This thesis presents DataSpaces, a prototype implementation of the distributed shared-space model. DataSpaces enables memory-to-memory application coupling and transparent data redistribution. It can complement existing workflow engines to enable in-memory data transports between distributed applications that run on separate resources as part of end-to-end scientific workflows. The thesis also presents ActiveSpaces, which extends DataSpaces and the shared-space model to enable in-transit data processing. It proposes and demonstrates a shift in the data processing paradigm by moving processing code closer to the data. ActiveSpaces provides programming support for defining data processing routines, and a runtime execution system to deploy and remotely execute these routine on the space. The research concepts and software frameworks have been deployed and evaluated using real application workflows in production runs on high-end computing systems.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ciprian Doca
Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction and Teacher Well-Being in the K-12 Educational System
No full textTeacher job satisfaction and well-being have a significant impact on educational outcomes, considering that teaching is the main objective of the educational process. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between teacher job satisfaction and four main categories of determinants: self-efficacy, relational aspects (colleague collaboration, student behavior, school management), work-related aspects (administrative workload, teaching tasks), and working conditions, in order to identify various implications for teachers’ well-being. The study employs a survey delivered to 658 K-12 (pre-university) teachers, from the North-West region of Romania. We used factorial analysis and a structural equation model to test eight proposed hypotheses. The results showed that self-efficacy, promotion, positive student behavior, and working conditions have significant effects on job satisfaction. These factors influence job satisfaction and well-being in the teaching profession because they ensure a positive work environment in which teachers and students thrive, thus leading to higher levels of involvement from teachers, students, and parents alike. An efficient work environment decreases attrition, burnout, emotional exhaustion, and teacher turnover, while increasing job satisfaction, well-being, and teacher retention
Asynchronous data transfers on large scale HPC systems with experiments on the CRAY XT3/XT4
No full textA key challenge faced by the emerging large scale scientific and engineering simulations is effectively and efficiently managing the large volumes of heterogeneous data generated. This includes offloading this data from the compute nodes at runtime, and transferring it over to service nodes or remote clusters for online
monitoring, analysis, or archiving. To be effective, these I/O operations should not impose additional synchronization penalties on
the simulation, should have minimal impact on the computational performance, maintain overall Quality of Service, and ensure that no data is lost.
This thesis describes the design, implementation, and operation of DART (Decoupled Asynchronous Remote Transfers). DART is a thin software layer built on RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) communication technology, and specifically the Portals RDMA library to allow fast, low-overhead access to data from simulations running on compute elements, and to support high-throughput low latency
asynchronous I/O transfer of this data.
DART is part of the infrastructure for an integrated simulation of fusion plasma in a Tokamak being developed at the Center for Plasma Edge Simulation (CPES), a DoE Office of Fusion Energy Science (OFES) Fusion Simulation Projects (FSP). A performance evaluation on the Cray XT3/XT4 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrates that DART can be used to offload expensive I/O operations to dedicated service nodes allowing more efficient utilization of the compute elements.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42)
Tourism at the Crossroads between Well-Being, Public Health and the Environment: Panel Data Evidence from the European Union
No full textThe recent pandemic crisis led to a drop in tourism, and it highlighted the connection between tourism, healthcare, environmental concerns and well-being. In this context, the purpose of the research is to clarify the relationship between tourism, happiness, healthcare and environmental expenditure. Statistical data provided by the World Bank, Eurostat and the World Happiness Database from the EU27 countries, from 2000 to 2019, were used. In order to investigate the relationship between these indicators, the panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method was used. In the long run, happiness and environmental and healthcare expenditure have a statistically significant and positive impact on tourism arrivals and receipts. It follows that a 1% increase in happiness supports between 4% and 9% of international tourism, while a 1% increase in environmental expenditure supports an increase of 2% in international tourism. Additionally, there is a significant interaction between happiness and either environmental or healthcare expenditure in the long run. This means that increasing happiness diminishes the effect of the later on tourism arrivals and receipts. No short-term relationship was identified between arrivals and any of the above-mentioned variables. In the same context, healthcare expenditure has a negative short-term effect on tourism receipts. The research contributes to the literature by suggesting that increasing national happiness, healthcare and environmental expenditure has a beneficial spillover effect on tourism arrivals and receipts in the long run
SOCIOLOGIA ELITELOR. ABORDĂRI CLASICE ȘI CONTEMPORANE. INSTITUTUL EUROPEAN, IAȘI, 2023. CIPRIAN IFTIMOAEI
No full textThe volume Sociologia elitelor. Abordări clasice și contemporane (The Sociology of Elites. Classical and Contemporary Approaches) fits into a relatively recent series of studies within the Romanian social sciences dedicated to examining elites in the context of transition, democratic consolidation, and good governance. The author brings together both classical and contemporary approaches to the study of elites, organizing them into four major schools of sociopolitical thought: the classical sociology of elites, the radical (critical) sociology of elites, elite pluralism, and democratic elitism. Ciprian Iftimoaei’s work makes an important contribution not only by systematizing elitist theories but also by integrating them into a coherent sociological framework applied to the Romanian post-communist context. The author succeeds in creating a dialogue between Western paradigms of elite studies and the Romanian sociological tradition, building a bridge between theoretical reflection and empirical analysis of contemporary political elites. Moreover, his approach is distinguished by the ability to operationalize key concepts such as power, domination, circulation, and elite consensus, thus providing a sociological model that can also be applied to other areas of political analysis. Conceptual rigor, balance between description and interpretation, and the combined use of qualitative and quantitative methods make this volume a methodological benchmark for elite research in Romania
The role of education and digitalization in tourism development: evidence for the European Union
No full textThe investigation of the relationship between tourism, digitalization, education, and economic growth is increasingly significant in the context of sustainable development and technological transformation. This study examines the long run and short run impacts of digitalization (measured through internet usage and broadband subscriptions), education (reflected in tertiary enrollment and public expenditure), and macroeconomic factors (including GDP per capita, employment in services, and urbanization) on international tourism performance, as indicated by arrivals and receipts across clusters of European Union countries. Methodologically, the study adopts a two-stage approach. Hierarchical cluster analysis is first applied to classify European Union countries according to key tourism characteristics, followed by the estimation of panel ARDL models for each resulting cluster to examine both long-run equilibrium relationships and short-run dynamics. Employing panel ARDL models applied to four distinct groups of countries, the analysis highlights differentiated dynamics, strong long-run effects in high-income tourism economies and more pronounced short-run responsiveness in structurally varied countries. Cointegration tests affirm the existence of long-run relationships in most clusters, reinforcing the validity of an error correction framework. Therefore, the empirical findings indicate that digitalization exerts a consistently positive influence on tourism performance in the long-run, while the effects of education are more heterogeneous across clusters. In the short-run, the impact of macroeconomic variables and digital infrastructure is more pronounced, underscoring the relevance of structural and contextual factors in shaping tourism dynamics. The findings emphasize the importance of aligning digital and educational policies with tourism development strategies while considering the structural differences among regions. This research provides a comparative framework that enhances the understanding of tourism as both an economic and social phenomenon
Contributions to Using IT in Education: An Educational Video Player
No full textFollowing the trends of IT use in education we propose four main principles of educational application development: anytime-anywhere access (including access for mobile devices); user-generated content; assigning users an active role inside the platform; creating a correlation between natural activities and educational activities – adding fun into the equation. With these principles in mind we developed a small Educational Player – a movie player that connects to a database to show information relevant to the events in the movie, more specific to the exact key-frame (in the movie time-line) at the moment of the request. Though the application is still in a conceptual form, its possibilities make us confident in its future success either as an informal way of learning, or by using it in a formal educational context either as an e-learning tool, either as interactivity tool in a traditional classroom setting.E-learning, Educational Technologies, Multimedia Applications
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