• Market Opportunity of Some Aluminium Silicon Alloys Materials through Changing the Casting Process 

      Chiriţă, George; Chiriţă, Mioara; Soares, Delfim; Silva, Filipe Samuel (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Fatigue is considered to be the most common mechanism by which engineering components fail, and it accounts for at least 90% of all service failures attributed to mechanical causes. Mechanical properties (tensile strength, ...
    • Measurement and Evaluation of Efficiency. Criteria for Police Units 

      Dimofte, George; Dimofte, Gabriela; Bolea, Ionica (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Police organization It is widely recognized that the exercise of the activity of management, as of all human activities, is not a purpose in itself, but rather a means to increase economic and social efficiency. To ...
    • Multi Population Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for University Course Timetabling 

      Shahvali Kohshori, Meysam; Shirani Liri, Mehrnaz ("Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, 2012)
      University course timetabling is one of the important and time consuming issues that each University is involved with at the beginning of each university year. This problem is in class of NP-hard problem and is very ...
    • Mutations at the Level of the Measures Adopted by Monetary Authorities 

      Apostoaie, Marius Constantin; Matei, Ştefan (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Following the intensification of the international financial crisis in autumn 2008, the functioning of the financial system was seriously hindered. Central banks around the world responded firmly by lowering their key ...
    • Risk Management in the Age of Turbulence - Failures and Challenges 

      Matei, Daniela; Cristea, Dragos; Căpătînă, Alexandru (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Today’s business, being affected by the continuous changes in economic environment, must reinvent the “prudent risk taking” concept to strike an appropriate balance between risk, return and growth, in order to create ...
    • Romania's Competitiveness and Competitive Position in Global Context 

      Neculiţă, Mihaela; Neculiţă, Valentin (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Competitiveness increase has become a primordial framework of the social and economic development strategies of most world countries (mainly the most developed ones) over the last decades. The vigorous boost of the ...
    • Ultimate Owner and Firm Performance - Evidence from Romanian Mining and Quarrying Listed Firms 

      Mihai, Iuliana Oana; Mihai, Cosmin (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The main objectives of this paper are to describe the necessary steps to identify the ultimate owner and to investigate the relation between the ultimate ownership and the financial performance of Romanian mining and ...
    • Usefulness of Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Financial and Economic Crisis 

      Chiriţă, Mioara (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The objective of the present study is to explore the issue of the forecasting of economic crisis using the neural network. The subject is of great importance in the economy, more so as that most countries affected by ...