Browsing 2012 fascicula1 nr2 by Title
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Alcohol Consumption: Measuring the Risk of Household Poverty (Case of the Urban District of Toamasina - Madagascar)
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)The individual consumer of alcohol, often the household head, loses part of his income to buy alcohol. Excessive consumption of alcohol causes social costs (support costs of illness, family trauma, car accident, job loss ... -
Business Process Reengineering, a Crises Solution or a Necessity
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)This case study shows that the company decided to implement Business Process Reengineering (BPR) not only because external environment had changed, but also due to its obsolete business processes and organizational ... -
The Comparison of GDP Strategies Forecasting in Romania
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)The aggregates, like GDP, can be forecasted using two different strategies, the criterion of predictions’ accuracy being used to select the best strategy. The aim of this paper is to find out what is the best strategy ... -
A Conceptual Framework for Team Social Capital as Basis for Organizational Team Synergy
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)The purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual framework of team social capital as a basis for reaching organizational team synergy. The dimensions of team social capital and the basic conditions required for ... -
Consideration Regarding Community Services of the Romanian Public Utilities
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)The community service of public utilities has known all through time various regulations and revisions that have been done according to the political, economic and administrative views of that period. In the 1866 ... -
The Correlation between Game Theory and International Trade
(2012)Game theory, in its most basic form, considers two or more players and analyses the different strategies that they can use and the effect that these strategies will have on each player. International trade allows countries ... -
Different Categories of Business Risk
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)Every business organisation involves some elements of risk. Unmitigated risks can result in lost opportunity, financial losses, loss of reputation, or loss of the right to operate in a jurisdiction. Like any other risk ... -
EU Regional Policy. Realities and Perspectives on the Absorption of European Funds
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)EU expansion to 27 Member States has generate challenges in terms of its competitiveness and internal cohesion. The already existing disparities between the Member States and among their regions have deepened. These ... -
The Financial Safety Net – a necessity in a turbulent financial world
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)Over the last years we observed that whenever crisis hits, interest in guarantee arrangements rises. The current financial crisis is no exception in this respect. It turns the spotlight on the operation of the financial ... -
How to Cover the Medical Costs of Hospitalization: a Theoretical Model Based on the Household Willingness to Pay
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)Covering medical costs is very important, in order to solve the various financial problems that limit the users’ access to health care (patients attending the public hospitals). Designing a new model of financing system ... -
Identification, Analysis, Modeling and Prediction of Time Series Characterizing the Indicators of Asset Structure in the Credit Institutions Operating in Romania
(“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)This paper aims to accurately characterize the dynamics of the structural indicators of the assets in the credit institutions operating in Romania through an empirical mathematical model of dual function: regulation and ... -
Market Opportunity of Some Aluminium Silicon Alloys Materials through Changing the Casting Process
(“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
(“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
("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
(“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
(“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
(“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
(“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
(“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 ...