{"title":"REVIEW OF THE COLLECTIVE MONOGRAPH \"ANALYSIS OF RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH FOOD IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA\"","authors":"Valeriu Rudic, A. Aricu","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).12","url":null,"abstract":"The collective monograph \"Analysis of the risks associated with food in the Republic of Moldova\" was carried out within the project 20.80009.5107.09 \"Improving the quality and safety of food through biotechnology and food engineering\" within the State Program (2020-2023), Strategic Priority II \"Agriculture sustainable, food security and food safety\". The work includes the analysis of the risks associated with improper nutrition, the behavioral characteristics of consumers in relation to the consumption of salt, sugar, sweeteners, trans fats. The risks of contamination of raw materials and food products along the food chain with technogenic pollutants are analyzed in detail: food contamination caused by the environment, contamination caused by animal breeding and care, food contamination during processing, food contamination during transportation and contamination in the result of contact with food packaging.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"51 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139639164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTEGRATED REPORTING QUALITY DETERMINANTS: THE CASE OF BASIC MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES","authors":"Ana-Carolina Cojocaru, Svetlana Mihailă, Veronica Grosu","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).01","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the determinants of integrated reporting quality in the context of basic materials and industrial companies. The motivation stems from the need to enhance reporting quality and provide guidance to companies and academia. Specific hypotheses were formulated, including the influence of profitability, company size, age, and board size on integrated reporting quality. The research aims to offer insights into these factors' impact. The study employs a mixed-method approach involving quantitative regression analysis and qualitative content analysis. Findings reveal that profitability is not a significant determinant of integrated reporting quality, while larger companies exhibit higher-quality reports. Younger firms tend to present more elaborate reports. The study validates the role of board size in enhancing reporting quality. These results contribute to refining integrated reporting standards, enhancing transparency, and guiding strategic decisions for sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"121 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139638149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SELECTION AND EVALUATION OF TRANSFER TECHNOLOGIES","authors":"Vadim Iatchevici","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).02","url":null,"abstract":"Technological development is not a process determined only by the technology itself, the characteristics of which are largely decisive. Technology must be absorbed by an initially foreign system, in which a series of process-factors manifests itself, such as: strategy, top management, organization (company), technology and environment. The results are determined by each of these factors, but especially by the interactions, the connections between them. This paper develops a methodology for selecting and evaluating technologies for transfer based on groups of evaluation criteria (strategic, financial, industry / market technology consumers, internal, technological specifications, intangible effects) with the assignment of points (prioritization) starting from the performance descriptors for each criterion. The role of performance descriptors is not only to elucidate the relative value of technologies, but also to do so as objectively as possible.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"75 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139639846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REVIEW OF THE COLLECTIVE MONOGRAPH \"IMPROVING FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY THROUGH BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FOOD ENGINEERING\"","authors":"B. Gaina, Vladislav Reșitca, Natalia Vladei","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).13","url":null,"abstract":"The collective monograph \"Improving the quality and safety of food through biotechnology and food engineering\" was produced within the project code 20.80009.5107.09 \"Improving the quality and safety of food through biotechnology and food engineering\" within the State Program (2020-2023), Strategic Priority II \"Sustainable agriculture, food security and food safety\". The work is intended for specialists in the food industry, the wine industry, economic operators dealing with the production and processing of horticultural raw materials, promotion and marketing. Various aspects of increasing the biological value of food products by applying advanced technologies for the protection of biologically active compounds during manufacture and storage are analyzed. The proposed technologies also take into account possible textural and sensory changes, since the consumer is the final evaluator of food products. The collective monograph \"Improving the quality and safety of food through biotechnology and food engineering\" is recommended as a textbook for students of the II (Master's) and III (Doctorate) cycle of the Faculties of Food Technology and Agricultural, Forestry and Environmental Sciences.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"326 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139632203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE FEATURES OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS","authors":"Mariana Hadji-Bandalac","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(4).10","url":null,"abstract":"This work emphasizes some theoretical and practical provisions of aesthetic education, which have an important role in the development of visual language of architecture students. The principle of integrating scientific knowledge and creative skills ensures the success of the architecture student, valuing language as a tool used in free expression. One of the solutions refers to the analysis of the architectural context and project development based on visual language skills, and brainstorming, an idea-generating activity, can be taken as a method. Another solution would be to encourage students to take responsibility for the transmission of visual language from the perspective of aesthetic values. Taking on the role of a future architect by developing analytical skills and conveying aesthetic values, the student gains experience in modelling space and effectively conveying visual images of architectural edifices.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"18 71","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139639265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammed Amine Mouffok, Omar Mouffok, Wassila Bouabdallah
{"title":"EMERGING MARKETS ECONOMIES SENSITIVITY TO US DOLLAR'S STRENGTH DURING RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR","authors":"Mohammed Amine Mouffok, Omar Mouffok, Wassila Bouabdallah","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).01","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to study the sensitivity of emerging markets economies (EMEs) to the US Dollar's strength during the Russian-Ukrainian war in the long and the short run, where Autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) was used to analyze time series daily data in the period 2020-2023. We studied the impact of the US Dollar's strength on EMEs asset prices: EMEs currencies, EMEs bonds (US Dollar-denominated) and EMEs stocks, including the factor of the Russian-Ukrainian war as a dummy variable, as well as the effects of various economic factors: Federal Funds Rate, the US 10-year bond yield, commodity prices index and gold prices. The results showed that Russian-Ukrainian war has a significant positive impact on US Dollar's strength. In the other hand, both of them have significant negative impacts on EMEs asset prices, with varying degrees, where the aforementioned economic factors have asymmetric impacts. Moreover, EMEs stocks were the most Sensitive to Russian-Ukrainian war, US Dollar's strength and commodity prices, meanwhile EMEs bonds market were the least Sensitive.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"3 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Enguta Mwenzi, Eustache Banza Nsomwe-A-Nfunkwa
{"title":"STUDENT EVALUATION OF TEACHING QUALITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA","authors":"Jonathan Enguta Mwenzi, Eustache Banza Nsomwe-A-Nfunkwa","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).11","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to obtain information on the perception of Université de Kinshasa students of the quality of the education provided at their institution. The study was based on two hypotheses: (1) Université de Kinshasa students would have a positive appreciation of the quality of the education they receive; (2) socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, promotion and department would influence students' assessment of the quality of the education they receive. To test this hypothesis, a scale was designed and administered to 114 students from the University of Kinshasa, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. The scale assessed four dimensions of teaching quality: the quality of teaching planning, teachers' performance, learning assessment and teachers' mastery of the subject. The results show that students at the University of Kinshasa have a positive assessment of the teaching provided at their institution. In other words, they affirm that the quality of teaching at their university is good. This quality is reflected in four indicators: (1) good planning of teaching by teachers, (2) good performance by teachers, (3) good assessment of learning and (4) mastery of the subject by teachers.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"53 3-4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135512953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASSESSMENT OF THE TAX BURDEN IMPACT ON THE ENTITY'S FINANCIAL RESULTS: MICRO AND MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS","authors":"Silvia Zaharco","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).05","url":null,"abstract":"Taxes are costs for entities that significantly affect the financial results of the economic-financial activity. The level of fiscal burden imposed on taxpayers depends both on the external fiscal environment in which the entity operates and on the characteristics of its financial and economic activities, including its cost structure, sales revenue, income and other indicators. Therefore, to ensure efficient activity, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the impact of fiscal burden on the entity's financial results. The purpose of this research is to assess the level of fiscal burden and determine the degree of influence on some indicators that characterize the economic-financial activity of the entity. The study is based on the methods of assessing the fiscal burden applied in international practice at both the micro and macroeconomic levels. The study reveals that in order to determine the fiscal burden, especially at the microeconomic level, there is a need to combine several indicators, in accordance with the conceptual approach to the analysis of the tax system. Therefore, increasing the entity's financial results does not only involve reducing taxes, but creating an efficient system for managing and optimizing the entire taxable system.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"5 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135512958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANALYSIS AND IMPACT OF APIA ACTIVITY ON DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN ROMANIA","authors":"Cristina Copaceanu, Silvia Mazare","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).03","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is a very important sector for Romania, providing food and products of vegetable and animal origin, jobs for people in villages and business opportunities for enterprises and investors. Romania's agricultural area is in permanent change, influenced by European money that was attracted through support measures and community policies, and environmental protection and the need to ensure a sustainable development of agriculture in Romania made the activity of the Agency for Payments and Intervention for Agriculture (APIA) stands out as an important factor in aligning modern agriculture with the environment. Through this study, we aim to analyze the way in which APIA promotes sustainable agricultural practices and provides support to farmers to protect the environment and whether the agency's activity has brought benefits to the economic development of Romania and Neamț County. We thus demonstrate the important role that the agency has for the economy, for supporting farmers and agricultural producers in Romania, but also for the country's agricultural policy, the institution participating in the development and implementation of national agricultural policies and strategies, as well as in the process of negotiating subsidies and projects within the European Union (EU) agricultural financing system.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BUILDING THE MUSEUM CULTURE OF STUDENTS AND PUPILS THROUGH MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ERA","authors":"Tatiana Filipski","doi":"10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2023.6(3).08","url":null,"abstract":"Museum exhibitions are of major importance in the formation of museum culture of students and high school students, providing unique opportunities for research, learning and exploration of various cultural, historical, scientific and artistic fields. The study carried out elucidates an experimental scientific research focused on the valorization of museum exhibitions in the formation of museum culture (FMC) of students and high school students by exploring information technologies. The purpose of this research is to conceptualize the FMC of students and high school students through the elaboration of the praxeology of the targeted process in an age of information technologies. Research hypothesis: FMC of students and high school students through the museum exhibition, will be possible by determining, revealing and validating the theoretical-applicative foundations of the given process. Theoretical methods were used: analysis, synthesis, comparison and interpretation of the obtained results and practical methods: questioning, observation, pedagogical experiment, etc. Discussing and verifying the obtained results we identified, that the activities carried out during the training stage generated a positive impact on the FMC of students and high school students reflected in the change of attitudes, behaviors and value contents. The research allowed us to find that the museum exhibition can become an effective strategy for the culturalization of students and high school students on the three essential dimensions: institutional, professional, social, ensuring the promotion of national and universal values in the context of lifelong learning/permanent education.","PeriodicalId":36372,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135512952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}