Education is one of the most important components of the human capital, and an important determinant of the personal income. Estimating the rate of return to education is a main topic of economic research. In this paper we analyzed the rate of return to higher education in Romania using the...

A significant problem in higher education is the poor results of students after admission. Many students leave universities from a variety of reasons: poor background knowledge in the field of study, very low grades and the incapacity of passing an examination, lack of financial resources....

Internationalization of higher education has become a part of the globalization process. In this paper we analyze the internationalization of the higher education in Romania and EU countries, identifying the forms of the internationalization, the main statistical indicators available to measure...

This paper presents a number of issues related to the mobility of civil servants and to the politicizing the civil service in Romania in the period 2000-2010. Analysis of the politicization phenomenon has allowed identification of three stages: 2000-2004, 2005-2008 and 2009-present. Application...

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced...

This paper discusses problems related to parallel computing applied in economics. It introduces the paradigms of parallel computing and emphasizes the new trends in this field - a combination between GPU computing, multicore computing and distributed computing. It also gives examples of problems...

The paper investigates some features of the corruption in the public administration in a country, which is in the process of integrating into the new structures of the European Union. We estimated the parameters of a regression model that analyses factors like political system pressure,...

The paper aims to identify trends in the characteristics of the number of employees and the average salary in public administration in the last two election cycles in the period 2000-2008 compared with other sectors and proposes a series of three scenarios for the evolution of salaries in public...