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Since, in some higher education institutions, it is not mandatory for students to turn their webcams on during online classes, teachers have complained that their students have adopted this behaviour once the educational activities moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering this, the present research aimed to identify the reasons behind students’ choice to hide their faces during online classes and find possible solutions to remedy the situation to enhance the educational process’s sustainability. Thus, this article presents the results obtained by applying an online questionnaire between December 2020 and January 2021 among the students pursuing an academic degree, recording 407 responses. The results highlighted the fact that more than half of the students participating in the study reported that they do not agree to keep their webcams on during online classes, the main reasons being anxiety/fear of being exposed/shame/shyness, desire to ensure privacy of the home/personal space, and chances that other people might walk into the background. The relevance of the research, besides the scarcity of studies on the topic, is also given by the fact that finding and understanding the reasons for this behaviour are, in fact, the first steps in undertaking regulatory interventions on it.
Vasile Gherheș; Simona Șimon; Iulia Para. Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3203 .
AMA StyleVasile Gherheș, Simona Șimon, Iulia Para. Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3203.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVasile Gherheș; Simona Șimon; Iulia Para. 2021. "Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3203.
Advertising is an undisputed reality of the contemporary world, being a form of communication present both in and beyond mass media. With the evolution of the society, new means of expression have emerged and determined an expansion of the range of advertising products offered for information, persuasion and, why not, for enjoyment. However, as advertising expanded its scope, the meanings attributed to the concept began to change and broaden at the same time. In the Romanian cultural space, this evolution of the concept, as well as the increasing presence of English in all instances of communication have led to a dynamisation of the process of defining advertising, especially due to the new meanings revealed by the definition of the concept in English. In this context, the present article aims to highlight the existence of some discrepancies between the definition of the concept and the terminology already established in Romanian, on the one hand, and to offer solutions that smooth the way to a better equivalence of the meanings assigned to the concept in the process of translating it from Romanian into English, on the other hand. Considering the problem statement, our own observations and the data collected from the online survey carried out among the students pursuing a bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, two definitions of the Romanian concepts of publicitate and reclamă are put forth in order to bridge the conceptual gap existing in the Romanian cultural space.
Simona Șimon. Redefining the Concept of Advertising in Romanian: Between Need and Reality. Technium Social Sciences Journal 2020, 13, 111 -119.
AMA StyleSimona Șimon. Redefining the Concept of Advertising in Romanian: Between Need and Reality. Technium Social Sciences Journal. 2020; 13 ():111-119.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSimona Șimon. 2020. "Redefining the Concept of Advertising in Romanian: Between Need and Reality." Technium Social Sciences Journal 13, no. : 111-119.
The concept of sustainability has been given more and more attention lately as the effects of climate change drastically impact society and threaten the wellbeing of future generations. In this context, universities are expected to build bridges between the academic and research communities on the one hand and society on the other, and to further the values associated with this concept in order to care for the generations to come. Thus, the present study describes the causes that have led to the emergence of this concept, defines it, and highlights some of the actions taken by universities and researchers. The question raised regards the position of the top Romanian universities towards the concept of sustainability. The way it is used explicitly in their strategic plans is viewed as proof as to whether the universities give it prominence or not, and as such, act accordingly. In order to achieve the primary objective of the research, a quantitative and a qualitative analysis were carried out. The main conclusion drawn is that the top Romanian universities are still at the beginning in terms of raising awareness about the concept and in terms of implementing sustainable measures in the domains that help them build sustainable universities.
Simona Șimon; Claudia E. Stoian; Vasile Gherheș. The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2757 .
AMA StyleSimona Șimon, Claudia E. Stoian, Vasile Gherheș. The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (7):2757.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSimona Șimon; Claudia E. Stoian; Vasile Gherheș. 2020. "The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans." Sustainability 12, no. 7: 2757.
Simona Șimon. 3. Necessary and Luxury English Loanwords in Some Romanian Online Newspapers and Magazines. Language in the Digital Era. Challenges and Perspectives 2016, 29 -36.
AMA StyleSimona Șimon. 3. Necessary and Luxury English Loanwords in Some Romanian Online Newspapers and Magazines. Language in the Digital Era. Challenges and Perspectives. 2016; ():29-36.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSimona Șimon. 2016. "3. Necessary and Luxury English Loanwords in Some Romanian Online Newspapers and Magazines." Language in the Digital Era. Challenges and Perspectives , no. : 29-36.
Dušan Popov; Shi-Hai Dong; Nicolina Pop; Vjekoslav Sajfert; Simona Șimon. Construction of the Barut–Girardello quasi coherent states for the Morse potential. Annals of Physics 2013, 339, 122 -134.
AMA StyleDušan Popov, Shi-Hai Dong, Nicolina Pop, Vjekoslav Sajfert, Simona Șimon. Construction of the Barut–Girardello quasi coherent states for the Morse potential. Annals of Physics. 2013; 339 ():122-134.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDušan Popov; Shi-Hai Dong; Nicolina Pop; Vjekoslav Sajfert; Simona Șimon. 2013. "Construction of the Barut–Girardello quasi coherent states for the Morse potential." Annals of Physics 339, no. : 122-134.
From the geometric point of view, it exists a one-to-one correspondence between the coherent states (CSs) | z, λ > and the points in the complex plane z. Consequently, the eigenvalues of the quantum operators will be numbers in the complex plane. In the paper we have deduced some new useful integrals in the complex plane - by using the expression of the Husimi's function for some oscillators: the harmonic and the pseudoharmonic one.
Dušan Popov; Nicolina Pop; Simona Șimon. The new integrals in the complex plane resulting from the coherent state formalism. TIM 2012 PHYSICS CONFERENCE 2013, 3 -9.
AMA StyleDušan Popov, Nicolina Pop, Simona Șimon. The new integrals in the complex plane resulting from the coherent state formalism. TIM 2012 PHYSICS CONFERENCE. 2013; ():3-9.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDušan Popov; Nicolina Pop; Simona Șimon. 2013. "The new integrals in the complex plane resulting from the coherent state formalism." TIM 2012 PHYSICS CONFERENCE , no. : 3-9.