Energy is the sector most strongly connected with climate change moderation, and this correlation and interdependency is largely investigated, in particular as regards renewable energy and sustainability issues. The United Nations, European Union, and all countries around the world declare their support for sustainable development, materialized in agreements, strategies, and action plans. This diversity, combined with significant interdependencies between indicators, brings up challenges for data analysis, which we have tackled in order to decide on relevant indicators. We have built a research framework based on Business Intelligence & Analytics for monitoring the SDG7 indicators that aim at “Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all”, in relation with SDG13 indicators targeting the sustainable aspect of energy. In developing the Business Intelligence & Analytics framework, we have considered Design Science Research in information systems guidelines. We have designed a process for carrying out Design Science Research by describing the demarche to develop information artifacts, which are the essence of a Business Intelligence & Analytics system. The information artifacts, such as data source, preprocessed data, initial and final data model, as well as data visualizations, are designed and implemented in order to support clean and affordable energy data analysis. The proposed research model, applied for Romania in this paper, serves as a point of departure for investigating data in a more integrated way, and can be easily applied to another country case study.

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the opportunities for adopting robotic applications, through a marketing mix perspective, as well as depicting the current state of industrial robot integration in Romanian enterprises and the labor market, in contrast to other economies of the European Union. In this research, we highlight the impact of industrial robots within enterprises, while also considering the perceived standard of living through GDP per capita. For this, we conducted exploratory research based on secondary data regarding the evolution of the robotics sector in Romania, in connection to the dynamics of the global and European Union robotics market. We also performed a principal components analysis, which revealed the main factors that contributed to the dynamics of nation-level enterprise statistics. Our analysis revealed that a higher integration of industrial robots contributed to the reduction of employment rates amongst all six EU countries considered, while also having positive correlations with the GDP per capita and apparent labor productivity. Mixed results were only observed for the impact of industrial robots on remuneration growth, suggesting the potential adverse effects automation could have on incomes.

The continuous expansion of the nursing scope of practice, the undeniable growth of the nurses’ role in the healthcare crisis, the shortage of labor, especially in rural areas and marginalized urban csommunities, and last but not least, the lack of literature on Romanian nursing autonomy are some of the background factors in this study. This study’s purpose is to assess nurses’ perceptions of their medical care independence. The main hypothesis is that more advanced levels of education generate a greater inclination toward autonomous interventions. The quantitative research is based on a survey using a self-designed questionnaire as a tool (based on a nurse-focused structure and process indicators following the Donabedian model) applied in a Romanian clinical hospital. Based on a literature review, three composite indicators were developed and tested for reliability using the Cronbach alpha coefficient. These indicators reflect autonomy from three perspectives: clinical practice independence, autonomy in relation to work, and autonomy through digitalization. This scientific approach revealed a major impact of the regulatory framework on nurses’ perceptions of their autonomy, below the expectations of use, and the acceptance of digital technologies among nurses. Finally, it was observed that college graduate nurses perceive lower levels of independence than post-secondary ones.

Terrorism is one of the main dangers facing democratic states today. The effects of terrorist activities and their economic impact on society are very difficult to determine, but in the following we will try to understand and analyses the main dangers to which states are exposed and the countermeasures carried out by the main states facing this scourge. At the same time, we will try in the analysis carried out in this article to establish the future measures to be taken so that the objectives of terrorist organizations, those of implicitly affecting the targeted countries economically, do not lead to the desired results.