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Computational Methods in Social Sciences
ISSN 2344-1232 · "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest · 55 articles in the index
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Introduction to adoption of lean canvas in software test architecture design
The growth of the software dependent businesses, as well as the use of electronic devices in daily life, brings new challenges requiring the software to work error free all the time, to achieve this goal software needs to be sufficiently and effectively tested during various development phases…
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Credit Risk Management and Interest Income of Banks in Nigeria
This study examines the impact of credit risk on the interest income of banks in Nigeria between the period of 2000 and 2014. Unbalanced panel data analysis was used to estimate the model with unit root test, Breusch Pagan test, trend analysis, descriptive statistics, Perasan CD Test…
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Importance of security and socialization in europeans life
The purpose of this research is to examine the importance of safety and socialization in the lives of individuals. The influence of agents of socialization (school, family, friends) are manifested as differences in preferences, feelings and thoughts of people. The article is structured in two…
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Macroeconomic determinants of migration from Romania to Italy
Taken into account various economic theories trying to explain the reasons that stay behind the decision to migrate to another country, this study uses empirical data to identify some macroeconomic motives for migrating from Romania to Italy. According to the estimations based on fast ridge…
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Economic and social factors influence on unemployment in Romania at the local level
This study attempts to identify economic factors which influenced the number of unemployed people in each county of Romania, registered at National Employment Agency, in 2014. At the level of administrative units we considered a series of statistical indicators characterizing economic activity such…
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On macroeconomic values investigation using fuzzy linear regression analysis
The theoretical background for abstract formalization of the vague phenomenon of complex systems is the fuzzy set theory. In the paper, vague data is defined as specialized fuzzy sets - fuzzy numbers and there is described a fuzzy linear regression model as a fuzzy function with fuzzy numbers as…
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Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation in Artificial Intelligence: Survey
The potential applications for mobile robots are enormous. The mobile robots must quickly and robustly perform useful tasks in a previously unknown, dynamic and challenging environment. Mobile robot navigation plays a key role in all mobile robot activities and tasks such as path planning. Mobile…
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The use of Markov chains in forecasting wind speed: Matlab source code and applied case study
The ability to predict the wind speed has an important role for renewable energy industry which relies on wind speed forecasts in order to calculate the power a wind farm can produce in an area. There are several well-known methods to predict wind speed, but in this paper we focus on short-term…
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The Phillips Curve for the Romanian Economy, 1992-2017
The paper analyses the relationship between the unemployment rate and inflation, in Romania, during the 1992 – 1997 (March) period. For this purpose, we have estimated two econometric models, where the inflation trend has considered as a benchmark for inflation dynamics and the unemployment gap was…
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An authenticated encrypted routing protocol against attacks in mobile ad-hoc networks
Mobile Ad hoc Network is stated as a cluster that contains Digital data terminals and they are furnished with the wireless transceivers which are able to communicate with each other with no need of any fixed architecture or concentrated authority. Security is one of the major issues in MANETs…
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The analysis of perception of human resources on social responsibility of the companies in Dâmbovița
The vast approaches of literature regarding the concept of social responsibility is the result of the fact that it represents an area that attracts many specialists, and the states have to follow the directives of EU on the respect and protection of the individual and environment. Social…
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Importance of human values of personnel in the contemporary organization
With the theme of importance of human values in contemporary organizations staff this article has two parts: the theoretical and practical part. The first part presented the concept of human values knowledge. In part two of the article we made of an office research based on the analysis of…
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Applying big data technologies in the financial sector – using sentiment analysis to identify correlations in the stock market
The aim of this article is to introduce a system that is capable of collecting and analyzing different types of financial data to support traders in their decision - making. Oracle’s Big Data platform Oracle Advanced Analytics was utilized, which extends the Oracle Database with Oracle R, thus…
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Performance analysis of aodv, dsdv and aomdv using wimax in NS - 2
WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) technology empowers ubiquitous delivery of wireless broadband facility for fixed and mobile users. WiMAX standard describes numerous physical and MAC layer characteristics. Here, an attempt is made to implement some of these physical and MAC layer structures including the…
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Workplace for individuals in the context of recession
Work has been and remains a topic of interest to specialists in the field, but also for labor market actors (bearers of demand and supply, and intermediates). In the present period of economic and financial crisis, the level of interest of many academics and practitioners increases on the analysis…
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What does FDI inflow mean for emerging african economies? Measuring the regional effects of FDI in Africa
Can foreign direct investment (FDI) promote growth in Africa? What does the inflow of investment hold for African emerging economies? Are the determinants of FDI different for different regional blocs in Africa? This study reviews the implication of FDI for different regional blocs in Africa. FDI…
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Establishing the health status of Romanians in a European context
We intend to analyze the opinion of the population about the health status of the individuals from 20 European countries. The self assessed health ( SAH ) data are associated to an ordinal variable X. Our final aim is to establish the position of Romania in this European context from the health…
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The Likert scale analysis using parametric based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)
The Likert scale is commonly used in survey research using primary and secondary data to measure the respondent attitude by asking insofar to which they agree or disagree with a particular questions. In generals, Likert scale would be preferred in the questionnaire development stage to ascertain…
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Large-scale natural disaster analysis in European transition countries
The first aim of this study is to identify possible natural disasters and catastrophes and to summarize the state of economic literature in the domain. Further are analyzed the methodologies used for estimating the economic impacts of disasters and catastrophes. The second aim is to compare…
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Q uantitative methods applied in the analysis of teenagers problems
The theme of the article is the study of teenagers problems based on quantitative methods, the scientific approach is divided into two parts: the part of knowledge and the practical approach. During the first part we describe the problems of adolescents based on national and international…