Ioan Surdu

„Costin C. Kiritescu” National Institute for Economic Researches of Romanian Academy · Mountain Economy Centre - CEMONT Vatra Dornei, Suceava, Romania

This paper aimed to investigate the amino acid, fatty acid, proximate composition, total phenolic content (TPC), texture, color, and sensory properties of an Emmental type cheese from Ţara Dornelor, Romania as influenced by the processing technology (CA sample made in a stainless steel tank, with spontaneous microflora and ripening of 70 days, and...

Besides the clean environment, mountain pastures are important sources of bioactive compounds that contribute to the quality of dairy products resulting from animals grazing there. This review aimed to compare the main differences among mountain and lowland dairies in terms of chemical composition, physical and sensory properties and microflora. Th...

Food waste is a generalized process that affects both the environment and resources (natural, financial, sanitary, etc.). The negative effects are felt both at the individual level (household budget) and at the society level, being difficult to combat. From the quantitative and qualitative analyses, it was observed that food waste at the household...

In the present study, an elemental analysis was performed on dried Usnea barbata lichen to verify its safety for human use as a medicinal plant. U. barbata was harvested from a coniferous forest (47°28′ N, 25°12′ E, and 900 m altitude) belonging to the highest Romanian volcanic mountains (Calimani mountains). Coniferous forest soil is adjacent to t...

Volumul editorial se adresează unei probleme deosebit de importante: risipa alimentară, și încearcă să aducă în fața publicului cititor, al factorilor de decizie, ONG-urilor și cetățenilor un fenomen care a atins un nivel critic de la care fenomenul nu mai poate fi ignorat, un nivel periculos pentru condițiile de mediu și pentru multitudinea de res...

OB1. Cunoașterea evoluției fenomenului risipei alimentare în România, din persepctiva dinamicii față de anul 2016 și a tendinței de evoluție, în contextul reglementărilor în vigoare. OB2. Fundamentarea unor politici publice de prevenire și reducere a impactului socioeconomic până în anul 2030, actualizare legislație, politici de educație, informare...

Motivația cercetării - este strâns legată de îmbunătățirea nivelului de comunicare între aria practică și cea științifică-metodologică și de oportunitățile pe care le poate oferi colaborarea dintre cele două. De asemenea, este determinată de procesul de conștientizare și de atitudinea față de hrană, de preferințele alimentare, de planificare, produ...

Traditionalism and modernism are opposing concepts and tendencies that manifest in the cultural field in a permanent evolving disunity and represent the expression of a continuous process of accepting values and fixing them in the patrimony of humanity. Although in recent decades, for subjective and objective reasons, the social life of the mountai...

Rezumat: România are o şansă uriaşă, din păcate prea puţin exploatată: prin valenţele atractive specifice agroturismului montan (resurse naturale de o deosebită frumuseţe, viaţa rurală montană autentică pusă în valoare de artefactele încă existente în zona montană şi utilizate în practicile zilnice, elemente etnografice unice, unităṭi de cazare-un...

The mountain natural heritage is considered to be the set of components and physical-geographical, floristic, faunal and biocenotic structures of the mountain area whose ecological, economic, scientific, biogenic, sanogenic, landscape importance and value, recreational and cultural-historical have a relevant significance in terms of diversity conse...

Mountains are unique environments that offer a rich array of learning opportunities. From geological formations to cultural traditions, mountains are complex systems that can be studied and appreciated from a variety of angles. However, traditional formal education systems may not always be well-equipped to handle the diverse challenges and opportu...

The consumer demand for healthy and natural products lead to the increased interest of consuming mountain food products. The objective of this work was to evaluate the physical-chemical and sensory characteristics of 8 dairy products and 11 meat products collected from different mountainous pastures from Romania. The protein content of dairy produc...

This study shows the effects of dietary hemp seed oil on the milk composition, blood immunoglobulins (Ig), and enteric methane (E-CH4) production of primiparous sows, and their offspring’s response at three time points. A bifactorial experiment was conducted for 21 days (d) on 18 primiparous sows (195 ± 3 days old). The sows were fed two diets: (i)...

ood waste in Romania represents a major social problem: statistics indicate 5 million tons of food waste annually, representing between one third and a half of the total amount of food for human consumption produced in a year (about 250 kg / inhabitant). Annually, about a third of the products bought in Romania end up in the trash or are wasted unn...

Mustard and grapeseed meals are low-cost by-products generated by the oil industry. We aimed to investigate the effects of fiber level on the concentration of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) in the ileum and cecum, as well as the microflora and enteric methane (E-CH4) in pigs. A total of 70 Topigs hybrid pigs, 56 ± 3 days old, 20.96 ± 0.26 kg live weig...

During the last century, the emission of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) from the livestock sector increased significantly. N 2 O is a greenhouse gas with 298-fold higher global warming potential (GWP) than CO 2 . Pigs accounted for about 26% of N 2 O emissions. The formation of N 2 O occurs through nitrification and denitrification processes in manure. This...

Groundwater vulnerability in the Iberian Peninsula under climate change

In this paper, we determine the groundwater vulnerability of the Iberian Peninsula on the spatial scale. Aquifers, infiltration map, water availability, pollution load index, and nitrate (NO3) data have been analyzed as independent factors and inserted into the “New Implemented Spatial-Temporal On Regions–Groundwater Vulnerability Index” (NISTOR-GW...

In this paper, we determine the groundwater vulnerability of the Iberian Peninsula on spatial scale.

Territorial sustainability is often related to the land cover and local resources. Land cover data are used more than other remote sensing and digital photography methods for determining and analysing the information collected from a certain region. However, having the dynamic evolution of urban areas in developed countries, such methods and indica...

Water resources are facing nowadays with two main problems: climate change and land cover variation. Their influences on environment and water resources have been evidenced worldwide. In this work, we have applied a complex methodology based on Geographical Information System (GIS) to combine the spatial information of several parameters that allow...

The purpose of this article is to emphasis the intensity of ecclesiastical polarization reflected in mountainous territory in terms of accessibility. The research is conducted across the Western Carpathians, extending over an area of 18.650 km 2. We identified 65 monastic establishments of which together hold 892 accommodation places and a number o...

______________________________________________________________________________ The Apuseni Mountains is the most populous mountain range in the Romanian Carpathians chain, but also the most vulnerable to demographic depopulation and urban polarization. From a methodological perspective, data structures were collected from the National Institute of...

Plasma treatments represent a modern solution for rendering new functionalities to textile materials. This paper presents the effect of Hexafluoropropane plasma treatment with variable process time (of 0, 10, 20, 0 and 90 minutes) upon the physical-mechanical properties of a 100% cotton woven fabric type CORTINA. Three physical-mechanical propertie...

Weaning is associated with several stress factors and their effects on the piglet's body are fairly well known. Thus, changes were estimated in certain serum and faecal parameters after weaning owing to dietary protein level, though essential amino acid (AA) levels were maintained or reduced. Eighteen Topigs piglets were assigned randomly to three...

This work presents a synthesis of the scientific research performed by the authors for over 10 years, including the Postdoctoral School of the last three years, regarding bio-economy applied in animal husbandry for the efficient and durable development of fodder resources specific to certain geographic areas. The scientific research and experiments...

The experiment was conducted to determine effect of neutral electrolysed water (NEW) in laying hens. 75 Lohmann Brown layers were divided into 3 groups (C, E1 and E2) with 25 layers/group, fed the basal diet. Poultry drinking water was administrated ad-libitum to laying hens, at three levels: 0 (C), 2(E1) and 3% NEW (E2) for 9 weeks. The layers had...

One of the most important pedogenetic processes, as lithogenesis and hydrogenesis, lead the evolution of soils from many mountain areas. The researchers were performed on a slope located in the northern part of Pădurea Craiului Mountains of the Romanian Western Carpathians. The soil sequence includes Cambisols located in the upper part of the slope...

The paper emphasized the characteristics of the pedoplasma of two soils from Pădurea Craiului Mountain, in relations with the soil fertility and biodiversity of the two pasture ecosystems. Plasma is one of the most important and mobile component of the soil which show the dynamic of soil profile. The researchers were performed in the northern part...

Today, on a global level livestock management is a multifunctional activity. Beyond their direct role in generating food and income, livestock can be a valuable asset, serving as a store of wealth, collateral for credit and an essential safety net during times of crisis. Livestock are also central to mixed farming systems. Demand for livestock prod...

One of the most important indicators of the laying hen digestive micro flora and also with excrement contamination levels, is represented by the bacteriological water quality combined with feedstuffs and mixed diets quality. Numerous previous and preventable studies performed, against those with incidental epidemiology cases have highlighted the fa...

The bacteriological parameters of water stand as indices for the status of digestive microflora in poultry and for faecal contamination. The term refers at total coliformes, termophilic coliformes (especially E. coli), and streptococci. A great variety of studies and reports regarding infectious diseases evidenced water as an important pathogenic c...

The effect of organic and inorganic sources of copper was tested on 96 weaned piglets (Large White x Landrace), assigned to 6 groups, 3 pens per group. The treatments were copper sulphate: group L1S-50 ppm Cu, L2S-100 ppm Cu, L3S-250 ppm Cu) and Cu-Minitrex: group L1M-50 ppm Cu, L2m-100 ppm Cu, L3m-250 ppm Cu). The 6 groups received identical diets...