Vasile Gherhes

Vasile Gherhes
Polytechnic University of Timişoara

PhD

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Într-o lume globalizată, interacțiunile interculturale au devenit o normă, făcând necesară o înțelegere profundă și o comunicare eficientă între culturi. Limba joacă un rol esențial în relațiile interculturale, influențând percepțiile și interacțiunile dintre oameni. Învățarea limbii și a culturii unei alte națiuni ajută la eliminarea barierelor de...
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Water management is a significant component of ensuring the pursuit of sustainable goals in an organization. Universities are known actors committed to developing responsible behaviors in students, including water consumption. The present research investigates the changes in student water-related behaviors in campus living, due to an information an...
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This study compares online education to traditional face-to-face education in terms of effectiveness as perceived by university students. Within the framework of the COVID-19 pandemic, the research provides valuable insights into the rapid adaptation to digital learning environments. Through data collection and analysis, the study examines key aspe...
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This study focuses on the case of news headlines in current online journalism, looking into the current possibilities opened by ChatGPT to generate such texts in an attention-grabbing manner. To assess the reaction of online readers to headlines (clickbait or click-worthy), an online survey was applied, involving Romanian students. A total of 100 o...
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This study investigates the communication tactics embedded in clickbait headlines found in Romanian online media, by linguistically analysing a corpus of 80 headlines sourced from the Libertatea newspaper. It identifies key strategies such as the use of questions, numbers and dramatic language, all crafted to provoke curiosity and evoke emotional r...
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A major issue recurrent in sustainability ensuring concerns is pollution due to human activities, mainly related to the reduction in waste generation. The present study aims to identify students’ awareness of waste management, their daily routines in separately collecting recyclable waste, and their behaviors leading to reducing wasteful consumptio...
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Echipa formată din Vasile Gherheș, Mariana Cernicova-Bucă, Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir și Adina Palea împărtășesc, în capitolele prezentului volum, experiențele de promovare a sustenabilității prin proiectul University Students Engaging in Responsible and Sustainable Energy Consumption (USE-REC), finanțat cu sprijinul granturilor acordate prin mecanis...
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The team formed by Vasile Gherheș, Mariana Cernicova-Bucă, Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir and Adina Palea authoring the chapters of this volume share their experiences in promoting sustainability through the project University Students Engaging in Responsible and Sustainable Energy Consumption (USE-REC), funded with the support of grants granted through...
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As the COVID-19 pandemic evolved, executives became increasingly worried about the condition of the economy and their own firms’ perspectives. During the initial outbreak, it was only natural to be fearful and do as much damage control as possible, while during the following outbreaks and vaccine development, new unforeseen issues such as the great...
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The understanding of student profiles is critical in educational processes, providing valuable information on the learner’s knowledge, aspirations, expectations, and behaviors. The research aims to profile students’ relationship with electric energy resources across three issues: the use of energy-efficient devices, interactions with available devi...
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Social media has transformed the way people aroun d the world communicate, and its use in different sectors of social life has steadily grown. Considering the success it enjoys among the general public, it is very likely to be used also in local public administration. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, blogs and many others hav...
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Climate awareness is a major topic of concern, and the Green Deal in Europe attempts to turn states, communities, and local actors towards more environmentally conscious action to reduce, by 2030, the net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55%. Universities voluntarily adhered to the 2030 Agenda, displaying a wide variety of approaches to respond...
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The recent events in the Indian market show that "fake news" can affect not only people, but an entire economy. The study aims to analyse four stages of (fake) news circulation: the spread of fake news; the time necessary for the media to critically examine the piece of news and search for the truth; the time spent by the media do dismantle the fak...
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Current research shows a clear difference between generations and the main sources of information they access. While for Generations Z and Y accessing social networks and various online platforms are the basis of information gathering, for Generation X, the main source of information is traditional media. Moreover, the level of fake news on social...
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The availability and accessibility of green spaces in urban settings are important factors in determining the sustainability of cities and the quality of urban life. However, the literature indicates a need for evidence-based data correlating green areas and perceived well-being in the city. This study focuses on a vignette study of the satisfactio...
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The purpose of this paper is to observe the use of the Easy-to-Read term in the international scientific literature. Therefore, a bibliometric analysis was carried out using the Web of Science database, focusing on the period between 1978 and 2021. From this, 1065 records that met the search criteria were further identified. After applying the PRIS...
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Following international best practice examples, the Romanian government resorted to its social media accounts to disseminate information and unfold an awareness and persuasion campaign to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The article focuses on the use of the government’s YouTube and Facebook accounts to persuade the population to get vaccinated in 2021...
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This article proposes an analysis of the definitions and the interpretations of the concept of communication to the public in the Romanian legislation and the European jurisprudence. In particular, it presents and analyzes the Preliminary Ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg on the interpretation of the Article 3, par....
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The public administration communication is a type of mass communication which involves the dissemination of public information to citizens and the receiving of an efficient feedback in the form of an active participation in decision-making processes that concerns that community. Citizens not only have access to information concerning drafted legisl...
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The purpose of this research is to observe the pro-vaccination campaign in Romania from an informative and communicative perspective. A qualitative content analysis was carried out on the videos broadcast both on the Government's YouTube channel and on the Facebook page, describing the video messages' structure, framing, and linguistic and extralin...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has left a mark on education as it had been known before. Beyond his, attention needs to be paid to the transition back to face-to-face learning and its implications. Within this context of change, the present research focuses on identifying the students’ preferred aspects of online education during the pandemic, namely learni...
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The reduction, reuse, collection and recovery of recyclable materials are sustainable behaviors and people’s awareness of them plays an important role in implementing strategies and policies in this field. The quantitative analysis performed on a group of 816 students of Politehnica University of Timisoara, aimed at finding answers to important env...
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Emergency remote education adopted almost worldwide as a solution to maintain students on the educational track during the COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions brought to the fore issues of mastering technology, but also overcoming challenges such as students' behavior in the online classroom. The paper presents data based on the quantitative ana...
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As the effects of climate change on today’s society make the headlines across the globe, urging all stakeholders to join forces to act and to create a sustainable world, universities have started engaging in the process of building a sustainable future for the generations to come. The sustainable university has thus emerged, a pro-active and collab...
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates that the environmental pressure from households will increase significantly by 2030. Sustainable consumption means making consumers aware of the social and environmental impacts of the goods and services they use. In this respect, special attention must be paid to electrici...
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The disruptive force of the COVID-19 pandemic is lessening in power and plans are being made for the postcrisis period, among which increasing the sustainability of higher education is of significant importance. The study aims at establishing students' existing environment-related routines during their home confinement, as a basis for applying gree...
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Educational life worldwide has been shaken by the closure of schools due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. The ripple effects have been felt in the way both teachers and students have adapted to the constraints imposed by the new online form of education. The present study focuses exclusively on the beneficiaries of the educational proce...
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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...
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The study reports on research carried out at the five major technical higher institutions in Romania. It views the human values students bring with them to the educational setting as rhizomatic lines, in the Deleuzian sense, and aims at identifying the intensity of each value, respectively, at grasping the correlations between the students’ values...
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This paper aims to diagnose Romanian engineering students in relation to their migration intentions, motivations, and destinations, and to predict the magnitude of migration in the polled population. It presents the results of a quantitative study based on a questionnaire survey consistent in terms of number and structure of variables and responses...
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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 t...
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As part of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence will change almost all economic activities, and it will create enormous social and economic opportunities. It will also pose major challenges, accompanied by ethical dilemmas. The present study focuses on the perceptions of current employees predominantly from the I...
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p>As part of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence will change almost all economic activities, and it will create enormous social and economic opportunities. It will also pose major challenges, accompanied by ethical dilemmas. The present study focuses on the perceptions of current employees predominantly from the...
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The study presents the results regarding the attitudes of students from humanities and technical specializations in Timișoara towards the emergence and development of artificial intelligence (AI). The emphasis was on the most likely consequences of the development of artificial intelligence in the future, especially the negative consequences that i...
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Monografia 25 DE ANI DE COMUNICARE ȘI TRADUCTOLOGIE ÎN UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMIȘOARA, 1993-2018, dorește să prezinte cele mai importante momente care au marcat evoluția specializărilor de comunicare și limbi moderne aplicate în Universitatea Politehnica Timișoara, de la înființarea primei specializări de Comunicare profesională în anul 1993,...
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This study investigates how the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is perceived by the students enrolled in technical and humanistic specializations at two universities in Timisoara. It has an emphasis on identifying their attitudes towards the phenomenon, on the connotations associated with it, and on the possible impact of artificial int...
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This article aims to show the extent to which socially responsible Human Resource Management practices are implemented in multinational companies. As more recent studies highlight, the manner in which companies in Romania presently comprehend the social responsibility of their actions is mostly aimed towards the social component of the outer enviro...
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The selective collection of plastic, paper, glass and metal waste represents a desirable behavior in any civilized community with environmental concerns. The collection and recovery of recyclable materials is also a concern for the city of Arad, the purpose of this study being that of identifying the strengths and weaknesses of selective waste coll...
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If in the past, the success of innovationwasmeasured primarily in the economic sphere, recently the non-economic sphere has increasingly become more of a matter of corporate management and, therefore, of innovation management. Management's acquisition of non-economic aspects has been strongly influenced by the vision of sustainable development. Sus...
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Translation into English from Romanian of Vasile Gherheș and Ciprian Obrad's article having the following abstract: With more than 1 billion users on the planet and more than 7.8 million users in Romania, the social network Facebook enjoys great popularity, mainly among people under the age of 35. This paper presents the results of a study conducte...
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Translation into English from Romanian of C. Obrad and V. Gherhes's article, which is on: Nowadays, online commerce is increasingly popular worldwide and has a tendency to grow at a fast pace. Also in the future Romania, it is expected that more and more people buy their necessary products and services online. This study illustrates the perceptions...
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Starting with the premise that corporate social responsibility is a major factor for lasting development in a global economic society, this article sets forth an analysis of the realities and tendencies within the Romanian CSR. The present article offers the analysis done after the research of the organization, coordination, and activity model for...
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The paper presents the main opportunities offer by the Leonardo da Vinci project ResEUr -Certified Research-Entrepreneur (developed with the support of the European Certification and Qualification Association -ECQA) for the social competencies development in the case of master students from the Engineering and Management specialization, but also, f...
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This paper presents a method to automatically process the education quality assessment quiz test. The propose technique use Pattern Recognition methodology and the final decision is taken using a MLP neural network. The Xj subject's answers are numerically encoded in a descriptor vector VXj. This vector is fed to the net and it decides the Xj's deg...
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With a fast evolution, a considerable number of applications and global accessibility, the internet is used, nowadays, to gather information from every field of interest, for business dealings, for establishing social relationships, for communications or relaxation. This article offers a series of information about the degree of using the internet...
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Rapidly evolving and having a variety of definitions, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is under the sign of a paradox: it seems to be one of the most comprehensive and, at the same time, one of the vaguest concepts. In the literature has often been argued that the ambiguity (vagueness) of the concept is inevitable, given that it "mean...
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Emotional intelligence is a relatively new topic in the field of leadership concerns. Developed by psychologists in the 80s, it was later connected with management and leadership disciplines when research revealed how much influences the act of leadership and decision the possession or lack of emotional skills. Our article aims to reveal the overwh...

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