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Abstract: How might we reimagine Eleanor Roosevelt not only as a political icon but as a figure whose entire life—private and public—queered traditional boundaries of being, sexuality, and power? Susan Wittig Albert presents this possibility in Loving Eleanor (2016), which examines the romantic conn...

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Abstract: This paper explores trauma, memory, and time in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s “The Lovers” (2019) from Before the Coffee Gets Cold, focusing on their role in shaping identity. Using speculative fiction, Kawaguchi follows Fumiko Kiyokawa, a woman dealing with the trauma of a sudden breakup, to show...

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Abstract: The film Akaash Vani (2013) exhibits a significant shift in how domestic violence is depicted in Hindi cinema, moving away from honor-based moral judgments to a perspective centered on rights. This article demonstrates how the film challenges the prevalent honor culture in India, highlight...

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Abstract: This article examines two film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Othello released in 2001, Geoffrey Sax's telefilm Othello and Tim Blake Nelson's O, from the perspective of Fernando Ortiz’s concept of transculturation, focusing on how ideas about race, gender and sexuality are trans...

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Abstract: This article retraces Mircea Eliade’s mystical travel through the Himalayas as shown in his Himalayan Journal and his struggle to survive as a writer under the weight of brutal historical events in his Portugal Journal. The two travel journals reveal the influence of geographical and his...

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Abstract: Cinema is not only a medium of entertainment, but it also has the power to reproduce, express, and shape ideas, ideologies, trends, needs, and concerns of a society at a certain time. The aim of this paper is to study the cinematographic representation of prostitution during the 1950s and...

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Abstract: Cartography, or the art of mapmaking, has been used by past and present writers to locate the settings of their stories. When it comes to imaginary settings, at times, the act of marking the place on the map of the real world implies that it has a different intention than just being the ba...

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Abstract: This article, which unites narratology, comparative mythology, and psychoanalysis, examines the ways in which mother-daughter relationships in a parallel world affect female identity in Henry Selick’s Coraline, and how this process of individuation is replaced by the mythical heroine’s jou...

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European integration and cooperation, basic vectors of European space of freedom, security and justiceAbstract: The European countries joining to the Schengen area had the effect elimination of internal border controls between Schengen member countries, that use permenent provisions of the Schengen...

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As a whole, this PhD thesis follows three research lines, namely: (1) the conceptual line - concerns the definition of the money laundering and terrorism financing phenomenon, the processes, mechanisms, stages and instruments of the laundering of illegally obtained fund; (2) the estimative line aime...

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This paper studies the effect of a series of quantitative easing initiatives belonging to the Bank of Japan on Central and Eastern European sovereign CDSs. Using daily data for the 2005 – 2013 period and considering 23 announcements of QE initiatives we build an econometric event study approach in o...

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This paper tries to solve the complex problems of arising in the definition and delimitation of the intangible assets. Over time the technology develops and resizes continuously and along with it redefine in a very short time the theoretical and practical concepts of the economy. From the economic p...

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The purpose of this paper is understanding of the importance of financial support for agricultural development and achieved results. The aim is an assessment of the importance of the European Union funds intended for agricultural and rural development. In accordance with the purpose and objectives o...

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In Romania, a lot of practices proper to corruption became widely common and are integrated in a real national bureaucratic culture. Romanian citizens seem to accept and tolerate informal payments in order to obtain the desired or the necessary services. Public officials are doing well, impersonal a...

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In all conditions of time and space, economic activity necessarily involves active work as a determinant factor of production and beneficiary of its results. In the market economy, labor services are provided to production, as with the other factors of production, through market transactions. This a...

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The main goal of this paper is to construct some combined predictions for the inflation rate in Romania, by using only the individual forecasts of two experts. The predictions provided during 2004-2014 were used in constructing the new forecasts. Several schemes of combination were employed: equally...

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The fight against shadow economy must be addressed not only as a permanent concern of economic analysts and decision-makers, but rather as a problematic ethical-moral nature affecting economic and interpersonal relations, as strategic and operational object. The authors attempt outline an institutio...

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This paper has tried to apply BMA approach in order to investigate important influential variables on Gini coefficient in Iran over the period 1976-2010. The results indicate that the GDP growth is the most important variable affecting the Gini coefficient and has a positive influence on it. Also th...

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In this paper, the asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on GDP have been investigated by co-integration analysis in Iran economy during the period 1960-2010. We used Hodrick-Prescott filtering to separate positive shocks from negative shocks. The results showed that in long run the negative shocks...

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This paper discusses the main characteristics of the proposed Capital Markets Union in Europe, as they are introduced by the European Commission and various authors, and emphasises some important advantages and disadvantages of this project for the developing and frontier markets in UE, especially f...

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