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UNIVERSITATEA “Babeş-Bolyai” BIBLIOTECA CENTRALĂ UNIVERSITARĂ “Lucian Blaga” CLUJ-NAPOCA UNIVERSITATEA “Babeş-Bolyai” BIBLIOTECA CENTRALĂ UNIVERSITARĂ “Lucian Blaga” CLUJ-NAPOCA ACTIVITATEA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ A CADRELOR DIDACTICE ŞI A CERCETĂTORILOR 2004 Vol. I CLUJ-NAPOCA 2005 Lucrare întocmită în cadrul bibliotecilor filiale ale B.C.U. “Lucian C U P R I N S Blaga” Cluj-Napoca şi coordonată de Serviciul Cercetare Bibliografică şi Documentare Coordonatori: Cuvânt înainte de prof. univ. dr. Doru Radosav, Daniela Todor Directorul B.C.U. „Lucian Blaga” Cluj........................................... V Olimpia Curta Gabriela Morărescu Notă asupra lucrării......................................................................... VII Redactori volum I: Redactori volumul II: Indice de autori (vol. I)... .............................................................IX Matematică: Marcela Groza Istorie: Aurora Arion Lucrări ştiinţifice ale cadrelor didactice şi Gabriela Petruşel Mihaela Bedecean cercetătorilor (vol. I) Daróczi Boglárka Ioana Draşoveanu - Matematică................................................................. 1 Fizică: Cristina Costea Nora Oprean - Fizică.......................................................................... 35 Chimie: Maria Rocaş Drept: Ana Belean - Chimie....................................................................... 63 Biologie: Gabriela Morărescu Psihologie- - Biologie..................................................................... 87 Silvia Onac Ştiinţele - Geografie ................................................................. 121 Bianca Moldovan educaţiei: Daniel Vlassa - Geologie ................................................................. 165 Okos Rigó Ilona Filosofie: Lupşe Ciprian - Ştiinţa mediului 205 Geografie: Sorina Matoş Sociologie.şi - Ştiinţe economice................................................... ..229 Geologie: Monica Baciu Asistenţă soc.:Bán Ildikó Ştiinţa Indice de autori (vol. II)................................................................XVII Mediului: Doina Ciuruş Studii Lucrări ştiinţifice ale cadrelor didactice şi Ştiinţe Maria Crişan europene: Dan Matei economice: Carmen Fosti Filologie: Aurora Araujo cercetătorilor (vol. II) Teologie - Istorie (facultate)....................................................... 333 Ortodoxă: Mara Todea - Istorie (institut).......................................................... 375 Educaţie fizică - Drept ........................................................................ 401 Şi Sport: Luminiţa Tomuţa - Psihologie-Ştiinţele educaţiei ...................................411 Bibliologia- - Sociologie şi Asistenţă socială................................ 433 Auxiliaria: Elena Moraru - Filosofie.....................................................................457 - Studii europene ........................................................ 467 Tehnoredactare: - Filologie................................................................... 483 Daniela Todor - Teologie Ortodoxă................................................... 537 Elena Moraru - Educaţie Fizică şi Sport....................................... .....545 - Bibliologia-Auxiliaria.............................................. 573 Coperta: Tiberiu Trenea ISBN: 973-595-059-6 III NOTĂ ASUPRA LUCRĂRII Fiecare descriere bibliografică a lucrărilor din baza de date are pe câmpul de descriptori mai multe cuvinte, corespunzătoare tematicii abordate, despărţite de “/”, lucru ce se poate observa Activitatea ştiinţifică a cadrelor didactice şi a cercetătorilor de la afişarea descrierii. la Universitatea „Babeş-Bolyai” 2004 se prezintă sub formă de Există cazuri în care acelaşi descriptor face referire la domenii volum tipărit şi bază de date, pentru a oferi mai multe opţiuni diferite sau la limba în care s-a realizat lucrarea, lucru reflectat de consultare şi implicit posibilităţi sporite de regăsire a prin adăugarea între paranteze rotunde a domeniului sau a informaţiei. limbii în cauză [Ex.: Analiza datelor (Economie) şi Analiza datelor (Psihologie) ; Afaceri – Dicţionar (Engleză)]. Tot între Baza de date permite căutări după nume de autori (cadre paranteze rotunde se specifică: denumirea populară în cazul didactice şi cercetători), titluri de reviste ştiinţifice, descriptori, unor specii de plante sau animale, localizarea geografică a cuvinte şi fraze din toate câmpurile. unor unităţi administrative [Ex.: Alba-Iulia, Oraşul (România)] şi explicaţia unor abrevieri [Ex.: GPS (Global Positioning Autorii, cadre didactice şi cercetători, au fost evidenţiaţi pe System)]. câmpul de autor (analitic), fiind singurii incluşi în dicţionarul de În alte cazuri, s-au realizat corespondenţe prin intermediul autori. De asemenea, in cazul volumelor de sine stătătoare, cratimei, pentru o mai concretă delimitare pe subiect [Ex.: aceştia apar atât pe câmpul de autor analitic cât şi pe câmpul Afaceri, Afaceri – Dicţionar multilingv, Afaceri – Management], de autori de volume, pentru a face distincţie între tipurile de delimitare geografică [Ex.: Accidente industriale – India], publicaţii descrise. delimitare temporală [Ex.: Antropologie istorică – Sec. 18-19 ; Antropologie istorică – Sec.19-20 ], forma lucrării descrise sau Titlurile revistelor ştiinţifice nu au fost abreviate, ele putând fi ocazia cu care a fost redactată [Ex.: Consiliere vocaţională – căutate în forma completă, inclusiv seria. Manual universitar, Entomologie – Simpozion] şi/sau numele unor persoane la care se face referire [Ex.: Biologi – Kis, Pentru încadrarea tematică a lucrărilor (indexarea lor) s-a Béla]. apelat la fişierul de autoritate cu vedete de subiect, a cărui utilizare este permisă de către sistemul integrat de bibliotecă Aceasta bază de date, care conţine 3144 titluri, poate fi ALEPH, existent la BCU “Lucian Blaga”, prin funcţia Browse consultată în mai multe puncte de informare ale bibliotecii (accesând catalogul on-line al BCU), încercându-se universitare şi pe Internet din pagina web a bibliotecii respectarea formei în care apar subiectele în acest fişier. (www.bcucluj.ro), prin aplicaţia Web Poster. Programul în care au fost culese datele bibliografice (ProCite 5) nu permite căutarea unei lucrări după un anumit descriptor NOTE ON BIBLIOGRAPHY de subiect şi apoi să facă trimiteri spre subiectele asociate. Din această cauză, lista de descriptori după care se pot face căutări în baza de date, cuprinde toate subiectele, ordonate alfabetic. O singură lucrare poate fi regăsita după mai mulţi The Academic Contribution of the Teaching Staff and descriptori, dar după fiecare descriptor în parte, deci în sesiuni Researchers from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca diferite de căutare. 2004 is both a printed volume and a database to offer more options for information retrieval. In other cases we used „-” to be more specific on subject [Ex.: The database allows searches by author name (university Afaceri, Afaceri – Dicţionar multilingv, Afaceri – Management], teaching staff and researchers), journal titles, keywords, words location [Ex.: Accidente industriale – India], time [Ex.: and sentences from all fields. Antropologie istorică – Sec. 18-19 ; Antropologie istorică – Sec.19-20 ], medium designator or occasion [Ex.: Consiliere The authors (teaching staff and researchers) are shown in the vocaţională – Manual universitar, Entomologie – Simpozion] analytic author field, and they are the only entries included in and /or personality names [Ex.: Biologi – Kis, Béla]. the author dictionary. When they are book authors their names show on both the analytic author field and monographic author This database, comprising 3144 titles, can be accessed in the field to make the difference among all types of publication library and on the Internet from the library webpage descriptions. (www.bcucluj.ro) using Web Poster. The journal titles haven’t been abbreviated and can be searched for as they are, including the journal series. Daniela Todor For database indexing we have used the controlled Gabriela Morărescu vocabulary of authority subject terms from ALEPH (our library integrated system), using the Browse option of the online catalog to maintain the same form. The bibliographic software (Procite 5) does not allow searching for records by one term and then by associate terms all together. For this reason, the subject term list to choose from comprises all terms sorted alphabetically. One record can be retrieved if searched for by several terms, but only one at a time, therefore in different working sessions. Each bibliographic description has more subject terms in the Keywords field, separated by “/”, which can be viewed at full record description display. There are cases when a subject term refers to several domains, or text languages, and we used round brackets for domain or language [i.e.: Analiza datelor (Economie) şi Analiza datelor (Psihologie) ; Afaceri – Dicţionar (Engleză)]. We also used round brackets to indicate the popular name of plants or animals, the geographic location of some administrative units [Ex.: Alba-Iulia, Oraşul (România)] and the full name of abbreviations [Ex.: GPS (Global Positioning System)]. AGRATINI, OCTAVIAN Profesor, doctor în matematici 1991- În periodice 1. Iterates of a class of discrete linear operators via contraction principle. În: Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, 44, nr. 3, 2003, p. 555-563. [In colaborare cu: A. I. Rus]. 2. Iterates of some bivariate approximation process via weakly Picard operators. În: Nonlinear Analysis Forum, 8, nr. 2, 2003, p. 159-168. [In colaborare cu: A. I. Rus]. 3. On some Bernstein type operators : iterates
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