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International Symposium "The Environment and the Industry", 26-27 September 2019, Bucharest, Romania, pp. 18-19

This paper is a reinterpretation of the work done of the authors several years ago and it underlines the political risk of the countries that are member of the EU11 (European Union segmented at 11 countries that have geographical and strategic similar positioning) zone shaped by the World Bank in the year 2013. The research paper is targeted to underline the evolution between the peak of the crisis financial output’s slope and the result of the reforms implemented at the level of the European Central Bank and at the level of external regulators like the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The authors followed this path redundant to the fact that the three of them have specific backgrounds, from ecology, corporate governance and business related, and for that the authors tried to develop a path that shows the development of general risk at country level and macro-zone level using also Business Intelligence practices.

The main goal of this paper is to highlight the exploration of a corporate path for obtaining sustainable economic growth through the private – public partnership principle. The basic hypothesis offers the idea of an integrated proactive governance system created to succeed by combining in emergent countries the synergic relation between government action and corporate governance. The niche objective of this research is using a governance algorithm from a corporation scaled to the dimension of a nationwide economy to generate on the long term sustainable economic growth by creating, maintaining and developing intra-horizontal competitive advantage. The sustainable evolution of an emergent economy could be framed in a corporate model, highlighting one of the ideas Joseph Schumpeter rounded in his academic research, the idea that a corporate model can better protect a nation, region or state union by decreasing the need of an intervention through government action and only by maintaining a connection between market’ needs and the private sector, having as result a smoother demand cyclicity.

International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM, Geoconference on Science and Technologies in Geology, Ecology, Economics, Education and Legislation, SGEM 2015, vol. II, 2015, pp. 131-138

The presence of acrylamide, a potential human carcinogen, in treated drinking water has been a long-time concern for public health agencies. Due to this, acrylamide is included among the substances to be monitored in drinking water with a stated maximum admissible level of 0.1 �g/L in Europe. The necessity for ultra-trace level detection of acrylamide has led to development of an Offline-SPE-LC-MS method that involves SPE extraction of acrylamide using a strong adsorbent like activated charcoal followed by concentration. Simultaneously, a simple and rapid large volume Direct Injection LC-MS method was optimized from the previous method to detect acrylamide without the resource and time-consuming SPE step. A comprehensive comparison between the efficiency and sensitivity of the two methods is made. Optimization of LC-MS parameters (column temperature, mobile phase composition and flow, collision energy, fragmentor voltage, capillary voltage or MRM transitions) allowed high detection sensitivity. Due to Acrylamide high polarity, a Synergi Fusion-RP column with amide polar embedded groups was chosen to achieve reasonable retention and peak shape for acrylamide with a short run-time of only 3 min. The two methods provided excellent sensitivity, with reasonably low LOQ values of 2 ng/L for the Offline-SPE-LC-MS method and 30 ng/L for the Direct Injection LC-MS method. Intra-day and inter-day precision (RSD%) were 7.3 and 10.3%, for the Offline-SPE-LC-MS method and 2.4% and 6.2%, respectively for the Direct Injection LC-MS method. The analysis of acrylamide was successfully performed in drinking water from different location consumers and water treatment plants in Romania. Acrylamide was found in drinking water samples with levels between 5.2 and 35.7 ng/L using the Offline-SPE-LC-MS method. The direct injection method can only be used for acrylamide levels higher than its LOQ value (30 ng/L).