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This work presents PTAM-SD, a Parallel Tracking and Mapping algorithm with planar surface detection suitable for augmented reality applications in small workspaces. Our PTAM-SD algorithm tracks the movements of the video input camera in 3D space and updates the scale and position of the augmented reality game scene. PTAM-SD also assists the AR game by determining a planar surface in the real environment which is used for displaying the game scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our article shows that the new political realities that gained ground after the Great Union brought about major economic, social, cultural and demographic changes. The numerical increase of the Romanian demographic segment in Cluj also led to an increase in the number of Orthodox parishioners. From a demographic point of view, there was registered a phenomenon of population growth in the city of Cluj. A comparison between the Censuses of 1920 and 1930 and the Census of 1910 reveals that the Romanian population in the city of Cluj experienced an upward trend, by contrast with the Hungarian population. An explanation for the growth of the Romanian population in Cluj in the years following the Union is the industrialization and the social-economic modernization of the city. The economic development of Cluj attracted labour from the surrounding rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, "Some aspects of the Christian Life of the Early Church", what is discussed is the problem of the foundation of the Christian Church, of its organization in the first centuries of our era; than we make a survey of the Christian life in this period, with its moments of high moral value, but also with some human faults (sins) or deviations from the orthodox faith, which were rejected in the Ecumenical Synods; finally, we have pointed out the fact that the early period was, nevertheless, the glorious period of the Christian Church, also named "the golden age". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing phenomenon of the disappearance of minors (in U.S. around 2,000 minors disappear every day, in Canada 200, in France over 100) has caused concern both within social and protection institutions and for authorities that are responsible to trace and return them. Throughout the article, the author examines some aspects regarding the role and place of Romanian governmental organizations in preventing and combating child missing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The works of the Metropolitan Bishop Bartolomeu Anania (1921-2011) comprises various aspects of both the Romanian (and universal) spirituality and the ecclesiastical one; the last one include his Pastorals, which he addressed to the clergy and believers of the Archiepiscopate of Vad, Feleac and Cluj and had written for Christmas and Easter during 1993-2010 (the 1993 Easter and the 2010 Christmas); from great number of spiritual teachings of the above mentioned Pastorals, we presented in this paper only the ones which referred to the Christian Family; although he did not wanted to present exclusively this issue, in one of them we find out important references to the Christian family; the monogamous marriage is a divine will; chastity before marriage is a divine commandment; giving birth to children inside the marriage is Godlike; children, adolescents and young people who intend to get married shall receive elect religious education; he speaks about the good relationships between husband and wife; he also speaks about original sins such as: abortion, adultery, homosexuality etc; his piece of advice is very important in a world which is in a material and spiritual crisis, in a drift epoch, in which, more than ever, people are threatened to get out forever from the history of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Euchologion (Molitvelnic) of Balgrad (1689) and the Rector Ioan Zoba from Vintu de Jos. This study presents an orthodox divine service book, Molitvelnic, which was published at Alba Iulia for the first time in 1698 and re-edited in the same city in 2009 at the initiative of the Archbishop Andrei of Alba Iulia; it is written in Romanian and it was translated for the first time from Slavonic by the rector Ioan Zoba from Vintu de Jos, a cultivated man of the XVIIth century; even if the text of this church book is purely orthodox, until nowadays the author of the translation (Ioan Zoba) is suspected of filo-Calvinism (because he had good relations with the Calvin Hungarian prince of Transylvania, as well as with representatives of the Calvin-Reformat Church), because he might have worked for the calvinization of the Orthodox Church of this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study the author presents the steps it went through, which are: Theological Institute (1924-1925), with three years of study instruction; b. Theological Academy (1925-1948), with four years of study instruction, without having the right to grant the academic degree in Theology and c. Theological Institute of University Rank (1948-1952), with four years of study preparation and having the right to grant the academic degree in Theology; during the spring of 1952, the Romanian communist regime abusively dissolved the Theological Institute of University Orthodox Degree of Cluj, although at that time, due to its professorate, it was a prestigious Superior Theological School of our country. After the Revolution of December 1989, at Pr. Prof. Dr. Alexandru Moraru's initiative (from the Orthodox Theological Seminary of Cluj-Napoca), to which adhered Pr. Prof. Dr. Valer Vel, Pr. Prof. Drd. Vasile Stanciu and Pr. Prof. Drd. Stelian Tofana, in the spring of 1990, the Romanian Patriarchate, in compliance with the Address no. 766 from 16th of March of 1990, as well as the Ministry of Education, in compliance with the Address no. 1748 from the 30th of March of 1990, approved the reestablishment of the University Theological Institute of Cluj-Napoca, which became in 1992 the Faculty of Theology of the "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca. During the two decades of activity, the Faculty can be proud of the exceptional teaching staffs, who are Ph. Ds., who published in Romania and abroad, who are members in Associations and Societies here and in other parts of the world. During the twenty years` activity, some graduates of the Faculty became bishops of the Romanian Orthodox Church, university or seminary teaching staff, Religion teachers, important social assistants, specialists in restoring old church art and many priests who honor their mission; all of them serve the ancient Church and our nation with dignity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What do autocephaly and autocephalous Church mean? By autocephalous Church we understand "the administrative and jurisdictional independence of an Orthodox ecclesiastical unit, constituted on synodical grounds, of another unit constituted the same way, within the Ecumenical Orthodoxy". In the case of the Romanian Orthodox Church, it is about its independence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which took place in 1885. The formal recognition of the Autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church on the 25th of April of 1885 was a huge step towards a new stage of prestige in its history, its raising to Patriarchate, which took place in 1925, with its first Patriarch, Miron Cristea (1925-1939); both clergy and faithful people contributed, at the same time, to the accomplishment of these two events in the life of our Church, as it is stated in the present paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]