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The growth of the world population, the technical-scientific and socio-economic evolution have led to the increase of the need for food products and the diversification of their range. Under these conditions, beekeeping acquires an increasingly important role as a food supply (honey) but also as a vector of growth of agricultural vegetal production through crop pollination. It also provides various products with a role in maintaining the health of the population through products with high prophylactic and therapeutic value. From a social and economic point of view, it is recognized that this branch of activity contributes to ensuring the prosperity of the population, especially in rural areas, through an additional source of income and the superior use of natural and human resources. In addition, beekeeping takes on an increased importance by supporting and stimulating the natural environment through the undeniable effects on floral biodiversity. Beekeeping is practiced in all European countries, to a greater or lesser extent. And compared to other agricultural branches, where the investments are necessary to start the activity and the expenses for current activities are much higher, in beekeeping all these are located at a much more reasonable level. Another important aspect that needs to be maintained is related to technological development, in beekeeping activity there is no need for highly advanced techniques and technologies to obtain quality products, but involvement is needed. Beekeeping is the branch of agriculture in which Romania could play an important role at European level, but as in other agricultural branches, a critical point in beekeeping is the association and the marketing of products. Within this work, a brief analysis of beekeeping within the European Union is carried out, the extent of this activity as several persons involved in each state, the number of hives and productions obtained, using descriptive statistical methods and graphic processing of the obtained data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evolution of the living standard in Romania has been affected by numerous factors along the past three decades, from the transition to the market economy and the EU pre-accession periods to the EU integration during two programming periods. The poverty rates, the severe material deprivation, along with poverty and exclusion risks are still oscillating within the frame of an unconsolidated regional development growth. The developments over the past twelve years have, to a certain extent, alleviated the situation of the most vulnerable rural households, yet the regional disparities indicate insufficient inner convergence efforts for a balanced territorial development. Further territorial cohesion programming is required to reduce the discrepancies and the targeted development with particular accent for the socially vulnerable categories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A modern feature of websites' creation aside from the PHP scripting language is the use of a database. It is acknowledged that PHP offers the possibility of an advantageous structure for the source code, yet its real capacity is highlighted when the programming language works together with a database. Among these databases one can enumerate MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL and the list can be easily extended. The PHP language has predefined functions and native connectivity with the abovementioned databases. The current paper focuses on the databases created with MySQL taking into account the popularity, the support and its free-of-charge character. Currently on the web there are loads of sites not developed other than HTML therefore there is no database to stock and provide the information when requested. The mainstream today indicates a movement of these websites towards a database due to the numerous advantages provided. The case when a database was designed to be implemented the data are easier to edit or add and the articles that can be translated into new pages without the intervention of the user to the source code, either in HTML, CSS or PHP. Regarding the disadvantages, these are linked to the implementation costs for database solutions, the time consumed by the transformation of the static content into dynamic pages, these ones requiring integration with instruments for data management. Aspects related to the integration of a MySQL database in a website construction using the PHP language are detailed and analysed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking into account that nowadays the websites lacking at least one dynamic component or side is rare (ea. the contact form) the focus of the current paper is granted to the programming environments and the scripting languages used for producing and running dynamic websites. Among the most popular scripting languages the PHP outstands its competitors ASP.NET, Java, CFML or Python. Within this framework, with the aim of separating the content from the presentation of a website content selected aspects linked to the use of PHP language are used for dynamic content creation of websites. The aspect of separation of the content from its presentation has similar advantages with other separation types including HTML or CSS, namely: easier maintenance, a clearer, cleaner and better organised environment etc. This easiness results in editing and testing the styles independently of the respective web page while if templates are to be changed the easiness is even higher practically altering only the file containing the definitions with minimal interventions in the PHP or HTML code. Another important advantage regards the visual consistency of the website so that similar elements form the same page of from different pages will present an identic aspect without the need for intervention of the user over the source code. Last but not least it is fully worth mentioning that the loading speed of such a page in a browser increases significantly. The paper will also treat the templating part, variables and areas, administration forms, connexion to data and a brief overview on the transformation from HTML to PHP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is essential to know how color choices influence people, the idea that there is one unique psychological reaction to certain colors being incorrect. Many of the reactions that color psychologists attribute to certain colors are based on personal experience. It is also interesting to note that many cultures have associations of colors with completely different interpretations. Therefore, we will explore some general associations that most people in Western cultures have as a response to certain colors. Although color psychology plays a role in how a visitor sees a website, remember that there is no such thing as a wrong color. Although psychological reasoning can help you choose a palette, a successful color scheme depends on the harmony that exists between all chosen colors. To achieve this harmony, we have to consider several other attributes of color. Of course, not only the color makes a website attractive, but this element is crucial. When we create a website, other elements play their roles, such as its structure, content organization etc. In this paper, we will analyze certain aspects regarding the color theory with direct application in a website construction design, and the main purpose, from this point of view, is that site become attractive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through this paper we try to identify the contribution that local products, more precisely local food obtained in Bucovăț village have on developing agricultural systems in the area and on local economy. We built our study starting from the approach based on Pretty and Hine (1999) five capital assets framework, as it follows: natural capital, physical capital, social capital, human capital, financial capital. Working methodology relied on gathering the data through applying questionnaires with fix answers and openending answers and on interviews with local producers and authorities. So, we stopped on identifying local food, the role they play in maintaining biodiversity in studied area, but also on identifying agricultural systems practiced referring to agriculture type, technology degree, labour force required and its assuring, but also others aspects related to production manner. We try to identify the producers from the village that are selling their products on local market or on markets from Timișoara (Timișoara is the largest city from western Romania, with 300,000 inhabitants) where the major part of the market is owned by big store chains. An important aspect is the social one through underlining the added value that human relation bring to this economic process by way of communication and partnerships establishment. A part of the study was dedicated to analyse the implications at household level that capitalization of local food in short supply chains, but also all in all local economy. At the end of the study, we can conclude that the village has large potential of production, but from the producers point of view there is the need for consultancy aimed to solve the difficulties they face in organizing and association for a better entry to Timișoara market, and in this way the local products can have a larger importance in agricultural systems and local economy of this peri-urban locality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]