Anniversary Ion Th. Simionescu - 150 years since his birth

» BOGDAN C. SIMIONESCU, Acad. Ion Th. Simionescu ..................... 7

» NICOLAE ANASTASIU, Ion Th. Simionescu (July 10, 1873 – January 7, 1944) – Scientific culture and education ..................... 9

» CĂTĂLIN TĂNASE, CONSTANTIN MARDARI and CIPRIAN BÎRSAN, Flora and fauna protection –the legacy of acad. Ion Th. Simionescu ..................... 17

» CONSTANTIN RUSU and DUMITRU BULGARIU, Ion Th. Simionescu’s contribution to the development and popularization of science ..................... 31

» DUMITRU BULGARIU and OANA CRISTINA STAN, Academician Ion Th. Simionescu ..................... 37

» IONEL MUNTELE and IONUŢ VASILINIUC, Contributions of Ion Th. Simionescu (1873 – 1944) to the development of Romanian geography ..................... 43

» MIHAI BRÂNZILĂ, Ion Th. Simionescu. A scientific journey ..................... 51

» GABRIEL OVIDIU IANCU, Ion Simionescu – Leader and trailblazer at the University of Iași ..................... 65

» IOAN MILICĂ, Style markers in Ion Simionescu’a writing ..................... 75


Digital humanities

» DAN CRISTEA, NICOLAE CLEJU, PETRU REBEJA, GABRIELA HAJA, EDUARD COMAN, ANCA VASILESCU, CLAUDIU MARINESCU and ANDREEA DASCĂLU, Bringing the old writings closer to us: Deep learning and symbolic methods in deciphering old Cyrillic Romanian documents ..................... 87


Informatics

» ION PĂVĂLOI, CRISTINA DIANA NIȚĂ and LUMINIȚA CAMELIA LAZĂR, Experiments on Iris clasiffication and retrieval with fixed number of Surf keypoints and texture features ..................... 127


Physics

» NICOLAE MAZILU, The physical basis of Procopiu’s quantization ..................... 139


Mathematics

» ARUN KUMAR RAO and HIMASHU PANDEY, Reliability estimation of Weibull Lomax distribution via Bayesian approach ..................... 215


Chemistry

» GHEORGHE ROMAN and WALTER A. SZAREK, 4-Arylbutan-2-ones: Starting materials in the synthesis of novel heme oxygenase inhibitors ..................... 229


History of Romanian science

» H. N. TEODORESCU, A remarkable American, Romanian-born inventor. A note on the history of a ubiquitous item ..................... 241

» THEODOR HAVÂRNEANU, Professor Dan Petrovanu – mathematician and man of culture – seen trhough the eyes of a former student ..................... 263

» MONICA NĂNESCU, OANA FLORESCU, Petru Bogdan – A life dedicated to Romanian science and education ..................... 273

» TEODORA-CAMELIA CRISTOFOR, Cristea Niculescu-Otin, the first rector of the "Gheorghe Asachi" Polytechnic School of Iași ..................... 279


Anthropology

» VASILICA-MONICA GROZA, LUDMILA BACUMENCO-PÎRNĂU, OZANA-MARIA CIORPAC-PETRARU, LUMINIȚA BEJENARU and MARIANA POPOVICI, Dental enamel hypoplasia in the skeletal series exhumed from the "Vovidenia" Church in Iași (16th -17th centuries) ..................... 293

» VASILICA-MONICA GROZA, GEORGE BILAVSCHI, LUDMILA BACUMENCO-PÎRNĂU, MARIANA POPOVICI, LUMINIȚA BEJENARU and OZANA-MARIA CIORPAC-PETRARU, Bioarchaeological study of a human skeleton with trepanation discovered in a 7th-19th century necropolis of Iaşi (Romania) ..................... 305


Romania in Europe

» PETRE ROMAN, Un siècle du monde roumain devant l’Europe ..................... 323