A5042813995- Astro and Planetary Science
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Marine and environmental studies
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Romani and Gypsy Studies
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Dental Education, Practice, Research
- Astronomical and nuclear sciences
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
University of Bucharest
2007-2024
Romanian Academy
2021-2022
University of Amsterdam
2022
In this study, Bucharest, the capital city of Romania was selected as a case study. Based on time series Landsat TM imagery and statistical data, an analysis urban growth from 1984 to 2010 performed, using integrated approach remote sensing GIS techniques. The land cover data were validated by CORINE Land Cover maps. results revealed that rapid Bucharest region led accelerated use conversion cropland built-up land. processes deindustrialization in core industrialization ring road represent...
The geographical accessibility to hospitals relies on the configuration of hospital network, spatial impedance and population distribution. This paper explores potential geographic public in Romania by using Distance Application Program Interface (API) Matrix service from Google Maps open data sources. Based real-time traffic navigation data, we examined through a weighted model that took into account competency level travel time while personal car transportation mode. Two scenarios were...
The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger, and stress threatening people’s mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down prevent the transmission have had various impacts on population’s health behaviour main purpose present study is investigate lockdown’s effects university students’ in Romania. Based a cross-sectional design, survey data were collected from sample 722 participants (247 males; M = 21.1 years; SD ± 1.73). A path...
The process of urbanization in Romania was a very tumultuous and slightly different one compared to other Central Eastern European countries, being marked by the constant willingness increase degree urbanization.The communist period most signicant from this point view, considering both number newly declared towns urban population growth.The era corroborated with excessive forced industrialization has generated imbalances system created distortions hierarchy.However, legislative...
Despite its over 26 years of continuous efforts to reform the health care system, Romania is facing serious problems in meeting population needs, mainly due chronic underfunding public units, shortage medical personnel, lack GP rural areas. The economic crisis has deepened these problems, making access more difficult for disadvantaged or vulnerable groups population. Poor status population, demographic aging, large share socio-economic dependent and high level diseases incidence all lead...
The paper focusses on the analyses of recent development concerning post-socialist urban transformation Bucharest, Romanian country capital. describes spatial typology metropolitan landscapes, and underlines changes occurred inside residential, commercial, services industrial areas. most noticeable occurrence is sprawl multiplication buildings implicitly diminishing agricultural area. It has been confirmed, at least theoretically, that largest cities determined a continuous decreasing...
The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide was accompanied by intense fears, confusion, worries, anger and stress threatening people’s mental health. Unprecedented measures to slow down prevent the transmission have had various impacts on population’s health behaviour main purpose present study is investigate lockdown’s effects university students’ in Romania. Based a cross-sectional design, survey data were collected from sample 722 participants (247...
The article explore the dimension of spatial changes land use in Bucharest Metropolitan Area (BMA) over past forty years. Using GIS-based data sets years 1970, 1990 and 2000, combining with statistical data, we attempted to quantify pattern BMA. Our findings indicate that most significantly occurred arable lands have been reduced from 77% percent total metropolitan area 1970 71.3% 2000 same time built up increase 6.2% 10.4% 2000. Vineyards orchards suffered a their spread. In case vineyards...
This paper examines effects of postsocialist deindustrialization through a case study from Bucharest City, Romania.The use scientic papers and real estate company reports to analyse the transformation former industrial plants in Central Eastern European countries an site survey GIS mapping for Bucharest.The results show common pattern countries, with on diminishing role industry total economy, tendency convert residential commercial use.In several cases are fragmented small production units...
Climate and climate-related hazards are growing threats to our cities, as a result of the twin challenges derived from warming climate urban expansion. Accountable development strategies must take into consideration safety population, including its vulnerability exposure different hazards. The evaluation risks related heat is priority for municipalities, especially in big cities where island intensity significant. For example, perimeter Bucharest (Romania) 2 - 3°C warmer than 5 km...
This article aims to map the manner in which rst industrial units crystalized Bucharest and their subsequent dynamic.Another phenomenon considered was way sites grew propagated how clusters formed, thus amplifying functional variety of city.The analysis undertaken using Historical GIS, allowed integrate elements history with location most important objectives.Working GIS meant creating a database existing factories Bucharest, but also those that had existed different periods.Integrating...
The spatial allocation of medical resources is closely related to population health outcomes.Health workforce shortage and maldistribution represent significant challenges for systems functioning in many countries.Romania registers the lowest physicians per patient ratio European Union (EU).Despite increasing number graduates, shortages have become more critical over past two decades with both out-migration professionals intra-country disparities between large cities rural areas or primary...
A fraction of near-Earth asteroids has the orbital elements similar to those comets, but a visual aspect as any other point-like source. These are potentially dormant comets nuclei who entered in period inactivity. Their study can provide new understanding final state which volatile-rich objects reside and existing organic material or water content distribution from early Solar System.Dynamically, cometary orbits be filtered by their Tisserand parameter with respect Jupiter (TJup). With few...
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p> <p>The asteroid (4660) Nereus is considered one of the most accessible targets for a rendez-vous space mission. It was proposed as possible target NASA Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) and JAXA Hayabusa spacecraft. </p> lightcurve analysis radar shape modeling revealed long rotational period ≅ 15.16...
<p>Research into the orbital and physical properties near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is important as these objects can reveal information about origin history of our planetary system.<br />Here we present findings regarding characteristics near Earth 2005 UD 2001 SG286. The currently a possible target for DESTINY+ space mission, along with (3200) Phaeton which seems to share similar dynamic characteristics. However, compared Phaethon, there still limited data...
Comets are primitive objects which formed in the outer parts of proto-planetary disk, beyond snow line. They can provide key information about origins our Solar System and its primordial nebula. The latest interstellar visitor [1], comet 2I/Borisov (initially designated C/2019 Q4), has given us chance to have a probe from this environment an unknown star explore possibility exchanging material between different planetary systems.We took advantage opportunity by performing extended...
The near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) represent excellent scientific opportunities to study the dynamical and physical properties of small bodies Solar System. Moreover, celestial with sizes lower than one km can be studied using a variety techniques, thanks fact that they come close Earth orbit.We report preliminary results an ongoing observational program for obtaining visible color indexes NEAs. Our survey use MuSCAT2 instrument [1] mounted on 1.52 m Telescopio Carlos Sánchez located...