<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The current area of military actions is different from that of the last century and constantly changing. Peace support operations are current and dominate the future actions. Therefore, attention is turning to this type of military operations, and the physical and material resources allocated are progressively increasing. Although they are operations conducted in order to achieve the peace, troops continue to face opponents with different goals and ways of thinking. Thus comes the necessity of using force to restore the security climate. The mission in Afghanistan that lasted long time enough, showed why military interventions are needed to redress the conflicts and enforce the peace. In this respect, to act as expected, the military must be provided with effective protective measures. Several areas of action were equipped with advanced systems that prevent enemy actions to alter the life and health of the military. These measures should be continuously updated, since the environment is constantly changing and the challenges are always different.</abstract>

The Need to Respect the Principles of Force Protection During Peace Support Operations

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The article focuses on the impact of various factors on the process of communication between military specialists and with the local civilians during peace support operations. The importance of religion, national and ethnic identities, military subculture, social status, and personal characteristics for achieving success or failure in interactions is underlined. Some differences between civil culture and military culture are disclosed and the need for cultural knowledge of the military members is stressed. The study is based on presenting and analysing situations of current intercultural interactions in Afghanistan, which deal with various problems that could be encountered by servicemen on a daily basis, i.e. body language differences, expression of friendly, unfriendly or indifferent attitude, typical reactions to gestures, common everyday topics for informal chats. Although the cultural interactions take place in present-day Afghanistan, the conclusions and suggestions are applicable to a much wider context of interacting between people with different cultural background.</abstract>

Intercultural Interactions in a Military Context

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> This research aims to evaluate the effects of motor activities on pupils at primary education. The two samples of pupils were divided as follows: the first group, experimental group consisted of twenty-five students with the age between ten and twelve years old, thirteen boys and twelve girls, group which followed a specific program containing agonistic, playful and initiation training in sports games; and the second group, the control group, consisted of twenty-five students with the age between ten and twelve years old, fourteen boys and eleven girls, group that took the classical physical education and sports curriculum. The motor evaluation tests at which the students have been evaluated have been taken over from the national evaluation system: speed running on 50 m, 5x10 m relay race, resistance running, jumping, throw off the oina ball, abdominal force, back force, upper members force, and lower member force. The results showed that the pupils from the experimental group had better performances compared with those from the control group at the final test, indicating the effectiveness of the agonistic, playful and initiation programs in sports games. Differences in the final testing among student groups were significant in all motor tests (p &lt;0.05). Conclusions have shown that the research hypothesis was valid, so we can say that inclusion of programs with agonistic, playful and initiation in sports games can influence in a good way the student’s motor performance at this age.</abstract>

The Utility of Motor Evaluation in the Analysis of Effects of Motor Activities on Students

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The purpose of the paper is to clarify the situations when deviations from the rules of good conduct in scientific research are considered to be offenses. The paper, in the first part, it is focused on the idea of offence and it definition, because it is important to define this term in order to compare deviations and offences. In the second part, the paper refers to those situations when the deviations from the rules of good conduct in scientific research can become offences according to the Criminal Code. In addition, in the paper are analyse the regulation from art. 21 Law no. 206/2004 and some examples of situations when deviations can became offences. To complete this picture frame in conclusions we propose some changes of the current legislations.</abstract>

General Aspects Regarding the Situations when the Rules of Good Conduct in Scientific Research Can Become Offences

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> From a certain point of view, it can be said that leadership and management are two different things that go hand in hand and complement each other. A number of authors dealing with this issue have long tried to define the exact boundaries between these terms, which, however, may not be entirely beneficial. It is desirable rather to seek appropriate interconnection of both areas in order to ensure the continuous development of the organization. For this reason, the concepts of strategic management, strategic thinking and knowledge management have been clarified. It is possible to apply strategic leadership in the Czech Armed Forces in the right way only by assuming that these areas are used correctly. The aim of the article is to present the current leader profile at a strategic level under the Leadership laws, using the theory developed by major author John Calvin Maxwell. The article details the results of the questionnaire survey. The strong, average and weak areas of leadership capabilities of the organization's top management are clearly identified. In conclusion, the most important recommendations are proposed to improve the current situation.</abstract>

A Profile of a Strategic Leader under the Leadership Law in the Czech Armed Forces

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The article focuses on the specific status of the Armed Forces in the implementation of outsourcing, as one of the cost-benefit optimization methods in military practice. The author points out the need for a comprehensive and strategic monitoring and estimation of the costs, as an elementary assumption of the effective use of public financial resources. Implications of projects implemented without adequate economic analysis are shown on the example of the services outsourcing in military logistics in the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic.</abstract>

External Resources in Military Logistics – Theory and Implementation

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The urban transportation system is characterized by the urban roads development and growth of road traffic, which leads, most of the time, to a series of congestions in the vehicles traffic. Consequently, due to a high time duration spent on the road traffic, the travel time from a location to another one could be very upsetting for any car drivers, or embarrassing for emergency services and vehicle convoys that carry goods or sensitive items. Those are mainly reasons for using simulation modeling to analyze and optimize the travel time of the road traffic actors in the an urban transportation system. This paper focuses on optimization vehicles flow in a crowded area of Sibiu city, by using agent-based modeling concept and AnyLogic simulation modeling software.</abstract>

The Vehicles Traffic Flow Optimization in an Urban Transportation System by Using Simulation Modeling

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The respiratory effort in hyperbaric conditions is of particular nature, leading to an increase of the respiratory flow of the diver and to the change of their pulmonary volumes. There are important criteria in the selection process of the most suitable divers. Some of these criteria are related to the respiratory function. In order to evaluate the divers respiratory function an examination of the pulmonary volumes is performed in regards to their variations measured by spirometry, of the increased oxygen consumption in hyperbaric conditions and of the production of carbon dioxide during the unitary dive at the depth of work using air as a respiratory mixture. The physical and physiological phenomena involved in the hyperbaric respiration have been studied in cooperation with “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Faculty of Medicine. A specific medical method of evaluation of the pulmonary ventilation, spirometry, the measurement of forced expiratory volume in the first second of a forced expiration, Tiffneau index, have been adapted to the under pressure breathing environment. The parameters have been studied as experimental determinations on diver groups, during simulated diving, using air as a respiratory mixture, at 50 [mH2O] in the Hyperbaric Complex of the Diving Centre</abstract>

Evaluation Criteria for the Respiratory Function of the Divers

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