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This paper discusses the content of the cadre file of Henri H. Stahl preserved in the Archives of the University of Bucharest’s Rectorate. In the form in which it has been preserved after 1989, the personnel file of H.H. Stahl seems, from several points of view, atypical. If we compare it with the cadre files of the 1950s, it surprises by the apparent “goodwill” of the communist cadres towards H.H. Stahl. This ideological solicitude is manifested in the interpretation given to main cultural and political events in H.H. Stahl’s life. In other circumstances such political past could be labeled as unusable in a communist context. Equally curious and noteworthy is the issue of the ethnic origin attributed (and not necessarily real or assumed by the one described in the file), more precisely the issue of Stahl’s nationality ( Jewish) which was recorded in the file. Analyzing Stahl cadre file we can wonder if the integrity of this dossier has not been compromised by removing, extracting or modifying documents by the personel staff services or by someone else. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Differential evolution is one of the most powerful evolutionary algorithms for single objective optimization problems in the literature. Its application in the multiobjective optimization problems is also very successful, and many kinds of promising multiobjective differential evolution (MODE) algorithms have been proposed in the literature. This paper develops a new variant of MODE with two features. First, a set of personal archives are maintained to evolve the search process instead of a population with a fixed size, and a truncation procedure is used to enhance selection pressure. Second, multiple biased mutation operators incorporating the target solution quality are proposed, and an adaptive selection method is adopted to allocate the mutation operators to solutions. The proposed MODE is referred to as the MODE with personal archive and biased self-adaptive mutation selection (BiasMOSaDE). A set of 31 benchmark multiobjective problems selected from the literature are adopted to evaluate its performance. Computational results illustrate that the proposed BiasMOSaDE is competitive or even superior to several state-of-the-art MODEs in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the development made by the "Sociology of Education (SOE)." In this article the author forwards his views on some important issues related to the journal. Although Sociology of Education does very well compared to other social science journals in indexes of citations to journals, the journal is trying to influence its reputational as well as its documentary standing. The journal have begun to dispel stereotypes about SOE as a one-paradigm ethnocentric journal. At the same time, it has the impression that it compete with the general sociology journals for education-relevant papers. Nevertheless, it is difficult to say how fast images of the journal are changing and how much it can expect to register that change in subscriptions. The submission rate is good, around 150 manuscripts, and, as a result of page limitations, we continue to reject more than 85 percent of the submissions. Furthermore, the author has been finding a much wider paradigmatic and geographic range in the character of submissions.