Author: Florin Sala

Georgeta Raţă holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University in Bucharest, Romania. She has published textbooks and dictionaries in Croatia, England, Romania, and Serbia. She has co-authored Compendium of Forage Technical Terms in English, French and Romanian (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012); edited Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice (CSP, 2010), Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes (CSP, 2010), and Academic Days of Timişoara: Language Education Today (CSP, 2011); and co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (CSP, 2010) and Academic Days of Timişoara: Social Sciences Today (CSP, 2011).Florin Sala holds a PhD in Agronomy from the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timişoara, Romania. He is a professor and he has taught and researched for 21 years. His extensive expertise includes soil science, agrochemistry and plant nutrition, mathematical models of fertilization, nanomaterials and nanotechnology in plant nutrition and environmental protection. He has published Agrochemistry: Methods of Analysis (2011), Agrochemistry: Practical Applications (2010), Agrochemistry (2007, 2008) Systems of Agriculture (2002), Compendium of Horticulture (2000), Pesticides (1998), and Fertilization and Protection of Horticultural Plants (1997).Ionel Samfira holds a PhD in Agronomy from the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timişoara, Romania. He is a professor at the same university. His teaching and research competences resulted in studies on natural pastures, on the interaction between soil and vegetal sward, on the management and biodiversity of permanent pastures, and on the breeding of forage plants. He has authored and co-authored 10 textbooks and research books, including Compendium of Forage Technical Terms in English, French and Romanian (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), as well as over 100 research papers.