1. BOOK REVIEWS - ANDRZEJ RUSZCZYNSKI, NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION. Authors: NICOLAE POPOVICI.2. CALIX[N]ARENE DERIVATIVES WITH BINDING PROPERTIES TOWARD EU3+. Authors: ALINA SAPONAR, IOAN SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU, ELISABETH-JEANNE POPOVICI, NICOLAE POPOVICI.3. SYNTHESIS OF ESTER DERIVATIVES OF CALIX[N]ARENE. Authors: ALINA SAPONAR, ELISABETH-JEANNE POPOVICI, RODICA GRECU , IOAN SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU, NICOLAE POPOVICI.4. STUDIES ON THE EUROPIUM AND PALLADIUM EXTRACTION WITH SOME CALIX[6]ARENE DERIVATIVES. Authors: IOAN SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU, NICOLAE POPOVICI, IOANA PERHAITA, ELISABETH-JEANNE POPOVICI, ALINA SAPONAR.5. BOOK REVIEWS - WILL H H. MOORE & DAVID A. SIEGEL, A MATHEMATICAL COURSE FOR POLITICAL & AND SOCIAL RESEARCH. Authors: NICOLAE POPOVICI.6. BOOK REVIEWS - NIELS LAURITZEN, UNDERGRADUATE CONVEXITY – FROM FOURIER AND MOTZKIN TO KUHN AND TUCKER. Authors: NICOLAE POPOVICI.7. BOOK REVIEW: VALERIU SOLTAN, LECTURES ON CONVEX SETS, WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO. PTE. LTD., SINGAPORE 2015, X+405 PP, ISBN 978-9814656689; ISBN 978-9814656696. Authors: NICOLAE POPOVICI.8. CONVEXITY-PRESERVING PROPERTIES OF SET-VALUED RATIOS OF AFFINE FUNCTIONS. Authors: ALEXANDRU ORZAN, NICOLAE POPOVICI.9. REDUCING THE COMPLEXITY OF EQUILIBRIUM PROBLEMS AND APPLICATIONS TO BEST APPROXIMATION PROBLEMS. Authors: VALERIAN-ALIN FODOR, NICOLAE POPOVICI.