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Ectopic pregnancy is a major cause of morbidity in reproductive age women. Surgical treatment was replaced recently by medical conservative treatment such as methotrexate therapy. Primary outcomes of conservative methotrexate treatment are evaluated through success and failure rates. We performed a retrospective study in two Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic Hospitals in Bucharest (Gheorghe Polizu Hospital) and ConstanЕЈa in order to compare the efficacy of methotrexate single-dose (ConstanЕЈa) versus multi-doses (...

As Pinheiro [9] stated in the UN Report on Violence, and all other research whether new or old confirm, only a slight percentage of the widespread prevalence of violence against children is reported and followed up. This is due to several causes and results in children not receiving the help they need: the low capacity of collecting, recording and investigating reports of violence against children, the unfriendly character of child protection services, lack of common definitions, etc. We will present the similarit...

In this article authors examine questions arising from the development of Emerging technologies (NBIC) which influence the process of human conception and birth. Authors identify two sets of problems, and therefore, areas of sociological studies caused by the development of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). First set of questions is associated with the transformation of traditional understanding of nature and functions of family as a social institution and with changes of parent's - children's roles and stat...

Visual images in contemporary advertising significantly contribute to the way people perceive their gender identities. Gender identities are not only presented and reflected but are again resented through the interplay of various visual elements. Thus, lifestyle magazines have important role in the construction of feminity either in stereotypical or in new ways. Although various researches have shown that women are pictured in traditional modes some analyses indicate that presentation of feminity depends on variou...

This article provides the idea of changing cultural patterns in the image of the elderly in the Russian feature films shot in the late 1970s - early 1980s and in the 1990s and 2000s. The source base consists of popular movies where the main heroes are the elderly people. We use structural analysis of Vladimir Propp and identify key signs of cinematic texts. We discuss the ways of verbal and visual poeticization and social control of romantic emotions in the latter years. The authors are interested in observing the...

The paper deals with defining the nature and a brief description of the contents of the quality of life on the basis of foreign and domestic literary sources. It refers to its essence, the fundamental aspects and factors (subjective and objective) that will determine its level. At the same time it deals with the problem domains and indicators of quality of life (subjective) that could be measured. It briefly presents selected findings from subjective understanding of quality of life in the region of Liptov (Slovak...

Introduction.Lifestyle marks in a specific manner the health and disease through health-risk behaviors, that kind of prosanogene behaviors that it shows up. Risk behaviors can be avoided or at least reduced, and the prosanogene behaviors can be learned and assumed.We intend to have a complete and concrete image on lifestyle components of the University of BucharestВґs students and identify and quantify the risk factors for health; Research methods used in this study were: scientific documentation; Survey method: T...

Aim of study: The main aims of our work were to ascertain the degree of requirements of food and fluid intake as well as the amounts of fluids and food currently served to women during labour. We focused also on the reasons for restrictions in fluid and food intake per os, occurrence of nausea and vomiting following oral intake, as well as the women's foreknowledge about fluid and food intake during labour. Materials and Methods: The respondents were represented by 100 women during the postpartum period, after spo...

Chemical companies can be considered as ones of the most important companies affecting changes in climatic conditions and other environmental elements, and they also show strong impacts on the society in the social context. The growing interest of the important stakeholders in the problems of social impacts of the produced items, have brought a lot of important questions concerning the rate of influence of the produced items on the environment and society. Social impacts assessment methods of chemical companies on...

The article focuses on spiritual communities, and on possible implications for community social work. Czech society is characterized by low level of social capital, and high level of secularization. Community social work on the other hand works with tightly knit groups. For this reason we focused on spiritual groups as a means to create some level of community. Our inquiry focuses on meditation groups based on the principles of so called Christian meditation, in particular the form developed by John Main and furth...

This paper is focused on a new way of stimulating the elderly people. The authors focused on the use of Entertaining Exercises for Developing Reading Skills to stimulate the eye movements, phonemic perception and short-term memory in a group of elderly clients. This Exercises has been created on the base of Eye Movements Test – T 256. [8]. The text obtains a short explanation of Eye Movements Test which was the basis of these Exercises. Based on an investigation it was found that these Exercises are not only sui...

Organization of collective solutions to social and environmental problems of the urban environment requires the active use of technology for the purpose of crowdsourcing. The latter in turn is possible with certain active life position of citizens. The study showed low desires residents to participate in solving social and environmental problems that narrows the social base of the introduction of social and environmental technologies and crowdsourcing requires organization PR activation procedure populations.

Leadership is a fundamental function of management. It can be depicted as a system of influencing people so that their activities contribute to the achievement of organizations goals. Leadership is also the ability to persuade colleagues to achieve the goals of an organization; therefore leadership is a part of manager workload. Motivational approaches aimed to the fulfillment of tasks can be described as one of the priority areas of manager's work. The aim of the submitted paper is to analyze the selected issues ...

Introduction: Preoccupations for oro-dental health are a constant practice of the Romanian healthcare system, as oral diseases are getting higher prevalence and alter the individual's quality of life. The potential technical difficulties found in fixed partial denture technology are a reality, being a fact of observation, not a pretext for theoretical discussions. Their occurrence is always a particularly difficult moment, being mostly noticeable by their detection rather than by the impossibility to remedy them. ...

Health care system is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and contributes to the ultimate goal of societal well-being. Is health care system ready to meet every person's needs considering age and different traumatic experience? Several aspects of psychological well-being, such as level of happiness, hope, good everyday feeling, etc., subjective attitude towards own life and traumatic experiences were assessed in the study. The participants indicat...

These current paper analyses the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility in relation to Human Resource (HR) management in the Czech Republic. Corporate culture and its capabilities become resources for the competitive advantage and employee perceptions of CSR activities play an important role in employee attachment to their company as well as corporate performance. Therefore, this paper examines the CSR activities of social pillar and their actual use among companies involved in research in perspective that emp...

The deepening of the economic crisis, the alarming increase in unemployment and the continuous degradation of the living standard have affected the Romanian society in general, but especially the vulnerable categories of population, among which the Roma ethnic group. In spite of the restrictions regarding the access on the labour market in the E.U., the Roma families have initiated real survival strategies, and the emigration to the developed countries of the European Union represented, in the majority of the case...

In recent decades attention has become a scarce resource not only in politics and economics, but also in the social sphere. Problematization may be considered a way of attracting attention to negative circumstances and situations. The list of current social problems is not determined by their scale and impact, but by their attractiveness to different public groups. In this regard, the theory of social problems focusing on the rhetoric of statements (claims-making activity) is of particular relevance. Based on soci...

Among the drug classes recently introduced into therapy in the second half of the 20th century, drugs with depressant action on the central nervous system are indisputably in the lead. Given the changes occurring in the daily lifestyle, as well as the stressful daily challenges and their impact on the functionality of the CNS, research and trials aimed towards combating nervous tension have led to the emergence of a drug class currently called anxiolytics. A major success in this regard was achieved by the introdu...

This paper analyzes reproduction of discrimination in visual communication through the investigation into discourse on lookism in contemporary Russian children's animation (2000-2014). The lookism is considered to be a form of discrimination on the grounds of appearance, which can be produced by film or cartoon with help of transmitting discrimination situations as well as stereotypes and myths regarding peoples' appearance. Using methods of discourse analysis and semiotics, we study visual and verbal films' disco...

The Internet audience is increasing every year, and the age group of the elderly people also increases very constantly. But the elderly is a specific audience with specific requirements for the usability and content of Internet web-sites. Web-interface is the main communication channel between the person and the system. The concept of the user interface includes not only the picture which the user see at a screen, but also the ways of user interaction with the system. Each new program or web-site can have its own ...

Aim: To investigate the potential systemic risk factors for periodontal disease in a population from Constanta, Romania. Method: A cross-sectional sample consisting of 740 dentate adults 18-85 years of age (mean 39,9В±17,89) were selected from patients attending dental clinics of Constanta Faculty between 2012-2013. The charts of patients were examined to determine patient's self-reported systemic condition: diabetes, cardiovascular pathology. In addition, periodontal probing depth (PPD) and bleeding on probing (B...

The focus of this article is to discuss and analyze the therapeutic principles and ethical dilemmas that might be encountered in our medical practice during cerebral palsy (CP) rehabilitation. Because of the complex nature of cerebral palsy, health care can be a context in which the persons with cerebral palsy are confronted with important ethical and social challenges. Child's family, life environment and health care professionals are the specific external factors with direct implications in case management. To a...

Introduction. European models as practiced in most countries in the European area of higher education are based on the educational process and the results of university graduates. The main purpose of the research is to highlight the effectiveness of motivational strategies on student participation in physical education classes at the University of Bucharest. This approach aimed at identify the effects achieved by the training programs and operational structures proposed in the research, specifically targeting the ...

Introduction: Oral health is primarily linked to an individual's overall health, self-esteem. Currently, dental medicine has to consider the diversity of the dental restorative materials. The extent to which they provide opportunities for the mechanical aesthetic, phonetic and biological imperatives is subordinated in their qualities. The emergence of the modern ceramic materials, adhesive methods, and new technologies has increased the interest for all ceramic systems in dentistry. A facilitating technological en...

Festivities, national and public holidays have to be regarded as the antithesis of everyday life, they may be considered a universal phenomenon of culture and human existence. The growing interest in the festivity phenomenon is directly linked with the extensive changes occurring in the culture of the last three decades. During a transition period in human life and society when social structures grow weaker or are transforming, festivities carry a special functional load. By reflecting the changes in social landma...

Senior citizens and active ageing are one of the most important issue in a modern contemporary society. Slovak republic takes a stand through documents and strategies adopted by means of its executive power in cooperation with experts in this area. The main aim of this paper is to call attention to the active ageing of senior citizens in Slovakia and to its enshrinement in the applicable strategic documents. The methodological framework will include theoretical determination of the issue by using analysis and synt...

Introduction. In the last decades the idea that exercising for better fitness is in fact “exercising for health” has been accredited, because physical-sport activities constitute a direct stimulus, almost exclusive of morpho-functional and motric development, as a premise of an optimal state of health. Numerous scientists have dealt with the influence physical exercises have on improving health and physical condition. Research Methods: In preparing the paper we used the following research methods: - Study of l...

The air pollution belongs to the most important environmental threat to human health. Particularly sensitive are children, elderly people and patients with chronic conditions. Individual susceptibility is influenced by many factors: age, nutrition, presence of disease, genetic determination, global health status. Children are a focus points in the health protection considering possibilities of early organs and functions impairment. Material and methods. Cross-sectional study of respiratory health included measurem...

One of the most “visual” theories in sociology is the dramaturgical concept of I. Hoffman. What Hoffman describes is a direct creation of imagination. By means of the video clips, using sets, mass media seek to show the images of regions created in accordance with socially recognized attributes. These images are visual guides for external observers. It is a ready scenario which inspires the imagination of the viewer. An image of a territory is built in public consciousness mainly as a result of information inf...

In the Romanian society, which is continually getting older, the social services for the elderly are in deficit. The social issues related to retirement and social isolation, as well as the economic ones, are amplified by the moral problems connected to the failure as far as their lawful rights are concerned. Despite its status of member of the E.U., Romania cannot be compared to the developed countries that possess a proper system of social protection. The explanation resides in the huge difference of development...

In the present, implant reconstruction is preferred by the majority patients over prosthetic dentures. One of the most important problems than can appear after oral implant insertion is peri-implantitis. The ethiopathogenesis of this disease is complex; one of the major causes is the presence of pathogens bacteria, among which species of Prevotella genus is highly significant. The extent of antibiotic resistance phenomena in peri-implantitis imposes that the choice of antibiotics should be made after the susceptib...

Regarding oral health, the tooth decay and periodontal diseases are the most important oral health problems. There is a link between oral disease and the presence of bacterial species belonging to the oral cavity microflora. The tooth decay is related to the action of bacterial species including Streptococcus mutans, lactobacilli and actinomycetes. Concentrated efforts of specialists from all around the world aimed to obtain in the future herbal remedies with similar antibacterial effect of antibiotics that can be...

Introduction and Objective Caries has multi-factorial etiology. Dental caries is an indicator of poor oral health. Poor oral health is usually associated with a high number of Streptococcus mutans(SM). The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of chlorhexidine (CHX) gel in reduction of Streptococcus mutans at children with high caries risk. Material and methods The studies were conducted in Preventive Dentistry Clinic, Prishtina, Kosovo. A total of 130 children have been included in the study. Children with...

Aim of study: The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in pregnant women. Methods: The research sample was consisted of 133 respondents based on the following inclusion criteria: age 15 to 45 years, pregnant women from week 36 of pregnancy up to labour, a signed informed consent, willingness to complete a questionnaire. Mean age of the respondents was 31.59 years. As a research tool was used the Slovak validated version of the International Consultation on Incontin...

This paper aims to explore which of the new communication tools popular in the web 2.0 era are most common in promoting sport clubs, in a given city (Timisoara, Romania). In a country with more than 8 million Facebook users and with the rapid advent of technology-rooted communication, it is only natural that such tools be used in PR practices aimed at enhancing the visibility of sport clubs. The link between PR practices and sport is rarely tackled in communication studies, with a few notable exceptions mainly ori...

An analysis of the heath status of 1615 active subjects employed in the transportation network, and under periodic medical control, has revealed the presence in 6,7\% of all those investigated, of digestive diseases with morphological signs, the employed in road transportation. The highest incidence was that of gastro-duodenal affections, including ulcers followed by biliary, intestinal and hepatic disturbances. With reference to the risk factors of digestive disease an important role is that of occupational stres...

Alkaloids (fr. alcali; gr eidos - aspect) has organic heterocyclic substances containing alcohol, with a vegetal origin and basic character, originating as a result of plant secondary metabolism. They give characteristic reactions and their effect on animal organisms is most often toxic. The objective of this study is represented by the systematization of data regarding natural compounds with an alkaloid structure. The paper presents the classification of alkaloids according to compound structure and the type of b...

According to Edgar Cayce's philosophy, the diet is an essential element of life. He said that, "The disease begins in your plate". Starting from this concept and from some problems regarding the performance of human resources from organization, the authors present in this paper, a model for conducting nutritional counseling process. In developing the proposed model the authors have used, besides the specific techniques and counseling process, some instruments characteristic of engineering quality. The purpose of t...

In order to optimize the instructive - educational process during Physical Education in the case of 5th grade students, an experiment was conducted based on the organisation and conducting of the lessons (2 hours/week) using movement game as the main means of achieving the objectives of the themes, speed and coordinative capacity. The study and research were conducted at the “Coresi” Middle School, of Targovişte. In order to reach reliable conclusions, we included in the study 52 students, both boys and girls...

In the wake of fast aging of populations the question is asked about the acceptance of robots by elderly individuals and their role in elderly's every-day life. The project ENRICHME - Enabling Robot and assisted living environment for Independent Care and Health Monitoring of the Elderly (which receives funding from the European Union H2020 Programme; Grant Agreement No: 643691C) employs a mobile service robot for long-term human monitoring and interaction, in order to optimise the independence of elderly individu...

With regard to the human trafficking phenomenon, Romania continues to be mainly a country of origin, with the highest number of people trafficked and exploited both internally and abroad in the European Union, next to Bulgaria (Eurostat, 2013). Although cross-border trafficking is predominant, during the last years the internal trafficking phenomenon became more and more visible, both with regard to sexual and labour exploitation (National Agency Against Trafficking of Persons: ANITP reports 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012...

Introduction: Visual impairment constitutes interference in all areas of life. As it has been shown, the quality of life impact of these impaired persons are not unambiguous. The survey answers the question: “What is the quality of life of persons with visual impairment?” Methodology: Using a questionnaire, the quality of life of persons with visual impairment was assessed, and its level was compared to a group of persons without visual impairment. The standardized WHO Quality of life – BREF questionnaire wa...

The Five Star Movement has been the great novelty of the Italian political landscape. The paper seeks to highlight the core content of its doctrine, which calls for a sort of anthropological revolution based on the advent of the “Net” in which the “new political order of the communities” will replace that of individuals, offering fresh forms of direct democracy. The consequence would be the end not just of traditional western political parties, but also of the self-referential man of subjectivity. The pape...

Before 1989 Romania used to be a communist country with a centralized economy, the authorities deeply intervening in absolutely all the aspects of the individual, family and society life. From the demographic (and not only) point of view, the most intimate and brutal interference of the state took place by means of the famous Decree 770/1966 which almost completely prohibited abortions, doubling the birth rate in the attempt of complying with the communists' dream of having a numerous population, able to support a...

Virtual communities of support are becoming a connecting place for people with different health, emotional and social problems. It is where people find information about medication and therapy, a chance to verbalize their problem, find support and comfort by knowing they are not alone. In this paper we analyzed seven discussion forums with topics related to social phobia and noticed that they provided certain uses and gratifications for the participants who suffered from that type of social disorder. Uses and grat...

The article deals with the analysis of the population idea concerning the form and the structure of a contemporary family, the formation of its ideal (desired), realistic and media images perception. According to the interviewed the image of a family advocated by the mass media determines the present models of family and matrimonial behavior in many respects, but the contemporary mass media create the negative image of a family or the image that has nothing in common with the facts of life. Besides it is ascertain...

Judy Weiser, arguably one of the most influential figures of photo art therapy worldwide, characterised this field as using photographic techniques, pictures of people, including snapshots, family albums and photographs made by others (as well as the feelings, thoughts and memories induced by these pictures) as valuable channels of communication with the patient, often in a way which is impossible to reach using words only. The aim of this study was to investigate students' opinions on how photography can be used ...

The research object is the youth's social and political activity, which, according to the data of the field research carried out in 2012-2014, is a significant modelling factor of a successfully developing society in Latvia. As the location for the field research, the places contrasting in their ethnic composition and economic development have been selected – Riga, the capital of Latvia, and Daugavpils, the second largest city of Latvia. In order to obtain wider range of material and the variety of viewpoints th...

The article highlights the topical issue of the unemployment among the young issue. The authors investigate how the youth perceive unemployment in general and in personal dimension, stressing the need for education institutions to bear heavy responsibility for training and further employment of the youth. The article contains the results of the opinion poll held by researchers of Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University since the end of 2005 through March 2014 among students of the city of Nizhny Novgorod and t...