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The category of drugs around which this paper is built, the psychoactive drugs, also belongs to the category of synthetic drugs. Etnobotanical substances began to appear only in the years 2000-2005 and in Romania they appeared in 2008. The phenomenon had been preceded by the emergence of the term “etnobotanica” (etnobotanical substance) in the year 2000 in the Romanian Dictionary of Neologisms. Etnobotany is a branch of etnobiology and it refers to the mutual relations of the man with the plant environment, in...

The article is devoted to elaboration of tools for decision support analysis and social risk management. The complexity and inconsistency determines the need for the development of decision support tools for the analysis of social risks. The solution to this problem is connected with the analysis of the subject area, the development of a hierarchy of selection criteria, and then preparation of the software. The system is based on human experience and intuition in assessing the social risks and the development of m...

Human migration is a complex and multidimensional public process, possessing both positive results of territorial movements of people, and negative. Therefore, depending on the angle of consideration, this process encloses either achievements, or problems for the look of researcher. Regardless of attitude towards Russia's official statistics, including claims for its speed, reliability, etc., it is difficult not to agree with the fact that it figures in a concentrated form is most clearly illustrate the real situa...

Little research has been done to explore stranger harassment and women's reactions toward it. By conducting a quantitative survey with questionnaires, this research based in Hong Kong aims at exploring predictors that determine women's reaction toward stranger harassment. Results show that self-objectification is positively related to benign and self-blaming coping strategies while traditional gender-related belief is positively related to passive and self-blaming coping strategies.

The phenomenon of violence in schools is extremely complex and there are a lot of factors that cause it. It is a well-known fact that during the educational process the model plays a decisive role. The first model of every child is the mother, the parents, then the teachers, the persons from their environment - the family, the neighbors, the colleagues and last but not least mass-media persons, especially television. Because of this, the main actors of the instructive-educative process, the parents and the teacher...

The aim of research was to estimate level of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) of innate immunity in patients with different stages of tubal adhesions and possibilities to use their detection for prediction of adhesions 21 women with I stage of tubal adhesions (I group) and 31 - with II-IV stages of adhesions (II group) were examinated. Samples were taken from endocervix by cytobrush and by biopsy of tubes during laparoscopy. Expression of TLRs was determined using qPCR. 5-fold decrease of TLR1, which ligands are bacteri...

According to a survey of Pew Research Center, 34\% of the US population has radically revised its policy for online behavior in favor of caution and concern about the safety of personal information. They did this after a series of network disclosures over the past 2 years. It is worth mentioning that 54\% of respondents say the inaccessibility of effective tools of network security and refer online protection to the peculiarities of the IT-professional's behavior. Our research does not apply to the field of protes...

Russia is one of the few countries in the world where life expectancy in the mid-2010s is the same as in 1960 or even lower. The leading causes of death are cardiovascular diseases, malignant neoplasms, and external causes. This paper provides a summary of key aspects of mortality fluctuations in Russia since 1980. Adverse health behaviors responsible for excess deaths are identified. One of the aspects of the problem is a high level of premature mortality in the working age. The paper presents results of assessme...

Anxiety affects thinking, perception and learning and it can cause distortion of perception, reducing the power of concentration and the associative and evocative memory. Anxiety is one of the most common disorders encountered in clinical practice. Anxiety disorders have a significant impact on everyday life, causing the affected person to suffer greatly. Anxiety can be perceived as an inexplicable feeling of impending doom, as an unfounded and exaggerated concern related to everyday life or as an unjustified fear...

Sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices are well-established as being good for business — they're not just a public relations exercise. They tend to result in increased operational efficiency, reduced waste and increased product differentiation, which help improve business processes and profitability. Family businesses stand to gain even more, as these practices lead to more family pride, family unity and cohesiveness, which in turn have positive effects on business growth and profitab...

Romania has amongst the highest income inequality in the European Union, one of the most important dimension of this inequality being between rural and urban population of Romania. This paper is a descriptive attempt of highlighting the roots and the social consequences of this inequality, using data from National Institute for Statistics, but also Eurostat data. First, the article analyze the property structure as one of the sources of wealth and income in the rural areas, and concludes that the consecutive land ...

The paper deals with the social policy, social assurance and indicators of social help for seniors. It is about the period of senior age of human being. It refers to phase of aging process of life, its specifics and possibilities of meaningful seniority. We point out social status, position of seniors in society. We emphasize the quality of life from the point of view of health and social accuracy, full-value use of time, leisure, education. We think about active and healthy aging of seniors. The period of seniori...

The article touches upon one of the approaches to the solution of the problem of stable eco-economic development due to the implementation of the health risk concept. The methods of risk management allow us to take managerial decisions aimed at reduction of anthropogenic impact on the environment, providing relevant health care effects and not causing significant decrease of economic efficiency of business activities. The authors developed an assessment algorithm for health risks caused by industrial emissions. Th...

The purpose of this research was the development of the psychomotor capacity through movement games in the case of middle school pupils, even though the suitable development age it is considered ( Claparede E., Piaget J., Parlebas P.) to be of 6-8 years old. The longitudinal type teaching experiment was shaped around an applied psychological and teaching intervention, which aimed to estimate the influence of the movement games designed to develop certain components of the psychomotor capacity. This approach spread...

A family is one of the most important institutes of socialization. The sociological research aimed at studying social problems of a modern family was taken in the Chelyabinsk region, it involved 1800 respondents in different cities and rural areas. During the research the attention was focused on the influence of family problems on the socialization of children. There appears in modern sociological science the category of self-determination of a family, including the realization of its educational function. The me...

The research is devoted to the analysis of mental representations of regional identity fulfilled on the material of naive geographic maps ("sketch maps"). The experiment allowed to consider regional identity in the context of national identity, including in aspect of the explicit and implicit conflict of values. Polymodality of sketch maps allowed respondents to broadcast subjective meanings using at once verbal and graphic sign systems. Analysis and interpretation of more than 400 naive maps from different Russia...

This article describes the features of the "social and professional security" young professionals in enterprises and institutions in the course of their professional adaptation. For a more comprehensive discussion of this topic is given by the definition of "young professional". "Social -professional "security in relation to the young specialist is a series of measures aimed at the protection and realization of their professional activities, guarantees and rights. Adaptation problem of young people who begin their...