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In this paper we see this research goal is to methodologically provide rationalization for the study of the academic entity development dynamics, which makes it possible to disclose the university culture transformation taking place during the higher professional education modernization process. The systemic character of university culture within the regional society development is reported. University culture is considered to be a special complex of corporate culture, based on the values of professional culture, ...

Every year in Romania, a significant number of youth and children fall victim to different forms of exploitation: sexual exploitation, forced labor exploitation, exploitation for begging, exploitation by forcing to commit juvenile delinquency. According to the studies published by the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (ANITP), in 2016 the number of victims was 756, 14% lower than in the previous year. Adult victims prevail (402 victims, of which 294 women and 128 men), although the number of minor vic...

The study focuses on the social construction of relationships between social workers and clients in solving family problems. The concept of social construction is used to examine the categories of categorization, stereotyping. The goal is to find out how social workers are constructing relationships and bringing them closer to family intervention. We are focused on workers of social protection and social care in the Slovak Republic. The theoretical part looks at the problem of instability, threats, family crises i...

The balance is one of the most important skills of the postural control and ability to move. The data of many studies have shown that postural sway was reduced while participants perform a balance task concurrently with a cognitive task. There are some evidences that postural sway decreases under threatening conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the immediate postural responses evoked by head movements standing on foam surface. The study subjects were 32 first-year students. Participants ranged in ages ...

Czech Republic is a member of NATO since 1999. The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, in its 2015 framework document entitled 2030 Long-term Outlook for Defence, confirmed the political-military ambitions of the Czech Republic, where one of the priorities was the fulfilment of the obligations arising from NATO membership. These requirements include healthcare requirements. Military medicine has a long tradition and czech military healthcare service is a very important part of many foreign military missions...

The paper focuses on the quality of working life of deaf people. The main aim is to describe the possibilities of their employment with regard to the historical context of the labour market situation and current possibilities. Further, the other goal of the article analyses subjective perception of deaf people within their possibilities of employability on the labour market and overall satisfaction. To obtain the data a qualitative approach was implemented through a semi-structured interview with deaf people, who ...

The article summarizes of materials sociological monitoring of student of Sverdlovsk region (1995-2016) – in terms of the motivation of choice University. Monitoring materials published [1], disclosed in the publication methodology and research technique, unsubstantiated picks and sample size. The sample included monitoring student survey III course on four main areas of learning (socio-economic, humanitarian, scientific and technical). A number of issues (in particular, of the reasons for the choice of the Univer...

Drug use in Romania is a dynamic phenomenon, being heavily influenced by a multitude of social and economic factors. Romania was initially a transit country, but soon it became one of the profitable areas of drug trafficking. This work started with an attempt to highlight the reasons for young people to initiate consumption, but also to see the importance of methadone substitution treatment for former heroin users in their effort to achieve abstinence. For this study, we selected 20 former heroin users currently u...

Cancer of the esophageal-gastric junction is on the 6th place in the world in the structure of mortality from cancer. Russia is one of the regions with a high incidence of gastric cancer and mortality from this disease. Due to the borderline location of the tumor between the esophagus and the stomach, the world does not accept a single surgical treatment of gastroesophageal junction cancer. The classification of this cancer is discussed also. Esophagogastrostomy is the simplest method of reconstruction after proxi...

The issue of stress is ever spreading far and wide, affecting representatives of various professions at all levels of an organization. There is no doubt that this phenomenon will not be without consequences on the life of every human being. Stress may not be treated exclusively as an individual problem for every human being. It also affects an organization, exposing it to costs associated with reduced productivity and motivation, and in particular with greater occurrence of mistakes and accidents. This is another ...

The aim of the paper is to identify and explain regional differences in digital socialization indicators in modern Russia. Our study is based on Manuel Castell’s concept of digital society, T. Druckrey’s theory of electronic (digital) culture, on the model of digital socialization proposed by O. Soldatova and A. Sharikov’s model of digital literacy. The empirical basis of the research comprises the analysis of data from nationwide surveys, as well as the database of the research “Ecosystem of Network Public Admini...

The article deals with social and legal problems faced by persons with Inborn Gender Identity Disorder Syndrome (IGIDS) in fulfilling social roles consistent with the perceived gender. It seems that the social functioning of these persons is extremely difficult, because disapproval of the somatic/phenotype sex hinders their self-fulfilment. Legal (formal) conditions of their social existence depend on medical procedures, which in turn are related with many diagnostic problems. In Poland, there is no specific diagn...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of parents’ beliefs about children’s video games in the contemporary Russia. The strategies of prohibition or permission of computer games used by parents rely on different background beliefs. Research of such beliefs as well as values they are based on is the purpose of our work. To do this, we analyzed the discourse of Russian parents of preschool and primary school children in a series of semi-structured interviews on children's video games. Interviews were conducted in 2016...

Aim: Research aim is to explore the differences in the childbirth- related fear with regard to age, parity, previous birth experience and socio-economic factors. Another objective of the research was assessing the link between childbirth- related fear and symptoms of depression among pregnant women. Method: The research sample includes 136 women (age 29.82±5.68). Wijma Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (W-DEQ-A) was used for assessing the childbirth- related fear; and Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale was used f...

In 2003 Bulgaria enacted new legislation that introduced various reforms in the social sphere. These changes define a new philosophy of state policy in the area of social services and society’s vulnerable groups. Protected Housing is a social service that enables the transition from the traditional in Bulgaria institutional care to the services offered in the community and the family environment. The practical social work and the social worker in the service Protected Housing are the main subjects of analysis in t...

During all the times of destruction of social institutions and socio-cultural norms, there is a split in common social values and those which are reflected in social networks and electronic media. There are few meaningful values for modern women that could be identified: the value of kinship, the value of marriage, the value of motherhood, the value of career and self-made behavior, the value of leisure and hedonistic values. In the article the authors propose models (variants) of the images of mothers with many c...

In article is presented an analysis of the peculiarities of the consciousness and behavior of the student youth in the consumer sphere is presented. Based on a sociological investigation, the models of typical consumer practices of Sverdlovsk region students are outlined. Russia experienced a change of type of culture, value orientations in the XXI century. Formation of market relations contributes to formation of a market-oriented personality type. The concept is based on a relation to consumption as to a termina...

The need to ensure mobility of persons with disabilities is due to an increase in the absolute and relative number of people with disabilities, which is a global trend. The United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, adopted in 2006, was aimed at solving these problems. The actual problem of the Russian social practice is the provision of physical and social mobility of the disabled, the formation of a monitoring system of the rights of the disabled and the availability of infrastructure ...

Introduction: The SES status belongs to the most important health determinants in developed countries. Individual susceptibility for acute respiratory diseases 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 parents questionnaires collected data about socio-...

Background Taking into account, that many recent research papers about functional anatomy, emphasized strong connections between motor cerebral areas and pre-frontal ones and that professional training performed on a period of time longer than 5 years, produced cerebral hemispheres functional plastic modifications, we consider opportune, to study the effects of long term physical effort, over cerebral activity at athletes, with a professional sportive experience longer than 5 years, from different sports as handba...

Sentiment analysis for the French language remains an under-developed research area. At the same time, sentiment analysis works well for identifying conflictual discourses in English. Today, identifying sentiment in social networks and microblogs, including Twitter, is a growing area of studies, but despite French is one of the most popular post-colonial languages online, the studies of user sentiment in this language are still rare enough. Also, there are practically no studies that would link sentiment analysis ...

The aim of the presented text is to analyse the level of health literacy in health promotion, namely in healthy lifestyles, in a selected population of seniors. The text first defines health literacy as a key concept, and explains the importance and models of health literacy, including the possibilities of measuring it. The paper presents the results of an empirical survey of a selected population of seniors, namely students of the University of the Third Age at Palacký University in Olomouc, where a higher degree...

The problem of assisting people who have committed crimes has always been one of the most controversial themes among society. Fact of prison isolation, as well as long-term custodial sentences, makes it very difficult for a person to adapt to the society after leaving it. Assistance and effective action on people who have left prison not only helps to adapt them to everyday life in society but also, in particular, prevents them from entering into renewed conflict with the law. These people cannot be left without h...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between the anxiety score, the quality of life and the functional status of the patients with occupational lung diseases. We have conducted a cross-sectional study on patients with occupational lung disease, referred to the hospital for their annual evaluation. The exclusion criteria were the presence of an acute disease, the presence of the exacerbation of the lung disease and a severe deterioration of the lung function. Beside the regular clinical and functio...

The unsatisfactory quality of schoolchildren's nutrition is one of the main causes of schoolchildren’s illness in Russia. The infant morbidity indicators are exacerbated by the adverse impact of natural-climatic and derived socioeconomic factors of the northern Arctic regions. The main negative factors of Arctic region are: a long winter, polar night, the lack of vitamins, unavailability some health necessary products and the higher prices for them, limited opportunities for the vacation beyond the Arctic region a...

The present paper presents new approaches in paramedics education in the framework of an Erasmus + project entitled “Use of Extraglottic and Glottic Alternative Airways Methods in Alternative Airway Management”. The project is based on collaboration between hospitals and Higher Education Institutes from Turkey, Hungary and Romania and aims to develop, test and adapt a continuous vocational educational medical programme, developed on an exhaustive needs analysis and focusing on a transnational approach for airway m...

Companies producing lenses for glasses and contact lenses operate in the sector of high technologies, consequently, the production has high added value. Sustainable development requires a more rapid development of medium high and high technologies sectors. One of the options is development of production of optical vision correction means in Latvia, which would increase the proportion of medium high and high technology manufacturing in the common structure of manufacturing. The analysis was performed guiding by the...

The inclusion of the elderly in the community as equal members and providing opportunities for the elderly to participate in work related activities is one of the main tasks of modern society. The goal of the study was to estimate the participation of elderly people in activities related to the work or volunteer activities. 120 examinees from 65 to 93 years of age who are users of centers and homes for the care of the elderly participated in the study. The study used a sociodemographic questionnaire and selected p...

There are two fields of state social policy linked in this paper – migration policy and policy of the social protection. This paper is relevant for the terminology of social sphere. For the state, which wants to implement integration policy towards migrants, it is necessary to examine the establishing of care for migrants in one subsystem of social protection – social insurance. The main objective of this paper is to examine measures (instrument) of social insurance and their application in the life of a migrant. ...

The paper is a sociological analysis of Russian students’ position in relation to an important problem of science meddling into human reproduction sphere, to new scientific reproduction technologies that are supposed to meet the challenges of new generation reproduction and population control. The research covers the attitude of the young people to modern scientific advances in the area of new reproduction technologies (NRT) like artificial insemination, extracorporal fertilization and cloning. The respondents inc...

Background. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent progressive condition, with an increased impact on quality of life. Depression and anxiety are frequently encountered in patients with chronic diseases, especially in those with impaired health-related quality of life. The aim of the study was to identify and evaluate the burden of depression and anxiety in patients with COPD. Material and methods. We enrolled patients admitted in our hospital with the diagnosis of COPD, in which we eva...

Considered a common product, cheap food, poor people’s food and the plant of poor areas, the potato is actually a product that helps improving the daily diet being rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. For Romania, the potato is a strategic food, contributing to the national food safety system. Our country is ranked on the third position in Europe in terms of area cultivated with potatoes (after Poland and Germany). In particular, potato components have been shown to have favorable impacts on several measu...

The role of the family is to create a stable and secure environment in which the needs of all its members are met. Only a well-functioning family is able to fulfill this task to the optimum extent. There are many things influencing family functioning. One of them is also the birth and upbringing of a disabled child. The aim of our study was to find out which factors influence the functioning of the family with a disabled child. A quantitative research strategy was used. To measure the functioning of the family, a ...

This article aims at assessing the potential of the social orientation and Romanian language learning programmes to encourage mutual understanding and fight intolerance. A comprehensive analysis of the linguistic education and the social integration programmes identified in Romania was conducted, based on a common and coherent analytical framework for all the national contributions of the countries which are partners in the RACCOMBAT project. Starting from the generic description of the Romanian language courses a...

Modern technological changes (and digitalization in particular) radically change social relations, character of labor and population’s employment. In politicians’ claims, urgent character of starting changes is manifested. In practice, that means that people will not have time for adaptation in new conditions. A new model of labor and employment, so-called “Job 4.0”, brings higher requirements to workers’ professional qualifications being applied to all professional groups without exception. “Job 4.0” is carried o...

From the perspective of social constructivism, the cultural shock is one of the possible forms of individual experiencing a clash with an alien socio-cultural reality. Both the actualization of otherness, and the cultural shock, belong to the subjective reality. This is the result of the mental activity of a particular person, the product of his consciousness. It is important that these elements of subjective reality can be objectified by a person within the framework of social interactions in the form of verbaliz...

The article proposes a marketing approach to forecasting the needs of aging visitors and museum product development taking into consideration the results of the visitors studies. According to the recent research aging visitors became an active part of museum and other cultural institutions public. At the same time they have different needs which haven’t understood by these organizations’ management. Art and scientific museums aging visitors are not only grandmothers and grandfathers escorting their grandchildren. ...

The contribution focuses on homelessness as the current social problem of humanity in every stage of its development. In the Slovak Republic, after 1989, not only the political, but also the social and social situation changed significantly. The problem of homelessness has emerged and continues to the present, with dimensions growing. The theoretical part of the contribution defines a social group endangered by homelessness, presents approaches and legislation in the Slovak Republic, taking into account the intern...

The article delves into the problem of representation of various images (metaphors) of wellbeing which are constituted and reproduced in various academic disciplines. At the present time there are great numbers of scientific approaches and concepts of wellbeing which at times touch upon different aspects of man’s life. These approaches often do not agree with each other. This article presents an attempt to construct an integral matrix of wellbeing theories which will provide for the review of various wellbeing con...

Background: Renal disorders during pregnancy are variable, ranging from asymptomatic bacteriuria to end stage renal disease. Pregnancy increases the risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially due to the hormonal and mechanical changes, that are predisposing to renal and urinary stasis. UTIs in pregnancy are associated with high risks, both to the fetus and the mother, so adequate management is required. Aim of study was to monitor the incidence and prevalence of lower and upper UTI during pregnancy, as we...

The purpose of this article is to determine and present complex information regarding the technical aspects of housing for seniors, both from the theoretical angle and from the angle of subjective viewpoints of the seniors, with a specific focus on the Czech Republic. Firstly, we deal with the technical requirements for housing buildings in general, and secondly, we characterize the specificities regarding housing places for the elderly. Our emphasis on the group of seniors, i.e. those aged 65 and more, is derived...

In our own times the consensus with respect to the validity of the European policies goes into crisis, reducing the sense of belonging of its citizens in a common destiny. The recent case of Brexit is a perfect example of the malaise in which pours European citizenship. Specifically, European citizenship poses a definitory problem: the status of European citizen depends on being citizens of one of EU member states. This dependence, which determines a relationship of superposition, tends to mask the difference of t...

We live in a time of intense turmoil, doctrinal reevaluations of all sociological systems and philosophical concepts, which attempt to encompass within one unit the three fundamental dimensions of existence: God, man and the world. Under the avalanche of destructive theories, all the "strong" foundations of philosophical theories and traditional religions lose their firmness. We are witnessing a conceptual dissolution of the contemporary world that tends to melt in an ocean of relativism regardless of any effort t...

The world is continually changing, and one of the determining factors is technological progress, which has also led to the formulation of a specific ideology. Yet, it is precisely the ideology of technological progress that has thrown humanity into a moral crisis and has led to the emergence of new phenomena, such as resource diminution, environmental pollution, forest destruction, acid rains, greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, massive garbage accumulation, mass unemployment, excessive armament storage etc., rep...

From the analysis of the demographic situation and social changes at European and Romanian level, it is necessary to train professionals in assisting the elderly at home [6, 9]. Aim of research: The purpose of the present research is to carry out a professional training course for a new profession, codified in the Romanian Catalog of Occupations (R.C.O), namely: home caregiver for elderly [9]. Research methodology: The research was conducted on a sample of 27 trainees. An analysis of the training needs was carried...

Background: Smoking during pregnancy is the leading cause of prenatal morbidity. Women who smoke during pregnancy do not only increase the risks to develop serious adverse health events but also put their child at considerable risk. The purpose of this study was to assess the demographic factors and to evaluate smoking behavior in a group of pregnant women, contributing to the existing literature in order to improve maternal and child health care. Methods: A questionnaire conceived by a pulmonologist that assessed...

The legal framework for courses, social integration programmes for foreign citizens consists of a series of normative acts representing primary legislation and respectively, secondary legislation. Romania has been having a legislation in the field of integration since 2004. Certain ministries and the local authorities are the main attributions in this area. The legislation is in the process of changing. We try to adapt to the existing situation, to the new needs, to the new requirements at European level. In this ...

Introduction: The efficiency of the cardiovascular and respiratory system is an important factor determining the physical performance and health of subjects. The aim of the study is to present and compare the state of physical fitness, including cardiovascular and respiratory systems of obese women and men. Methods: 12 women and 12 men of similar age and possessing Io obesity were subjected to the study. After recording the age of the subjects and the basic anthropometric features in resting conditions and during ...

Background: Health literacy, which is a part of the fundamental equipment for life and the path to the health of the individual and of the society, has been coming to the foreground of many scientific disciplines in recent years. The crucial issue of the presented area consists in the fact that low health literacy is a serious risk factor for health, which deepens undesirable health inequalities and results in high costs for health care. The goal of this article consists in presenting partial results of a study ma...

Introduction: Significant post-training adaptation factors of the powerlifting players are the increase in muscle mass and strength, depending on the volume, intensity and time used in specialized training, with an ambiguous effect on cardiovascular and respiratory fitness. The aim of this study is to present the state of physical fitness, cardiovascular and respiratory systems in two group of powerlifters. Methods: In order to verify the hypothesis, 15 advanced (SEA) and 15 less advanced (LEA) powerliftwers were ...