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Aim: Purpose of this study was to explore the perception of motherhood among adolescent girls in Slovakia. Differences in perception of motherhood according to demographic factors and reproductive plans were examined as well. Method: Data collection was carried out at four high schools in central Slovakia; 200 female students were included in the research sample (age 18.35±0.48). The semantic differential was used in order to measure the perception of motherhood, containing 10 rating scales (7- point Likert scales...

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to analyze the role of education in the system of values of modern youth in the context of the main directions of development of innovative society, the key of which is the formation of innovative personality as a specific social type. The background of the study was the author's previous research on the analysis of innovative development of the Russian Federation, the implementation of the main strategic documents related to the innovative development of the ...

Family relationships are related to their coherence, ability to solve everyday problems and challenging situations. However, the family has internal and external circumstances that affect the relationships between its members. Gender stereotypes and a number of other circumstances can also weaken the coherence of these relationships in the daily confrontation with a child's handicap. The paper provides an overview of these circumstances that may affect the quality of family relationships. Data collection and evalu...

Since ancient times, people attached special importance to hair and nails. Many traditions are connected with them. Around these particles of the human body there was a whole mythology. According to the view of the Tungus, hair is part of a person and therefore part of the soul. In extraordinary cases, for example, at the onset of any epidemic or after diseases, Tungus cut off from his head on strands of hair and give them to the shaman, for fear that any harmful spirit has not stolen their souls. The shaman keeps...

Nowadays, it is already well known that people live longer than they did in the past. In relation to this trend, i.e. the aging of the population, it is not any different for people with visual impairment. Visual impairment affects the quality of life of people, not just seniors, but across the whole life of the individual. The aim of the review study was to analyze the research findings of the issue of the quality of life of people with visual impairment in the elderly age by means of the selection, evaluation an...

Throughout Europe almost half a million people choose to acquire food products from a network of community supported farms, thus changing the ways in which food products are produced, processed, distributed and valued in everyday life. The community supported agriculture (CSA) has a ten-year history in Romania (starting with 2008) as a concept linked to ethical consumption, solidarity and revival of traditional values. The study is based on case studies of how the concept was implemented in Romania, challenges for...

This article summarizes our current understanding of the construct of individual QOL as it pertains to persons with hearing (HI), visual (VI) or physical impairment (PhI) based on systematic review of expert articles discussing Quality of Life research. The article discusses what we have learnt about the QOL construct from the specific subjective point of view from persons with hearing, visual and physical impairment. The recent analysis is also directed on comparing generalized theoretical constructs with individ...

Objective of the study Identification of maternal-fetal outcome in women with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis associated with vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and postpartum. Material and methods: The study included a group of 36 pregnant women diagnosed with chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and normal thyroid function. Patients were monitorized starting with the first trimester of pregnancy and postpartum. In the first trimester, the serum levels of TSH, FT4, antithyroperoxidase antibodies (TPOAb) and antithyro...

This research paper proposes a non-invasive hybrid brain-computer interface (hBCI) applicable in rehabilitation. In the first section of this research paper, the theoretical information about BCI and hybrid BCI are explained. A non-invasive hybrid BCI is a combination and parallel usage of electroencephalography (EEG - electrical activity of the brain) and additional technology. In this research paper, the additional technology is surface electromyography (sEMG - electrical activity of muscles). In this proposal, ...

Objectives: In the present study some predicting factors of externalizing and internalizing problems were examined as children’s emotion regulation strategies. The main aim of the research was to investigate the relationship between emotion regulation strategies -as cognitive reappraisal (CR) and expressive suppression (EP)-, and behavioral problems in the case of youngsters. Methods: A Hungarian minority group of children from Transylvania were selected. The children (N = 227; male = 53.3%) completed the Emotion ...

The current study aims to trace the influence of the addition of dietary fibers from cranberries over nutritional and sensory properties of white bread. Cranberries, in the form of fresh and frozen fruits had been added due to high fiber content, thus aiming to achieve a functional product with superior properties for people with digestive problems, those who are prone to diabetes, healing colon and prevent constipation operation, reduces the risk of colon cancer, reduce the risk of breast cancer, reduce the risk ...

Introduction: Management of the health of oral tissues is a main prerequisite in dentistry. Nanotechnology, an emerging interdisciplinary field with rapid development, has become one of the most favoured technologies in dental applications. This review aims at defining the role and potential of bio-nanomaterials in dental medicine. It describes the basic concept of nanomaterials, latest innovations in nanomaterials and their applications in dentistry. Materials & methods: To validate these issues, current literatu...

Cardiovascular patients comprise more than a half of Czech in-patients. Some patients need a surgical intervention and their recovery is affected by various psychosocial factors. The aim of this research was to examine the influence of Big Five personality traits and health-related behaviour on postoperative adaptation, which was defined as the length of postoperative hospitalization and postoperative quality of life. To explore the above relationships, the BFI-10 personality inventory, the Health-Related Behaviou...

The aim of this article is to describe health care in areas of armed conflict related to medical planning and preventive medicine and, above all, to consider the serious ethical problem in the area of medical support, when, to whom and how to provide health care during armed conflict. In the context of the place and type of armed conflict (we distinguish a symmetric armed conflict - two opposing armies and an asymmetric armed conflict that can be conceived as an encounter in which one side has a surplus of militar...

The article discusses the importance of attachment (emotional bond) for the healthy development of personality. It expresses a permanent emotional bond, characterised by the need to seek and maintain proximity with a particular person, especially under stressful conditions. This person is usually perceived as wiser and stronger and cannot be easily replaced with another person. Protection is considered to be one of the basic biological functions, one of the conditions of survival and healthy development of an indi...

In recent years, trafficking in human beings has been steadily increasing in Romania, and our country has become a origin country, but also home and destination for large traffic networks. Changes in political, social and cultural fields have led to an increase in poverty and unemployment, as well as an unequal distribution of the male and female in the labour market. According to the studies published by the National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (ANITP), in 2016 the number of victims was 756, 14% lower t...

The ability to provide a variety of services to trafficked persons is a key component of extracting the individuals from this environment. Organizations provide different services to victims and are able to provide these services based on their area of expertise. For example, some organizations are able to provide legal services, some counseling for trauma, medical and dental services, food and clothing . In addition, the aim of this article is to highlight the Pro Sentret NGO outreach model, Norway, which can be ...

Participation in competitions is strongly connected to students’ academic achievement, the highly performing students usually participate in competitions. Social environmental factors, such as the extent of social support, which can derive from the family members, parents, friends, or the family’s social economic status, can also influence students’ participation in competitions. The aim of our study was to find out which are those key components, that particularly determine students to attend competitions, social...

Digital natives shape their world and shake fundamental beliefs in society, making it obligatory to rethink the schooling, employment and communication aimed at triggering a positive reaction from this new category of technologically immersed young people. The study aims to highlight, based on literature review and on field research, the values of Romanian students belonging to this category, in direct link to their expectations regarding future employment. Students were asked to identify experiences that they cho...

Participation in competitions has numerous advantages on students’ psychological characteristics. Beyond the attractive rewards, attending competitions contribute to the development of social, cognitive skills and to the refining of metacognitive skills. Participation in contests promote the transformation of metacognitive skills: planning, time management, self-monitoring and evaluation of performance. The aim of the current study is the investigation of differences between metacognitive skills of students attend...

The significance of outreach and its impact in reaching victims is the focus of this article.Within the anti-trafficking field, outreach is an important topic and has been further developed by organizations to better address the difficulties that the crime of human trafficking present. The understanding and general awareness of human trafficking is fairly new. To address the growing problem of human trafficking, anti-trafficking organizations have devised outreach methods aimed at more effectively identifying, app...

The goal of this study is the consolidation and generalization of the body of theoretical analysis of empirical research studying the correlation between subjective well-being and mindfulness, demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness-boosting methods in raising the level of life satisfaction. The factual basis of the present study is physiological in nature and showcases the great variety of forms, types, determinants and factors of the subject matter. Methodology: analysis, comparison and verification of a ...

Background: Child abuse and lack of emotional support experienced in childhood or even adolescents has long term costs affecting the capacity to fulfill life. Objective: The principal goal of this article was to study the extent to which the consequences of different forms of abuse are reflected in youth subjectively evaluated happiness and satisfaction with life. Method: Data were drawn from a large-scale, national representative longitudinal sample of 3524 senior high school students, who reported on their child...

The Faculty of Military Health Science is one of the three faculties of the University of Defense in the Czech Republic. This Faculty is responsible for education of medics, pharmacists, dentists and paramedics in the Army of the Czech Republic. During their educational program we have to connect two basic aspects of duty in armed forces – work as a member of healthcare service, professional healthcare worker contra work as a soldier, member of military professional armed units. These two disciplines are different...

It is known that cognitive anthropology tries to look at the picture of the world from the inside, through the eyes of the carrier of culture, to understand and describe the world of people of other cultures in their own terms. Most ethnologists-cognitivists are guided by the definition of culture as a system of values, scenarios of behavior, ideal models. It is assumed that each ethnic group has its own system of perception, thinking, behavior, emotions. Currently, the basic concepts of cognitive anthropology can...

Introduction: Literature suggests that both Assessment and Locomotion regulatory modes are important in one’s general goal-directed behavior and in academic performance in higher education. Objective: The analysis of regulatory mode preference predictive power in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM), respectively non-STEMM field related academic performance in undergraduates. Method: Our study had a correlational design. We applied the Regulatory Mode Questionnaire (Kruglanski et. al....

The term ”comfort food” is a relatively recent expression, being concerned on strengthening and consolation during different periods of life. Its main attribute is to ensure pleasant sensation for the consumer and a quick satisfaction of the physiological needs, without neglecting the psychological sensation involved. Contemporary food practices have emerged and nowadays even schools and education institutions tend to encourage consumption of comfort food products by including such products in their daily menu. Al...

People with Down syndrome are slowly and not at all familiar with the notion of leisure time. From our previous research we found out that most of the adults with Down syndrome are at home, with no rehabilitation, or educational or therapeutically services. There are some occupational / vocational centers in some cities across the country. In the urban area, the adults with DS that belong to a NGO are doing sport, dance, leisure and occupational activities from time to time. All the others and especially those liv...

Background Lumbosacralgia manifested by lower lumbar pain is a degenerative disorder, generated by the damage of an vertebral structures as well as by the suffering of the lumbar soft tissues. Clinically, we include: isolated lumbosacral pain, lumbosacral pain referenced on the inferior limb, and lumbosacral pain with a nerve route irradiation. The aim of this paper was to find the most effective rehabilitation kinetic program for these patients to reduce pain, increase mobility and improve the suppleness, tonicit...

The hyperdynamics and the ever-increasing complexity of social interaction forces social actors to build their relationships based on the principles of pure rationalization and moral nihilism. This spurs them on to look for the means of impact which can help them in realizing their interests and relatively quickly achieving their targets, with no retaliation from the side of their opponents. In this respect, an effective strategy involves provoking the opponents into taking the action that would benefit the provoc...

Background: Abuse experienced in childhood including physical and emotional neglect, has been identified as a major risk factor for a variety of negative outcomes for mental and physical health. Objective: We aimed to find out whether history of family violence experienced in childhood and adolescents predicts affective disorders in Romanian youth assessed by depression, anxiety (GAD) and risk for suicide. Method: Data were drawn from a large-scale, national representative sample of 1497 young adults (Mean Age 21,...

The World Health Organization reports that there are 285 million people with visual impairment in the world, 39 million of whom are blind people. The European Union of blind people estimates that there are approximately 30 million people with visual impairment in Europe. The Czech Statistical Office, based on a sample survey of people with disabilities in 2013, states that there are approximately 65,000 people with severe visual impairment in the Czech Republic. The paper responds to the current state of inclusion...

Acute limb ischemia associated with scheletal injury represent a challenging aspect of modern traumatology with high individual and social impact especially due to complications which require prolonged hospitalization, repeated surgery and considerable costs. That is why medical research is directed to establishing the most efficient diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms able to decrease the incidence of complications and promote optimal fracture healing. The purpose of this paper is to underline the importance of...

Background: It has long been proved that relationship quality is positively linked to overall physical health as well as longevity. Thus, understanding the role of the individual food preferences related to the couples functioning is important for creating tailored strategies to promote both individual and couple’s healthy eating behavior. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of the sensory liking for a food within the dyadic adjustment. Methods: Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) was used for assessment ...

The rate of development of genomic technologies exceeds the rate of creation and adoption of medical technologies and their legal support. The purpose of the article is a review of genomic technologies and their capabilities, limits, ethical and social risks, the legal regulation of these technologies in the Russian Federation. It is noted that in the near future it will be possible to improve the quality of the procedure being analyzed by introducing Whole-Exome Sequencing testing. However, this will require impr...

Social work in the Slovak Republic is mainly focused on helping people who find themselves in various forms of need and need help. The paper analyzes the basic philosophical ethical bases of social work on the basis of which concrete assistance is realized. It outlines the basic principles of social work as a helping profession. It applies these principles to the attitudes of particular institutions to the arrival of migrants in Slovakia and describes specific cases in which the principles of social work in the ap...

The purpose of the article is to identify the specifics of adaptation and life of orphans and children left without parental care after graduation from orphanages, which is associated with multiple social, legislative and ethical problems in society. Arrangement of teenagers-graduates of orphanages after graduation, as well as their lack of experience and skills to adapt to real life situations, is an urgent problem of Russian society. The article analyzes the current view on the problem of orphans’ adaptation, co...

In 2019, an outbreak of influenza A virus infection was detected in Romania with subsequent cases observed in many counties. According to the Ministry of Health At the national level, the total number of cases of acute respiratory infections (clinical flu, upper airway respiratory infections and pneumonia) was 52,991, 9.1% higher than in the same week of the previous season (48,546). The latest information from the National Center for Communicable Disease Control within the National Institute of Public Health show...

The paper actualizes the theme of social reality construction amidst the development of innovative technologies forming the techno-social space, in which technological and social aspects are closely intertwined in the context of mutually conditioned changes. Based on conceptual ideas of phenomenology, the mental bases of the social world exploration are accentuated and the inclusion of modern technologies in the processes of the social distribution of knowledge, transfer, and assimilation of information, in everyd...

All projects in different sectors are unique, but the information technology industry is a prosperous and growing sector of all developing countries, which is mainly based on projects [1]. The purpose of the work is to investigate the quality of working life of IT project managers in Riga, causes of job related stress and influencing factor and to find out what strategies for stress management are used and also, develop proposals for major IT companies to improve the quality of life of IT project managers and over...

BACKGROUND: In pregnancy, proteinuria can be commonly increased and varies from non-nephrotic range proteinuria to nephrotic syndrome. Diagnosis and proper management are very important for both maternal and fetal health. Little is known about pregnancy in women with Alport Syndrome (AS). AS, a hereditary disorder X-linked (85%) or autosomal recessive (15%), associated with mutations in type IV collagen, is characterized by hearing impairment, ocular changes and progressive glomerulonephritis leading to chronic re...

Child aggression is a form of social security. It occurs at the age of one to three years. In most cases it does not take the symptoms of the disorder, usually a transient, developmentally natural psychological phenomenon. Children very often react aggressively in a period of resistance. They reject the demands of parents and teachers or their boundaries and rules. They don't like the restrictions, so they can hit their parents, throw objects, etc. The aggression of children and their abuse by parents is no except...

Coping with demanding situations is a regular part of managerial work. In this context, demanding situations are perceived by managers as either unpleasant or as a starting ramp for their career growth. The paper presents the results of an experimental research project on human capital development on the basis of increasing the efficiency of resolving difficult situations. The experimental group underwent a specific preparation, whereas the control group did not. The experiment was conducted on a research sample o...

In the light of recent researches and findings the scope of medical practice must be expanded beyond the core competencies to incorporate additional skills and procedures that improve care for patients and their families. The present paper summarise new educational approaches for ortopaedic medical doctors by the use of a Learning Management Systems delivered through the Internet, within the framework of e-TRAUMA project. e-TRAUMA is an on-going EU funded project under ERASMUS+ programme entitled “e- Training of o...

Object recognition involves processes that activate conscious interpretation of the visual field. Such processes are influenced by previous knowledge and experience. However, previous studies report interesting results, which draw out gender asymmetry in visual perception tasks performance, claimed to occur as a reason of biological differences, other findings attribute this difference to socio-cultural factors, as a result of semantic interpretation due to difference of environment. To test this assumption, the a...

In the clinical and technical stages for the manufacture of fixed mixed prostheses, the metal frame analysis represents a relevant process. The professional communication among the main professional actors is a technical act of horizontal communication supported by the theoretical notions of both partners and exemplified strictly on the working model / dental abutment and metallic frame. The study material is the analysis of a number of 50 metallic elements representing the metal structure of fixed mixed prosthesi...

We intend, during this study, to identify the level of satisfaction of some participant’s students at a summer school, held two years ago, within The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at the University of Craiova. The summer school was held over two weeks, being our first experience of this kind. The project, Be active in summer through sport (AG_21) was financed within the scheme of competitive grants for universities- summer programs bridge type (SGCU-PV) – ROSE. The project’s beneficiaries were 52 pupils,...

The Romanian gastronomy is a very rich branch, very developed, which over the years has gathered a lot of both indigenous elements and some borrowed from other nations and peoples. When it comes to Romanian culinary habits, each geographical area has its own traditions, and these are manifested especially around Christmas, when most people prepare selected dishes. Speaking in general, however, Romanians are used to using tarragon, thyme and garlic when it comes to spices, and a special position in the Romanian cui...

Unlike the Torah, which is given by God from Heaven, royalty belongs to public political life and teaches about order, power and justice. The Israelite kingship is not a purely historical institution, but also a divine one (Ps 89, 28-37). Peace, prosperity, well-being, authority of the Israelite king are images of how God communicates with the people of Israel. The obedience of the Jewish King to the revealed Word of God, the Torah, cancels the monarchic absolutism (Deut. 17:16-17): when the king David stands hims...

Background. Due to globalization and rapid economic changes the job insecurity is becoming more and more common for the contemporary labor market in most countries. There are many investigations devoted to the consequences of an job insecurity for individual and organization in the international scientific literature. But there is still little research on this theme in the Russian context. So, the aim of our study is to fill this gap. In our previous studies (Chuykova, Sotnikova, 2016); (Chuykova, 2018) we found t...