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Based on previous studies that linked emotional disorders, including depression, with memory biases, the aim of the present study is to assess the relation between depression and memories for negative life events. Specifically, we aimed to investigate the individual differences in depressive state in evocation of both veridical and false memories. To study the occurrence of veridical and false memories, a video paradigm was used. Videos related details were not shown but were presented during a recognition task in...

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...

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...

In most educational systems, school grades and grades obtained at national exams represent two basic indicators of academic success. Given the role that emotions play in student learning and achievement, it is important to understand the role that previous academic results and the perceived importance of grades to be obtained in future exams, play in the activation of students' academic emotions. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relations among students' previous grades, the perceived importance...

The purpose of this paper is to explore aspects influencing habits of information exchange in Latvian competitive environment. The study on implementation of competitive intelligence management in companies indicated the trends that employees of Latvian enterprises lack motivation to exchange information. Tasks of the study were to explore on the basis of the review of scientific sources and study aspects influencing habits of information exchange in Latvian organisations. For this particular study, the focus grou...

In the context of the increased incidence of psychic disorders and of man's need for healing, three psychotherapy Schools were developed in Vienna: 1) Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalitic School, whose deterministic theory is related to the principle of pleasure and which, consequently, speaks about the will to pleasure; 2) Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology School, which refers to the will to power; and 3) Victor Frankl's Logotherapy School, underlining the will to meaning. Along with these Schools, the accent has la...

Psychiatric disorders have a huge impact on life, leaving deep scars on the suffering soul. Although modern man is concerned about spirituality, being attracted to everything representing energy, harmony, relaxation or meditation, he stands powerless when facing mental disease. Therefore we ask the questions: What is the real cause of these diseases and what role plays the Orthodox psychotherapy in the healing process? This study shows that the Orthodox theology's understanding of human inner self and the personal...

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...