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Transport efficiency cannot be imagined outside of strategic management – an aspect to which universities, part of the „triple helix” model, pay close attention. As the complexity of public organizations has increased and mobility has become a key issue for their efficiency, several universities in Romania have developed their own fleets to meet the needs of moving people or delivering goods. Based on data collected through a series of interviews, this article proposes a comparative analysis of some aspects of the strategic management of the car fleets of the Babeș-Bolyai University, the West University of Timișoara and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. The results indicate that the fleets tend to be more efficient the newer the vehicles are, i.e. not older than 10 years. The paper also underlines the fact that fleet efficiency can only be achieved through a regular analysis of the factors that generate additional costs and their elimination as part of a broader strategic management strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The year 2007 represented for Romania an important moment in terms of the development possibilities of local communities. This aspect is due to the fact that our country has acquired the status of a member state in the European Union, the new opportunities being a direct consequence of the possibility of accessing and implementing non-reimbursable European funds. Local public institutions play an important role in the mechanism of attracting these funds, which are so necessary for the development of communities and also for increasing the quality of life of citizens. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of attracting and implementing non-reimbursable European funds. The research used two methods: the analysis of the documents, and the application of an interview guide to the people who occupy management positions within the City Hall of the municipality of Carei. The goal was to identify the number of European projects with non-refundable funding for which a funding request was submitted, respectively the number of projects approved and implemented in the two cycles: 2007- 2013, 2014-2020. At the same time, the following indicators were also of interest: the share of revenues from non-reimbursable financing in the total revenues of the local budget, respectively the financial allocations within the U.A.T. Carei for the development-investment chapter of co-financed projects. This study may present a certain degree of usefulness to decision-makers in the municipality of Carei because it offers a retrospective of the financing situation of investments from European funds in the last 14 years through the lens of a quantitative and qualitative research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In my paper, I attempt to investigate Dimitrie Cantemir’s view on science as we may find it in his Sacrosanctae.... I argue that he believes that only knowledge revealed in the form of charity provides access to the transcendent; to understand the actuality of Cantemir’s views, I place them in the context of the beginning of the modern science and the continuation of the Aristotelian tradition in southeastern Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neoplasia is defined as a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell growth and invasion with dissemination from the primary site to other sites in the body. The following paper presents different types of tumors both malignant and benign in dogs and cats; the increased rate of cancer, the symptoms of oncological nature, the diagnosis of different neoplastic formations with the help of general and specialized clinical examinations, the treatment and the chances of survival of animals. Metastasis in different tissues or organs by lymphatic or blood route occurs in advanced stages of cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prescription by veterinarians of narcotic and psychotropic substances and preparations regulated by Law no. 339/2005 regarding the legal regime of narcotic and psychotropic plants, substances, and preparations, as well as those that fall under Law no. 143/2000 on the prevention and combating of drug trafficking and illicit drug consumption is done exclusively on the formulation with a special regime. In addition, national legislation through Order 128/2021 (Prescription with the special regime) and Joint Order 1328/56/2022 regulates the way of issuing prescriptions in community pharmacies of medicines for human use on veterinary prescriptions, with the aim of being used in animals. For a wider dissemination, in this paper the essential ideas presented in the SNEC-2022 continuing education courses, by the author, are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper aims to reveal an inventory, an interpretation and a statistical analysis of Romanian names of plants which implicates the term „iarbă” (herb, grass), spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, as considered by E. Coşeriu is not enough highlighted (given that the individual speaker became creator of language / poetry whenever he named a flower. Botanical popular terminology has primarily a practical value, designating, distinguishing and categorizing elements of the plant kingdom within the given natural reign, but also has a high theoretical significance, especially for linguists, both by the ethimons to which they send back and by the metaphorical meanings the phytonims mostly have. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I examine the discourse on banditry (haiducie) articulated by the romantic elite of 19th century Romania. By relying on the various literary productions of the era, from short stories to memoirs and travel literature, I posit that the image of the noble bandit is rather manufactured by the elite to fit their political agenda, if not actually imported from ready-made west-European bandit models. The reason behind the cosmetic treatment of robbers and highwaymen that the Romanian elites perform in their writings, is the same as that of their western counterparts: noble bandits are easily integrated in the emerging nation-state narrative of the era and are useful as precursors of the political claims of the elite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to demonstrate that two previously unknown manuscript folios from Mircea Eliade’s youth, which emerged in 2022, are the drafted summaries of his unfinished editorial project Valkyries in the Library. The two folios are, in fact, two lists of article titles Eliade published in Cuvântul (22), Gândirea (2), and Sinteza (1), in 1926-1928. Arranged differently, the feuilletons address topics such the Romanian intellectual, the dependance towards French culture and literature, philology and synthesis, the lack of heroism in Romanian literature, Beatrice and Don Quixote, young writers, literary criticism, philosophy. The tone is polemical and radical, condemning the current state of Romanian literature, advancing the author's views, and urging his contemporaries to take action in order to create fundamental and authentic works. Just as Eliade recalls in his diary, the articles from Cuvântul mentioned in the two folios were a whirlwind, a cavalcade meant to take local culture and erudition by surprise and to change it forever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My study aims to address the phenomenon of literary multilingualism in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel. Based on Johan Heilbron’s approach on “translations as a cultural world-system” and his classification into hyper-central, central, semi-peripheral and peripheral languages, my analysis discusses the nineteenth-century Romanian language at an early stage of its consolidation and thus in self-colonial and anti-colonial relations to the “hegemony” of the French language. Taking advantage of this framework, I consider that the majority of literary code-switching examples faithfully render these linguistic relations, so my study proposes a classification of literary multilingualism into the following possible categories: a livresque multilingualism, which satisfies the self-colonial tendencies of the nineteenth-century language, a latent multilingualism, which can also be associated with an attempt at linguistic bovarisation, but also with the search for authenticity in novels through suggestion and “explicit attribution” (Meir Sternberg), a thesistic multilingualism, in such cases where the novel didactically presents foreign language insertions, and a functional multilingualism. Finally, my paper also launches a discussion of another type of multilingualism, that as a source for “defamiliarization”, which I expect to find in the Romanian novel of the twentieth century, when the Romanian language is no longer in danger of self-colonization and passes by the incipient stage, the phenomenon of code-switching serving Viktor Shklovsky’s technique of “defamiliarization”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Opioids have been used for thousands of years for the treatment of pain. Records on papyri in Ancient Egypt reported the use of opium to relieve pain. In 1973, Candace Pert used radioactive morphine to assess its place of action and, surprisingly, found that the drug attaches to specific areas of the brain, namely on receptors called “morphine receptors”. Because animal model studies have debunked that a receptor would not be needed for the alkaloid in the Papaver somniferum plant, this finding sparked a search for the molecule that would endogenously stimulate that receptor, culminating in the discovery of “endogenous opiopeptides” or “endorphins” by John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz in 1975. Most clinically relevant opioids operate at the level of the “morphine receptor” or “μ receptors”, and are therefore considered “agonists μ”. This paper looks at opioids in an effort to better understand the side effects and drug interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Employed in the study of national or transnational literatures, the relevance of digital humanities, computational analyses, and quantitative sociology can no longer be ignored. In this paper, we aim to argue that, in spite of it still being seen as a niche endeavor, the digital or quantitative study of literature generates paradigmatic shifts in literary scholarship, both in literary criticism and comparative studies. In order to demonstrate this statement, the following study will illustrate how three core principles of digital humanities are actively shaping humanities as we know it. These principles – openness, replicability, and collaboration – challenge the way we understand the role of the literary historian and their „traditional” tasks. To consolidate this argumentation further, we will briefly present an example of how digital humanities start changing the dominant narrative in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current Euchologion contains four prayers regarding exclusively the vine and its fruit: a prayer for the planting and another for the harvesting of a vineyard, a prayer at the partaking of grapes on the sixth day of August, and one at the blessing of wine. However, besides these, the ancient Byzantine Euchologia contain a larger number of prayers with the same object, which have unfortunately fallen into disuse. The purpose of this study is to identify this kind of prayers in the ancient manuscripts of the Byzantine Rite and to present their content. In addition, a section of the paper focuses on the presence of such prayers in some Slavo-Romanian Euchologia dating from the 16th-17th centuries. The author analyses a number of seventeen prayers (with variants), most of them of non-Constantinopolitan origin, and concludes that this abundance of euchological material was a consequence of the liturgical use of wine in the Eucharist and other rites. Moreover, based on the information provided in this paper, the author proposes some textual revisions of the current prayers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusess Elif Shafak’s novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange Word in the light of scholarship developed in the sociology of death, discrimination, and social exclusion. The paper argues that Shafak’s novel constitutes a literary exploration of social problems, and especially the condition of female abuse and discrimination, in the Turkish society and the broader Muslim world. The book tells the story of Leila, a prostitute working on the streets of Istanbul, her sufferings, and her tragic end. Focusing on narrating Leila’s troubled life, Shafak engages with difficult social issues such as immigration, marginality, stigma, poverty, and sexual violence against women. The book constitutes a powerful plea for humanity, kindness, and empathy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Diagnosis of diabetes mainly involves laboratory tests, which implies a high accuracy in accordance with good laboratory practices. There is a wide range of tests that shows valuable information about the patient’s glycemic curve, nutrition, insulin resistance, metabolic products, but also about the lipid status of patients Objective: The present paper aims to highlight the importance of laboratory tests in non-insulin dependent (type II) Diabetes mellitus, but also to determine the correlations between these parameters (glycated hemoglobin, blood sugar, triglycerides, total cholesterol, LDL and HDL cholesterol, lipids) by exploring a clinical case. Discussions: For most correlations, were obtained positive values, grater than 0.5 (direct correlations the value of one parameter decreases in time and manner with another). Following the analysis of the laboratory parameters, resulted the direct relationship between the persistence of high values of glycated hemoglobin, blood sugar and LDL-cholesterol and, consequently, the treatment schedule was modified. Conclusions: From the perspective of the mentioned aspects, the study demonstrated that an extended approach in the management of diabetes mellitus is necessary, with an emphasis on personalized medicine, because the patients stand out by particularities towards to each other. The paper is also a useful teaching tool in exposing the pathology and medical approach of patients with diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an era in which literary histories are written by collective of academics trying to transcend the national paradigm in which these works were once wrote, The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 by Mihai Iovănel is an intellectual effort that may seem obsolete. Nevertheless, Mihai Iovănel’s book proposes new ways of understanding the contemporary Romanian literary field that were not taken into consideration by previous similar critical endeavours. This paper aims to investigate how The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature constructs an overview of the Romanian fiction wrote in the last three decades and the critical approaches deployed for this purpose. The main interest of this article will be how does Mihai Iovănel discusses Romanian contemporary fiction and how does he instrumentalizes the concept of realism. We will look more closely at the third part of the book, “The Evolution of Fiction,” but the discussion will not omit the relation of this chapter with others. The paper will concentrate on the concepts put forward by Mihai Iovănel to systematize the complex subfield of contemporary Romanian fiction, like capitalist realism, the famous term coined by Mark Fisher. Also, we will try to see how The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature relate to previous literary histories or books of literary criticism that resembles Mihai Iovănel’s work in some respects or that have similar goals but different methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 9 to 11 September 2015, the XXVIth National Conference of the Romanian Librarians Association (RLA) was held in Iaşi, an anniversary event which brought together over 400 librarians, teachers, specialists of the domain, managers of infodocumentary structures, students and guests from abroad. The RLA awards and distinctions were given and, within the five divisions and 13 professional sections of RLA, about 70 scientific papers and professional projects were presented, followed by debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper supports alternative medicine as well as phytotherapy, which in recent decades has seen an increase in prestige due to the fact that, on the one hand, the increasingly acute resistance to certain antibiotics or antifungal molecules and, on the other hand, the growth of the current traditionalist consumer medicine in both human and veterinary medicine. So, this paper aims to present a plant less known in Romania, but very popular in Japan, South Korea, China and the biological activity of Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei), already established in the countries mentioned above and with possible applications, as an auxiliary or supportive treatment in veterinary medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper elaborates on feminine images of the sacred. It aims to show the manner in which feminine specificities are connected to the realm of the sacred within the Eastern Christianity, the ancient Greek religion and in some forms of Hinduism. The emphasis will be placed on the commonalities, as well as the contextual dissimilarities between the different cultural and religious spaces under consideration. The aim of the present paper is to elicit a better understanding of the feminine, along with its creative manifestations, and of the unparalleled complexity of the sacred, as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the theme of the authority in the spirituality of the desert. More exactly, we will analyze the relationship between ascetic authority and ecclesiastical authority as it appears in desert monasticism. We divide this paper into two sections. Section one explores the relationships between ascetics and bishops in monastic literature. If asceticism is a sign of the spiritual status of the monk, ordination represents a locus of ecclesiastical authority (bishops and priests). Several examples from ascetic literature reveal a significant tension between the two sphere of authority. Examining each of these spheres we will understand that this tension generated a fluid and ambiguous relationship between ascetics and bishops in early ascetic tradition. Finally, we will promote a vision based on cooperation between monks and bishops. Section two examines the relationship between ascetic clothing and spiritual authority. Clothing was a visible marker of spiritual authority in late monasticism. In this sense, the most known example is Life of Antony, a popular and influential text in Late Antiquity. Focusing on the Antony's mantle, this section argues that the monk's clothing was a symbol of wisdom and ascetic authority. Building upon this premise, my purpose is to examine how the monk's mantle participated in discourse concerning spiritual authority in late ascetic tradition. With this paper, we hope to bring out the complexity of the theme of spiritual authority and to demonstrate the major importance of this theme for early monasticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to gather and provide information about a less known historical text from the beginning of the 19th century. Alexander I, Keiser von Russland. Ein Regierungs- und Karaktergemälde written by Johann Daniel Friedrich Rumpf is the less known booklet printed in Buda, in 1815. With an anonymous translator, the text represents an important analytical base to understand the cultural, political and social landscape in the Romanian time-frame of Enlightenment. The paper focuses on some important translation issues as: loans or adaptation, in a period of time when the translators had to adapt to a different context in order to use a specialized language for the economic, geographic and legal realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. Early diagnosis of congenital cerebral malformations (CCM) in children is one of the priorities of contemporary medicine, especially medical genetics and neuropediatrics. Folate metabolism and the metabolic pathway of a carbon at the molecular level are currently being studied as potential genetic risk factors with intracellular homocysteine accumulation and involvement in DNA methylation. Multiple randomized studies have shown the existence of a vital role in folic acid supplementation, in expectant mothers, from three months prior to conception and 21 days in the womb. This approach reduces the risk of MCC by 70%. The aim of this paper is to study the role of folate cycle gene polymorphisms (MTHFR677; MTHFR1298; MTR2756; MTRR66) in mothers of children with CCM. Materials and methods. The study was performed at the Medical Genetics Center of the IMSP Mother and Child Institute, during the years 2020-2022. In the investigation process, a medical-genetic consultation was used, which aimed to identify the target group, consisting of 70 women who gave birth to children with CCM. The genetic diagnosis was performed by PCR method. The statistical processing of the data obtained in the study was performed by Quanto program. Results: In the study, in the 70 mothers of children with folate-dependent MCC, certain genes involved in folic acid synthesis were investigated (folate cycle genes MTHFR677; MTHFR1298; MTR2756; MTRR66). Mutations were found in the MTHFR677 and MTR2756 genes in 21 mothers of children with folate-dependent CCM, in 44 mothers - mutations in the MTHFR1298 and MTRR66 genes, and in 5 cases a normal genotype was determined. Among the most common folate-dependent CCM detected in children in our study were: congenital hydrocephalus - 17 cases (23,4%), anencephalus - 3 cases (28.5%). Conclusions: Insufficiency of folic acid in association with genetic causes leads to the appearance of MCC in children. In this regard, it is essential to identify predisposing factors with increased risk for the development of folate-dependent CCM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The massive wave of economic migration of Transylvanians to America in the early 20th century had a considerable impact on the lives of both those who decided to temporarily leave their homeland and those who stayed home. The Transylvanian pattern of emigration, similar to the neighbouring Central and Eastern European countries can be sum up as follows: young male peasants, poorly educated, but with high hopes and determination left for America, for highly demanding physical work, but well enough remunerated in order to allow them to return home relatively soon. This paper seeks to contribute to the rich literature on emigration, by focusing on how this phenomenon influenced the villagers of Șona, a small community in the former Făgăraș County. By analysing photos, artefacts and documents that belonged to the emigrants, the Ellis Island Passenger Search Database, and by conducting interviews with their living descendants, I focus on the personal experience of migration – individual stories of migrants, their relations with their family and the community. Thus, I try to partially recreate some biographies directly connected to the experience of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper briefly presents the evolution of terminology related to heritage (natural, cultural, and digital), reviewing the key moments which led to their institutionalization at the global level, as well as to the practices of valorization of heritage and patrimony elements, focusing especially on the appearance of their third type, the digital cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will discuss how the Holy Liturgy, with an emphasis on the liturgical anaphora, has a role in the psychological healing from traumatic events. Based on principles, techniques and methods of psychotherapeutic practices, we will seek to demonstrate how the Eucharist has a psychotherapeutic role. Given that psychotherapy is not unitary, and that the treatment techniques are constantly evolving, only certain principles that are generally valid and accepted in scientific society have been addressed here. In the first part, we will examine how the comprehensive eucharistic anamnesis is a model for the individual anamnesis of the believer. Forming an anamnestic picture in which traumatic events are integrated is essential for healing. In the second part, practical techniques used in psychotherapeutic practice and how these are actually perfected in the Eucharistic liturgy will be examined. The thesis we argued is that the Church and its Liturgy is the perfect ground to heal all traumatic experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The orientation of phraseological nomination towards the human allows the reflection of everyday collective observations, experiences and evaluations of a certain (norm-deviating) behaviour or action. The paper explores the role of the linguistic image in the metaphorisation of the concept ‘Wahnsinn’/‘Verrücktheit’ in German and Romanian, in order to ask about the productive initial domains for the conceptualisation of this term, since conceptual spheres allow conclusions to be drawn about the models of thought and values anchored in the language. The interlingual analysis of this particular excerpt from the German and Romanian lexicon of phrases makes it clear that one cannot speak of serious differences in the phraseological realisation or of differing valuations and that universal and productive metaphorical patterns can be discerned in the conceptualisation of ‘Wahnsinn’/‘Verrücktheit’ in German and in Romanian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationships between journalism and sustainability are seen as interdependent and mutually beneficial. On the one hand, sustainable development also includes a free, autonomous and strong press that can support itself economically, and on the other hand, responsible journalism brings the problems of the current world to the public and it can also involve experts to talk about the solutions possible to these issues, which generates a media discourse about sustainability and resilience now and in the future. The present paper examines the conceptualization of constructive journalism, interrogating, at the same time, its normative and societal role, as well as the resistance of this alternative direction, in the current context, marked by political instability and post-pandemic economic crisis. In Romania, the DoR experience, its course, but also the announced end of this journalistic project, shows the difficulties that constructive journalism encounters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to analyse from a pragmalinguistic point of view the promise and the oath as discursive genres located at the individual level of language. We take into consideration the mechanisms by which they are constituted and the functions they update in communication. To promise and to swear are two performative verbs with semantic repercussions on the success or failure of communication. They not only have a simple role to play in "how to do things with words", but they also lead the way in fulfilling the commitments that, once verbalized, become part of the world around them. The violation of promises and oaths "flagellates" the language regarding the two verbs mentioned above because they announce exactly this judgement: the transformation of language into an act of creation. The consequences of non-compliance with this moral law may also affect the receiver: whoever commits perjury is rejected by the community they used to belong to. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an important personality of Romanian classical philology. Professor Mihaela Paraschiv is a complex personality that combines linguistic rigor with a special literary sensibility. The article lists all the fields in which this professor from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi asserted herself. I emphasize that she made important contributions of a linguistic nature, she analyzed important aspects of ancient literary works and of Italian and Romanian humanism and made numerous translations from ancient Greek and Latin for the first time in Romanian. At the same time, she carried out an exceptional didactic activity, some of her former students becoming personalities in the field of classical philology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the various forms of kitsch - aesthetic kitsch, social kitsch, tourist kitsch and kitsch-world - in the theoretical and poetic texts of A.E. Baconsky. His essays on the new poetic paradigm interrogate the forms of mimetic kitsch, seen as part of an extensive metamorphic process of aesthetic thinking throughout the '50s-'60s. The quest for a new aesthetic paradigm challenges the artistic hierarchies of modernity and puts forward unsettling simulations. In addition, Baconsky's travel notes in the Western world, fallen prey to technology and consumerism, bring to the fore alienating forms of social kitsch. The writer describes the tourist kitsch, followed by the degradation of artistic objects, all summarizing a whole tradition of souvenirs and memorabilia. Moreover, his poetic texts from Corabia lui Sebastian interrogatively stage a reified space where objects look more alive than human beings, while weak individuals read the signs of an apocalyptic world. The literature itself is mechanized and written language becomes the compressed matter of kitsch collage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the issue of trauma in terms of journalistic work. Our research methods are the questionnaire, the two focus groups, and the interview with a psychologist. This work identify the characteristics that journalists acquire in the face of critical situations, the defense mechanisms assimilated following exposure to traumatic experiences, the importance of trauma training for both experienced and aspiring journalists. The results of our research indicate that journalists have not received any training in journalism schools or newsrooms for the trauma they have been exposed to. They also felt professional, relational, and psychological risk factors. As for the protective factors, the journalists relied on family and friends. None of them received specialized help from a psychologist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media has lately become a fertile space for self-expression. The Internet is widely used for communication, generating a new way of conveying messages, sharing impressions or criticizing the negative aspects of society. Cyberlanguage is characterized by various means of enriching the vocabulary, revealing non-standard writing or lexical changes in the substance of Romanian. The present study aims at exemplifying how derivation, word formation, puns or unconventional orthography are represented in social media, especially Facebook. The corpus of the paper is mainly based on commentaries displayed on different pages belonging to Romanian journalists and collected in 2022, approaching the most significant aspects of internal politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to highlight the way Elena Vladareanu (a Romanian writer) turns a feminine experience (motherhood) into a main theme of her poetry. After following an outline that shows some significant points of view on the relation between repetition and creation, the study focuses on poems whose style is both autonomous and paradigmatic. An reflexive approach of body, connection, and disjunction is hidden in Vladareanu's poetry, by means of strategies that emphasize the mincing/hybridization of human subject and suggest the language crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Heart failure (HF) patients have palliative care (PC) needs comparable to those of cancer patients, but few receive PC. Several palliative care needs assessment tools have been used among patients with HF to identify their needs, but it is not clear which tool is the most appropriate to use, for patients with HF. Method: literature searches were conducted on systematic review articles, mixed review articles, clinical trials collected from platforms: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Medline Complete, Medline, EMBASE, Medscape, Google Scholar and SCI-hub, the websites of the instruments identified, as well as in the references and citations of the included studies. Studies were considered for review if they presented tools to assess the needs of PC for patients with HF. Results: Of the 20,300 unique articles 40 reported the use or development of screening tools specific to people diagnosed with HF and with potential PC needs. The accuracy of 46 tools was assessed in ten studies, which studies are presented; these tools varied significantly in their ability to identify HF patients with significant PC needs and included general and specific indicators for HF disease. Discussion: Of the 46 tools listed and reviewed, seven were represented by NAT: PD-HF (Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease-HF), achieving the highest percentage of appearance in the literature reviews. The middle percentage is represented by NECPAL (NECesidades Paliativas - Palliative Needs) and RADPAC (RADboud indicators for PAlliative Care Needs) tools which appear in equal numbers each. None of the instruments included in this analysis met all psychometric criteria. Conclusions: This paper provides preliminary evidence for NAT: PD-HF as a potential strategy for the identification and management of physical impairments and psychosocial problems experienced by people with HF. NAT: PD-HF has relatively wide applicability in HF populations and is used for both patient identification and identification of patient needs. Further research is needed to identify standardized screening processes that are based not only on predicting mortality and deterioration, but also on anticipating PC needs and predicting the rate and trajectory of functional decline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: This paper aims to highlight the evolution of informed consent in medical practice in general and pediatric practice in particular, as well as current international regulations on the involvement of children in decision-making. Material and methods: A literature review was conducted from Pub Med, Proquest Central, Scopus Elsevier, and Springer Link Journal databases for the period 2001 - 2022. Outcomes: Informed consent is the process by which clinical staff obtains patients' permission to perform invasive procedures. Serious discussions about the meaning and ethics of informed consent began in medicine, research, law, and philosophy only around 1972. For a pediatric patient, a natural response in medical decision making is to delegate authority to the parent or caregiver who is supervising them. In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on involving the child in decisionmaking. The principle of autonomy is essential when discussing informed consent. Leading organizations in Australia, the UK, and the US have developed recommendations on involving children in decision-making. Pediatricians should share medical information with children and their families in ways that are helpful and empowering. This information should be complete, honest, and unbiased. However, these recommendations have no specific, non-prescriptive references, which demonstrate that in practice there is very little established practice of telling children the truth. Conclusions: this subject will always remain an extremely sensitive and challenging one for professionals, who will have to use all their knowledge and skills to ensure high-quality care for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Context: Insomnia has a high prevalence in cancer patients and affects negatively the physical and mental functioning of this category of patients. Objectives: The main purpose of this paper is to assess the prevalence of sleep disorders and their impact on quality of life in cancer patients, in an oncology department from south-eastern (SE) Romania. Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional, observational study including histopathological verified cancer patients from a single centre. Participants were asked to complete The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire, Insomnia Severity Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the EORTC C-30 questionnaire. Personal, clinical and laboratory data were also collected. Results: Between February-June 2020, 43 questionnaires were completed and analysed. Poor quality sleep, estimated by the score of the PSQI, was observed in 27 (62,79%) of the participants. A statistically significant, negative correlation between global health status and both sleep quality (p=0.002) and insomnia severity index (p=,000) was obtained. Considering risk factors, lack of professional activity (p=0,014) and personal history of insomnia (p=0,02) had statistical significance. As a marker of inflammation, LDH value was in direct correlation with sleep quality. Conclusions: Poor sleep quality is a problem in cancer patients, as we determined a high prevalence rate of insomnia at more than 60%. Knowledge of the 'epidemiology' of sleep disorders among cancer patients helps in the development of guidelines in this co-pathology. Sleep knowledge in people with cancer involves teamwork between patients, doctors, nurses and researchers. Key Message: This cross sectional study investigates the prevalence of sleep quality in cancer patients. It also tries to identify risk factors and to assess the impact of sleep impairment on the quality of life. The results indicate that poor sleep quality is a prevalent problem in cancer patients, with major impact on quality of life. History of insomnia and lack of professional activity seem to possess a significant risk in developing sleep problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The importance of ethics and the compliance of the university code of ethics represents a fundamental dimension in the student's life, which offers him a new perspective of freedom but at the same time it is obliges him to know and respect this code. Along the education, a fundamental process of human life, ethics has a real role to play in the formation of the student. The code of ethics contains four categories of major standards that will underpin the student's attitudes, beliefs, and ethical behaviors. These elements include: freedom and personal autonomy, honesty and integrity, respect and tolerance and last but not least responsibility. The student, as a result of the social environment will not dissociate from the collective but will become an active part of the socio-cultural, economic, political environment and will take part in the progress and evolution of his community. This paper will address the student's perspective on the main ethical standards and will reveal how to prevent or correct any unethical attitudes, actions or behaviors. The chosen research strategy in this study was a qualitative one, namely the focus group technique was used and as a working tool it was used the interview guide. Ethics influences our way of thinking, our decisions, behaviors and actions in both personal and professional life and the fact that we are part of a global community forces us to contribute to the common good by choosing a lifestyle according to accepted ethical standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to capture the relationship between ethics and equity, by referring to the position approached by the Romanian legislator in the criminal law norms. In our opinion, the demands of fairness in the criminal process cannot be viewed outside the limits of what is considered moral, legitimate, acceptable in a controlled time and space. We will analyze the issue of the principle of equity, as a pillar of modern legal systems, following the coordinates drawn by the main ethical theories of Antiquity. Ethical theories have the attribute of being both a consequence and an essential feature of the society that formulates them: thus, we find ourselves in a position to analyze the relevance of these theories in the context of modern society. The conclusions show us that the ethics and morality of ancient societies endure and continue to produce effects in the courts, both at the European and national level, from the Constitution, to codes of ethics and to the implementing laws. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creating and promoting an ethical culture in educational institutions is as complex as it is necessary in the current context. Ethical culture in the universities is important because it influences the ethical behavior of members of the academic community and can contribute to the development of students' character. Moral values, once assumed, help us to become better human beings, with an ethical perspective on the decisions making, including respect for others, honesty, equality, etc. Studies have shown that moral standards can be improved through education. In order to educate character leaders, modern universities must ensure both access to ethical education and access to an appropriate ethical climate. The purpose of this article is to explore the framework on which ethical culture in universities is based and the tools that can contribute to its development. The paper also addresses the relationship between institutional ethical culture and ethical behavior of students after graduation. The article argues that a university that develops an ethical culture can contribute to the development of ethical and professional behaviors of graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patients with different types of labio-maxillo-palatine clefts go through a lifelong series of multidisciplinary therapeutic procedures; this “journey” sometimes begins prenatally and extends into adulthood. Presurgical orthopedic treatment (PSO) is one of the first stages of this therapeutic plan. The nasoalveolar molding technique (NAM) is a new method of approach, from the field of pre-surgical orthopedics, instituted at a very young age (infant), and aims to reduce the initial severity, the level of alveolar cleft and/or the degree of nasal deformity. This approach enables the primary surgical restore of the nostril and lip to heal beneath minimum tension, thereby reducing scar formation and enhancing the esthetic result. The NAM technique is the non-surgical, passive method of bringing the gum and lip together by redirecting natural growth forces. NAM has been shown to be an effective adjunctive therapy for reducing pain, deformity and the level of soft tissue tearing before surgery. This paper reviews the basic principles of NAM therapy, the different types of devices used in this therapy, the protocol followed and a critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of this technique. As an example, finally, we present the case of an infant with a unilateral labiomaxillary cleft, to which a NAM-type orthopedic device was applied with the aim of reducing tensions at the level of the tissues with the defect, to minimize the extent of the surgical intervention and to minimize the risk of postsurgical retractile scars. Worldwide, the authors of various studies agree on the positive outcome of NAM for better aesthetics after surgical repair of cleft lip and palate (DLP). However, what still remains, at this moment, unfounded equivocal is whether the pre-surgical reduction of the cleft sizes and the modeling manipulation of the nasal complex benefit our patients in the long term. Despite a relatively small amount of high-level evidence, NAM appears to be a promising technique that deserves further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of the lands of Botoșani comes from distant ages, with a proven history based on traces of material life which date back to ancient times. The region of Botoșani, located between the rivers Siret and Prut, has been inhabited since prehistoric times, representing a region of plains and hills with a dominant agricultural character. The main occupations of the inhabitants were agriculture and animal husbandry, occupations that ensured the existence of the native population since prehistoric times. Taking a close look at the villages in this part of the country, we enjoyed the Moldavian recipes, regionalisms and specificities. This article aims to prove that it is not our gastronomy, customs and folk traditions that need the refreshing help of today's technology but people today need, somehow, a return to the past, a return to the rediscovery of the beauty of simplicity, of taste, of meaning, of all that is beautiful. The customs and authentic recipes related to the preparation of the borscht have been lost, but to our joy, the Moldovan story of borscht still lives on through the people with faces furrowed by wind, rain, worries, gentle looks and voices, and we have to take it further. Through Romanian cuisine, through recipes of hundreds of years, written on paper, in a notebook, or told by grandparents, we manage to bring together a millennial Daco-Roman tradition, which preserves the imprint of time and civilizations. Although we are talking about gastronomy, we are talking about food ethnology that includes both material and spiritual aspects. This gastronomic ethnology presents the concept built over time, perhaps even becoming a characteristic way of life in the different circumstances of people's lives. About the preparation of the borscht, its fermentation, the 'chiup' (clay pot), 'huște' (a base made from bran) about the borscht that is considered alms, I spoke with informants from Botoșani, borscht makers who know the recipe from their parents, grandparents, and ancestors. The recipes for filling borscht or preparation with potatoes, beetroots, meatballs, giblets etc., are passed down from generation to generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 79th edition of the IFLA Conference held in Singapore was organised under the motto Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities. Hosted by the Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Centre, the conference included sessions, workshops, satellite meetings, exhibitions (library materials, audio-visual equipment, IT systems, library equipment, and published works). The official opening addresses were made by, among others Ambassador Chan Heng Chee (Are Libraries Ready for the Big Change?), Ingrid Parent, IFLA President-in- Office, Elain Ng, president of the IFLA National Committee 2013. The paper on Romanian libraries presented during the conference was Libraries Night: A Romanian Experience - an overview of the cultural activities organized by the Romanian libraries on the occasion of this event. The paper received a symbolic award from ALA. The Romanian delegation took part in sessions such as: Public Libraries (Session 137), Young Adults and Libraries: Innovation, Involvement, Self-realization (Session 140), OCLC - Industry Symposium (Session 178), Information for Development Action: Governments, Civil Society and Libraries - Government Information and Official Publication with Government Libraries (Session 221). The programme also included a cultural evening (during which the host country offers a sample of its traditions, customs, and cultural specificity), held on one of Sentosa Island beaches, visits to libraries (National Library of Singapore, Jurong Regional Library). The presence of Romanian librarians to such professional events should become a "compulsory exercise" as it proves some key directions of the Romanian librarianship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bibliography represents the "backbone" of any writing, whether it is a doctoral thesis or a simple paper. The lack of primary or elementary documents necessary to write a paper, as well as the lack of theoretical and sometimes practical documentation on a particular topic, associated with the lack of intellectual work techniques and the lack of writing skills, lead, in almost all cases, to plagiarism and non-value. The role of a reference librarian in university libraries, those whose specific users are students, master students, doctoral students, university / pre-university teachers and researchers is, first and foremost, one of training in the use and exploration of a library's resources. The future of the library is conditioned by the 3 major challenges of the moment: open access to information, intellectual property rights and interoperability. To meet these challenges, not only the role of the library needs to be carefully re-examined, but also that of librarians, who need to assess their traditional "status quo" and discover new methods of efficient communication, valorisation and dissemination of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through this scientific paper, I wanted to highlight the significant importance of knowing the phenomenon of female crime. The choice of this research topic was based on the importance that the phenomenon has acquired in the last century, because at the beginning of the emergence of criminology as a science of crime investigation, we could not talk about the analysis of crimes committed by women. they were not as serious as those committed by their male counterparts. In the first part of the paper, we analyzed some evolutionary and defining aspects of female crime, but also what are the questions that criminology should try to answer in order for the vision of the phenomenon to be completed. In the second part, the attention of the paper was focused on the brief description of the peculiarities of some crimes whose active subject is represented by a woman. Relevant data are thus described on the offenses of killing or injuring the newborn by the mother and the involvement of women in the activity of terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Arch wire’s elastic properties are important for an orthodontic appliance. The orthodontist has the possibility to choose, from the wire types, the one who fits better to a particular clinical situation. Choosing the appropriate arch wire size and alloy is important for reaching the treatment objectives. Objective: This paper objective is to evaluate orthodontists’ preferences regarding the elastic arch wires used in the alignment and finishing phases. Discussions: A questionnaire was spread among orthodontists regarding the most used elastic arch wires for dental alignment and finishing. From 70 participants that have responded to it, almost all have used round Nitinol due to its super elastic properties, for dental alignment. The rectangular Nitinol wires were used especially in the last finishing phase of orthodontic treatment. Conclusions: Round Nitinol arch wires were preferred by orthodontists due to their super elasticity and strength, qualities that ensure optimal orthodontic forces, within biological limits. Introduction: Arch wire’s elastic properties are important for an orthodontic appliance. The orthodontist has the possibility to choose, from the wire types, the one who fits better to a particular clinical situation. Choosing the appropriate arch wire size and alloy is important for reaching the treatment objectives. Objective: This paper objective is to evaluate orthodontists’ preferences regarding the elastic arch wires used in the alignment and finishing phases. Discussions: A questionnaire was spread among orthodontists regarding the most used elastic arch wires for dental alignment and finishing. From 70 participants that have responded to it, almost all have used round Nitinol due to its super elastic properties, for dental alignment. The rectangular Nitinol wires were used especially in the last finishing phase of orthodontic treatment. Conclusions: Round Nitinol arch wires were preferred by orthodontists due to their super elasticity and strength, qualities that ensure optimal orthodontic forces, within biological limits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Rawls focuses in his writings on one of the most important concepts of political thinking, more specifically on the concept of justice. He tries to conceive a new kind of theory, an ideal one, and to do that he uses two important concepts: The Original Position and the Veil of Ignorance. In this paper we will try to find out to what extent the society proposed by Rawls is moving towards an utopian one. What are the utopic elements of his theory and what can be applied in a society that is already created? How can people put themselves in the Original Position, or under the Veil of Ignorance if they are already part of this society. These are only some questions of which this paper is trying to answer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is, for the most part, an answer to Raymond Geuss's opinion about the value of John Rawls's philosophical contributions. Rawls, Geuss argued, “is not a major moral and political theorist, whose work self-evidently deserves and repays the most careful scrutiny. Rather he was a parochial figure who not only failed to advance the subject but also pointed political philosophy firmly in the wrong direction.” A similar, although more nuanced, conclusion about Rawls was also recently suggested by Katrina Forrester. My main objective in the paper is to show that such opinions are poorly argued and false (and that Rawls is, as most political philosophers think, a major, if not the greatest contemporary political philosopher – and one of the few recent thinkers comparable in scope and depth to giants in the history of political philosophy such as Plato, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau or John Stuart Mill). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an overview of the historiography that describes and investigates the components which compose the sacred spaces of Sibiu in the Middle Ages. It is well known that Sibiu had a preeminent position in the urban hierarchy of medieval Transylvania and of the south-eastern Europe. The city was attested for the first time in 1191 as an ecclesiastical center of the Transylvanian Saxons and was home to numerous places of worship and sacred sites (churches, monasteries, chapels, cemeteries, hospitals etc.). However, with the advent of the Reformation in the 16th century and the noticeable changes that occurred during the industrial age and the communist dictatorship (the 19th and 20th centuries), the medieval sacred building and their neighborhoods have been deeply transformed and medieval ecclesiastical topography became unrecognizable in modern day Sibiu. The recreation of the ecclesiastical topography and even more of the sacred spaces could be recreated through analyses and research of different type of sources from charters and town chronicles of the 16th-18th centuries to the most recent archaeological studies or papers on medieval art, architecture, or historical urban evolution. With this in mind, the study aims to provide references on the topic and establishes the main periods of the historiography and their relevant ideological and theoretical changes during over 400 hundred years of debates or research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Playfulness is seen as a harmony of two vectors: entertainment and seriousness; thus, it represents a didactic resource which deserves to be taken into consideration when teaching Romanian as a foreign language (RFL). Game component, pleasure and interactivity presupposed in didactic games, represent the premises of optimisation of educational process as long as they are attentively and efficiently exploited by the teacher, being an extremely useful didactic strategy in the framework of the lessons of Romanian as a foreign language. No matter if we see the key word of the present paper – “game” – from the literary, grammatical, semantic or pragmatic point of view, the element which links all these perspectives is the playful aspect implied by each of them. A unanimous recognition of the formative possibilities of games continues in the field of pedagogical theory, with the establishment of the optimal didactic ways of the realisation of its potential. Stemming from this observation, the present paper underlines the playful aspect of didactic activity appearing in the “didactic game”, which becomes an efficient method in teaching Romanian as a foreign language (through simulation and/or dramatisation). The role and the importance of didactic game consist in the fact that it facilitates the process of assimilation, fixation and consolidation of knowledge. At the same time, due to its formative character, it influences the development of our students. At the lessons of Romanian as a foreign language, a Russian-speaking foreign student finds a favourable environment for the development of language skills necessary to successfully integrate not only in the university circles to which he aspires, but also in the society which adopts him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the activity of printing workshops and paper mills in Sibiu, one of the oldest centres of the Romanian book publishing and journalism, reviewing the most important chronicles about the Romanians by Saxon of Transylvania authors. The Saxon of Transylvania historiography works of the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries are of great importance for the history of our country, because all of them contain references to Romanians and the Romanian territories beyond the mountains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tarsal tunnel syndrome (TTS), or tibial nerve compression at the internal malleolus level, is a frequently missed disease among clinicians, although it can be found in diabetic patients (almost half of them will develop peripheral neuropathy and related complications) and in non-diabetic patients due to the existence of tumors and anatomical accessory elments. The aim of this paper is to increase the level of awareness regarding the TTS diagnostic tools and treatments among doctors. The main source of literature review was PubMed database and the author’s personal experience. Although it is considered a rare disease, for sure underdiagnosed, left without treatment, TTS will lead to foot sensitive and motor deficits with dramatic effects on patients quality of life and survival. Patient’s history, clinical examination (positive Tinel sign, objective testing of increased sensibility threshold) and paraclinical examination (soft tissue ultrasonography and nervous conduction studies) highlight the diagnostic. The conservative and minimally invasive therapeutic methods are efficient, but limited in time, the surgical solution – tarsal tunnel decompresion – being still the elective procedure, even in critical peripheral neuropathy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]