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Food and nutrition are topics constantly covered, in various forms, in the media, both in fiction and non-fiction areas. New approaches and associations have recently emerged in the media coverage of this broad issue, with topics such as healthy eating, sustainable nutrition, various dietary trends, risks associated with nutrition or, general speaking, lifestyles, treatment and attitudes towards animals intended for consumption, environmental damage, etc. currently representing themes addressed in the media as frequently as recipes, dietary recommendations, plant cultivation and animal husbandry, as well as traditional dishes and culinary habits. This paper presents the results of a comparative study on the media coverage of nutrition in Romania and Germany. The research, based on a content analysis of online thematic press articles from the two countries, covers a period of three years (2014--2016). The main research objectives pursued in the study are identifying the most relevant aspects regarding both the content and the form of media coverage of the topic of nutrition, and making comparisons in these respects. The paper particularly discusses the similarities and differences between the two countries as regards the media construction of the issue of food as a general concern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper analyses the variability through age of some body proportions in metric and modular system, compared with conventional canons or from the art history. The subject's group include 753 males and 669 females between 18 to 65 years old from the main historical and geographical provinces of Romania. The variation of stature average values and of the 5 dimensions-modules (head length, total face length, sternum length, thorax depth, hand length) spread through 5 decades of age was assessed. The average values of the proportions of these modules for stature, among them some dimensions of the torso, have been calculated. The average values of the obtained 24 proportions have been compared by decades of age with the average values from the group and with the above mentioned canons. The harmony of the proportions has been verified by significance test (Student test, Z-score, etc.). The results show a harmonious development of the body proportions, especially in the first decades of age for both sexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Between 7 and 9 May 1999, the Pope visited Romania. The Pope's visit had a special significance for the normalization of relations between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church and the Greek Catholic Church of Romania. Being the first visit of a Pope to a majority-Orthodox country, it has attracted the attention of the international press. The paper shows some of the echoes of this historic visit from 7 to 9 May 1999. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scientific collaboration between the French and Romanian geographers has had a long and rich history of over 120 years. Over time, it has gone through more or less favorable periods, depending on the political and historical context. This paper focuses on the post-1989 era, and highlights the academic relationships between the Faculty of Geography of the University of Bucharest and universities / research centers in France, with special regard to the fields of climatology, hydrology and geomorphology. Particular attention is paid to the memory of professor Gérard Beltrando, one of the French geographers (climatologist) strongly attached to Romania and to Romanians, and who, for more than 15 years, nurtured fruitful collaborations with geographers from the University of Bucharest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper is the third study regarding the harmony of some body proportions appreciated in metric and modular system (Luca et al., 2018: 69--83; Luca et al., 2019: 39--53). The group of subjects comprises 743 males with an average age of 36.88 ± 11.88 years and 709 females with an average age of 32.74 ± 10.62 years, coming from the main historical and geographical provinces of Romania. Five dimension modules (head length, total facial height, sternum height, chest depth, hand length) were put in proportion with stature/height, between them and with three torso diameters (shoulders width, pelvis width, transverse thoracic diameter) resulting 25 proportions on which are added the indexes of shoulders width, pelvis width, and torso shape. The average values of some dimensions and of torso indexes were compared with the average national values (Z). No significant differences were observed, which confers representativeness for the group. The average values of the proportions resulted based on dimensions modules were compared with canons from the art history and with "canons" deduced by us from the anthropometric practice based on new dimension modules (sternum height, chest depth, head length). The results mostly confirm the closeness to the canons and sustain the harmonious development of the torso despite the volume fluctuations, the differences between the samples, and the possible microevolutive differences. The metric and conformative dimorphism highlighted by Student test (t), sexual dimorphism index, and Z-test illustrate a harmonious development for both sexes, a little more emphasized for males. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our paper questions the perception of the Romanians about the separation between the State and the Church in the post-communist space. We claim that the impossibility of the Romanian society to think religion in terms of individual and private choice should be placed in the large context of global power relations and should be seen as a defensive mechanism against the atomisation of communities and against global pressures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to sketch the beginnings of the Wesselényi family's career and the history of the family archives in brief. The Wesselényi family originating from Nógrád county settled in Transylvania after 1556, and from the end of the 16th century have raised from the lesser nobility to the Transylvanian aristocrats. The ascension, the growth of the authority and wealth of the family from the 16th century onwards naturally brought about the increase of the amount of the archival documents referring to the family. In what follows, we detail the inventory and status of the archives of the family from Jibou, Hodod, Dragu and Cluj according to the 1949 register of the Transylvanian National Museum Archives, an institution that used to function within the Transylvanian Museum Society (Cluj-Napoca). From a thematic point of view the documents of these archives do not differ from the other family archives: besides the documents related to the right of possession, the correspondence of the members of the family, the documents related to their office and kept by them, records of economic nature and those related to the management of the possessions were preserved in a higher number. From the period before 1542 about 300 charters have been preserved in original or in copies, and in their turn these stored the texts of about 500 documents. The archives are hardly unknown to the scholarly world, but only a few explored systematically the materials referring to the period before the 17th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to analyze the position of Romania concerning the project for European unification proposed by the French politician Aristide Briand. The Briand Project is the first project of European construction presented in official circumstances, during the meeting of the Society of Nations. The project of the European federal union focused on the political aspects, while the economic elements were subordinated to the political leaders. Romania approved the plan proposed by Briand, but issued some observations to make sure it didn't endanger the interest of its foreign policy. We will focus on the project regarding a European federal union as proposed by the famous French politician of the interwar period, but also on the reactions of Romania, taken by certain Romanian politicians, regarding this project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents Jean-Christophe Rufin and his antihero from the detective novel written in French (Le Suspendu de Conakry [The Hanging Man from Conakry]) in 2018. Aurel Timescu is born in a multiethnic family in Ceaușescu's Romania, where he lived and was formed before he went to France. Becoming a French consul by marriage (exiled in Africa), he solves the enigma of The Hanging Man from Conakry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The level of qualification, of labor productivity and, implicitly, the individual welfare of the state depend, generally, on the way how the actors from the educational services market is connected to the requirements and demands of the labour market. In the Romania economy services, the educational sector appears to be the most disputed from the public politics perspective. Retaining this aspect, I have performed a careful analysis which concern the qualities of the educational services provided by the universities of Romania and the close connections between the outputs of this sector and the labour market from Romania, as a vital part of any statal economy. The detailed analysis of the universitary educational field and the performance indicators for the providers of this kind of services (the universities) has allowed a better understanding of the instruction process in order to increase the human capital stock on the labour market. In this context, this paper aims to project a new vision of market-management which, for a Romanian university, can lead to a competitive sustainable advantage on a strong competitive market, as the international market of educational services in the university education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adoption of the new codes - the civil code, the code of civil procedure, the criminal code and the code of criminal procedure -, as well as of other legislative acts with significant impact on Romanian society, was indubitably a positive event. All the aforementioned regulatory acts contain legal rules that reflect the current (new) concept of the Romanian legislature, a concept that crystallised after observing and analysing the developments taking place also in other countries' legislation. However, the application of the new legal rules to the social relations that characterise the Romanian society (in other words, the application thereof to real life) reveals that some of the new legal provisions do not sufficiently meet the requirements imposed by the constitutional rules and principles. This is the reason why the Constitutional Court has been often asked (provoked) to rule on the constitutionality of some of the legal provisions contained in the new regulations. The present paper intends to highlight- through a summary of relevant decisions - the impact of the case-law of the Constitutional Court of Romania on private law (more specifically, on civil law and on civil procedural law). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to investigate the cultural context reflected by the largest dictionary of old Romanian lexicography, Teodor Corbea's Latin-Romanian dictionary (Dictiones Latinae cum Valachica interpretatione) written between the years 1691-1702. It was compiled in the context of a special interest in the history and culture of Greek-Latin humanism to which the most important Romanian personalities of the time (Miron Costin, Dimitrie Cantemir and Constantin Cantacuzino) contributed. The dictionary has a large number of entries on ancient culture. Similarly, this research aims to emphasize the conflict between Slavic-Byzantine culture and West-inspired humanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents Jean-Christophe Rufin and his antihero from the detective novel written in French (Le Suspendu de Conakry [The Hanging Man from Conakry]) in 2018. Aurel Timescu is born in a multiethnic family in Ceauescu's Romania, where he lived and was formed before he went to France. Becoming a French consul by marriage (exiled in Africa), he solves the enigma of The Hanging Man from Conakry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The challenges of sustainable development are now seen by a growing number of actors and modernize existing the practices to sustainable practices (mobility, housing, shopping, etc..) and it's a more valid starting point to promote the environmental governance. The modernization and development of the retail sector after the Romania jointed to European Union (1st January 2007) have provide to an emergency process of this sector under the foreign direct investment impact of our country. This paper aims the new distribution formulas of the Romanian retail activity which induce the effects to the urban configuration area of Romania and oblige the public authorities to implement the new urban marketing strategies to limit the retail networks' development out of the city following that the new types of retail stores to improve the commerce contribution focus to „the urban sustainable development and the life quality” of the Romanian cities, also. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th marks the beginning of the founding of a modern geography in Romania through the scientific and organizatoric contribution of some great personalities. Among them the French scientist Emmanuel de Martonne imposed himself through numerous scientific works connected to various geographic units in Romania (over 40 of them focus on geomorphologic topics), through the multiple ways to make the results of his research known (articles and books, conferences, work papers presented at Congresses and scientific reunions organized in Romania or in other countries, etc.), through supporting actions of the young researchers ' scientific training (including PhD thesis on topics focusing on the Romanian space). Priority directions in which he had original and long term contributions for the scientific knowledge and for the renown of the Romanian geomorphologic school are: the analysis of erosion surfaces, of terraces, of glacial and karst relief forms, etc. in different geographic units; the establishment of the origins, evolution and age of different types of relief, the formation and the evolution of the valleys network, the origins and the characteristics of depressions in the Subcarpathians and the Carpathians; the creation and the appliance of an investigation system in the relief study (based on researches, measurements, the detailed description of relevant segments for analysis, interpretations of the connections between relief and different geographic, geologic, human elements that determine evolving nuances in the relief landscape, etc.) which became a morphogenetic model of approach applied by Romanian geomorphologists; a prodigious didactic activity (at Cluj University), but also of scientific coordination (based, mainly, on research) of many Romanian geographer generations who elaborated geomorphologic complex studies afterwards; the imposal of the field trip as a main comparative analysis tool and of debate for geographic issues, etc. All these are arguments meant to strengthen his position of founder and leader of the Romanian Geomorphological School. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public function in Romania and other European Union member states or aspiring to that status, represents a fundamental institution of the state of law. The Romanian Constitution devotes a statutory scheme for the public function and one of contractual type for employees. The applicable regulations for the civil servants is represented either by the General Statute, adopted by Law no. 188/1999 or by specific statutes for categories of the civil servants working for the certain public services. It enshrines, for the civil servants, a career system, in which is recognized the right of all persons who have Romanian citizenship and residence in Romania to be recruited in public office, usually based on a competition. Although the law does not expressly enshrines, it is recognized implicitly the right to career for the civil servants in Romania and is regulating the procedural and institutional means of guaranteeing the type of right subject to an analysis in this paper. The European integration imposes political, economical and social requirements for the segment of the public functions of the states. One of these many rigors is the tangential element between quality of the training and the performance career of the civil servants in these community formations. Scattered initiatives specific to the activities of the states administrations at different levels are sensitive, also, are involved in our countries through skills and structures of these accession processes. In this context, it is necessary to develop a valid and legal support and appropriate ad-hoc curriculum, having rigorous compliance with the recognized international standards, but adapted to the new realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to describe the manner in which the Transylvanian Saxons were presented in four Romanian local newspapers of Braşov between 1 June 2005 and 31 June 2008. The analysis focuses on whether the newspapers wrote about the German minority in a positive, negative or neutral manner, in the articles that are relevant for the purposes of this paper. The analyzed newspapers are all local Romanian newspapers of Braşov: Monitorul Expres, Transilvania Expres, Bunã ziua Braşov and Gazeta de Transilvania. The study starts from one scientific question and leads to four hypotheses. 201 articles, published between 1 June 2005 and 31 June 2008, have been selected and included in the code sheet. The data have been evaluated with the help of the SPSS statistical software. A total of 739 references have been evaluated. 16 references were positive, 723 neutral and not a single one was negative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper offers a critical overview of results of late or current researches about the male friaries of the Mendicant Orders in Transylvania during the Middle Ages (13th – 16th c.) from five angles that have been recently explored mainly by French, Italian, German and English medievalists: 1) the geography and topography of the Mendicant friaries of Transylvania, 2) the material running and economy of these friaries, 3) their influence on society and lay piety, 4) the impact of the Observance-trend, 5) the use and signification of images. Finally, it raises the issue of the hypothetical “Transylvanian exception”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preliminaries to a Study of the Genera of the Print Media. Towards some Criteria for an Operational Typology. This paper presents the theoretical background and working hypotheses that constitute the starting point of a study on the genera of French and Romanian general-interest press. Based on research conducted by the French School of Discourse Analysis and on communicative and linguistic analysis of journalistic text, we start by approaching the difficulty of defining the print media genus and of setting up a unitary typology. We subsequently put forward the idea of complementarity between the pragmatic-discoursive perspective and the textual and enunciative one, in choosing pertinent criteria for the study of print media. In the end, we suggest a draft of operational typology useful for the analysis of generic construction of media events. We also present some examples of cross-cultural variations and introduce the definitional criteria of media genus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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What do autocephaly and autocephalous Church mean? By autocephalous Church we understand "the administrative and jurisdictional independence of an Orthodox ecclesiastical unit, constituted on synodical grounds, of another unit constituted the same way, within the Ecumenical Orthodoxy". In the case of the Romanian Orthodox Church, it is about its independence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, which took place in 1885. The formal recognition of the Autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church on the 25th of April of 1885 was a huge step towards a new stage of prestige in its history, its raising to Patriarchate, which took place in 1925, with its first Patriarch, Miron Cristea (1925-1939); both clergy and faithful people contributed, at the same time, to the accomplishment of these two events in the life of our Church, as it is stated in the present paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hydrology is one of the various fields where the remote sensing and GIS are very useful for solving different practical problems. This paper presents an application of informations acquisitioned by remote sensing and of GIS techniques in regionalization of the annual peak discharges of catchments in Carpathian Curvature area (Romania). The multiple-regression procedure was the applied as regionalization method. The remote sensing and GIS has been used for obtain the variables of the regression models (physiographic characteristics of catchments): area, mean elevation, mean slope, index of form, mean annual precipitation, proportion of forest, and proportion of croplands. The two last variables were determined from the Eurasia Land Cover Database (EDC), with 1 km nominal spatial resolution, and based on 1 km AVHRR data spanning April 1992 through March 1993. We used the classification of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme's (IGBP) containing 17 land cover classes. The obtained regression models can be used to estimate the annual peak discharges with different interval of recurrence in the study area, from catchments no-gauged or from catchments where the measured data have not a good quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stemmed from the theoretical background of cultural pragmatics and ethnopragmatics, our paper seeks to find underlying connections between the Romanian ways of speaking (i.e. the Romanian pragmatic types of speaking and self-expression) and the mentality of the speakers themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Of all 8 ministers of France in Bucharest between 1880 and 1916, the name of Camille Blondel is the most known. It couldn't be different. The French diplomat succeeded, during his mission in Bucharest, to contribute to a rapprochement between Romania and France at the beginning of XX century. In this paper, we have been looking to surprise aspects of his activity in Romanian Old Kingdom before the outbreak of First World War and after 1914. During the period of Romania's neutrality he had intense activity until May 1916, when he was suddenly replaced. He didn't leave Romania, preferring to stay and withdraw to Iai along with the Romanian administration at the end of 1916. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the important role played by French geographer Emmanuel de Martonne in the process of drawing the western border of Romania, taking into account the separation between the Romanian and Hungarian ethnic units. The border was drawn following the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) and is still in place today. A good connoisseur of the Romanian status quo, which he researched in the field, Emmanuel de Martonne supported the union of Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania in the geopolitical context of the First World War, as well as Romania's joining the War on the side of the Allies. Through his activity, but also through his friendship and devotion to Romania and to the Romanian people, Emmanuel de Martonne led the way to a long and fruitful cooperation between French and Romanian geographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents Mircea Eliade's correspondence during his exile with Jewish friends and acquaintances, some gone abroad, others remained in communist Romania: Peretz Reiter, Lucian Boz, Mircea Lungu, Miron Grindea, Ionel Jianu, Sergiu Dan, Edgar Papu, Nicolae Steinhardt. The impressive number of letters to Mircea Eliade proves that his Jewish friends and acquaintances in interwar Romania admired him and did not perceive him as an intolerant nationalist, thus clarifying the unsubstantiated allegations about his antisemitism. The letters are also human documents of several elite intellectuals who had their destiny torn apart by the advent of the communist regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to conduct an investigation on political modernisation in Romania at the beginning of the XXth century, in order to fred explanations for the „,doctrinaire slippage” of Romanian democracy, regarding the ideas of Democracy, Nation and Revolution. My purpose is to analise the way a historical debate on issues so closed to western values degenerated, and finally allowed the establishment of an authoritarian regime, just before the World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SPORT OCUPPIED A CENTRAL PLACE DURING THE COMMUNISM. THIS ARTICLE COMES TO EXPLAIN HOW THE COMMUNIST REGIME IMPOSED A NEW VISION UPON ROMANIAN SPORT AND IDEA OF A HERO. THIS PAPER PRESENTS THE WAY HOW THE ROMANIAN SPORT DEVELOPED AND OBSERVES THE PROCESS OF HEROIZATION, WHICH TRANSFORMS THE SPORT CHAMPIONS INTO HEROES OF A NATION. THE INTERNATIONALIST PERIOD OF ROMANIAN COMMUNISM DOESN'T MAKE ANY EXCEPTION. IN THIS CONTEXT, THE SPORT STARS WHO COME FROM THE ETHNIC OR NATIONAL MINORITIES DOMINATED THE LANDSCAPE OF SPORT PERFORMERS BETWEEN 1945 AND 1965. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is being born Romanian really a futility? In this paper we shall try to examine a part of the dark vision, often daunting, of Emil Cioran on the history of a "quiet, calm, fellow and sinner" people. This is a picture full of color, but biting at the same time, of a minor nation whose rhythm of life is living in the harmonies of the unforgettable ballad of resignation - Miorita... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper investigates the Archives of the Cluj Folklore Society, hosted by the Faculty of Letters of Babeş-Bolyai University between 1958 and 1993. The study focuses on the collections included in the archives and on their situation in the ideological, epistemological, and methodological context of ethnological studies in communist Romania and in the years immediately following the fall of Ceauşescu's regime. During the three and a half decades in question, the field of folklore and then that of ethnology were constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed several times. The mutations experienced by the ACFS are essentially those of Romanian ethnological studies during the communist and post-communist periods, a period little investigated so far from the vantage point of the history of this discipline and which remains, therefore, a topic that requires further explorations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]