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The paper is concerned with a set of indicators that can measure the environmental quality of urban life. Craiova has largely expanded in the last decades, which has generated a range of land management and dwelling problems. This type of rapid development is interfering with the quality of citizens' life, as well as the efficient use of resources of urban environment. In this respect, the paper will try to develop a methodology by using geographical information systems to evaluate the environmental quality and its variation across the Craiova area. The use of this methodology will enable us to cope with some of the specific problems raised by the urban development of the city through a computer distribution of available data, but also a useful tool for local authorities for better urban planning [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tradition-brands are cultural constructs launched in Romania around the year 2000, which bring into play a repertoire of conventions and “myths” shared nationwide and proposed to the market, increasingly and more intensely in the late years, by large-scale industrial operators, who in this manner simulate and menace small-scale producers (those actually in the right to claim this tradition as their own). Previous work in the anthropology of consumption has theorized that commercial communication associated with tradition-brands represents a space of negotiation between the Big Industry and traditionalist consumers. The present paper resumes, after more than a decade, the previous thesis, with Mark Fisher's conflict theory tools. In this perspective, traditional brands are forms of Big Industry colonization and naturalization of artisan culture. The case analysis of the Matache Măcelaruʼ charcuterie brand reveals multiple levels of realist-capitalist processing of the commercial message. The key understanding of Fisher's theory of consumerism as a sensitive interface between the capitalist system and the public leads to sharp conclusions about the alienation and disintegration of social actors (consumers, small artisans and merchants) and about the removal of small businesses from the current economic landscape. The possibility of a breach in capitalist totalitarianism lies, hypothetically, in the Romanian public's inertia towards globalization. A conscious reaction is also needed, which arises from civic initiatives regarding the realization of a short producer-consumer chain. [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 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 analyses the manifesting of Romania’s independence from Moscow in 1968, based on diplomatic documents from the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium. Romania’s dialogue with Moscow, Prague, Belgrade and Paris are presented in this article. The article proves that beyond the political regime, the national interest of Romania was permanent and it has manifested itself when it had this chance. It was an act of courage, openness and prestige. It was a risky move, but Romania managed to avoid a Soviet invasion. Internally, however, the Bucharest regime did not embark on the path of reforms, but of neo-Stalinism, the cult of personality and communist ideological correctness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More and more local public authorities are aware of the role of communication, information, administrative transparency and public involvement in the decision-making process. The need and desire to make publicly known local issues is increasingly part of the strategy of promoting the activity of local public administration. Democracy in the true sense of the word is impossible today without the implementation of effective communication and information techniques, which are the cornerstones of both public relations theory and practice. The role of communication itself in the administration has long been recognized and emphasized in the literature, to the point where it has been said that “it is obvious that without communication no organization can exist” (Laxmiksnth, 2002, p. 167). All the more so now that new communication and information techniques are being put into operation, an integral part of the reforming nature of changes in public administration everywhere. Through this paper we have tried to analyze the impact and importance of public relations procedures in shaping the perception and attitude of citizens towards public activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the recent years, cyberspace has become an incubator for feminist activism. Cyberfeminism has gained momentum through various online platforms, campaigns, movements, and galvanized women (and – to a certain extent – men) to “move beyond the hashtag” and engage in actions meant to drive socio-political change. The Women’s March on Washington in January 2016, for instance, was triggered by a Facebook post, and turned into an unprecedented women’s activism action, replicating across the globe. A more recent movement, #MeToo, has emerged into cyberspace and raised issues of credibility, as it tapped into a culture of gender inequality and power relations that created and fostered an environment of intimidation and silence. The unprecedented wave of sexual harassment allegations brought to surface countless confessions from regular women and celebrities who have been pivotal in raising awareness on this issue. However, this cyberfeminist movement also intensified the cyberbullying phenomenon, as the mechanisms of storytelling engaged in #MeToo have not only generated a wave of gendered solidarity, but also one of trivializing – even bashing – such stories, and the individuals who reported previous incidents on social media. This paper analyzes the emergence and development of the #MeToo movement in Romania in the fall of 2017, focusing on storytelling mechanisms employed on Facebook and effects on user behavior, an assessment of social media users’ navigation of the phenomenon, in terms of solidarity networks and bullying generated by Romanian women’s tackling of a cultural taboo. Keywords: #MeToo, Romania, feminism, social media, sexual harassment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication represents a basic concept of human existence accompanying each person in all aspects of his life from the beginning to the end. Regarding the political communication and the media, these are new concepts which over time have adapted political regimes requirements either democratic or not. If we want to talk about the media in the true sense of the word, this exists only in democratic societies where the right to free expression represents a guaranteed right. In this paper I tried to highlight the evolution that the media had in the first post-communist years in Romania and how this free expression had to adapt moving from a totalitarian regime to a democratic one. What is most important is the fact that in Romania, the media has managed to evolve despite all the obstacles created of the difficult transition to democracy that our country has had. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although enjoying a history that spans more than 160 years, Romanian student media have not been researched extensively at all. The few existing studies combine a monographic approach to the phenomenon with various oral histories, as one particular way to reconstruct a past that has been frequently neglected. The present paper is an attempt to analyse student media outlets by showcasing its identification either as a pedagogical tool or as a form of alternative press, with a particular emphasis on the current Romanian student media outlets. In order to fulfil our two-folded objective (to extract both quantitative and qualitative data), we used qualitative survey research. The main results reveal that print projects (a total of 15) are still the most numerous among student media outlets, followed by six online journalistic projects, five radio stations and four TV stations. Generally, these serve as pedagogical tools due to the co-optation in the editorial teams of professors who act as supervisors and mentors. In comparison to the student reviews from the communist period or previous, the (self-) identification with alternative media is, with few notable exceptions, rather weak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first official modern diplomatic contacts between Bucharest and Kyiv date back to the beginning of the 20th century, when the young Ukrainian state, which had proclaimed its independence from Russian Empire, was making sustained efforts to establish diplomatic relations with other countries in the world. The events which occurred between 1917 and 1923 represent a special stage in the Romanian-Ukrainian relations. During that period, both sides made numerous attempts to establish diplomatic relations. The paper describes the activity of the Ukrainian diplomatic missions in Romania during the period mentioned above, highlighting the Extraordinary Diplomatic Mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Bucharest, led by professor Constantin Matievici. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is the result of the approach and theoretical research of two aspects of the Romanian administrative framework: the reality - which is intended to focus on the historical evolution of the governmental reforms related to administrative capacity and the issues that appeared, and perspectives - Romania’s political possibilities to improve its administrative capacity. The study of the literature offered a good insight into the ongoing administrative reform based on regionalization and decentralization, about the current situation in Romania and it also signaled the lack of concrete steps made in the reform process. The questionnaires sent to several institutions demonstrated that there are different approaches concerning regionalization, but generally the regionalization is considered the most suitable solution for the country's needs. Thus, the paper argues that Romania has to solve a „multilemma” in this regard, because there are plenty of administrative reform proposals, but this multitude seems to slow down the decision and, therefore, the change. To speed up the course of actions, the paper is proposing a plan for Romania’s regionalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the Romanian literature in the postcommunist period, in the context of cultural memory studies, as developed in the past two decades. Given that the connection between literature and cultural memory is now being widely discussed, I shall focus on the relation between literary fiction and the many-sided process of remembering communism in today's Romania. The first part of the paper briefly presents literature as a medium of cultural memory, following the ideas of Aleida Assmann and Astrid Erll. The second part of the paper deals with the hardships of remembering in a postcommunist society, with a very strenuous relation toward the past, and in its literature. My thesis is that Romanian literature in the years 2000 participates in the construction of a unitary, although not univocal, memory of communism. In the novels of Dan Lungu (I'm an Old Communist Hag!, 2007), Filip Florian (Little Fingers, 2005), Doru Pop (A Socialist Soap Opera, 2013), individual and collective memories are put to trial and, in the process, reveal to the reader how the complicated works of memory are embodied in literary texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Romanian public and private (or non-governmental) organizations developed multiple forms of collaboration in the last two decades, none of these joint projects/programs/actions or activities took the form of a legally established public-private partnership (PPP). This policy failure becomes even more problematic considering that the initial legal framework for PPPs was developed and enacted since 2010 (Law no. 178/2010) and both public institutions as well as private or non-governmental organizations often showed openness to such partnerships (at least at a declarative level). Although a new legislation was adopted at the end of 2016 (namely Law no. 233/2016), looking back at the previous legislation can shed some light on this less than successful attempt at reforming and innovating Romanian public administration and the provision of public services. Going beyond a simple review of the theoretical underpinnings of PPPs, this paper analyzes specific administrative developments in Romania as well as the previous legislative approach set to provide legal foundations and backgrounds for public-private partnerships, while also taking into account similar developments at the European level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the Early Iron Age discoveries resulted in the archaeological excavations carried out in the year 2000 at the Niculiţel-Cornet site. During this campaign, 126 archaeological complexes were researched (most of them being deposit pits) and a considerably large quantity of pottery, clay objects, a bronze bracelet, animal and stone hard materials were discovered, which are here analyzed. Lacking the proper objects that could give us a more precise chronology, the settlement from Niculiţel-Cornet can be largely dated between the 10th-9th c. BC. Until now we have only one carbon dating extracted from the Cas-7 complex, which indicates a dating of 2730± 35 BP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a survey of the Romanian bibliographies of the history of medicine, from the end of the 19th century to present days. We start by underlining the fact that the history of medicine never had a bibliography of its own, because, finding itself at the border of the historians and the medicines interest, each guild was attracted only by parts of it. As a result, despite the numerous initiatives of gathering the medical history writings, there is no complete reference work yet published. There are periods almost exhaustively covered thanks to the complementarity of the medical and the historical bibliographies, but there are also many "white spots". The conclusions of our paper point out the need for a stand-alone bibliography of the history of medicine in Romania, a bibliography at the border of both historical and medical reference works, capable of filling a historiographical gap and to offer the historians of medicine a solid research tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper is concerned with the clay cauldrons discovered during 2012 in a medieval settlement found in the area of Miercurea Băi - Cunţa (Sibiu County) and conventionally named MS I. From some houses and annexes and also from some pits a relatively high number of clay cauldrons' fragments were retrieved, from which 110 exemplars can be considered as belonging to distinct vessels. From the analyzed cauldrons only a few have ornaments and only one displays a sign on the rim, between the two orifices of the ear. The analogies with the items found in the adjacent territories (Hungary, Slovakia), but also with those found in other Transylvanian sites, led us to date the lot from Miercurea Băi - Cunţa in the 11th-13th Centuries. This dating can be narrowed only considering the other items discovered in the same site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the EIA finds of the archaeological survey conducted in 1988 at Niculiţel-Cornet. On this occasion, 67 archaeological structures were investigated (mostly pits) and a rather large quantity of pottery was recovered, along with artifacts made of clay, hard animal materials or stone, which are analyzed below. In the absence of artifacts indicatory of precise dating as well as of possible 14C data, the settlement at Niculiţel-Cornet could be broadly dated to 10th-9th century BC, more likely in the first half of this period, considering the high incidence of decoration on vessels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Romania and other East-European countries, post-communism is either seen as a period of voluntary oblivion, or, on the contrary, as a time of directional recollection, imposed by the canon of critically remembering „bad” communism as opposed to a nostalgia-filled „good” one. Trying to move past this false distinction, the first part of this paper briefly analyses the various types of recollecting life and socialization in communism, such as biographical, generational, historical or artistically reshaped memories. The second part discusses Jan and Aleida Assmann's model of collective memory and seeks to investigate the critical function of literature with regard to cultural memory, pleading for a political and aesthetical approach to contemporary Romanian fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a synthesis of more than 10 years of research in Timiș County. Research started in 1999 and continued with some periods of interruption until 2015. The research was comprised of more than 1000 entries in a database of more than 100 toponyms and resulted in the knowledge that the area hosted 45 species of dragonflies. From these 45 species, nine are of more interest, being species of conservation interest (Natura 2000 species) (Coenagrion ornatum, Gomphus flavipes and Ophiogomphus cecilia) or rarer species in romanian fauna (Lestes parvidens, Coenagrion scitulum, Anax parthenope, Somatochlora meridionalis, Sympetrum depressiusculum and Sympetrum pedemontanum) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizational culture is a very important topic for both the organization management and the academic research. This paper tries to analyze the existing literature on organizational culture in Romania. The objective is to see how popular the topic is among Romanian researchers, which theoretical approaches and methodology they use and how similar the conclusions they reached are. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we had done an extensive analysis of the arrears recorded by corporate taxpayers. Our research is concentrated on the structure of taxes, including social security contribution due to the Social Security Budget and contributions to the Health Insurance Budget. We consider that an extended analysis of the structure and collection of arrears will generate more resources to the public budget. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE PAPER AIMS AT PRESENTING ASPECTS CONCERNING THE TRANSORMATIONS OF MIGRATION IN THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY, NEVERTHELESS WITHOUT PRETENDING TO EXHAUST THE SUBJECT MATTER AT ALL THE LEVELS: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL OR DEMOGRAPHIC. I INTEND TO FOCUS ON THE SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES UPON ROMANIANS' LIFE QUALITY AND THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF PARENTS' MOBILITY ON THOSE WHO REMAIN AT HOME. AT THE END OF 2014, ROMANIA IS CHRACTERIZED THROUGH GREAT OUTBOUND MIGRATORY FLUX (ESTIMATES CONSIDER 3 MILLION PEPLE). WE ARE A COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND TRANSIT IN THE MIGRATION DOMAIN, WITH OVER 15% CITIZENS MIGRATED ABROAD. THE ROMANIAN EMIGRANTS HAVE CHOSEN FOR THEIR DESTINATION ITALY (43%) AND SPAIN (30%), BETWEEN 18 AND 39 OF AGE. SPEAKING OF THE REGIONS WITH THE MOST EMIGRANTS, NORTH-EAST, SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH ARE REPRESENTATIVE. HERE POVERTY IS TO BE FOUND AND THE POPULATION IS OLD. PIB IS MUCH UNDER THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. THE MAIN REASON IS THE MASSIVE MIGRATION FROM THE ROMANIAN RURAL REGIONS TOWARDS OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES. IN THESE REGIONS, THE HEALTH SYSTEM AS WELL AS EDUCATION SYSTEM SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF TRAINED INDIVIDUALS WHO PREFER WORKING ABROAD IN THE SAME DOMAINS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE PAPER AIMS AT PRESENTING ASPECTS CONCERNING THE TRANSORMATIONS OF MIGRATION IN THE ROMANIAN SOCIETY, NEVERTHELESS WITHOUT PRETENDING TO EXHAUST THE SUBJECT MATTER AT ALL THE LEVELS: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL OR DEMOGRAPHIC. I INTEND TO FOCUS ON THE SOCIAL, DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES UPON ROMANIANS' LIFE QUALITY AND THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF PARENTS' MOBILITY ON THOSE WHO REMAIN AT HOME. AT THE END OF 2014, ROMANIA IS CHRACTERIZED THROUGH GREAT OUTBOUND MIGRATORY FLUX (ESTIMATES CONSIDER 3 MILLION PEPLE). WE ARE A COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND TRANSIT IN THE MIGRATION DOMAIN, WITH OVER 15% CITIZENS MIGRATED ABROAD. THE ROMANIAN EMIGRANTS HAVE CHOSEN FOR THEIR DESTINATION ITALY (43%) AND SPAIN (30%), BETWEEN 18 AND 39 OF AGE. SPEAKING OF THE REGIONS WITH THE MOST EMIGRANTS, NORTH-EAST, SOUTH-EAST AND SOUTH ARE REPRESENTATIVE. HERE POVERTY IS TO BE FOUND AND THE POPULATION IS OLD. PIB IS MUCH UNDER THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. THE MAIN REASON IS THE MASSIVE MIGRATION FROM THE ROMANIAN RURAL REGIONS TOWARDS OTHER FOREIGN COUNTRIES. IN THESE REGIONS, THE HEALTH SYSTEM AS WELL AS EDUCATION SYSTEM SUFFER BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF TRAINED INDIVIDUALS WHO PREFER WORKING ABROAD IN THE SAME DOMAINS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, Romania has one of the best legislative systems regarding child protection in Europe; however, Romania has the largest number of children in the special protection system and, moreover, in residential type services. What is the source of these contradictory aspects? To understand the situation in the Romanian system, we believe it is necessary to make a short bird's eye historical view. Consequently, in the paper below we review the main events that influenced this system covering the interval 1966-2014. To facilitate this overview, we divide this period into five stages (Greenwell 2001, 2003; Gaetan, 2005): the massive institutionalisation stage (1966- 1989); the quick, contradictory, uncoordinated stage (1990-1996); the decentralisation stage (1997-2000); the institutional reorganisation and balance stage (2001-2004) and the legislative harmonisation stage (2004-until now). For a holistic, documented presentation, we analyse briefly these important stages of child protection in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increase in the use of quality-driven approaches in healthcare is imposing new challenges for healthcare professionals and patients, as well. Despite the fact that diverse models are available, dental care has a long road ahead of benefitting from implementing quality management standards and procedures while providing dental care to patients. In this study, we explored the perceptions and practices of Romanian dentists with regards to patients' participation in the delivery of dental care, by using a quality management approach. We surveyed 1.239 Romanian dentists, of whom 120 returned the completed surveys (a response rate of 9.68%). The survey assessed their knowledge of, attitudes about and practice of quality management. For the purpose of this paper, we analyzed those questions which required dentists to assess patients' involvement in the quality assurance process. Almost half of the participants (45.4%) have been working for between 11 and 20 years. 89.8% of them have managerial roles in their dental offices. Although only 32.5% of the dentists have taken part in a Continuous Medical Education course, most of them see in patients an active partner in assuring and improving quality. However, dentists identify the lack of quality management and poor regulation of quality as being main barriers for which so few dentists are implementing quality management systems (40% of our respondents). Our data suggest that, despite dentists' availability to implement quality management principles and involve patients in the process, an improved framework is needed to transform availability into daily practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To evaluate the performance of health care systems and their impact on the health of the population, several types of measurements were used, of which we quote: assessing the economic efficiency, medical efficiency, social acceptability or organizational structure assessment. Regular assessments are focused mainly on measuring the results of the hospital activities, of the various categories of physicians, especially family physicians, of the health system as a whole, in terms of numbers and types of services provided, and less on health impact assessment. Within this context, the concept of „avoidable deaths‟ has been introduced. This paper aims at highlighting the avoidable deaths tendency in Romania, based on their assessment for two years, 2002 and 2007, and based on the list of diseases used by Leveque, A, Humblet, PC Lagasse, R. in the atlas made for Belgium.(1) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to achieve an analysis of the measures taken at the secondary level of education in the first decade of interwar period, underlining that despite the economic, social and political difficulties faced by Romania after World War I, education and culture were seen as tools that grind humanity and create the pillars of the society. This study emphasizes the interest of the legislative power to promote education in order to raise the cultural level of the masses, focusing on the main movements made toward the adoption of fundamental laws that organize studies in secondary schools. Therefore, it examines educational policy in terms of renewal and modernization at the secondary level of education, marking initiatives that advocated the role of schools in shaping the masses and the importance of educational reform in the general welfare of the Romanian society. Overall, it became obvious that in the search for adequate material, social, financial, economic or agricultural solutions, the consolidation can be accomplished only by a deep moral reform, reform which cannot be achieved other way than by school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is based on an exploratory analysis of civil service training needs at the level of local public institutions in the Northern-Western Region of Romania. The present study attempts not only to highlight the main elements and factors impacting on the training needs and training systems in various public institutions, but also to outline the real image of the training process and its development needs. In addition to that, this study will show that one of the main objectives of the annual performance measurement of public civil servants is to identify their training needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The long Romanian transition period created a stagnation of the civil society. The paper presents some considerations regarding the role of civil society, focusing on the relationship with urban planning and also analyzing some possible solutions for improving its role with the aim of revigorating the Romanian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The communitarian model of Multi-Level Governance has become the EU model of territorial policies governance. This paper aims to show that the characteristics of the Multi-Level Governance model are currently emerging in Romania. Such a system is based on principles that strive to increase the number of decision-makers, as well as to make both the governing levels and the processes of institutional coordination more effective. The article starts by defining the concept of Multi-Level Governance and by outlining the major characteristics of the model; it is followed by a discussion of different patterns of multi-level governance in the EU new member states. The last section describes and analyzes the Romanian reforms process which strives to rearrange the division of public competencies among several tiers of the government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, Romania has one of the best legislative systems regarding child protection in Europe; however, Romania has the largest number of children in the special protection system and, moreover, in residential type services. What is the source of these contradictory aspects? To understand the situation in the Romanian system, we believe it is necessary to make a short bird's eye historical view. Consequently, in the paper below we review the main events that influenced this system covering the interval 1966-2014. To facilitate this overview, we divide this period into five stages (Greenwell 2001, 2003; Gaetan, 2005): the massive institutionalisation stage (1966-1989); the quick, contradictory, uncoordinated stage (1990-1996); the decentralisation stage (1997-2000); the institutional reorganisation and balance stage (2001-2004) and the legislative harmonisation stage (2004-until now). For a holistic, documented presentation, we analyse briefly these important stages of child protection in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the study of press articles from Oradea from the interwar period and otherdocuments, we aimed to identify new information for better knowledge of the details concerningthe presence of Water Polo Team representing Romania at the first edition of the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, 1926. Following the documentation, the paper completes our knowledge about the steps takento ensure the registration and presence of the Romanian delegation at the continental swimming championships, the causes that led to the withdrawal of the team from the competition and the friendly matches with the second league teams from Hungary and Budapest Beszkár team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Assuming that demographic evolutions differ between regions and counties of the country, this study aimed at determining the demographic change in these levels during 1990-2030, using a methodology developed in a European study. The main results show rates of aging and population decrease between counties and between different regions of the country in the past, in the future, as well as between the previous and next period. One of the most affected districts in terms of aging and reducing the number of people has been and will be Tulcea County. The extent and type of demographic changes measured in this paper for each county/region together with analyses of factors that may influence demographic evolutions such as fertility, mortality, migration can form a basis of information for health service planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, alcohol addiction has the largest expansion in all population groups, as recognized by the experts in various fields as a true "pandemic toxic". Alcohol and drugs are the main causes for the increase of the crime rate. Statistics show that alcohol consumption is correlated with 50% of suicide cases, 80% of crimes, 30% of serious traffic accidents and 15% of drowning cases. The paper aims at providing an insight into the level and trend of alcohol consumption in Europe and Romania based on the statistics of the last decade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most frequent genetic disease with autosomal-recessive transmission in the Caucasian populations. This disorder is produced by the defects of a chloride ion transporter, named Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR). This paper summarizes the research performed in Romania on the mutations in the CFTR gene. The profile of these mutations is now identified; the most frequent mutation is F508del, which was detected in about 54% of the chromosomes from CF patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Very often, the formation of the national elites in Eastern Europe involved an exacerbation of the exclusivism on the account of ethno-confessional criteria. For a long time, the Jewish elites from Romania were banned from occupying a leading institutional position. What was the role of the universities in this respect? Did they contributed to the exclusionary process or, on the contrary, were they the channels through which the Jewish world and their elites could integrate from social and cultural point of view? This topic is only at an incipient phase and the research papers concerned with putting together plain facts are almost nonexistent. Consequently, by choosing the case study of Jasy University - the oldest Romanian university and the place where during the interwar period a strong anti-Semitic movement developed - in the present study we account for the presence of the Jews among the university staff while, in parallel, try to restitute the main lines of the institutional development that served as a background for this phenomenon. The preliminary results of this study show that in the last decade of the 19th century and up to the end of the 30's of the 20th century, a number of almost 40 university staff shared a Jewish confessional belonging. The dynamics are uneven as well as the status of these people. Among them, only one succeeded to be appointed as full professor. For a decade or even longer, the majority of the Jewish staff occupied positions at the bottom of the hierarchy or stood in, so called, "in expectation" positions. At the beginning of the 30's they will be entirely excluded from the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]