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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]

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]

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]

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]

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 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]

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]

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]

The present paper endeavors to raise the issue of feminine presence within a larger community of writers, having as a point of departure the particular situation represented by a Romanian literary circle that operated between the two world wars (i.e. "Sburătorul" circle, 1919-1943), and was lead by E. Lovinescu's reputed figure. In his turn, the mentor of this group fashioned himself as the most prominent and authoritative Romanian critic who, making use of this quality, undertook the project to sketch a gallery of female portraits corresponding chiefly to "Sburătorul" women writers. What draws the attention from the first instance is the manner of portraiture with respect to feminine profiles; the critic would not count on singularity as a main trait of artistic temper, but he would rather interlace a series of variations on a privileged core theme, that is, the anonymous personality. By carrying through a detailed analysis on the various forms of indeterminacy, we try to establish that anonymity is a question connected to the general democratization of art in modern times (just anyone can become a writer), shadowed, on the other side, by the complementary notion of genius styled in a Romantic vein. [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 Harghita Mountains is not a simple mountain range in the Carpathians. It is also a symbolic place of identity, created by the transylvanism, the interwar literary movement of the Hungarian minority in Romania, and strengthened later by the communist reorganization of the count. Our paper analyses its various aspects in a novel by Áron Tamási, Abel in the deep forest, and a drama by András Sütő, Advent on the Hargita. Although reflecting two different historical periods, the thirties and the eighties, the issues are similar: it is a place of cosmogony, a Paradise, a field of interethnic encounter and the school of life. The basic opposition is rooted in the Hungarian minority's deteriorated political situation: the novel's thirst for knowledge makes way, in the drama, for a passive wonder waiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Manifestations of a transhistorical and geocritical configuration are to be identified in Vormäz and in the work of one of the most typical representatives of the liberal (romantic) generation of intellectuals, i.e. professor Ioan Rusu (1811-1843). The latter taught -- at Ivyceura Episcopale Balaofalvense -- chronology, geography and universal history while also being the author of a very attractive textbook - Icoana pământulni sau Carte de Geografie, I-III, Blaj, 1842-1843 (The Icon of the earth or A geography textbook -- our translation). The present paper aims at a modern and systematic valorization of the pages dedicated to the French geography and history, which are included in three sections of the book - France A. All over B. Topography C. The French Colonies. The discourse of the Blaj professor contains observations and common sense opinions regarding the natural and cultural heritage of the country: the French borders, the general framework of the country, the natural beauties of France, the cultural horizon of its people, the low level of education in some social media, the moral and physical qualities of its inhabitants, the bravery of the French soldiers etc. From the perspective of a multicultural approach and by means of a geocritical perspective, Ioan Knsu's interest for the French culture and history finds its place within the ample and tough process of French culture and civilization penetration into the society of the Romanians in Transylvania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evaluation of the energy performance of ventilated and glazed facades can be done based on specific indexes. The paper presents two of those, defined as a function of season, i. e. the preheating efficiency index for the cold season and the dynamic isolation efficiency for the hot season. A study was performed concerning the evolution of the two indexes in different climatic conditions, specific to Romania. The functional correlations were obtained for a ventilated and glazed facade model, by varying the specific parameters one by one. The results were presented as correlation diagrams by which the characteristic of ventilated and glazed facades can be determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years the Romanian scientific world has manifestly drawn closer to the international one, following the implementation of increasingly comprehensive and coherent policies meant to allow Romanian researchers to bring their own contribution to the advancement of world science, turning from mere beneficiaries into providers of scholarly content. The texts written in international languages are among the most important instruments used in the dissemination of the results obtained by Romanian researchers. In what concerns history, among the topics most frequently approached in these texts written in international languages we find those dealing with institutions, from the political ones to things like family, schools, the Church, and the army. The present paper looks at the manner in which these particular topics are approached in the works of Romanian historians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forming the plural of nouns is one of the most difficult chapters of the nominal inflection for the native French speakers studying the Romanian language, and this is mainly due to the far larger system of oppositions in Romanian as compared to French. The major goal of the present paper is to underline several particular aspects concerning the obstacles faced by French-speaking students in the process of learning plural formation in the Romanian language, while insisting upon the factors favouring interferential errors (essentially, false number analogies with elements in the native tongue - that is French) as well as upon pedagogical strategies which might be used in order to prevent the appearance of such errors. [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]

In the present paper the author aims at demonstrating that the Romanian Social Institute of Bucharest was not the sole institutional framework for the social research carried out in interwar Romania. Side by side with the respective Institute (and those which were organizationally and/or methodologically affiliated to it) the history of Romanian sociology also recorded among others the sociographic activity of the researchers gathered around the journal “Societatea de mâine” [Tomorrow’s Society] led by I. Clopoţel. In order to evaluate the activity of the group, the author discusses two issues: 1) to what extent the activity of the sociographic group from Cluj can be evaluated in terms of a scientific movement proper? 2) what is the relationship between the sociography promoted by the researchers from Cluj and sociology, to be more specific monographic sociology? Emphasizing the fact that the survey was the basis of social theory and practice, I. Clopoţel attempted at gathering all potential research forces throughout the country around the journal “Societatea de mâine” and initiating systematic social researches. Methodologically speaking, the researchers from Cluj elaborated common working tools with the view to developing a unitary research and collecting scientifically relevant data. According to the group, sociolography was not an autonomous discipline, but rather a “science” complementary to sociology or, to be more specific, a first and mandatory stage of sociological knowledge, the stage of collecting the data required by any theoretical construct. In agreement to this opinion, sociographic research should be subordinated to sociology, namely to monographic sociology and adopt the latter’s concerns and research methodology. Nevertheless, I. Clopoţel suggested and practiced another approach to social reality. He did not participate in the activity of monographing social units, which sketched a rather static picture of the village despite its systematic character, but aimed at capturing the dynamics of the rural area. His thematic choices and the researches resulted from their implementation in social research practice enriched the “classic” sociographic model with a new meaning, namely the definition, and examination of, and finding a solution to social issues. All in all, according to the researchers around the journal “Societatea de mâine” sociography was more than a mere antechamber of sociology, it was an autonomous discipline between sociology and politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors begin the present study with a short presentation of the history of the notion and the content of labor conflicts and continue with commentaries on the issue of strike. The paper presents the material and subjective factors necessary for the existence of strike, as well as some of the latest conditions imposed by the last regulation in this domain. The analysis of the main legal acts that regulate labor conflicts and strike in Romania in the last two decades reveals an unjustified legislative policy that restrain the possibilities of exercising this fundamental right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The papers proposes, in the first part, a dynamic representation of the present tense, which is no longer conceived as static point on a single axis, but as a rotating mechanism uniting the past situated at one level, and the future, situated at a different level altoghether. The duration of the present „instant" is as long as half of the circumference of this circle in its rotation in direction of the future. The second part ilustrates the different patterns used in French, Romanian, Portuguese and Italian to express the three phases of the past and the three phases of the future, as these are defined, in the dynamics model of verbal tense, by the generative functioning of the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the cultural and archaeological context of the human fossil bones from Muierii Cave, dated by us to the age of 30 150 ± 800 14C years BP (Before Present) or 34 810 ± 927 cal years BP (calibrated years Before Present), and from Cioclovina Cave, dated to the age of 29 000 ± 700 14C years BP or 33 540 ± 832 cal years BP, in the Southern Carpathians. These are among the most ancient dated human fossil remains from Central and South-Eastern Europe and are described in conjunction with other sites with Mousterian assemblages of the recent Neanderthal population, and sites with Aurignacian assemblage of early modern humans, from Romanian region, for the interval of time 34,000–26,000, the transitional period from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The Conclusion of an employment contract involves, as usually, the examination of certain preliminary stages: the request for information, negotiation, etc., but also the fulfillment of certain conditions as without it the fundamental legal act cannot be validated. In the Romanian legal doctrine, the conditions regarding the conclusion of the individual employment contract are classified in several categories and according to various criteria. The authors have adopted a dual classification, which imposes the enforcement of two broad categories of conditions: general and common conditions for all contracts and specific conditions within the individual employment contract. This paper aims to analyze the specific conditions of validity, expressing certain critical observations on both the existing regulations and the opinions of other authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the Transylvanian banking system in the first decade after the Union of 1918, presenting the development of the Romanian banking network, the profile of its banks (683 in 1922, 1,228 in 1928), their main fields of activity, their contacts with the political class (represented in its boards), and also the flaws and the fragility of the banking system during the period in question. In the first interwar decade, most of the newly created banks had little capital. To a considerable extent, their activity was based on the capital of their customers, in the form of deposits, and especially on credit. Although the banking system developed massively and sometimes chaotically in the 1920s, the fragility of this system (poor capitalization and units lacking financial power) at both national and local level cannot be denied. This weakness was largely due to the many difficulties faced by the Romanian economy after World War I. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper draws on the generous archives of the Roman-Catholic Bishopric of Oradea, which holds many contracts that deal with various agricultural activities and were concluded by the manorial administration and the inhabitants of various villages (located in Bihor or in the highlands of Transylvania). Given their thematic diversity and the wealth of details that appear in no other type of historical source, these labor contracts tell us a lot in what concerns the developments in agriculture, the changes in agricultural techniques and cultivated crops in the period following the abolition of serfdom, on the vast estates of the Oradea Bishopric. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study presents a distinct chapter in the history of Romanian-Italian diplomatic relations, focusing on the recognition of Romania's independence. The Berlin Peace Treaty (1878) recognized Romania's independence, provided that the country granted political rights to non-Christians (Art. 44) and accepted the exchange of territory between Bessarabia and Dobruja (Art. 45). In its Article 7, the Romanian Constitution only recognized the political rights of its Christian citizens. In October 1878, the Parliament ratified the territorial clauses of the Berlin Treaty and amended the fundamental law of the country. The paper presents the efforts undertaken by the Romanian diplomats, focusing on the relation with Italy. They eventually managed to gain recognition for the country's independence (December 1879), and the Romanian diplomatic agency in Roma was given the status of foreign legation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the linguistic imaginary and the manner in which it can encompass an aesthetic experience. More specifically, the author focuses on the representations of Latinity in Romanian culture, as in the 19th century poetry was used in order to illustrate the Latin structure of the Romanian language and subjected to statistical analyses meant to determine the percentage of words of Latin origin. Furthermore, during the same period, poems were also used in order to highlight the defining elements associated with Latinity since the classical period: harmony, musicality, order, hierarchy, etc. In a case study applied to an aesthetic interpretation of the Romanian language, D. Cacacostea's L'Expressivité de la langue roumaine (The expressiveness of the Romanian language, 1942), the author seeks to identify the presence and the part played by these elements of Latinity in the generation of aesthetic representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cross-border cooperation in the BIHOR-HAJDU-BIHAR euro region, around the Hungary and Romania's frontier needs to be reinforced for the new 2007-2013 EU Program. This target can be achieved with the support from the specialists in the cross border cooperation development projects. Unfortunately, those specialists are not available yet. How to solve this problem? So this paper focuses to underline the importance to cover this gap by using the educational institutions already based in that euro region, for example, the Institute for Euro Regional Studies and by getting expertise from the other Euro region in the Western side of Europe as the MOT , Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière, in France. In this way, it will be possible to involve more people in the euro region initiatives in the coming years and to cover several fields of the cross -border cooperation issues: environment, infrastructure, SME, SMI, Tourism, etc…issues [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper seeks to sketch the historical profile of the Istro-Romanians (Cicci, Wallachians, Ciribiri), a small Romanian-speaking community living in the northwestern part of Istria, discussing their present situation and the (grim) prospects faced by a community on the brink of extinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the life of a community--and especially of a rural community--bells have always played a significant number of religious, social, symbolic, and identity-shaping functions. The present paper deals mainly with the manner in which Romanian communities in Transylvania experienced the loss of their church bells during the political and military conflicts that ravaged the province during the 19th and the 20th centuries (the Revolution of 1848-1849, the two world wars). The church bells of the Romanian rural communities suffered most during World War I. Both Communities and individuals felt the loss of the bells requisitioned for the war effort, as it was their sound that defined their identity, marked every stage in their lives, and announced their moments of joy, sadness, and danger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is a succinct presentation of the Romanian pedagogical thought of that time, which is compared to European pedagogy in general. The paper also analyzes the textbooks used in primary education, as well as the first Romanian books on pedagogy and teaching methodology. The pedagogic discourse used in mid-19th century Transylvania reveals the attempts made by the local intellectual elites to lay the foundations of a modern education system, different from the Church-dominated one of the past and oriented towards practicality, in order to train citizens capable of improving or surpassing their inherited social stares. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The diatom assemblages as environmental evolution recording of the Paratethys area during Sarmatian times. This paper is a detailed study based on Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) diatom assemblages, characterized by high biologic productivity and diversity from the Zarand Basin (Romania). A total of 240 diatom taxa were identified, leading to the conclusion that successive environmental variations such as changes in palaeosalinity and palaeobathimetry had taken place during this period. Water-level increases are correlated with marine influx based on the presence of boreal or subtropical marine taxa. Each marine-dominated episode is followed by one of continental influence: an isolated system where freshwater taxa are a common occurrence. To cite this article: S. Saint Martin, C. R. Palevol 4 (2005) . [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This article discusses Romania’s relationship with the communist past. It is structured around three themes: official forgetting and belated condemnation, the pervading discourse of NGOs which focuses on the victims of communism, and the resurgence of nostalgia in opinion polls, seen as an expression of the problems of living in a democracy. In this context, the author examines visible forms of cultural memory which have appeared in recent years (the 2000s), in particular the role played by the nostalgic gaze. We find thus different types of nostalgia: social, commercial and tourism. We can then question the role played by this nostalgic gaze in works by Romanian contemporary artists and filmmakers who produce memory art. As a specific form of cultural memory, memory art seeks to sketch out an image of the past which is more comprehensive. The article describes the different forms nostalgia has taken in Romania in recent years and juxtaposes this with the most important works of art, following three themes: the obsessional portrait of Ceaușescu, personal, even autobiographical memory, and the residues of communism as depicted inProjet 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]