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The 2020's are to be named (if not already) the pandemia times. The present paper does not aim to analyses the changes and consequences that this sanitary crisis has produced, or to determine possible scenarios about how the world (in all its dynamics and layers) will survive in the post-pandemia period. There are other academics and (already) plenty of scientific papers that tackled these issues (the social sciences scientific community has responded almost instantly to the COVID-19 effects). This research paper contains the idea of science that social research encompasses by analysing (from a socio-anthropologist eye and based on professional training) the data circulation vortex during the first semester of 2020. The results and the manner of research (constrained by the urgency and isolation restrictions), respectively the quest for the discrepancies between the information offered by governments and international organisations, and by scientific inquiries and academic sources, represent an original perspective on data legitimacy when used for the public. This paper's main aim is not to achieve the comfortable status of the academic "likes" (converted in citations and indexes). It aspires to become a manifesto about the approximation and the substitution of the daily life with the computed (technologically-mediated) narratives about it!. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solitude creates a very different experience for each person, depending not only on which kind of solitude it is, but also on the type of personality each person possesses. We can feel lonely in a crowded room when we are not with the right people, we can experience loneliness when we do not feel wanted, or we can desire solitude when we need to process our thoughts in complete silence. It is imperative to make a distinction between imposed solitude and desired solitude. Thus, my paper explores the manners in which the multifaceted nature of solitude has an impact on the creative process, in both literature and visual arts. Moreover, my study aims to prove the beneficial effects of chosen solitude on the writers' creative process. For this reason, I begin my analysis with past examples of works of art and literary works created by artists while being in isolation. In addition, I focus on contemporary writers and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on their writing process. Ultimately, my purpose is to reveal the solitude's power of enhancing creativity and intensifying a writer's workflow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify the main features of the work life-balance during the pandemic, comparing between two sectors of the creative industries in Romania, IT and advertising. After a theoretical presentation of the work-life balance, accompanied by an analysis of statistical data on the situation of teleworking, nationally and in Europe, the paper focuses on an applied approach, based on a qualitative research conducted through interviews with employees and managers in the two economic sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our opinion, the last two years since the debut of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the world have already left an important legacy: the urge of re-thinking the Modern suppositions regarding freedom, welfare, progress, and happiness. However, this imperative involves not only the reality of these principles, but also a side-effect of the newly-shaped pandemic world: i.e. the regression of social life from the standards of "good life" to the level of survival; the increasingly thinner line between the human being and the automaton; the giving up of creativity in favour of complying with the new social standards and formal-mechanic imitation. Our paper emphasizes some attempts made by various authors whose research works tried to sketch solutions to these problems, before and after the pandemic (Drăgănescu, Gonseth, Han, Galparsoro et alia). We believe that, unlike the traditional and Modern society, where the value of sacrifice for a collective purpose was assumed by the community/society itself, the supreme value of this new kind of utopia in the contemporary society consists of the sacrifice imposed top-bottom by the authorities, regardless of other social conditions. It is a sacrifice based on simple collective trust on the official emergency regulations, which promises some individual good-feeling in return for the good-will of the person to accept being protected by the inoculation of the serum. Would this status quo function during the next possible future pandemics? It is an open question, depending on many factors, as, for instance, the willingness of communities and nations to comply with future unpredictable and not always transparent regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Covid-19 pandemic has forced all economic sectors to reconsider their forms and means of work in order to protect the life and health of their employees. Under these circumstances, telework - used for over two decades in sectors related to information technology - has become a generally applicable solution (with the exception of some areas such as agriculture, construction, services requiring direct activities, etc.). The authorities initially recommended that as many workers as possible should telework and revised the legislation to adapt it to the challenges of today. Then, given the positive results, they introduced various incentives to encourage telework. Lately, there has been a shift towards establishing legal rules making telework a mandatory form of telework in health risk situations. Our paper thus details the status of telework in most European countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the pandemic caused by the SARS-VOC-2 virus, not only medicine and protection against infectious diseases evolved, but also strategies for simplifying the long process that discouraged adoption. The whole process, being blocked due to the pandemic, led to a decrease in adoptions in 2020. The main objective of the paper is to analyze the level of knowledge on the legislative and bureaucratic process of adoption. Following the applied study, noting that most respondents do not have much information about the adoption process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of the study has as it’s main objective to expose a brief sociodemographic analysis on the problem of aging population, both in Romania and in other European Union countries. The second part of the study follows the implications that the aging population phenomenon has on the Romanian state pension system. Also, the paper proposes an investigation of the risks to which the population aged 65 years and over is exposed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on specific comorbidities. To form an overview of these aspects, it will be used secondary data research, with information from public institutions such as: the National Institute of Statistics; Ministry of Internal Affairs; National House of Public Pensions; The Government of Romania; Financial Supervisory Authority; Eurostat; World Health Organization; United Nations Organization; Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development; as well as specific legislation and updated specialized literature. The last part of the study offers a series of conclusions which will result in several general solutions to the aging population problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public health and pre-university education are two areas hard tried in Romania by the pandemic created by the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus, among the reasons for the problems being existing conflicts between the central and local public administration. Among them, the paper analyses the constitutional principle of local autonomy and the collaboration relations between public authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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