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Construction of the Iron Gates I hydroelectric project on the Danube River between 1966-1972 was the result of collaboration between Romania and Yugoslavia. The scale of the project resulted in the permanent displacement and relocation of several communities along the river. The aim of this article is to consider how vulnerability among the displaced communities manifested and the lasting effects this has had on efforts to adapt to life in new locations. The article draws on archival research to examine the contemporaneous processes and decision-making around the construction. It then presents the results of a survey of displaced residents conducted more than 40 years after relocation to identify how displacement was experienced, as well as its lasting effects. The results suggest that the different forms of vulnerability within the community that hampered adaptation continued to shape the community long after the displacement event. They also point to the aggregating nature of vulnerability, as efforts at adaptation continued to be shaped by the interaction of social, economic, and geographical factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The period of study in the online environment can be a very demanding trial for students and masters, especially for those who are not familiar with computer technology. This is largely due to a complex of factors that come from the changes to which they are subjected, such as: leaving the parental home and settling into another living environment (living in dormitories or other forms of accommodation) but also settling with an unfamiliar and very different educational environment from what they were familiar with. Along with all the changes occurring in the family and social plan, the students had to adapt to the educational system made exclusively online. Higher education institutions in Romania use, as a method of knowledge transmission, traditional learning methods, namely they use face-to-face lecture-type courses in a lecture hall or practical and explanatory activities in a seminar/laboratory room. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pandemic spread caused by the Covid 19 virus and the consequent risk of contagion has recently forced most national governments to adopt drastic measures of social control and containment, such as social distancing, which has led to a signifi cant change in the lives and habits of citizens, which in turn pushed people to adapt to a changed external circumstance. This adaptation, which translates sociologically and substantially into a request for compliance with the prescriptions, had in many cases captured oppositional reactions through individual and group deviant behaviors, which, in addition to breaking the rules of a community, have contributed to the violation of that general principle of "mutual altruism" that should characterize modern societies and increase the viral contagion. The conducted research has explored the risks of contagion from Covid 19 regarding compliant or deviant conducts of behavior with reference to the lockdown requirements in the fi rst half of 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]