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The background papers that underlie this report refer to a considerable body of evidence indicating the effectiveness of a number of interventions for falls prevention. These include strength and balance training, environmental modification and medical care aimed at removing or reducing specific risk factors by for example review of medications and reduction of polypharmacy. Falls prevention advice is often perceived as being for other ‘disabled or elderly people’. Programmes that are perceived to impact negatively on selfimage are likely to be unattractive while those, which are viewed as improving skills or characteristics valued by older people, are likely to be more popular. In interviews older people say that they would participate in falls-prevention initiatives to be proactive in managing their own health needs, maintain independence and improve confidence.

Every one has an opinion about their quality of life, but no one knows precisely what it means in general. John Stewart Mill noted that individual opinion about well-being was ‘the best means of knowledge immeasurably surpassing those that can be possessed by any one else’ (JS, 1885). Thus, quality of life is highly individualistic and might even be an ‘idiosyncratic mystery’ due to the high levels of variability between individuals, making it unsuitable for decision making. (Leplége, 1997 ).

Special psycho-pedagogy is the science of the knowledge of psychic development (psychology (special education) in order to realize the therapeutic education (special pedagogy) adapted to the presence and manifestation of a form of disability. The special psycho-pedagogy of students with mental disabilities studies the problemmultiple of the in-depth knowledge, training and therapeutic education of these students, in the perspective of their gradual recovery and social integration, usually in the usual contexts of their own community. The complexity and interdisciplinarity of special psycho-pedagogy are underlined, for example, in the following definition: “Special psycho-pedagogy is a synthesis science, which uses the complex information provided by medicine (pediatrics, infant neurology, ophthalmology, audiology, orthopedics, hygiene, etc.), psychology (all its branches), pedagogy, sociology, legal sciences, in the dynamic study of the personality of all forms of disability through deficiency and maladaptation.” (Gheorghe, 2000).

The article approaches the issue of crime-prevention through urban planning in Norway, discussing the ideas and differences between physical(hard) and symbolic(soft) delineations of territory, questioning if they might not be that different, since they share similar objectives: to protect against someone or to prevent someone from accessing an area. In Norwegian history, the year 1970 marks, among many others, the beginning of a new urban planning movement called Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). The basic idea behind the program – as well as the Scandinavian crime prevention system – is to prevent crime. However, the main difference is that the new movement militated for the marking of territories with symbolic, inclusive measures rather than fences and walls.

During our lives, within multiple and varied interactions with others, we come to interpret a series of roles, to have some statuses and related behaviours and/or derived from these social conditions. And all these have the role to deepen the relationship with the fellow man; and more, to allow “reflection and selfreflection in the other” (Cooley). Communicating with others, regardless of the relationship and reference we have with them, as well as the type of communication network applied, is an active, dynamic and irreversible process that calls for a series of “behavioural strategies” to achieve the goals pursued. For each case, we can say that we have a series of patterns, we have a “social mask” that allows us to adapt more or less to a given situation, hence the reaction of the other to our position. Depending on these established relationships, the coherency between two actors may go one way or the other. It is necessary to emphasize that each of us juggles with these attitudes depending on the psycho-social context, but one is dominant. The position of life is a way of evaluating and interpreting the moments of existence and, by all means an infallible form of being.

Sex education is considered a taboo subject nowadays. Parents are mostly embarrassed to talk with their children about this topic, couples are embarrassed to talk to each other, parents even more, feel embarrassed when it comes to sex education of children. If this is the situation, I would believe that it is the communist legacy de, because in that period we can say that sexual relationships beyond marriage were violently challenged, sex education was reduced to encouraging abstinence, and there was no sexual connotation in mass media.

In the current context, when more and more unknown pathogens appear, healthy eating and supplementing it with natural products play an increasingly important role in maintaining the health of the body. The European black elder (Sambucus nigra), found in abundance in the spontaneous flora, can provide us, as a raw material, elderberries, which have been known for thousands of years as having nutritional and healing properties. The phytotherapeutic principles found in elderberry fruits give them antiviral, antibacterial and antidiabetic properties, antitumor potential, antioxidant, antidepressant and immune boosting properties, as well as a certain impacts on obesity and metabolic dysfunctions. Polyphenols and lectins give elderberry fruits the ability to inhibit coronaviruses, which is a topic of great interest in our times. This article summarizes the existing data regarding the chemical composition, active principles and biopharmaceutical properties of elderberries, as well as their use.

Procrastination is a challenge we have all faced at one point or another. For as long as humans have been around, we have been struggling with delaying, avoiding, and procrastinating on issues that matter to us. During our more productive moments, when we temporarily figure out how to stop procrastinating, we feel satisfied and accomplished. Today, we’re going to talk about how to make those rare moments of productivity more routine. The purpose of this article is to break down the science behind why we procrastinate, share proven frameworks you can use to beat procrastination, and cover useful strategies that will make it easier to take action.

The psychological wellbeing and general health of adolescences and emergent adults are a continuous concern at this level. Research has constantly shown that adolescents and emergent adults emerge themselves in harmful behaviours that endanger their health, which inevitably influence their psychological wellbeing. These behaviours include alcohol and drugs consumption, unprotected sex, poor diet choices and even delinquent acts characterized by a negative influence upon colleagues and growth in risks. The addictive behaviours of young people are a special cause for significant negative results, because they can transform into long term habits and can have negative effects upon the physical health of individuals and upon their financial status.

There is a hidden power inside us that helps us overcome all the obstacles. We just have to learn to get that unmanned power and energy out. We can do it through body discipline, breathing, senses, concentration and meditation. When breathing wanders so does happen with the mind, when the breath is quiet, so is the mind. To reduce stress, breath control is the most relevant tool to calm the mind. When we are scared or nervous, breathing is shallow, fast and irregular, when we are relaxed or in a deep state of thinking, breathing becomes slow. Since our state of mind reflects in this way, it results that we can also control our mood. By regulating breathing, not only increases oxygen intake but prepares us for exercising concentration and meditation.

One of the main characteristics discriminating the man from animals is the spoken language. Once the man acquired this ability to express himself by words he is then able to do this in different pattern languages, such people are called polyglots. Our brain is such a powerful machine, to a certain degree we follow the same development course as animals in terms of breathing, eating, walking but higher on the evolution scale the man achieved this higher level of communication by words. Language, i.e. spoken language, is a complex communication system consisting in speech-sounds combinations expressed by words. Assembled correctly, to specific and coherent patterns words create then sentences which result in ideas and thoughts. Human nervous system plays a huge role in facilitating this communication function. How do we do this? Is that a mystery or a predictable pattern that our brain creates to code and decode spoken language?

The Romanian forensic legislation is currently one of the most coherent within the European Union. There are, however, issues where regulations have changed and Law 271/2004 no longer responds to all challenges: new RCA law no. 132/2017, provides some unsuspecting issues in forensic legislation. Thus, there are no general criteria for the unitary evaluation of physical injury, and the major problems of mental/psychological injury assessment lie primarily in the lack of ways to confirm on its forensic criteria or to quantify its gravity. Changing the current legislation, introducing a specialized criterion which combine the principles of forensic activity and psychological assessment, is a priority in the field of compensation for victims of aggression and road traffic accidents. Of particular interest would be a scientific evaluation of the psychological damage caused by medical malpractice, even if the courts have customary assumed the role of fixing the amounts in question.