Stress Resistance as a Diminution Factor of Inclination to Addictive Behavior in Adolescents

Author(s): Otilia Stamatin,Larisa Sinitaru / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The given work substantiates the idea, that the age of adolescence is characterized by emotional instability, weak stress resistance, personal immaturity, combined with the desire to be accepted by the others, the fact very often causing deviant and later on addictive forms of behavior. Taking into consideration the connection between the adolescent stress resistance and their inclination to addictive behavior we worked out and tested the program aimed at lowering the dependence index through the raise of stress resistance level in adolescents. The analysis of the data received showed that the majority of adolescents aged 13-15 demonstrate low level of stress resistance (62.2%). Girls are less stress resistant than boys (74, 4 % and 52, 7% respectively). The results of the method on revealing the dependence inclination showed that the most problematic are the 14 year old adolescents. Their index of food, alcohol, tv and computer dependence is the higher. Compared with girls, boys demonstrate greater behavioral dependences both on medium and high levels. The statistical analysis confirmed the connection between adolescent stress resistance and their inclination to addictive behavior. That made possible to work out and test the program (its principles and essence are  stated in brief in the article) aimed at the raise of stress resistance level thus lowering the inclination to addictive behavior. The comparative analysis of the data received in the test and experimental groups before and after the program confirmed our assumption about the connection between two mentioned above variables and the efficiency of the intervention worked out by us and aimed at the lowering the level of the addictive behavior.

The Relevance of Obtaining Performance at the Age of 6-7 Years at the Expense to Maximize the Potential at Junior Swimming

Author(s): Amelia Elena Stan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

There is a tendency in our time to believe that the involvement of the child from early age in specialized training methods for competitions is suitable for swimmers, while their level of prediction is weak. For this reason, we try statistical reasoning and logic recurring resulting therefrom. If the values designation and significance correlation allows a close link between control trials: the number of sportsmen and sportswomen and times obtained in tops the leaderboard at the municipal level at the age of 6-7 years on contest and evolution and results to junior level I. The results obtained from control trials were determined to what extent the level of preparedness in children is relevant in predicting a diagnostic result in competitive level or training to junior. By studying the evolution of the road map until junior level is found that printing a rapid pace in the preparation fot the results in addition of lost satisfaction athlete to lower competition time before the age junior and actual loss of energy resources for improving sports performance in competition. In management training to high performance and eliminating inadequate general physical training and waiving specific means unconnected with the age would lead to energy savings for recovery, and certainly improve athletic performance in future competitions. Another argument is economic reasons: these emphasize the fact that what should be confined to the sports ground until the pubertal selection for high performance swimming is actually promoting sports clubs and particularly private clubs. The state established clubs still maintain a certain level of moral discipline of preparing children in the sport.

Contribution of Aquatic Therapy to Anchylosant Spondylite

Author(s): Amelia Elena Stan / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Through this paper I wanted to highlight a way of improving the symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis by hydrotherapeutic interventions. The role of aquatic physical activity in this type of condition is to reduce the intensity of the pain and thus prevent the appearance of new symptoms and more pain. Thus, the goal is to have a dynamic life that will change the degree of activity and not lead to unwanted consequences. The purpose of the paper was to show how aquatic rehabilitation techniques can show an improvement in the immobility status of spinal disorders. Recovery programs that use aquatic exercise as a therapeutic tool in vertebral pathology in the elderly are effective and contribute to the improvement of specific symptomatology. Arthritis is the main cause of long-term physical disability and its prevalence increases with age. Therefore, muscular strengthening is required, which can be achieved by using isometric contractions of stabilization in water. Relaxation can be achieved by floating, using the buoyancy effect. Techniques of holding positions and relaxation methods are predominantly used in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis and can be used to improve the movement of a joint where muscle spasm is the limiting factor.

An Analysis of Easter as a Method of Preserving Romanian Traditions

Author(s): Bianca Teodorescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This article is a study about how Easter traditions are perceived in our days, especially in the cities from Romania. The main purpose of this study is to reveal which are the aspirations of people regarding the phenomena of traditions and rituals in Romania and also to find their meaning in a world which is aimed to be more profane than sacred. For my research, I turned to some researching methods starting from meta-analysis method as questionnaires and participative observation. In order to maintain its culture, Romanian people has to fight against the secularization of the society. Today, Romania’s counties seek to reform their traditions, to draw people back to their roots in hope to preserve the traditional celebrations in the present society. During the preparation for Easter, a series of emotions begin to act in order to create traditional rituals. These emotions are responsible to preserve the Romanian traditions. I focused this study on how people are participating in the Easter rituals in the present and how they feel by visiting places of childhood or places in the country where the tradition has remained as the most important part of the traditional village. However, in the country, Easter celebration is contributing to preserve the Romanian traditions more than others traditional Romanian celebrations.

Development of Social Policy as Theory and Practice in Bulgaria

Author(s): Venelin Terziev / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The development of social policy in Bulgaria is closely related to social and economic development of the country but it is also influenced by the common European trends and priorities in last decades. Current study examines the theory and the practice of social policy in the context of its broader understanding focusing on active policy and especially considering employment encouragement and skills management. Main conclusions put the accent on the advantages of active policy and the importance of following a purposeful policy for raising employability and developing a functioning labor market.

Modeling Active Social Programs in Bulgaria through Social Entrepreneurship Encouragement

Author(s): Venelin Terziev / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

In contemporary society one of the priorities for development is to assure social inclusion and equality through provision of employment opportunities and increasing incomes by the active involvement of citizens in the labor market. Among the specific measures is the encouragement of entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship in particular. Implementation of such active social policies contributes to effective solutions to the problems of poverty and social exclusion. Current study examines social entrepreneurship and social enterprises as an opportunity to build a model of an active social program based on the notion that the most critical to tackling poverty and social exclusion is the application of such social policies that give people access to economic opportunities and knowledge and skills to utilize opportunities – so that they cope with the trap of poverty and social exclusion, dependence on social protection system, vulnerability to the adverse events of economic or social nature.

Conceptualizing Objectual Message

Author(s): Ştefan Vlăduţescu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This study is circumscribed to the science of communication. It aims to illustrate, exemplify, and conceptualize the idea of objectual message. The meta-analytical method and the comparative method are used. Two historical and one semiotic messages are examined. The first message is extracted from Herodotus’s “Histories”: in the form of a message, the Scythian kings send Emperor Darius a bird, a mouse, a frog, and five arrows. The second message is extracted from Cassius Dio’s “Roman History”: Decebalus sends Trajan a huge mushroom on which he wrote in Latin the advice to make way back and start peace talks. The third element is an analysis of Roland Barthes, in which he states that an object like “a scarf” constitutes a message with haptical meanings. From the comparison of the three messages, the characteristics of the objectual message are infered. In a related way, it is found that in practical order the objectual message is one of the most important types of message, along with the verbal message, the oral message and the written message.

Optimized Demand Forecasting by Cross-Validation

Author(s): Razvan Daniel Zota,Yasser Al Hadad / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Sales forecasting plays an important role in business strategy. An appropriate demand forecasting model is necessary for reducing the cost of storage. At a company level, lowering the warehouse costs and optimizing the value chain is a prominent requirement for an optimum stock management. In this paper a demand forecasting model is built to support the stock management activity of medium enterprises by means of data mining algorithms. SQL server analysis service is used for implementing the demand forecasting model. The paper studies a list of available algorithms that are offered by SQL server analysis service and the performance of the aforementioned algorithms is tested using the cross-validation feature that is provided by SQL server analysis service to optimize the performance of the model. We also aim to explore in our research the ability of RMSE (Root mean Squared Error) to include time series algorithms in the cross-validation phase. The proposed model is tested based on a dataset of a timber export company and the output is used for analysing the performance of the proposed model. The paper reached a group of conclusion and one of most the importance conclusion is neural network algorithms performance was the better in adapting our tested dataset comparing with the other algorithms.

Inventory Management Using Cross Prediction

Author(s): Razvan Daniel Zota,Yasser Al Hadad / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Inventory management involves determining optimum inventory stock that should be held. It is necessary to introduce a set of policies and controls that establish and track levels of inventory and determine when stock should be refilled. At a firm level, identifying all opportunities for optimizing the value chain and lowering the warehouse cost is a main requirement for an efficient stock management. In this paper a supply chain application is modelled to support and optimize the stock management activity. This topic is addressed by using autoregressive method to model a supply chain application. Also, the potential of cross prediction is tested for increasing the performance of the auto regression method. SQL server Analysis services and visual basic for application is used for implementing the supply chain application.

BIOGRAFIJE AUTORA I UREDNIKA

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O PARTNERIMA PROJEKTA

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The Notary Public and His Role in The Prevention and Fight Against Money Laundering

Author(s): Liviu-Bogdan Ciucă / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Starting from the apparently contradictory position of the notary public as professional belonging to a liberal legal profession and the qualification that art. 10 from Law no. 656/2002[1] expressly sets out, the intention of this article is to present the arguments of both the supporters of the idea that the two positions are contradictory, as well as certain theories and elements of the laws in the matter that accept the coexistence of the two statutes. By developing and analysing the role and purpose of the professional secret, the relation between the law professional and the customer and their limitations under certain conditions, this material attempts to find the converging point of the two currents and to propose conclusions that would clarify certain controversial aspects regarding the role of the notary public in the prevention and fight against money laundering.

Forming up Tolerance to Personality at High School Pupils

Author(s): Otilia Stamatin,Viorica Adascalita / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This work is authors’ expression on essence of tolerance as a moral quality of a personality, reflecting the attitude of people to the multidimensionality of the world, diversity of cultures and uniqueness of the individual as supreme value and most important condition for the coexistence of people and self-realization of everyone, manifested in understanding the unity of the world and the interdependence of people, in recognizing the principle of complementarity, in recognizing the equality of individuals in society and their right to self-expression, the desire and ability to understand and accept the other, implementing the principles of partnership. We ground the idea that preadolescence is the sensitive age for forming this feature. We introduce outcomes of the tolerance development level study at high-school adolescents and tolerant and non-tolerant psychological profile of people. We demonstrate that the central element of tolerance is the understanding and recognition of the value of the diversity of the world and people in all their manifestations, the value of different opinion, view, position and culture. A decisive role in tolerance manifestations is played by subject’s attitude to something or someone. Tolerance manifestations also depend on subject’s skills, primarily communicative ones. It was revealed that increasing tolerance level is facilitated by the ability to control own emotions, to dose them; flexibility, development, expressiveness of emotions; domination of positive emotions; desire to approach people on an emotional basis; positive self-perception and self-attitude; developed intellect, strong "I", diplomacy, self-sufficiency; moral-business orientation of personality. The work briefly introduces the formative program aimed at a comprehensive impact on students’ personality and the outcomes of its implementation, witnessing a significant increase of adolescents’ tolerance level, enabling to reach positive changes in the emotional, motivational and value spheres and in the personality of senior pupils in general, contributing to the effective formation of tolerance.

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Contributors

Author(s): Konstantin Kaminskij,Albrecht Koschorke / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

List of contributors to Tyrants Writing Poetry

Intervju: Pišući o bezimenim stvarima

Author(s): David Streitfeld,Ursula K. Le Guin / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Oto Oltvanji: Fantastika kao način borbe protiv šizofrene i nepredvidive stvarnosti

Author(s): Oto Oltvanji,Dragoljub Igrošanac / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Adrijan Sarajlija: Pokazna vežba iz transhumanizma

Author(s): Adrijan Sarajlija,Zoran Stefanović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Kada je tokom 2017. leta Gospodnjeg uloga da obnoviteljski vaskrsne „Fantastičnu biblioteku“ — referentnu srpsku ediciju za proznu fantastiku u ovom stoleću — zapala zbirci Goli glasovi, potpisnik ovih redova je bez dvoumljenja otplesao i otpevušio sledeću reakciju: „Pripovedač, mislilac i zabavljač Adrijan Sarajlija ima naglašenu sintetičku moć, umeće mentalnog zaokruživanja. To je značajna veština u vremenu rasitnjenom i ubrzanom u svakom pogledu — vremenskim česticama, životima, celokupnoj realnosti.“ Ispred toga su se na koricama našle reči Slobodana Škerovića: „Kod Adrijana Sarajlije je stereotipno bavljenje uobičajenim temama prevaziđeno i on je svojom lakom rukom otvorio mnoge nove dveri koje vode u tamne oblasti horora, spekulativne fi kcije i naučne fantastike, vraćajući u već dobrano iscrpljenu i monotonu žanrovsku scenu svežinu i izazov novih sadržaja i metoda pripovedanja.“

MASZYNA MYŚLĄCA JAKO POMOC I ZAGROŻENIE DLA CZŁOWIEKA W PRACY

Author(s): Renata Kasperska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

W artykule przedstawiono najważniejsze etapy rozwoju maszyn używanych przez człowieka w pracy, zwłaszcza maszyn myślących i urządzeń z obszaru sztucznej inteligencji. Przedstawiono pozytywne aspekty zastosowań inteligentnych urządzeń i obszary, w których maszyny myślące wspierają pracę człowieka. Pokazano również zagrożenia związane z rozwojem sztucznej inteligencji i z automatyzacją pracy.The article presents the most important stages of development of machines used by man in work, especially thinking machines and devices in the field of artificial intelligence. Positive aspects of the use of smart devices, and areas where thinking machines support human work, are presented. The risks associated with the development of artificial intelligence and work automation have also been shown

БЕЗМЪЛВИЕТО В БИЗНЕС КОМУНИКАЦИЯТА

Author(s): Vanche Boikov,Daryan Boikov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Communication can be described as a process of transmitting information and messages. It is part of everyday business and basic assumption for successful completion and execution of tasks. Communication process aside from the exchange of words represents an exchange of information about the personality of participants (most commonly non-verbal), their arguments, causes, and expectations. The interaction between participants is an inseparable inherent element of communication. Speaking, listening and observation are the basic visible activity during communication. Thinking is invisible activity, which implies preparation of basic information, that changes, rationalizes and creates the feedback. A culture of speaking implies a culture of listening as well. Silence in communication represents a tool, through which can be accomplished the positive, but also a negative determination of interaction.