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Ambiguity Tolerance in Productional Creativity

Author(s): Beatrice Adriana Balgiu / Language(s): Issue: 1/2014

Ambiguity tolerance consists in the “ability to live” with ambiguity to cope with the stimuli or with the situations which are not clearly structured, which are new and complex. The analysis of ambiguity tolerance in the studies on creativity has become relatively important lately. The objective of present research was to analyze the ambiguity tolerance in the potential and productional creativity. In these conditions, creativity was measured by a test of potential creative thinking, on the one hand, and creativity tasks consisting in demand for building logo-texts, on the other hand. The results show that there is a positive correlation between ambiguity tolerance and creativity, the important contribution having the ideational fluency and flexibility in both cases. We can consider that the more individuals tolerate ambiguity, the greater their creative potential and the more they will show it in their creative productions.

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Professional Training in Law Enforcement – An Organisational-Levelled Analysis

Author(s): Cristina Udrea / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Investing in human resources has become one of the most effective actions for an organization in reply to current massive challenges we face on a daily basis. The value of continuous professional development for all employees is nowadays generally acknowledged and it bears no denial. An organization’s mission and its specific targets, as they have been set out, can only be accomplished if personnel members do hold necessary theoretical and practical skills for a high-standard execution of their work-related tasks. Since it is a specialized state institution, with a focus on maintaining public order and safety, Romanian Police has made continuous professional training a permanent priority for its employees in order to sustain a superior standard for all services. Although rules and regulations are extremely clear, we believe that a definitive outline of organisational-levelled continuous training for policemen can provide a series of useful pieces of information for future references in which concerns training plans. A 2014 study on this matter has pointed out both favorable and cumbersome aspects of the process of continuous professional training of Romanian policemen. The results of our investigation can be deemed as significant both in terms of the extension of research for organisational schemes and for the activity of structuring a series of training programmes with multiple gains for this professional category.

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Rolului profesorilor Facultatilor de Medicina in impunerea medicinei sociale in Romania interbelica. Preliminarii

Author(s): Cătălin Botoșineanu / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

I try to propose a new interpretation of the relationship between the Romanian universities and their teachers with the Romanian society. In Iasi, in touch with the professionalisation of the professors, it was developed a university model that will not remain impassive to the effort of modernization of Romanian society. Although that the University of Iasi was built around the Napoleonian model, at the end of the 19th century, professors of Iasi will use knowledge of academic disciplines to popularize ideas in public space in order to become common values. From the point of view of the University-society relationship, we consider important pathways by which the conversion of this speech was produced. In this way, the social role of the University in Iasi and his teachers became a major subject of reflection. In this context it is important to configure the various situations of public engagement of teachers from the faculty of Medicine. After the first world war, the medical and social situation of the war wounded, orphans of the war or families of those missing, have offered the framework where the professors promote the new ideas about the role of the State and the local community to the heroes of the war. The debates led to the manifestation of new perspectives on the problem of public education, the hygiene and living conditions, on medical assistance.

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Comparative Study on the Long Jump’s Biomechanics in the Case of Athletes in Major Competitions

Author(s): Raluca Maria COSTACHE,Corina TIFREA / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Internationally, the research on motor skill biomechanics specific to various athletic events, in general, but in particular in technical events, including the long jump, has gained momentum. In recent decades, the evolution of athletic performances is a natural phenomenon of scientific researches which are carried out, generally, in sports and, in particular, in athletics. Despite all progress made so far, there are still inssufficiently cleared up issues on the role of dynamic and kinematic elements in terms of capitalizing upon the performance capacity in this event, especially in Romania. An important source for understanding and improving the technique of athletic events is the knowledge and application of biomechanics laws to the study and analysis of driving actions specific to athletic events. Athletic jumps can be defined as stylized driving actions used to pass over an obstacle, as tall as possible, or to cover horizontal distances during the leap, as long as possible. Getting some valuable performance in jumping events is conditioned by the following factors: - acquiring a high-efficiency technique; - reaching high speed during the run-up; - acquiring special expansion skills. In terms of the effort required, jumps are included in the group of events which need speed and explosive strength. The latter is closely related to the reactive force of the neuromuscular apparatus, able to pass quickly from a movement of active yield to a movement of active extension (stride).

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Importance of Self-Directed Learning

Author(s): Cristina ŢÎMPĂU / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

All changes in society always changing living conditions and human activity putting the human face and many other issues that I always require prompt and adequate continuous adaptation to the requirements of modern life, always based on up to date information and the ability to develop behavior flexible in relation to circumstances. Modern man is forced to continuously learn to cope during his life changes that occur in the universe of knowledge, in his professional work, the entire content of life. This research has proposed the views of students on the introduction of a special course in the academic curricula in order to prepare them for lifelong learning, independent learning. Thus were identified reasons why students should attend this course with functions: motivation for learning, identifying learning styles and strategies, setting learning objectives according to their needs, planning, monitoring and assessment of learning, training and development of cognitive skills, motivational and resource management. The research is important because it measures the contribution of students to their own training through the use of self-directed learning guides, their motivation to prepare and develop as individuals capable of facing life alone and successfully obstacles, particularly those related to training.

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Presiunea eticii si constructia sociala a spatiului public

Author(s): Antonio Sandu / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

The volume „Publicitatea şi administraţia publică sub presiunea eticii”, written by Sandu Frunza and published in 2015 at Lumen Publishing House, aims to reconsider the public space and the ethical perspectives that peg its functionality. The public space goes from religiously fundamented ethical values towards a perspective of social responsibility that builds the meaning of ethics. The deconstruction of religious values under the impact of secularization requires a reconstruction under the sphere of communicational strategies and communicative actions. The current volume outlines a range of perspectives on social ethics as it appears reflected as ethics of professions from the area of communication, particularly reffering to publicity and public administration, as exemplary areas of manifestation of new ethical perspectives of the action.

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Socialization – Cotinuous Transformational Process

Author(s): Gabriela Berea / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Abstract The article talks about socialization mechanisms: successive taking on of different social roles and status (preschool, school, adolescence, etc.), social learning, institutionalized learning, play, imitation, identification. Although the ability to socialize is an essential trait of human nature, at birth, intellectual, emotional, relational and behavioural faculties are only potential. To develop, they require a social context capable of offering the child multiple situations of social and emotional communication. Both education and socialization target the same result – the human being and its development. That doesn’t mean that there are no significant differences. Education, in the limited sense of organized actions carried on with the consent of the person being educated, determines the birth of necessary human aptitudes already existent as genetic potentiality. The educational process unrolls through specific processes, in special organizations, while socialization can occur either as a consequence of a person’s contact with an organization that is not strongly linked to educational goals or through pressure coming from his or her living environment (natural socialization). Socialization is a very complex process through which the human being (with wide social potential) is transformed into a social being, actively involved in the organizations to which he or she belongs while one of the most powerful socialization forces is, of course, education. It is education that offers the opportunity for professional manifestation of a person in the social environment, through socializing forces specialised in education. The success of socialization drastically increases together with the size of the educational territory.

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Parental Work from a Sociological Perspective

Author(s): Gabriela Berea / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Communication within the family is one of children’s main educational experiences. The way in which parents communicate both among themselves and with the children determines education and some of its specific characteristics that unfold as communication style and also education style. The development of children’s personalities due to parental influences is recognized and analysed in different theoretical researches and practical investigations. When talking about parental work, the focus is actually on their efforts with their own children. Looking at this in terms of practical duties (material occupation) and mental preoccupation (availability), the concept of parental work includes the definition of parent, father or mother, and its perpetuation – meaning its continuity in the child that is not exactly the same nor is it totally different. Also, the concept of “parental work” underlines decades of changes: it no longer is only about “doing” silently, but also about a work that can be quantified and that, in the meantime, has gone through a process of objectification and is now seen as work, as a job or a career – as a set of partly dissociated consequences of a naturalization between father and mother in an initial phase.

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The Voice of Russia and the Romanian new media consumers

Author(s): Cătălin Negoiţă / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Kremlin’s mean of propaganda, since 1929, The Voice of Russia has been the trumpet of the Soviet Union’s interests in the entire world. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, The Voice of Russia adapted to the new realities. Today, it is a public multimedia company. The Voice of Russia passed into the digital era, building a site, appealing to social networks in order to advance its visions. The policy of the company consists in aggressive promotion of the Russian interests abroad. The Voice of Russia’s Facebook profile makes no exception. We will analyze the online media consumers’ reaction to Moscow’s posts.

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Emigration and the Future of Young Generation in Bacău County, Romania

Author(s): Andreea Moraru / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

The approach of this article is to bring forward the long-term consequences of emigration over age population structure, visible in Bacău, which is a county from East Romania. Complexity of this social phenomenon provides us different perspectives of analyze and partial explanations concerning the present demographic situation that Bacău county is facing concerning emigration and its impact on age population structure, taking in count that this county register one of the strongest emigration in Romania. Under economic, political and cultural pressure, people react by trying to find solutions for a better living, as emigration in this case, which has a long term negative impact. Even if it is often seen as an economic privilege, migration, and especially emigration in our case, cause major changes whose cyclical effects are manifested in demographic, social and economic aspects. Therefore, migration is the indirect result of political, economic and social conjecture with worrying implications on population. These implications, already visible in Bacău county, denounce a demographic decline redirected on changing the population age structure translated by a decrease of young population and an increase of old population rate. To reduce the syncope of a descriptive analysis, in this article are used collected data, from National Institute of Statistics, data that are outlined through cartographic method.

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Nicotine Craving and Cue-Exposure Therapy

Author(s): Ioana Monica CIOLAN / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Smoking is affecting global population, causing different cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, cancer, asthma and kidney problems. Although it can be prevented, smoking is one of the major causes of death all over the world. Smoking is a social activity that depending on the context may have different meanings for smokers even if they are aware of the risks they are exposed. Smokers may use different methods of intervention to help them get rid of nicotine addiction. One method is referring to the cue exposure therapy performed using virtual reality. Virtual reality is a new technology used in the treatment of nicotine addiction that involves immersing smokers in environments with specific stimuli in order to reduce the level of craving. This article aims to present the main environments that cause smokers from Romania to feel a greater desire to smoke compared to other environments. Identification of specific stimuli in front of which smokers experience a higher level of craving is the first important step in designing interventions that are based on cue exposure therapy through virtual reality.

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Study on Communication in Physical Activity Programs

Author(s): Ana-Maria Vasiliu / Language(s): Issue: 1/2015

Practicing physical activities influences the quality of life improving the emotional state, peer relationships, material wealth (employees are more relaxed, have a good physical and mental tone are more productive), independence and social integration. Therefore is beneficial for associations, societies, companies interested in improving the quality of life of employees and their efficiency in the workplace, is beneficial for the health ministry by reducing treatment costs for people affected by inactivity, occupational stress, tobacco use, overweight, low self-esteem, schools, universities where participants study by optimizing management activities, social integration, improvement of physical and mental health. Physical education fulfils an economic function illustrated on three types of beneficiaries (Şerbănoiu, Tudor, 2007): individuals who practice physical exercises, families, state or private companies, therefore the society as a whole.

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POLAND – EUROPEAN MODEL OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM

Author(s): Irina Adriana Bilouseac / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

Poland, a country become free, like Romania, has joined the process of democratic transition, the first reform via decentralization has been developed since 1990 and could serve as a model in the implementation of the decentralization reform, establishing a true institutional and financial decentralization. What we propose in this article is to analyze the way administrative-territorial decentralization of Poland, a country that was governed through centralized communist systems similar to Romania, has performed in implementing decentralization and local autonomy in the governance process of the local public administration. The European experience indicates that in order to succeed in reforms in the field of decentralization and local autonomy, it is necessary to divide territory into independent administrative-territorial units, able to govern themselves and manage their own public affairs.

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Psycho-Clinical Aspects of Unemployed People

Author(s): Andreea Teodora Tudor / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The present research had the purpose to determine the existence of any psycho-clinical aspects regarding unemployed people. The sample of subjects consisted of 32 long-term unemployed, women and men, aged between 19 and 60 years. The research method consisted of two questionnaires and statistical analysis. The instruments used were the Zuckerman – Kuhlman 5 Factors Personality Questionnaire and The Strategic Coping Approach Scale. The results from the research showed that unemployed people have low levels compared to the average population in impulsive search of sensations, which indicates a preference to organizing, planning and the lack of contingency, and low levels of activity compared to the average population, which shows a tendency of stagnation, inactivity and reluctance to change. Also, the female unemployed population show similar levels with the mean of the population in terms of sensation seeking and impulsive activity. Instead, they use the behavioral coping strategy for social networking, more than the average population, showing a tendency to group affiliation when stressful events, such as and the loss of employment, happen. In conclusion, the research showed that there are differences between the mean of people and people without jobs, leaving room for future research, which can be more comprehensive.

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Professionalizing Teaching Career

Author(s): Cristina Iorga,Cosmina CONSTANTIN / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Article aims to identify the degree of professionalism of the teaching career of educational institutions. The investigation was conducted using as a research tool - the questionnaire, it was applied to a batch of 27 teachers who have shown a willingness to supplement those 15 items. The research instrument had as objectives: identifying staff training to currently investigating professional interests and opinion on training and continuous improvement. Result of the investigation I found that teaching staff is interested in training, improvement, noting to be made on professional qualifications. The desire to deepen both the discipline is taught, and the use of IT tools in teaching. The professionalisation of the teaching career teachers is essential in my view, this will develop student performance in the field to carry out the activity. Although teachers interest and knows the importance of training, refresher see from this research that the main criterion for the choice of courses is the amount of fee. This criterion should be a warning for the organizers of these courses. We intend to expand nationwide research to obtain conclusive results on professionalizing teaching career.

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Opportunities for Improving the Legal and Institutional Framework Aimed at the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Romania

Author(s): Maria HANYECZ-DEBELKA / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This paper is focusing on the current legal and institutional settings promoting the social and educational inclusion of children living with disabilities in Romania. The research is based on the analysis of relevant statistical and legal documents, in addition to the outcome of a focus group interview conducted by the author with representatives of institutions providing educational and social services aimed at various categories of disabled children. The study tackles issues which are important for the success of inclusive social policies aimed at children and young people living with disabilities. The research is discussing the following dimensions: support infrastructure and legal framework for children and young people with disabilities the system of social services,; accessibility and efficiency of services; human resources and issues related to professional development, curriculum of individualized child development programs, career orientation. The underlying hypothesis is that in order to be successful, the educational and social service system should provide personalized services and individualized development and career paths driven by the particular needs and conditions of each child. The paper concludes that in order to alleviate or eliminate possible disadvantaging effects, social actions and policies undertaken by the family, school, civil society and community should be linked as parts of a coherent action strategy.

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The Influence of Psychological Factors on Teaching Communication

Author(s): Cristina ŢÎMPĂU,Olivia PISICA / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Being an extremely complex process, didactic communication is more determined and accordingly encouraged or rather restricted by a variety of factors whose incidence is different which means that some very significant impact while others have an almost negligible share, not induce adverse effects and does not require special measures for improvement. The investigation followed the impact of psychological factors on teaching communication, among which were mentioned: the nature of transmitted knowledge representation and organization of knowledge, fostering communication and motivation for learning the proper use of various nonverbal channels (remote communication, gestural communication, communication through touch) and some pedagogical factors such as feed-back typology, styles, methods of training, presentation training.

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Play and Learning at Preschool Child

Author(s): Olivia PISICA,Cristina ŢÎMPĂU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Preschool period is the most important period regarding the physical and psychological development of the child. The role of kindergarten and kindergarten activities in default of all education is the foundation of the child. Social games are constructed to develop and strengthen skills for preschool cognitive development, language, emotional and social-emotional. The research pursued a harmonious intertwining between quantity and quality, given that they precede each other. Choosing the research methods he learned the nature of investigative tools appropriate to the time required to its performance but not least the need to demonstrate the desired depth assumptions. The family is that to start of the process of formation child, and later kindergarten to be the environment in which the child understands and accepts the rules of social life. The teacher aims to shape, to give of the child stability, all of them being required to better adapt to school. In order to achieve the objectives and hypotheses we proposed to use certain instruments through which I could capture the specifics of the game and learning at preschool age, from the perspective of educators, parents, and later we can see the baby directly. I chose as research tools: survey-based questionnaire and observation - observation grid.

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Aspects of Social Support in the Case of Abstinent Alcoholic

Author(s): Iános-Mátyás-Tamás Mihók-Géczi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Abstinence is an indispensable premise in the case of alcohol addicts. In maintaining this, aside for a solid motivation and the task to alter his behavior and attitude towards life, an essential role is played by the element of Social Support. Understanding, as an individual, the way in which the Social Support system to which he belongs functions, is determined in offering a protective or, contrary to that, obnoxious role, with the feeling of abandonment, loneliness or alienation. The present study is an element of a future sociologic research focused on alcohol addicts, now abstinent. The batch of participants was made up of 116 persons, men with ages between 26 and 73 years (with an average age of 47.55 years), abstinent alcoholics with a minimum of three months since their debut or their last relapse. Utilizing the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support / MSPSS (Zimet and colab. 1988), the perception of an abstinent alcoholic about the grade of fitness of the social support has been evaluated, in three groups based on the time of abstinence: up to four years (n=39), between four and eight years (n=35) and above eight years (n=42); as well as three groups based on relapses: no relapse (n=60), with one relapse (n=23), and with several relapses (n=33). Statistically significant results regarding the quality of social support have been noticed: a) By family members – those without relapses (2 items) and those with abstinence between four and eight years (2 items); b) By friends – those without relapse (1 item); c) From other significant persons – those without relapses (1 item) and those with abstinence over eight years (1 item).

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New Approaches in Social Sciences Field

Author(s): Marius Costel ESI / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The relevance of social sciences in a deeply complex informational society underlines the possibilities of assertion specific for scientific environments, in accordance with the contemporary society’s needs and requirements. Otherwise, a proper interpretation of the theories and proposed models that relate with the social sciences domain implies firstly a relational clarification concerning a series of components as the epistemic analysis degree, the value sequences, or the benefits acquired through an actual research. The premises of this assumption that we take into account include accustomed and recent scientific research and approaches, validated in the knowledge area of social sciences.

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