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Pulverizaciones agrícolas. Distribución y pérdidas de producto con diferentes boquillas
Authors: Merani Victor Hugo , Guilino Facundo Daniel , Vazquez Juan Manuel , Larrieu Luciano , Ferro Daniel Adalberto , Platz Pedro , Tourn Santiago Néstor , Pereira Esteban Ivan , Mur Matilde
Published: May 2023

La pulverización es una técnica fundamental en la producción agropecuaria. La selección de boquillas para reducir la cantidad de producto sin afectar la distribución es un desafío. El siguiente trabajo pretendió evaluar el desempeño de diferentes boquillas sobre objetivos verticales y horizontales. Se contrastaron tres boquillas: 3D-defy, XR11002VP y TXA8002VK sobre dos prismas de diferentes dimensiones. Se utilizaron tarjetas hidrosensibles y el programa CIR1.5® para evaluar impactos, DVM y Eficiencia sobre caras horizontales y verticales del objetivo en galpón cerrado y asfaltado. Se obtuvieron los mayores valores de todos los parámetros en caras horizontales. Eficiencias entre 50 y 80 % en horizontales, 7% y 25 % en verticales. En horizontal entre 150 y 240 imp.cm-2 según boquilla, 25 y 50 imp.cm-2 en verticales.  En función del diseño los resultados se ven limitados a condiciones de 0 viento y suelos muy parejos. Sin embargo, permiten partir de una base sólida para la toma de decisiones en condiciones de trabajo mucho más reales que las generadas por las mediciones en laboratorio. La boquilla Defy-3D es una boquilla nueva sin pruebas de comportamiento a campo. Se puede concluir que las angulaciones de las boquillas no mejoran la calidad de aplicación en las posiciones verticales bajo las condiciones del ensayo. En los objetivos verticales no se alcanzó el número mínimo de impactos recomendado para fungicidas o insecticidas de contacto. Pese a las condiciones ambientales del ensayo, existieron pérdidas de producto.
BRIDGING THE GAP STUDIO: Urban Design Education for a Global Community
Authors:   University of Maryland, Simon Madlen , Hameed Hussein Shainmaa ,   Al-Nahrain University, Weaver Gregory ,   University of Maryland
Published: May 2023

Bridging the Gap studio brings US graduate students together with Iraqi graduate students for a collaborative urban design studio focusing on urban redevelopment proposals for selected commercial districts in the two capital cities of Washington DC and Baghdad. Each group serves as information sources, eyes-on-the-ground, cultural informants, fact-checkers, and design critics for their overseas counter-parts. We communicate through multiple digital means. The theoretical basis of the studio draws upon multiple disciplines. Initial motivation was citizen diplomacy, an international relations concept that engages private citizens in “individual endeavors that serve their own interests and diplomacy which includes a framework for cooperation be-tween countries.” 1 A key theoretical underpinning of the studio is globalization, cutting across multiple disciplines, spanning practice and academia. 2 Initial support came from a multi-national design firm that viewed the studio as a vehicle for inculcating competencies of global practice. Interaction with the firm’s architects, including a studio design competition bringing US and Iraqi students to the Washington DC office for internships, shows students how practitioners put those cultural understandings and skills into action. Globalization has also influenced the discipline of geography, leading to innovations in the field of comparative urbanism3 4 to work “across diverse human experiences.” Bridging the Gap Studio produces studies in comparative urbanism as the US and Iraqi students discover both similarity and difference in their focus districts. The pedagogical method draws upon situated learning theory, positing that learning should take place in authentic practice settings and within social communities.5 While one could argue that every architectural design studio exemplifies situated learning, Bridging the Gap studio offers a particularly robust example, creating a setting that mimics global practice and a social community that includes inhabitants of the urban places under study.
Strategic Deviations: Pedagogical Surprises in the Expected Flow of Things
Authors:   Delft University of Technology, Sioli Angeliki , Kelsch Kristen ,   Louisiana State University
Published: May 2023

Engaging a pedagogical methodology developed to question the status-quo of the design studio, this paper discusses research on architectural pedagogy. Titled “Strategic Deviations,” this suggested methodology argues for the necessity of carefully orchestrated provocative and unexpected moments in the curriculum; moments that unsettle the students by connecting them with elements of the creative world outside architecture. By doing so the goal is two-fold: to expand their understanding of architecture’s definition and role in our contemporary society and to amplify their willing-ness to engage with new challenges, moving from a feeling of anxiety to one of creative control. The discussion sets off with an overview of the approach’s philosophical and educational underpinning, situating it in a relevant literature of similar pedagogical methods. It elaborates on the educational context in which it was employed, the general student demographics, and the motivations which lead to its conception. It then zooms into the case of a recent first-year studio and presents three strategic deviations designed specifically for the given context and year-level: “The Dinner Party,” “The Literary Imagination,” and “The Cinematographic View.” Examining the way each of the deviations functions in the given architectural environment and the way it enhances the learning outcomes, the paper demonstrates how this methodology opens up possibilities to transform a student’s trajectory moving forward. Arguably most importantly, it works to pull forward interdisciplinary links between architecture and other creative fields in a tangible way. Presented as an opportunity to celebrate the beginning of a new semester, “The Dinner Party” is a playful and engaging way to bring forward architecture’s social capacity. It pulls from culinary culture to emphasize that architecture is often the design of an atmosphere, ritual or experience. Introduced as a deep breath during midterms week and camouflaged as a typical reading assignment, “The Literary Imagination” pulls from works of fiction to introduce students to alternative approaches for understanding, studying and representing space through the arts. Although perceived as an end of the semester documentation process, “The Cinematographic View” reinforces the first-years’ role as part of a larger design community and touches on cinema’s alluring capacity to capture and communicate space. Following a detailed description of the aforementioned deviations, the paper concludes by exploring the potential for this methodology to be employed in different contexts. It argues for the importance of an architectural education that surprises the students and connects emerging designers with the richness of the life and the world outside the confines of the discipline; the world for which they will be called to design for in the future.
Representing Authenticity: Drawing an Aesthetic Pedagogy
Authors:   Tulane University, Smith Benjamin J. , Norman Carrie ,   Tulane University
Published: May 2023

At one time, authorship was derivative. From Quatremere de Quincy’s theories on type, to Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand’s study of morphology, some of the earliest theoretical texts on architecture propose imitation as the common starting point for any process of artistic production. The following paper elaborates on a course co-taught by an architect and an historian on design’s relationship to the aesthetics of architectural production. The motive of the course was twofold: introduce architecture students to digital media and address concepts that influence representation, including intellectual foundations and rules of drawing. Conceived of as a series of six drawing assignments, the course problematized fundamental elements of architecture—not doors, windows, walls, balconies, and toilets, but form, image, and representation became the lens for production. Through these lenses, students tackled the stakes of architectural image-making to imagine the craft of drawing through methods of visualization. Students reconstituted plans, sections, and renderings of given source materials that included fifteen precedents spanning 2000 years of architecture’s history. While the conventions specific to architectural graphic standards remained intact, assignment objectives aimed to leverage composition, configuration, and copy as sites of invention to transform source materials. Weekly lectures addressing the aesthetics of drawing, supplemented by texts by architects and theorists, including Massimo Scolari, Robin Evans, Sonit Bafna, Sam Jacob, and John May, among others, situated students’ efforts within a discursive context focused on mobilizing drawings as communicative artifacts that reveal qualities of architecture. Viewing architectural history as an open-source canon, students proposed alternatives by confronting architecture’s past. Hovering between autographic and allographic subjects, architectural representation challenged the ethic of authorship as an artifact tethered, in equal parts, to repeatability and reproduction, as well as uniqueness and autonomy. Building off of discourse from aesthetic philosophy surrounding the copy and the fake, architectural drawings can be evaluated as devices to question intention and invention through pedagogy. The drawings from the class performed as both visioning and re-visioning tools, redrawing history, mobilizing referents, to make something new. Today, authorship is contingent.
From School to Office: Recent Graduates’ Perceptions of Architectural Education and Practice
Authors:   Virginia Tech, Grant Elizabeth , Ozolins Peter ,   Hughes Associates Architects and Engineers
Published: May 2023

Recent graduates of architecture schools often report a mismatch between their experiences in academia and their experiences in the profession. We relate the findings of the first phase of a more extensive exploration that will examine these graduates’ experiences, investigate the nature of the relationship between education and practice, and develop suggestions for bringing the two worlds into closer alignment. During our time both as licensed architects and educators, we have joined others in observing a disconnect between the academy and the office. In schools, we have seen priority given to “design” architects, with little attention paid to “architects of record” who are often responsible for the long and messy process of bringing visions to reality. In practice, we have seen interns who expected to design high-profile projects become disillusioned once exposed to the fuller, more complex nature of architectural practice. Practitioners have expressed their frustration with the unrealistic expectations and lack of appropriate preparation of recent graduates. Following a brief literature review on the relationship of education to practice, we present a questionnaire administered to recent alumni of Virginia Tech. We ask these alumni to describe their understanding of practice gained while in school, their sense of preparation when entering the profession, and their observations about the nature and degree of alignment between these two realms. In our conclusions, we describe the relationship between a more theoretical and design-focused architectural education and the obligation of the architect to sustain a viable practice, to respond effectively to client-defined project needs and budget, and to ensure the health, safety and welfare of society. The ultimate goal of the research is to provide students, faculty, and practitioners with a clearer picture of the best ways to adequately prepare students to enter the profession.
Motley Crews: Learning from Interdisciplinary Design Charrettes
Authors:   Drexel University, Brack Mark L. , Jung Uk ,   Drexel University, Koltick Nicole ,   Drexel University, Niemiec Jacklynn ,   Drexel University, Mangold William ,   Drexel University
Published: May 2023

"Academic environments can provide opportunities for students to learn collaboration, reveal its benefits and establish a culture of collective problem-solving. The 21st-century charrette model involves disciplines outside the fields of design and promotes the sharing of knowledge. This paper will consider the characteristics of successful collaborations by analyzing the development of interdisciplinary student charrettes at Drexel University over the past decade. Students at Drexel are engaged in collaboration and civic engagement in professional settings prior to graduation. As a shared university value, civic engagement experiences educate students in problem-solving, understanding diversity, good citizenship, and leadership. We see the charrette as a unique academic model to span the needs of professional collaboration and civic engagement. Since 2008, Drexel University’s Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism has conducted six student design charrettes that we believe provide a model for encouraging both civic engagement and participation from a wide variety of disciplines. Envisioned as an intense collaborative activity spanning three days, our charrettes are non-competitive and not given aca-demic credit, but regularly attract the participation of 60-80 students including law, nursing, graphic design, engineering, and interior design majors. The charrettes have sometimes featured renowned guests from outside of the institution, intended to inspire and expose the students to other design perspectives and processes. In addition to a brief history of design charrettes at Drexel University, this paper discusses logistical issues and student experiences that characterize these events. We will then discuss charrette leadership and learning outcomes, and ways this charrette model may be successfully applied in other settings."
Celebrating the Inclusivity of Film
Authors:   Boston Architectural College, Van Lauwe Amy
Published: May 2023

With an ever more diverse student body in design education and a profession that still does not fully reflect this evolution, what methods can educators call upon to allow this diversity to express itself? Emerging technologies, the fluidity of gender and a more global understanding of ethnicity and religion has changed the way students experience, perceive and represent the world around them. Utilizing film as a pedagogical tool to study space as well as the built environment and to represent this fluid, global and imperfect world can allow students a more robust understanding of reality and their place within it.
De la presencialidad a la virtualidad. Experiencias en docentes de enfermería de universidades de Medellín durante el confinamiento por COVID- 19
Authors: Cataño Saldarriaga Edwin Alexis , Osorio Castaño Jhon Henry
Published: May 2023

Durante la pandemia, las instituciones de educación cerraron sus espacios físicos para dar continuidad a los procesos de formación a través de ambientes virtuales. El objetivo fue describir la experiencia de la presencialidad a la virtualidad en docentes de enfermería de la ciudad de Medellín durante el confinamiento. Estudio cualitativo descriptivo exploratorio, en el que participaron 12 informantes con los cuales se logró saturación teórica a través de entrevistas abiertas, previo consentimiento informado; estas fueron transcritas en su totalidad y se analizaron bajo la técnica de análisis de contenido. En los resultados emergieron cuatro categorías: La presencialidad (indica la relevancia de la interacción cara a cara), el contexto de la virtualidad (describe la situación de incertidumbre frente a una metodología poco conocida), la vivencia en la virtualidad (se muestran los inhibidores y facilitadores de la transición a la virtualidad) y efectos de la virtualidad (se evidencian los cambios producidos como respuesta a la transición). Se concluye que, en la transición de la presencialidad a la virtualidad, se experimenta una situación de angustia, incertidumbre y desconocimiento que, al recorrerla, genera transformaciones en la manera de enseñar y aprender.
MENINGKATKAN SIKAP SOSIAL PESERTA DIDIK MELALUI PENILAIAN AUTENTIK DALAM PEMBELAJARAN FISIKA SMAN 22 BONE
Authors: Utari Sri Neta , Ali M Sidin , Sari Salmiah
Published: May 2023

Penelitian ini adalah penelitian tindakan kelas yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan sikap sosial peserta didik dalam pembelajaran fisika. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui lembar obsrvasi dengan dua siklus. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa sikap sosial peserta didik pada siklus I dengan indikator jujur menunjukkan persentase tertinggi sebesar 41,41% dan persentase rendah sebesar 4,69%. Untuk indikator disiplin diperoleh persentase ttertinggi sebesar 40,63% sedangkan persentase rendah 2,34%. Pada indikator bertanggung jawab memiliki persentase tertinggi sebesar 44,53% dan persentase rendah 4,69%. Untuk indikator toleransi terdapat persentase tertinggi 48,44% dan terendah 3,906%. Pada indikator santun memperoleh persentase tertinggi 53,94% dan persentase rendah 3,906% sedangkan untuk indikator disiplin diperoleh persentase tertinggi 54,69% dan persentase rendah 0,78%. Pada siklus II sikap sosial peserta didik pada indidkator jujur persentase tertinggi 73,43% dan rendah 9,37%. Untuk indikator disiplin skor persentase tertinggi 83,37% dan rendah 1,56%. Pada indikator bertanggung jawab skor persentase tertinggi 78,12% sedangkan skor rendah 14,06%. Dengan indikator toleransi diperoleh persentase tertinggi 92,18% dan persentase rendah 3,12%. Untuk indikator santun menunjukkan persentase tertinggi 79,68% dan persentase rendah 20,31%. Sedangkan untuk indikator percaya diri perolehan persentase tertinggi 81,25% dan rendah 1,56%, maka dapat dikatakan sikap sosial peserta didik mengalami peningkatan dari siklus I ke siklus II. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang diperoleh dapat disimpulkam bahwa melalui penilaian autentik sikap sosial peserta didik dalam pembelajaran fisika dapat dikatakan meningkat.
DIAGNOSIS KESULITAN MATERI FISIKA PADA PESERTA DIDIK KELAS XI IPA SMA NEGERI 3 BARRU
Authors: Nurhaniah Andi , Kaharuddin Kaharuddin , Ali M Sidin
Published: May 2023

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif deskriptif yang bertujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat kesulitan materi fisika peserta didik dan faktor-faktor penyebab kesulitan materi fisika peserta didik kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 3 Barru. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah peserta didik kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 3 Barru tahun ajaran 2020/2021 yang berjumlah 102 peserta didik. Data tingkat kesulitan materi fisika peserta didik diperoleh dari tes hasil belajar peserta didik. Sedangkan data faktor-faktor yang menyebabkan peserta didik mengalami kesulitan materi fisika, diperoleh dari lembar kuesioner yang diisi oleh peserta didik dan dilanjutkan dengan wawancara semi terstruktur. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tingkat kesulitan materi fisika peserta didik berada pada kategori sukar. Kesulitan yang dialami peserta didik disebabkan oleh faktor kesehatan, intelegensi, lingkungan masyarakat, kebiasaan belajar, waktu belajar dan sarana pembelajaran daring.
THE PLOCHATA DOLMEN NEAR ZLATOSEL, BULGARIA
Authors: Seglins Valdis , Kukela Agnese
Published: May 2023

Bulgaria is extremely rich in prehistoric and historic monuments. Among Bulgaria�s outstanding monuments there are not only the well-known Varna Necropolis and Provadia-Solnitsata ancient salt mining and urban center, but also numerous other megalithic prehistoric monuments. Until now, they have been identified and recognized mainly as alone - standing objects. Current paper focuses on the study carried out in the vicinity of Zlatosel village on the prehistoric site of the Plochata Dolmen. The study indicates that this large area consists of a complex of ancient buildings� ruins and fragments of megalithic structures. The most notable fragment of an ancient complex structure is so-called portal dolmen, which has been adapted for sun observation during much later times, when the monuments of the megalithic culture had already lost their significance. This ancient culture is evidenced not only by numerous ruins of megalithic monuments easily recognizable in a large area (including the northern shore of the lake Dondukovo), but also by many signs and symbols still visible on the exposed surfaces of the natural rock walls and several man-made natural rock formations and their groups. The study reveals that closer attention should be paid also to the shapes given to the individual stone material monoliths and the quality of the surface treatment. This is an important indication not only of the quality of the tools used by the ancient craftsmen, but also of their skills and ability to do their job with sufficient precision.
ON THE PHENOMENON OF THE �WAGNERIAN PAINTING�: THE DIALECTICS OF SENSE-MAKING, PERCEPTION AND INTERPRETATION
Authors: Rovenko Elena
Published: May 2023

Having given the concept of �absolute music� a negative connotation in 1846, Richard Wagner not only inspired discussions about the correlation of form and content in music, but also affected painters, who were looking for the ideal of non-mimetic meaning-generating strategies in music, and whose art was specified as the �Wagnerian painting� by French critic Theodore de Wyzewa. Using the historical and the comparative approaches, as well as the semantic and structural analysis of the expressive means in music and painting, the paper: 1) considers Wyzewa�s programme with regard to certain correlations of his ideas with the thoughts of his predecessors; 2) interprets three steps of Wyzewa�s gnoseological algorithm (from �reality� to �consciousness�) as the correlate to components of sense-making in Wagnerian dramas: the �sensation� is generated by the pure sense of musical material, the �notion� is similar to the extra-musical meaning of leitmotifs, the �emotion� is the essence of an artwork; 3) projects this algorithm onto the Wagnerian painter�s creative process; 4) demonstrates various non-mimetic strategies of the meaning formation in painting, close to the algorithm for connecting extra-musical and immanent musical meanings in Wagnerian dramas; 5) discusses the epistemological mechanism in the process of perceiving the �Wagnerian painting�: from a purely visual impression (like �sensation�) � through actualizing cultural memory and an artist�s intentions (intellectual mediation, �notion�) � to super-intellectual reflection (synthetic �emotion�).
The paper will specifically concern itself with the creative process in the fin de siecle era and to renew the ideas about the basis of synthesis of arts. As it is the art of Henri Fantin-Latour that is considered as the example of the Wagnerian painting by Wyzewa himself, the article will focus on this oeuvre in particular.
ECO-SCIENCE RELATED TOPICS IN THE LITERARY OPUS OF CRISTINA CAMPO
Authors: Bandalo Visnja
Published: May 2023

This paper innovatively analyzes cultural intersections between the literary oeuvres of modern Italian writer Cristina Campo and the topics pertaining to ecocriticism, together with concomitant digital aspects thereof. The paper explores transversally across her work the elements of eco-literature, as well as interdisciplinary convergences in the light of environmental science with a particular focus on the envisionment of diachronic examples and other external intertextual elements in the contemporary era. The interest of this paper is in theoretical exegesis and correlated eco-poetical descriptions of Campo's writings, but also in analogous articulation concerning the global sphere of comparative literature. Likewise, the paper thematizes such compositional and expressive literary characteristics of Campo's opus highlighting idoneous ecopoiesis in the same epoch present in the philosophical domain, as well as in social disciplines and natural sciences, thereby creating a multicultural plurality of perspectives. Furthermore, it induces conceptual and compositional branching regarding literary genres by focusing from an ecopoietic standpoint on Campo's environmentally themed essayism and all other narratives, including the protoliterary nature of eco-related epistolary notes. The lyricism is envisaged too, by taking into consideration literary implications of ecopoetry, also in relation to actual and potential cultural models (Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Marianne Moore etc).
THE RISK OF CUSTOMS VALUE FRAUD ON IMPORTS OF GOODS PURCHASED FROM AFFILIATED COMPANIES
Authors: Tudor Florin , Matic Andreea Elena
Published: May 2023

The role of multinational enterprises as an important actor in the sphere of international economic relations is well known. It is essential that the governments of the member states take care so that transfer pricing does not affect the rules of commercial competition, the international consensus at the level of trade agreements, but at the same time does not constitute a major risk of customs fraud that could affect financial interests of the EU. The OECD recommendations highlighted the fact that business transactions between related companies must be carefully managed, and the customs value verification for this type of operations must be done more carefully in the future. It should not be overlooked that such analyzes should also be corroborated with other provisions, close to the sphere of transnational organized crime, a fact of such a nature that thorough checks should also be made in the sphere of knowing the clientele and the beneficial owner. Through this article, we aim to identify the risks of a customs nature, the correct legal interpretation, and the establishment with greater precision of the rules of interpretation and strict application of the customs value in relation to transfer prices.
POSSIBILITIES OF USING ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING IN THE CONDITIONS OF SLOVAK FOREST ENTERPRISES
Authors: Giertliova Blanka , Hajduchova Iveta , Kristakova Stanislava
Published: May 2023

The capital structure of a company represents the way in which companies finance their needs. Currently, there is no unifying determining the selection between debt and equity. Existing scientific knowledge does not lead to the creation of a unified theory of capital structure, mainly because of the complexity and number of factors that influence these decisions. Considering the specifics of forest enterprises, including from the point of view of financial management, this problem is even more complex. The article analyses the internal and external factors that influence the decision-making about the optimal capital structure of business entities. In terms of applying the principles of the green economy, the importance of forestry and its contribution to reducing the amount of carbon in the air is emphasized. Forest ecosystems provide benefits known as ecosystem services, which have ecological, social, and economic importance for society. Their fulfilment requires ensuring sufficient and appropriate forms of financing. The article analyses the possibilities of applying the alternative forms of financing that are obtained outside the banking system and classic capital markets in the case of forest enterprises. As the results of the analysis showed, in some cases the choice of a suitable capital source is not a matter of the company's management's decision, but the result of its limited and in some cases conditional availability.
THE ROLE OF FINANCIAL INDICATORS IN FINANCIAL COMMUNICATION TO SHIPBUILDING ENTITIES
Authors: Lungu Georgiana Maria
Published: May 2023

The key component of the institutional communication of the economic entity is the financial communication. Financial communication is at the crossroads of many areas, including finance, marketing and law, has many characteristics, and its purpose is to reflect the values, philosophy and culture of the economic entity. The message of financial communication is to create and manage the image of the economic entity for all its components.
Financial communication is comparable to marketing in that it is a method used, in particular, by listed corporations to influence the market value of shares. As a result, it is used as a means of attracting new investors, retaining individual employees and shareholders, and evaluating the actions of the economic entity.
Through this paper, I want to analyze the main indicators of two Romanian entities in the field of shipbuilding and to establish their potential on the national market. The quality of accounting information is more than just a support for managers' choices; quality can also be highlighted through the interaction and communication between the departments of an economic entity, in particular it reflects the level of collaboration and cooperation in order to implement the decisions and strategies of the entity. The evaluation of the quality of information, in order to communicate, is done through the prism of three variables: technical elements, analysis of the financial image of the economic entity and other qualitative elements.
A MOTHERS AUTONOMY AND RESPECT DURING BIRTH IN ASSOCIATION WITH POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
Authors: Skodova Zuzana
Published: May 2023

Aim: The purpose of the study was to explore whether the mother's autonomy in decision making during birth and the mother's respect during birth are associated with the symptoms of postpartum depression.
Methods: The study participants included 240 women 6-8 weeks postpartum (mean age 30.4, SD=4.8; 47.1% primiparas; 75.4% vaginal birth). The online questionnaire was used in the data collection process, consisting of the MADM scale (Mother's Autonomy in Decision Making), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), and the selfdesigned 6-item Scale of Mother's Respect During Birth. Pearson's correlational analysis and the Student's t-test were employed.
Results: Statistically significant association was found between depression symptoms and the level of mother's autonomy in decision making (p= 0.01), as well as between levels of depression and mother's respect during birth (p= 0.001). Higher levels of mother's autonomy and respect during birth were associated with lower levels of postpartum depression symptoms. Women with a high risk of postpartum depression (identified as EPDS score 13) had lower scores in autonomy (t=2,43; p= 0.05) and respect during birth (t=2,19; p= 0.05) compared to women without risk of depression. Vaginal birth was associated with lower MADM levels (p= 0.05), but higher respect levels during birth (p= 0.001) compared to operative birth. Primiparity was associated with lower levels of respect during birth (p= 0.05).
Conclusion: The findings of our study showed that the mother's respect during birth and autonomy in decision-making are associated with the worse mental well-being, particularly the symptoms of postpartum depression.
POST-PANDEMIC VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION, A LINK IN OVERCOMING SOCIAL ANXIETY
Authors: Plescan Costel , Banica (Pufu) Corina Ionela , Coman Claudiu , Dan Mioara
Published: May 2023

This article is based on social research, a questionnaire that investigated the way in which virtual communication in the pandemic and post-pandemic period was a point of support in overcoming social anxieties, increased anxiety due to lack of physical contact between people and the fear and inhibition thus developed.
The research hypothesis starts from the idea that people, accustomed to the impositions of the pandemic period to communicate only virtually, avoiding physical contact with loved ones and social and professional environments, will have a greater openness today, for virtual communication, compared to the pre-pandemic period.
This point of view is based both on the material benefits deriving from virtual communication (without the cost of travel, accommodation and gaining time even after distance professionalization, online) and on the apparent emotional benefits, consisting in overcoming the anxieties felt during face-to-face meetings after such a long time!
The research tool was the questionnaire, sent by WhatsApp groups, messenger, and social network Facebook, to some working group (professors, students, contributors) who were asked to answer voluntarily, under anonymity, for three minutes to questions regarding their preferences in the field of communication, virtual or face-to-face, after the end of the health crisis.
The answers were given by 215 people, aged between 16 and 75 years and aimed at highlighting the conditions acquired post-pandemic, 162 (75,3%) female respondents and 53 (24.7%) male respondents.
ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, THE MOST EXPOSED COUNTRIES TO BULLYING AND PUBLIC SHAMING AS MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES FOR COMPLIANCE
Authors: Coman Ecaterina , Scarlat Anca Diana , Lautaru Anca
Published: May 2023

In the contemporary society there are many discussions about bullying and public shaming, especially about the need to eliminate this harmful phenomenon, but it can be seen that there is bullying and public shaming that affect countries and populations, without synchronizing the approach for the elimination of these phenomena. Romania and Bulgaria are the most exposed countries to what could be defined as bullying and public shaming at the country and population level, especially by presenting them as negative examples, following the annual statistics compiled by Eurostat. One of the reasons why Romania and Bulgaria are again in the last places in the EU is the consumption of daily portions of fruits and vegetables. Eurostat statistics place the two countries in last place in the EU in the consumption of fruit and vegetables, in the interpretation given by the media that took the Eurostat data, but it is, in fact, the consumption behavior that shows the population's refusal to comply to standardization. The two countries are large producers of fruits and vegetables, with a large number of owners of gardens and orchards, and culinary behaviors are based on the consumption of fruits and vegetables, especially from their own production. We have carried out an analysis of documents, at European level, correlated with the campaigns launched in the media, starting with 2014, to demonstrate the links between the need to impose new rules at EU level and the persuasion techniques used to determine the population to comply. We also conducted quantitative research to highlight the perception of public opinion on these topics. Thus, we demonstrated that the fact that Romanians and Bulgarians are on the last two places in these annual statistics shows, in fact, the total failure of standardization, at the level of society, as well as the impossibility to change mentalities in the two traditionalist countries. The role of bullying and public shaming is, in fact, to make the population comply, but even so no other results have been obtained.
SUPPORTING AND HINDERING FACTORS FOR INFORMAL ENVIRONMENT � FAMILY - WHEN ADDRESSING VIOLENCE IN COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS
Authors: Tomka Milan , Pavelova Luba , Balaziova Petra
Published: May 2023

Background: The issue of violence in couple relationships is perceived from the perspective of integrative ecological model, while informal environment of women is considered one of multilateral phenomena influencing women?s strategies when addressing violence in couple relationships.
Methods: The objective of the paper is to describe informal environment of women living in violent couple relationships. As many as 44 women participated in the research, aged 22 � 65. Most of them reached secondary education and almost 60% of them were divorced. Most of them worked full-time, two of them were on retirement pension. Two of them were childless. The data was collected with help of a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview and further processed by the method of qualitative thematic analysis, based on the phenomenological approach.
Results: The results show the supporting and hindering factors in informal environment of women living in violent couple relationships. The supporting factors are understanding, support and help provided by all family members. The hindering factors are lack of faith in what women go through, lack of understanding, unwillingness to help, and indifferent attitude of family members.
Conclusions: The results show that it is important to recognize the supporting and hindering factors in informal environment of women in violent couple relationships not only when setting up the effective assistance provided by formal or informal helpers, but also when setting up effective strategies for public policies.
ANIMATION AS A TOOL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENT SOLUTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN THE PREPARATION OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS
Authors: Krpec Radek
Published: May 2023

One of the important elements in the preparation of future teachers in the field of mathematics is the analysis of the pupil's solution. These analyses include the analysis of the video recording of the pupil's solving procedure and the monitoring of the pupil's thought processes. We do not always have a video recording of solving the task (GDPR, video file size, time space, etc.). Therefore, in the preparation of future teachers in the field of the first grade of elementary school, we tried to replace the video recording with an animation of the solving procedure with the possibility of switching on accompanying comments describing the thought processes during the animation. Students studied various approaches to solving mathematical tasks in this form and subsequently had the task of describing the possible thought processes to solve the assigned task themselves. As part of this contribution, we would like to give an example of such animation and the results of a survey among students on how they evaluated the contribution of such animation in their preparation for the future profession of teacher in the field of mathematics.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CULTURAL INSTITUTES IN THE WORLD AND THEIR ROLE IN SOCIETY
Authors: Liu Qian , Oprean Constantin , Popa Maria
Published: May 2023

Culture enables sustainable development, it is a driver and enabler of sustainable development. In the context of globalization, cultural exchanges are increasing, the role of language as a carrier of culture is more and more evident. Many countries even include it in the national strategy, and it became an important government action. Confucius Institute is an important platform for Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and mutual learning. And the same of the other cultural institutes which have been mentioned in this paper. They are all playing a role of the international community civilization messenger, they are bridges to connect the native countries and abroad, they are Culture Ambassadors who help the comprehension and cooperation among people and countries. Cultural institutes are one of the most relevant examples in the attempt to promote and connect cultures, which have been set up on a similar, though not identical pattern, in view of creating a stronger sense of self-identity and contributing to an integration of diversity by mutually accepted knowledge and dialogue.
Through the literature research method and the comparative method, this article illustrates the important role played by cultural institutions in the world. Also by the comparative study of the main cultural institutions in the world in terms of vision, mission, aims, the examination assessment systems, financial resources, management and so on, the article provides a clearer reference for the running of cultural institutions.
DEVELOPMENT OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT SKILL WITH LAW UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Authors: Popova Olena , Holubnycha Liudmyla , Zelenska Liudmyla , Simonok Valentyna , Balatsynova Alla
Published: May 2023

As law enforcement officers work in the system person-person they must possess the ability to stop conflicting parties� opposition, resolve conflicts on the basis of the rule of law. So developing conflict managing skill is crucial in professional training of future law enforcement officers. The article purpose is to identify the impact of the pedagogical conditions of the development of future law specialists� ability to resolve conflicts on the level of this skill development. Research methods were the following: general theoretical ones (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction); general empirical ones (observation, pedagogical experiment, adapting techniques: �Tolerance Index�, �Methods of diagnostics of the communicative installation� etc.); statistic methods (criterion X2 ). An experiment was conducted on the basis of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine). The sample was 144 persons. Two experimental groups were created. In E1 (n = 52) the effectiveness of the pedagogical conditions (creation of a cultural and educational environment aimed at educating humanistic values of students; mastery of knowledge on conflict resolution; creation of various professional cases) was checked in the process of teaching law students and their internship. In E2 (n = 48) extracurricular educational activities were added to the above work. In control group C (n = 44), there was no mentioned purposeful activity. The research results: the number of law students with a high level of conflict management skill in group E1 +26.9%, in group E2 +41.7%, in group C +18.2%. The conclusion is about the importance of the complex application of the mentioned pedagogical conditions that may be effectively adapted for developing conflict managing skill in the professional training of other specialists.
CITIZEN'S PERCEPTION OF COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICES. CASE STUDY: GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF REGISTRATION OF PERSONS BRASOV
Authors: Coman Claudiu , Curecheriu Ioan
Published: May 2023

Public administration and the services it provides have an important role in the lives of citizens. People use these services to solve various problems, and the interaction that people have with public servants can influence their opinion about the performance and quality of these services. The aim of the paper was to identify the factors that influence the perception of citizens from the city of Brasov about the public services for registration of persons and marital status, in order to improve them and make them more efficient. In order to fulfil the purpose of the paper, we established a series of objectives, such as identifying the citizens� level of satisfaction with the public services of Brasov County, as well as identifying the difficulties that citizens face when they use public services. In order to conduct the research we used a quantitative method and we applied an online questionnaire to 793 beneficiaries of public services from Brasov county, in the period between 15 November 2020 - 15 December 2020. The main findings of the research revealed that citizens of Brasov County have a positive opinion about the public services they have access to, their level of satisfaction being high, and that factors such as age and material wealth can influence their satisfaction with the public services. Hence, the research showed satisfaction with the public services increases with age, and that people from the urban area are more satisfied with the services than people from the rural area.
UKRAINIAN FORCED MIGRANTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SITUATION AND LIVING CONDITIONS
Authors: Molikevych Roman S.
Published: May 2023

The article describes the living conditions, situation and spatial placement of Ukrainian forced migrants in the Czech Republic. As a result of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, almost 370,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war received temporary shelter in the Czech Republic. The research methodology is based on the results of a sociological survey, the purpose of which was to establish the living conditions of refugees in the Czech Republic and their attitudes towards further stay. It has been established that the majority of migrants are concentrated in the capital (Prague), Central Bohemia, Moravian-Silesian and South Moravian regions. Among the migrants, natives from the western regions of Ukraine and the temporarily occupied territories of the south and east predominate almost equally. The key aspects in choosing a place of accommodation were cities where one of the family members worked or the reason was the big cities. Although half of the forced migrants are children, and 4/5 of the adult population are women, almost 70,000 migrants have already started working in official jobs. Despite this level of adaptation, 80% of refugees are determined to return home. Of course, the language barrier was the main problem during adaptation among the immigrants, but the majority are satisfied with the living conditions and the attitude of the Czechs towards them. Ukrainian labour migrants performed a fairly significant economic function in the Czech Republic even before the war, so the mass influx of forced migrants significantly revived the labour market and, due to social benefits, affected the economic situation. The economic effect of refugees is always largely negative, but in a rather short period it is compensated by the rapid adaptation of Ukrainians and the filling of certain sections of the labour market.
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE HEALTH SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE CITIZENS� HEALTH
Authors: Cancellieri Serena
Published: May 2023

In the light of Objective 3 of the 2030 Agenda, this paper will analyse, the state of the art of sustainable innovation in healthcare and the improvement that it has brought both in the context of healthcare companies and socio-economic factors using the statistical data. The author will consider the repercussions that the emergency linked to Covid-19 had on this progress, highlighting the criticalities of the health system. The author will also look into how these can be remedied through the investments provided for by the National Plan of Resistance and Resilience (PNRR) and implementing major changes in the area of sustainability. Particular attention will be examined to the way in which the national health system has approached Objective 3 of the 2030 Agenda, taking into account the data contained in the European Report on Equity in Health published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2019.
This paper will also analyse the models of sustainability in healthcare companies and how these can influence the management of budgets with the rational use of natural resources, prevention through the promotion of sustainable lifestyles, green purchasing, projects for health & safety at work and sustainable waste management.
In conclusion, it will be demonstrated how the 'One Health' approach of sustainability in health and collaboration between different disciplines and professionals is central to a multidisciplinary strategy for global health taking into account the impact on health of the citizens of their social, economic, and environmental choices.