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The influence of consumer protection on the satisfaction of airline passengers
Authors: Neacşu Nicoleta Andreea , Madar Anca
Published: December 2019

In a society in continuous development, air transport is no longer a luxury, but a means of transportation for everyone. As a result of rising living standards, reducing the cost of air travel compared to other means of transport, more and more people prefer to travel by air even at short distances. The steady increase in popularity and accessibility of air transport has led, in some cases to a decrease in the quality of services provided by air transport companies and in violation of consumer rights. The evolution of consumer protection has influenced positively the quality of air transport services by imposing certain obligations and offering a very high level of security, which increases passenger satisfaction. This article aims to quantify the passanger satisfaction and how the rights and interests of travelers in Romania are protected. In this respect, the authors carried out a quantitative research done among consumers of air transport services. Through a quantitative exploratory empirical research, 110 people were interviewed. The results obtained have made it possible to determine the extent to which the airline they have called upon, succeeds in meeting their expectations and satisfying them, and their rights have been respected. At the same time, passengers’ perception of the quality of air services were also quantified. Based on the results, the authors make some recommendations to airline companies’ management: to develop effective strategies to protect the rights and interests of travelers, to permanently identify the needs of the actual customers.
The Role of InteractiveTeaching Strategies in Business Education: Challenges for the 21st Century
Authors: Contu Eleonora Gabriela
Published: December 2019

In contemporary context, broad innovation in the education domain through the use and capitalization of interactive teaching strategies in the educational-training process can only help improve the teaching and training of younger generations in order for them to adapt and achieve performance in line with labour market challenges. The role of teachers as tutors that shape destinies towards performance and success is essential in a modern and complex society. Worldwide, training intelligent and fascinating young people is a challenge today. Success arises from the ability of teachers who have to form younger generations not to memorize and repeat information, but to build a space that is adequate for a harmonious development of excellent people who guide themselves in life according to moral values and principles. The study rely on a qualitative research, conducted on a sample of convenience, consisting of 56 respondents (students at a Business School from Bucharest, Romania). The research question raised at this point is: What is the role of interactive teaching in the educational-training process? The purposes of this study are: 1). to highlight the importance of using interactive teaching methods in business education; 2). to present the main aspects for achieving an effective didactic communication; 3). to highlight the importance of education as a means of investing in human capital; 4). to emphasize the way in which New Information and Communication Technologies influence the educational-training process; 5). to present the qualitative research findings.It was found that interactive teaching has a great importance for the whole interactive -teaching process. The ideas mentioned by the young respondents surprisingly render the issue of digitization and its effects on the educational-training process.The topic of this paper is interesting and its original content provides information for further researches in this area.
The impact of lending on bancassurance activity
Authors: Marzai Abliz Elda
Published: December 2019

Due to financial crisis, and especially because of prudence in lending (retail, micro, and corporate), banks are looking for new sources of income, and bancasurance is clearly a potential source of revenue. Thus, in the financial market, the interests of two major components of it are met: banks maximize commission income, and insurers make access to the large customer base of banks. Bancassurance is a distribution channel of insurance products through bank branches, bringing important advantages for banks, insurance companies and customers. The main advantage for the bank is that earns fee amount from the insurance company, the insurance company increases customers data base and market share, the client satisfy his financial needs and requests in the same institution. Considering that in Romania, banks and insurers do not provide information on the number of insurances sold via the bancassurance distribution channel, as well as commissions obtained by banks for the insurance sale, to determine the development of bancassurance in Romania, we used the statistical data provided by the National Bank of Romania, on credit growth and data provided by The Financial Supervision Association, on the evolution of gross written premiums. Bancassurance is one of the most important insurance distribution channels, accounting for approximately 36% of the global insurance market, in 2016, Europe’s insurers generated total premium income of €1 189bn and had €10 112bn invested in the economy. Regarding to the risks of bancassurance business for banks and insurers, they mainly concern distinct capital requirements for the banking and insurance systems, which will be covered by the Basel III and Solvency II directives. This paper aims to analyze the influence of credit on the bancassurance activity in the last 5 years in Romania, the economic, political and legal factors that have a negative impact on the development of bancassurance, and also the calculating the correlation coefficient r (Pearson’s coefficient) and his result.
Seeking freelancers’ motivations to adopt an entrepreneurial career – a storytelling approach
Authors: Damian Daniela , Capatina Alexandru
Published: December 2019

The article focuses on worldwide freelancers’ stories as explanatory resources in understanding their reasons to embrace or not an entrepreneurial career in the future. It draws upon a qualitative study related on the motivations, benefits and risks of moving from freelancing to an entrepreneurial career, where participants to the survey freely expressed their perceptions, based on their genuine experiences. Data collected during the online survey have been analyzed with NVivo12 software. This qualitative analysis software allowed us to cluster the narratives of freelancers, based on the similarity of words contained in content, on the one hand, and provided a deeper understanding of sentiments related to freelancers’ intention to turn entrepreneurs, on the other hand. Following two principles: „No need to invent or reinvent yourself” and „Real life truths have the most impact”, freelancers who accepted our invitation to the survey highlighted their visions regarding the future career paths, providing an approach to understand their choice to become or not entrepreneurs. Freelancers’ career path can be more comprehensively described, understood and communicated using their stories, so storytelling has been considered the single methodology appropriate to this study objectives. Practical implications of this qualitative research, its limitations and further research avenues are also highlighted.
Integrated Reporting Framework Application: A European Case Study in the Financial Sector
Authors: Tiron-Tudor Adriana , Jula Octavian , Martin Diana Lavinia , Zanellato Gianluca
Published: December 2019

The ongoing academic debate about Integrated Reporting (IR) outlines that a particular interest shall be accorded to the financial sector organizations. Furthermore, previous researches in the field of an IR demonstrates the need of further research in the developing the actual knowledge of the advancement and implementation of IR and how are companies applying the guiding principles given by the framework. Therefore, this research aims to analyze to what extent European Union financial sector organization are following the IIRF guidance. Using a sample of 140 annual reports, a manual content analysis has been employed to identify the compliance evolution of financial sector organizations towards the IIRF contents elements, for the period 2013-2017. Results reveals the attention given by financial organisations, toward the “Organisational Overview”, “Risks & Opportunities” and “Business Model” content elements of IR. While the categories that remain unforeseen are “Performance & Outcomes”, “Other Elements” but the problematical category is “Future Outlook” with the lowest disclosure degree.
Study on the Factors that Determine the Success of ERP Implementation
Authors: Hajj Wissam EL , serhan Ali
Published: December 2019

The world boundaries are broken with the advancement of technology and the emergence of digitized industries where economies are connected via the cloud. As a result, effective management of information internally and externally is needed to cope with the quick changes in markets. For a long time, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been used to streamline company processes data, and hierarchy. ERP’s are capable of managing big data, integrating business processes and providing effective communication channels within the entire organization. ERP’s provide many benefits to businesses if implemented right. However, an alarming 70% of ERP implementations fail. The failure can very well bankrupt the organization and at the same time affect the vendors very negatively. The aim of this paper is to discuss the critical success factors in ERP implementations from the employees, management, consultants and vendors perspectives. Prior research has identified critical success factors for ERP implementations but none classified them according to the above perspectives (employees, management, consultants and vendors). Surveys were conducted with 60 ERP project participants including senior managers, employees and vendors. A regression analysis was made to investigate the relation between the success of ERP implementations (dependent variable) and the contributions of employees, management, consultants and vendors (independent variables). The study shows that there exists a positive relation between successful ERP implementation and the following: management support, employees’ motivation, training, management, vision, and professional consultants. Add to that, the study aids managers and ERP participants to identify the major success factors that must be implemented for the objective of having successful ERP deployment.
Online business networking experience research on ecommerce entrepreneurs
Authors: Neghină Ramona-Alexandra , Mănescu Valentin-Andrei , Ganciu Mihaela-Rodica , Ilie Dragoș-Georgian , Militaru Gheorghe
Published: December 2019

In a globalized economy, marketing performance is needed in order to be competitive and also for being successful on the market. Currently entrepreneurs have access to a big variety of tools and also the increase of networking platforms can help ecommerce entrepreneurs to gather a lot of useful information and know-how for improving their businesses. Our main objective is to identify which are the most important needs of ecommerce entrepreneurs in order to communicate with other business owners activating in the ecommerce industry. The secondary objective is to identify what features an online networking platform should have, so it can become an important tool for growing the marketing performance of each member using the networking platform. The research was made using a focus group composed of 15 participants. All participants are business owners who manage at least one online store, selling goods in the local or international market for at least 3 years. The results of the qualitative research made, were that entrepreneurs who are trying to establish a new business partnership, use classical forms of communication, such as email, phone calls, meetings but they believe that online communication would be beneficial for their business because it can be less time consuming and more efficient for finding new business partners or relevant know-how. We discovered that entrepreneurs wish to learn from the practical experience of other business owners to improve the marketing performance through innovation and creativity. The research conducted has identified the key elements of a business networking platform for entrepreneurs. The main elements required include privacy, security, sharing relevant know-how and elements that can create an efficient collaborative environment. We also discovered that local entrepreneurs do not use or know a business networking platform that meets their demands and expectations for sustaining an effective business development.
Particularities of public-private partnership in the social field of the republic of Moldova
Authors: Călugăreanu Irina
Published: December 2019

The evolution between the state institutions and entrepreneurship relations in developed and developing countries has proved that their constructive interaction is the most important factor for successful socio-economic development. The constantly growing gap between the needs of the population for public services, infrastructure, requirements for them, and budget constraints led to the development of partnership relations between the state and business structures. Most often, the interaction between business and state institutions is found in such areas as state property management, regional development, the real estate market, infrastructure support on technological development, transport infrastructure, utilities, medical and educational services. But to a greater degree public-private partnership, especially in the form of a concession, is applied in the field of transport and directly in road construction and we would like to emphasize that this practice is quite broad with rich experience. Interest in PPP mechanisms in other areas of activity is primarily due to the budget deficit. Without attracting the resources and potential of the institution of entrepreneurship, it is impossible to solve the task of developing a particular socially significant sphere in the context of a lack of budgetary resources. Therefore, taking into account the condition of the Republic of Moldova social sphere, more interesting is the issue of the extension of PPPs in the public sector. Therefore, the article is dedicated to features, tools and tendencies identification of public-private partnership in the social field within the Republic of Moldova.
The Impact of Digitalization on Business Sector Development in the Knowledge Economy
Authors: Neamţu Daniela Mihaela , Hapenciuc Cristian-Valentin , Bejinaru Ruxandra
Published: December 2019

The economic progress of the last century has made the world seem smaller, has shortened distances and provided an increase in the efficiency with which the ‘time’ resource is used. Currently, due to technological advancement, change and diversification of the means of communication, we can get in touch or chat with another person in every corner of the world, no matter how far. Moreover, technology imports raise standards of living and bring improvements to the service sector. The digital revolution is not only present, but it is increasing every day. Knowledge fundamentally transforms every sector of our economy - from health up to transport and energy and beyond. The scope, magnitude and omnipresence of these disruptive innovations are truly unprecedented. The objective of our work is to present the theoretical approaches regarding the information society and its quantification in Romania and in the European context on the basis of specific indicators. By analyzing these indicators, we try to demonstrate the position of our country at world level in terms of ICT. In order to analyze comparatively the situation of ICT and their impact on the business sector, two major indicators for this field were analyzed - the State ICT Development Index (IDI) and the DESI Index.
‘Green’ obligations regarding new constructions and their impact on the real-estate market
Authors: Chirica Simona
Published: December 2019

The fight for reducing green gas emissions and energy dependency requires the application of additional obligations for new constructions. From this perspective, starting from the 31st of December 2020 building permits for new constructions in the private sector shall be issued only if their energy consume is close to zero. Additionally, the recovery level of non-dangerous waste resulting from construction and demolition activities must reach until the 31st of December 2020 a percentage of minimum 70%. Also, with respect to residential and non-residential buildings, new and also buildings undergoing major renovation, the real-estate developers must take into consideration the obligations regarding the instalment of electrical recharging points for electrical vehicles. These additional obligations will have a direct impact upon the construction price and will certainly influence the real-estate market.
Investors’ rationality. An analysis of the investment policy implications on shares valuation
Authors: Curmei-Semenescu Andreea , Ţilică Elena Valentina , Curmei Cătălin Valeriu
Published: December 2019

The investment policy is an important vehicle of growth for a company. Therefore, it should be one of the most important signals for investors on the capital market. We use the statistical analysis of the investors’ reactions to different patterns of investment policy to highlight their preference for an active investment policy and the changes induced by the financial crisis. By a comparative analysis of investors’ preferences with the information on the accounting-based performance recorded simultaneously and in the future economic exercise, we focus on the extent and limits of the investors’ rationality around the financial crisis.
IAS 41 and beyond for a sustainable EU agriculture
Authors: Daniel Buda , Hoinaru Razvan , Mocanu Mihaela , Roman Aureliana-Geta
Published: December 2019

Titles on IAS 41 are not very common in the literature and in this sense there is a limited understanding of the standard and the agri-business, especially when connected with accounting and sustainability. Far too many scholars when taking into consideration natural capital, place too much emphasis on abiotic products (wind, solar, etc) which have a different economic behaviour than the biotic ones (biological assets). The topic of IAS 41 is important, as agriculture is one of the strategic sectors for human living and it needs to be accounted for in careful manner. Our article connects accounting with agriculture, sustainability and non-financial reporting for an integrated perspective. There are certain intrinsic challenges that IAS 41 presents, especially when dealing with FVA, but there are also greater needs for materiality in the sustainable agricultural development in the EU legislation. Authors think that there is place for improvement whiten the standards and the future of EU farming should not leave accounting behind, making a call for a more integrated approach and understanding.
Terrorist Threats on the Economic System and Combating Financing Terrorist Organizations
Authors: Manea Gheorghe Cosmin , Paun Cristian Valeriu
Published: December 2019

The complexity of the current economic development environment in Europe, as a result of the extremist-terrorist phenomenon, coupled with the accentuation of the economic and technological differences among the world’s states, has generated and continues to generate new risks and threats to the communities of people. The attack on civilian targets in Europe, by members of criminal groups has resulted in casualties within human communities. Because some terrorist-extremist organizations are criminal groups that have a specific organization, logistics, specific training and education systems that cannot work without having material and financial resources. As a result, one of the most effective ways to fight the threat of terrorist organizations is to combat terrorism financing.
The scientific event – a visibility factor for the university brand
Authors: Pop Nicolae Al. , Ott Cristina-Maria , Simion-Danicescu Daniela , Todea Steluța
Published: December 2019

Events are considered to be the most personalised form of marketing, as they generate direct contact with customers and partners. Academic events aim at promoting socio-economic values by facilitating collaborative partnerships with the involvement of academics, researchers, graduates, students and representatives of the economic environment. They also aim to set up participatory networks between socio-economic actors, academic centers and research institutes, as well as between different communities at national and international level in different fields of activity. The experience offered to the participants creates a close relationship with the academic brand, which gains a human face, which positively influences the way it is perceived by the public. Through academic events, it is favored to combine ideas, generate new concepts and phenomena that are useful to society’s progress. Moreover, by debating and analysing current trends on how both the economy and the university are affected, new theoretical and practical opportunities can be identified. The main purpose of experiential marketing in academic events is to create memorable and long-lasting ties between the participants and the academic environment, as well as to generate real opportunities for socialisation and interpersonal interactions. The article will treat the results of a qualitative exploratory marketing research. It aims at clarifying and understanding the paradigm of the scientific event as a factor of university visibility. In this sense, we aimed to identify the relationship of interdependence between the scientific event and the brand of an university.
Influence of the educational level on the spreading of Fake News regarding the energy field in the online environment
Authors: Pop Mihai-Ionuț , Ene Irina
Published: December 2019

For the last couple of decades, the social and economic dynamics of our society have evolved in an exponential rhythm creating innovation and new opportunities which contribute to social welfare and comfort. Unfortunately, this continued progress, especially in the field of digitalisation, is also accompanied by challenges. One of these refers to cybersecurity and the uncontrolled spreading of fake content. The emergence of the Internet, alongside the development of new communication instruments and platforms, has determined major changes in the way people interact with each other. Moreover, the structure of the online environment facilitates the spreading of unverified or false content. Even specialized fields like the wood industry, the banking sector, the pharmaceutical industry or the energy field can become targets of misinformation campaigns, implemented in the online environment. Furthermore, in a context in which, in recent years, major political, economic and social events have been negatively influenced by the dissemination of fake news, the combat of this phenomenon has become a priority on the European Agenda. This fact is being reinforced by the growing number of scientific articles and researches that address this issue, but also by the budget of almost 5 million euro allocated in 2018 by the European Union for the combat of misinformation and false news. In this regard, it is important to better understand the factors that determine the appearance and spreading of fake news. By analysing the roots, the main sources and the patterns of fake news, we will be able to elaborate efficient tools in order to fight against the spreading of this phenomenon. The objective of this study is to analyse if the educational level of online users is one of the factors which directly influences the acceptance and the spreading of fake news, especially when dealing with specialized content such as information regarding the Romanian energy field.
The possible conflict of interests existing during the exercise of the mandate of administrator or for the position of shareholder of a company by shares regulated according to law no. 31/1990
Authors: Stoican Andreea
Published: December 2019

In order to prevent putting personal interests above the interest of the companies they manage, the legislator provided a set of legal rules of limitations of the management bodies’ and shareholders’ behavior. As such, the conflict of interests can occur either at the exact moment of their nomination in the position of management, either during the exercise of their mandate. Therefore, for such decisions that take into account personal matters, to be avoided, the legal rules contain very particular provisions in order to avoid such circumstances of acting in the detriment of the company, either through limitations of the mandate, either through very strict sanctions, including the incrimination of such deeds.
The Long-Term Effectiveness of Advertising Driven Sales for E-Commerce SMEs
Authors: Suciu Marta Christina , Năsulea Christian , Năsulea Diana Florentina
Published: December 2019

The digital transformation allowed for new business models to emerge. As e-commerce seems to be the future of retail, an increased number of entrepreneurs are trying to better leverage advertising in a way that leads to a sustainable business model on medium to long-term. Retail enterprises are spending huge amounts of money on search engine and social media paid advertising in order to make their products visible and thus, become more profitable. However, the academic literature suggests contradictory findings on the effectiveness of paid advertising. While it seems that for already established companies like e-Bay, shutting off paid campaigns doesn’t proportionally decrease the website’s traffic, for other large companies with more competitors the findings show the opposite, meaning that most of the traffic goes down when paid-campaigns are shut off. The aim of our paper is to assess the impact of paid campaigns on the long-term revenues of small and medium enterprises activating in e-commerce. Is investing in paid advertising at the beginning enough to build a business model that can sustain itself or does less advertising translate directly in less sales? We conduct a study for a number of Romanian e-commerce businesses in order to determine the effectiveness of paid advertising and its impact on the long-term revenue stream. Our findings contribute to the existing research through valuable data on small and medium size enterprises and can help business managers make more informed decisions when it comes to their paid advertising budget and strategy.
Assessing operational risk while using the logic of the included middle
Authors: Tudor Răzvan
Published: December 2019

From the Solvency II perspective, the capital requirement for operational risk is based on the application of a standard formula. The limitation imposed by this approach as well as the definition of operational risk by establishing certain types of activities (i.e. internal processes, people, systems, etc.) as generating causes does not allow, at least for the time being, the establishment of an effective way of managing the operational risk regardless of the type of strategy chosen. Any human operator involved in the risk identification and evaluation processes, within most of the organizations, would use the logic of the included middle based on Boolean binary values (i.e. true/false, 1/0, etc.). This article attempts to logically analyze the methodological impact that would result from using a logic of the included middle which accepts that an identified operational risk and an unidentified operational risk may coexist at the same time, in a risk profile, provided that the identified one is actual and the unidentified one is potential, reciprocal and alternative but never up to the 100% limit. The included middle in this approach is the transition state, which is perfectly possible in terms of defining the topological properties of the time in which the identified operational risks analyzed are assessed. The novelty of this approach is based on the fact that the logic of the included middle, which we include in research as a concept and as a tool, was one of the nudging factors that underpinned the development of the wave mechanics (e.g. Schrodinger’s Cat Paradox) and some of the quantum physics theories later, and its use has never been tested in risk management.
The new economic good: Your own personal data. An integrative analysis of the Dark Web
Authors: Vargas Vanesa-Madalina
Published: December 2019

Do you remember the times when the copyright or a patent had no economic value? Neither do I, because this happened more than 300 years ago when the printing activity took place completely free. It was the eighteenth century, when France, England, Germany and the United Kingdom realized that the author was pretty important for the state and the first regulations appeared. Exactly like the intellectual property, in the new era of technology, dynamic change and growing e-commerce, the data with personal character is the newest economic good. More and more studies and journals show that in the near future the personal information will also have an economic value since databases are so important for businesses, but also for other institutions like the police or even intelligence agencies. The current article is the first in a row of a complex research regarding the importance of the personal data in the current economy and its actual value in an organization. Further studies will be needed in order to conclude and create a model for measuring the value of personal data. This first step is a research and a detailed analysis of the current status-quo. The changes that appeared after the entry of the European directives regarding General Data Protection Regulation will be analyzed. Another significant section of the article is a close review of the personal data black market. In order to submit this aspect as clear and objective as possible, further research on the dark internet (Onion) was conducted and prices for clones of credit cards, Amazon or PayPal accounts and cloned personal documents were examined and charted.
Comparative Study of Employees´ Key Competencies in Selected Health Care and Non-Health Care Organizations
Authors: Vydrová Janka
Published: December 2019

The key competences of the employees are currently discussed and the open labor market. Competencies can be divided into three basic categories: knowledge competencies, application competencies and social competencies. Each work environment brings its specifics and the aim of the article is to find similarities and differences in the key competencies of employees of healthcare organizations and non-healthcare organizations. In order to achieve the objective of the article, a questionnaire survey was used, involving 791 respondents from healthcare organizations and 647 nonhealthcare organizations. In total 1438 questionnaires were evaluated. The research was conducted from May 2017 to September 2018. The first phase of the research was conducted through semi-standardized interviews with 73 representatives of healthcare organizations and 69 representatives of non-healthcare organizations. Qualitative research was attended by representatives of the personnel department, respectively human resource management department. The second stage of the research was followed by quantitative research. Quantitative research was conducted from January 2018 to September 2018. Key competencies were selected on the basis of importance, and the author of the article deals with those that respondents have identified as most important for their work. Here we can find the first differences in the identification of key competencies in healthcare organizations and nonhealthcare organizations. Respondents of healthcare organizations have identified as the most important the ability to communicate, the ability to learn, teamwork, reliability, dedication to work, empathy, emotional maturity and work under stress, while non-healthcare organizations respond as key communication skills, IT skills, creativity, team work, reliability, emotional maturity, and work under stress. Three research hypotheses have been identified. The research hypotheses were verified using the Two-sample t-Test statistic for equal means.
Should Schools Undermine or Sustain Multilingualism? an Analysis of Theory, Research, and Pedagogical Practice
Authors: Cummins Jim
Published: December 2019

Most school systems around the world prioritize the teaching of languages and aim to develop bilingual or multilingual proficiencies among their students. However, in a large number of contexts, schools also systematically and intentionally undermine the potential of immigrant-background and minoritized students to develop multilingual abilities. This undermining of multilingualism operates either by explicitly prohibiting students from using their home languages (L1) within the school or through ignoring the languages that students bring to school (benign neglect). In some cases, exclusion of students’ L1 is rationalized on the grounds that maintenance of L1 will hinder students’ integration into the mainstream society. In other cases, exclusion is based on the conviction that there is competition between languages and use of the L1 either in school or home will reduce students’ exposure to the school language (L2). The validity of this time-on-task argument is critically analyzed in the present paper. I argue that the research shows no consistent relationship between immigrant students’ academic achievement (in L2) and use of L1 in the home or in the school. By contrast, several research syntheses have highlighted the positive academic outcomes of bilingual programs for minoritized students and also the feasibility of implementing multilingual or translanguaging pedagogies in the mainstream classroom.
Attitudes and Language Use of (Potential) New Speakers of a Minoritized Language: The Case of Adults Learning West Frisian in Formal Courses
Authors: Belmar Guillem
Published: December 2019

Adults learning a minoritized language are potential new speakers, that is “adults who acquire a socially and communicatively consequential level of competence and practice in a minority language” (Jaffe, 2015; see also O’Rourke, Pujolar, & Ramallo, 2015). New speakers’ research has become quite common recently, marking a shift from traditional notions of speakerness in minority contexts, built around the Fishmanian discourse of reversing language shift (see Kubota, 2009). The new speaker—actually neo-speaker—is one of the seven categories put forward by Grinevald and Bert (2011), who considered them central to language revitalization. Answering the call for more data on new speakers of minoritized languages in O’Rourke, Pujolar, & Ramallo, 2015, this research aims to start the debate on the new speakers of Frisian (see Belmar, 2018; Belmar, Eikens, Jong, Miedema, & Pinho, 2018; and Belmar, Boven, & Pinho, 2019) by means of a questionnaire filled in by adults learning the language in the evening courses offered by Afûk. This article presents an analysis of their backgrounds, their attitudes towards the language, and their language use.
Translation as a Barrier Between the Original Narrative and the Reader: A Case Study of Power Relations and Address forms in two Crime Fiction Novels
Authors: Pavilavičiūtė Gintarė
Published: December 2019

The role of the translator as a mediator in literary translation has been a salient topic since the late twentieth century; however, more recent research signifies that instead of mediating, the translator sometimes affects the literary work translated, shifting the focus of such studies onto the reader. This article aims at investigating the possible effects the literary translator has on readers by examining the translation of address forms, the linguistic markers of social status into Lithuanian and the use of polite or familiar second-person pronouns in two crime fiction novels, Agatha Christie’s (1962) The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side and John Grisham’s (1992) The Pelican Brief. The literary translator may grapple with the issue of translating social interactions which derives from cultural differences present in the source and target societies. Subsequently, containing a plethora of realistically depicted social interactions adherent to the societies represented, crime fiction provides Lithuanian literary translators with the issue of deciphering power relations based on the contexts they occur in and choosing accordant polite or familiar second-person pronouns, a distinction not present in English. As this study has shown, the translator sometimes misinterprets power relations or favours the social norms of the target culture, affecting the narrative, creating effects discordant with the writer’s intentions, and in some cases, entailing a contingent barrier between the reader and the original literary work.
Geograf „dusz i serc ludów” czy piewca kolonializmu? Afrykańskie relacje Antoniego Ferdynanda Ossendowskiego z dzisiejszej perspektywy
Authors: Drozd Aleksandra
Published: December 2019

From his journeys, Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski brought not only memories useful while writing his books, but also zoological, botanical and ethnographical collections. What is more, the traveller was also preparing an environmental movie. In Ossendowski’s African stories we can find two main creations of narrator and his attitude towards otherness – gushing writer and meticulous scientist. That is because books should seem attractive for the reader. In this article I characterize Ossendowski’s African stories against the background of polish literature related to journeys to Africa and the theory of reportage.
Kolej jako figura nowoczesności w krakowskim krajobrazie pamięci. Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, "Łuk"
Authors: Rozmus Jacek
Published: December 2019

Novel Łuk by Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski is a innovatory of polish modernism. The writer showed citizens of Cracow, just before the I World War, in a really epic way. Unique landscape of the city in the novel is represented by it’s modern character, which contains urban engineering, housing and city buildings from the 19th/20th century, history and culture
from the ancient architecture. Also the art stored in museums. This process was run by war, railway is the metaphor of the violent passage and influence on people.
Improving Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) Completed Visit Rates in Newly Referred and No-Show Patient Cohorts
Authors: Tran Michelle , Choi Yookyung Christy , Brummel Amanda , Burres Heidi , Moon Jean , Schlichte Allyson , Schweim Kelly
Published: December 2019

Background: Missed appointments are a common problem in health care. No-show rates and incomplete appointments for referred patients affect patient outcomes and clinician’s productivity, including comprehensive medication management (CMM) visits that pharmacists provide. This study aims to compare CMM completion rates between various intervention types in communicating with the patient.

Methods: This was a prospective, multi-clinic study to examine newly implemented intervention effects on CMM completion rates. The primary outcomes were CMM completion rates among newly referred patients and CMM completion rates in any no-show patients, including both newly referred and returning patients. In the newly referred patient cohort, three intervention types (blocking time on the pharmacist’s schedule to speak to the patient, sending an electronic medical record or EMR-linked message, and sending a letter) were compared to a control group with no interventions. In the no-show cohort, a pharmacist call intervention was compared to a control group consisting of sending a letter.

Results: Completed CMM appointment rate was six times likely with a pharmacist’s in-person reminder (odds ratio [OR] 6.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.58-22.77) and with an EMR-linked message (OR 6.0; 95% CI 1.76 to 20.52) when compared to sending a letter. In no-show patients, completed CMM appointment rate was 2.36 times likely with a pharmacist’s call intervention versus sending a letter.

Conclusion: Pharmacist’s direct reminder to the patient when in clinic and EMR-linked message improved CMM completion rate when compared to mailing a reminder letter. Pharmacist’s call to no-show patients for their CMM appointment was effective for the patients to reschedule and complete their CMM appointment compared to mailing a reminder letter.

 

Article Type: Original Research
TRATAMENTO CIRÚRGICO DE LESÃO PERIAPICAL PERSISTENTE: RELATO DE CASO
Authors: NASCIMENTO-MENDES Camila Almeida , SILVA Camila Cristine , REDOVAL Felipe Matheus de Sales , REZENDE Gabriely Cristinni , MENDES Rafael Carlos
Published: December 2019

A cirurgia parendodôntica é um procedimento altamente elegível quando se busca resolubilidade de casos onde o tratamento e retratamento endodôntico não foram capazes de solucionar, podendo assim atingir altos índices de sucesso, desde que seja feito um correto planejamento utilizando técnicas e materiais adequados. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi realizar um relato de caso clínico em que o paciente apresentava histórico de trauma na infância e, após 30 anos, passou por tratamento de necropulpectomia nos dentes 11, 21 e 22, sendo observado insucesso endodôntico após um ano para os dentes 21 e 22. Foi realizado o retratamento endodôntico nos elementos 21 e 22 e, após três anos, o paciente voltou a apresentar sintomatologia com aparência radiográfica de canais bem obturados e com limites apicais da obturação adequados, porém com lesão extensa (15 mm) envolvendo os ápices dos dentes 21 e 22, sem sinais radiográficos de regressão quando comparados ao exame radiográfico obtido ao final do retratamento. Sendo assim, o tratamento proposto foi a curetagem da lesão seguida pela apicectomia dos dentes 21 e 22, alisamento radicular, enxerto ósseo e recobrimento com membrana de colágeno reabsorvível. O acompanhamento clínico e radiográfico por 12 meses mostrou a manutenção da função e estética dos dentes 21 e 22, ausência de sintomatologia, reparo ósseo e satisfação do paciente.
Pro: Inhaled corticosteroids for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Authors: Mahler Donald A.
Published: December 2019

Background: Controversy exists about the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although ICS are not approved as monotherapy for COPD, four ICS molecules, beclomethasone, budesonide, fluticasone furoate, and fluticasone
propionate, are used widely in combination with long-acting bronchodilators to treat patients with this disease. Objectives: (1) To review the mechanisms of action of ICS therapy that contribute to the clinical benefits in COPD; and (2) to describe improvements in lung
function, relief of dyspnea, increase in exercise tolerance, and the reduction in exacerbations with ICS use in COPD. Methods: A critical review of phase III and IV randomized clinical trials that evaluated ICS therapy in patients with COPD. Results: ICS
have two major mechanisms of action in human airways: a reduction in edema and inflammation, and a decrease in airway hyperresponsiveness. ICS monotherapy significantly increases the morning peak expiratory flow rate and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (peak and trough) as early as the
first day of treatment. Discontinuation of ICS therapy leads to deterioration in lung function. Treatment with ICS, alone and in combination with a long-acting bronchodilator, reduces dyspnea related to daily activities, whereas withdrawal increases breathing difficulty. Patients with COPD
exhibit a significant increase in exercise duration with ICS therapy. The combination of ICS with one or more bronchodilators significantly reduces the exacerbation rate compared with bronchodilator therapy alone. The major serious adverse effect is an increased risk of pneumonia.
Conclusion: Randomized controlled trials demonstrate that ICS therapy improves both physiologic and clinical outcomes in patients with COPD. These benefits are enhanced when ICS molecules are combined with one or more long-acting bronchodilators.
PENGARUH PERUBAHAN TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN KESEHATAN GIGI DAN MULUT PADA PELAJAR USIA 7-8 TAHUN DI 2 SEKOLAH DASAR KECAMATAN MANDIANGIN KOTO SELAYAN KOTA BUKITTINGGI MELALUI PERMAINAN EDUKASI KEDOKTERAN GIGI
Authors: Sumantri Dedi , Lestari Yuniar , Arini Mustika
Published: December 2019

The prevalence of caries among school children in West Sumatera is still high. Dental health education is important in order to increase dental health status in children because of that the development of a new strategy in dental health education is needed. One of the way is by using game, because children usually like that media. This study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of dental education game by using snake and ladder as the media in changing 7-8years old student’s knowledge about teeth and mouth. The method of this study was analytic experimental with non equivalent pre and post test control group design. Fourty one student's with 7-8 years old of two Elementary Schools ( 17 Manggis Ganting and 03 Pulai Anak Air elementary school ) were used as the study sample of experiment group, this group was given dental

education games method with snake and ladder games as the media and fourty one student's with 7-8 years old of 17 Manggis Ganting and 03 Pulai Anak Air elementary school were used as the control group where in this group was given nothing. Analysis of data was using Paired Samples T-Test and Independent Samples T-Test based on 0,05 as significant. The pretest and posttest analysis of knowledge showed that mean percentage of experiment group is 13,32% ±12,475 and 4,44% ±11,713 for the control group. Both of groups have significant difference where p=0,00(p<0,05). Dental education games method with snake and ladder games as media was effective in increasing student’s knowledge in comparing with the control group. So in order to increase dental health knowledge, dental education games could be use as one of dental education method for 7-8 years old students.
HUBUNGAN KEBIASAAN ANAK MENJAGA KESEHATAN DAN KEBERSIHAN GIGI DENGAN KARIES MOLAR PERTAMA PERMANEN PADA MURID SEKOLAH DASAR DI KECAMATAN PADANG TIMUR KOTA PADANG
Authors: Susi Susi , Kustantiningtyastuti Didin , Ladyventini Yona
Published: December 2019

Dental caries and gum disease (gingivitis) is a disease which are often found in elementary school’s student in Indonesia. One of the cause of the oral and dental problems  is behavior factor or neglect of oral hygiene. This study aims to determine the relationship of children's behaviors to health and dental hygiene with caries incidence in permanent first molars in SDN 15 Eastern District of  Padang.

The design of this study is the Cross Sectional Study. The research was conducted at the Elementary School District 15 East Padang Padang Padang in January 2012. This study sample was a student of class IV, V, VI amounted to 80 people. The data was collected through questionnaires and dental examinations by chi-square analysis.