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VIDEO AIDED TEACHING OF ENGLISH FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES IN ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION / L’ENSEIGNEMENT DE L’ANGLAIS MÉDICAL À L’AIDE DES MOYENS AUDIO-VISUELS DANS LES UNIVERSITÉS DE ROUMANIE / PREDAREA LIMBII ENGLEZE PENTRU SCOPURI MEDICALE CU AJUTORUL MIJLOACELOR AUDIO-VIZUALE, ÎN ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTUL SUPERIOR DIN ROMÂNIA
No full textThis article focuses on a teaching method that is still underused in Romania,
generally due to lack of facilities and/or training, resulting in an inability on the part of the teacher to
cope with the new technologies nowadays used in English language teaching. The present study argues
in favour of using video in medical language learning, and to this end it provides some samples of
home-grown materials for watching purposes that can be used in the classroom. The various types of
exercises presented, combined with the video sequences they are made on, are intended to point out
that video aided teaching of English for Medical Purposes (EMP) can be highly motivating, as it
uniquely allows students to look at medical situations while working on different areas of language
Fractal Analysis of Elastographic Images for Automatic Detection of Diffuse Diseases of Salivary Glands: Preliminary Results
No full textThe geometry of some medical images of tissues, obtained by elastography and ultrasonography, is characterized in terms of
complexity parameters such as the fractal dimension (FD). It iswell known that in any image there are very subtle details that are not
easily detectable by the human eye. However, in many cases like medical imaging diagnosis, these details are very important since
they might contain some hidden information about the possible existence of certain pathological lesions like tissue degeneration,
inflammation, or tumors. Therefore, an automatic method of analysis could be an expedient tool for physicians to give a faultless
diagnosis. The fractal analysis is of great importance in relation to a quantitative evaluation of “real-time” elastography, a procedure
considered to be operator dependent in the current clinical practice.Mathematical analysis reveals significant discrepancies among
normal and pathological image patterns. The main objective of our work is to demonstrate the clinical utility of this procedure on
an ultrasound image corresponding to a submandibular diffuse pathology
Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Assessment and Monitoring: The Case Study of Alba Iulia
No full textIn recent times, satellite-based remote sensing has a growing role in archaeology and inherently in the cultural heritage management process. This paper demonstrates the potential and usefulness of satellite imagery for the documentation, mapping, monitoring, and in-depth analysis of cultural heritage and the archaeological sites located in urban landscapes. The study focuses on the assessment and monitoring of Alba Iulia, which is one of the Romanian cities with the richest historical past. Multitemporal analysis was performed to identify the land use/land cover changes that might contribute to an increased cultural heritage vulnerability to natural disasters. A special emphasis was dedicated to the assessment of the built-up area growth and consequently of the urbanization trend over a large time interval (30 years). Next, the urbanization and urban area expansion impact was further analyzed by concentrating on the urban heat island within Alba Iulia city and Alba Iulia Fortress (located in the center of the city). As temperature change represents a key element of climate change, the temperature trend within the same temporal framework and its impact on cultural heritage were determined. In the end, with regard to the cultural heritage condition assessment, the research was complemented with an assessment of the urban ground and individual building stability, using persistent scatterer interferometry. The results contribute to the detailed depiction of the cultural heritage site in such a manner that the site is monitored over an extensive timeframe, its current state of conservation is accurately determined, and the future trends can be identified. In conclusion, the present study offers reliable results regarding the main factors that might endanger the cultural heritage site as a basis for future preservation measures
Hotărâre. Mărtinești, 14/28 Noemvrie 1918. Delegat: Ifrapt Badea
No full textMuzeul Național al Unirii Alba Iulia. Colecția documente, Documentele Unirii, vol. V, f. 99-10
Design and evaluation of neuroregenerative properties of 4D hydrogel scaffolds
No full textUnderstanding and controlling the interactions that occur between cells and engineered materials (i.e. attachment-detachment, or that influence cell development, function or fate) are central challenges towards progress in the development of biomedical devices and regenerative medicine therapies. A particularly complex system to translate in vitro is that of the dorsal root ganglion (DRG), an interesting research target due to its relevance in peripheral nerve repair, and to its connection to the non-regenerative central nervous system (CNS). Severe peripheral nerve injuries have a limited regenerative capacity, with interventions typically not leading to full functional recovery. Ways to improve functional recovery include engineering devices that connect to both injured sides, having both cell growth guiding properties and a gradient contour to control the extent of cell-scaffold interactions. Direct ink writing (DIW) is prominent among fabrication techniques relevant to tissue engineering due to its versatility in terms of the range of materials that can be used and the limitless geometries that are easily programmed. This thesis describes three different in vitro systems, representing increasing functionality towards next generation 4D scaffolds for nerve reconstruction in vitro or nerve regeneration in vivo. The first takes advantage of cell-extracellular matrix interactions and presents an extracellular matrix (ECM)-mimetic surface treatment which, combined with DIW scaffolds of a wide range of geometries and a “blank-slate” hydrogel (pHEMA), leads to a means to exert control on the degree of cell-scaffold interactions, and manipulate cell culture development in 4D. The second explores a different class of scaffolds, compressively buckled mesostructures, which can be used as high-strain cellular frameworks leading to interesting cell behavior depending on scaffold strain and geometric aspect ratio. Further, this approach allows for the incorporation of increased functionality into these mesostructures, as they can function as electronic scaffolds for stimulation and recording of action potentials from DRG cells. Finally, the third approach combines efforts of the first two projects, building upon the ink and surface chemistries explored in the first, and the geometries explored in the second, adding a bioactive inorganic composite to create selectively growth compliant scaffolds that generate a hierarchal reorganization of DRG cells in culture mimicking that of a nerve. With the possibility of extending the complexity of these scaffolds by including controlled degradation, this last approach provides important guidelines to developing effective 4D scaffolds for nerve regeneration.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Adina Badea, accepted the attached license on 2017-12-04 at 16:17.The student, Adina Badea, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-12-04 at 16:38.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-12-08 at 12:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11838 on 2019-08-22 at 16:17:41Made available in DSpace on 2019-08-23T20:44:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 6
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La traduction n’est pas qu’une traduction. Quelques propos sur la traduction d’une écriture fragmentaire bilingue: <i>Cuvântul nisiparniţă</i> (<i>Le Mot sablier</i>) de Dumitru Tsepeneag
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Translation is not mere translation. A few remarks on the translation of a fragmentary bilingual text: Cuvântul nisiparniță (Le Mot sablier/The Hourglass Word) by Dumitru Tsepeneag
The present paper will focus on the translation of a fragmentary bilingual writing. Interested both in his own monolingualism and in the monolingualism of the other (see Derrida 1996, and here mainly the monolingualism of the French reader who should constitute a kind of pseudo-source-audience3), Dumitru Tsepeneag turns his own bilingualism into a topic in his book Cuvîntul nisiparniță (published first in translation as Le Mot sablier in 1984). “This (im)possible appropriation becomes the generating reason of the creation and in the creation, then in the self-translation”; a “writing experience” where the writer cultivates his bilingualism and his biculturalism, and sheds light on the process of translation from a perspective that is at least double: that of the translated42 and self-translated writer, but also that of the translator-writer” (Lungu-Badea 2008, 20). What translation strategy would be appropriate for a book that begins in Romanian and ends in French? We could claim that its destiny is to show how one language replaces another and, consequently, renders translation useless for bilingual users. If this is but an argument for the counter-translation, the French translation, published by the P.O.L. publishing house, does not challenge it. It could respect neither “the psychological intention of the author” (Ladmiral 2006, 140), nor the “semantic intention of the text” (Ladmiral and Lipiansky 1995, 53).</jats:p
La campaña institucional “rumanos en Europa”, como fenómeno integrador ante la inmigración en España e Italia
No full textLa inmigración rumana en España e Italia ha constituido un fenómeno único, tanto por su magnitud como por el corto espacio de tiempo en el que se ha producido. Sin embargo, existe una evidente percepción negativa de los españoles e italianos hacia los rumanos, que se debe en una medida considerable al discurso mediático. Dadas las situaciones, el Gobierno rumano llevó a cabo una campaña institucional, para corregir la imagen generalizada hacia los ciudadanos rumanos, que tuvo dos propósitos: la integración y la aceptación. El presente trabajo representa un proyecto de investigación de los efectos de dicha campaña entre los inmigrantes rumanos y las comunidades autóctonas de los dos países: Italia y España. El diseño de la investigación se centra en dos ciudades con un número elevado de inmigrantes rumanos, como son Barcelona y Milano. Se utiliza el análisis cualitativo, representado por los grupos de discusión, para indagar las opiniones, los sentimientos de afinidad, indiferencia o rechazo del público objeto hacia la campaña
A Case Study of Sex Trafficking in Romania
No full textRomania is undergoing a severe crisis. The country is confronted with a transnational issue of dramatic proportions. Romania has become what experts in the sex trafficking field call “a global center for human trafficking” (Batstone, Romania a Global Center for Human Trafficking, 2011, February 17th). It is a source, transit, and destination country for women, children, and even men subjected to sex trafficking. Romania is one of the biggest exporters of human flesh to Western European and Middle Eastern societies.
This research paper will analyze the historical context of modern-day slavery in Romania as well as the economic background and the social dimensions of its transition and transformation that has left it increasingly prone to a filthy industry that rots, decays, and dehumanizes. This paper will examine not only the individual attributes but also the environmental factors and will argue that inequality, power, and other social and economic dynamics play a major role in the procurement of sex and continue to leave Romania completely exposed to the cunning web of traffickers.
Furthermore, the paper will draw a parallel showing the links between prostitution and sex trafficking, which many times are interrelated. The data will show that it is seriously naïve to assume that all of these girls are victims, that they are driven by an enhanced perception of opportunities outside the borders of Romania which increase their social status back home, and will attempt to answer the question of whether the traffickers select these girls or if the girls self-select
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