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Learning is a result of brain activity, a neuro-phenomenon that can be analysed in response to a variety of research questions. This article aims at focusing on the teacher’s working scope, explaining what neurodidactic actions of the teacher contribute to learning. The obtained results demonstrate that the learning process, which we intend to construct in accordance with neurodidactic principles, can be analysed according to four main factors: students’ neurostimulation, perception and consolidation of teachi...

As part of longitudinal research project that is concerned with the new implementation of computational thinking (CT) into the primary school curriculum in the Czech Republic, several surveys have been conducted on the concept of CT itself, both among students and teachers. this paper summarises the outcomes of a project focused on the possibilities of measuring the development of computational thinking in students and seeks to determine the key competencies that teacher purposefully develop in their students or a...

The paper focuses on the issue of training and education of children in the field of traffic safety. The topic of education in traffic safety for children is important from the point of view of protecting the life and health of both children and other road users. The main goal of the thesis is to find out under which system children are educated in primary schools in the Czech Republic in the field of traffic safety. The secondary goal of this work is to characterize documents and basic approaches in the field of ...

Changes in the society cause changes in the demands on the process and the result of training an engineer. In the beginning of the 20th century a design engineer was needed; the second half of the 20th century called for engineers capable of carrying out a scientific research and applying its results; labor market in the beginning of the 21st century makes a demand on engineers who are both competent in dealing with theoretical and practical tasks that arise from their professional activities and able to work as m...

Aim: Purpose of this study was to explore the perception of motherhood among adolescent girls in Slovakia. Differences in perception of motherhood according to demographic factors and reproductive plans were examined as well. Method: Data collection was carried out at four high schools in central Slovakia; 200 female students were included in the research sample (age 18.35В±0.48). The semantic differential was used in order to measure the perception of motherhood, containing 10 rating scales (7- point Likert scale...

Introduction: The development of professional burnout is influenced by numerous intrapersonal and situational factors, such as length of practice or satisfaction with health and private life. The results of some studies suggest that coping style may be another such factor. The aim of the present study was to assess the scale of professional burnout among midwives and to determine the relationships between coping styles and burnout symptoms. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with the research sample, w...

We intend, during this study, to identify the level of satisfaction of some participant’s students at a summer school, held two years ago, within The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at the University of Craiova. The summer school was held over two weeks, being our first experience of this kind. The project, Be active in summer through sport (AG_21) was financed within the scheme of competitive grants for universities- summer programs bridge type (SGCU-PV) – ROSE. The project’s beneficiaries were 52 pup...

The article discusses the issue of developing intercultural competence in the process of teaching a foreign language to engineering students. The intercultural competence is a complex of knowledge, skills and personal characteristics that contribute to the choice of adequate solutions of communicative tasks and effective intercultural interaction. In the course of studying a foreign language, it is necessary for students to learn to perceive certain phenomena inherent for a different culture in comparison with com...

Job satisfaction (JS) can be more difficult to measure in the health field in view of the complexity of roles, duties and responsibilities. Objectives: To determine the psychometric properties of Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) for the medical field, with different job levels. Materials and Methods: A 20-item five-option Likerttype draft questionnaire on MSQ was distributed for anonymous self-reporting by medical and paramedical staff of two hospitals in the Arad County region of Romania (n=307). The ou...

Considered a common product, cheap food, poor peopleВ’s food and the plant of poor areas, the potato is actually a product that helps improving the daily diet being rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. For Romania, the potato is a strategic food, contributing to the national food safety system. Our country is ranked on the third position in Europe in terms of area cultivated with potatoes (after Poland and Germany). In particular, potato components have been shown to have favorable impacts on several meas...

Cervical cancer is a major worldwide health problem that can be prevented by using a simple exam, a cervical-vaginal cytology or Pap smear. Romania has the highest incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer in Europe. Romanian people have a strong fear towards cancers and, paradoxically, toward screening measures for cancer. Objectives: To determine the efficiency of Romanian Health Programmes regarding cervical cancer. Materials and Methods: The last six decennial periods were analysed from the point of view...

Background Taking into account, that many recent research papers about functional anatomy, emphasized strong connections between motor cerebral areas and pre-frontal ones and that professional training performed on a period of time longer than 5 years, produced cerebral hemispheres functional plastic modifications, we consider opportune, to study the effects of long term physical effort, over cerebral activity at athletes, with a professional sportive experience longer than 5 years, from different sports as handba...

Context. Nowadays an increasing number of students are heading to professional sports; at the same time, many students are not engaged in leisure physical activities, which is a serious alarm signal for the health of young populations and for sports. The aim of this study is to determine the bio-motric potential of secondary school students, rural and urban residents, on the assumption that Body Mass Index (BMI) is an indicator of health and it can also indicate the possibility that subjects with healthy weight ac...

The history of food comfort has its roots somewhere in the 1960s in the US, when they first tried to define them taking into account the psychological aspect, "they produce comfort or consolation, protection and nutrition." For the consumer, it is essential that the consumed food provide the amount of nutrients necessary to maintain daily balance, satiety, to be healthy and to provide satisfaction during and after consumption. From the perspective of the hospitality industry, the food comfort product contributes t...

Background Our research aim was to emphasized different neurological patterns at athletes, by evaluating the parameters of somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) and compare the obtained results, in order to demonstrate the influence of specific professional training over the cortex. Methods The tested subjects were a group of 21 male athletes, with an average age of 19 years, which practiced fencing or handball, for at least 6 years, homogeneous regarding age, height, weight and training regime. We used the Nihon K...

The State educational standard has defined the requirements for the results of education in the level of Primary school, among which an important place is occupied by interdisciplinary (“meta-subject”) results that help children with the developing the ability to learn. Achievement of interdisciplinary results is possible only if students have sufficient level of self-regulation. Self-regulation means regulation one's own activities, including situations of choosing different ways of realizing one's activity, ...

Healthcare research pursues, most of the time, to find natural sources of bioactive compounds for treatment of various diseases. A source of natural compounds with therapeutically effect is represented by plants that have been used, for thousands years, in traditional medicine. Usnea barbata L. is a lichen – a symbiotic organism with a special structure: fungus and alga. In this case, the resulted thallus, is very different in structure, properties and natural compounds, to the two plants taken separately. These...

In the context in which healthy nutrition, institutionalized nutrition and combating of childhood obesity are a strategic interest in improving the health of young people, this paper is constituted as a nutritional analysis of the quality of menus for school catering in Romania. An efficient system of products quality evaluation provided by the commercial and the social catering system can lead to optimizing the production processes, to improve the legal framework for beneficiaries and to support the education sys...

A complex phenomenon in terms of psychological, sociological and legal aspects, adoption is a means of solving family problems of the child. It can also be a source of family problems if the rights of those involved in the adoption and especially if the fundamental rights and interests of the children are not respected. Adoption can be defined as the legal operation which creates filiation and civil kinship relationships between those stated by the law. Imposing the legal figure of adoption in the social life, the...

In the article authors confirm and prove the suitability of using videoconference system in the education. Based on the obtained results the authors state that teachers have a tendency to use the information and communication systems in teaching and they also show an interest in education focused on multimedia technologies, especially videoconference systems. Based on the research conclusions, an opinion regarding suitability of videoconference systems in education as the alternative for pedagogical practice of st...