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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...