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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...

In their study of polysemy, the authors build on the principle of cross-disciplinarity and resort to the methods of conceptual analysis and conceptual modelling in linguistic research. The authors focus on the notion of conceptual structure and analyse the role of different conceptual attributes in word sense formation. The article shows that conceptual attributes have a different status and play different roles in the structure of the concept associated with a sense of a polysemous word. Conceptual attributes var...

Ambiguity is inherent to everyday human communication. It implies that there are two distinct senses assigned to one acoustic form. This research aims to contribute to an integrated interdisciplinary theory of ambiguity as a cognitive phenomenon and identify conceptual mechanisms underlying it. To this end, a variety of empirical and theoretical research methods, including referential analysis (understood in a broader sense as referring to a particular cognitive context used for disambiguation) are employed for th...

The purpose of this work is to study the economic phenomenon "city - entrepreneur" and to justify the parameters of its identification in relation to the realities of the modern Russian economy. The main method of research is the analysis of statistical indicators. The authors propose quantitative parameters that allow identifying the city-entrepreneurs in the Russian economic space: the level of economic diversity and services; the availability of human capital: the level of urban environment and living condition...

In the contemporary society different scholars have emphasized the pluralization processes and variability in family forms (Giddens 1991; Beck, Beck-Gernsheim 2001; Baumann 2000). This trend is known as “individualization”, where individuals and self-realization become primary objective and the relationships are "instrumental" to personal happiness and gratification. In this context the value of family ties becomes considerably weakened: some sociologists wonder if the family is still a resource or rather an o...

Business entities represent one of the main and an inseparable part of economy in each country. On a daily basis these entities face to problems that influence their structure, results and business activity too. In addition to that, new business entities have to face to problems associated with the starting of a new business itself, especially with funding for first months. The most important step in a life of a new business entity is to getting a startup funding. This paper focuses on an identification of structu...

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...

The most important instrument of global governance is social media technology. Women's magazines, as a tool of these technologies, especially in demand in the event of a long process of reformatting the mass consciousness. Young women in Russian society are the most socially active and educated part. Their values and social ideals define the paradigm of the future culture of the next generation in Russia. In this sense, young women are the target audience for the use of social technologies suggestion coordinated u...

Taking into account environmental, socio-economical, health and safety aspects cycling is fastest growing sustainable mobility alternatives also in Latvian municipalities, having a growing number and diversity of cycling communication projects, but still facing a number of growth difficulties, particularly, lacking governance system development approach and having cycling practice realization fragmentation. Having yet no national framework or any overall support system, in the same time, there are to be seen cases...

Linguistic nomination is of great interest to modern science. One of the key problems of theoretical linguistics has been those of the theory of nomination. In the study of lexical and semantic development of the language among important issues are secondary naming, including words with transferred meaning, which contribute to the accuracy, expressiveness and figurative transference of semantic information. Expansion, narrowing of the lexical meaning of a word and its semantic potential are closely related to the ...

The conditioning offered by analysis models is exclusively cultural, creating the way in which we approach the score. The analysis projects over the object score automated study operations, not seeking to extract its contents, but rather to function itself (to demonstrate the nature of В‘what isВ’). Often, the substance of the score may cause situations through which the В‘philosophy of analysisВ’ cannot grasp the subject of the music involved. The flow of the soundВ’s movement is expected to be understood by read...

A conceptual paper is presented, which subject is time, one of the most used and useful phenomenon for humanity. Paradoxically, it is also one of the most mysterious, unknown and controversial object of research in many domains of science, as well as philosophy and theology. Such situation confirms very sophisticated and uncertain nature of time. By inspiration of diversity of time approaches in main sciences, the enrichment of time management in projects is proposed, through more flexible approach to the time nat...

Russian cities have been transformed considerably in the post-soviet period, including economic base, forms of ownership, architectural view, land structure, methods of planning and governance. However, the patterns of such transformation are significantly varying for different types of cities. In this paper the major transformation processes and the factors influencing the pace and scale of urban economy transformationsare discussed on the example of the cities, including in Yekaterinburg agglomeration. The autho...

The article presents the results of the study, aiming at substantiation of approaches to the phenomenon definition of В«secondary citiesВ», specificity of its manifestation in emerging markets countries. The authors emphasize the importance of В«secondary citiesВ», (or secondary tiers cities) in development of national urban systems in emerging markets countries. To confirm this argument, the following factors are used: firstly, a significant number of secondary cities; secondly, intensification of polarization pr...

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...