TOURISM AND THE SPACE FACTOR

The adjustment and adaptation of the offer to the touristic demand, having strong influences one over the other, are essential conditions for tourism planning. In such a context tourism becomes creator of new working places in a number of activities, especially in hotel, changing the social services in economic activities. Further to these changes, these activities, much enlarge by tourism, can be economically treated as secondary activities (tourism industry).development, tourism, space

Let´s talk about your childhood! Measures of parental rearing,alcohol use, anxiety and depression in young adults: A cross-cultural study.

There is a vast literature describing the importance of child rearing aspects as vulnerability factors predisposing to depression, anxiety and alcohol use in adulthood. Much of the research in the field uses a variety of methods and theoretical bases, making conclusions difficult to draw. Nevertheless, retrospective studies based on data from adults (either clinical or nonclinical) seem to indicate that a perception of parents as being rejecting and controlling is related to depression, anxiety and alcohol use. However, few studies have investigated the links between parenting rearing styles and alcohol use, trait anxiety and depression from a cross-cultural perspective. The present study is a cross-cultural research that aims to explore the overall findings in the parenting field by taking into consideration cultural variables and gender specific influences in the parent-child relationship. The general results support the hypothesis that parental rejection and protection are related to depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse in young adults. Additionally, the associations between parental practices and depression, anxiety and alcohol use were different for males and females. To validate these results, more cross-cultural research making use of a longitudinal design is needed

Strategii de structurare a cursului de limbă română pentru mediciniștii alolingvi

Background. The efficiency of the Romanian language course focused on the training of professional communication skills are determined by the teaching strategies used. Objective of the study. Designing an educational scenario that corresponds to the objectives stipulated in the curriculum and meets the expectations, the needs formulated by students. Material and methods. The methods and ways of study, the implemented contents will ensure an interactive and diversified didactic approach Both the scientific and the applied research are implemented: the questionnaire, the case study, the observation, the analysis of the products of the activity. Results. The experiment was performed during 2021-2022. The involved experimental sample include 64 non-native students of the Faculty of Medicine no.1, Nicolae Testemitanu University. The following aspects were determined: the achieved linguistic competencies, the needs, and the level of motivation manifested by the non-native medical students during the process of study. Conclusion. The form of training, the strategies for structuring the Romanian language course for non-native medical students must improve the process of familiarization with the specifics of professional communication in Romanian.Introducere. Eficiența cursului de limbă română axat pe valorificarea competențelor de comunicare profesională sunt determinate de strategiile didactice utilizate. Scopul lucrării. Proiectarea unui design educațional ce corespunde obiectivelor stipulate în curriculumul de la disciplină și răspunde așteptărilor și nevoilor formulate de către studenți. Material și metode. Metodele și mijloacele de studiu, conținuturile implementate vor asigura un demers didactic interactiv și diversificat. Sunt implementate atât documentarea științifică, cât și cea aplicativă: chestionarul, studiul de caz, observația, analiza produselor activității. Rezultate. Experimentul a derulat pe parcursul anilor 2021-2022. Eșantionul experimental implicat cuprinde 64 de studenți alolingvi ai Facultății de Medicină nr.1, USMF „Nicolae Testemițanu”. Au fost determinate: competențele lingvistice, nevoile și nivelul de motivație manifestat de mediciniștii alolingvi pe parcursul procesului de studii. Concluzii. Forma de instruire, strategiile de structurare a cursului de limbă română pentru mediciniștii alolingvi trebuie să eficientizeze procesul de familiarizare cu specificul comunicării profesionale în limba română

The reputational basis of public accountability

This article proposes a reputation‐based approach to account for two core puzzles of accountability. The first is the misfit between behavioral predictions of the hegemonic political science framework for talking about accountability, namely, principal–agent, and empirical findings. The second puzzle is the unrivaled popularity of accountability, given evidence that supposedly accountability‐enhancing measures often lead to opposite effects. A “reputation‐informed” theoretical approach to public accountability suggests that accountability is not about reducing informational asymmetries, containing “drift,” or ensuring that agents stay committed to the terms of their mandate. Accountability—in terms of both holding and giving—is about managing and cultivating one's reputation vis‐à‐vis different audiences. It is about being seen as a reputable actor in the eyes of one's audience(s), conveying the impression of competently performing one's (accountability) roles, thereby generating reputational benefits

STRATEGIES OF STRUCTURING THE COURSE OF ROMANIAN LANGUAGE FOR NON-NATIVE MEDICAL STUDENTS

Universitatea de Stat de Medicină şi Farmacie „Nicolae Testemiţanu”, Chişinău, Republica MoldovaIntroducere. Eficiența cursului de limbă română axat pe valorificarea competențelor de comunicare profesională sunt determinate de strategiile didactice utilizate. Scopul lucrării. Proiectarea unui design educațional ce corespunde obiectivelor stipulate în curriculumul de la disciplină și răspunde așteptărilor și nevoilor formulate de către studenți. Material și metode. Metodele și mijloacele de studiu, conținuturile implementate vor asigura un demers didactic interactiv și diversificat. Sunt implementate atât documentarea științifică, cât și cea aplicativă: chestionarul, studiul de caz, observația, analiza produselor activității. Rezultate. Experimentul a derulat pe parcursul anilor 2021-2022. Eșantionul experimental implicat cuprinde 64 de studenți alolingvi ai Facultății de Medicină nr.1, USMF „Nicolae Testemițanu”. Au fost determinate: competențele lingvistice, nevoile și nivelul de motivație manifestat de mediciniștii alolingvi pe parcursul procesului de studii. Concluzii. Forma de instruire, strategiile de structurare a cursului de limbă română pentru mediciniștii alolingvi trebuie să eficientizeze procesul de familiarizare cu specificul comunicării profesionale în limba română.Background. The efficiency of the Romanian language course focused on the training of professional communication skills are determined by the teaching strategies used. Objective of the study. Designing an educational scenario that corresponds to the objectives stipulated in the curriculum and meets the expectations, the needs formulated by students. Material and methods. The methods and ways of study, the implemented contents will ensure an interactive and diversified didactic approach Both the scientific and the applied research are implemented: the questionnaire, the case study, the observation, the analysis of the products of the activity. Results. The experiment was performed during 2021-2022. The involved experimental sample include 64 non-native students of the Faculty of Medicine no.1, Nicolae Testemitanu University. The following aspects were determined: the achieved linguistic competencies, the needs, and the level of motivation manifested by the non-native medical students during the process of study. Conclusion. The form of training, the strategies for structuring the Romanian language course for non-native medical students must improve the process of familiarization with the specifics of professional communication in Romanian

Corner transport upwind lattice Boltzmann model for bubble cavitation

Aiming to study the bubble cavitation problem in quiescent and sheared liquids, a third-order isothermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) model that describes a two-dimensional ($2D$) fluid obeying the van der Waals equation of state, is introduced. The evolution equations for the distribution functions in this off-lattice model with 16 velocities are solved using the corner transport upwind (CTU) numerical scheme on large square lattices (up to $6144 \times 6144$ nodes). The numerical viscosity and the regularization of the model are discussed for first and second order CTU schemes finding that the latter choice allows to obtain a very accurate phase diagram of a nonideal fluid. In a quiescent liquid, the present model allows to recover the solution of the $2D$ Rayleigh-Plesset equation for a growing vapor bubble. In a sheared liquid, we investigated the evolution of the total bubble area, the bubble deformation and the bubble tilt angle, for various values of the shear rate. A linear relation between the dimensionless deformation coefficient $D$ and the capillary number $Ca$ is found at small $Ca$ but with a different factor than in equilibrium liquids. A non-linear regime is observed for $Ca \gtrsim 0.2$.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.

Decision-makers Processing of AI Algorithmic Advice: Automation Bias versus Selective Adherence

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly adopted as decisional aides by public organisations, with the promise of overcoming biases of human decision-makers. At the same time, the use of algorithms may introduce new biases in the human-algorithm interaction. A key concern emerging from psychology studies regards human overreliance on algorithmic advice even in the face of warning signals and contradictory information from other sources (automation bias). A second concern regards decision-makers inclination to selectively adopt algorithmic advice when it matches their pre-existing beliefs and stereotypes (selective adherence). To date, we lack rigorous empirical evidence about the prevalence of these biases in a public sector context. We assess these via two pre-registered experimental studies (N=1,509), simulating the use of algorithmic advice in decisions pertaining to the employment of school teachers in the Netherlands. In study 1, we test automation bias by exploring participants adherence to a prediction of teachers performance, which contradicts additional evidence, while comparing between two types of predictions: algorithmic v. human-expert. We do not find evidence for automation bias. In study 2, we replicate these findings, and we also test selective adherence by manipulating the teachers ethnic background. We find a propensity for adherence when the advice predicts low performance for a teacher of a negatively stereotyped ethnic minority, with no significant differences between algorithmic and human advice. Overall, our findings of selective, biased adherence belie the promise of neutrality that has propelled algorithm use in the public sector