Multiple representations in the Romanian literature class

AbstractMy research was carried out with high school students from the Math and Computer science. The aim was to support them overcome their difficulties in the study of Romanian literature, to find a purpose for this study as well as to learn and read for pleasure. I tried to check if multiple representations, in the sense of Gardner in the Disciplined Mind, are able to enlarge the students’ cultural understanding and to help them internalise the operational concepts in the literature curriculum. The results sustain the benefits of multiple intelligences-based approaches in literature teaching

Ion-Pair Spectrophotometry in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis: Challenges and Perspectives

Experimental and theoretical studies of the mechanisms that underlay ion-pair formation, their properties and applications in various fields have been and still are focused by researchers since the introduction of the concept in 1926, by Bjerrum. Ion pairs are distinct chemical entities, electrically neutral, formed between ions of opposite charge and held together by Coulomb forces, without formation of a covalent bond. Investigation methods used are various, from classical conductometric measurements to up-to-date methods, such as spectrophotometry, chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. In the pharmaceutical field, ion pairs were used to develop methods of separation, identification and assay for the active substances in complex matrices, to obtain pharmaceutical formulations with controlled release and to explain the mechanisms of transport and action for certain drugs. The chapter is an attempt to describe new trends in the spectrophotometry of ion pairs and their applications in the pharmaceutical field. The development of the concept and types of ion pairs are first presented; further, examples of applications using molecular absorption, fluorimetry and resonance light scattering spectrophotometry are presented. Based on the literature data and the authors’ experience in the field, challenges and perspectives in the ion-pair spectrophotometry are also considered

Sustainable Success in Higher Education by Sharing the Best Practices as a Result of Benchmarking Process

The paper proposes to review the main benchmarking criteria, based on the quality indicators used by the higher education institutions and to present new indicators of reference as a result of the inter-universities cooperation. Once these indicators are defined, a national database could be created and through benchmarking methods, there could be established the level of national performance of the educational system. Going forward and generalizing the process, we can compare the national educational system with the European one, using the benchmarking approach. The final purpose is that of establishing a group of universities who come together to explore opportunities for benchmarks and best practices sharing on common interest areas in order to create a „quality culture” for the Romanian higher education system.benchmarking, higher education, best practices, quality indicators, quality culture

A RESEARCH ON THE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELING AND CAREER GUIDANCE IN ROMANIA

Young people need counseling and guidance to be able to discover abilities, inclinations and to outline their future. Career guidance and counseling should be made permanent from primary and secondary education.With a permanent reformed educational system that does not value counseling and vocational guidance of scholars, Romanian educational system has a major minus. But the insufficiency of counselors in the preuniversity education, determines the high rate of disorientation of the potential students in choosing the faculty that they want to graduate from, or worse, determines school dropout. The article aims to present the main results of a sociological research conducted in two regions of Romania on a number of 900 students, in order to underline the need and usefulness of counseling and vocational guidance

A RESEARCH ON THE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELING AND CAREER GUIDANCE IN ROMANIA

Young people need counseling and guidance to be able to discover abilities, inclinations and to outline their future. Career guidance and counseling should be made permanent from primary and secondary education.With a permanent reformed educational system that does not value counseling and vocational guidance of scholars, Romanian educational system has a major minus. But the insufficiency of counselors in the preuniversity education, determines the high rate of disorientation of the potential students in choosing the faculty that they want to graduate from, or worse, determines school dropout. The article aims to present the main results of a sociological research conducted in two regions of Romania on a number of 900 students, in order to underline the need and usefulness of counseling and vocational guidance

Adipose tissue accumulation of endocrine disrupting compounds: Variant of a common theme in exposome research

Today, a wide variety of exogenous agents (xenobiotic) collectively termed endocrine disrupting compounds (EDC) includes almost 1000 synthetic chemicals. The group of EDC is highly heterogeneous and embodies chemicals used as industrial solvents and their by-products (persistent organic pollutants and dioxins), plastics (bisphenol A) and various pesticides, herbicides and industrial pollutions. The concept of endocrine disruption refers to exogenous chemicals present in the environment, including the food and drugs that affect human`s hormonal systems. Both epidemiological and experimental evidence suggest an association between exposure to EDC and diabetes and related cardio metabolic disorders. These compounds are not just accumulate in the white adipose tissue, but also release into the blood circulation and exhibit their pathogenic effects on various organs. The present review is focused on the factors influencing the accumulation, metabolism and release of EDC in the white adipose tissue

TLC Applications on separation and quantification of fat-soluble vitamins

Abstract The history of vitamins, one of the most important chapters in the history of Biochemistry, had a profound impact on health and wellbeing, as well as on understanding the catalytic processes acting in the metabolism of living organisms. Since antiquity it has been known that there is a direct relation between illness and nourishment. A great number of methods have been developed to determine the content of fat-soluble vitamins in pharmaceutical products. Though much less accurate than the other methods recommended in monographs, the thinlayer chromatography -TLC -finds its well deserved place among the analysis methods, when the relatively costly equipments involved by other methods are not available

Molecular signatures of oxidative stress: relevance to clinic and research

Study on the redox biology of health and disease has come of age. Redox imbalance also defined as redox stress constitutes one of the main cellular lesion associated with many types of pathologies including cardiometabolic, neurodegenerative, oncological, rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. Reactive species (either centered on oxygen or on nitrogen) can induce many damaging cellular processes, such as DNA oxidative lesions and loss of membrane integrity due to lipid peroxidation. Thus the evaluation of the redox imbalance of biological samples is extremely important in clinical practice as well as in research settings. This may constitute an important tool to evaluate the level of cellular lesions associated with specific pathological mechanisms, or the response to pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment. The present review focuses on the molecular signatures of redox imbalance in various diseased processes.Adipobiology 2013; 5: 33-37