Socio-economic impact of photovoltaic park: The Giurgiu County rural area, Romania

The paper aims to analyse the socio-economic territorial impact of photovoltaic parks in the rural area of Giurgiu County. The analysis valorises two types of data: the statistical information on the local socio-economic features provided by the National Institute of Statistics and the Giurgiu County Statistics Office, and the specific information about the photovoltaic parks revealed by the interviews applied to the local authorities during field investigation. The case-studies discussed in this paper reflect the socio-economic effects of building and operating the six photovoltaic parks as in the three rural local administrative units – LAU2: Izvoarele, Stăneşti and Malu. This study emphasizes four types of the socio-economic effects of investment in a photovoltaic project on: local rural economy, land use changes, local investments, budget and local labour market

The endoscopic management of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in an emergency setting

Institutul de Gastroenterologie și Hepatologie, Spitalul Clinic Județean de Urgențe ”Sf.Spiridon”, Al XIII-lea Congres al Asociației Chirurgilor „Nicolae Anestiadi” și al III-lea Congres al Societății de Endoscopie, Chirurgie miniminvazivă și Ultrasonografie ”V.M.Guțu” din Republica MoldovaHemoragia digestivă superioară reprezintă una din principalele cauze de adresabilitate a pacienților în serviciile de urgență la nivel global cu o incidență anuală în Europa de până la 150 de cazuri la 100.000 de locuitori. Asociază un necesar ridicat de asistență intraspitalicească iar explorarea endoscopică digestivă superioară este indicată în majoritatea circumstanțelor. Endoscopia digestivă superioară realizată în urgență facilitează diagnosticul etiologic al hemoragiilor digestive superioare și face posibilă realizarea unui gest hemostatic interventional. Atât în ceea ce privește hemoragia digestivă variceală cât și în cauzele de hemoragie digestivă superioară non-variceală, managementul endoscopic s-a dovedit indispensabil unui control optim al sângerării cu impact în ceea ce privește supraviețuirea și rata de resângerare. Prezentarea urmăreste o abordare bazată pe cazuri real life experience a principalelor scenarii clinice care au impus management endoscopic în urgență al hemoragiilor digestive superioare în cadrul Institutului de Gastroenterologie și Hepatologie din Iași.Upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage has become one of the most frequent causes for admission in the emergency departments globally with an annual incidence in Europe of up to 150 cases per 100.000 population. Such conditions frequently require hospital admission and upper digestive tract endoscopy (EGD) is indicated in an emergent setting in the majority of cases. EGD facilitates proper detection of the etiology and furthermore the achievement of local hemostasis. In both variceal and non-variceal causes for the upper gastrointestinal bleeding, achievement of hemostasis through endoscopic management proved to be the optimal therapy resource with a positive impact in what rebleeding rates and overall survival are concerned. Our presentation offers a real life case scenarios approach for the discussion of the main therapeutic endoscopy resources for hemostasis performed in the Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of Iasi, Romania

The value of fusion imaging (PET – CT) in the diagnosis of vertebral and spinal tumors

Fusion imaging (PET/CT), widely used in the developed countries, allows the identification of different lesions at the molecular level, enabling the emergence of a new field of advanced medicine - "molecular imaging". For example, marking with a radiotrasor of a nucleic acid chain component allows the identification of the cancer at the molecular level and its treatment by radioimuno - scintigraphic techniques. Having a great sensitivity in the early detection of some lesions in a wide spectrum of pathology, Nuclear Medicine procedures are much sought by the clinicians

Waste management system in the riparian towns of the Romanian Danube sector

In Romania, managing and recycling household garbage is one of the least performing systems in the European Union. Numerous waste dumping sites are unconformable to European standards, besides there is little garbage recycling. This paper makes a complex waste management analysis of the Romanian Danube riparian towns subjected to strong human pressure; this sector is also of great European interest for the protection of its biodiversity. The main dysfunctions of garbage dumping, the price asked by scavenging services, the steps taken for the ecological management of waste dumping sites in conformity with EU norms and better waste recycling, as well as future measures are also discussed in this paper

News and Perspectives on Treatment of Normal Pressure Internal Hydrocephalus

Many patients, usually over 60 years old, presenting presenile dementia associated with marked gait disorders, impaired balance, urinary incontinence, have been shown to have enlarged ventricles associated with relatively small cortical atrophy. Intracranial pressure monitoring indicates normal values, or subject to only minor peaks, usually at night. Because some of these patients improve markedly after ventricular shunting procedures it has been suggested that their neurological dysfunction may be caused by a pressure effect on the brain from the increased internal surface of the ventricles. Many of these patients do benefit from surgery, and a lot of them have a history of subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury or meningitis which might have impaired the CSF absorption

Urban employment and functionality in Romania in the post-communist period

The paper provides an overview of urban restructuring in post-communist Romania over the communist period. The objective of this paper is to emphasis the dynamics of the employed and unemployed population in the Romanian towns and the changes in the urban functionality over the post-communist period. Relevant indicators were used in order to provide comprehensive information on the urban workforce (active and employed population dynamics, degree of employed population and unemployment dynamics). The functional classification of towns was assessed by using the nomograph (in terms of the share of population employed in the three economic sectors: primary, secondary and tertiary), also by using the Specialization Index. The results show two distinct periods in the dynamics and structure of the active population of Romanian towns after the fall of the communist regime: one of steep decline until 2002 and the other of stagnation up to 2011. Presently, the urban system is undergoing a process of restructuring, the urbanization phenomenon acquiring new characteristics and dimensions. The industrial city – the representative type of urban settlement, was gradually replaced by the polyfunctional and services town, as part of the country’s economic and social-political development targets set up in the Romania’s Territorial Development Strategy 2014−2035

Centralized Industrialization in the Memory of Places. Case Studies of Romanian Cities

The paper highlights the impact of excessive industrialization during the centralized economy era on urban spatial identity, as well as the disruption of this identity through political-administrative decisions, a phenomenon characteristic of the Central and Eastern European region during the era of centralized economies. The tendency to rebalance urban territorial systems is achieved through deindustrialization, together with reindustrialization and tertiarization. All these changes affect functionality, physiognomy as well as urban culture, and can be quantified through the changes in the memory of places. Urban toponyms related to industrialization are disappearing and are replaced by toponyms that illustrate the historical past of the city and, in general, its spatial identity. The paper aims to contribute to the development of research on the impact of oversized industrialization on the memory of places, in the context of the transition from industrial to service-based economies, a process that affected the states of the former Communist Bloc after 1990. Based on bibliographic sources and field research conducted between 2008 and 2020 in two cities in Romania (Bucharest, the country’s capital, and Galați, the largest river and seaport and the main centre of the steel industry in the country), we have evaluated quantitatively these changes with the help of indices resulting from the toponymic changes resulting from these processes. The study shows that the functional disturbances due to the oversized industrialization that characterized the communist period only managed to a small extent to affect the correlation between the spatial identity of the two cities and their toponymy

Technical-urbanistic infrastructure in the Romanian Danube Valley: Urban vs. rural territorial disparities

Infrastructure, particularly technical one, is basis of economic activities both in urban and rural areas. The Romanian sector of the Danube Valley covers a large area, in which the life of resident communities is shaped by the River (1,075 km long). At present, 266 local administrative units (LAU2) in the Romanian Danube Valley number 238 communes, 28 municipia and towns and a population of 1.7 million inhabitants. The study relies on the data provided by the National Institute of Statistics, the results of the Population and Housing Census (2011) and TEMPO Online Database (Internet 1). Hierarchizing LAU2 in terms of the technical-urbanistic infrastructure was made by the Hierarchical Ascending Classification (HAC). The aim was to group together territorial-administrative units by their parametric variables. There are many Danube Valley communities still unconnected to local drinking-water and sewerage systems, a restrictive factor in drawing potential investments into local economies. The study points out that the large Danubian port-cities also have the longest water and natural gas supply networks, as well as the greatest proportion of dwelling-houses connected to these systems. A fairly good situation have also some rural settlements lying close to big municipia or to tourist towns (in Danube Gorge and Danube Delta)