Corporate Social Responsibility on the International Area.Present Developments in Romania and Bulgaria

Corporate Social Responsibility is no longer an object of novelty in literature or the business sector. The practices in this matter have became a new area of activity expansion and a new way that companies use to strengthen their image, consumer appreciation and even employees motivation. The present paper proposes an analyses of the literature, a comparative study and a summary of the international organizations view on the matter.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Theory Development, Country report

Delirium en cuidados paliativos oncológicos: revisión

We review some aspects related with the physiopathology, epidemiology, diagnosis and management of delirium, centred in patients with advanced and terminal cancer. It is offered a comprehensive and practical overview of this clinical situation frequently under diagnosticated, specially in the case of patients with far-advanced cancer, in whom it is specially frequent and reversible quite often out the last days of life. We emphasize an interdisplinary approach including family as key in diagnosis and treatment. Pharmacological treatment is up dated and some future line of work are mentioned

Utilitat de la metodologia de simulació per adquirir competències en habilitats de comunicació

Podeu consultar la Vuitena trobada de professorat de Ciències de la Salut completa a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/66524Metodología: Se describen los talleres y seminarios de simulación empleados desde el año académico 2010-11 en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Barcelona, que se ofrecen a los alumnos a partir de 2 año de grado, con el fin de ofrecer a los alumnos de forma transversal la adquisición y refuerzo continuo de competencias en habilidades de comunicación. Siguiendo las definiciones del Libro Blanco de las Facultades de Medicina y de la Guía de la Facultad de Medicina de la UB, se ofrece formación en los siguientes aspectos de la competencia de comunicación: • Escuchar con atención, obtener y sintetizar información pertinente acerca de los problemas que aquejan al enfermo, y comprender el contenido de esta información. • Comunicación de malas noticias • Obtener un consentimiento Informado • Comunicación entre profesionales Se describen el nivel de aprendizaje, el personal docente requerido, la duración de los seminarios o talleres, los objetivos docentes, el material necesario en cada actividad y el año de la formación de grado en que se aplica. Se describe la utilización de la estrategia de feed-back para la autoevaluación de la actividad práctica, empleando grabaciones de los talleres y simulaciones de los grupos de alumnos. Se describe así mismo, las encuestas empleadas para la evaluación por el docente y los compañeros de clase de las actividades de simulación y la metodología empleada de evaluación de los seminarios y su calificación dentro de la nota final de cada asignatura. Finalmente se describen las asignaturas optativas existentes en la Facultad de Medicina de la UB para reforzar las habilidades de comunicación y los planes futuros de desarrollo de actividades formativas complementarias y de refuerzo y las propuestas evaluativas de la competencia

THE EFFECT OF SOME INSECTICIDES ON THE LADY BUG (Coccinella 7-punctata L.)

In Romania unfortunatly the use of insecticides for controling the pest it’s made without any respect for the beneficial fauna. One of the most known beneficial species encountered in almost any agricultural biotope it’s the lady bug Coccinella 7 punctata. The lady bug Coccinella 7 punctata it’s an predatory species that fed especially on aphids species and play an essential role in the biological control of these species. This paper present the research regarding the effect of some insecticides used for controling the mealy plum aphid Hyalopterus pruni Geoffr., to the lady bug Coccinella 7 punctata in the conditions from central Oltenia, at the Banu Maracine Didactical Station. The experience has been set up during 2005 - 2006, in a plum orchard from the Banu Maracine Didactical Station, of the University of Craiova. In order to study the effect of some insecticides on the lady bug there has been made observation in orchards as well in laboratory conditions.  The direct toxic action of the insecticides on the lady bug has been esatblished in field at 24, 48 and 72 hours after the apply of the treatments, counting the dead larva and adults. The effect of the insecticides through feeding with intoxicated aphids, has been establish in laboratory at 24, 48 and 72 hours

RESEARCH REGARDING THE INTEGRATE MANAGEMENT OF THE VINE MOTH (Lobesia botrana Den et Schiff.) AT THE DEALURILE CRAIOVEI VINEYARD

The vine moth Lobesia botrana Den et Schifff. Is one of the main pest of the Dealurile Craiovei vineyard, the damages produced by this pest can reach 25-30%. The integrate management of the vine moth is an alternative to the excessive chemification in order to control the viticultural ecosystem during the past years, this paper frame within this curent. During 2004-2006, the climatic conditions has been favourable for the develop of the Lobesia botrana species, in 2004 there has been recorded 4 maximum flights coresponding to 3 complete generations and the fourth one incomplete, in 2005 and 2006 there has been recorded 3 maximum flights coresponding for same number of generations. The attack medium frequency, of the vine moth, recorded in 2004 has been of 20,66%, 19,0% in 2005, and of 17,83% in 2006. The attack medium frequency during 2004-2006 has been of 19,2% . The efficiency of the control treatments has been ranged between 94,6% and 89,4%. The highest efficiency of 94,6% has been recorded at the V2 variant, there has been used only chemical products, followed by the V3 variant (91,4%) there has been used chemical products for controling the first 2 generations I and II of the vine moth and an biological product for the third generation III, and the fourth variant V4 (89,7%) there has been used the pyretroid product Bulldock 025 EC for controling the first generation, and the biological product Foray 48B (Biobit XL) for controling the second generation II and 8 pheromonals traps (atraBOT/ha) for controling the third generation III. For the fifth variant V5 there has been used the product Calypso 480 SC, an metamorphosis inhibitor for the arthropods, for controling the first generation and then the biological product Dipel 2xWP for the second generation II and 8 pheromonals traps (atraBOT/ha) for the third generation, at this variant there has been recorded the lowest efficiencyt 89,4%

Cultura(s) organizacional(ais) da universidade: a tomada de decisões para o provimento da carreira docente na Universidade Pública de Angola

Tese de doutoramento em Ciências da Educação (área de especialização em Organização e Administração Escolar)A cultura organizacional percecionada como pressupostos básicos inventados e desenvolvidos visando a adaptação externa e a integração interna das organizações, representa a matriz caraterizadora e diferenciadora das organizações. Deste modo, a proposta de investigar o tema: Cultura(s) Organizacional(ais) da Universidade - A Tomada de Decisões para o Provimento da Carreira Docente na Universidade Pública de Angola, aportado no modelo cultural de análise, reflete a necessidade de compreender a (re)criação e a manifestação da cultura organizacional da universidade, a partir das dinâmicas de conceção e da implementação do Estatuto da Carreira Docente (ECD). A complexidade organizacional e cultural da universidade, que resulta não só das suas funções substanciais (ensino, investigação e extensão), como essencialmente da sua estrutura e do seu funcionamento, sugeriu orientar-se pelas metodologias de investigação qualitativas, visando percecionar as racionalidades e os significados que os atores concedem às suas práticas e procedimentos. Assim, foi adotado o método de estudo de caso, com vista a captar as complexidades e as particularidades que enformam o funcionamento quotidiano da universidade. Como as organizações (re)criam no “plano de orientação para ação” e no “plano da ação”, valores, crenças, símbolos e significados que são assumidos para justificar a sua institucionalização, os quais constituem um aprendizado organizacional dos atores com vista à sua aceitação e integração, a perceção destas dinâmicas privilegiou como técnicas de investigação, as entrevistas, a observação não participante, as conversas informais e a análise documental, complementadas pelo inquérito por questionário. Enformada por regularidades comportamentais, a cultura organizacional da universidade foi percecionada como sendo uma construção que privilegia consensos e inconsistências dependentemente das normas, circunstâncias, interesses e motivações dos atores. O determinismo normativo, as ideologias de Estado e a história do país vêm sendo invocados para suportar o discurso ideológico e velar determinadas racionalidades dos grupos estratégicos, quando a autoridade académico-científica escasseia. No cumprimento das suas funções, a universidade vem transbordando para os níveis de ensino precedentes e simultaneamente para toda a sociedade, as culturas organizacionais da universidade, veiculadas através não só, do currículo expresso, como também do currículo oculto, face ao habitus profissional e às estratégias de reprodução profissional do corpo docente universitário.Organizational culture is taken to be basic assumptions devised and developed with a view to the external adaptation and internal integration of organizations. It is the matrix that characterizes organizations and sets them apart. The title of the proposed research topic is: Organizational culture(s) of the University: Decision making for filling teaching career posts in the Public University of Angola, based on a cultural model of analysis. It reflects the need to understand the (re)creation and manifestation of the organizational culture of the university, based on the dynamics of conceiving and implementing a Teaching Career Statute (ECD). The organizational and cultural complexity of universities results from its substantive functions (teaching, research and outreach) and, essentially, from its structure and functioning, and suggests following qualitative research methods with the aim of understanding the rationalities and significances that the actors assign to their practices and procedures. A case study approach has been adopted so as to grasp the complexities and characteristics that shape the daily functioning of universities. Organizations (re)create at the levels of guiding action and of the action, values, beliefs, symbols and meanings that are appropriated to justify their institutionalization, and which amount to an organizational learning on the part of the actors so that they are accepted and integrated. It was the perception of these dynamics that favoured the use of interviews, non-participant observation, informal chats and document analysis, backed up by a questionnaire survey, as research techniques. Moulded by behavioural regularities, the organizational culture of universities was perceived as being a construction that values consensus and inconsistency, depending on the circumstances, interests and motivations of the actors. Normative determinism, State ideologies and the history of the country have been relied on to support the ideological discourse and ensure certain rationalities of strategic groups, when academic-scientific authority is running out. The universalized functions of universities (teaching, research and outreach) have enabled the organizational cultures of the university to spill over to the preceding levels of education and, indeed, to all of society, conveyed not only through the established curriculum but also through the hidden curriculum, given the habitus and professional reproduction strategies of university teaching staff

The search of a new logic of public administration reforms: the case of metropolitan areas in Italy

The aim of this paper is to formulate some recommendations for the currently undergoing reform of Italian metropolitan areas. This case is particularly relevant since it clearly represents how, even if expected by law, reforms might not happen on the implementation side. We draw the recommendations from some basic assumptions of the collaborative governance model. Recommendations deal with the development of a systemic, collaborative and leadership oriented view of reforms. Indeed, reforms should be intended not only as a legislative process, but also as a complex change management process characterized by the decisive role of the human factor

The Orthodox Church and the Young Generation – Today’s Problems

Lately, the Orthodox Church has been very concerned by the issue of the youngsters’ migration into a multicultural and pluri-religious area. Migration is an objective reality that we can notice but we are not able to stop. We emphasize the fact that the young generation needs to be seen in the light of hope and of the future, as resources and not as problems. Under these circumstances, the Church needs to find a new way of working and adequate pastoral means for people to be able to live a normal life from a spiritual and religious perspective as well. We need to find means of awakening and of shaping the youngsters’ moral conscience, of guiding them towards Christian holiness and perfection. It is only by having such a perspective, the perspective of those who want to give the young generation the chance to discover Christ our Redeemer, that a correct spiritual guidance for the young can be realized, able to save them from the mirage of the contemporary temptations