De Sus Research Articles

STUDY REGARDING GROUNDWATER POLLUTION IN THE AREA OF ȘIMNICU DE SUS

The purpose of the present study is to determine the degree of pollution of groundwater that supply the existing public wells in the area of Șimnicu de Sus commune. In order to achieve this objective, in the period March-May of 2023, water samples were taken from 5 wells located on the public domain of Șimnicu de Sus, Dolj county, in order to determine the degree of groundwater pollution. The water samples were collected directly from the water of the wells and were transported to the laboratory where they were subjected to the following physico-chemical determinations: pH, conductivity, total hardness, fixed residue, ammoniacal nitrogen, calcium, magnesium, nitrates and nitrites.

RESEARCH ON THE POSSIBILITY OF USING THE ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE RURAL AREA OF ȘIMNICU DE SUS BY GROWING VINES

The specific ecological conditions of the cultivation area can positively or negatively influence the quality of grape production, a fact expressed by the specificity of the wine-growing area.. The knowledge of particularities determined by the pedoclimatic conditions is important for elaborating and supporting the viticultural technical activities. The present study carried out in the corural area of Șimnicu de Sus aimed to demonstrate the favorability of the area for the culture of vines, to obtain quality productions with the aim of encouraging the development of this economic activity, in this peri-urban area with residents who need to obtain some additional gain

Devising of a risk map on the management of high risk alert medication in a high level university hospital

ObjectiveTo classify hospital units into three risk levels in order to define and prioritise improvement and training measures in each of them. MethodThe risk map was developed in two phases: First phase involved the setting up of a multidisciplinary team, a bibliographic search, the identification of medications and of the criteria to design the map: (1) Location: number of high-alert medications; (2) Staff turnover: the units were classified in low turnover units = 1, medium turnover units = 2 and high turnover units = 3 according to data provided by the human resource department; (3) Frequency: quotient between the number of high alert medicactions in each unit and the total of medications used, and (4) Severity: voluntary survey of professionals. An accumulated risk of severity of each unit was calculated: Σ (severity of the drug x number of its units). The Neperian logarithm was applied to this value to reduce the variability of the values. Thus a risk probability index was established = staff turnover x frecuency x Neperian logarithm of severity. In a Los artículos publicados en esta revista se distribuyen con la licencie Articles published in this journal are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.Org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ La revista Farmacia no cobra tasas por el envío de trabajos, ni tampoco por la publicación de sus artículos. second phase, the units were classified into three groups and the risk map of high-alert medication was elaborated in the hospital. In it, the units that had a risk probability index higher than 2.9 were classified as high risk units, those that had between 1–2.9 as intermediate risk units and those that had less than 1 as low risk units. According to the risk probability index, improvement measures were defined and priorities were set for each of them. ResultsA total 447 high-risk medications corresponding to 227 active ingredients were identified during the study period. The units showing a higher risk were: Intensive Care Medicine (10.51), Reanimation (4.01), and Palliative Care (3.90). Improvement actions (informative poster, visual identification, alerts, training and double checks) were defined and prioritised in accordance with the risk probability index. ConclusionsKnowing the degree of risk of hospitalization units in the management of high-alert medications allows for the implementation of improvement plans in relation to the degree of vulnerability detected.

Spatial Modeling through GIS Analysis of Flood Risk and Related Financial Vulnerability: Case Study: Turcu River, Romania

The present study is part of the context in which Romania adopted the European Parliament Directive 2007/60/EC on flood risk assessment and management. Therefore, the aim of this research is to assess the risk induced by a hydrological hazard, expressed by a financial value estimation, for the Turcu River in the northern sector of the Bran–Dragoslavele transcarpathian corridor (Romania), an important tourist axis where the pressure on land has increased considerably. As a result, the intra-village areas of Moieciu de Sus, Cheia, Moieciu de Jos, Bran and Tohanu Nou have also expanded into areas vulnerable to flooding. There are currently no studies on the areas potentially affected as well as the extent of the possible damage. For this reason, we proceeded to model the water level corresponding to the maximum flow value with a probability exceeding 1%, using HEC-RAS and ArcGIS software. The results of the implementation of the spatial analysis model resulted in the delineation of the floodplain and the assessment of the potential financial loss related to the minimum market value of the land with the related real estate infrastructures. The research reveals that in the 1% band area (78.7841 ha) with water depth > 0.5 m, more than 433 infrastructures are at high risk of flooding, most of them with high real estate value, i.e., 5.61 km of roads for which a cost of EUR 3,402,666.90 was calculated for restoration. A knowledge of financial vulnerability to flooding becomes important for the community; local authorities involved in making decisions for insuring real estate at risk and planning/managing investments work to prevent/combat the effects of flooding.

Diane M. Nelson (1963–2022)

Diane M. Nelson (1963–2022)

Imaginea spațiului rural montan în România comunistă văzut prin lentila vieții familiei Goia

Social history, a field that developed especially in the 1950s and 1960s, represents even today a bridge between factual, objective history and the lives of individuals, marked by subjectivity and affectivity. The present article starts from two elements: the analysis of a place of memory – namely a village shop – and, respectively, of an interview granted to Mrs. Delia Gligor, an elderly lady living in Baia de Arieș, Alba County, Romania. Together, these two elements provide a revealing overview of the history of Vidra de Sus village during the 20th century, but also of the political regimes that marked Romania over a period of almost 100 years. Vidra de Sus is a mountain village in Alba County, now known as Avram Iancu. From this perspective, one can note the extent of the impact exerted by the political regime changes, on the one hand, on a family, and on the other hand, on the entire community of Vidra de Sus. At the beginning of the 20th century this family advanced socially and materially on the village hierarchy towards the wealthier categories, by opening a shop. With the communist regime, however, their main source of income, the shop, was confiscated and replaced by a post office, which has led the former owners to each look for other occupations to sur‑ vive. Finally, the year 1989 puts an end to the communist regime, but not to the difficulties that the Goia family was going through – from this moment they had to fight to regain their former properties so that they can lead once more, after almost 50 years, a quiet life.

Via Transilvanica in the Mehedinți County

"Via Transilvanica is a cultural pedestrian road that connects three historical regions of Romania: Moldova, Transylvania and Banat. Kilometer zero of this road is in the municipality of Drobeta Turnu Severin, where the history of the Romanian people began, consisting of the symbiosis of Dacians and Romanians. The road, initiated and built during last 4 years, by the Ușeriu brothers, is marked, from kilometer to kilometer, with andesite markers that were carved by volunteer artists with symbols representing the main tourist attractions on each route. The Via Transilvanica includes 7 segments, depending on the historical areas: Bucovina, Tinutul de Sus, Terra Siculorum, Terra Saxonum, Terra Dacica, Terra Banatica and Terra Romana. Travelers have to follow a number of 67 routes walking or cycling. In the Mehedinți county, this road includes 5 of the 7 routes of Terra Romana. Tourists cross the Mehedinți Plateau towards the Mehedinți Mountains, passing through one of the main karst areas in Romania, across the Mesozoic limestone bar Cireșu-Baia De Aramă. The Via Transilvanica project aims to culturalize the masses and to develop the local economy in particular. In the Mehedinți county, one of the risks is related to protected natural areas and carrying capacity."

The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico

The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico

SHORT FOOD CHAINS ON THE VIA TRANSILVANICA - TERRA SAXORUM, OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOPSUSTAINABLE RURAL TOURISM

Via Transilvanica is a road that breaks the barriers between generations and cultures. Also called the road that unites, Via Transilvanica is a fascinating journey with stories about diversity, about landscapes that gradually reveal themselves during the journey. The places crossed by the Via Transilvanica are different, just as the people who choose to cross this route or who live along it are also different. The Via Transilvanica route, in its 1400 km length, is divided into seven historical and cultural regions: Bucovina, Tinutul de Sus, Terra Siculorum, Terra Saxonum, Terra Dacica, Terra Banatica and Terra Romana. Throughout this route, the local gastronomy is varied, sprinkled with traditional dishes and with the possibility of purchasing local products through short food chains. In the south of Mureș county, on the border with Brașov and Sibiu counties, Via Transilvanica runs through an area where the short food chain Bucate din vecinătate operates, which promotes well-known domestic products as well as culinary innovations. The gastronomic events in Saschiz have crossed the borders of the area, the Rhubarb Festival being known at the national level. In the north of Sibiu county, the Bucate din Proximitate cooperative aims to facilitate cooperation between local producers in the Mediașului Plateau and consumers in the county. The Food Hub also operates in Sibiu county, which markets the products of local producers through a short food chain.The products are accompanied by the manufacturer s contact details as a guarantee of quality. In this way, the consumer has the certainty of the authenticity of traditional local products. The Terra Saxona route on Via Transilvanica is an opportunity for local producers to promote their traditional local values and capitalize on the multi-ethnic gastronomic heritage.

Hydro-dynamic and geochemical assessment of three successive cutoff meanders of the Danube Delta

Abstract Hydrological and sedimentological data were collected on several cross-sections of both natural and artificial canals of three cutoff meanders (Mahmudia, Dunavăţul de Sus, and Dunavăţul de Jos meanders) of the Sfântu Gheorghe branch at the beginning of June 2017. The hydrological data shows a heterogeneous distribution of water discharges: on the meanders of Mahmudia and Dunavăţul de Jos, most of the liquid flow passes through artificial channels. In the case of the Dunavăţul de Sus meander, the cut meander is the main transport channel for the liquid flow. The statistical analysis of chemical data evidenced an excellent quality of the bottom sediments, with few parameters exceeding the limits (for Ni, Cu, and Cr). These results correlated with the hydrological measurements made on each investigated cross-section.

Los cautivos de Argel

Los cautivos de Argel

Overlooking Blanco White's Abolitionist Consciousness: Menéndez Pelayo and Goytisolo

The purpose of this article is to rethink the modern reception of José María Blanco White's Bosquejo del comercio de esclavos (1814) through an analysis of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo's chapter on Blanco White in his Historia de los heterodoxos españoles (1880–1882) and Juan Goytisolo's foreword to his anthology Obra inglesa, selecta de sus obras en esta lengua (1972). By drawing on the insights of the "archival turn" taken by contemporary critics, this essay reveals how Menéndez Pelayo's omission of Blanco White's abolitionism had such lasting effects that Goytisolo was unable to rectify it despite his explicit political commitments to human dignity, antislavery, and antiracism. Ultimately, this article shows that Goytisolo failed to treat Blanco White's abolitionist sentiment as a historical topic in its own right because he mounted a political challenge to Menéndez Pelayo's portrayal of Blanco White, but at the same time left untouched the power inscribed in the Catholic polymath's archival narrative.

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Program to Help Latina Mothers Help Their Children Cope with Stress: Effects on Parenting, Child Coping, and Adjustment.

"Madres Apoyandoel Desarrollo Emocional de Sus Hijos" ("Mothers Supporting the Emotional Development of Their Children") is a parenting education program designed to help Latina mothers help their school-age children cope with stress. A previous randomized controlled trial, with a pre-post design, showed that the program had the predicted effects on mothers' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. However, no data were collected from the children in that initial evaluation. The purpose of the present study was to determine if the program impacted children's coping and adjustment. One hundred twenty-two primarily first-generation Latina mothers from rural Washington State were randomly assigned to the intervention or to a no treatment control. Seven implementations of the program were conducted. Mothers and their 8- to 13-year-old children completed assessments 1week before the program started, 1week after its completion, and 3months later. The results for maternal behavior were largely replicated: at posttest, intervention mothers, compared to controls, reported higher levels of emotion coaching, showed greater self-efficacy for helping their child cope with stress, and were more likely to report positive strategies for scaffolding their child's responses to stressful situations. Several maternal effects (e.g., emotion-coaching and maternal efficacy) continued at 3months. Children of intervention mothers at posttest used more primary control coping strategies and reported fewer emotional symptoms; analyses of mothers' ratings of child adjustment replicated the posttest child effects for emotional symptoms, showed fewer other psychological problems at posttest, and showed greater child prosocial behavior at 3months. The results further support the program's efficacy and provide the first evidence of its effects on child coping and adjustment.

Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

The Development Of Rural Tourism In The Municipality Of Orăștioara De Sus, Hunedora County

The development of rural communities is a process in which the community is actively involved, with the aim of mobilizing all initiatives to capitalize on its own resources for the social and economic benefit of the community. The authors of this paper propose an analysis of the existing resources on the territory of the Orăştiora de Sus commune, Hunedoara county. In this study, both types of tourism presented above are demonstrated in the commune of Orăştioara de Sus. Rural tourism can be carried out strictly through the involvement of the community in this field, and agritourism can include services carried out by the inhabitants of the area where the authorities are involved in cultural tourism and mountain sports. The methodology used in the research consists of the collection and processing of statistical data, graphic interpretation, as well as the analysis and synthesis of information regarding the development of the rural area from the specialized literature in the field. After completing a SWOT analysis, the authors determine the main directions the locality should go in terms of development.

La inmigración hispana en los Estados Unidos: un análisis de sus relaciones con las diferentes iglesias, el mercado laboral y el delito

The aim of this paper is to show the relationship among the Hispanic immigration (mostly with an irregular citizen status) in US (some areas where they live many Hispanic) and the churches that are linked to these communities. The undocumented Hispanics are being persecuted, de-ported and in the elections talk down them to win votes. Only in their confessions have they have found the most stable refuge for a long time due to during the past two decades, churches become in the main upholder and protector of the Hispanic community in the United States. Thus, this research explores the ramifications and the pillars of this outstanding relationship that had been built through time. This paper also analyzes the relationship between the labor market and unauthorized immigration, as it is attributed to unauthorized immigrants to be the cause of unemployment of the natives. As well as being criminals and the main inhabitants of prisons. Reality that is far from reality. The Trump Administration, following many of the thoughts of some American citizens, maintains the accusation towards Hispanic immigration of working illegally in the country, as well as increasing crime.Keywords: Unauthorized immigration, congregations, Hispanic, labor market, crime.ResumenEste trabajo intenta analizar la relación entre la inmigración hispana (principalmente aquellos con un estatus de ciudadano irregular y en áreas donde residen muchos hispanos) en los Estados Unidos y las iglesias que están vinculadas a estas comunidades. Los hispanos indocumentados están siendo perseguidos, deportados y en las campañas electorales son criticados con el objetivo de ganar votos. Prácticamente, durante mucho tan sólo en sus confesiones han encontrado el refugio, pues en las últimas dos décadas, las iglesias se convirtieron en el principal defensor y protector de la comunidad hispana en los Estados Unidos. Por lo tanto, esta investigación explora las ramificaciones y los pilares de esta relación sobresaliente que se ha construido a través del tiempo. Pero también se aborda la cuestión del mercado laboral, pues se atribuye a los inmigrantes no-autorizados ser los causantes del desempleo de los nativos. Como también de ser delincuentes y los principales habitantes de las cárceles. Realidad que dista mucho de ello. La Administración de Trump, siguiendo muchos de los pensamientos de algunos ciudadanos norteamericanos, mantiene la acusación hacia la inmigración hispana de trabajar ilegalmente en el país, así como de incrementar la delincuencia. Palabras clave: Inmigración no autorizada, congregaciones, hispanos, mercado laboral, delin-cuencia.

Reconstruction of Temporality and the Rule of Law: The Never-Ending Transition in El Secreto de sus Ojos

This article argues that expectations about transitional justice contribute to widespread ideas in mainstream comparative law contending that Latin American law has failed. We believe that these expectations are the result of understanding transitional justice as a mythological narrative that aims to interrupt time. To criticize this perspective, we “read” the 2009 Argentine film El Secreto de sus Ojos (The Secret in their Eyes) underscoring how the movie questions the notion that transitions break with the past. El Secreto de sus Ojos showcases a nonlinear reconstruction of time, its non-progressive ascension, and the continuity of the past in the present: the past-as-present. Following this cue, we question how the movie’s understanding of a Latin American legal system evidences a blind spot of mainstream transitional justice discourse. Our analysis thus challenges assumptions about the law in the Global South, offers a nuanced and reconstructed cultural understanding of law through its relationship with time, and proposes to use films as sites of critique for assumptions about time and space in comparative law.

Study on the Middle Bronze Age Disc-Butted Axe Ornament from Archaeometallurgical Point of View

Our research was conducted on a copper disc-butted axe, with a surface decoration made of a tin-based alloy, which was found east of the Carpathian Mountains in the Moldavian Plateau. This unique piece is thought to belong to the Middle Bronze Age in the Western Carpathians—Wietenberg, Suciu de Sus and Otomani–Füzesabony cultures. In order to evaluate the application process and the origin of the ores used, the surface and volume phase variation of the concentration of the metal components of the basic alloy (copper) and of the ornament was analysed using optical microscopy (OM), stereomicroscopy (SM) and SEM-EDX. The archaeometric features, formed both during its use and during its lying in the archaeological site, were identified and later used in archaeometallurgical evaluations and in determining the preservation condition of the two components (axe and ornament) on the surface, interface and in stratigraphic section. Experimental data revealed that, after its casting in porous silicon stone moulds, the object was coated with a thin film by immersion in an easily fusible tin alloy, which included copper as the major alloying component and arsenic and iron as minor components. After finishing the shiny white coat, a beautiful decoration was applied by incision and engraving. Used as a battle axe, it also had a rank function, as it belonged to the community leaders. The data prove the ability of ancient craftsmen to design and process copper alloys to obtain authentic extremely beautiful artefacts, which provide new possibilities to reveal the social and symbolic function of certain ancient bronze objects.

Opinions of the Public Officials and the Local Community Members Regarding the Administrative Activity. Survey at the Level of the City Hall Institution of Horodnic de Sus Commune, Suceava County, Romania

Society, in general, and every local collectivity, in particular, needs public administrations to carry out administrative activities dedicated to concrete social needs. Starting from this necessity, through its content, this paper aims to analyze the opinions of dignitaries and civil servants, as well as members of the local community regarding the administration activity carried out at the Institution of Horodnic de Sus City Hall in Suceava County. Achieved by ensuring the comparability of the data collected, this micro-research reveals that both those who manage and those who are managed show a favorable attitude in relation to almost all aspects surveyed: the adaptation of administrative activities to the needs of the local community, the promptness and efficiency of the administrative activity in the City Hall Institution, the, the satisfaction regarding the management of both the City Hall Institution and the locality. However, the study highlights the fact that regarding the existence of bureaucracy in the administrative activity and in the relation with the members of the local community, the opinions expressed by the two categories of respondents are different. If in the perception of dignitaries and civil servants alignment of the administrative activity with the development priorities of the locality, the answers are unfavorable to the bureaucratic phenomenon, by contrast, from the opinions expressed by the locals, it results that the City Hall-citizens relation is affected by bureaucracy.

BRONZE AGE HOARD VARY II (TRANSCARPATHIA): CHRONOLOGICAL ASPECT

The territory of present-day Zakarpattya is rich in Bronze Age finds of hoards. One of the latest discoveries is a complex near the village Vary of Beregovo district of Zakarpattya region. It is added to the long list (above 200 items) of similar complexes known on the region's territory. This hoard was discovered in 2014 and transferred to permanent storage to the Professor E. Balaghuri Archaeological Museum at the Faculty of History and International Relations of a public higher-education institution UzhNU. It contained bronze objects (above 70 examples) that were put in a clay, ornamented vessel at a depth between 0,4–0,6 meters from a modern surface. It must be noted that part of Transcarpathian complexes signalizes some problems in suggested chronological schemes. New hoard also pointed out on it. It consists of different groups of metal objects: armaments, tools, adornments, household utensils, and remains of bronze cast production. Part of represented types has a wide area of spreading and a time frame of existing. This fact, together with a significant fragmentation of discovered objects, make it difficult to determine the exact dating of the complex. The authors of the given article describe in detail artifacts that were discovered and identify their typology, chronology, and cultural background of all complexes. Typological and chronological analysis has shown that they have different periods of existing – from BzB1 to BzD and weigh upon to the timeline BzB1–BzC. Clay vessel based on the clay ornamentation points out to more late age, instead (BzB2–BzD). Therefore, «inconsistencies» in the dating of objects from this hoard indicate a need for correction and reviewing of the existing schemes of the hoards' chronology of the Bronze Age of the Upper Tisza region and their relationship to the phases of the Stanovo culture (Suchu de Sus) development.