Ovidius University Research Articles

Exploring nulliparous women's perceptions of pelvic organ prolapse treatments: A qualitative study for enhancing nursing care in Romania.

There remains a significant gap in understanding what nulliparous (NP) women desire in terms of treatment for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) before pregnancy and childbirth. This study aimed to assess the perceptions of young NP women without POP regarding various POP treatments and identify their preferred treatment options to enhance quality in nursing practice. This study employed a qualitative descriptive design involving thirteen young NP women at the Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University from Constanța, Romania. Age, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities, previous surgical interventions, and smoking status were evaluated. Participants underwent a semi-structured interview from January to February 2024, during which their perceptions of different POP treatments were explored. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim and were analyzed using content analysis. The mean age of the NP women without POP was 24.23 years, with 61.53% having a BMI of 30 or greater and 69.23% reporting previous surgical interventions. Four dominant themes emerged: 1) the Internet as a source of information about treatments for POP; 2) insufficient knowledge about POP symptoms; 3) the preference for supervised PFM training; and 4) choosing the surgical treatments by vaginal route, although wishing to preserve the uterus. The findings indicated that young NP women's perceptions of POP treatments were primarily influenced by online information. The preferred treatment for POP among young NP women was conservative, with a strong emphasis on supervised PFM training. This study provides valuable insights into nursing practice by highlighting NP women's perceptions and preferences for PFM training as a treatment for POP, potentially contributing to delaying the onset of this condition in their lives.

The Impact of Conceiving an Empirical ESP Course on Undergraduate Engineering Students: A Case Study at Ovidius University of Constanta

The Impact of Conceiving an Empirical ESP Course on Undergraduate Engineering Students: A Case Study at Ovidius University of Constanta

Curricular Relevance and Workforce Preparedness: Student Perspectives on Practical Experiences in Urban Planning and Construction Courses

Abstract This study conducted at Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania, examines the integration of practical experiences into urban planning and construction curricula, involving 318 students from Construction, Law, and Administrative Sciences faculties. The study stresses the significance of these experiences in preparing students for the workforce, while assessing their perspectives on the relevance of their courses to future careers, with a particular emphasis on the influence of internships and real project involvement. The findings suggest that students who engage in practical activities view their courses as more relevant to their career advancement. This pattern is consistent across an array of courses, with various statistical analyses revealing degrees of significance. The study underscores the need of aligning educational programmes with labour market standards and professional requirements, particularly within fields that emphasise practical competencies. It also highlights the essential roles of construction engineers and public administration professionals, emphasizing the importance of understanding practical and legal aspects in their education.

Effects of Sleep Quality and Quantity on Academic Performace and Feeling of Medical Students

Abstract Background: the performance of students in their academic life is reflected by their sleep habits and timing, this research has been done in order to get a deeper understanding of the relationship between quality and quantity of sleep and academic performance among the medical students of Ovidius University. Methods: The study was conducted on 30 randomly selected medical students of Ovidius University (English division), 55% male and 45% female, by collecting their sleep timing for 2 weeks, followed by a self-report questionnaire (PSQI) to obtain more details. Furthermore, PSQI global scale (pittsburgh sleep quality index) was used to assess the sleep quality over a 2 week time interval. Regarding the academic performance, students were divided based on their grades into three categories (excellent, very good, good). Result: difference in students’ academic performance was noticed, 36% got an excellent performance, 45% got a very good performance, 19% got a good performance, medication usage was not reported by most students (87%), yet a small number (3%) used medication to sleep better. The average sleeping time for male 6h29, female 6h25, the sleeping rate was the same for both genders 3.2 out of 5, PSQI scale for female was 6.98 points and for male it was slightly higher with 0.4 points which indicates they have a worse sleeping habit.

Spectrophotometric Determination of Fe(II) and Fe(III) Using 5-(4-Ethylphenyl azo ) 2-Hydroxybenzaldehyde Oxime Reagent

Spectrophotometric Determination of Fe(II) and Fe(III) Using 5-(4-Ethylphenyl azo ) 2-Hydroxybenzaldehyde Oxime Reagent

Big-Five Personality Traits and Cognitive Skills in Higher Education in the Pandemic Context

The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic created a severe psychosocial and medical shock all over the world. For more than a year, humanity struggled with adjusting to different measures that governments imposed on the population worldwide. Educational systems all over the world were forced to comply with the new conditions of activity. In this context, different reactions emerged, and skills were used and developed. The coronavirus pandemic was and still is a stressful worldwide event that disrupted, among numerous other things, the everyday life of professional activities and the manner of their deployment. This study aims to investigate the relationship between variables like analytical reasoning, text comprehension, detail perception, conscientiousness, emotional stability and autonomy. A sample of 327 students from Ovidius University of Constanta, aged between 19 and 50 years, were assessed using Cognitrom Assessment System. Results show that: (1) there is a positive correlation between analytical reasoning, text comprehension and detail perception; (2) analytical reasoning positively correlates with conscientiousness and emotional stability; (3) text comprehension correlates with emotional stability; and (4) detail perception has no significant correlation with any of the studied personality traits. Results are interpreted and discussed in the end of the article, in relationship with the use of these intellectual skills and personality traits in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially by certain population categories which had to use the online environment for their regular professional activities.

List Of Scientific Board Of Esitech 2020

Tasente Tanase - Ovidius University of Constanta https://scholar.google.ro/citations?user=EBcuQDma2XoC&hl=roCarina Ganuza – Instituto Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Educativo (INDTEC-Ecuador) and Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-v-ganuza-382b0588/Cristina Dragomir, Associated Professor, PhD Mech Engineering, PhD Management, from Management in Transports dept., Constanta Maritime University, Romaniahttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bRnALFwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aoList of Scientific Board are available in this pdf.

Matbase auto Function Non-relational Constraints Enforcement Algorithms

MatBase is an intelligent prototype data and knowledge base management system based on the Relational (RDM), Entity-Relationship, and (Elementary) Mathematical ((E)MDM) Data Models, built upon Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). ((E)MDM) has 61 constraint types, out of which21 apply to autofunctions as well. All five relational (RDM) constraint types are passed by MatBase for enforcement to the corresponding RDBMS host. All non-relational ones are enforced by MatBase through automatically generated code. This paper presents and discusses both the strategy and the implementation of MatBase autofunction non-relational constraints enforcement algorithms. These algorithms are taught to our M.Sc. students within the Advanced Databases lectures and labs, both at the Ovidius University and at the Department of Engineering in Foreign Languages, Computer Science Taught in English Stream of the Bucharest Polytechnic University, as well as successfully used by two Romanian software companies.

Heavy Metals Bioaccumulation Capacity on Marine Algae Biomass from Romanian Black Sea Coast

Knowledge of environmental pollution with an impact on health is essential for a sustainable environment and useful for people. The coastal areas of the world�s seas and oceans are polluted with different pollutants from technological sources and from other sources of socio-human activities. The pollutants studied are heavy metals Cd, Cu, Zn and Pb. In the paper are presented researches regarding the heavy metal concentrations determined in samples from marine water, sediments and algal mass, harvested from six stations from different areas of the Romanian Black Sea in two different years 2017 and 2018. The analyses were performed in the Chemistry Laboratories of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ovidius University in Constanta, by a spectrophotometric method using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer ContrAA-700, Analytic Jena AG. For marine water in 2018 the following concentrations were obtained: Zn ] Pb ] Cu ] Cd and in 2017 the order was different: Zn ] Cu ] Pb ] Cd. For sediments in 2017 the order of concentrations is Cu ] Zn ] Pb ] Cd and in 2018 the highest values in the sediment are recorded by the next high values Cu ] Pb ] Zn ] Cd. Constant climate change and increased eutrophication in recent years have led to a massive increase in marine biomass in the Black Sea. For seaweed samples there are accumulations in the order of Zn ] Cu ] Pb ] Cd in both years. Bioaccumulation factors in water BCF water, were higher in algae for Zn and Cu. From the analysis of bioaccumulation factors, it can be noticed that seawater algae accumulate heavy metals from seawater and sediment (confirmed by BCF water ] 1 or BCF sed. ] 1). The accumulation of heavy metals in seaweed shows the existence of pollutants and marine pollution factors. Marine algae are the best biomarkers of pollution.

Oddziaływanie zastosowania magnetycznych aktywatorów paliwa na proces spalania w hutniczych piecach grzewczych

1. Fedorchak, V. and Fedorchak, T. 2015. Analysis and classification of physical and chemical methods of fuel activation. Ovidius University Annals of Chemistry vol. 26, 2, pp. 67–73. Google Scholar

International Scientific Conference “People, Buildings and Environment 2018 (PBE)”

ForewordThe 13th edition of the International Scientific Conference PEOPLE, BUILDINGS AND ENVIRONMENT (PBE2018) was organized by the Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering in cooperation with the Riga Technical University. The conference was held in Brno, Czech Republic from 17th to 19th October 2018.PBE is a middle-sized conference, convened biennially in order to address current research issues related to two main specific areas which are Economics and management of sustainable construction and Water and landscape engineering.Conference started with a welcome reception, followed by two keynote lectures, parallel oral presentation sessions, poster session and social part of the event. Keynote speeches were delivered by Prof. Juris Smirnovs from the Riga Technical University, Latvia, and Prof. Anca Constantin, from the Ovidius University in Constanta, Romania, respected researchers in the main conference fields. Prof. Smirnovs gave an engaging lecture about “Road Traffic Safety in Latvia” and Prof. Constantin spoke about “Considerations on Water Pumping Station Operation in the Context of Sustainable Development”.

Several Considerations on Commercial Techniques, in the Student's Interest

By this article, we aim at achieving, in several rows, more than just a Book Review (on the editorial approach entitled “Commercial Techniques”, by Cristina Mihaela Lazar, Lumina Lex, Bucharest, 2015), intending to bring into discussion other elements of the author's scientific personality (including bio-bibliographic ones), Prof. PhD at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta. The paper in question was conceived to respond to the requirements of the students enrolled in economic studies (and beyond), containing enough landmarks for a complete insight into the methods and processes carried out in commercial activities.

Sustainable management of the grain sorghum crop - Sorghum bicolor L. in Dobrudja Plateau from Romania

In this paper are presented studies regarding the identification of some solutions - an alternative to the fuel world crisis, respective obtaining biofuels from grain sorghum crop (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench). In Romania, the cultivated surfaces are quite small, comparative with the existing agro-climatic potential. The authors identified, following the researches, a pedo-climatic area from Romania, respective Dobrudja, where the grain sorghum meets agro-pedo-meteorological conditions favourable to obtaining of high yields. It was analysed the grain sorghum crop in the world, in Europe and Romania, but also two cultures of grain sorghum, one under field conditions and the other one under experimental conditions in the teaching plot belonging to the Ovidius University from Constanta. There are presented the results obtained regarding the technology elements applied to this culture, as well as observations upon the infestation with diseases, pests attack and the frequency of the weed species in grain sorghum crop.

Editorial Foreword

Most of the contributions gathered in Volume 7, issue no. 2 (2015) of Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice / The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies (RRSBN) were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania held on 22-23 May 2015 and entitled Historical memory, the politics of memory and cultural identity: Romania, Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region in comparison. The conference was organized by the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies in cooperation with the International Summer School of the University of Oslo, Norway and the Faculty of History and Political Sciences of Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania and in partnership with Nordic and Baltic embassies and consulates in Romania. The conference was funded by EEA and Norway Grants 2009-2014 within the Fund for Bilateral Relations at the National Level. The aim of the conference was to investigate the link between identity, collective memory and history in the above-mentioned areas by trying to find encounters between them and by making comparisons between the memories of the Romanian, Nordic and Baltic nations.

Editorial Foreword

The current issue of Revista Română de Studii Baltice și Nordice / The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies combines the publication of scientific articles highlighting issues of identity, memory, culture, translation and economy of the Nordic and Baltic area with an educational section featuring the innovative syllabi of disciplines to be taught at the summer school of Nordic and Baltic Studies, which is the core of the project “A piece of culture, a culture of peace” (CoolPeace), and a corpus of scientific articles. The project is financed under the measure “inter-institutional cooperation projects” of the EEA grants and is intended to strengthen the institutional cooperation at the level of higher education sector between all the partners involved: Valahia University of Târgoviște as the Project Promoter, the University of Agder, the University of Oslo, the Embassy of Lithuania in Romania, Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania and the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies. The Programme Operator of the EEA Scholarship Programme in Romania is ANPCDEFP (the National Agency for Community Programmes in the Field of Education and Vocational Training). The embassies of Finland, Norway and Sweden in Romania are cultural partners in this endeavour. Two of the articles published in this issue were presented at the Sixth international conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania entitled Historical memory, the politics of memory and cultural identity: Romania, Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region in comparison, hosted by the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies, Faculty of History and Political Sciences of Ovidius University of Constanța and International Summer School of The University of Oslo, Norway, in Constanța, Romania, on May 22-23, 2015, and financed within the Fund for Bilateral Relations at National Level. The 2015 conference focused on historical memory, the politics of memory and cultural identity, on historical narratives, including competing narratives, and on the use of history in identity politics. Places of commemoration, autobiographies, biographies and memoirs, empiric or theoretical research relevant to the conference’s topic stood also at the heart of the meeting. While concentrating on the three subjects underlined in the title of the conference, it also sought to approach other topics of interconnection between Romania, the Black Sea region and Scandinavia and Baltic Sea Region such as the role of women in shaping the society, energy, geography and environment, economics and trade, international relations.

Stress & Coping in Athletes and Non-athletes Students - Comparative Study

This study aime to determine the correlation between stressful events and physical symptoms on a sample of 136 students. The study also focused on determining the coping strategies adopted by our subjects, as ways of handling stressful situations. In order to verify our hypothesis, COPE Questionnaire and Burnout Inventory were applied to students from the Ovidius University of Constanta, male and female, aged between 19 and 28 years, from different profile faculties. Main variables were assessed by age, gender and educational profile. Scores obtained for the psychological dimensions, revealed significant differences regarding stress levels and also coping strategies.

Excellence centers in inflammatory bowel disease in Romania: a measure of the quality of care.

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Predicting the risk of pressure ulcers in elderly patients in the postoperative period

1Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, Dept of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, Constanta, Romania, 2Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, Dept of Surgery, Constanta, Romania

Is delirium after general anesthesia in the elderly an independent predictor of hospital length of stay?

1Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, Dept of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, Constanta, Romania, 2Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, Dept of Surgery, Constanta, Romania

Spiritual distress assessment tool a valid instrument for elderly patients in the perioperative period

1Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, Dept of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, Constanta, Romania, 2Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University, Dept of Surgery, Constanta, Romania