THE ROLE OF SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT AND SIMULATORS IN MEDICAL EDUCATION – WHERE DO WE STAND?
Abstract:Simulation can be defined as “the act of mimicking a real object, event or process by assuming its oppearance or outward qualities” (Gorman et al. 1999). In a medical setting, simulation can be seen as the reproduction of a complete clinical encounter consisting, but not being limited to, specific items of equipment (‘simulators’) (Kneebone (Anon 2010a). Simulation-based medical education (SBME) is increasingly needed in clinical practice due to an onus on patient safety, decreased operative exposure of trainees, the introduction of new operative techniques, as well as the need for clinicians’ revalidation. SBME addresses these needs by being learner-centred, being amenable to objective-setting and sustained repeated practice, as well as providing feedback. Furthermore, simulation gives trainees ‘permission-to-fail’ in an environment where patient safety is not compromised (Kneebone et al. 2006).
Keywords: Simulation, Simulators, Medical Education
THE LOGISTIC EQUATION: SOLUTIONS AND DEMOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION
Abstract: The present paper deals with demographically important solutions to the fundamental logistic equation. Besides the common one, the reversed, the over-growth and the supra-extinction logistic models are briefly analyzed, pointing out their specific properties.
Among the “aberrant” logistic models, the supraextinction one, which might correspond to an involution of population soon after a nuclear War, seams to be the most dramatic. Indeed, compared to the other normal logistic branches, the demographic recovery needs more than 18 years, just for entering the over-growth phase, necessary in attending the new equilibrium stage.
Keywords: Logistic equation, Demography, Logistics of Population Dynamics.
THE DIPLOMATIC NEGOCIATION – A KEY FACTOR IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Abstract: The development of international relations has conjured states to appeal, for the treatment of foreign policy issues, to diplomatic negotiation regarding contacts and bilateral negotiations, and, also, to a broader framework represented by the multilateral diplomacy. In its general meaning, diplomatic negotiation is a key factor in international relations, representing the way of maintaining peaceful relations, cooperation and understanding among all states, while respecting individual personality in order to reach a consensus. On resolving disputes, diplomacy is required, by negotiation, to help identify ways in which to restore confidence among states, turning off some contingent disputes and removing or alleviating the causes that led it. Diplomatic negotiation ultimately represents a tool, a technique in the service performed by certain organs of state specifically designed for this purpose.
Keywords: Negotiation, Diplomacy, Immunity, Tactics, State, Diplomatic Relationship
CRAZY NARRATIVE IN FILM. ANALYSING ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU’S FILM NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
Abstract:Non-linear film narrative breaks the mainstream conventions of narrative structure and deceives the audience’s expectations. Alejandro González Iñárritu is one of the directors that have adopted the fragmentary narration for his films, as a means of experimentation, creating a narrative puzzle that has to be reassembled by the spectators. His films could be included in the category of what has been called ‘hyperlink cinema.’ In hyperlink cinema the action resides in separate stories, but a connection or influence between those disparate stories is gradually revealed to the audience. This paper will analyse the non-linear narrative technique used by the Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu in his trilogy: Amores perros1, 21 Grams2 and Babel3.
Keywords: Non-linear Film Narrative, Hyperlink Cinema, Postmodernism.
IDIOSYNCRASIES IN THE LEGAL DISCOURSE OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS
Abstract: Community legal discourse has a number of characteristics which originate in the specificity of the system itself, and which legitimate it to be labeled as a variety of legal language. Additionally, it exhibits a tendency to be, impenetrable, vague and poorly written, practices which are on the verge of officially being recognized as the idiosyncrasies or the mannerisms of Community legal discourse.
Keywords: Acquis
DEPRECIATING THE LITERATURE
Abstract: Science is, including the humanities, literature and art, in all ages has shown surprising vitality, adapting to and surviving, and in the most unfavorable socio-political environment, demonstrating willingness to accept any ideology and serve the new government in exchange for financial, material and human resources. Scientists and artists can act without political freedom, but without the professional freedom the science quickly degrades.
This paper will discuss examples of neglect or criticism of bourgeois literature and literature in exile in the period of socialism, focusing on the present-day Serbia, whose official ideology is the repression of the so-called Communist literature.
Keywords: Ideology, Textbooks,
THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL: WRITING AS THE ETHICAL MEANS OF ACTION IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Abstract: THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL: THE COLONIAL AS EXILE, THE COLONIAL AS WRITER, is a study dealing with analyzing the internal nature of the writer coming to maturity in the acclaimed novel by Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul. The process of coming to understand how to be a writer and how to write is the central story of The Enigma of Arrival novel. Naipaul’s vision of what it is to be a writer is not to write the truth of a reality, but to understand the truth that is found in distance and recreation.
The novel also touches upon the ambivalence felt by the migrant writer-the writer who writes in exile-over the country or countries of his past-the country he has left and the country he has now come to live in. Yet and this seems central to aipaul’s point about what is required to become a writer this ambivalence is not a feeling to be mistrusted or a problem to be transcended and put behind one. The importance of a writer of Naipaul’s stature is that he can express the ambivalence at the heart of his fractured identity. The novel represents the colonial as exile, as dreamer of imaginary landscapes, and as insolubly divided and multiple. However, more than anything, it epresents the colonial as writer, and writing as the natural ethical means of action for the colonial in a world that has entered the era of post-colonialism.
Keywords: Arrival, Ambivalence, Biography, Biographical, Colonial, Colonialism, Country, Dislocation, Ethics, Ethical - including Action or Means of Action and Writing, Exile, Fiction, History, Identity - including Dislocated; Fractured; Reified; Identification, Imperial, Irony and Ironical, Land, Landscape; Memory, Migrant, otif(s),
Narrator, Novel(s), Past, Post-colonial, Post-olonialism, Reality, Return, Self - including Divided, Fractured; Hybrid; Migrant; Multiple; Symbol(s), Vision, Writer, Writing.
AESTHETIC THEORIES AND THE ALTERNATIVES: REMIX STRATEGIES IN CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE
Abstract: The paper aims to review the status of aesthetics today, also to problematize its subject area (art) and eventually to mark basic relations that it establishes within the world of culture and media, as well as with issues of contemporary artistic creativity. On the trail of the postulates of the society critical theory and Benjamin's reflexions on "desauratisation" of art, the meaning of art theory, in period of sophisticated aesthetic, is replaced by one type of meaningless, technical-technological mediatization, directly derived from digitized interactive environment. The ruling paradigm, so called remix of cultural strategy detected by Lev Manovich in his article „What comes after Remix", doesn't leave enough space for development of the artistic alternatives, as for existing outside the world of media culture, as well the aesthetic theory which gradually loses one of its traditional subjects as it is art, changing by this also the current position, orientation and identity.
Keywords: Culture, Media, Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Remix
EREC’S WAY TO MANHOOD. A GENDER-SEMIOTIC REFLECTION ON HARTMANN’S EREC
Abstract: This paper relies on works in the field of medieval gender researches and it intends to show how the gender category is being negotiated in Hartmann’s von Aue Erec. The starting point of the analysis is Judith Butler’s gender concept, which will be connected with insights from semiotics. It will be shown to what extent the influence of the social gender, of the gender identity is a performative act of semiosis and which influence it has in the text on the symbolic system as a whole.
Keywords: Gender, Semiotics, Medieval Literature.
CHAINED AND SUPERNATURALLY ENDOWED BY HISTORY: AUGUST 15TH, 1947, SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE CHILDREN OF MIDNIGHT
Abstract: This study deals with Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children and the dialectic created between subject and landscape there. The premise for this novel by its acclaimed writer is quite amazing: At the stroke of midnight on August 15th, 1947, India achieved independence and became an independent country, free from the shackles of Britain. One thousand and one children were born in the hour of independence, born together with their “new” country, brought into light from midnight to 1 AM, all one thousand and one children, the novel’s narrator included, being born with magical powers, the potency of which increases the closer the child was born to midnight. In one way, Midnight’s Children can be seen as a blueprint of the way a subject—particularly one who leans on history to place itself in the world—both attempts to construct, and is forced to dissolve its sense of self. The characters in the novel have seemed to have their fates written into them by the symbolic realm, the cultural process of signification; they seem to be victims of their socio-cultural backgrounds.
However, Midnight’s Children does not entirely follow the Lacanian notion that the symbolic realm entirely constitutes an individual. Subjects are not entirely constructed by their circumstances. History, it could be said, provides the landscape for the novels’ main character, Saleem. And it is the peculiar nature of Indian history that this landscape is prone to create numerous, multiple realities. In Midnight’s Children, both reality and the subject are invalidated by each other, then—they are both shown to be fictions. The subject is not whole or stable. And the landscape—and by landscape I mean the cultural context, the history, the sociological outlook—of India can be changed, re-ordered, reconstituted. In short, it is viewed as imaginary, it is imaginary.
Keywords: Exile, Landscape, Subject, Memory, History, Reality, Fiction, Homeland—including Imaginary, Identity, Nationality.
AURA – MARKET – TRUTH
Abstract: The relationship between the traditional notion of truth and the phenomenon of the aura has been significantly altered in contemporary times; this has been supported by the processes of rapid technological growth (general digitalization and virtualization) on one side, and globalization of the market on the other. Following an era of predominantly industrially produced artwork, which led to the gradual loss of the aura, or else, its vanishing from the sphere of cultural production, a time of new epistemological and ontological foundations is occurring; of ones that break connections to jurisdiction and the notion of truth, and that transform the very phenomenon of aura, by transferring it from the field of art into the domain of advertising and market branding of reality. This is how the desire of contemporary culture for the aura is being satisfied, primarily in the field of market communications, while truth is actually disappearing as a presumption, process and final destination of movement of dialogical streams of thought and creation of present time.
Keywords: Aura, Market, Truth, Artwork, Cultural Production.
GLOBALIZATION AND OTHERNESS IN THE PRESS. COULD THERE BE AN ORIGINAL VOICE OF ROMANIAN JOURNALISM?
Abstract: The Romanian world of the nineteenth century, when the foundations of modern institutions of the country were laid, could not escape prevailing world trends. This critical mood was expressed in Titu Maiorescu’s formula of form without substance. Today, compliance, respecting norms, the moral consensus of quality thresholds, the return of the talented and cultivated journalists, are ways to escape from desert. This possibility seems now, and maybe for a long time yet, just a Fata Morgana. We are different, our voice sounds different than that of most fellow Europeans, but it is a dissonant voice, sometimes downright false.
Keywords: Romanian Press, Form without Substance,Globalization, Originality, Otherness
LESSONS FROM A PUBLIC PARTICIPATION SESSION
Abstract: The paper analyzes a participatory planning process and identifies challenges in attaining the goals and ideals of planning processes that involve community input. The paper argues that good communication and openness to an inclusive process do not always result in outcomes that represent the consensus position of a given community. There are other ingredients needed, such as a willingness to give up agendas, a care to validate opinions regardless of who they come from, and ultimately a good dose of education on HOW to participate.
Keywords: Participatory Planning, Public Input, Community Voice
HOW CAN WE FIND OUT THE OLD SECRETS OF A TOWN? LITERARY SCENT ABOVE COPOU STREET
Abstract: A short communication existing in a Moldavian capital with an elegant patriotic image evident in an architecture still present today, communication regarding the literary society as a form of a relationship between love and power, with old traits of ecology, communication that prepared the modern society, Junimea.
Keywords: Iasi, Love Affairs, Mid 19th Century, Romantic State.
