These days, teaching languages – English in particular – has become an ever more complex and challenging task due to the fact that groups of students are eclectic in terms of knowledge of English and level of competence. Teachers try to adapt to this challenging environment by providing a wide variety of activities and materials so as t...

By L Todea, R Demarcsek

By definition, a coil is an electrical passive device, which have two terminals, use in electrical circuits to keep the power in magnetic field or to detect the magnetic fields. In winding process, is possible to appear different defects, or issues which can cause in time problems in functionality of products. In this paper, we will analyze two typ...

By Z Erdei, M Horgos, O Zetea

The paper shows the studying of the retaining mechanism of lead ions in industrial wastewaters through static and dynamic ion exchange mechanisms. In the experimental determinations of the lead metallic ion retention, metallurgical industry wastewaters have been used on samples of volcanic zeolite tuff (from Barsana, Maramures), samples that show a...

By A Pop, G Iepure

This paper highlights the main characteristics of the energy market in Romania. Starting from the mode of organization and operation of the electricity market, there are revealed prices and tariffs for electricity for different categories of customers and their evolution in time. There are pointed also ways of setting electricity prices and tariffs...

By M Stet

Stress triaxiality is considered an invariant of stress, defined as the ratio of hydrostatic stress (hydrostatic pressure by other authors) and the equivalent stress (usually calculated using von Mises criterion). If the values of the main three stresses have comparable sizes, stress triaxiality can be also calculated using the first invariant of t...

By V Zichil, A Coseru, F Nedeff, C Tomozei

Using of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) can establish high security level in network communication. VPN technology enables high security networking using distributed or public network infrastructure. VPN uses different security and managing rules inside networks. It can be set up using different communication channels like Internet or separate ISP ...

By A Skendzic, B Kovacic

Numerous international studies indicate a high level of belief in myths and conspiracy theories about HIV/AIDS, especially in relation to its origin and treatments. There are also findings of these beliefs being related to risky sexual behaviors. Moreover, it is useful to study these myths and their correlates in the context of prevention. This stu...

By Dalibor Miholjčić, Zdravka Kezić

The Patient Health Questionnaire – PHQ-9 is a well known self-report measure of nine depression symptoms according to DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria. As the PHQ-9 is not yet validated in most of former Yugoslavian countries, the goal of this research was to determine its factor structure and psychometric properties on a large non-clinical BCS language...

By Siniša Subotić, Ivan Knežević, Strahinja Dimitrijević, Dalibor Miholjčić, Savina Šmit, Mirjana Karać, Jelena Mijatović

“Birthday blues” is sometimes used in epidemiological studies to describe occasionally observed effect of higher suicide ratios around birthdays. It is also colloquially used to describe a general feeling of disappointment, anxiety, etc. due to another year passing by, low achievement, or not having the expectations regarding birthday c...

By Savina Šmit

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By Siniša Subotić