In full expansion, a vital area such as education could not remain indifferent to the use of information and communication technology. Over the past two decades we have witnessed the emergence and development of e-learning systems, the proliferation of MOOCs, and generally the rise of Technology Enhanced Education. All of these contributed to generation and storage of unprecedented volumes of data concerning all areas of learning.

At the same time, domains such as data mining and big data analytics have emerged and developed. Their applications in education have spawned new areas of research such as educational data mining or learning analytics.

As an interdisciplinary research area Educational Data Mining (EDM) aims to explore data from educational environment to build models based on which students' behavior and results are better understood. In fact, EDM is a complex process that consists of a few steps grouped in three stages: data preprocessing, modelling and postprocessing. It transforms raw data from educational environments in useful information that could influence in a positive way the educational process.

According to Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) which took over the wording of the first International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, learning analytics is "the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs" (Siemens, 2011).

This paper proposes a comparative study of the two concepts: EDM and learning analytics.

Due to certain voices in the scientific environment that claim that the two terms refer to the same thing, we want to emphasize the similarities and differences between them, and how each one can serve to raise the quality in educational processes.

Large data volumes having various types and moving at high speed is the main feature of the current environment and is closely related to the Big Data concept. As a source of valuable insights, these data volumes have become an important asset for organizations, helping to make more informed and high-quality decisions. A real problem is that such data sets cannot be managed and processed by traditional methods. This paper presents some general aspects regarding Big Data and Big Data analytics - as source of deep insights, and it highlights some of the general opportunities, challenges and the European Commission strategy for Big Data.

The purpose of this paper is to explore three different themes within university teacher plagiarism via the use of a systematic literature review: definition of concepts, the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies and university teacher plagiarism and the attitudes and perceptions regarding university teacher plagiarism.  The motivation of the research is related to the fact that there is a very comprehensive literature on plagiarism in general, but rather limited literature on university teacher plagiarism. Teachers are role-models; hence, their actions and attitudes are often assumed by students.  The data composing the present literature review were extracted from one of the databases very frequently used in Romania: Springer Link. A literature search in this database was performed using the following keywords: "teacher plagiarism" and "researcher plagiarism ". We found that  the concept of university teacher plagiarism does not exist as such, and authors support a unique delimitation, irrespective of context. The least represented domain is that related to ICT and university teacher plagiarism, which urges for an immediate approach to this topic by means of empirical studies.

There is a growing interest in the management of long-term conditions and increasing awareness of the need for compliance/adherence's assessment. An inexpensive and simple way to measure patients' treatment compliance is pharmacoeconomic measurement tools.

The aim of the study is to increase the quality of assessment of patients' compliance through statistical methods in order to obtain a more accurate estimation and a shorter, easy-to-respond self-administered questionnaire. We used the Compliance Questionnaire-Rheumatology (CQR) translated into Romanian and we verified the reliability and the internal consistency of this instrument. The research included 140 consecutive patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis according to currently used criteria, with different treatment strategies and from different parts of Romania. Two methods for CQR's optimization were used. The first method identified associations between CQR score and patient compliance. An exploratory factor analysis was performed, as an alternative method, to reduce the number of items in CQR.

The factor analysis identified a two-dimensional 9 item model that explains 66.78% of the variance in adherence and has a good internal consistency and fits the data. A shortened and optimized version of the CQR increases the clinical utility by reducing the patient's burden while maintaining a good level of reliability.

Background: Several mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, anxiety, insomnia, hallucination and depression, appear when people heavily consume alcoholic beverages for weeks, months, or years. This behaviour appears in up to 80% of patients who are alcohol dependent and is called alcohol withdrawal. It can appear in patients hospitalized between 8hrs and 3 weeks, depending on the stage of their alcohol dependence. More than 90% of alcohol withdrawal signs and symptoms occur within 48 hours after the patient stops drinking. Every year,500,000 episodes of withdrawal symptoms are estimated for1.2 milion patients hospitalized. It is very important to know that over 50% of patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome are middle-class, highly functional individuals.The withdrawal period can mean additional stress for the pacient who presents injury and needs to undergo surgical procedures. Poor healing increases the risk for infections, complications and prolonged hospitalization. Stress and other behavioral factors can also affect wound healing. Consequently, it is very important to speak about the dangers to which other patients are exposed, such as bites that can transmit hepatitis, syphilis, HIV, and the physical aggressions on health professionals. For patients who are heavy alcohol drinkers, the risk is the same because anxiety can the slowing of respiration and increases pulmonary risks. Also, the decreased activity increases the risk of thrombosis and of bowel upset.
Conclusion. This type of patients should be treated like normal patients, but it is necessary for them to stay as isolated as possible in order not to put the lives of others in danger.

Background: Although unrecognized, early postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are relatively common.
Aim: The present study has proposed to identify the risk factors for delirium and their early incidence after surgery, with a view to implementing a screening list for delirium in ICU (ICDSL).
Method: 722 patients undergoing abdominal surgery, with general anesthesia, were prospectively monitored for the development of postoperative delirium during Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay.
Results: The incidence of postoperative delirium was 8.03% (58 cases). No statistically relevant prolongation predictors for delirium were found. The duration of surgery was double, thus significantly higher in the delirium group (2.5 ± 1 vs 1 ± 0.87 hours). Patients in the delusion group were transfused with blood products, had episodes of intraoperative cardiocirculatory decline, underwent protracted mechanical ventilation (averaging 1.15 hours longer), and the duration of the ICU stage was double.
Conclusions: The incidence of delirium, after surgery under general anesthesia, was 8.03%. The independent predictors of delirium were: the duration of surgery and post-operative mechanical ventilation and the length of hospitalization in ICU.

The infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has become a chronic disease due to effective antiretroviral therapy (ARVT) that can provide complete and sustained viral suppression. The perception of HIV diagnosis has changed, from "condemnation to death" to long-term survival and life expectancy similar to the general population. The HIV epidemic in Romaniais predominant in cases diagnosed in infants born in 1987-1991, with nosocomially transmission during the first years of life. The aim of our work is to assess the perceptions of the course of the disease among persons living with HIV and the influence of factors such as demographic factors, time of HIV diagnostic, immunity and viral suppression under the ARVT. The brief version of Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) for assessment of cognitive and emotional representations of illness, comprehensibility and an inventory questionnaire scoring symptoms were applied by a cross-sectional study among patients in the Daily Clinic for HIV Evaluation and Treatment from the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Galati, Romania. The most frequent age of patients with HIV from the clinic is under 35 years and they have good knowledge about their disease. The ARVT is efficiently controlling the clinical and viral markers of disease. However, half of the respondents are emotionally affected by living with HIV. The negative perception of HIV infection is more severe among females and people with viral failure treatment, although various and even contradictory perceptions were found, according to the answers collected. The adherence support of medical teams requires personalized management of HIV patients.

Background: Since 1999 the Romanian health insurance system shifts to aBismarckmodel where primary care is provided by family medicine physicians, in private practices, under contract with local insurance houses. Family doctors are supposed to have a Gatekeeping role, ensuring that patients see specialists only for conditions that could not be managed at this level and are referred to an appropriate specialist. Aims: To explore the opinions of the family doctors on the interventions needed for a better management of the psychiatric cases.   Method: A survey was conducted among 43 family doctors fromGalaticounty (Romania). Results and Discussion: Despite a formal gatekeeping role, Romanian family doctors do not have a pivotal role in coordinating psychiatric care. Direct access to a specialist is possible for certain pathologies and there is evidence of overuse of ambulance services, hospital services and outpatient care setting bypassing primary care. Conclusion: Rather than focusing on the "gatekeeping" we should focus on more collaborative work between family doctors and psychiatrists with patients. An improved communication and cooperation between the family doctor and the psychiatrist plays an essential role for proper care processes and thus the overall quality of care for the psychiatric patient.