C Bonciu's scientific contributions

... Crichton-Miller (l93l) considered pain and suffering to be the principal motives for suicide; for Lewis (l95l) and Sainsbury (1955) it is a sense of isolation. Some of the many other causal agents that have been proposed are: alcoholism (Stenback et al, 1965); loss of a loved object (Hendrin, 195l); interpersonal conflict (Pellner,196l); endocrine imbalance (Bonciu et al, 1964) and poor weather conditions (Mills, 1934). Included among them are most psychoanalytic theories (Freud, 1924;Menninger, 1938) as they deal exclusively with intra-psychic phenomena. ...

... Through the decomposition (mainly anaerobic) of the rich vegetal and animal biomass, the formation of salted peloid deposits is reached, which is used with success in balneotherapy (Godeanu 2002). The purple water, described by Olga Bonciu in 1955 and1957 on the shore of Lake Techirghiol (Bonciu et al 1963) and I. Ţuculescu in 1965, biotope that contained numerous sulfur autotrophic photosynthetic bacteria (species of Cromatium, Rhabdocromatium and Thiopolycoccus) and had represented one of the most productive factors in the genesis of the mud (Samson et al 1984), has disappeared. It was not present on the entire surface of the lake, during the development period of the study (2004,2007,2009,2010). ...