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The financial sector, including central banks, can have an important role in supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy and mitigating the risks associated with climate change. The purpose of the paper is to give a brief overview of selected researches on the field of green central banking and to examine how central banks integrate green initiatives into their operations and practices to address climate-related risks within their core policy frameworks. Since the European Union has set ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and speed up transition to a low-carbon economy through its European Green Deal, the focus of the paper is to explore the development of green central banking in the EU, including the challenges and opportunities that this presents. The research pointed out many advantages of green central banking, but also limitations. Central banks have a limited set of policy tools at their disposal to promote environmental sustainability. They may not be able to directly regulate carbon emissions. Policies that discourage investments in fossil fuel companies could have a negative impact on economic growth and price stability. Additionally, incorporating climate risks and sustainability factors into financial regulation could increase complexity and compliance costs for financial institutions, potentially leading to unintended consequences. There are also other challenges associated with the development of green central banking. Central banks must ensure that their efforts to promote environmental sustainability do not compromise their primary objectives of maintaining price stability and financial stability. This requires careful consideration and analysis of the impact of environmental sustainability on the economy and financial system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents different ways in which new virtual reality technologies can be used in the development of software applications dedicated to supporting organizational learning/training processes. Thus, virtual reality can offer employees of enterprises in the Romanian economy access to an advanced training system by creating virtual environments that simulate real scenarios in which users have total freedom of movement and interaction with the constituent elements. Virtual Reality addresses to senses and perception. The VR technologies presented in this article address not only basic senses such as vision or hearing, but also senses such as balance or intuition. Thus, the brain is helped by the entire sensory system to receive a rich flow of information that starts from the environment and comes to mind. Therefore, if we present the artificially created information to the senses, the way in which reality is perceived will also be altered. In this context, we will also present the current state of the virtual reality technologies that can be used to implement VR applications as well as the essential principles applicable to the development of virtual reality applications. At the same time, the article shows how the use of virtual reality can support the three important aspects of vocational training: work experience - users having the opportunity to be in unfamiliar workplaces in a 360 degree perspective, learning skills - virtual reality helps to identify the balance between acquiring knowledge and training the experience, allowing the same scenarios to be scanned several times, without additional costs or inconveniences, access to a different perspective - allowing the user to perform actions normally performed by experienced employees . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The report examines the current problems related to the mechanisms of the country's accession to different types of alliances. Analyzing the processes and mechanisms for decision-making at the state level, are made the logical for the state administration decisions, related to the adequacy of the inclusion of a country to such groups. The report examines the adequacy of the Bulgarian practice against the international standards for strategic decision making in the state policy and makes important practical conclusions and gives specific recommendations for optimization of the strategic planning and forecasting processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses research which examined the impact of waves and currents on the soil near gravity-type offshore platform foundation with square form with cut corners. Topics discussed include an experimental setup to study soil scouring near the platform model, the influence of wave frontal impact on the soil near platform model foundation and the hydrodynamic numerical model to evaluate currents near gravity-type platform.

The article discusses research which examined the intense-deformed condition of the concrete elements reinforced with basalt-and-plastic accessories of rhombic relief. Topics discusses the types of concrete beans, basalt-plastic nonmetallic reinforcement and steel reinforcement and evaluation of the strains in extreme fibers of concrete.

Open data is information which can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone, anywhere, at no cost, and for any purpose. Open data policy is a relatively new phenomenon and is thus in an early stage of development. Since government strategies are issues of significant public interest, open data policy obtained a special attention in the field of open government data (OGD). Goal of the paper is to give more insight into following issues: (i) critics on the low government openness of the government despite the fact on the significant shift in the openness, (ii) causes of the low score on the data openness of governmental institutions, (iii) impact of the government reforms to greater confidence of the public and state institutions creditability, and (iv) selection of the information about public sector that should be available as open data in terms of the basic definitions and possibilities of their use in machine-readable format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The recent global financial crisis has drawn attention to various factors of financial instability including the pro-cyclicality of banks' lending activity, the pro-cyclicality in asset price movements, the vulnerability of small open developing countries on internal and external shocks associated with sudden inflow and outflow of foreign capital etc. All this engenders the behaviour that is impossible to shape by standard instruments of monetary policy and microprudential measures alone without taking into account the accumulation and materialization factors of systemic risk in the financial system at whole. A general consensus is that a macroprudential approach should be adopted with more direct influence on the supply of loans, the quantity and quality of bank capital and maintaining an adequate level of bank short-term and long-term sources of liquidity. In cases of small open economies it also involves instruments characterized by quasi capital controls, limitations of currency mismatches between bank assets and liabilities (especially in the case of countries with high level of financial euroisation) as well as the implementation of specific non-standard instruments with stronger effects on the growth of bank claims in periods of business upswings and downswings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A two-wavelength high-speed holographic cinematography, integral and time-resolved spectroscopy and splite unfolding methods were used in an investigation of a laser plasma initiated at the surfaces of metal samples by laser pulses in the external electric field. The temporal evolution of the electron densities and heavy particle concentrations was determined and a study was made of the nature of motion of shock wave and plasma fronts. A weak dependence of the evolution of the shock wave velocity on the target materials (aluminum, copper, zinc, led, indium) was observed in the average power density range (106 - 107 W/cm²). A faster increase in the dimensions of a refracting plasma region, compared to a luminous region, and strong expulsion of cold air by an erosion plasma were recorded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Acoustic emission of a zone of the destruction formed during influence of pulse laser radiation on a surface of metal is considered. Dependence of the time form of acoustic fluctuations on parameters of an irradiated material and the law of increase in depth of a crater was estimated. It is revealed, that at action on a surface of the copper sample of a laser impulse duration ∼ 20 μs time of growth of a zone of destruction makes approximately 40 μs, that will well be coordinated with time of existence of plasma formation at a surface of the target exposed to laser-plasma processing (∼ 50 μs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper describes the ADAMS model of a brake disc mechanism and its validation against the conventional hardware. ADAMS is one of the most known and widespread program complexes in the world for the dynamical and kinematical analysis of mechanical systems. A mechanical systems simulation is used in the paper for the forecast of a full dynamic behavior of the complex brake unit system having a lot of cooperating with each other parts. Such approach can be used, for example, for the interaction analysis of a design elements, an estimation of a vibration level, a loading definition on components of mechanical system. Nowadays intensive investigations are carried out on problems of interaction of active safety systems with brake system equipment. The special place is occupied here with creation of new brake gear design which should possess except for reliability and durability such important for active safety systems properties as minimal hysteresis losses and the high response time, which are of importance for active safety systems. The paper gives some important aspects of this problem regarding to the complex brake gear design as applied to the heavy vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This investigation introduced the concept of associative networks to the resistance domain. A four-phase experiment was conducted involving 298 participants. The results confirmed the role of known elements in the process of resistance: the core elements of threat, issue involvement, and counterarguing output facilitated resistance, as did the more recently introduced elements of attitude certainty and attitude accessibility. Also, the results indicated that inoculation treatments modified the structure of associative networks, planting additional nodes and increasing linkages between nodes. Subsequently, these changes in the structure of associative networks contributed to resistance to counterattitudinal attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a study which examined the theoretical frameworks that may predict or be associated with adolescent sexual and contraceptive communication behavior. Among the implications of early sexual activity for adolescents is the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease or HIV. Adolescents have the highest age specific infection rates for sexually transmitted diseases.

An abstract of the article "The Management of Liquidity in Banking Industry," by Marijana Ivanov is presented.

This investigation tested the interaction effect of attitude base and multiple attacks on the effectiveness of inoculation. A four-phase experiment was conducted involving 290 participants. The results indicate that when rendered to a second attack, cognitive inoculation messages generated greater resistance to counterattitudinal attacks when presented to individuals whose attitude base was primarily cognitive, rather than affective, in nature. The reverse was also found to be true as affective inoculation messages generated greater resistance to counterattitudinal attacks when presented to individuals whose attitude base was primarily affective, rather than cognitive, in nature. Combined inoculation messages worked equally well as the attitude matching and better than the attitude mismatching messages. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]