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Sensitivity studies of the i process have identified the region around 135I as a bottleneck for the neutron capture flow. Nuclear properties such as the Maxwellian-averaged cross section (MACS) are key to constrain the uncertainties in the final abundance patterns. With the Oslo method, we are able to indirectly measure such properties for the nuclei involved in this process. From the 124Sn(α, pγ)127Sb reaction data we extract the nuclear level density and γ-ray strength function for 127Sb. The level density at higher excitation energies is compatible with the constant-temperature model, while the γ-ray strength function presents features like an upbend and a pygmy-like structure below S n. From these two quantities we can calculate the MACS for the 126Sb(n, γ)127Sb reaction using the Hauser-Feshbach formalism, and constrain its uncerainties from the theoretical ones. Libraries such as JINA REACLIB, TENDL and BRUSLIB agree well with the experimental results, while ENDF/B-VIII.0 predicts a higher rate.

The nuclear level densities (NLDs) and γ-ray strength functions (GSFs) of 120,124Sn were extracted with the Oslo method, compared and combined with other experimental data to be used as inputs in the TALYS reaction code to constrain the Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) for the 119,123Sn(n, γ)120,124Sn reactions. For 120Sn, the MACS are in relatively good agreement with the JINA REACLIB, BRUSLIB libraries, while no clear agreement was found for 124Sn. In addition, the pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) was found to contribute with up to ≈ 3 − 8% of the total MACS in these nuclei.

Biodiversity analysis underlies macroevolutionary studies and allows to identify mass extinctions. Numerous studies of mass extinctions show that geological factors play a central role in determining the diversity dynamics. The late Cretaceous extinction is of interest to science as the closest to us extinction of the five mass extinctions that occurred in the Phanerozoic. There is currently no scientific consensus on the scenario in which the extinction occurred on land. In order to assess the features of superorder Dinosauria development during the Cretaceous-Paleogene, the authors have analysed the diversity of terrestrial taxa of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Based on data from the paleobiodb paleontological database using the Python programming language and its libraries, the features of the species diversity of Dinosauria have been studied. An attempt was made to quantify the species diversity of this group based on the ratio of predators to herbivores using data on dinosaur food types. The simulated diversity data were compared with observed patterns and existing estimates. It is likely that less than one-third of the dinosaurs that existed are currently known, as indicated by the geography of the fossils, and the proportions of dinosaurs by type of diet.

Identification of stable regularities in the distribution of heavy metals and radionuclides in soil profiles of the East European Plain is an important scientific and practical task. Heavy metals are easily included in the biological cycle, getting into the human body, are accumulated in the bones, tissues, causing incurable disease, which may subsequently proceed unnoticed. The peculiarity of radioactive pollutants is that they usually do not change the level of soil fertility, but accumulate in crops. Therefore, maximum permissible concentrations (MPC) of radionuclides have been established for human food and animal feed. When analyzing the results of the study, it was revealed that soil horizons are well traced by the content of heavy metals, which makes it possible to get an idea of the soil profile structure by the content of heavy metals in them. The content of natural radionuclides in carbonate yellow-brown clays was established for the first time. According to the obtained correlation data of radionuclides and gross content of heavy metals and a number of oxides of heavy metals with a sufficient degree of reliability we can determine the content of this or that radionuclide, being aware of the percentage content of the element or oxide in the soil.

Nuclear level densities (NLDs) and γ-ray strength functions (GSFs)of 120;124Sn have been extracted with the Oslo method and additionally constrained with the novel Shape method. The GSFs were found to be in excellent agreement with the strengths from the inelastic relativistic proton scattering experiment. This comparison suggests the validity of the Brink-Axel hypothesisused as one of the key assumptions in astrophysical calculations. The extracted NLDs and GSFs were further used as experimental inputs to constrain the Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) for the radiative neutron capture process 119;123Sn (n, γ)120;124Sn using the the nuclear reaction code TALYS.

Sensitivity studies of the i process have identified the region around 135I as a bottleneck for the neutron capture flow. Nuclear properties such as the Maxwellian-averaged cross section (MACS) are key to constrain the uncertainties in the final abundance patterns. From the 124Sn(α, pγ)127Sb reaction we are able to indirectly measure the nuclear level density and γ-ray strength function for 127Sb using the Oslo method. From these two quantities we can calculate the MACS for the 126Sb(n, γ)127Sb reaction using the Hauser-Feshbach formalism, constrain its uncertainties and compare it to libraries such as JINA REACLIB, TENDL and BRUSLIB.

This report was provoked by the trend of increasing investments of enterprises in real estate in recent years. This trend outlines a need to systematize real estate investment approaches both from accounting and tax compliance point of view. The author's main goal is to present three approaches to investment in real estate: direct acquisition of the real estate asset, acquisition of specific asset through a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) or investment through a diversified Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) listed on the stock exchange by presenting the advantages and disadvantages for the investor in choosing each of the approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of targeted drug delivery systems, including those based on selective absorption by certain receptors on the surface of the target cell, can lead to a decrease in the minimum effective dose and the accompanying toxicity of the drug, as well as an increase in therapeutic efficacy. A fullerene C60 conjugate (FA-PVP-C60) with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a biocompatible spacer and folic acid (FA) as a targeting ligand for tumor cells with increased expression of folate receptors (FR) was obtained. Using 13C NMR spectroscopy, FT-IR, UV-Vis spectrometry, fluorometry and thermal analysis, the formation of the conjugate was confirmed and the nature of the binding of its components was established. The average particle sizes of the conjugate in aqueous solutions and cell culture medium were determined using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA). The FA-PVP-C60 showed antiradical activity against •DPPH, •OH and O2•−, but at the same time, it was shown to generate 1O2. It was found that the conjugate in the studied concentration range (up to 200 μg/mL) is non-toxic in vitro and does not affect the cell cycle. To confirm the ability of the conjugate to selectively accumulate through folate-mediated endocytosis, its uptake into cells was analyzed by flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. It was shown that the conjugate is less absorbed by A549 cells with low FR expression than by HeLa, which has a high level of expression of this receptor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on social cognition frameworks, we experimentally examined preservice teachers' implicit attitudes toward students with special educational needs (SEN) from different ethnic backgrounds and preservice teachers' explicit attitudes toward inclusive education. Preservice teachers (N = 46) completed an evaluative priming task and questionnaires. Results showed indifferent implicit attitudes toward students with SEN with immigrant backgrounds and positive implicit attitudes toward those without immigrant backgrounds. Furthermore, participants reported a high motivation to act without prejudice toward minorities but held less favorable explicit attitudes toward inclusion of students with SEN, especially students with behavioral problems. Differential patterns of implicit and explicit evaluations could bias teachers' interactions with students. Findings are discussed with respect to implications for educational practice and research.

This publication traces the markers and the dynamics of the anthropological borders of the territory and the real estate during the 1920s in a specific region of Bulgaria. It encompasses Kardzhali (in Tukish Kırcaali) and its district, which have been annexed to the state in 1912 and were mainly populated by Turks up until the end of World War One. The subjective dimensions of the historical processes are enlightened through the memories and the stories of a part of the participants in the events – the Bulgarian refugees, who settled in the region. During the 1920s Kardzhali and its district radically changed. The Bulgarians and the Turks were the ones that were most often separated. The space, inhabited by the old Turkish population, shrank and Bulgarian-populated neighborhoods appeared, as well as mixed zones. Furthermore, places, which have been previously empty, became populated. In practice, the Bulgarians managed to wedge themselves in between the Turks of Kardzhali and its district and to change their traditional look. In the Bulgarian zones appeared buildings, connected to the Bulgarian national institutions – ecclesiastical and scholastic, as well as ones that marked the beginning of the modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The method of analysis of the current status of of the IP portfolio of a company and the IP portfolio as a factor for obtaining and sustaining the company competitiveness. The aim is to present the main points of the scientific thesis of the company digital competitiveness focused on intellectual property rights (IPR). This article presents definitions, content and its general management aspects for the following terms: 1. a concept for 'company digital competitiveness'; 2. the place and the importance of intellectual property rights for the company's digital competitiveness; 3. a model for assessment of the company's digital competitiveness focused on intellectual property rights as apart from a strategy to achieve digital competitiveness of the company; 4. a method for the formation of the company's digital competitiveness strategy, focused on intellectual property rights. The paper presents the point of view for the main term 'digital competitiveness' as general and focuses on IP rights as an IP portfolio of the company, including the company's competitiveness terms and economic indicators for it. Special attention is paid to IP rights as a factor for the company's digital competitiveness and IP portfolio of a company as a content and as a structure and the methods of assessment of the company's current status and planned future value. The final part presents examples for IP rights owned by successful companies known well all over the world as the practical issue of the thesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this report is to define and clarify the nature and main characteristics of the digital real estate offer, to identify the objects of intellectual property in the digital real estate offer and to present the means for their protection through intellectual property rights (IPRs), the identified business problems and the possible solutions for them, as well as offering options for protection in case of infringed rights to intellectual property objects in the digital real estate offer. The conditions of digitalization, incl. and in the real estate business during the review and inspection, the author presents her point of view reading such kind of the IPR problems, without claiming to be exhaustive and to aim a discussion on the IP rights to the specified IP rights in a digital offer of real estate presented by business entities or natural person. The significance and topicality of the considered problem is derived from the current digital conditions of presentation and functioning of business entities, the forms of presentation and sale of their products (goods and services), which in turn raise a number of questions to management, including: - How to present and position your business and how to launch/ present your products - real estate offers in the digital business space; - how to create and manage the use of the proposed offer by users while preventing direct copying/ borrowing of elements of the business offer from unfair disloyal participants in the real estate market. The focus of this paper is to identify the possibilities of the intellectual property system for protection of elements of the business offer and for legal remedies /means of defense the IP rights of the subject-holder in case of identified infringement of IPRs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of commentary in the text is the Bulgarians who come from Western Thrace and who live in these cities throughout the period 1913-1919. I will try to shed light upon a scarcely developed matter, or at the very least, upon some parts of it. I have headed towards a modern rendition of well-known Bulgarian authors and I have put together their pieces with archived and scientifically non-interpreted until this moment materials. I will describe a part of the image of the Bulgarians from the cities of the said community. In these cities they consist of old and new migrants. They are placed in certain spaces of life and commerce. The official institutions influence their lives to a certain degree but these people remain heavily connected to their familial-kin structures, as a whole. Elitist fractions have been formed in their communities. Furthermore, specific elements could be found in their identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2018 the world community' marked 140 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Romania. In the past decade, both Romanian and Russian researchers turned to the history of the Russian-Romanian relations. The work involves both archival sources and publicly disclosed reference materials. The Russian State Historical Archive (St. Petersburg) contains quite a significant collection of sources covering the Russian-Romanian relations. Also the results of censuses of 1890 and 1900 were published as a series of tables. In addition, data from other annual reference books were used. The representatives of the diplomatic corps of Romania accredited in St. Petersburg played a vital role in strengthening the Russian-Romanian relations. The access to the documents and materials of the Russian archives and the published reference books has opened up new opportunities in approaching this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to present the author's view and results of research for the intellectual property rights/IPR/in the innovation activity of the constructive business in Bulgaria for 10 years' period. The author presents definitions for the following terms: IP, IPR and IP research as a general and for the innovations in the constructive business in Bulgaria. The focus of this paper is to present results of the IP research in patents, utility models and industrial designs for innovations in the constructive business in Bulgaria. Special attention is paid to the complex analysis of the research results as quantitative indicators: total number of obtained IPR, trends and ration in patents, utility models and industrial designs. The article is structured as follows: 1. Introduction 2. Research methodological framework 3. Analysis of trends of patent for inventions and registration activity as UM and ID in constructive business in Bulgaria 4. Summary. The practical issue of this article is presented as good examples from the Bulgarian successful innovators; natural persons, universities and companies created and operated in the constructive business in Bulgaria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to present the author's point of view and perspective on protection of the results of Bulgarian institutes, centers and other research units in the Bulgarian agriculture science as breeder's achievements, to present analytical results and to outline the trends in the field of agribusiness. Subject of this article are research inventive achievements in the agribusiness area in Bulgaria, especially plant varieties and animal breeds. The special point of the subject of the study is the protection of these results as intellectual property, particularly new varieties of plants and new animal breeds under the Law for Protection of Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds (LPNPVAB) as legislative requirements for protection according to the Law, legal results - quantitative trends and a factor analysis, the list of the main right holders of the protected breeder's achievements. The practical focus of this article is the analysis of the registration activity of the Bulgarian researchers, scientific institutions and companies in agricultural biotechnologies for the period of 1999-2017 (acting new LPNPVAB) within the Bulgarian patent office as a national responsible authority in intellectual property rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]