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Presentation of the book “On the official language of the Republic of North Macedonia”

The publication "On the official language of the Republic of North Macedonia" was presented to the media in "Prof. Marin Drinov” hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The book includes a scientifically substantiated text on the topic of the official language of the Republic of North Macedonia, written in a popular language and intended for a wide range of readers, which BAS has published in an illustrated edition. The authors are scientists of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and three universities: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski", "St. Cyril and St. Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo and South-West University “Neofit Rilski”- Blagoevgrad. The book is published 41 years after the publication of the study on “The unity of the Bulgarian language" and contains very precise [...]

Nikolay Ikonomov2020-05-09T17:10:03+03:00Thursday, 7 May 2020|Categories: General Academic News, Selected|

A multidisciplinary project presents the migration of birds across Europe

The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is a member of the European Network for the Radar Surveillance of Animal Movement (ENRAM: http://www.enram.eu/). This is a research network whose activities were funded by the COST program (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) from October 2013 to October 2017. Prof. Pavel Zehtindjiev and Boyan Michev from IBER-BAS, together with researchers from all over Europe and a wide range of experts - including ecology, biogeography, ornithology, entomology, meteorology, mathematics and engineering - have joined forces in this area of aeroecology to achieve remote sensing of animal migration for the first time across many countries. Thereby, existing efforts to monitor and predict animal movement patterns can be coordinated and extended to a [...]

Nikolay Ikonomov2020-05-09T17:14:30+03:00Thursday, 7 May 2020|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology|

Stress and coping with it in conditions of spreading coronavirus infection – Part II

The Department of Psychology at the Institute for Population and Human Studies - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IPHS-BAS) implemented the second wave of research on stress responses and how to deal with it in conditions of spreading coronavirus infection in Bulgaria. The survey was conducted between 25 April and 2 May 2020 among a random sample of 868 persons surveyed. An additional focus of interest in the second wave is social change and the impact of social exclusion. The results show a slight decrease in the perceived risk of infection as well as a decrease in anxiety levels compared to the results of the previous study conducted in March. These results can be explained by the adaptation to the situation, the progressive information development of [...]

Nikolay Ikonomov2020-05-05T12:57:09+03:00Monday, 4 May 2020|Categories: Man and Society|

Donation campaign of AACM in support of children and young people

The Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (AACM - BAS) donated BGN 35 000 collected personal funds to the Social Protection Fund. The amount will be used to purchase mobile devices - tablets to support the educational process of children and young people housed in family-type accommodation centers across the country. AACM-BAS conducts donation campaigns every year. In 2020, the academicians and corresponding members of BAS decided to use the funds raised to overcome the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nikolay Ikonomov2020-05-05T12:52:58+03:00Monday, 4 May 2020|Categories: AACM, Selected|

Cyber risks, threats and security measures related to COVID-19

The ten most current risks and threats of techno-social type related to COVID-19 for 2020 are analyzed by scientists at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS (IICT). Practical protective measures are also proposed. Summarized data from the analysis of Assoc. Prof. Zlatogor Minchev and Assistant Professor Ivan Gaydarski of the “Information Technologies for Security” department of IICT-BAS give current priority to threats and risks related to attacks on key online services and vulnerabilities in the Home Office working organization. Other important ones at the moment are: phishing threats and malware attacks. Growth in significance, but to a lesser extent, is also expected in terms of crypto-virus attacks, vulnerabilities in popular applications, robocall scams, fake applications and news, gray-market scams and malicious domains. [...]

Nikolay Ikonomov2020-05-03T19:49:35+03:00Thursday, 30 April 2020|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|

New clinical evidence confirms the hypothesis of scientists of BAS for the role of NLRP3 inflammasome in the pathogenesis of complications in COVID-19

The role of the NLRP3 inflammasome in the pathogenesis of complications in COVID-19 Studies launched in 2010 by scientists at the Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IBIR-BAS) suggest that it is the overreaction of a protein complex called the NLRP3 inflammasome that underlies the severe complications with COVID-19. The inflammasome is a molecular sensor in cells that responds to a meeting with a pathogen and / or cellular damage resulting in the release of inflammatory signals, and a particular type of cell death, pyroptosis, can occur. In doing so, the cells burst and release a huge amount of inflammation and danger signals to which neighboring tissue cells and cells of the immune system respond. Normally, [...]

Nikolay Ikonomov2020-04-29T18:08:54+03:00Wednesday, 29 April 2020|Categories: Biomedicine and Quality of Life, Selected|