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Recent sensor technologies allow monitoring of many events locally and remotely in near-real-time. Whereas being at home, working in the garden, entering office, walking or travelling one could access the data from previously installed sensors and take decisions. Technologies are often considered as an additional burden by many people. However, young generations do prefer to control their environment and be capable to manage it using electronic devices. In this paper we propose different scenarios that allow us to consolidate different sensors within a single application and control the user environment locally or remotely through mobile devices. The sensors experimented have been installed in a house, in an office, in a garden, carried by a person. Different sensor technologies have been implemented and data is shared in an understandable format for the application and the users.
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The article looks at the contemporary socio-economic model in Bulgaria arguing that it does not correspond to the broad European tradition of being sensitive to the presence of significant social imbalances in the society. The author insists that this is one of the primary factors for the controversial economic outcomes and the existence of deepening social problems in the country. The argumentation goes through evaluation of the formation process of the new socio-economic model in Bulgaria after 1989 and the assessment of the economic and social outcomes for the period until 2022. On this basis it is concluded that maintaining the current policy in the medium-term will inevitably undermine not only the economic prospects, but also the quality and stability of Bulgarian democracy.
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The article examines the influence of the parameters of expert speech on the trustworthiness, authority and clarity of information in the media. The following parameters of the expert speech, based on research on the specifics of the professional and media register (Halliday 1989, Videnov 2012 and others), in the media texts were observed: presence, adequacy and naming of the sources - expert and informational; presence of professional vocabulary and terminology; complicating the syntactic organization of utterances; presence of international vocabulary and foreign words and expressions; presence of evaluative and expressive vocabulary (metaphors, etc.); use of modal and conditional constructions to distinguish factual from non-factual information; correlation of indicative and retelling forms. A survey was conducted to establish the influence of linguistic facts on the assessment of expert speech in media reports. A survey was conducted on sentences from 14 informational articles selected using the keywords "coronavirus experts". The questionnaire contained 12 multiple-choice questions, grouped into three sections according to the criteria to be measured: trustworthiness (6 questions), clarity (3 questions) and authority (3 questions). The comments establish a different influence of the same language parameters on the sense of trustworthiness, authority and clarity of the content. Their reading depends on the experience, skills and attitudes of the audience to understand the media text.
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The paper presents the historical development and the huge contribution of the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of Sofia and its first leader - Prof. S Vatev for the development of pediatrics and children’s healthcare in Bulgaria. The main scientific fields in the research and clinical activities of the numerous collaborators of the Department are outlined.
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This work examines the situation of education and training of students who are learning Bulgarian language, literature and culture in China. The approach is interdisciplinary. Through an analysis of literature sources and a questionnaire survey of a specific target group of respondents, an attempt is made to clarify the real situation of teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language in China.
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The paper focuses on observation of the Polish interwarpress (Catholicnationalist, left-wing, feminist journals) in terms of itsinterest in the topic of female emancipation through workin Soviet Russia. The analysis of the images of Soviet women appearing in these journals, the way of seeing an devaluating the transformations in the Soviet Union after 1917 show the patriarchy and Catholic traditionalism of Polish culture.
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This article is a close observation of a few conspiracy theories, which became popular in the last few years, mostly because of the two major events – COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. In addition to the analytical approach towards these theories, I try to fi nd out how they are used by the Russian Federation in the field of the ongoing hybrid war. The conspiracy theories, which I observe here, bears a qualitative change and mutates in propaganda narrative. The qualitative variation can be found in the mixed mode of use of conspiracy theories as propaganda. I pay special attention to the conspiracy theory which includes 5G and its eff ect on both COVID-19 and the motivations of Putin’s war. Another important part of this study is the correspondence between the conspiracy reason and the way it helps spread and upgrade the propaganda narrative. ThIs effect is boosted by new media tools of our digital era.
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