WRF-Fire consists of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) coupled with a fire spread model, based on the levelset method. We describe a preliminary application of WRF-Fire to a forest fire in Bulgaria, oportunities for research of forest fire models for Bulgaria, and plans for the development of an Environmental Decision Support Systems which includes computational modeling of fire ...

Synthesis of model peptide substrates and investigation of the reaction of their phenylacetyl protecting group enzyme transformation by means of penicillin G acylase D. L. Danalev*, L. K. Yotova 1 Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, 8 Kliment Ohridski Blvd., 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria 2 Department of Biotechnology, University of Chemical Technology and M...

Two new species of Euscorpius Thorell, 1876 (subgenus Euscorpius s.str.) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) are described based on morphology and the COI DNA barcoding marker: E. deltshevi sp. n. from northern Bulgaria and neighbouring Serbia (formerly reported as E. carpathicus) and E. solegladi sp. n. from southwestern Bulgaria and neighbouring Greece (formerly reported as E. hadzii).

Since the idea of Bulgaria joining NATO was launched in public space, the debate has targeted predominantly the political and the military-technical aspects of the issue. The Employers Association of Bulgaria does not underestimate the importance of these factors nonetheless, as a representative of the big domestic private capital, we believe that it is about time to seriously and extensively r...

Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania* We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most important events in Bulgaria and Romania’s modern histories, there is no evidence on how it affected the subjective well-being of ord...

1 Fisheries Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 2 Sea Around Us, Global Fisheries Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 4 Institute of Oceanology of Bulgarian Academy of Science, Varna, Bulgaria, 5 Laboratory of Marine Ecology, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Res...

Andon Vassilev1, Jaco Vangronsveld2, Ivan Yordanov3 1Agricultural University of Plovdiv, Dept. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 12 Mendeleev St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2Environmental Biology, Center for Environmental Sciences, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Universitaire Campus, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium 3Acad. M. Popov Institute of Plant Physiology, Acad. G. Bonchev St., Bl.21, 1113, Sofia...

background: professional burnout is defined as a state of depletion and loss of motivation accompanied by different mental and physical symptoms. objective: to assess personal losses suffered by correctional officers due to burnout. methods: this cross-sectional study conducted between june and december 2012 included 201 correctional officers in two bulgarian prisons. the mean age of the whole ...

By means of turkeys’ faecal samples flotation with NaCl solution, the species composition of Eimeria spp. has been determined in 16 settlements in the Republic of Bulgaria and 4 settlements in the Republic of Turkey. In Bulgaria, the following species were detected: Eimeria adenoeides; E. meleagridis; E. meleagrimitis; E. gallopavonis; E. subrotunda, as well as Isospora heisini, whereas in Turk...