Radoslav Dakov Yoshinov

• Research Director at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The results of a survey conducted in 2023 on skills and attitudes towards the use of Artificial Intelligence are presented. The study included employees working in the public administration in the Republic of Bulgaria and students from the Cybersecurity specialty. The aim was to find out to what extent and area of interest the two target groups wor...

The results of a conducted study on the knowledge and skills of representatives of the public and local administration regarding cyber security in modern digital work processes are presented. The survey was conducted in 2023 in the Republic of Bulgaria. The analysis includes a comparison of the data with those of a similar survey of employees in th...

Ongoing digital transformation plays an important role in any organization. Effective digitalization involves several levels related to technologies, processes, and users. In this regard, the assessment of the digital transformation level is of great importance. The three stages of operational and organizational readiness, as well as business value...

The relationship between ICTs and the environment is complex and multifaceted, as ICTs can play positive and negative roles. The article's main idea is how the ICT sector can help tackle climate change, from measurement, monitoring, and automation of processes to self-organizing the sector to refurbish and ecologically scrape ICT hardware. The life...

Digital Health (DH) is a relatively new concept for our country. The current article is oriented to the application of DH technologies for the prevention of paravertebral pain, by a web-based repository. In the repository, we included Back school recommendations, position techniques, exercises, activities, sports, and clinical cases of our own reha...

The pandemic of COVID-19 imposed the necessity to develop the competences of medical specialists and health professionals on the topic “COVID-Rehabilitation”. We prepared educational materials and an electronic repository, including these topics. The current article presents the structure of the course and the learners’ opinion on the benefits of t...

The authors analyze basic bioethical issues, with application in neurorehabilitation clinical practice. We consider traditions of Bulgarian schools of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Physiotherapy and Ergotherapy, related to bioethics. Physical and rehabilitation medicine investigates the effects of the application of natural and preformed ph...

HSOA Journal of Clinical Studies and Medical Case Reports ISSN: 2378-8801 Ultimately, contemporary Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) were introduced in the rehabilitation practice. We use Exoskeletons, virtual reality, robotic rehabilitation with Locomat (Hocoma system for balance and gait training) and ThyroMotion system (for gr...

Digital transformation imposes to transform different business processes in order to improve their efficiency and bring organizational and operational innovations. In this regard, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) becomes more important and required. It should be able to cope with different challenges related to decision-making under...

The ongoing digital transformation influence all fields from education to economics. That is why many efforts are taken to develop different business models to reflect the new reality. The e-tests are the core of contemporary e-learning and are suitable to conduct proper checks about the level of competency for different occupations. In this regard...

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of physical therapy and manual therapy in the treatment and prevention of cervical myofascial pain and headache caused by spinal malposition in smart phone users (abusers). A total of 69 patients with headaches and cervical myofascial pain were under our observation. The patients ranged in ag...

Digital transformation affects not only IT and innovative business models and processes, it is significantly influenced by the skills and competence of top managers and new requirements and expectations of customers. The basic driver of ongoing digital transformation in any organization is performed with the active support of the Chief Information...

ntroduction: Parkinsonism (Prk) is a neurodegenerative disorder, considered as a socially important disease with serious decline in autonomy and quality of life of patients. Our objective during last years was to estimate the efficacy of application of different neurorehabilitation (NR) methods on independence in activities of daily living (ADL)...

The Declaration of Montréal of the International Pain Summit of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) identifies that chronic pain is a serious chronic health problem and access to pain management is a fundamental human right. The objective of current work was to formulate principles of physical analgesia or physical modalit...

The current trend towards digitalization is reflected in many different areas. This is due to the technological revolution in the industry, which is advancing at a rapid pace. All this is a prerequisite for the spread of these technologies at home. The key elements behind IoT are the platforms, applications and services, needed to control smart dev...

Ongoing digitalization affects almost every area not only of the economy, but also of every home. This determines the importance of the Internet of Things, which aims to connect physical objects in a network. That means different technologies need to be integrated including sensors, software, protocols and specific application area. All of this mot...

Introduction: The introduction of portable devices in the everyday life imposed the necessity to evaluate the possible consequences (of the abuse) on the spine and on the central nervous system, respectively to create programs for the prevention of these consequences. The goal of current article is to evaluate the impact of different physical modal...

The role of an e-Facilitator in schools as a major ICT expert is presented below. The e-Facilitator should facilitate the access to electronic services and information space, support the virtual libraries, be an initiator and architect of social communication by forming communities involving all participants in the learning process – students, teac...

An issue of the Internet of Things security which does not belong to the traditional problem of cybersecurity, as it is a local or distributed monitoring and/or monitoring of physical systems state connected via the Internet, is considered. An architecture of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system (SCADA) was considered in previous authors...

The article is devoted to the issue of developing and analyzing methods of composing hierarchical knowledge graphs of telecommunication networks with a view to representing network data. The article substantiates the timeliness of discussing this issue and describes the classes of problems that can be solved using hierarchical graph models. It disc...

In the current age, cyber security is an essential element of any information system. A key aspect is in the critical information infrastructure, where information security has become a top priority for information and network security experts. The interoperability of an ICT infrastructure with other components of it is an important aspect of its l...

During last years, the education in bachelor’s and master’s degree in the field of the Public Health and the Health Care in Bulgaria is in a process of fast development. We observe an introduction of innovative elements in the education – practice and student-centered approach; illustration of the material with a lot of clinical cases (including de...

Introduction: The introduction of the Ergotherapy (ET) in the processus of education of our country was based on the classic traditions of the Occupational therapy, introduced as a specialty in Bulgarian Medical Schools in the fifteen of the last century. Current article debates some contemporaneous aspects of the education in the field of ET and i...

The Faculty of Computer Systems and Technology at Technical University – Sofia undertook analyses and experiments on the use of Artificial Intelligence methods in the field of Information Security. In the course of the study a Cyber Defence related to the classification consisting of three phases has been proposed: Operative Cyber Intelligence, Tac...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Most of amputees feel residual limb (stump) pain, phantom sensations and phantom pain. Our purpose was to remind the wide public of the impact of rehabilitation (including the modern physical modalities Deep Oscillation – DO and Laser therapy - LTh) in the pain management of amputees. According the medical definitions the a...

The training of students, majoring in physical therapy at the Medical College is carried out according to a completely renovated process of tuition, optimal for contemporary needs of clinical practice and conforming to the specific conditions at the Medical College, Stara Zagora, individually adjusted according to wishes and the potential of studen...

Learning content creation process requires more than just collection and presentation of set of information. In order to gain knowledge, the learning content should be designed in such a way to meet predefined learning goals. Learning goals determine the entire process of learning. Bloom's Taxonomy provides a description of a cognitive process with...

Physical analgesia or the potential of physical modalities to reduce pain Principal physical modalities for analgesia are explored. We propose our own theory for explanation of pathogenetic mechanisms of action of physical modalities on the nociceptive and neuropathic pain: Pain management is an important part of rehabilitation algorithms in clini...

Introduction/Background Our objective was to realize a comparative evaluation of five PRM programmes of care in patients after transfemoral amputation. Material and method During last years a total of 105 amputees were observed and investigated - in-patients of the Clinic/Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM). Patients were rand...

Accounting and financial classification and prediction problems are high challenge and researchers use different methods to solve them. Methods and instruments for short time prediction of financial operations using artificial neural network are considered. The methods, used for prediction of financial data as well as the developed forecasting syst...

Objective During last years the arthroscopic knee surgery is considered a gold standard in cases with Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear and the early rehabilitation is an obligatory part of the protocol. GOAL. To evaluate the efficiency of the applied complex rehabilitation in patients with ACL tear after arthroscopic alloplastic surgery with e...

The last decade together with rapidly developing of Information and Communication Technologies data and its variety of application fields gaining in popularity. Initially the data becomes Big. Everyday accumulation of so big amount of data and the possibility to analyze it contributes to the ease of modern life. The curiosity of the world enforces...

Introduction: Ultimately, the introduction of portable devices in the everyday life imposed the necessity to evaluate the possible consequences (of the abuse) on the position of the spine and correspondent structures of the nervous system. Medical specialists are responsible for the construction of programs for prevention of these consequences. The...

The Inspiring Science Education project is all about elaborating a learningenvironment using an inquiry based learning (IBL) approach.The Inspiring Science Education portal as a main part of the environmentis the place where a registered user can find (create) eLearning Tools anddigital educational resources, which can be used in class and as a pla...

Abstract We live in dynamic environment that sets everyday challenges to society and citizens. In order to respond to this dynamics and develop adequate behavior and necessary social, technological, professional and personal skills we need a radically different approach to education. Our children need to be prepared for living in a digital society...

Currently the main focus of e-Government in Bulgaria is aimed at the provision of electronic administrative services to citizens and businesses. The development aimed at streamlining and optimizing the work of administration and information support of processes of decision-making is still unregulated. They are not conducted any serious research. Th...

Настоящата книга „Оперативна съвместимост на информационни системи“ е учебно помагало за Софийския университет и Технически университет – София. Тя е полезна за всички, компютърни и софтуерни инженери, студенти и докторанти в областта на математика и информатика, компютърни науки, компютърни системи и технологии, компютърно и софтуерно инженерство,...

According documents of the European Center for Development of professional education and training the electronic learning (e-learning) is " education and training, mediated by information and communication technologies, including different formats and hybrid methodologies, like programming systems, Internet, CD-ROM, education by PC in regime of rea...

Aim: On the base of systematic review of the literature, clinical observations and investigations, specific complex neurorehabilitation algorithms were structured (including natural and preformed physical modalities). GOAL: Comparative evaluation of the efficacy of different physical-therapeutic and rehabilitation programs on the functional recover...

Electronic Education in Bulgaria, according to the country’s National ICT Strategy in Education is based on the idea of developing one Integrated Information Resource Infrastructure for Education and Research. A very important part of this integrated infrastructure is to establish a Centralized DataCenter, where the three main components of Electro...

The book is intended for the students at Sofia University and Technical University Sofia - undergraduate, graduate and PhD students in mathematics, informatics, computer science, computer systems and technologies, computer engineering, and software engineering who follow courses in e-governance, e-government and public administration. It is also ad...

The paper discusses the functionality of distributed multimedia architectures for educational applications. It reflects some developments made under the international project ARCHIMED "Advanced Multimedia-System Architectures and Applications for Educational Telematics" (part of the EC RTD program INCO-COPERNICUS). The aim of this project is to exp...