International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

This paper presents the application of Python in computer forensics, proposing various approaches for file system analysis, memory forensics, network monitoring, and malware detection. It examines Python’s integration with forensic tools such as Autopsy, The Sleuth Kit (TSK), Volatility, and Scapy, highlighting its role in automating forensic investigations and enhancing efficiency. The research discusses the advantages of Python in forensic analysis, emphasizing its role in forensic automation, script-based evidence collection, and rapid data processing within various case studies.

The vampire figure has been present in Western culture for centuries and its popularity has been steadily increasing. The vampire can be viewed as a universal shapeshifter who skilfully adapts to the pressing issues and challenging questions of the time. Through the figure of the vampire people express not only their utmost fears, doubts, and anxieties, but also their hidden temptations and desires. Beaumont’s 1953 vampire story “Place of a Meeting” depicts a post-apocalyptic deserted world where vampires mourn the loss of human life thus becoming a representation of the cultural and historical landscape of the United States in the 1940’s and the early 1950’s.

Considerable research has been conducted on measuring maximum tongue pressure, which is an index of tongue muscle strength that includes the relationship between tongue strength and swallowing function. Tongue pressure is the force with which the tongue presses a bolus of food against the palate and sends it into the pharynx. A low tongue pressure makes the aspiration of food more likely. In this study, we investigated the age-dependence of human swallowing function, as well as the swallowing function of female high school students in different courses, one in physical education and one in health and nursing.

The use of artificial intelligence systems in public administration is of great importance and has great prospects. Artificial intelligence facilitates the interaction of various structures of the state system and the implementation of the direct activities of these structures. For public administration, it is important to analyze the mechanisms of behavior of a mass gathering of people. Since experimental analysis of crowd behavior is impossible, the creation of mathematical models with their subsequent software implementation is of particular importance.

According to the World Health Organization, smoking is one of the greatest threats to public health. In Bulgaria, this threat is particularly acute, as the country has the highest percentage of smokers and the highest mortality rate due to tobacco use among EU member states. Despite the well-documented health and financial detriments, the question of why people continue to smoke remains partially unresolved. This article proposes a novel psychological theory suggesting that the mild nicotine abstinent symptoms, combined with the initially unpleasant taste of cigarette smoke, create the perfect conditions for the emergence of “emotional illusions.” Emotional illusions, extensively studied in literature, occur when an unconscious external stimulus elicits an emotion, leading the brain to construct an illusory cause for the emotion. In the context of smoking, it is not boredom, nervousness, or stress that triggers the desire to smoke, but rather the mild withdrawal symptoms that the brain misinterprets as these states. The article concludes with preliminary empirical data supporting this hypothesis.

This paper evaluates the potential of waste-to-energy (WtE) solutions in managing industrial and municipal waste in Bulgaria. It provides an overview of current WtE technologies, including thermal, biochemical, and innovative processes, and assesses their applicability within the Bulgarian context. The study highlights environmental and economic benefits such as reduced landfill use, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, and energy recovery. By examining successful implementations in Bulgaria and other EU countries, the paper identifies key challenges and opportunities for scaling WtE solutions. The findings suggest that with the right policy support and investment, WtE can significantly contribute to sustainable waste management in Bulgaria.

It has been at least 3 years out the risk of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world, a war that continues to have negative effects on people’s behaviour towards other risks because every day that everyday cases of complications are reported even in cases who passed it. This paper presents an overview of the lives lost by Covid-19 in Albania during the first wave of the pandemic as well as the negative effects of people who passed an infection or received the recommended treatment. The focus of our study is on the estimation of case fatality rates (CFRs), referring to the accumulated Covid-19 case data from the World Health Organization website, using simple linear regression for Albania and its neighbour’s. More than three years into the COVID pandemic, both the virus and the measures taken to control its spread have affected people’s lives across the globe. But how can we fully quantify these effects? This is the main topic of this research work.

The aim of the paper is to analyze the degree of practicing transparency and accountability through the index of active transparency by the units of local self-government (municipalities) from the South-west planning region in the Republic of N. Macedonia, with the possibility of free access to public information, the deadline within which the units responded to the request, accountability, integrity, budgetary and financial transparency, as well as the information on the competence and services offered by the units themselves.

This paper presents some contemporary nonfiction books for extensive reading that can be used with intermediate and advanced students, who are studying English language in a high school or university, especially suitable for programs, connected with natural sciences. The idea is to increase their motivation in reading as well as in learning the foreign language and natural sciences with some interesting assignments connected with these books that will also be proposed in the paper.

Affective factors are very important in second or foreign language learning. This study focused on the type of affective interaction a very successful teacher, a non-native English speaker from the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria, used to create rapport with her English language learners in Southern California, USA. During the 75-minute classroom observation, the researcher recorded, coded and counted certain affective markers, such as teacher smiles or laughs, student laughs, teacher jokes, student jokes, teacher gestures, and instances of students initiating questions or information. The subsequent interview revealed the teacher profile, her background, her beliefs about humor and its cultural differences, her students’ response to humor, appropriate topics for joking in the second-language classroom, the effect of humor on student achievement and job satisfaction. The results point to great potential and need for more research on humor in second or foreign language teaching and cross-cultural communication.

Еlectronics is the most progressive branch of mechanical engineering since the 1960s. Specific for the development of this industry in our country is that each technological development or the creation of material conditions for its implementation in the period from 1960 by the end of the socialist period, it had received support at the highest state level, in the form of continuous promotion, smooth financing, the provision of embargoed high-deficit technologies by special services and the wide opening of the economy to integration into production. Significant for the development of the industry in our country is the specialization in the production of electronic computers, which was won in a competitive competition between all member countries of the COMECON on the basis of previously achieved in Bulgaria high scientific results in the field.

The children of the new age went to school. These are the children of the generation Alpha who do not receive information through traditional channels. These are the children who play, learn and interact through technology. They do not want to and do not read in the traditional way. From a very young age, they have been in contact with information technology, successfully working on it, even before they have spoken. Alpha children are independent and curious, they have their own view of the world, which is different from that of their parents and teachers. Communicating with them requires an approach that is based on negotiation and compromise on the part of adults. Parents and teachers should understand, accept and support them more and criticize and educate them less violently. All this raises the question of
whether teachers are prepared to teach and take into account these new features of the alpha generation, which has already started school and interacts with the education system. Conflict situations often arise between teachers and children, in which educators fa il to respond adequately and professionally to parents