Assessing the Europe 2020 Strategy Implementation Using Interval Entropy and Cluster Analysis for Interrelation between Two Groups of Headline Indicators.

The research analyzes the progress of Member States in the implementation of Europe 2020 strategy targets and goals in 2016-2018. Multiple criteria decision-making approaches applied for this task. The set of headline indicators was divided into two logically explained groups.

[Medical solution to needle breakage during local anesthesia].

Needle breakage may be a damaging experience for both medical practitioners and patients. Medical literature provides numerous cases of dental practitioners being confronted with this problem. We have studied the clinical case of the patient L.

[Microfungicid--a preparation based on trichoderma viride for plant diseases control].

A technology was designed for manufacturing a preparation based on Trichoderma viride Pers ex S.F. Gray that strongly suppresses the development of causative agents of certain plant diseases and displays a growth-stimulating activity.

[Activity of intracellular enzymes in Bacillus thuringiensis prospores and sporangia].

The activity of endocellular enzymes (alkaline phosphatase, protease, glucose dehydrogenase, aldolase, malate dehydrogenase, NADH dehydrogenase, NADH oxidase) was studied in isolated prospores and sporangia as well as in vegetative cells of Bacillus thuringiensis strains, one of which produced crystals and one did not. The activity of malate dehydrogenase and NADH dehydrogenase was high in prospores of the both strains at the fifth and sixth stages of spore formation. The strain which did not produce crystals differed from the parent strain by a higher aldolase activity at all of the growth stages and by an abrupt increase in the activity of hydrolytic enzymes in sporangia (in the cytoplasm of the parent cells).