Publications by authors named "Venelin Petkov"

is a plant common in southern Bulgaria. The inflorescences were collected during June and September 2021, while their seeds were obtained in September 2021. The chemical and lipid composition of the inflorescences during the vegetation process of the plant were established.

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This study reports the effects of aqueous extracts obtained from three fern species of Bulgarian origin: L., L., and L.

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Most of the commonly applied assays used to assess antioxidant properties of plant extracts exploit the ability of some biologically active metabolites to participate in oxidation-reduction reactions with metal ions. On the other hand, most plants contain different chelated metal ions whose levels depend on the geographic origin, soil, and environmental pollutions. In this study the levels of redox-active metal ions in three plant sources were measured and extracts of these botanicals were treated with Chelex - an ion exchanger that is noteworthy for its ability to bind transition metal ions.

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In this article, we present a methodological framework that meets novel requirements emerging from upcoming types of accelerated and highly configurable neuromorphic hardware systems. We describe in detail a device with 45 million programmable and dynamic synapses that is currently under development, and we sketch the conceptual challenges that arise from taking this platform into operation. More specifically, we aim at the establishment of this neuromorphic system as a flexible and neuroscientifically valuable modeling tool that can be used by non-hardware experts.

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