In Croatia, Slovenia and Austria, the coronavirus crisis raised pre-existing deficiencies in the democratic orders to the surface, i.e., issues in functioning according to democratic principles in the circumstances of a public health crisis.In Austria, the strained executive-legislative relations were already visible in April 2020, when the opposit

An overview and summary was provided on the convergence of communication and computing and the future research directions were clarified.As two key technologies of information Ball - Catcher - Accessories science,communication and computing were born to be converged.In current mobile communication systems,from a single device or technique point of

This article presents a novel approach to the analysis of wireless sensor networks (WSN) security, based on the regulations intended for wireless communication devices.Starting from the analysis and classification of attacks, countermeasures, and available protocols, we present the current state on secure communication stacks for embedded systems.T

Acoustic metasurfaces can reshape a reflected wavefront rather arbitrarily, despite being much thinner than the wavelength, thus allowing on-demand wavefront modulation in a variety of applications.Recent passive metasurfaces, however, have suffered from bandwidth limitations, thus restricting their range of operation.In this work, we propose the s

The paper examines how diversity is constructed and considered in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care (Finnish National Agency for Education, 2018) by employing critical multicultural theory with a focus on essentialist and non-essentialist views of diversity.The text is examined through critical discourse an