Achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development requires proactive measures at different levels worldwide. In particular, increasing equality and women’s empowerment (SDG 5 “Gender equality”) in public governance is a crucial step in boosting economic growth and the sustainable development of communities, regions, and countries. This research investigates the relationship between gender equality in local governance and communities’ economic development. It is based on the correlation and regression analysis of statistical data pertaining to 118 territorial communities (TCs) in Ukraine and depicts the dependence between the gender composition of the local governments and the economic capacity of the territorial communities. These findings may influence comprehensive sustainable development at the community level globally.

Implementing the Rasa NLU pipeline allowed intent detection and entity recognition, particularly in complex scenarios with multi-intent queries. Communication within the Rasa NLU pipeline was effectively managed, ensuring seamless data flow between components, which preserved context and enhanced interpretability. The voice assistant developed with STT and TTS capabilities demonstrated robust real-time natural language processing, handling spoken queries efficiently. This confirmed the practical viability of using the Rasa framework for scalable and customizable conversational AI applications. Discussing: The findings underscore the robustness of the Rasa NLU pipeline in handling diverse conversational demands and the flexibility of its components to adapt to different linguistic contexts. The research discusses the potential of integrating sophisticated NLU techniques to create more intuitive and responsive conversational agents, highlighting the critical role of context-aware processing in improving user interaction with AI systems.

This paper presents an energy optimization approach to applying electrical impedance tomography (EIT) for medical diagnostics, particularly in detecting lung diseases. The designed Lung Electrical Tomography System (LETS) incorporates 102 electrodes and advanced image reconstruction algorithms. Energy efficiency is achieved through the use of modern electronic components and high-efficiency DC/DC converters that reduce the size and weight of the device without the need for additional cooling. Special attention is given to minimizing energy consumption during electromagnetic measurements and data processing, significantly improving the system’s overall performance. Research studies confirm the device’s high energy efficiency while maintaining the accuracy of the classification of lung disease using the LightGBM algorithm. This solution enables long-term patient monitoring and precise diagnosis with reduced energy consumption, marking a key step towards sustainable medical diagnostics based on EIT technology.

Conventionally, tomography is an inspection technique in which tomographic images are intended for human perception and interpretation. In this work, we shift this paradigm by transforming tomography into an autonomous estimator of industrial reactor states, enabling fully automated process control. Alcoholic fermentation was employed as an example of a controlled process in the current study. The work presents an original concept utilizing transfer learning in conjunction with a ResNet-type artificial neural network, which converts electrical measurements into a sequence of values correlated with the conductivity of pixels constituting the cross-section of the examined biochemical reactor. The conductivity vector is transformed into a parameter determining substrate concentration, enabling dynamic process regulation in response to signals generated from EIT (Electrical Impedance Tomography). Within the scope of the described research, calibration of the conductivity vector against substrate concentrations was performed, and a Matlab/Simulink-based dynamic Monod kinetics model was developed. The obtained results demonstrate high accuracy in substrate concentration estimation relative to reference values throughout a forty-six-hour process. The same signals enable energy-efficient process control, in which cooling and mixing intensity are regulated according to energy prices and renewable energy availability. This strategy may possess particular application in facilities where fermentation installations are co-located with bioenergy production units.

Grants are funds from the state budget, budget of local government units and state purpose funds allocated on the basis of this Act, separate acts or international agreements for financing or co-financing of the implementation of public tasks, subject to specific settlement rules. The Public Finance Act also includes definitions of three types of subsidies: purpose-specific, subject-specific and object-specific. With regard to subsidies, the legislator in the provisions of the Public Finance Act points out that subsidies for local government units and subsidies for tasks specified in separate acts constitute a special purpose for the allocation of expenditures of the state budget and orders to include in annexes to the budget act: a list of units receiving purpose-specific and subject-specific subsidies and amounts of subsidies and the scope and amounts of subject-specific and subject-specific subsidies, defines subsidies (together with subsidies) as a separate group of expenditures of the state budget.

Among the forms of public assistance of a passive nature are tax concessions and exemptions. A given form of aid can be of liquidity support, rescue and restructuring and pro-development nature for the enterprise. This form of assistance is reflected in the reduction of revenues to the state and local government budgets. Tax credits, used as investment incentives for entrepreneurs, can affect the growth of production, and in the case of new investments, the creation of new jobs or the retention of existing ones. The article presents the provisions of the tax law on real estate tax in correlation with the law on state aid, in the context of an assessment of - to what extent on the grounds of real estate tax it is possible to operate reliefs and exemptions that constitute state aid for entrepreneurs. The legal problems of providing state aid and the issues of tax procedures in the field of tax reliefs and exemptions and the calculation of the net value of state aid are presented.