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A development of traditional sports non-government organization: Sokol club Písek and its stakeholders
Thýnová, Klára ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (advisor) ; Navrátil, Jiří (referee)
Sokol, as one of the traditional mass special - interest organizations in the Czech republic relates on the tradition from the point of its foundation in 1862. Despite the fact that this organization proved to overcome several prohibitions its activities and to re-established, the modern period and its life style could be fatal for it. Especially the traditional program - universality is not as popular as so - called special sports among public neither donors. Because of that the thesis describes an attitude of selected groups of Sokol club's Písek stakeholders, and its opinions about the universality, the reference to a community, the strenght of communication, the real and potencial Sokol's benefit for a community, etc. The output of the thesis is proposing of the strategy for the work with particular members of community.
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Transparency of NGOs Fighting against Corruption in the Czech Republic
Vomastková, Tereza ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis discusses the topic of anti-corruption, non-governmental, non-profit organisations (NGOs), and specifically the relationship between their transparency and their sources of financial income. Inasmuch as the activities of such NGOs are of general public interest, and their output should therefore be available to everyone, this thesis focuses on the transparency of these organisations on the Internet as the most accessible medium. The theoretical part of the thesis scrutinises some key concepts, such as anti-corruption NGO, accountability, transparency and organisational resources. The research sample includes 23 organisations who declare to be fighting against corruption and data collection was carried out via the Internet. The goal of this thesis was to analyse the transparency of Czech anti-corruption NGOs since such an analysis has not been carried out to date. An overview of financing and transparency of the organisations under investigation was based on an analysis of their web pages and annual reports. The index of transparency shows the accessibility of information and its correlation with the structure of financial resources determines how various financial resources are related to the organisation's transparency. In the resultant discussion, the findings introduced in the theoretical...
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Sexual transmission of Toxoplasma gondii from males to females: experimental verification using laboratory animal model
Navrátil, Jiří ; Kodym, Petr (advisor) ; Votýpka, Jan (referee)
Toxoplasma gondii is cosmopolitly living parasite which prevalence in human extends to tens of percent. In its life cycle it uses any homoiothermic vertebrate as an intermediate host. The definitive host are felines from Felidae family. The acute phase of infection is medically important in immunocompromised pacients and by its risk of congenital toxoplasmosis in pregnant women who never suffered from this illness before. Infection could have serious and rarely even lethal consequences in both cases. This thesis focuses on experimental verification of theory of sexual transmission of toxoplasmosis from male to female on laboratory mice. Possible transmission was tested in acute phase and latent phase of infection. The result was negative in both cases. Moreover, we observed the parasite's affinity to tissue of organs in male mice by PCR technique. Particularly, our interest was in comparing genital organs with others. It was discovered that lungs and spleen are the most infected organs in acute phase of infection. Toxoplasma was also present in genital organs (especially in epididymis) but not more frequently than in others. We observed statistically significant difference between sexual and non-sexual organs in acute and latent toxoplasmosis - non-sexual organs were more infected in both phases....
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Civil and political sphere from the perspective of local actors in České Budějovice
Bílková, Lucie ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Pospíšilová, Tereza (referee)
Post-socialist states are often linked to low political participation and weak civil society. Simultaneously, there is a visible rise in the phenomenon of urban movements. They serve not only as a platform for mobilization of citizens but also as a platform that builds a bridge between politics and society. Therefore, there is a need to study this phenomenon as an intriguing opportunity for research into the relationship between the civil and political sphere on a local level. The goal of this thesis is to show how city activists look at the civil and political spheres in comparison to the definition offered by theoretical conceptualizations. Research has demonstrated a transition in spheres, where activities are indicated as nonpolitical by activists. These findings are not supported by the presented theory which considers them political, and therefore, this study suggests that the boundaries of the spheres are shifted. Moreover, activists constantly engage in both spheres and therefore enter local politics through their activity. They prefer conventional methods to political actions, which they are not estranged to, but they do not frame them as political.
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Současné metody sekvenování nukleových kyselin
Navrátil, Jiří
The Bachelor´s thesis deals with the description of the techniques of nucleic acids sequencing. Based on an analysis and synthesis of findings in scientific resources, the characteristics of the methods, a brief history, advantages and disadvantages, possible modifications and future applications are described in the theoretical section, whereas special reference is placed on the principle on which these methods work. A special cha-pter is devoted to the Human Genome Project, which is considered the greatest milestone in the history of sequencing. In the practical section, animal genome of order Lepidoptera was sequenced. The entire process included DNA extraction, its purification, amplification, evaluation of quality on an agarose gel, sequencing and, last but not least, an analysis of the output data using specialized software.
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Vývoj inovativního biosenzoru pro elektrochemickou detekci tumor supresorového genu TP53
Navrátil, Jiří
The theoretical part of the diploma thesis deals with tumour diseases and a general description of tumour suppressor genes. Special attention is paid to the TP53 gene and its influence on the functioning of the organism, including its production of the p53 protein. Based on an analysis and synthesis of findings from specialised sources, the current methods of detecting the aforesaid gene, in particular immunological and elec-trochemical, were described. The last chapter of the theoretical part is devoted to bio-sensors and their classification, with a special focus on electrochemical biosensors. The practical part involves the construction and optimisation of the biosensor, from the cleaning of electrodes, the deposition of gold nanoparticles, the ssDNA bond, the blocking of free binding points and a synthesis of the complementary chain to the resulting measurement and quality testing. This part also presents the concept of an innovative biosensor that offers an easier and more reliable alternative for the detec-tion of the TP53 gene. The last chapter of this part analyses and comments on the aforesaid results.
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Activism in youth political organizations
Forétková, Pavlína ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
The thesis focuses on the activism of youth political organizations in the Czech Republic. The aim of this work is to monitor their activities between 2013 and 2017 due to activism in general but also to political parties. A protest event analysis based on document analysis was created to monitor activities. The second type of research data was interviews with representatives of youth organizations. This type develops results from protest event analysis. Research has shown differences in attitude to activism between left-wing and right-wing organizations. The left-wing focused on protest more than right-wing organization and also often cooperated with non-profit organizations. While right-wing organizations are quite active, they prefer institutional channel and orderly decency before protest arena. Youth organizations have little to do with events before elections. Though they also support political parties or protest against them, they have realized most of the events because of their own agendas. Most organizations appreciate mutual cooperation in protests, with one exception when cooperation is rejected from both sides.
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Thermoelectric Generators for Micro-CHP Units
Brázdil, Marian ; Navrátil, Jiří (referee) ; Masaryk, Michal (referee) ; Pospíšil, Jiří (advisor)
Small domestic hot water boilers burning solid fuels represent a significant source of air pollu-tion. It is therefore an effort to increase their combustion efficiency and to reduce the produc-tion of harmful emissions. For this reason, the operation of older and currently unsatisfactory types of household boilers has been legally restricted. Preferred types of boilers are low-emission boilers, especially automatic or gasification boilers. Most of them, however, in compar-ison with previous types of boilers, also require connection to the electricity grid. If there is a long-term failure in electricity grid, the operation of newer boiler types is limited. Wood and coal gasification boilers are currently available on the market and can be operated even in the event of a power failure, but only in heating systems with natural water circulation. In heating systems with forced water circulation, these boilers, fireplaces or fireplace inserts with hot-water heat exchangers cannot be operated without external battery supply in the event of a power failure. The dissertation thesis therefore deals with the question of whether it would be possible by thermoelectric conversion of waste heat of flue gases of small-scale low-emission combustion hot water domestic boilers to obtain sufficient electricity, to power supply their circulation pumps and to ensure operation in systems with forced water circulation independently of elec-tricity supply from the grid. In order to answer this question, a simulation tool predicting the power parameters of ther-moelectric generators was created. Compared to previously published works, the calculations and simulations include the influence of the generator on the boiler flue gas functionality. To verify the simulation tool, an experimental thermoelectric generator was built using the waste heat of the flue gas of an automatic hot water boiler for wood pellets. In addition to this genera-tor, there was also created an experimental thermoelectric fireplace insert and other equipment related to these experiments.
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Collaboration and competition among nonprofit organizations working with migrants in Prague.
Pračke, Šimon ; Navrátil, Jiří (advisor) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
This thesis is focused on the relations of competition and cooperation between non-governmental non-profit organizations working with migrants in Prague. Based on interviews with representatives of these organizations and the study of documents, this thesis shows that classical theoretical approaches that deal with interorganizational relationships generally, i.e. those of profitable organizations in the market environment, ignore the specificity of non-profit organizations. Unlike profitable organizations, non-profit organizations primarily do not aim at profit but rather at the mission they were founded for. Classical theories do not reflect this dimension at all. The non-profit organizations working with migrants in Prague not only cooperate but this cooperation is motivated especially by their mission, although they are situated in a highly competitive position because they are situated in the same area, work with the same clients, offer similar services to these clients and are financed from the same sources. Keywords Collaboration, cooperation, competition, co-opetition, inter-organizational relationships, non-governmental non-profit organization, mission, identity
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