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Evaluation of ecosystem integrity and services on regional level with the use of participatory approaches
Zelený, Jakub ; Vačkářová, Davina Elena (advisor) ; Pechanec, Vilém (referee) ; Harmáčková, Veronika Zuzana (referee)
TITLE: Evaluation of ecosystem integrity and services on regional level with the use of participatory approaches AUTHOR: Mgr. Jakub Zelený DEPARTMENT: Environmental studies SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Davina Elena Vačkářová, Ph.D. ABSTRACT: The presented work proposes and applies a set of methods designed to describe ecosystem integrity, services and landscape values, including their interaction, on the example of several studied regions. The included publications describes 4 types of methods for evaluating these phenomena: remote sensing of the Earth, regional statistics, expert matrices, and qualitative interviews and mapping. Applied methods can be divided into natural sciences and social sciences, and part of the work is to evaluate the benefits and compare the compatibility between these very different methods in evaluating selected elements of landscapes. The methods are applied in a variety of ranges, ranging from urban areas (10 km2) to the federal states. Natural ecosystems and forests have been assessed best in terms of ecosystem integrity, with the relationship between ecosystem integrity and crop production being negative. Qualitative mapping of landscape values revealed that pristine and inaccessible areas, as well as single- purpose sites, had low societal value in terms of intensity and / or diversity...
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The Role of the Judiciary in the Integration Process of the United States of America and the European Union
Zelený, Jan ; Kindlová, Miluše (referee)
The Role of the Judiciary in the Integration Process of the United States of America and the European Union The aim of this thesis is to describe the integration process of both the European Union and the United States of America and to depict the most crucial role the judiciary had. The thesis will explain how courts can in general substitute the other branches of power, usually when the latter are inactive or even unwilling to act. Both ways how the European Court of Justice (working together with national courts) and the Supreme Court of the United States have influenced or even enabled successful union-making policy will be compared. One of the most surprising facts might be that the Supreme Court had rather an auxiliary role in turning the Union into a strong entity, while the Court of Justice most likely was a real European integration leader. The thesis presents number of specific examples or cases how both courts not only created legal rules but also came up with policy-making decisions, which has significantly changed the given community and lives of all citizens in it. It can be concluded that from nowadays perspective, both courts enjoy great power and prestige. Obviously, the SCOTUS is being regarded as the stronger one from those two. However, such a view might not be entirely accurate...
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The Role of the Judiciary in the Integration Process of the United States of America and the European Union
Zelený, Jan ; Jirásková, Věra (advisor) ; Preuss, Ondřej (referee)
The Role of the Judiciary in the Integration Process of the United States of America and the European Union The aim of this thesis is to describe the integration process of both the European Union and the United States of America and to depict the most crucial role the judiciary had. The thesis will explain how courts can in general substitute the other branches of power, usually when the latter are inactive or even unwilling to act. Both ways how the European Court of Justice (working together with national courts) and the Supreme Court of the United States have influenced or even enabled successful union-making policy will be compared. One of the most surprising facts might be that the Supreme Court had rather an auxiliary role in turning the Union into a strong entity, while the Court of Justice most likely was a real European integration leader. The thesis presents number of specific examples or cases how both courts not only created legal rules but also came up with policy-making decisions, which has significantly changed the given community and lives of all citizens in it. It can be concluded that from nowadays perspective, both courts enjoy great power and prestige. Obviously, the SCOTUS is being regarded as the stronger one from those two. However, such a view might not be entirely accurate...
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Application for Secure Mobile Communication
Jeřábek, Jakub ; Zelený, Jan (referee) ; Očenášek, Pavel (advisor)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to design and implement a mobile application for instant messaging with the accent on confidentiality. The application will provide the management of contacts, the management of contact groups and sending group messages. What is more, the application should allow users to share their position via the device's GPS module. In this thesis, the client-server architecture is used. The thesis contains an analysis of existing solutions, based on which I propose a specification of the resulting application. Its implementation is also described. The result of my activity is a working application for the mobile operation system Android which complies with the assignment of the thesis.
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Web page segmentation utilizing clustering techniques
Zelený, Jan ; Šimko, Marián (referee) ; Kliegr, Tomáš (referee) ; Zendulka, Jaroslav (advisor)
Získávání informací a jiné techniky dolování dat z webových stránek získávají na důležitosti s tím, jak se rozvíjí webové technologie a jak roste množství informací uložených na webu, jakožto jediném nosiči těchto informací. Spolu s tímto množství informací také ale roste množství obsahu, který není v kontextu prezentovaných informací ničím důležitý. To je jedním z důvodů, proč je důležité se intenzivně věnovat předzpracování informací uložených na webu. Segmentační algoritmy jsou jedním z možných způsobů předzpracování. Tato práce se věnuje využití shlukovacích technik pro zefektivnění existujících, ale i nalezení zcela nových algoritmů použitelných pro segmentaci webových stránek.
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The preparation and characterization of polymeric, enzymatically cleavable carriers for cancerostatic drugs
Zelený, Jan ; Etrych, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ječmen, Tomáš (referee)
As the development of cancerostatic drugs progresses it is becoming necessary to contemplate the question of how to deliver these drugs, which themselves tend to exhibit carcinogenic properties, effectively and accurately to the affected tissues and thus to circumvent their destructive effects upon the healthy parts of the organism. One approach to delivering drugs selectively to cancerous tissues is to make use of some of the specific properties which these tissues tend to possess, one of which being the so-called enhanced permeability and retention effect (EPR effect). This effect, which will be further discussed within this thesis, allows for macromolecules that are too massive to pass from the bloodstream into healthy tissue, to exit the blood vessels of cancerous tissue and to accumulate there. Therefore, a drug molecule can specifically enter cancerous tissue along with a suitable macromolecule, to which it is conveniently attached. If, moreover, the given drug is connected to the carrier molecule via an enzymatically cleavable spacer, it is possible to make use of lysosomal proteases (such as cathepsin B, which is overexpressed in some cancer cells) in order to attain its detachment from the carrier molecule and its subsequent activation. This bachelor thesis focuses on describing the...
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Výkonnost dojicích robotů při řízeném pohybu stáda
ZELENÝ, Jiří
The work is focused on the performance of milking robots in the herd's controlled movemement system. The popularity of this method of the milk gaining in the world and in the Czech Republic is increasing every year. The reason is mainly the excellent results in increasing the labour productivity and welfare of dairy cows. For this thesis, a stable building was selected for livestock breeding with the market production of milk using AMS with the controlled movement of the herd.
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Spiritual searching with salvia divinorum in Prague and its surroundings
Zelený, Jan ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Bureš, Jiří (referee)
This thesis is concerned in the topic of spiritual searching with Salvia divinorum. Prague and its surroundings have been chosen as the region of interest. Salvia divinorum is extremely potent hallucinogenic substance that can be applied through smoking of extracts or chewing of leaves. Even though prohibited in 2011 In the Czech Republic, the substance is easy to acquire even to this day. In the qualitative part of the research semi-structured interviews were conducted with the users of this plant to obtain information about Salvia divinorum and its relationship to spiritual searching. The analysis of the discourse in the interviews resulted in findings which point us to the conclusion that the experimentation with Salvia divinorum is indeed tightly bound with spiritual searching.
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Phytoplankton succession in experimental ponds
Zelený, Jakub ; Nedbalová, Linda (advisor) ; Bílý, Michal (referee)
1 Abstract Newly created habitats present a unique model environment for the study of succession and related processes. Their relative isolation and the possibility to observe community assembly dynamics from the very beginning makes these experiments repeatable under controlled conditions. Planktic organisms with short generation cycles represent useful model organisms for the research of succession and related features like the influence of environmental variables or priority effect. The thesis aims at describing the succession of phytoplankton in a set of 20 experimental ponds, where phytoplankton structure and environmental parameters have been observed for six years (2007 ̶ 2012). The ponds are located in Liběchovka River-bed, which is a part of Kokořínsko Protected Landscape Area. The target locality is protected by the Ramsar agreement as a habitat for pulling birds and amphibians. We used classical and multidimensional statistical methods (PCA, DCA, CCA) to analyse the variability in species composition and shifts in environmental variables. Metacomunity structure indices (α,ß,γ) showed a decrease of α diversity accompanied by an increase in ß diversity over the study period, which have been caused by a marked differentiation of communities in 2011 ̶ 2012. γ diversity peaked in the middle of the...
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The amount of physical activity within a week's routine of football players at grade level.
Zelený, Jan ; Kokštejn, Jakub (advisor) ; Frýbort, Pavel (referee)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL IDENTIFICATION Title of Bachelor work: The amount of physical activity within a week's routine of football players at grade level Place of work: UK FTVS Author: Jan Zelený Field of study: Physical education and sport Head of work: Mgr. Jakub Kokštejn, Ph. D. Defence year: 2013 Abstract Aims: The main aim of the thesis was the analysis of the amount of one week's physical activity (PA) of boys at adolescent age within regularly exercised PA. Methods: One week's routine PA was monitored by methodology which is based on measurement of the energy output, amount of steps and hops, and load intensity by ActiGraph GT3X accelerometer. Conclusions: The research showed that average daily amount of steps within selected group of young people was 9284. Furthermore, the research showed that the average energy output was significantly lower, i.e. 30% lower than the specified health limits. At the same time, the recommended values of PA of middle and higher intensity were surpassed. At the last part of the thesis, the results were compared with the health recommendations for particular age category and the specified hypotheses were then verified. Key words: Physical activity, adolescent, accelerometer, ActiGraph, football
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