|
|
Clinical Applicability of Cognitive Testing in Huntington Disease
Mühlbäck, Alžbeta ; Klempíř, Jiří (advisor) ; Rusina, Robert (referee) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
Introduction: Huntington disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder manifested by motor, behavioural and cognitive deficits with fatal consequences. Aims: This study aims to validate the psychometric properties of a standard cognitive battery used in HD and establish language-specific normative values. Methods: In the first study, cognitive performance was compared in 106 patients at different stages of HD and 100 healthy controls matched for age, sex, and education. The neuropsychological battery included the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Stroop Word Reading Test, Stroop Colour Naming Test, Stroop Interference Test, Trail Making Test-A and B, Category and Letter Verbal Fluency. In addition, patients were comprehensively assessed for motor and functional status. In the second study, the cognitive performance of 3,267 healthy subjects was assessed. The work focused on the stratification of cognitive performance concerning age, gender, language and level of education. Another aim was to establish the language-specific normative values and implement a web-based normative calculator to assess the degree of cognitive deficit in different languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, French, Dutch, Danish). Results: In the first study, analysis of variance showed that healthy...
|
|
|
Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) Recognition Task in Czech Sign Language
Holubová, Kateřina ; Niederlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
(in English) The literature review describes the characteristics of deaf people - a group of Czech sign language users - based on medical and cultural-linguistic perspectives. Subsequent chapters provide current knowledge about psychodiagnostics within this population and the pitfalls the psychodiagnostic practitioner may encounter, including the difference in structures between the Czech language and Czech sign language. This section is concluded with a description of psychodiagnostic methods expressed in sign languages and methods initially developed in spoken languages that are nevertheless used in a modified format within this population both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The practical part is devoted to revising the original version of the Auditory Verbal Learning Test in Czech sign language and drafting a list of phonemic and semantic distractors for recognition. The psychometric properties of the converted test are then validated by a group of 31 deaf Czech Sign Language users of old age. As expected, performance on the test was correlated with age and was independent of the place of origin (Prague-Central Bohemia Region and South Moravia Region). However, in contrast to previous studies, women's performance did not deviate from men's. The test's difficulty level was comparable to the...
|
|
|
Psychometric characteristics of Subjective cognitive changes questionnaire in the elderly at the risk of developing dementia syndrome
Zuntychová, Terezie ; Horáková, Hana (advisor) ; Bezdíček, Ondřej (referee)
This Master's thesis focuses on subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) in the elderly as one of the very early cognitive markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The literature review section maps cognitive impairment in the old age and complements it with an overview of successful cognitive ageing, subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and relevant neurobiological correlates. It also describes the knowledge about the variety of causes of SCD, their assessment and the terminology used. This is followed by quantitative research (n = 211) that elaborates selected psychometric characteristics of the newly constructed Subjective Cognitive Changes Questionnaire (SCC-Q). The research population included patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI; n = 88), SCD (n = 88), and cognitively normal volunteers (n = 35). Based on the statistical analyses performed, high item reliability was verified, a four- component solution of the SCC-Q structure was adopted, and support for convergent validity of three of the four components was subsequently found. Thus, the SCC-Q has the potential to become a useful method for clinical practice. The thesis further discusses follow-up procedures to validate the SCC-Q to identify individuals at risk of developing cognitive deficits. Keywords Subjective cognitive...
|
|
|
Reception of Strategic Economic Narratives: Case Study of the Kenyan News Discourse.
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Záhořík, Jan (referee)
Strategic narrative is a communicative tool for political elites to construct a shared meaning to the international politics, to articulate state's interests, to change the discursive environment, and to shape the behaviour of other actors. It has three different dynamics, which proceed simultaneously and reinforce each other: formation of the narrative within the given state, its projection in the international arena, and its reception in other states. Theory of strategic narratives fits well into the framework of new regionalism, which tries to analyse relations between the processes of globalization, globalism, regionalization, and regionalism. Until recently, such analyses were conducted from state-level and positivist perspective. As a result, the dimension of reception remained understudied. The presented thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. It analyses global political economy from the interpretivist constructivist perspective: it uses the leading local newspaper as a data sources and analyses media (news) discourse as one form of a broad societal discourse. Such an analysis can help us to analyse how local society assesses and reacts to strategic narratives and their internalization or rejection by local elites. In my thesis, I focus on narratives of the three superpowers (the US, the EU,...
|
|
|
Quality Ensuring of Universities in the Czech Republic Through Evaluation of the Educational Activities
Horáková, Hana ; Šikýř, Martin (advisor) ; Šafránková, Jana Marie (referee)
This diploma thesis concerns with issues of evaluation and systemic procuring of educational activities of universities in the Czech Republic. It defines status of universities in the framework of educational system, their classification according to the type of providing curriculum and submission of actual overview regarding to the universities which operate in the Czech Republic in the present day. It provides view to the world rankings, their history and position of Czech universities in them. Further, it clarifies the term of evaluation in education and the difference between inner and outer evaluation. At the same time, it introduces the activity of the National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education and its distinction from antecedent Committee of Accreditation. The empirical research of this diploma thesis is concentrated on revealing the advantages and disadvantages of the setting in the actual system of the quality of educational activities in the Czech universities. Everything mentioned is possible thanks to using the content analysis of inner documents from selected universities dealing with the problems of evaluation and setting the inner systems ensuring the quality of educational activities. KEYWORDS Assessment, education, evaluation, quality, university
|
|
|
Migration strategies of international PhD students from less developed countries - a longitudinal study
Rakovcová, Dana ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
Dana Rakovcová, 2022 Anglický název disertační práce: Migration strategies of international PhD students from less developed countries - a longitudinal study ABSTRACT Within the concept of transnationalism and global development, migration decisions of international students play a vital role. This research examines different factors influencing PhD students' migration plans and strategies, their development over time, and the circumstances of their potential or real return within the changing life course context of the highly educated migrants. The research is based on a longitudinal qualitative study conducted over five years (2012-2017) among 21 international PhD students coming from 16 different developing countries, studying at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands; and it draws mainly on in-depth interviews and follow-up correspondence. Results are discussed in the context of the life course, a cultural shift and the migration development nexus. Conclusions suggest that: 1) Strong feelings of responsibility towards both their family and the development of their country of origin are leading factors shaping the migration strategies of the examined PhD students. 2) Migration decisions of the interviewed PhD students with children tend to be strongly driven by responsibility towards their families...
|
|
|
The Validation of The Nonattachment to Self Scale (NTS-CZ) on the Czech Sample
Valtrová, Markéta ; Šípová, Ivana (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
This diploma thesis presents a new concept of nonattachment to self. The theoretical part consists of the introduction of a different conceptualization of the self in Western and Buddhist psychology and describes the historical background of nonattachment. It further describes the concept of nonattachment, on which the concept of nonattachment to self is based. This concept is further introduced in relation to self-related processes and its possible impact on mental health. The last chapter presents Czech and foreign scales measuring nonattachment (NAS, NAS-30-CZ, NAS-SF, NAS-SF-CZ) and nonattachment to self (NTS, NTS-CZ). The aim of the empirical part of the work was to perform a validation study of the Scale of Nonattachment to Self (NTS-CZ) on a Czech sample to verify its psychometric properties. A total of 125 respondents were administered an online questionnaire battery, which consisted of a total of 8 questionnaires: Nonattachment to Self Scale (NTS-CZ), Nonattachment Scale-Short Form (NAS-SF-CZ), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-CZ), Patients Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Short Form (FFMQ-15-CZ), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-SF (DERS-SF-CZ) and Life Satisfaction Scale (SWLS-CZ). Overall, the scale showed...
|
|
|
Koloniální nemovité dědictví a obrazy města ve východní Asii: Případová studie Kóbe a Inčchonu
Zimt, Alexandra ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (referee)
This paper studies two former treaty ports, Kobe in Japan and Incheon (Chemulpo) in South Korea following the scholarship of Jennifer Robinson (2006) in building social scientific knowledge upon case studies of the so-called "ordinary cities". Using a "bricolage" of sub-fields of social anthropology and research techniques, the study focuses on the built remnants from the colonial period in the two cities and their perceived image to further develop on ethnographies of sensescapes and post-colonialism. The present study is an addition to the scholarship of urban anthropology through tracing out the formations of personal images of a city among their inhabitants, emic perceptions of "danger" and "oldness" in relation to built environments in Japan and South Korea and discussing the relevance of post-colonial sensibilities for place image creation. Keywords: urban anthropology, socio-cultural anthropology, collective memory, city branding, city image, post-colonialism, settler urban heritage, Japan, South Korea
|
|
|
Quality Ensuring of Universities in the Czech Republic Through Evaluation of the Educational Activities
Horáková, Hana ; Šikýř, Martin (advisor) ; Šafránková, Jana Marie (referee)
This diploma thesis concerns with issues of evaluation and systemic procuring of educational activities of universities in the Czech Republic. It defines status of universities in the framework of educational system, their classification according to the type of providing curriculum and submission of actual overview regarding to the universities which operate in the Czech Republic in the present day. It provides view to the world rankings, their history and position of Czech universities in them. Further, it clarifies the term of evaluation in education and the difference between inner and outer evaluation. At the same time, it introduces the activity of the National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education and its distinction from antecedent Committee of Accreditation. The empirical research of this diploma thesis is concentrated on revealing the advantages and disadvantages of the setting in the actual system of the quality of educational activities in the Czech universities. Everything mentioned is possible thanks to using the content analysis of inner documents from selected universities dealing with the problems of evaluation and setting the inner systems ensuring the quality of educational activities. KEYWORDS Assessment, education, evaluation, quality, university
|
|
|
Reception of Strategic Economic Narratives: Case Study of the Kenyan News Discourse.
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Záhořík, Jan (referee)
Strategic narrative is a communicative tool for political elites to construct a shared meaning to the international politics, to articulate state's interests, to change the discursive environment, and to shape the behaviour of other actors. It has three different dynamics, which proceed simultaneously and reinforce each other: formation of the narrative within the given state, its projection in the international arena, and its reception in other states. Theory of strategic narratives fits well into the framework of new regionalism, which tries to analyse relations between the processes of globalization, globalism, regionalization, and regionalism. Until recently, such analyses were conducted from state-level and positivist perspective. As a result, the dimension of reception remained understudied. The presented thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. It analyses global political economy from the interpretivist constructivist perspective: it uses the leading local newspaper as a data sources and analyses media (news) discourse as one form of a broad societal discourse. Such an analysis can help us to analyse how local society assesses and reacts to strategic narratives and their internalization or rejection by local elites. In my thesis, I focus on narratives of the three superpowers (the US, the EU,...
|
guest ::
RSS feed.