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Ability to Transfer Learned Skills in Activities of Daily Living to Everyday Life in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury; Focusing on patients after stroke
Česáková, Kamila ; Nováková, Olga (advisor) ; Hoidekrová, Kristýna (referee)
Title: Ability to Transfer Learned Skills in Activities of Daily Living to Everyday Life in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury Abstract: The thesis deals with the topic of transfer of skills mainly from the area of activities of daily living learned in therapy to everyday life in patients after stroke. It is a case study within the framework of qualitative research, the main aim of which was to describe the process of transfer of learned skills from the field of ADL to everyday life over a longer period of time. The reason for choosing this topic was that although transfer of learned skills is crucial for rehabilitation and patient return to the home environment, it is still not given enough attention. The aim of the theoretical part was mainly to describe the elements influencing the transfer of learned skills to everyday life and the occupational therapist's possibilities to support this process in therapy and its evaluation. The practical part was conducted with four patients for 6-8 months. For each patient, 6 therapy sessions were first conducted, followed by two visits, each 2-3 months apart, during which a semi-structured interview took place. The aim of the practical part was to test different techniques and approaches in practice as well as to evaluate the transfer afterwards. In particular, the...
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Reactions of avian predators to automimicry in milkweed bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae):
Stránská, Anna ; Exnerová, Alice (advisor) ; Baňař, Petr (referee)
Automimicry, or intraspecific variation in defence mechanisms in aposematic prey, is very common in nature. Especially in chemically protected prey. This study contains two experiments. The first experiment investigated the reaction of naive predators, which were Great tits (Parus major), to automimetic prey. The prey was the black-and-red-bug (Lygaeus equestris). The tits were divided into three experimental groups and each group was presented with three bugs that were fed on an artificial diet with different amounts of cardenolides. The control group was presented with prey that had no cardenolides in the diet. The group tested with the low concentration received bugs that fed on a diet with a low concentration of cardenolides and the group tested with the high concentration received bugs that fed on a diet with a high concentration of cardenolides. In a generalization test, all groups were then offered a single firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus). It was found that the group tested with the high concentration experienced a higher rate of aversive learning. This group also killed and consumed fewer firebugs than the other two groups. The group tested with high concentration generalized most to novel red-and-black prey because they were least likely to attack the firebug. The second experiment tested...
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Reactions of predators towards species of red-and-black mimetic complex
Kotlíková, Lucie ; Exnerová, Alice (advisor) ; Baňař, Petr (referee)
The red-black mimetic complex in the Western Palaearctic region includes a large number of arthropod species. These species differ in the degree of their mimetic resemblance, as well as in defensive mechanisms and their effectiveness against various predators. This study is based on two experiments. The first experiment was carried out with adult great tits (Parus major) and artificial prey (photographs). The birds were divided into two experimental groups and were trained to discriminate between palatable and unpalatable prey. One group was trained with higher diversity in the coloration of unpalatable prey (ten species of subfamily Lygaeinae), while the other was trained with low diversity in the coloration of palatable prey (ten individuals of the same species, Lygaeus equestris). After ten learning blocks, two generalization blocks followed, in which both groups received the same prey that was completely different from the prey during learning phase. The rate of learning was not significantly different between the two groups. However, more effective generalization was observed in the group trained with higher prey diversity. However, this trend was only observed in the first generalization block. On the second day, both groups achieved similar generalization success. The second experiment was...
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Výstražná signalizace barevných forem slunéčka východního (\kur{Harmonia axyridis})
BOROVIČKA, Martin
The efficiency of the aposematic defenses (colouration and chemical defence) used by three rare colour forms of Harmonia axyridis were tested using in the wild caught great tits (Parus major) as predators. I predicted that visually orienting predator will pay more attention to the rare colour forms, as they are not familiar with them and need to generalize the learned aversion to some other ladybirds to these novel ones.
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Factors affecting behaviour of avian predators to hoverflies (Syrphidae) and their models (Aculeata)
Truhlářová, Marie ; Exnerová, Alice (advisor) ; Sedláček, František (referee)
Batesian mimicry is an antipredator strategy used by harmless species to mimic dangerous models by their appearance. The so-called imperfect mimics are a phenomenon within Batesian mimicry. It would be expected that Batesian mimics are selected to resemble the model as perfectly as possible. However, in some species the resemblance is very poor. The aim of this study was to test reaction of predators towards a textbook example of Batesian mimics with imperfect mimicry, i.e., hoverflies (Syrphidae) and to verify some of the hypotheses describing imperfect mimicry. We conducted two experiments in which the model predators were great tits (Parus major). The topic of the first experiment was the effect of diversity of models on categorization and generalization of hoverflies. Birds were divided into two groups, with the first group receiving high diversity of models (10 species of Hymenoptera) and second group receiving low diversity of models (2 species of Hymenoptera). There were two parts of this experiment. Categorization training when great tits learn to discriminate between two categories of prey, palatable and unpalatable and generalization test, when great tits generalized their experience from categorization training to novel prey. Palatable prey was represented by non-mimetic flies (Diptera),...
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Commented translation: Guide de manoeuvre (Éric Tabarly, Luçon: Éditions Le Télégramme, 2008)
Kofroňová, Zuzana ; Belisová, Šárka (advisor) ; Šotolová, Jovanka (referee)
The thesis consists of two main parts- translation and its commentary. It is a translation of 3 chapters of a French yachtsmen guide Guide de manoeuvre (Wharf mooring or double moor to another boat, Anchoring and Man overboard maneuver). In my translation, I tried to preserve the major function of the original text - to inform and instruct the reader. The second part of the work is a commentary of the translation which is focused on translation analysis of the original text, typology of translation problems and the methods of the translation. In the translation analysis I describe the original text with the factors affecting the text. Then I focus on the translation problems I dealt with and how they were solved. In the conclusion, I describe the translations methods I used.
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Commented translation: L'Homme et le chien. Bien communiquer. (Pageat, Patrick. Odile Jacob. Paris 1999, str. 135- 155).
Šenkeříková, Irena ; Belisová, Šárka (advisor) ; Šotolová, Jovanka (referee)
Thesis Abstract This final bachelor thesis consists of two parts, czech translation of the french text and its commentary. The first part of this thesis is a translation of one section of the French breedes guide L'Homme et le chien. Bien communiquer. written by french veterinarian and entomologist Patrick Pageat. In this first part which consists on translation, I focused on creating a comprehensible and straightforward text for the czech recipient. I perserved the essential function of the original text - to provide information and give to the breeders the useful advice. The second part of the work consists detailed translation analysis of the original text. Then I focus on individual translation issues that I had to deal with in the czech text. The conclusion of the work summarizes the methods used in translation and provides the typology of problems.
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Effect of chromatic component on function of antipredatory warning signals
Truhlářová, Marie ; Exnerová, Alice (advisor) ; Pipek, Pavel (referee)
Warning coloration is used by prey to signal its unprofitability to potential predators. Warning colours may have different effects on various cognitive processes of predators (innate avoidance, avoidance learning, memory and generalization). Typical colours regarded as aposematic are red, orange and yellow. Red colour is considered to be the most effective signal and has a significant effect on avoidance learning, memory and generalization. Orange also represents an effective warning signal, though it has been studied less. Yellow is effective aposematic stimulus but it has frequently been found less effective compared to red and orange. Warning functions of white, blue, violet and ultraviolet colours were studied less frequently and their role in aposematism is not yet clear. Iridescent coloration might also be an effective warning signal affecting avoidance learning, memory and generalization. In this thesis I present a summary of information with regard to different warning colours and their effect on cognitive processes of predators. Key words: aposematism, warning coloration, cognitive processes, red, orange, yellow, iridescence, avoidance learning, innate avoidance, memory, generalization
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