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An impact of organic farming on soil quality
Matěchová, Martina ; Jakšík, Ondřej (advisor) ; Janků, Jaroslava (referee)
This work focuses on the system of organic agriculture and its impact on soil quality. It compares organic farming system with conventional. Both these systems are briefly described. There is also a list of soil quality indicators used for the soil quality is evaluation. The results of scientific studies, which dealt with different farming systems and their effects on soil properties, were discussed and evaluated.
Quality and fertile soil is crucial for production systems, however to define what means quality soil is very difficult. Therefore the number of quality indicators were established. The indicators can be grouped by their nature of soil properties they assess, such as physical, chemical and biological. Different techniques are adopted for soil quality evaluation.
Soil quality is affected by a lot of different factors. Anthropogenic activities are often considered as one of the most influential factor. The loss of soil fertility as well as other physical, chemical or biological deterioration of soil properties is called soil degradation.
The results of this study shown that careful tillage in organic farming could have positive effect or no effect on the biological and physical properties of soils. For some experiments there was an increased amount of soil organisms.
In the most experiments, application of organic fertilizers caused increase of organic matter and other essential nutrients. We conclude that under certain conditions with respect for the principles of organic farming the soil quality can be preserved or even improved, but in a longer timeframe.
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Czech and Polish Conference Geology of Coal Basins /9./
Kožušníková, Alena ; Ruppenthalová, Lucie
Department of Laboratory Research on Geomaterials of the Institute of Geonics AS CR has organized the Czech - Polish conference about geology of coal basins since 1993. Traditionally, at the conference meet experts especially from the Czech Republic and Poland, dealing with the development and research of coal deposits, geology of the coal basins, tectonics and coal petrography. However, with new trends in the use of coal deposits, there are also presented the results of research in physical and chemical properties of coal and coal mass, pyrolysis and combustion processes or geosequestration of CO2 into coal seams.
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Influence of common eland (Taurotragus oryx) meat composition on its further technological processing
Kolbábek, Petr ; Lukešová, Daniela (advisor)
This dissertation has been proposed as a part of long-time wide research conducted on farmed elands (Taurotragus oryx) at university farm at Lány. This thesis is planned to be closely connected with the study of influence of the nutrition and diet to the growth and meat composition and quality. Eland meat is traditionally considered as tasty and nutritionally valuable, but in fact the knowledge on the eland meat composition and technological processing potential is limited. The research will be focused on the analyses of physical and chemical properties of meat with emphasis on the influence of the diet and age of animals on the meat. Next part of the work will be to experimentally produce meat products (e.g. pâté, fermented salami) and evaluate theirs physical, chemical and organoleptic properties. The most of the analysis are planned in cooperation with Department of agriculture products quality on Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources.
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The most important dietary sources of lipophilic vitamins
Šafránková, Simona ; Hejtmánková, Alena (advisor) ; Táborský, Jan (referee)
Basic piece of knowledge about nutrition and its need should be integral to every mans general knowledge. One of the vital nutritions ensuring a full-functioning organism are vitamins. Vitamins are essential ingredients, which play an important role in the human body and also in the processes of absorption and the exchange of substances between the external environment and living organism. They were discovered recently during the 20th century. The researches on their effects on the human body are still ongoing.
The vitamins are divided into two basic groups, water soluble vitamins, the so called hydrophilic (vitamins B and C), and fat soluble vitamins, the so called lipophilic (vitamins A, D, E and K).
The vitamin A is important to ensure good vision and recognizing colors. It support the quality and growth of bones, affects the egg and sperm and is needed for proper fetal development.
Vitamin A is found in foods of animal origin, such as dairy products, milk, meat and liver. In the food of plant origin, the vitamin A is replaced with many provitamins, of which most important is the beta carotene. A very rich source of these provitamins are leafy greens such as spinach or cabbage.
The recommended daily intake of vitamin A is 800 microgram, according to the standards of Czech republic. This need depends on the gender and age of each individual. The lack of vitamins A causes photophobia and impaired vision. The excess of vitamin A may be toxic for the organism. The interesting fact is that the beta carotene is not considered to be toxic.
Vitamin A is one of the labile vitamins. It is sensitive to heat, light and oxygen. At a gentle meal preparation and usual diet, the losses are around 20 %.
The vitamin D is consisted of group of several biologically active substances, of which the most important are vitamin D2, ergokalciferol, to be found in foods of plant origin, and vitamin D3, cholekalciferol, to be found in foods of animal origin.
In the human body, vitamin D acts as a hormone, it is formed at one point of the organism, but affects a different part of the body. The vitamin D ensures the intake and absorption of calcium and phosphorus and maintain their balance. It supports the immune system and may help in the psoriasis treatment.
The recommended daily intake of vitamin D is about 2,5 to 10 microgram. Pregnant and lactating women have a greater need for it, as well as infants and children. The lack of vitamin D disturbs the homeostasis of calcium and phosphate metabolism. The excess of vitamin D causes hypercalcaemia.
The most important foods source of vitamin D are liver, oil from fish liver, oil sea fish, fortified margarine and milk.
Vitamin D is sensitive to oxygen and light, its activity is not significantly affected by food storage or preparation.
Vitamin E is a major antioxidant. It is important to maintain the healthy cell wall and skin, muscles, nerves, erythrocytes, heart, and it is also responsible for the proper function of blood circulation.
The recommended daily intake of vitamin E is 8 to 20 mg. Its need is increased during exposure to sunlight and harmful influences, during increased physical exertion and when receiving large amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. The lack of vitamin E almost does not occur in healthy people, since it is present in nearly all basic kind of foods. The hypervitaminosis of vitamin E occurs only rarely, because there is no risk of overdose when receiving a normal diet.
The most important foods source of vitamin E are vegetal oils (such as sunflower and rapeseed), nuts, corn, pea, corn products, dark green leaf vegetables, eggs, liver and viscera.
Vitamin E is considered the most stable lipophilic vitamin. There is only a minimal loss of tocopherol during food processing, these losses are approximately 10 %.
The vitamin K supports blood clotting in the human body and, along with the vitamin D, is involved in the constant bone development and remodeling.
Both foods of plant and animal origin are sources of vitamin K, such as meat, liver, milk, vegetables and fruit. The recommended daily intake of vitamin K is around 0,01 to 0,14 mg. The infants and children up to three years have lower need of vitamin K intake. The most common cause of vitamin K hypovitaminosis is disruption of intestinal microflora caused by various drugs, e.g. antibiotics. Too high doses of vitamin K can accumulate in the body and lead to the breakdown of erythrocytes, damage the liver and cause jaundice in children.
There is not much information known about the stability of vitamin K yet. It has been found that vitamin K decomposes rapidly in the light, however its losses during food processing are minimal.
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The Effect of Environmental Contamination on Quality of Leafy Vegetables
Jančíková, Silvie ; Pavlíková, Daniela (advisor) ; Veronika, Veronika (referee)
Heavy metals are widely distributed throughout the environment, but environment can be contaminated by these elements originated from anthropogenic activities. These toxic elements can be taken up by plant. Heavy metals accumulation and their uptake by plants depend on plant species, plant growing period, part of plant, soil characteristics (content of organic matters, physical chemical properties), interactions between metals etc. High concentrations of metal ions in plants can result in metabolic stress and so the plant metabolic stress mechanism can be induced : organic acids exudation, heavy metals binding in cell walls, phytochelatins synthesis etc.
In case, that various protective mechanisms against toxic elements are not successful, heavy metals cause the damage to plant metabolism. This is indicated by changes in the contents of amino acids and fatty acids, enzymatic changes, inhibition of yield of aboveground biomass, chlorosis of leaves.
There is an important difference between Zn and the other elements. Zn is an essential micronutrient and its content in contrast to the other elements without biological function is less toxic for plants.
Vegetables are rich sources of essentials nutrients and heavy metals can significantly affect their quality. The consumption of contaminated vegetables may result in negative effects on nutritional composition. Leafy vegetables have relatively higher concentrations and transfer factors of heavy metals in contrast to root and fruit vegetables. There is the high health risk to consume the vegetable which is exposure to heavy metal polluted environment.
The majority of European agricultural soils is safe for food production, but the areas with the high population density (China) have level of contamination which present ecological and health risk. For this reason many studies have focused on crop accumulation of heavy metals in such areas.
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Evaluation nutrition of horse today at a time when the horse becomes the subject of a pets breeding
Nápravníková, Eva ; Mudřík, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Jiří, Jiří (referee)
The master's thesis describes evolution of horses, its domestication and coexistence with humans. The hypothesis is that 'The common used feed portions in hobby breeding programmes don't correspond to true need of nutrition established according to the horses actual sport performance'.
The horse is a non-ruminant herbivore, whose digestion of fiber is based on its fermentation in the colon. Therefore there are certain limitations and requirements for the feeding technology and the composition of the feed for individual horses. The transfer of the matter through the digestive tract and absorption of nutrition in each part of the digestive tract.
The next part of the thesis concentrates on metabolism during physical work, adaptability to training and physiology of training. There is a part focused on utilization of energy from feed, where the difference between an anaerobic and aerobic metabolism is described.
To accept or decline the hypothesis, three horses with different equestrian use were chosen. The first was a Welsh Part Bred (WPB) pony mare competing in pony show jumping at L level. The second was a Czech warmblood (ČT) mare competing in both show jumping and dressage at L level. The last was a WPB pony mare used for hobby riding. For all three horses, the nutrition values of feed rations was calculated for the reporting period. These were compared with the true requirements of each horse according to their physical work. It was established that the selected horses were not fed according to their actual sports performance.
Therefore the hypothesis was confirmed. The found data was transferred into a graph form for ease of evaluation. Where there was a higher fluctuation in the value of the feed portions, it was pointed out the danger to horses with long term feeding of unsuitable feed portions.
The master's thesis shows to the owner of horses used in hobby breeding with the need to build the feed portions according to real physical work of their horses. The use of wrong feed portions and feed technology can cause health problems with long term effects.
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The comparison of different methods for soil physical properties determination
Domin, Vojtěch ; Kumhála, František (advisor) ; Mašek, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis is focused on comparison of the methods which are used for soil physical properties measurement . A penetrometer and Kopecky rollers were used. To assess these methods, the soil properties were evaluated on the land of joint-stock company Sloveč near Městce Králové. The first part of this thesis consists of an introduction which describes the basic information related to this issue. The second part deals with literature review where the basic physical properties of soils are discussed, such as porosity and bulk density. The aim of this diploma thesis is mentioned in the third part. It is followed by the methodology in which the different methods of measurement are described. The next chapter focuses on the analysis of measured data and its evaluation. The next part deals with the technical-economic evaluation of measurement methods. The last part brings the conclusion which summarizes all the results of the thesis. The most interesting result of this diploma thesis that penetrometric measurement is affected by soil moisture content so significantly that it can show soil compaction entirely on other areas of the land than measurements using Kopecky rollers.
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Zootherapy and its using for the clients of PN Bohnice
Steklá, Daniela ; Dokoupilová, Adéla (advisor) ; Zita, Lukáš (referee)
Animotherapy is a relatively young branch using the positive impact of animals on the mental, physical and social health. We divide it according to the methods, forms, or animals that are used for the therapy (hippotherapy, canistherapy, felinotherapy, etc.). From the viewpoint of the use of animals in therapy it is important to specify methods AAA (activities) and AAT (therapy). While AAT is a targeted method indicated by the physician and must keep records of the course of the therapy, AAA is a method of natural interaction between the client and the animal and the conditions laid down by the methods of the AAT may not be met. All types of animotherapy should be performed or supervised by a qualified expert with appropriate education, whose task is to establish the aims and procedures of individual therapies taking into account the health status of the client and his current mental frame of mind. By acknowledging the psychological state of the client and his diagnosis, the therapist prevents emergence of dangerous situations both for the client and for the animal involved in therapy. This therapy is used as a supplement for therapeutic or rehabilitation methods. For example, it can help to create or deepen the relationship between the client and the therapist. It is not yet officially recognized as a therapeutic method.
Sociotherapeutic farm in PN Bohnice uses for therapy especially horses (called Hipotherapy (HR), and small animals. The method HR complexly affects the mental and physical state of a person and includes all forms of treatment and rehabilitation using horses for persons with a disability or handicap. Horses on the farm are used for physiotherapy and psychotherapy, while small animals are used in the form of visiting programs by gerontopsychiatric wards. Therapists worked out on the basis of many years of experience their own methodology for these therapies, using which they achieve excellent results.
The results of studies show that animotherapy has a positive effect on clients of all ages and a wide range of diseases. This is a very promising and recently much discussed subject that needs a number of other studies, to be acknowledged as a therapeutic method.
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Evaluation of physical properties of rice cultivars grown in Kyrgyzstan
Nádvorníková, Martina ; Banout, Jan (advisor) ; Fraňková, Adéla (referee)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate physical properties of eight staple rice
cultivars grown and consumed in Kyrgyzstan. The objective was to record and discuss
values of several analysis in sub-sections of basic physical characteristics, textural
characteristics, mechanical characteristics and cooking properties. The physical
properties investigated seed dimensions, equivalent diameter, surface area of the grain,
sphericity, aspect ratio, volume of the grain, bulk and solid density, porosity, thousand
kernel weight, hardness of the grain, colour characteristic, optimum cooking time and
water uptake ratio. Those analysis were performed in the laboratory of Czech University
of Life Sciences and given methodology was strictly followed.
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Ecosystem services of wetlands in the landscape
Brynychová, Kateřina ; Petrtýl, Miloslav (advisor) ; Svobodová, Veronika (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to get to know and understand the importance of eco-system services which wetlands provide in the country. Only thorough understanding and evaluation of ecological functions of wetlands in the country can lead to the sustainable management and securing of wetland protection. Ecological functions of wetlands depend on the natural processes (physical, chemical, and biological) which take place in them. The processes taking place in wetlands provide benefits to people; these are called eco-system services, whose values are determined by a man.
Wetland is a unique biotype which is formed on the border between a land and a water ecosystem. It is characteristic of a special organism habitat whose existence requires a continuous influence of surface water for their prosperity, or at least very high levels of subsurface waters.
The thesis focuses on the function of wetlands in the hydrological regime of the country, on collecting of nutrients, biomass production, water-banks stabilization, erosion protection, landscape formation by water flows, and their role in flood suppression, energy dissipation, and microclimate stabilization.
All natural wetland areas in the Czech Republic are currently more or less affected by human activity. By majority they are damaged mainly due to intensive agricultural efforts. For these reasons wetlands should start getting integrated in the agricultural landscape.
The significance of wetlands on the one hand and their serious exposure to damage on the other hand is reflected also in the international agreement on the protection of wetlands, the Ramsar Convention. The most important wetlands of the Czech Republic are listed in the Register of Wetlands of International Significance according to the Ramsar Convention.
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