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As dust elements endanger health in Ostrava and surroundings
PURMENSKÝ, Roman
The environment is a very significant factor in our everyday lives from the aspect of impact on health. It affects us at work and in the home. From the aspect of atmospheric quality the condition of the environment in the Czech Republic is not very good and represents a serious problem in the Moravian-Silesian Region. Air-borne dust in particular is a very significant pollutant in the city of Ostrava. This work is concerned with atmospheric quality, particularly dust particles, in Ostrava. The work is divided into a theoretical and empirical section. The theoretical section begins with a brief presentation of the history of Ostrava City. I subsequently discuss the quality of the atmosphere throughout the whole Moravian-Silesian Region. The next chapter is specifically about the solid pollutants, which can be found in the atmosphere. This chapter also specifies the health risks, what causes the harmful effect, describes classification of dust particles depending on harmful component content, division of dust fractions into PM10 and PM 2,5 and describes the main sources of PM10 and PM 2,5 dust fractions. The next chapter is titled: Toxicologically significant substances bound to solid particles. One sub-chapter covers the group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which includes the significant atmospheric pollutant called benzo(a)pyrene. The second sub-chapter covers the group of heavy metals and their characteristics with a description of their key harmful effects on human health. The next chapter, called measuring methods for PM10 fractions, covers classification of measuring methods for automated and manual metering stations. The following chapter discusses legislation concerning air-borne dust. The legislation is divided into two key Czech laws concerning protection of the atmosphere and additional European guidelines. After this chapter we mention the specific stations examining the quality of the atmosphere in Ostrava. The following stations were selected: Station Fifedy, Station Mariánské Hory, Station Zábřeh, Station Přívoz and Station Bartovice ? Radvanice. These metering stations are distributed throughout the territory of the city of Ostrava, thus providing results on concentrations of air-borne dust, which occurred during the period from 2006 to 2011 throughout the territory of Ostrava. Further chapters were devoted to emission limits for protection of human health and the maximum amounts by which these could be exceeded. The emission limits for specific pollutants over 24 hours and 1 calendar year are given in this chapter. The last chapter in the theoretical section is concerned with the smog situation and the conditions for announcing and ending a smog situation. The research or empirical section assesses the results of research, which focused on individuals living within Ostrava City and their awareness of the harmful dust. The results of the questionnaire survey are graphically portrayed in the results chapter. The results of measurements taken by the Czech Hydro-meteorology Office of PM10 dust fractions for the period between 2007 and 2011 are also processed here. These results are processed into tables for individual years with added with graphic portrayal. I used the questionnaire method for my quantitative research. This contained 19 questions and was distributed to 200 respondents, of which 106 were men and 94 were women. I used secondary data analysis for my additional research, which concerned dust particles. I believe that this work will be useful for offices in the field of communication with citizens, or it can be provided to citizens to read and to inform them of the problems concerning the atmosphere in Ostrava. I also believe that it may be recommended for reading by other towns and cities, which have problems with increased dust pollution.
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Family environment of drug addicts
LUKÁŠOVÁ, Adéla
We live in a postmodern era, where the original concept of the family loses its original meaning and where there is a breaking of traditional family values. You can also talk about the so - called crisis of the family and the associated emergence of socially pathological phenomena. This term began to apply in the Czech Republic during the nineties. It is a transformation that brings the absence of traditional family symbols, which are two - parent family, the primary representation of the family in the social spectrum or preference of spending time with the family by its individual members. Family of a contemporary postmodern society is then characterized by a very high divorce rate and the associated absence of one parent (mostly fathers), by a decline in the number of children, by increasing parental age or by favoring career at the expense of the family. This work is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the topic of a family as a social phenomenon, the typology of family, the parenting style, the risk factors in the family and then with the drugs themselves, the current situation in the Czech drug scene, the drug addiction, the drug treatment in relation to the family therapy. Special attention is paid to education styles and risk factors in the family and their potential impact on the emergence of socio - pathological phenomena. The aim of the practical part of this thesis is to analyze the opinions of experts on the drug addiction in relation to the drug environment. The operational objective is to find the fact to what extent is a specialist able to influence the family environment of a drug addict. To collect the data there was used a method of questioning through the depth semi - structured interview. This was based on asking open - ended and semi - closed questions to a selected group of respondents. The purpose of data collection was to create a deeper monitoring and detection of basic facts about the issue. The basic research group was created by professionals who deal with the target group of drug addicts. Through the analysis of the results of the research were developed answers to the research questions and summarized as follows: 1. The experts perceive that the family environment affects drug addiction, specifically through genetic predispositions, personal abilities, peers and problematic communication in the family; in addition there is a high importance of the parenting role and of the relations in the family, is a key factor, but only one of the factors that influence the development of drug addiction. 2. The experts have the ability to influence the family environment of a drug addicts through individual, group, family or partner therapy; parental and social work, mediation of family relationships, cooperation, art - therapy or by using relaxation techniques. The survey showed that there is not only one risk factor from the family environment that would predispose the emergence of addiction to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. This phenomenon does not occur even in the context of the emergence and development of other socio-pathological behavior. The analysis of the collected data showed that the formation of addiction is determined by a complex action of several factors that stem from various fields of life. We speak here about a bio - psycho - socio - spiritual emergence of addiction. The above mentioned also applies in relation to family educational styles. It is impossible to say that certain educational styles are more or less predetermining the emergence of an addiction than the others.
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Energy consumption of households depending on the income category
HORKÁ, Dominika
The aim of this thesis is comparison the energy consumption of households depending on income category. It assesses correspondence consumption of transport in two selected countries. The thesis is focused on the validation of the Kuznets curve, which describes the relation between environmental quality and change of incomes. The claim is verified by analysis of macroeconomic productivity, incomes and environment of the Czech Republic and Germany and questionnaire survey of GILDED project.
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Sustainable tourism on Jindřichohradecko
MICHALOVÁ, Jana
This study is concerned with sustainable tourism Jindřichohradecka. As a research method is selected a questionnaire survey and structured interviews.Zkoumá se postoj návštěvníků Jindřichohradecka k udržitelnému cestovnímu ruchu. Dále se zkoumá podpora udržitelného cestovního ruchu a cestovního ruchu celkově ze strany města. It created a product located in rural areas and activities focused on environmentally friendly.
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Application of the Environmental Approaches in Commercial Enterprises
SVATKOVÁ, Ivana
The main target of this diploma thesis is to ensure the level and the form of application of environmental management elements in commercial businesses from the view of customers and commercial businesses. The sub-objectives are to identify the environmental friendly attitudes, procuration and requirements related to commercial business environment. The diploma thesis is based on the analysis of selected companies by controlled interviews and data results analysis gained from survey.
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NATURE AND THE CITY AS A SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ORGANIZATION LEISURE ACTIVITES
KORYTÁROVÁ, Milena
This essay deals with the impact of enviroment on work of leisure time teacher. Discusses his activities in organizing games in different environments and under different conditions, the need for flexible thinking and ability to lead a group, so as thorough preparation that is necessary to achieve maximum experience. Further it closely analyse preparation and process of game affected by different enviroment in practice.
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The Play of Present Preschool children in the Village and in the Town
NOVÁČKOVÁ, Marcela
This bachelor thesis deals with the games of preschool children in the village and of the games of children in the city. In the first part of this work, the game is characterized, a reflection of the children?s surrounding environment in the game, development characteristics of the preschool age and games and toys at this time period. The second part of the thesis contains a researched investigation carried out on the nurseries and observation of the preschool children living in the village and in the city at the present time. Interview and observation have been utilized as examination methods. A part of this section is a detailed description and comparison of the games occurring in the village and in the city. From the researched investigation it can be concluded that the games in both environments are similar, however, in the monitored group of children, the village children have showed more fantasy and cooperation than the urban children.
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The delinquency of teenagers in dependence on the social and educational environment within family
POLÁČEK, Martin
The author´goal of this work is to show the environment in which the child grows, the negative effects of this environment leading the child to delinquency and considers certain factors of education in the contemporary family, which should reduce a negative influence of this environment on child, and how these factors should work in the family. In theoretical part of my work there will be discussed terms like marriage and family, divorce, single-parent family and the resulting negative influences on young people in 21st century, manifested mainly in the form of property and vice youth crime. In the practical part of the work there will be drawn from actual cases recorded in files of the Department of social and legal protection of children and the written materials of the Police Czech republic.
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