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Interdisciplinary (legal, economic) aspects of horse breeding in the Czech Republic
Kudrnová, Věra ; Jansa, Viktor (advisor) ; Hájková, Ivana (referee)
Summary
The aim of this work was to elaborate a literary study and evaluate interdisciplinary aspects of horse breeding, mainly aspects legal and economic. In the theoretical part the study deals with the importance of horse breeding. Readers are acquainted with development, domestication and behaviour of horses in the history of making, and in the present time. The part Importance of horses shows the economic, agricultural, sporting, cultural, military and medical significance of horses. The part Legal regulation of horse breeding describes in details circumstances of the origin of unions of horse breeders. The acceptance of laws No. 240/1991 Sb. and No. 154/2000 Sb. has been mentioned as well.
Practical part aims at the evaluation of economic situation of horse breeding and stables to rent in the experimental farm of the Institute of Animal Science in Prague Uhrineves. This study has been based on data obtained from the accountancy and data received from ing. Koblihová, who works in the section of animal production. In the part Actual work data of the four year period are compared. The analysis has been focused on years 2011 to 2014.
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Local Political Coalitions in the Statutory City of České Budějovice
Valenta, Martin ; Čmejrek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Markéta, Markéta (referee)
Municipal policy is quite a new discipline within political science, and especially in the Czech environment it has been an object of attention in recent two decades only. While political scientists abroad have dealt with municipal policy for a long time, in the Czech environment the research of local problems has been in the margin for years.
The subject of this dissertation is not focused on the research of the Czech municipal policy as a whole, but it is concerned with the research of the particular local political system in České Budějovice in recent 25 years. As the city is a large regional capital, there might be implied a certain link between municipal and national policies, which can be noticeable not only in the representation of individual parliamentary parties in the city council, but also in the process of creating individual post-election coalitions.
Methodically the present work is a kind of comparative study which is based on the theoretical conception applying to local democracy, participation of citizens in public life, party systems, an electoral process and forming of election and executive coalitions at a local political level.
In the practical part the degree work is based on the study and analysis of local authority documents of České Budějovice, the programmes of Czech traditional political parties and other parties which, in some cases, became parts of the local political system in České Budějovice. The practical part is also to a large extent based on comparison of election data from the Czech Statistical Office.
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Overview Copulation Strategies of European Butterflies
Baráková, Kristýna ; Vrabec, Vladimír (advisor) ; Bubová, Terezie (referee)
Daily butterflies are a very varied and diverse group of the animal kingdom. They are insects with complete metamorphosis and a complex life cycle. Different stages of the development cycle are well known and studied. However, when it comes to the reproduction biology of daily butterflies, there are still a lot of question marks. This is why we decided to compile available information on reproduction strategies of European daily butterflies. This information was gathered by the means of strategically chosen keywords in scientific databases Web of Science (WOS), Scopus and Google Scholar. Based on these sources I compiled general information on reproduction behaviour of butterflies related to the complex processes before copulation, more concretely the mating and selection behaviour of daily butterflies. Consequently I describe concretely the copulation process, where I concentrate mainly on data on the progression of copulation, i.e. duration, minimum age or possible repeated copulation. I also explain general terms connected to copulation, such as paternity or protandry. The following part of the thesis concentrates specifically on copulation strategies of European daily butterflies. For the majority of butterflies I gathered data on mating strategies before copulation, specifically on how males search for females. Furthermore, for som e butterflies I add comprehensive data on duration of copulation, minimum age for copulation or possible repeated copulation. However, the gathered data do not provide sufficient information on the stated topic. It was therefore impossible to realize a statistical evaluation, which was supposed to lead to a recount against the total number of European butterflies. The hypothesis, namely that the vast majority of daily butterflies does not show promiscuous behaviour and copulates only once, has not been affirmed, neither disproven. Scientific publications only scarcely provided concrete information on promiscuous behaviour of daily butterflies. A research on this behaviour would require a more thorough examination. But it would enable us to organize accessible data on butterflies in the Czech Republic.
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Portal information system on Meteor platform
Masopust, Ondřej ; Šilerová, Edita (advisor) ; Zdeněk, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis describes development of real-time reactive portal applications build on Meteor platform. The goal of this thesis is to describe different parts of the platform as a whole and to offer best practices to develop such applications. The theoretical part provides information covering Node.js server, MongoDB document database and their specific features. The beginning of the practical part focuses on the application design and its components implementation. The last chapter summarizes the outcome of this thesis and analyses advantages and disadvantages of Meteor platform over more traditional technology stack. The output and the main value is the Opticube application that is being used in retail. Another plus is the fact, that this thesis is the first to cover Meteor platform at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.
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Climate change caused by volcanic eruptions
Kolářová, Iveta ; Vokoun, Martin (advisor) ; Soukupová, Jana (referee)
This Bachelor thesis is engaged in climate changes caused by volcanic eruptions and explains, why after major volcanic eruptions follow volcanic winters. The first chapter shows the formation of volcanic activity and relations to climate changes. In three parts of the second chapter are described sectional factors (solar activity, problems of ocean currents and at-mospheric flow) to climate changes. In the third chapter are mentioned issues of science discipline of paleoclimatology and historical climatology, which combines a lot of disciplines as a geology, botany, zoology and more. The fourth chapter presents the main part of the work, because in this part is a description of the selected major volcanic eruptions of the last millennium and their consequences in the period after an explosion from the viewpoint of abnormalities in the weather. In conclusion of the Bachelor thesis is a search for an answers to question: Risks of powerful eruptions in the future and their impact on the human population.
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Carpal tunnel syndrome - therapy options by influencing neurophysiology motion from the root joint
ŠUBERT, Daniel
The carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common nerve compression syndrome of the upper limb. CTS is caused by repeated and long-term owerloading specific muscles group with successive compression of medianus nerve located in the wrist area also known as carpal tunnel. The lower part consists of 8 wrist bones covered by ligamentum transversum carpi. The tunnel makes a passage for other structures such as vessels and tendons, all of which being swelled can cause the CTS. CTS is more prevalent among females than among males with ratio 4 to 1. The number of patients suffering from the syndrome is growing higher even with advanced medical science and improved care for patients (Bitnar aj., 2009; Ehler, 2005; Mlčoch, 2008). CTS can affect anyone and the chance to suffer from this condition is around 10% for each individual (Mrzena 2006). The world wide patients' number increase is 0.1% (Katna 2006) and the net prevalence among population is within 2.7 - 3% (Mlčoch, 2008). In the USA, around 260,000 patients indicated with the CTS are operated. The compression of the nerve causes increasing pain and paresthesia. The first symptoms are recorded during night usually passing away with stroking of the hand and hand exercises. During later stages of CTS, the patients suffer from the pain even during day. After being examined by a neurologist, the patients are recommended to undergo a chirurgical treatment which is based on cutting of the ligamentum transversum carpi. The good recovery is ensured by immediate rehabilitation. One year after the chirurgical treatment, the patients are expected to regain full hand abilities. Contrary to the expectations, one patient out of four is not able to regain these abilities. A question arises, are the contemporary exercises of limbs upper acra, which are mainly used for rehabilitation of the patients, effective enough? Is it possible to incorporate these exercises into more complex recovery, implement knowledge of the science of neurophysiology and focus the exercises on the root joint to develop more effective recovery? This thesis integrates theory and empirical findings related with the CTS. The general literature part is focused on relevant anatomy, kinesiology, functional ontogenetic of the upper limb, ways to diagnose and therapy of CTS. The experimental sections of the thesis intents to develop and apply recovery treatment concentrated on the neurophysiology of managing movements from root joint and incorporate these treatments into the standard CTS recovery exercises. Furthermore, a short after CTS operation recovery program will be created and conducted. A set of exercises was developed to activation and strengthening of the glenohumeral joint so the effects would be made means of reflexes path to the acrum and also to the more distant stages of stabilizing system. Developed exercises were applied on two probands diagnosed with CTS. Probands participated on six sessions, during which they were treated with manual therapy of the wrist area and hand. Moreover, probands were informed and instructed how to conduct specific exercises of the glenohumeral joint. Afterwards, set of exercises were performed by probands at least once a week with duration of five to ten minutes. A part longer sessions, were devoted to supervision and correction of exercise program to increase effectively of the treatment. The kinesiological analysis was performed on the probands in the beginning and also in the end. The visual analog scale was utilized as subjective evaluation of therapy effectives. Objective evaluation was measured by staple test, goniometric test and grab test by Novak. The both of probands were fully recovered. Disappearance of the pain and improvement of general motion ability by operated limb were observed. Based on subjective as well objective test, the success of the therapy was proven.
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The influence of stand management to production and qualitative characteristics of maize for forage and alternative uses of biomass
Vrabcová, Zuzana ; Šantrůček, Jaromír (advisor)
In years 2014 and 2015 on the experimental plots of the Czech University of Life Sciences and in Prague and Cerveny Ujezd was observed the influence of row spacing and plant density on morphological and production parameters of silage maize. Two years results show that greater influence had plant density than row spacing. At both sites were significantly affected by row spacing dry matter yield and leaf assimilation area.
Plant density affected on both sites weight of plant and leaf assimilation area. For biogas production the biggest impact had plants part, resp. cobs. Finally, year and habitats had very important influence on the monitored parameters.
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Factors affecting the nitrogen compounds removal process in specific types of wastewater
Radechovský, Josef ; Balík, Jiří (advisor)
Abstract:
This work summarizes the current knowledge about removing of nitrogen compounds from wastewater using non-traditional biological methods. They include for example process of nitritation/denitritation and a process of deammonification. Special innovative biological methods are economically advantageous because of savings of oxygen for the oxidation of N-ammon and organic substrate for the formation of N2.
Achieving of accumulation of nitrites (achieving of shortcut nitrification) due to suppression of nitrite oxidising bacteria (NOB) is the basis of methods mentioned above. Stable shortcut nitrification is influenced by many factors and achieving of this process in a low-strength wastewater is still problematic, so some new procedures how to optimize it are investigated. This was also the main aim of research that was realized at the Department of Agroenvironmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition of the Czech university of Life Sciences in Prague.
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Statistical correction of daily precipitation sums from climate models
Hnilica, Jan ; Chára, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Jan, Jan (referee)
Climate change prediction and evaluation of its impact currently represent one of the key challenges for the science community. Regional climate models (RCM) have been recently established as a main source of the data for climate change assessment studies. Nevertheless, RCM outputs suffer from systematic errors caused primarily by their low spatial resolution and cannot be used directly without any form of bias correction.
The bias correction is an actual topic in climatology and several correction methods were developed, ranging from the simple additive method to more advanced approaches (e.g. quantile mapping). However, despite this progress, the bias correction methods suffer from several difficulties, which bring another source of uncertainty into the climate change impact assessment studies.
This thesis is focused on two problematic points connected with the bias correction of daily precipitation data. The first one is a non-stationarity between calibration and application periods. New correction methods are developed, showing an increased resistance to non-stationary conditions. The second problem is related to the correction of a dependence (i.e. correlation and covariance) structure of multivariate precipitation data. A new procedure is proposed, correcting the complete dependence structure of the model data. All newly introduced methods are validated using measured and RCM-simulated data; the validation demonstrates their suitable applicability.
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Efficiency valuation of multiple-use forestry
Ševčík, Michal ; Hájek, Miroslav (advisor) ; Martin, Martin (referee)
The thesis outlines the facts that the multi-use forest management and evaluation of its efficiency is a difficult, continual discipline which covers greater amount of knowledge through various fields of science. The thesis tries to prove (suggests) that the forestlands are irreplaceable in performing other functions- economic, social and environmental functions in particular. The thesis deals with effective suggestions how to value these underrated effects and to find out if their production is efficient. It also explores whether a forest manager can monitor and make decisions on the basis of implementation of environmental accounting. The application of a reporting scheme, developed by the "Global reporting initiative", should be the climax of a corporate management. Moreover, this tool offers a suitable methodic software which can be used by the management to inform stakeholders. Eventually, stakeholders can use reports to evaluate the efficiency of corporate forest management, particularly in the field of non-productive forest functions. The thesis deal with three firm to identify scope nonproduction function brings. The thesis deal with development of equation used in financial analysis or methods used for qualitative measurement, commonly used in other industries. The amount of cost and revenues assumed from research will be used for evalaution of total rate of efficiency in forest company.
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