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The time and problem of fleshliness
Jíra, Jaromír ; Hogenová, Anna (advisor) ; Schlegelová, Jaroslava (referee)
This thesis " The time and problem of fleshliness" defines the concept of body as alive phenomenon, so called Pexis. This body is non-objective, and specifical nature of this body is its overrun to the surrounding world. This overrun is made by live experience and there is necessarily time process attached to this experience. This text is comparing this body (Pexis) with objective conception of body which we can observe in postmodern society, the text is focused on reasons and effects of this objective conception. There is the conception of body in this text, which can be spotted in many others acctual problems of todays world.
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The influence of visceral fat mass to utilisation of energetic substrates
Antal, Rudolf ; Štich, Vladimír (advisor)
Obesity is characterized as excess adipose tissue. However, there are Various types of the tissue and the different locations of its presence in the body. visceral adipose tissue is shown as a better indicator for obesity due to complications such as the total amount of fat in the body. The current study followed 62 women who were divided into two groups, and the group of non-obese and obese. Using Computer tomography is measured the amount of visceral adipose tissue along with the total volume body fat. Simultaneously measurements were performed by indirect calorimetry, obtained Data respiratory quotient (RQ) and energy needs-rest (REE) was were processed and analyzed. The aim is to determine the extent to which hits visceral adipose tissue in the oxidation level of the substrate, and has its amount of influence on the utilization of energy substrates
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Estrogens in environment, their impact on male fertility
Daniel, Michal ; Heráček, Jiří (advisor)
Build-up of estrogen and other endocrine disruptors in our habitat has been recently an issue widely debated not only amongst health professionals but also by main stream media. Their impact on wild animals has been observed and documented for some time now and several studies on rodents and other mammals have demonstrated a highly probable connection between exposure in early stages of development to endocrine disrupting chemicals and abnormal sexual maturation of males (hypospadia, cryptorchism), as well as impaired male reproductive functions. Epidemiological studies have been claiming significant drop in sperm count and quality of spermatozoa in last several decades, increased incidence of testicular cancer, which is being among other causes attributed also to pooling of endocrine disruptors in the environment. This reasoning brings a lot of controversy since the respective chemicals are by-products of substances commonly used in agriculture and industry and replacing them is expensive and logistically challenging. It is also quite difficult to determine and quantify the long term effects of specific chemicals on human body since the population is being exposed to not just one substance but to a whole cocktail of them and the symptomatology is subjected to age, length of the exposure, quantity of the...
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Employee Training In Companies In The Ústecký Region
Lopata, Jan ; Kotýnková, Magdalena (advisor) ; Lapáček, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with employee training in detail. In the theoretical part, it looks at education as an investment in human capital, from which in the ideal case both the employee and employer benefit. Next, it covers education as a tool of employment and the growth of labour productivity. The analytical part examines companies, including their approach to human resource development and more specifically scrutinizes which type of education the companies demand most and in which professions. The results from the statistical survey, done among various companies in the Ústecký Region, form the most important basis for the analytical part of this work. A questionnaire has been done to find out in which professions and for which positions would the companies welcome the expansion of the education supply. The thesis focuses on the possibilities of employee training offered both by the employment bureaus and private sphere and on drawing the money from European Union Funds. Lastly, the analytical part connects the actual need for further education with the real drawing of European Union Funds allocated for education in the Ústecký Region.
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A Media Picture of Eating Disorders
Sittová, Gabriela ; Duplinský, Josef (advisor) ; Viktorová, Ida (referee)
My thesis concerns the subject of media presentation of eating disorders and its characteristics and evaluation in Czech press and on the Internet. The aim of my work is to uncover what information about eating disorders are available in media, to analyse their content accuracy and to detect their possible effects on the public. To examine the articles, published between January 2004 and November 2005, I chose the method of content analysis. The results have been divided into categories according to different topics, content accuracy and personal evaluations of the authors of the articles. In conclusion my thesis takes into consideration the influence of the media on the body image ideal promotion, growing dissatisfaction with body and tendency to decline the weight and to form the physique. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Geometry on GPU
Fromek, Daniel ; Ambrož, David (referee) ; Pelikán, Josef (advisor)
Today's GPUs, thanks to their performance and programmability (this property wasn't available until recently), are a promising tool for performing geometric computations in computer graphics. But differences between GPUs and CPUs cause a number of complications when adapting particular algorithms. Some of them are even easier to implement on GPU then on CPU, for others it is more difficult and some of them are totally unsuitable for GPU. This thesis studies ways how to employ GPU in computations regarding some well known types of curves and surfaces. Main focus is on area of subdivision surfaces, which are often used in today's computer graphics modeling, because they are very powerful tool. Part of this thesis is an implementation of algorithm for GPU that constructs subdivision surfaces using Catmull-Clark scheme. Results show us that GPU can perform these computations much faster than CPU, proving GPU to be handful tool when performing computer graphics geometric computations.
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Conflict in Northern Ireland in the cultural and historical background
Hladíková, Lucie ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to introduce the situation in Northern Ireland. It follows the historical causes of the conflict and its development over the key events in the 20th century until the recent days. Each chapter considers the conflict from a different point of view; political, diplomatic and cultural which seems to be important for understanding of the conflict itself. The parts devoted to culture and society are concerned with the reaction on the conflict in the level of an ordinary citizen and his possibilities to participate with his own endeavour in the peace process. In the last part, that refers to the latest progression, the thesis reports the hotbed of disputes which are constantly annually repeated and summarizes individual points which are in the future desired to be dedicated a special attention.
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The role of glucocorticoids in circadian system
Tejkal, Karel ; Sumová, Alena (advisor) ; Forman, Martin (referee)
Glucocorticoids are mammalian steroid hormones secreted from the adrenal gland. The basal levels of glucocorticoids show a pronounced diurnal rhythm with maximum at the beginning of the active period and minimum at its end. Glucocorticoids have an influence over a variety of metabolic functions and their secretion is tightly regulated. This regulation also depends on the circadian system, which utilizes glucocorticoids to entrain the peripheral tissues by inducing rhythmic gene expression. The mechanisms by which glucocorticoids influence mammalian circadian system has not yet been precisely defined, especially concerning the influence of glucocorticoid signalling on gene expression in different tissues and the dynamics of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) occupancy. This thesis studies the influence of ablation of glucocorticoid signalization induced by adrenalectomy on the clock gene expression of in the central clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and peripheral clocks in the hippocampus and distal colon. The effect of adrenalectomy on gene expression is compared with the effect of restricting the feeding time, which has also been shown to affect glucocorticoid levels in the body. Other experiments were aimed at elucidating impact of changing the activity of GR on gene expression using synthetic GR...
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Uncertainty associated with survey design in species distribution models
Vrabeľ, Matej ; Moudrý, Vítězslav (advisor) ; Barták, Vojtěch (referee)
Properly choosen input data, their form, way of the collection an the following correction as well, are the key factors affecting the accuracy of the more and more popular models of the species model distribution (SDM). A design unfluence of the data to the choosen distribution model of the virtual species has been tested. The General Linear Model (GLM) has been used. Four types of the present-absent collection designs have been tested for a virtual species on the area of the Czech Republic as follows: accidental, systematic, points on the easy accessible areas (near the communications) and the points with the higher concentration of the scientists (an area of CHKO).The TSS (True skills statistics), KAPPA and AUC (Area under curve) have been used to compare the accuracy of the prediction of the models .The points being choosen from the easy to access areas and CHKO had worse results in all of the monitored values than the accidental or the systematic choice of the points from the whole area of the Czech Republic.It results that the data collection mode affects the final accuracy of the species distribution models.
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Violation of environmental standards by companies based in the EU
Ambrušová, Tímea ; Grmelová, Nicole (advisor) ; Kostelanský, Ludvík (referee)
In this bachelor thesis are discussed in detail selected types of pollution - air and soil pollution. The work mainly focuses on two currently most socially debated environmental cases: 1) excessive production of emissions via vehicles manufactured by Volkswagen 2) the use of harmful chemicals in agriculture by Monsanto The thesis stresses the need to protect selected areas of the environment. It analyses the causes of the origin and also the development of given affairs. Then it seeks eventual solutions of the problems. The first chapter contains a theoretical concept of the issue - a brief chronological overview of the development of standards and a description of the bodies of the European Union in relation to the protection of the environment. The second part defines the protection of air from a broader perspective, and then specifies the car case more in detail. The third part focuses on soil conservation - on the general analysis of the issues, but also on specific points of the selected case.
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