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Non-invasive methods for sex and steroid homones determination in gibbons of the genus Nomascus
Bolechová, Petra ; Bartoš, Luděk (advisor) ; Pavel, Pavel (referee)
The gibbon primates of the family Nomascus are classified as critically endangered species, and, to date, basic understanding and information about their biology is missing. With regard to the status of these animals in the wild and captive populations in zoos, being familiar with their reproduction, may improve captive breeding programs. Data collection in this study was to be carried out by the practical use of non-invasive methods (polymerase chain reaction for DNA extraction and enzyme immunoassays), using faecal samples for analysis. The first method, polymerase chain reaction, was used for sex determination in juveniles, because of their coat colour and visual similarity of secondary sex characteristic in both sexes; it is not possible to determinate sex without handling the animal. Another main purpose of this study is to try and answer the hypothesis regarding the ovarian cycle of females, factors influencing their hormone concentration and also the onset of sexual maturity in females and the timing of their fur colour change. Hypotheses were checked by monitoring the concentration of progesterone and oestrogen faecal metabolites and by evaluation of the composition of breeding groups of gibbons with the ZOO influence. During a four year period (from 2010 till 2014), there were a total of 51 animals analysed from 16 different zoos with a faecal sample count totalling 1618 samples. The results confirmed the use of noninvasive methods for sex determination, and thus ensuring the maximum welfare standards. Endocrinological analysis confirmed the hypothesis of the influence of the environment (ZOO) to the hormone concentrations and female´s pregnancy effect in conjunction with her age on the final results of the male - father hormone concentrations. The initial information in this study is the confirmation of the onset of ovarian cycle in young females without connection to their fur colour change and a significant factor of a mother´s impact and her territoriality. This study is the first to present a long term monitoring of ovarian cycles in females and hormone concentrations of other individuals, both male and female, and from various age groups. The results allow us to understand the possible impact of zoo environments on the reproductive status of these gibbons and contribute to the general improvement of breeding management.
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Employment in a state-funded institution
Brožová, Milena ; Světlíková, Daniela (advisor) ; Pikola, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on employment in a state-funded institution. It is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part.
The theoretical part deals with analysis of legal regulations and their interpretation. The method of description is used in this part. The focus in legal regulations is on the problems of a state-funded institution, namely on the legal position and functioning and on management. The focus is also on labour relations, from the general definition to the conclusion of employment for a fixed period of time. The analysis of legal regulations is complemented with interpretations of authors of specialized publications.
Direct and indirect quotations are used in the text and are marked with footnotes.
The empirical part of this thesis deals with the application of legal regulations in a particular state-funded institution. The order of researched areas is in accordance with the theoretical part. The method of comparison and study of documents and internal regulations are used for analysing the data.
The primary research has shown that the legal regulations are applied without difficulty. The discovered discrepancy between the used terminology and the terminology in the Civil code does not invalidate legal documents and thus there is no need to mark it as a defect which needs to be fixed. Suggestions for discussion have been made, for which measures were proposed in the concluding part. The suggestions relate to arrangement of employment for a fixed period of time and its change to permanent contract and to allowance from the founder as a financial mean of a state-funded institution.
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The hospital of St. Paul in Prague
Katovská, Jitka ; Ebelová, Ivana (referee) ; Hojda, Zdeněk (advisor)
The institution of St. Paul 's Hospital in Prague belongs to social-charitable institutions that had taken care of the needed poor, ill, old, widows and orphans in the early modern period. The history of St. Paul 's Hospital had taken place in the area behind Poříčská brána and after the thirty year 's war in so called Temple. Certain amount of information, explaining not only economic and administrative functioning of St. Paul 's Hospital but also the history of day-to-day activities of the inhabitants, has been preserved in the hospital books in the Archive of the capital city Prague. The diploma thesis analyses material background of the hospital, the system of hospital donations, the administrative organisation with an accessible list of hospital clerks, and the quantity of care that the hospital was offering. In the list of the history of St. Paul 's Hospital there is also enumeration of duties and rules that had to be followed in order to stay in the hospital as well as references to the conditions and reasons for the admission of hospital applicants. The comparison with St. Catherine 's Hospital in Regensburg, which is unique for its parity functioning and both catholic and evangelic patients care, brings interesting evidence for the fact that Czech and German institutions do not differ in the basic...
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History of castle Velhartice
Svojan, Pavel ; Havlínová, Ivana (referee) ; Županič, Jan (advisor)
This work describes history of Velhartice, a castle in southwest Czech which was built in 13th century. First part focuses on succession of owners of Velhartice castle. It describes the circumstances under which they came to ownership of Velhartice and the reasons for which they had to hand it to others. In cases of the prominent owners like Bušek, Menhart of Hradec or Martin de Hoeff-Huerta this work focuses on their lives with emphasis on their relation towards Velhartice and their usage of surrounding manor. It tries to put them in context with Czech history and to emphasize the importance of Velhartice in all-society events. Second part of this work introduces building development of all parts of the castle in particular periods. It explains reasons for the expansion of the castle and by that it outlines living in the castle in those periods. This part informs the reader about the examples of gothic and renaissance architecture on Velhartice castle and also draws attention to the unique defence element - the gothic bridge with two fall-bridges. Third and final part of this work reports about contemporary presentation of history and reveals content of sightseeing tours. It describes nowadays appearance of the castle and is meant to be also an invitation for visiting Velhartice.
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Teacher's association comenius in Mladá Boleslav (1871-1940)
Toužimská, Jana ; Koťa, Jaroslav (referee) ; Váňová, Růžena (advisor)
This dissertation TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION COMENIUS IN MLADÁ BOLESLAV (1871-1940) examines the background of the seventy-year historical development of a teachers'association operating in the region of Mladá Boleslav and the social and professional growth of Czech teachers and their influence on the society of that time. The first part of the work is devoted to those circumstances and needs of teachers which led to the establishment of teachers'associations and to the very beginnings of a teacher movement generally. The second part of the work concentrates on the activities of the particular teachers'association called the TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION COMENIUS during the final period of the Austro - Hungarian Empire from 1871-1918. The final part of the dissertation, devoted to the work of the association in years 1918-1940, addresses the progress of pedagogic reformation in the region as well as on the scientific and publication efforts of the teachers, and also refers to the struggle occasioned by the approaching nazi era. The main basis for the information given in this dissertation is the research carried out of the archive materials of the teachers'association, which are deposited in the regional archives in Mladá Boleslav. The analysis of these materials enables to understand the effort of teachers to gain...
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German secondary schools in Brno in 1918-1945
Rausová, Markéta ; Valenta, Josef (referee) ; Váňová, Růžena (advisor)
The paper gives an account of the German secondary education in Brno during the years 1918-1945. The secondary education, within this paper, comprises training schools for teachers and technical and business schools as well. The purpose of the paper is to give a complete overview of the German secondary education in Brno during the given period of time, in the general context of education legislation. The analysis of the schools in Brno is preceded by a brief introduction to the system of secondary education in the Czechoslovak Republic and to the question of German secondary education in the Czechoslovak Republic. The paper examines the schools in Brno from diverse points of view (number of students, their religion and mother tongue, the percentage of female students, school financing and school fees, marking, …) and aims to describe the history of the schools and the relations among them. The source materials are primarily composed of documents written in German (school annual reports, anniversary memory books, principal and class registers, chronicles) and literature on secondary education of that period (predominantly by R. Neuhöfer). The work may serve as a basis for comparative works (to be compared with the Czech secondary schools in Brno, German secondary schools in Prague, etc.).
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Female education in the Czech countries in the 19th century and the break of 19th and 20th century
Mlýnková, Jana ; Kremličková, Marta (referee) ; Váňová, Růžena (advisor)
One of the key elements of the emancipation process of Bohemian women in 19th century was the beginning of girl's education. It represented an important role in the development of the society those days and helped to change the acceptance of the social role of women and girls. Graduation theses is focused on the development of girl's education at the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. Its aim is to cover the beginning of all types of secondary and technical schools and their specifics. Attention is also focused on beginnings of women's college education. Thesis is divided into four thematically different chapters. First one brings brief information about the emancipation process in the historical circumstances of the 19th century. Second chapter describes education of girls in the first half of the 19th century. Following chapter evaluates the development of the girl's education in the second half of the 19th century and contains a lot of information from this period. It brings information about Higher girl's school in Prague, educational activities of the women's clubs and also the foundation of the first Bohemian Grammar school in Prague. Last chapter is focused on situation at the 20th century until 1920 and reports about college education of women, girl's lyceums and technical...
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Reconciliation as part of postconflict reconstruction in Rwanda
Kneblová, Alena ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Volenec, Otakar (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on reconciliation as part of postconflict reconstruction in Rwanda. The aim is to find out whether projects and programs of Rwandan government and NGOs helped reconciliation of the Rwandan society. The first theoretical chapter summarizes theoretical basis and concepts regarding the term postconflict reconstruction with a significant focus on reconciliation. The second chapter is devoted to actors of reconciliation, who were most affected during the genocide in 1994 and who have passed of greatest change in the course of post-genocide period. The third chapter analyzes the projects of Rwandan government (Ingando Solidarity Camps and TIG work camps) and NGOs (The Cows for Peace and Girinka) on the basis of instruments of reconciliation. The final part of thesis evaluates the success of post-conflict reconstruction especially in sphere of reconciliation and also compares the above projects.
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Reader's diary and ICT - a traditional teaching method in the content of modern technologies
GRÚZ, Michael
The thesis Reader´s diary and ICT a traditional teaching method in the context of modern technologies is divided into two parts. The theoretical part deals with general principles of literature, literature reception and reader´s motivation. The attention is also paid to literary and reader´s education of children at school and in their free-time, including so-called pre-reading period as well. The main focus is on the impact of modern technologies on teaching literature and the method of a reader´s diary. The exploratory part includes outcomes of two questionnaire-based researches. The first one was designed for Czech language and literature teachers at secondary and lower level grammar schools, and its aim was to describe their attitude towards assigning, checking, evaluation and further use of readers´ diaries in literature lessons. The second questionnaire was focused on the pupils´ attitude towards assigned reading in relation to so-called online literature guide-books.
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The animate body. The veneration for the body as one of aspects of the ecological life
Dvořáková, Tereza ; Opletalová, Lenka (referee) ; Ortová, Jitka (advisor)
This project deals with sphere of the human ecology. The author considers connections between human relation to the body and relation to nature. She proposes that an ecological opinion is influenced by human position to the body. She asserts the body is a part of human society as well as nature. In the first part, the author sketches metamorphoses of science's paradigm in last centuries. She focuses mainly on the contrast between a mechanistic look of modern period and a dynamic outlook of previous pre - modern periods. The next part of this project tries to map different aspects of ecological approach to the body. Firstly, the author brings various historical approaches to the body, especially them which are connected with our contemporary relation to the body. Further, she considers relations between the human body and human society, between the body and the home (as oikos). She also compares the wilderness of the human body with the landscape. Next topics are related to connection between the body, language and the world of the dreaming, symbols and archetyps. In one part is paid attention to a topic: the body as a border. The conclusion of this project is intended as a list of various ways of ecological work with the body. The author alludes for example holistic perception, techniques of imagination,...
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