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Liberalization of trade in services-threats and opportunities for developing countries
Harutjunjan, Ani ; Štěrbová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Zamykalová, Miroslava (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the importance of international trade in services and to characterize its position in the global economy with a focus on developing countries. The thesis also deals with the process of liberalizing trade in services with an emphasis on GATS. The important part of the thesis is engaged in analysis of international trade in services in selected countries of the developing world - China, India, Brazil. The last chapter assesses the impact of liberalization of trade in services, which results from the analysis of the above mentioned countries and enabling better understanding the threats and the opportunities that liberalization of trade in services brings for the developing countries.
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Návrh bankovního produktu zaměřeného na financování univerzitního vzdělání v České republice
Růžičková, Lucie ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis deals with the situation in financing of tertiary education from both governmental and student perspective. Its objective is to find an efficient system of student support with focus on student loans that would be applicable in the Czech Republic, would promote an equal access to higher education also to students from lower socio-economic classes and at the same time would enable to increase cost-sharing in Czech tertiary education. The designed concept of student loans is based on best practices from selected European countries (Netherlands, United Kingdom and Hungary) in the background of proposed reform of Czech tertiary education. Finally, the concept is validated in a case study dealing with financing of the International Management master's programme at the University of Economics, Prague.
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Commercial and cultural distinctiveness of Nicaragua
Kožárová, Katarína ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Laschoberová, Libuše (referee)
Nicaragua is one of the last countries without any intervention of European business. To enable the entrance to this market, to make the procedure of entrance correctly, the entrepreneur has to know how to deal with different culture and has to have the information about the culture and its specifics. After reading this thesis he will be well prepared. The text of the thesis is divided into three main parts -- basic data, where are mentioned basic geographic and demographic specifications, cultural distinctiveness describing basic features of Nicaraguan culture and in the third part dedicated to commercial distinctiveness where basic geographic and cultural features are applied on the way how to do a business in this Latin American country.
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Target genes and regulation of hypoxia inducible factors HIF1a a HIF2a
Blahová, Tereza ; Žurmanová, Jitka (advisor) ; Alánová, Petra (referee)
Oxygen supply is necessary for today's form of life on Earth. Molecular oxygen is a terminal electron acceptor in mitochondrial respiratory chain and enables the efficient production of ATP by oxidative phosphorylation. The lack of availability of oxygen decreases energy production and can endanger the processes maintaining homeostasis. Therefore the compensatory mechanisms were developed by which cells respond to hypoxia. The master regulator of cellular responses is the hypoxia inducible transcription factor, HIF. In general HIF-1 isoform supports glucose availability and glycolysis; also attenuates energy-consuming processes and thus reduces energy loss. HIF-2 isoform stimulates antioxidant mechanisms to reduce the amount of reactive oxygen species which could cause cellular damage. At the same time, both of isoforms contribute to increasing the supply of oxygen by activating erythropoiesis and angiogenesis in the affected area. HIFs provide these changes either directly, by using their target genes, or by interactions with other transcription factors and signaling pathways.
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Demographic Security of Developed Countries
Alexa, Jan ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
The thesis offers comprehensive systemic view on the problem of demographic security. The main objective is to create framework enabling the risk assessment of population composition and demographic changes of developed countries. The key variables are identified step by step in the thesis, their relations are drafted out and the methods of operationalization suggested. Keywords: demography, security, policymaking
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Apollo - the man on the Moon
Švancara, Marek ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
The aim of this study is to outline circumstances and reasons which caused a birth of an ambitious plan which enabled the USA to land a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth. The impact of this thesis is to chart individual pilot expeditions also from the eyes of real participants. One part of this study is a chapter dealing with astronauts' preparation and training. The thesis also reminds the fact that among people who landed on the Moon was also the astronaut of the Czech origin, Eugene A. Cernan. In the end the study deal with technology that helped to include program Apollo among the greatest events of the 20th century.
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Light pollution caused by artificial illumination on downhill ski slopes in Krkonoše National Park
Bujalský, Luděk ; Frouz, Jan (advisor) ; Maixner, Tomáš (referee)
Light pollution is often mentioned as an energetic loss but its effect on natural ecosystems is seldom studied. In Krkonoše National Park and other locations in the Czech Republic, artificial illumination of ski slopes is widely used to enable night skiing. In this study, we quantified the area around illuminated ski slopes where the light intensity at night was > 0.1 lx because previous studies showed that this light intensity could have biological effects. For these estimations, 62 transects were laid perpendicular to the illuminated ski slope (12 slopes in total were studied), and illumination was measured with a Extech EA 30 luxmeter at 0 m and 1.5 m above the ground. Transects were located in four basic types of habitat: open plain with snow covering the vegetation; closed spruce forest in which the trees on the margin have branches that reach the ground; open spruce forest in which the trees have branches only in the top part of the trunk, permitting light to penetrate beneath the canopy; and young dense spruce forest. The data were expressed as log of illumination vs. log of distance from the slope. Most measurements were taken on cloudy nights but some were taken on clear nights. Comparison of the same transect measured on clear and cloudy nights showed that clouds significantly increased...
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Gay fatherhood. Expression of Activism in the Czech Context?
Ciprová, Kristýna ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Kolářová, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis elaborates on the concept of gay fatherhood, which has been so far insufficiently researched and discussed phenomenon, especially in the Czech Republic. The thesis explores attitudes of interviewed gay men towards questions of gay fatherhood. In-depth semi-structural interviews with 30 gay men investigated in what ways the matters of gay fatherhood are constructed in the Czech context; where and how the conceptions about gay fatherhood emerge and how they are maintained and/or transformed. In general, an important factor affecting one's desire to have children is prevailing institutional context. Institutional barriers and obstacles to having children that are systematically constructed by society, affect not only the mainstream population, but also (and above all) gay population. Therefore, building on review of relevant academic texts, the thesis focuses on a comparison of the Czech institutional context with the Scandinavian and Spanish one. Comparison of different models of enforcement of legislation concerning same-sex partnerships reveals key factors that enable institucionalization of same-sex partnerships/families. One of these factors was activism that became a conceptual framework of the thesis. The last chapter of theoretical part is therefore focused on formation of new social...
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Vranov nad Dyjí Parish Team
Ščotková, Stanislava ; Opatrný, Aleš (advisor) ; Kuźniar, Mariusz (referee)
1 SUMMARY STANISLAVA ŠČOTKOVÁ VRANOV NAD DYJÍ PARISH TEAM (BACHELOR THESIS) Vranov nad Dyjí Parish Team (FATYM) is a community of Catholic priests, deacons and other collaborators in the Brno diocese. It is based on joint management of several priests over a greater number of parishes. The team was created by decision of the Brno diocese bishop Mons. Vojtěch Cikrle in 1996. In addition to the fact that FATYM administrates conferred parishes, the team members try - using their specific charismas and abilities - to help out in different areas pastoral care in our country. Its activities include the parish's missions, the organization of pilgrimages on foot, Marian brotherhoods, press apostolate, Internet TV broadcasting, Pure Love Initiative, publishing "Milujte se!" (Love each other) magazine, etc. In this bachelor thesis I would like to closer outline these activities and evaluate this project. Keywords: parish team; parish; priest; lay collaborators; pastoral care
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