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The Rise of Extreme Right: Evidence from the Slovak Parliamentary Election
Kotrč, Michal ; Šťastná, Lenka (advisor) ; Čechová, Kristýna (referee)
What explains the late election success of extreme right in Slovakia? Al- though there are many studies on Western European extreme right parties, less attention is devoted to their Central European cousins. From a meth- odological perspective, even fewer studies consider spatial effects in their models. This thesis aims to explain electoral support for the extreme right Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia political party (Kotleba-L'SNS) in the 2016 parliamentary election using a broad range of socio-demographic, economic and cultural variables on the municipal level. In the first stage, we use ordinary least squares regression as our baseline model. As this model suffers from spatial error correlation, we use a spatial error model in the second stage. We managed to create a variable which removed Roma people from the group of unemployed and thus we disentangled the effect of Roma people and unemployment on the electoral support for the Kotleba-L'SNS party. In this way, we found a significant positive effect of share of un- employed people on the electoral support for the extreme right-wing party. Other estimates indicate a significant positive effect of share of the young people and share of people with a lower level of education on support for the Kotleba - People's Party Our Slovakia. On the contrary,...
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Using solar energy in the framework of the European Union extended by a case study for the region of the Czech Republic
Kosánová, Kristina ; Matějíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Přibil, Rudolf (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyzes the current use of solar energy in the European Union member states, both in terms of photovoltaic systems and in terms of solar thermal systems. The amount of used solar energy is compared with the sum of solar radiation in given area, as the main indicator for the possibility of using solar energy. The thesis is based on the processing of various literary and online sources, which give a comprehensive view of this renewable resource. The second part is focused on the territory of the Czech Republic. The case study is based on maps. The result also contains a map created in GIS, which shows the areas with the highest solar energy income for the entire Czech Republic as well as for the selected part of Prague.
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Ecology,ethology and variability of european green lizard Lacerta viridis in Natural reservation Tiché údolí
Chmelař, Jan ; Rehák, Ivan (advisor) ; Moravec, Jiří (referee)
The European green lizard, Lacerta viridis, is in the Bohemia region stated as critically endangered species. Populations in this region are located beyond the northern border of continuous range of this species and are closely related to the "riverine phenomenon", and deeply engorged river valleys. The chosen locality in Tiché údolí is a subject to a long-term conservational management aimed to strengthen and maintain abundance of the local population. This management is a direct output of a previous study of this population performed in years 1995-1997. Main goal of the presented study is to compare current population characteristics with the older study. The locality has been visited 119 times in years from 2011 to 2014. The studied population now displays higher abundance and inhabits a larger area. The author also performed a spatial analysis of the places with presence of an observed individual in order to determine and evaluate significance of the chosen abiotic factors for habitat discrimination. The results indicate that positive discrimination is based on the presence of a rock debris and a hiding place. Strongest factors towards negative discrimination were high percentages of grass and high vegetation coverage. This study also contains and discusses ecological, ethological and...
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Impact of Information Technologies on Unemployment: Spatial Analysis
Záhlava, Josef ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Macek, Petr (referee)
This thesis analyses the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on unemployment in international context. The thesis summarizes the knowledge and research outcomes on the impact of ICT on the economy both on micro and macroeconomic level and deducts implications for unemployment. Moreover, the thesis assesses the impact of international economic integration on unemployment and labour market situation. Using ICT is beneficial for eco- nomic growth and labour productivity. This leads to decrease in unemploy- ment rate. The impact of ICT differs both among sectors of the economy and groups of workers by qualification. The unemployment rate is internationally autocorrelated due to international economic integration. In close countries it follows similar development. Based on empirical research of panel data of ele- ven european countries for years 1996 to 2007, international autocorrelation in unemployment rate and beneficial impact of ICT in lowering unemployment rate were confirmed. However, due to violation of necessary assumption of nor- mality, the results of MLE analysis need not be valid. This can be tackled by employing different estimation method, perhaps 2SLS. 1
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Spatial analysis of early Roman fortifications in northern Negev
Pažout, Adam ; Stančo, Ladislav (advisor) ; Eisenberg, Michael (referee)
13 Abstract The present thesis aims to answer questions regarding function of many Early Roman fortifications investigated in past decades in the region of Northern Negev, i.e. in the valley of Nahal Beersheva between modern towns of Arad and Beersheva. In past, various interpretations were provided, often conflicting with each other and therefore author sought to look at this topic from different point of view, using GIS based tools to explore spatial relationships between the fortifications and settlements in terms of intervisibility (for military signaling and control) and relation to road-system. Moreover, Early Roman Judaea was unstable region with high prevalence of banditry and thus assumption is that military responded to these threats. The results of viewshed analysis (intervisiblity) and least-cost path (reconstruction of road system) can roughly divide the region in question to the zones. In the first zone, most of the fortifications are intervisible and also exercise control of settlements and roads; while in the second zone forts cannot communicate using signals but are located on important roads providing water, lodging and security to travelers. It leads to conclusion that these forts served as stations of detached military units concerned with policing and administration (in both zones) and...
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Spatial analysis of distribution of giant hogweed (\kur{Heracleum mantegazzianum}) in selected area of Karlovarsko region
OREL, Jakub
Based on its size giant hogweed belongs to the group of the biggest European herbs. It is non-indigenous plant species which can be originally found in the Western Caucasus. Successful introduction of hogweed has occurred not only in the Czech Republic and currently its invasive growth poses a threat to the variability of native ecosystems. Moreover liquidation of the plant comprises considerable financial losses. The most affected area of the Czech Republic is the region of Karlovarsko. In my bachelor 's thesis I am dealing with spatial analysis of distribution of giant hogweed depending on sea level and landscape cover in selected area of Karlovarsko region. Spatial analysis in geographic information system in combination with knowledge on species ecology might represent effective tool for management of both giant hogweed and other invasive plants.
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Spatial analysis of a late antique site - example of Jandavlattepa
Machačíková, Tereza ; Stančo, Ladislav (advisor) ; Klír, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis aims to evaluate spatial distribution of the small finds from the late antique site in southern Uzbekistan (Sherabad district) - Jandavlattepa. Using archaeological methods as spatial analysis, it aspires to help determine functions of the constructions and buildings on this site. In the theoretical part, it presents history and developement of the spatial analysis as scientific field and describes basical principals of some of its methods. In the practical part, it deals the site itself and tries to analyse its situation by aforementioned methods (especially visual analysis - for this purpose complex plans with distribution of small finds in the excavated sectors 7 and 20 was drawn). It concludes that because of the complicated archeological contexts at the site, it is not possible to establish precise function of discovered rooms. However it proposes some interpretations of results of this analysis.
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Possibilities of geographical research in the usage of liquid biofuels in transport
Valeš, Jiří ; Netrdová, Pavlína (advisor) ; Šatra, Jan (referee)
At first there is briefly shown the history of usage and present usage of liquid biofuels in transport. The paper describes its regional differenciation in EU and with the help of basic statistical methods researches the development of differences of the meaning of biofuels in Member States. For these purposes there is created a database of shares of biofuels in energy consumption in transport. If we understand the shares of biofuels showing the intensity or the meaning of biofuels usage, we can exemine its differences. With the help of Lorenz curve there is described the development of rate of inequality of biofuels production. There is also evaluated the meaning of biofuels production in Member States by relativising it to the area of arable land. Key words: liquid biofuels, statistical analysis, spatial analysis
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A Set of Raster Analysis Tools for ArcGIS
Hupšil, Radim ; Šilhavá, Jana (referee) ; Hrubý, Martin (advisor)
This project is about studying geographic information system ArcGIS. It focuses on possibilities of extending ArcGIS by custom extensions and method of their programming. Furthermore some basic tools of raster analysis are ilustrated. This project's main objective is to design and implement custom implementation of ArcGIS extension, which provides a set of tools for raster analysis. Design is inspired by an existing extension - Spatial Analyst developed by ESRI.
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