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"Social policy in Western Europe - between convergence and diversity"
Kroutilová, Marcela ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Munková, Gabriela (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the situation of the social policy in Western Europe and to find out whether a possible unifiyng deffmition of the European social model exists. Actually the thesis diferentiates between two levels. The first one is the intergovernmental level of the national states and the second one is the level of the European Union. In the frame of the comparative analysis we can estimate wheter or not are the national states able to create homogenous units according to their common characteristics (typologies) and survey the possible ways of their future development. Another question here is to what extent will the social policy be pursued on the level of the European Union, which becomes slowly an important player also in the European social policy field, which was not the fact several years ago. European Union itself is a very specific cluster and its frame we can observe the participation of raising amount of social actors and also many new initiatives that are leading to the widening and deepening of the whole social agenda. We can conlude that the national states are still playing the main role in the social policy field, but it is more and more limited by endogenous pressures and European economic integration. Even though the creation of a homogenous "Social Europe" is...
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Is trade regulation, defined by the international treaty CITES, the most suitable tool for protecting threatened plants and animals?
Drýk, Martin ; Slavíková, Lenka (advisor) ; Vejchodská, Eliška (referee)
This bachelor's thesis shall attempt to analyze individual approaches to protection of life threatened wild animals and plants. I shall focus on the current international trade regulatory policy, established by CITES, which approves the trade only after the other individual requirements and approvals have been vested. Since the population size of these plants and animals is constantly shrinking, what might be also pointing at the insufficient functionality of this system, if not directly at its detrimental consequences, I shall place the free market model against the current restrictive system. I shall clearly define proprietary rights related to these animals and plants, and also there will be an option for using these threatened species for commercial purposes. My experience with trade regulations and their consequences from other market segments shall me serve as a certain form of inspiration. The purpose of this work is to confirm that the regulated trade may not only be ineffective in saving wild animals and plants but even contributing to their extinction. Conversely enough, the application of the free market mechanism might rectify the current dissatisfying state.
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Biology, occurrence and control Cockspur Grass(\kur{Echinochloa crus-galli} (L.) Beauv.)on arable land
VITURKA, Martin
This work is focused on the occurrence of Cockspur Grass (lat. Echinochloa crus-galli) on arable land and ways and means of its regulation. Damages which are annually caused by weeds are very difficult to quantify and their negative impact is reflected every year in all crops and all fields. Cocksour Grass belongs among the most dangerous weeds, especially in wide-row stands. Furthermore, I focused on the issue of late weed, seed dormancy and resistance of populations. A related question is possible solution to the protection of stands against weeds using both preventive and direct methods of control plants. An experiment was made to check influence of herbicides on the population of Cockspur and other weed species which occur in this root-crops. The result showed which kind of herbicide is more effective with pre-emergence application to Cockspur Grass and other monitored weeds.
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Wind resource assessment for selected sites in the territory of the Czech Republic
Hanslian, David
This set of studies analyses the wind conditions and expected wind power production at selected sites in the Czech Republic. At first, the calculation of wind conditions by VAS/WAsP 1, VAS/WAsP 2 and PIAP models is performed. Based on the comparison and analysis of model results, the generalized wind climate pertaining to the assessed site is estimated. The final results are calculated by WAsP model using this generalized wind climate. The expected wind power production of proposed wind turbine or wind farm is calculated as well as the map of simulated average wind speed and potential wind turbine production over the surrounding area. The uncertainty analysis is performed as well. This set consists of 6 partial reports.
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Methods of protection against eavesdropping and snooping in digital networks
Pokorný, Tomáš ; Šalamon, Tomáš (advisor) ; Štorková, Veronika (referee)
The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive overview of eavesdropping and snooping in digital networks, describe possible threats and show technological and organizational precautions against them. The first chapter introduces the reader into the topic and shows all the main threats. The second chapter describes technological precautions with the emphasis on data flow. The first part of this chapter explains the terminology. Next part tries to solve the security of each type of a communicational channel followed by the virtual private networks issues, physical networks and the risks of encryption. The third chapter analyses organizational issues with the emphasis on legislation. Precautions in this chapter make the technology from the previous chapter more effective. The fourth chapter uses the findings from previous chapters and tries to secure a company in all its complexity. This allows the estimation of total cost. The practical part of this thesis should serve for companies with already developed infrastructure who want a transparent solution that would protect them from eavesdropping and data thefts.
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Emergency preparedness of municipalities with authorization of the municipal office Březnice resulting from Crisis Plan MEP Pribram
PINKAVA, František
The thesis analyses municipality with a delegated local authority's preparedness for critical situations which results from the critical scheme of a municipality with extended powers. The results of this work are Crisis Preparedness Plan for the particular municipality which may be applied in practice. Processing of this part of the work is based on data gathering and solving when I mainly used factual and analytical method. Consultation with experts was also important since some sources were not always topical due to frequent legal decrees changes. The data gathering was done in a qualitative way when I worked with particular valid laws, government regulations, public notices and other legal norms and with available literature data, expert publications including website information, especially from official website of individual Integrated Rescue System units and the Home Office. In the research part itself, the city of Březnice is characterized and for which the Crisis Preparedness Plan is being made. General administrative characteristics of the city and municipalities which arise under are stated here as well as demography, infrastructure, geographical and climatic characterization. Important facilities from the point of view of population protection, such as schools, school and social facilities are graphically shown here; followed by characteristics of Integrated Rescue System units in the city together with instruments which are available to them. Another important part of the thesis is the hazard analysis which I had been given by the Czech Republic Fire Brigade from the Crisis Plan of Příbram's Area with Extended Powers and it has become the crucial source while writing this work. The hazard analysis identifies 14 threats which may occur in the Příbram Area. The most important part of this thesis is, in my opinion, the hazard analysis of the city of Březnice. Not all of the hazards may appear in the administrative area of the city Březnice, however, there may occur certain threats in this administrative area which are not underpinned in the Crisis Plan of the Příbram Area. Here I have come to the key findings crisis plans of the areas with extended powers are rather general and insufficient for preparing solutions of critical situations development in administrative areas with a delegated authority. I have come to those findings after having made a SWAT analysis and thanks to this I have discovered threats which were not dealt with in the crisis plan.There are several findings as a result of this thesis and the suggestion of the Plan of Crisis Preparedness of a municipality with delegated authority of Březnice. The first finding answers the research question of "Which are the hazards threatening performance of the tasks of a municipality with delegated authority of Březnice resulting from the Crisis Plan of Příbram's Area with Extended Powers and whether the municipality is ready to deal with these threats?" The city of Březnice is not quite prepared for upcoming hazards since there are not analyzed all threats which may occur, because these plans are too general to analyze well the setting of lower administrative districts and this has become the next finding. Further, I may claim that the city of Březnice is, in many ways, independent while dealing with certain crisis situations due to sources which the city provides. This is another aim of the work. The created suggestion of the Plan of Crisis Preparedness should contribute to effective solutions during crisis situations in a municipality with delegated authority of Březnice and thanks to created cards; the solution of crisis situations should become better-arranged with the plans. The created suggestion of the mentioned plan may become a model for processing crisis documentation in other municipalities.
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Využití raků jako bioindikátorů kvality vody
KUKLINA, Iryna
In recent decades, the ecological status of the freshwater crayfish has changed drastically from a sensitive indicator of an aquatic environment to a tolerant species that can survive in a wide range of unfavourable conditions. Despite all controversies on being or not being proper bioindicators, crayfish are a key species that plays a crucial role in the freshwater ecosystem. Regardless of whether certain crayfish possess a particular environmental sensitivity or not, all species can be used in biomonitoring investigations. The main objectives of the present thesis were development and implementation of system for continuous monitoring of water quality using crayfish as the bioindicator. Being less complex than vertebrates (e.g., fish), but being sufficiently complex compared to some other hard-shell freshwater invertebrates (e.g., mussels), crayfish present a useful biomonitoring object, which is easy to manipulate with, and which provides experimental data which is easy to obtain, analyse and interpret. The first part of this thesis is devoted to an evaluation of crayfish as suitable bioindicators. We showed that, when conducting the biomonitoring of metals in aquatic biota, crayfish have sufficient tissues for a bioaccumulation survey. For this purpose, we examined the gills, muscles and hepatopancreas. We confirmed that the hepatopancreas was the primary target for accumulation of most of the examined elements (i.e., cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, zinc). For higher relevance, crayfish surveys were compared to fish samples collected from the same locations. The second part of this work particularly focused on water quality biomonitoring based on the evaluation of crayfish ethophysiological characteristics. We examined crayfish reactions to both chemical (i.e. chloramine, chlorides, nitrites) and natural odours (i.e., food, heterosexual conspecifics, predator, etc). This approach was shown to be simple yet at the same time, complex and efficient. Such monitoring technique is easily implemented and does not demand long, complicated analyses, since monitored parameters, locomotor and cardiac activity, are evaluated immediately in real time. However, one complication is related to the unpredictability of an animal's reactions. Because studied characteristics may often affect each other, they need to be carefully traced and interaction between measured characteristics needs to be eliminated. The usefulness of such biomonitoring is conditioned by a reliable combination of behaviour and physiology, which enables detection of complex animal responses to environmental changes. As reported in the third part, we submitted an application for a patent of the developed system, and described in the patent sensor will be protected as utility model. Moreover, other crustaceans with sufficient carapace size (e.g., shrimps, crabs, molluscs) can be successfully investigated using presented system. The only challenge is that living organism can clearly indicate disruption of ambient conditions, but cannot detect what it has caused. However, there are powerful analytical techniques now, developed exactly for accurate determination of various compounds. The heart rate is species- and conditions-specific, so it cannot be applied as unified measure for all crayfish species, while visual analysis of heartbeat primary curves can be useful for establishment of referent crayfish heart rate values at their different functional states. The final part of the thesis is devoted to this issue. In conclusion, the developed biomonitoring system was shown to be highly practical unit using noninvasive technique for investigation of crayfish reactions under model conditions, with the potential of further application at broader research and industrial arenas.
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On Supervision of Financial Markets by Czech National Bank : (focused on Consumer Protection in the Financial Markets)
Skácelík, David ; Marková, Hana (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee) ; Švarc, Zbyněk (referee)
1 On Supervision of Financial Markets by Czech National Bank (focused on Consumer Protection in the Financial Markets) This work deals with the consumer protection in the financial markets in the Czech Republic. The opening part of this thesis briefly describes the situation in Czech(oslovak) legislation before 1989. The governing system was not at that time conducive to significant economic activity and the scope of financial markets was limited. As a consequence, legislated protection of market participants had not to be extensive. Need for consumer protection increased after the then-prevailing economic model had been changed into the current market-oriented model. The expansion of economic activities, including the development in the financial markets, necessitated simultaneous passing of updated law more suited for the new social circumstances. Owing to the preparation of the Czech Republic's entry into the European Economic Community at that time, it was necessary to harmonize the new Czech law with the laws of the Community. Besides the change of the "Code civil" as a basic regulation of private law, new specific regulations have been passed - for example the Consumer Protection Act or the Consumer Credit Act. In connection with the formation of capital markets, it become necessary to issue entirely...
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Android Application for Traffic Data Visualization from Car2X Systems
Chlápek, Tomáš ; Očenášek, Pavel (referee) ; Kreslíková, Jitka (advisor)
This thesis brings application for mobile devices placed in cars. It is used for drivers for enhancing orientation and driving clarity. It is based on communication between roadside units and devices in vehicle. Application offers graphical visualization of intersection states and traffic lights. Created solution provides graphical visualization of traffic data designated for system Android. Main benefit is for C2X developers who test correctness of information, which were inserted to physical devices near supported intersections.
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Analysis of runoff in selected urban watershed
Kučera, Vít ; Máca, Petr (advisor) ; Petr, Petr (referee)
The work deals with schematization area with sewage networks in the Rainfalls-runoff model urbanized watershed modeling and changes in the Manning roughness coefficient of the pipe to the main sewer, which drains most of the wastewater. The comparison was made on two schematization basin Bohnice collector the main sewer F in the city. Prague. For the simulation program was used Mike URBAN DHI Inc.
The main variable was observed outflow hydrograph on the selected sealing profile watershed and its development depending on schematization and change the Manning roughness coefficient.
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