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Analysis of main wine saccharides
Horáková, Hana ; Šabata, Pavel (referee) ; Vespalcová, Milena (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with determination of carbohydrates in wine. Theoretical part attends to production of wine from grape to treatment and training of wine. It refers saccharides in wine, especially glucose and fructose. The study provides an overview of the available sources concerning the possibilities of determination of carbohydrates in wine by chromatographic methods and Skalar automated chemistry analyser. The study shortly refers simple analytical methods for determination of wine saccharides. The experimental part based on this search deals with analysis of saccharides by high performance liquid chromatography with refractive index detector and UV detector on aminoalkyl column and determination of reducting sugars by Skalar automated chemistry analyser. Finally, the results of these methods were compared.
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Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease and Its Measurement
Netík, Jan ; Lukavský, Jiří (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
This thesis introduces anxiety as one of the most common and important neuropsychiatric symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). It places anxiety in the context of other motor and non-motor symptoms and describes the circumstances of its onset and its potential role in early recognition of PD even before a clinical diagnosis is established and before the onset of characteristic motor symptoms. The thesis also touches on the difculties in measuring anxiety in PD and discusses selected models of anxiety and psychodiagnostic methods for its measurement, building in particular on Spielberger's concept of state and trait anxiety, which represents the basis for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), for which we construct the frst Czech norms in the empirical part of the work and verify some psychometric properties of the method on a population of healthy respondents. In the second study, the thesis examines the validity of measuring anxiety in a sample of previously untreated patients with idiopathic PD, who, according to the literature, have an early measurable increase in anxiety. We test whether the STAI can capture the diference between the normative sample and patients with newly diagnosed PD. The results show that the STAI can detect increased anxiety in these patients, although the...
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A system for classifying descriptions of society in the era of fall of postmodernism
Krčil, David ; Hauser, Michael (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
The thesis deals with the comparison and classification of descriptive theories that seek to describe the state of Western society and culture in the 21st century. In this context, the most frequently invoked term is "postmodernism", which according to many thinkers has already lost its ability to describe society or, according to others, has never even truly described it. This paper is concerned with those theories that are supposed to be either the successors to postmodernism or its surrogate. The research question of the thesis is whether it is possible to find points of contact between the chosen theories, on the basis of which they could be sorted into hyperonymic groups (meta-descriptions) as to map the contemporary thinking about the historical stage of the West in the 21st century. A classification of this kind is potentially fruitful for creating a map of contemporary modes of thinking about society, and the categories delineated should prove to be inherently open for quickly linking emerging theories, or those not included in this thesis, to similar descriptions of society so that their findings can be compared. To lay the foundations for this purpose, the theories of Timothee Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker's metamodernism, Jeffrey Nealon's post-postmodernism, Alan Kirby's...
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The end of the first wave of feminism in Czechoslovakia
Junger, Vojtěch ; Hyánková, Tereza (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
This bachelor Thesis deals with the question of the end of the first wave of feminism and the decline of the feminist movement in interwar Czechoslovakia, considering the development until 1948. The Thesis presents and analyses the reasons why, despite a progressive constitution and an emancipation-leaning society, it was not possible to achieve a greater gender equality. The Thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part presents the theoretical framework of the first wave of feminism and the feminist movement, as well as the historical context of Czech and Czechoslovakian feminism. The second part problematizes political system in Czechoslovakia in relation to women's emancipation, especially parliamentarism, the party system, the limits of democracy, and also the concept of the family. The third part of the Thesis describes and analyses the feminist movement as such, its relationship to the state and society, its strategies and ideological foundations, the formation of women's group consciousness, the mobilization potential of the women's movement and the relationship between democracy and feminism. The work is interdisciplinary - based on gender analysis, it examines the development of a historical phenomenon (the first wave of feminism) in politics and society, while compiling...
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Identity in transcultural perspective. Symbols in the creation of cultural identity
Šafaříková, Jana ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Jirka, Luděk (referee)
Despite its geographical distance and the specific ways in which the state of Australia came into existence two centuries ago, both Europe and Australia share a number of similarities in their recent cultural, social and political development, with Australia to some extent anticipating trends which later also appear in Europe. Two of the most widely discussed issues, that have dominated public and political debates in Australia for decades, are related to immigration and the politics of multiculturalism, both of which form the very pillars on which the national and cultural identity of Australia is based upon. Especially within the last years, the questions of immigration and multiculturalism have also entered with full force the public and political discourse in Europe, with both topics gaining a prominent place in the debate. However, while Europe has been made aware of these issues at last during and after the migration crisis of 2015, in Australia, they have been present for a substantial part of the state's existence, and more prominently since the 1990s when the One Nation Party, a political party in many aspects similar to the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Germany and the Rassemblement national (RN) in France, gained substantial electoral success. The dissertation presents a...
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Clinical Applicability of Cognitive Testing in Huntington Disease
Mühlbäck, Alžbeta ; Klempíř, Jiří (advisor) ; Rusina, Robert (referee) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
Introduction: Huntington disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder manifested by motor, behavioural and cognitive deficits with fatal consequences. Aims: This study aims to validate the psychometric properties of a standard cognitive battery used in HD and establish language-specific normative values. Methods: In the first study, cognitive performance was compared in 106 patients at different stages of HD and 100 healthy controls matched for age, sex, and education. The neuropsychological battery included the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Stroop Word Reading Test, Stroop Colour Naming Test, Stroop Interference Test, Trail Making Test-A and B, Category and Letter Verbal Fluency. In addition, patients were comprehensively assessed for motor and functional status. In the second study, the cognitive performance of 3,267 healthy subjects was assessed. The work focused on the stratification of cognitive performance concerning age, gender, language and level of education. Another aim was to establish the language-specific normative values and implement a web-based normative calculator to assess the degree of cognitive deficit in different languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, French, Dutch, Danish). Results: In the first study, analysis of variance showed that healthy...
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Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) Recognition Task in Czech Sign Language
Holubová, Kateřina ; Niederlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
(in English) The literature review describes the characteristics of deaf people - a group of Czech sign language users - based on medical and cultural-linguistic perspectives. Subsequent chapters provide current knowledge about psychodiagnostics within this population and the pitfalls the psychodiagnostic practitioner may encounter, including the difference in structures between the Czech language and Czech sign language. This section is concluded with a description of psychodiagnostic methods expressed in sign languages and methods initially developed in spoken languages that are nevertheless used in a modified format within this population both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The practical part is devoted to revising the original version of the Auditory Verbal Learning Test in Czech sign language and drafting a list of phonemic and semantic distractors for recognition. The psychometric properties of the converted test are then validated by a group of 31 deaf Czech Sign Language users of old age. As expected, performance on the test was correlated with age and was independent of the place of origin (Prague-Central Bohemia Region and South Moravia Region). However, in contrast to previous studies, women's performance did not deviate from men's. The test's difficulty level was comparable to the...
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Psychometric characteristics of Subjective cognitive changes questionnaire in the elderly at the risk of developing dementia syndrome
Zuntychová, Terezie ; Horáková, Hana (advisor) ; Bezdíček, Ondřej (referee)
This Master's thesis focuses on subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) in the elderly as one of the very early cognitive markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The literature review section maps cognitive impairment in the old age and complements it with an overview of successful cognitive ageing, subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and relevant neurobiological correlates. It also describes the knowledge about the variety of causes of SCD, their assessment and the terminology used. This is followed by quantitative research (n = 211) that elaborates selected psychometric characteristics of the newly constructed Subjective Cognitive Changes Questionnaire (SCC-Q). The research population included patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI; n = 88), SCD (n = 88), and cognitively normal volunteers (n = 35). Based on the statistical analyses performed, high item reliability was verified, a four- component solution of the SCC-Q structure was adopted, and support for convergent validity of three of the four components was subsequently found. Thus, the SCC-Q has the potential to become a useful method for clinical practice. The thesis further discusses follow-up procedures to validate the SCC-Q to identify individuals at risk of developing cognitive deficits. Keywords Subjective cognitive...
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Reception of Strategic Economic Narratives: Case Study of the Kenyan News Discourse.
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Záhořík, Jan (referee)
Strategic narrative is a communicative tool for political elites to construct a shared meaning to the international politics, to articulate state's interests, to change the discursive environment, and to shape the behaviour of other actors. It has three different dynamics, which proceed simultaneously and reinforce each other: formation of the narrative within the given state, its projection in the international arena, and its reception in other states. Theory of strategic narratives fits well into the framework of new regionalism, which tries to analyse relations between the processes of globalization, globalism, regionalization, and regionalism. Until recently, such analyses were conducted from state-level and positivist perspective. As a result, the dimension of reception remained understudied. The presented thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. It analyses global political economy from the interpretivist constructivist perspective: it uses the leading local newspaper as a data sources and analyses media (news) discourse as one form of a broad societal discourse. Such an analysis can help us to analyse how local society assesses and reacts to strategic narratives and their internalization or rejection by local elites. In my thesis, I focus on narratives of the three superpowers (the US, the EU,...
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