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The History and Activities of the Town and Country Planning Department of The Ressearch Institute for Building and Architecture in Brno
Žáčková, Markéta ; Chatrný, Jindřich (referee) ; Ing.arch.Igor Kovačevič, Ph.D. (referee) ; Doležel, Karel (referee) ; Koutný, Jan (advisor)
The dissertation explores the history and activities of the Brno-located Town and Country Planning Department of The Research Institute for Building and Architecture (RIBA) since its foundation in 1954 until its abolishment in 1994. As a part of the department functioning, a description of its main research tasks and publications, which had played an essential part while formulating theory and methodology of urban planning after the 2nd World War in Czechoslovakia, are introduced. Special attention is paid to tasks and publications whose authors and research workers applied interdisciplinary approaches and – in spite of the prevailing totalitarian regime – managed to apply their experience acquired abroad to produce highly influential works such as The Principles and Rules of Spatial Planning. Another objective of the dissertation is the creation of a complex bibliography of texts that were produced by the department (books, reports on the outcomes of research tasks that had been explored at the Town and Country Planning Department and that were released internally as handbooks serving research workers of the institute and other institutions focusing on building and architecture). Depictions of the Brno department of RIBA from the perspective of two of its significant representatives who have outlived the institution they had witnessed to be founded and to the functioning of which they had significantly contributed, become a key part of the text: Ing. arch. Vladimír Matoušek, CSc., the second head of the Town and Country Planning Department of RIBA and Ing. arch. Dušan Riedl, CSc., a theoretician of architecture and urban planning and a top expert on Czech national herritage. As the topic has not yet been subjected to scholarly research, the main objective of the work is to create the very first complex text on the Brno department of RIBA and its activities. The circumstances surrounding the constitution of RIBA in the context of other similarly functioning research institutes are pursued with a special focus on the fields of building, architecture and urban planning as well as legislative embedding of its foundation and functioning, its organization structure, staff, definition of taskmasters and the way the tasks were approached, relations to other institutions in the field, publishing activities and transfer of theoretical research outcomes to practice. The text also deals with the state of present-day research of architecture and urban planning. Archive material and publications released by the institute represent a predominant source of information about RIBA activities. They are now stored at the archive of ABF Foundation in Prague (the foundation has been administering both the archive and library of the Prague department of RIBA since its abolishment), at the library of The Institute for Spatial Development in Brno (the institute administers the library of the former Brno department) and at the Moravian Land Archive in Brno. Both of the archives have been thoroughly researched by the author. Critical reflections upon the urban-planning department of RIBA occurring in contemporary publications and periodicals are another important source of information which help to specify the character of its activities (recent literature mentions RIBA scarcely, a complex evaluation is still missing). Oral history reported by former employees of RIBA, who had contributed to the first-rate quality of its research activities.
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Residential Complex in Brno - Komín
Koťová, Marie ; Žalmanová, Petra (referee) ; Nový, Vítězslav (advisor)
Residential complex is designed as a semi-enclosed space that opens up into open country. Therefore, efforts were made to ensure that all houses sensitively set into the terrain and the surface was made from natural materials. Functional content of the file is composed primarily of net living space. Objects consist of apartments and ancillary spaces such as garages, utility rooms, bicycle room, rooms for pram and a cellar.
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Residential Complex in Brno - Komín
Šónová, Marcela ; Žalmanová, Petra (referee) ; Nový, Vítězslav (advisor)
The building was designed according to needs and limits of this location, that it responds to. Its functional content, shape and orientation all respect surrounding conditions. The shape of the object reacts on changing terrain and oriantation to the cardinal. The design offers living areas, an equipment for residents and plenty of recreation space. The complex tries to preserve local natural environment how it is possible and it was designed according to principles of sustainable development.
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Lubricants created by nature
Drobilič, Ivo ; Urban, Filip (referee) ; Nečas, David (advisor)
This bachelor thesis provides an overview of substances which can be considered as the lubricants in its natural environment. The first part of the thesis of focused on lubricants in human body. The substances such as water, blood or synovial fluid are analysed in a detail. The following chapter deals with lubricants in everyday life. As the example, decrease of tyre adhesion in case of rain or longer breaking distance of trains as a consequence of presence of leafs on rails, can be mentioned. The last part, in addition, summarizes the lubricants which are based on natural products.
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A Proposal of Voluntary Reporting in Selected Company
Jánov, Richard ; Hanušová,, Helena (referee) ; Kocmanová, Alena (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with reporting of sustainability development and its mode of administration of regular reports. The purpose of the first section is to explain, define and describe theoretical and methodological approaches of corporate social responsibility of companies, how they were developed and what are their elementary principles and characteristics. The second section focuses on the analysis of implementation of corporate social responsibility in a concrete company in three areas – economical, social and environmental. The aim of the thesis is to create report about corporate social responsibility and sustainability development, based on acquired information and evaluated analyses.
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Vliv antropogenních aktivit na společenstva vodních organismů v horní části povodí Litavky
ČERNÝ, Jan
The degradation of the natural environment is considered to be a global problem. Due to the importance of water sources, preservation and improvement of their quality are one of priority interest of all society. This study deals with the reactions of aquatic organism groups like fish and benthic invertebrates to an anthropological effect in the Litavka basin. Researched part of Litavka is polluted by toxic heavy metals from past ceveral centuries of extensive mining and industrial smelting in its close proximity. It is also polluted by releasing wastewaters, which contain xenobiotics, trash, and decomposing organic matter. The Obecnický stream was chosen as a reference locality because it is the most similar to a clear natural habitat. It flows into the Litavka river in a spot, where the riverbed is channelised and its floodplain is occupied by toxic waste dumps. The Obecnický stream can be considered the most important water source in the upper Litavka basin regarding the current hydrological conditions. Autochthonous fish population in the upper Litavka basin suffer from several water abstractions, which change temperature and flow regimes. It was our effort, to evaluate the influences of these anthropological factors on aquatic biota, aiming to above-mentioned pollution types, and presence of the water reservoir situated on the Obecnický stream. Monitoring of organism and environmental data collecting (physically chemical parameters, NH4+ , NO2-, PO43-, bottom substrate, flow, and others) were always implemented parallelly. In the case of fish species groups, the resulting correlations show us the greatest impact of the temperature gradient and zinc concentration. We found out a negative correlation between zinc concentrations and abundances of brown trout (Salmo trutta morpha fario) and brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri). On the other hand, common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) was highly tolerant for this kind of pollution. The abundance of brown trouts decreased with increasing temperature and it seemed as beneficial for common minnow populations. There was also a shift in the community of invertebrates, namely total absence of three mayflies families (Ephemerellidae, Heptageniidae and Leptophlebidae), Gammaridae, the sphaerid clam Pisidium sp. and the river limpet (Ancylus fluviatilis). The inflow of the wastewaters was accompanied with considerable increase of biomass of common several cyprind species. Besides that, there was a high density of eruciform caddisflies of genus Micropterna and Halesus. Within particular benthic invertebrates, domination of dipteran insects, leeches (Hirudinea) and the freshwater waterlouse (Asellus aquaticus) was observed under the outcome of wastewaters.
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Quality of life and Physical Self in Senior Population
Polívková, Aneta ; Fialová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Hošková, Blanka (referee)
Title: Quality of life and Physical Self in Senior Population Objectives: The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the quality of life of the elderly with respect to the place where they live and the level of physical activities performed in the past and present. Respondents are divided into those living in nursing homes and those who live in their natural environment. In particular, we want to find out whether these two groups differ in the given areas of life or not. Another criterion by which we divide and compare the respondents is the amount of physical activity in the past and present. The aim of this division is to determine the effect of physical activity on the current quality of life of the elderly. Methods: The selected means of obtaining information for our thesis was a paper questionnaire. After analyzing several questionnaires focused on quality of life, the SQUALA questionnaire was selected. We used statistical methods for nonparametric data to evaluate the results. Results: The results confirmed the relationship between physical activity and a higher level of quality of life. On the contrary, we have refuted the expectations of a better quality of life in the health dimension of seniors living at home. Furthermore, we found out that seniors living in nursing homes overall rated...
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Influence of the natural environment on the development of motor and cognitive abilities of preschool age.
Havířová, Martina ; Opravilová, Eva (advisor) ; Havlová, Jana (referee)
This work deals with the effect the natural environment on the development of motor and cognitive abilities of preschool age. The aim is to determine the effect of education in the natural environment to the level of motor skills and knowledge of preschool children. The theoretical part describes the characteristics of preschool age. Acquaints with the development of motor skills and their training in the natural environment. It also deals with the cognitive component of the preschool child's personality and the possibilities of its development in the countryside. Zooms problems of education in a forest environment, types of learnin and methods of training in the various components of the child's personality just in a forest. The practical part is a qualitative research method used is a questionnaire survey among kindergarten teachers to determine the most commonly used educational environment, the method standardized test for 4-6-year old children to determine the level of motor skills of the children, and the method of diagnostic interview, which examined the effect of natural environments on children's knowledge. Results in agreement with reported literature confirm the positive influence of education in the natural environment for the development of several components of the child's personality.
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Outdoor preschools
Kapuciánová, Magdaléna ; Jančaříková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Uhlířová, Jana (referee)
My diploma work is concerned with the themes of outdoor preschools and pre-school education. It searches for and is stemming from the similar subjects in foreign countries and within the Czech Republic. It shows what the benefits of children being outside are. It also searches and points out liabilities which are necessery to be taken into account. The work presents the used resources, which can lead to the foundation of the other outdoor preschools and their maintanence. The empirical study is managed as an action research. The first part of the practical section shows experiences of the outdoor preschools in general and it presents interviews with their pedagogues. The second part of the practical section deals with the opinion of experts and the non-professional community. Moving on, one then investigates the ideal level of achievement in separate competences in an ordinary preschool, and outdoor preschools. Further more, the next section is targeted at the expert's expectations and apprehensions about children staying at an outdoor preschool, taking into account their views in relation to outdoor preschools. Focus groups are being used to question the experts. The important part of the work is to analyse the legal enactments in relation to outdoor preschools motherly school.
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