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The history of land art in the Czech Republic
Vostruhová, Anna ; Buttry, Ivana (advisor) ; Hladíková, Lucie (referee)
This bachelor thesis is about the history of land art in the Czech Republic, and focuses on the contemporary views on the problems of the development of land art in the Czech Republic from the point of view of professional literature. It is a summary of theoretical starting points for this given theme. The main goal of this thesis is to create an integrated overview of contemporary literature about a specific theme. No article focusing on this has been published to this day. Czech land art has always been only briefly outlined in a few paragraphs of art history books, and this only in the case where it was the resulting development of a specific artistic event. However, the details have never been described, that is why the focus of this thesis is important, mainly for the integrated overview of this category of Czech art.
Land art is a type of art which is realized out in the open country, which is why the first chapter of the literary research describes the value of the open country as such, and also in terms of the history of the art, in which it was diversely preceived. Land art is actually the first branch of art which does not attempt to depict the country, but instead works with it. That is why land art is important, as it exemplifies a new manner of perceiving artistic expression, where it does not revolve around creating traditional pieces to be displayed in galleries.
The next chapter is consecrated to the description of the origins and development of land art in the world for the general purposes of an integrated overview. This chapter is important for reasons of comparisons of the approach to land art in the Czech Republic as opposed to that in the rest of the world. This difference is also influenced by differences of cultural and political natures, which are also outlined in this chapter. The following chapters describe the development of Czech land art with a focus on the artistic events from which it arose. The final part of this thesis discusses specific Czech artists and their pieces. Famous Czech land artists such as Ivan Kafka, Zorka Ságlová, Miloš Šejn and some others can be found among them.
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Posibilities of Physiotherapeutic interventions in children with cerebral palsy
OHNISKOVÁ, Adéla
Physical therapy plays an important part in the process of treatment of this disorder. Which in this case for life. The objective of my thesis was to sum up theoretical knowledge and information on CCP and on physical therapy of children suffering from CCP. The first task was to set up an overview of options and alternatives of physical therapy for children with CCP. The other task was to work out case reports of two children with the CCP diagnosis. Then a therapy plan, based on the knowledge from the theoretical part and on the patient´s examination, was made up. A combination of therapy techniques was proposed (the Reflection Method of Locomotion {--} a method developed by M.D. Vaclav Vojta, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF), Basal programmes and sub programmes) suitable for a client with regard to his current state, his needs and abilities. The results showed that combination of methods in therapy is beneficial for a positive influence of motoric skills of a child, improvement of motion in particular joints and for a positive mental condition of a patient This thesis might be used as a set of helpful information for physiotherapists in clinical practice, who deal with CCP, and also as a guide for parents of children with the diagnosis of children cerebral palsy.
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Overview of powered industrial truck utilization
Samcová, Eva ; Šařec, Petr (advisor) ; Altmann, Vlastimil (referee)
This thesis deals with the distribution of motor-handling equipment in the category and its common use. Ingestion of unusual conditions, special truck and evaluating appropriate tire choice. There are the types of additional equipment that can be placed instead of forks or directly to the fork and is incorporated herein by subsequent modification of the normal use of a motor truck after adding equipment. The thesis presents a comparison of the different categories of motor trucks ever since the two companies and firms Cesab and Linde.
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Plants traditionally used in the Czech Republic for their antimicrobial properties: An overview and comparison with scientific studies
Ježková, Pavlína ; Nový, Pavel (advisor) ; Houdková, Markéta (referee)
The use of plants in medicine and folk medicine is probably as old as humanity itself. Medicinal plants have accompanied human throughout the stages of its historical development and herbs were the first medicines which human met. Healing herbs were the most accessible and often only therapeutic agent.
In the first part of the thesis, the information about the history of medicinal plants, natural method of therapy, phytotherapy, biologically active substances of plant and about antimicrobial agents are summarized. Some specific cases of plants with antimicrobial activity are also listed.
The second part presents data obtained by comparing data on the traditional use of plants for their antimicrobial activity in folk medicine to scientific data available from the Web of Science database. The traditional use of plants was investigated according to data from the most comprehensive Czech herbarium of medicinal plants from Jiří Janča and Josef Antonín Zentrich. From a total of 363 plants, 207 species whith presumable antimicrobial activity were selected from the herbarium,. For these plants were subsequently searched and evaluated all records from scientific databases mentioning their antimicrobial activity.Sbsequently, all records on these species mentioning their antimicrobial activity were searched on the scientific database and evaluated.
After the comparison and evaluation of the data gathered about the initial 207 species, 31 plants, which should exhibit antimicrobial effects according to the aforementioned herbals but scientific records are confirmed unsatisfactorily or not at all, were selected. This group of plants can serve as the basis for future research to confirm or refute their antimicrobial activity.
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Recovering of Company's Website
Lang, Michal ; Lohr, Václav (advisor) ; Martin, Martin (referee)
Summary
Small business operating in villages usually face the problem of lack of customers,
especially if they offer luxury products. The budget of such companies is often limited
and therefore they cannot afford an expensive advertising. The company website is one of the few
solutions that can get customers from outside the rural areas and thus create new business
opportunities and increase revenues of such companies. The main goal of the thesis is to attract
customers to a company website and thus help small businesses seeking customers in their difficult
situation. The theoretical part starts with the basics. It describes what systems are suitable for
different kind of web pages and the main part is focused on factors that influence an overall website
performance.
The second part shows how to achieve the stated goal on an example of a small joinery
company Atyp truhlářství Lang. The company is present on the Internet since April, 2009. The
work with a real website allows to compare results before and after the changes implementation.
The practical part starts with an analysis of the original website. It determines strengths and
weaknesses of the web and it provides suggestions for improvement. After this, the academic work
deals with the implementation of suitable factors. The final chapter evaluates the original and new
version of the site and represents how the made changes are reflected in the site traffic.
Keywords
Website design, SEO, on-page factors, off-page factors, CMS, Content Management
Systems, increase site traffic
Objectives and Methodology
The main objective of diploma thesis is to increase the website traffic, its attractiveness for
customers and thus help small companies located in rural areas to get new clients. The first part
helps to achieve the stated goal by dealing with aspects influencing the overall web page
performance and also provide basic knowledge related to the website design. Consequently, the
sub-objective of this part is an identification of factors that significantly affect the site traffic. The
second part aims to apply the gained knowledge on an example web page of small company Atyp
truhlářství which faces a problem of a lack of customers. It starts with the analysis of the original
website that shows its strangeness and weaknesses. This will provide an information about possible
improvements. The part of authors own work aims to implement suitable factors from the
theoretical part into the website design. The objective of the final part is to compare the changes
made with the original design and determine if the new site solution has really improved the number
of visits and its attractiveness for customer.
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The essential information for the masters thesis elaboration were obtained from an analysis
of printed sources as professional books, journals, annual reports and online resources as well.
Statistical data reflecting the original website traffic were extracted from MySQL database. The
new data about number of visitors were already get in friendlier form of Google Analytics outputs.
In addition to that, author also discussed his academic work with website experts and used his own
knowledge acquired during the university studies of information technology.
Results and Conclusion
The website overall performance is greatly influenced by the system on which it operates.
For this reason, the literature review provides an overview about Content Management Systems
and Static Site Generators. There are explained differences between these two approaches to a website design and are given recommendations about what kind of pages are suitable for each
approach. The main part identifies 30 on-page and off-page factors that have a positive or negative
impact on the final website traffic.
The practical part consists an analysis of the examined site. It discovered the following
weaknesses. The positioning is very bad in Search Engine Result Page and it is almost impossible
to find the web without an exact knowledge of the company name or its location. Content can be
considered as extremely poor with overall 279 words only. There were also two technical issues.
The first caused a traffic data loss for the last five years due to exceeding 50MB of MySQL memory
limit. The second was related to plugins deployment that used up the whole PHP memory limit. It
resulted in WordPress strong unstability. The website speed test was disastrous. The small page
size of 762,52kB was loaded for 4,38 seconds. An acceptable result would be less than 2 seconds.
Concerning security, the site did not use secured protocol and the next risk could pose deployed
plugins that are frequent targets of hacker attacks. The used template was not mobile-friendly and
therefore it was difficult to browse the pages on mobile device. In addition to that the graphical
appearance had a low attracting power, it was not able to adequately impress the customers. The
site was visited by an average of 25 people a day in 2011. Furthermore, only 63% of visitors come
from the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, more actual data could not be obtained because of the
data loss. After considering of all mentioned issues above was proposed a complete website
recovery with an implementation of suitable factors from literature review.
The examined website is extremely static without a dynamic content and the frequency of
updates is relatively low. The web pages are managed by a technical contributor and it is the reason
why graphical user interface of CMS is not required. After evaluation of all previous technical,
speed and security issues was selected a static site generator for the website design.
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The important chapter is represented by implementation of suitable factors that should as a complex lead to an increase of a site traffic. First important factor is a content. The original word
count of 279 words was improved to 1809 words which is 7 times more than in the past. Before
writing the articles, an analysis of relevant terms were made. Those terms are included across the
web content. The new articles are meaningful and they provide product details and customer
reviews. Moreover, the content is structured, there are 9 unordered lists included and main titles
are differentiated by importance. Each page has internal links to other subpages. The text clarity
and an inclusion of relevant terms are equal to a better rank of a page. The number of images has
decreased from 112 original images to selected 42 images on the new website. This is because of
a very bad image quality of most old pictures. The high quality images can cause customer interest
for the product, higher time on site and lower bounce rate. Meta descriptions were implemented
individually for each web page with regard to the page content. The new website was accepted by
a certification authority (CA) and the unsecured Hypertext Transfer Protocol was replaced by
Secured Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS). It means the site is trustable and secure for
browsing. There are no plugins used and therefore an attack risk is much lower. The template was
tested on 17 screen resolutions. All tests were successful and the site is fully responsive. Almost
33% of customers use some mobile device to browse a web. The current web eliminates the loss
of visitors coming from mobile devices. Furthermore, Google officially announced that secured
and responsive websites get priority. The site speed test had two rounds. The first test can be
considered as very good. The page load time was 842ms and overall page size was 1.1.MB.
Nevertheless, after the compression of large files the site became even faster. The page size
decreased by 30% to 771,6kB and the final load time speed up by 31% to 580ms. Currently, the
website is faster than 96% of all tested domains which is a perfect score. The adjusted site speed is
7,5 times faster than the original speed. No flash, advertisement or other disruptive elements are
available on the web. The web page is newly available on Google+, Pinterest and Twitter. These
factors are able to boost direct page traffic. The design is clean and simple just to avoid leaving
customers confused. The readability is also very good. Combination of black/blue text on the white
background or white text on the black/blue background doesnt cause any readability issues. Social
buttons and a quick company contact is present on each page in header and footer section. Another
change was made in traffic measurement. The website started to use Google Analytics for tracking
visitors. The actual traffic data are more accurate and the possibility of data loss is reduced.
The main goal of diploma thesis was to improve the website traffic. The web page was
measured from 01.12.2015 to 29.02.2016. The average site traffic was 23,0 visits a day in
December 2015. This number reflects the original site traffic which was around 25 visits a day with
a decrease of 8%. The biggest change in traffic development was found between 08.01.2016 to
13.01.2016 when the average site traffic was 77,2 visits a day. Those changes are explained by an
influence of social media. Author has written a post about Atyp truhlářství on Facebook on 8th
January 2016. The post was shared by 8 people and it attracted many people to visit the website.
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From January 14th to the end of the month, the average daily traffic was 32,3 visits. The last month
was noted slightly higher traffic of 32,6 visits a day. The comparison of data from December 2015
and from February 2016 shows a visible increase in number of visits in February 2016 where the
traffic was higher by 41,7%. There is a positive increasing trend in a number of visits since the
beginning of December 2015. Moreover, majority of visitors 81,3% come from the Czech Republic
and it is a better result than by the original web pages with 62% only.
The recovery of a small joinery website atyptruhlarstvi.cz was successful. It improved the
website traffic and many other aspects as content, speed, security, responsiveness, social media etc.
The web design itself and implemented factors can be considered as crucial elements that influence
the final number of visits. For this reason, the made changes on a web page can really help small
business in rural areas to get new customers. There were also identified factors that affect an overall
website performance with an emphasis on a positive site traffic development. An overview about
different website design approaches is provided as well.
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is stacked [online]. San Mateo, 2015. Accessible from: http://www.searchmetrics.com/wpcontent/uploads/Ranking-Factors-2015-Whitepaper-US.pdf
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foundations: core concepts for digital design. New York: Focal press, Taylor & Francis
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The use of ionizing radiation in archeology
HORÁKOVÁ, Sandra
The methods using ionizing radiation for studying the archaeological artefacts have found an important place in the archaeology. The archaeologists using the ionising radiation are receiving far more comprehensive view into the past. The main area of this identification is the age of the objects, proving their authenticity and the composition analyses to determine the object origin. There is number of different methods, but for the archaeology only those methods that do not impair the subject investigated are taken into the account. This is a fundamental limiting factor for this area, as far as the monuments create an irreplaceable cultural heritage. There are number of modern methods in this area. However, not all of them are suitable for a certain material. Every method is usually suited for a narrow range of dedicated elements and limited range of ages only. This work is focused on the methods using ionizing radiation, which are the mostly used and typical for this field. Thus, the question is, whether there are any significant risks for the archaeological research in terms of the radiation protection. In order to clarify this issue, this material describes various methods and presents the results of practical measurements for the roentgen-fluorescent method. This method was selected due to its frequent usability by the archaeologists, and because the mobile analyser can be used in the field. The theoretical part of this report is focused on the basic knowledge about ionizing radiation, which is important for the understanding the issue. This is about the basic terms, such as radioactivity, ionizing radiation and its kinds, and radiation protection. In the context of radiation protection, the deterministic and stochastic effects of the ionizing radiation are outlined. The basic methods of protection against ionizing radiation and the biological effects of radiation on a human body are also described. Also the limits, embodied in the principles of radiation protection, are described. For the comprehensive overview, the radiation burden of the population is briefly described in the theoretical part of this material. The next part of this bachelor degree report is the methodology of the research, i.e., summarizes the overview of the selected methods, in which the ionizing radiation is used. Seven methods that are most commonly used and are typical for the archaeology are described. Practical measurement of the bachelor degree report presents the results of the roentgen-fluorescent analysis. Archaeological Institute of the University of South Bohemia use this method and specifically the mobile analyser Thermo Scientific NITON XL2 GOLDD. It is being used for a quantitative analysis of the samples with the primary source of low power mini roentgen tube 45 kV/W with silver anode. For the dose rate measurement from the NITON XL2 GOLDD meter, the FH-40-10 dose rate meter was used, borrowed from the nuclear power plant Temelin. Its range is 10 nSv/h - 1 Sv/h. Several items were selected for the measurement, such as the bronze sword, steel weight with the diameter of 4 cm and silver coin with the diameter of 1 cm. The measurement was accomplished after a contact application of the mobile analyser on the investigated subject, for the analysis of its composition. At the same time the dose input was measured by the FH-40-10 meter over the measured subject.
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Paramedics' awareness of blood-borne infections
DALIHODOVÁ, Andrea
My bachelor's thesis focuses on identifying paramedics' awareness of blood-borne infections. The issue of infections transmitted by blood is very extensive and complicated. Much emphasis is placed on prevention by health care employees who are threatened by infections of this kind in their day-to-day practice. For the sake of structure, the thesis is divided into two main parts. The theoretical portion presents a comprehensive overview of blood-borne diseases paramedics are exposed to while performing their work. It also explains terms such as paramedic and the importance of first aid service. The practical portion contains the actual survey and the evaluation of results. This section of the thesis uses quantitative research method via questionnaires. Data was obtained through questioning using anonymous questionnaires. The surveyed group included 90 paramedics. The aim of the work was to identify paramedics' awareness of blood-borne infections, find out what kind of personal protective equipment, if any, they use, and whether applicable regulations are being complied with. Based on the results obtained from the survey, I have concluded that paramedics are not sufficiently aware of blood-borne diseases. I also found out that 33% of the respondents violate applicable legislation by improper handling used by paramedics to the fullest possible extent. The most important aspects, I believe, are compliance with sanitary and epidemic regulations, vaccination, the availability of quality protective equipment and training as part of general prevention measures. In my opinion, more attention should be paid to providing health care workers with quality post-graduate education, the prevention of blood-borne infections, compliance with applicable regulations and the use of personal protective equipment.
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Overview and analysis of follow-up actions based on nuclear power plants stress-test results in the Czech Republic and world-wide
Ludvík, Lubomír ; bezpečnost, Ondřej Šťastný, Státní úřad pro jadernou (referee) ; Katovský, Karel (advisor)
This thesis deals with the issue of the stress tests as a reaction to Fukushima accident. Nuclear safety and control systems are generally described in different modes. Fukushima accident is analyzed and described in details. Special attention is focused on the final results and lessons learnt as the background for stress tests goals. The main part of the thesis are the stress tests at all NPP in the European Union overview. Scope of tests was focused on resistance to extreme environmental conditions, a complete loss of safety systems and actions with solution of the severe accidents, including reactor core melting and subsequent effects. The Czech NPPs are discussed in detail, the others in particular way. Finally, recommendations that will be implemented within a few years are summarized. It will strengthen the management of severe accidents beyond the design basic events.
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