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Korupce v křesťanském národě: „Ovlivňuje křesťanská víra úroveň korupce ve společnosti?“
Kraus, František ; Houdek, Petr (advisor) ; Svoboda, Miroslav (referee)
What are the determinants of corruption? This thesis builds upon contemporary approaches to assessing the level of corruption in different countries using purely economic determinants such as the aggregate income, level of education, openness to trade or taxation. This method is further enhanced by involving variables mapping the religiosity of the surveyed states as institutional determinants. Faith works as an agent that reduces selfish behavior and stresses moral values, thus it should prove to reduce corruption. The dataset involves data of 30 countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the years 1999-2010. Two independent OLS models are set up using corruption perception indicators as endogenous variables; one with purely economic determinants, and the other with added religious determinants of corruption. Expansion of the model gives out a more robust set of results with greater determination. The results show that increasing number of Protestants in a society correlates with lower levels of corruption. The effect of the government spending on education has been considerably reduced after involving the religious variables. However, corruption does not seem to be influenced by the percentage of Christians in total population.
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Economic rationale of private donors
Miklovičová, Katarína ; Hlaváček, Jiří (advisor) ; Turnovec, František (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze motivation of companies to support social, environmental and development projects. The analysis is focused on Central European companies, namely the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. In the empirical part of the research interviews with selected companies and non-profit organizations are conducted. By interviewing both sides we can see how both donors and main recipients view the motivation behind the support. Afterwards, the relationship between supporting social, environmental and development projects and long term financial performance is examined. Coefficients are assigned to each company according to their involvement in the three categories - social, environmental and development. As measures of financial performance we choose stock market returns, which are then regressed on the three coefficients and selected control variables. The regression results show that supporting development projects tends to have a positive influence on companies' stock market performance. We do not confirm that supporting social and environmental projects improves stock market performance of companies. This outcome suggests that supporting development projects is a win-win situation for both companies and non-profit organizations. Companies can improve their...
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Route Mapping for Wheelchair Users in Protected Landscape Area Broumovsko
Gürtlerová, Jana ; Ortová, Marie (advisor) ; Pařízek, Michal (referee)
This work deals with accessibility of nature sites for the handicapped people, particularly wheelchair users. It informs about the accessibility of protected landscape areas and national parks in the Czech Republic. The legislative frame of the system of tourism for wheelchair users is still insufficient. Thanks to a few organizations and individuals, several handicapped-accessible nature trails were developed. The aim of this work is to map current possibilities of visiting the Protected Landscape Area Broumovsko on a wheelchair. Although the terrain of the area is rather difficult to acces, it was possible to create six new trails through this countryside. The tracks are suitable for wheelchair users in mechanical wheelchair with company. Five of these tracks lead through the area of Broumov's rocks and last track shows a part of the Adršpach Rock Town. The trails vary from three to six kilometers of length and they mostly covered with tarmac. One of the aims of the thesis is to produce an information leaflet monitoring routes for wheelchair users. In addition, it provides a detailed description of the routes on web sites of the Local Authority of CHKO Broumovsko and a few wheelchair users' organisations. The text of a leaflet containts information about accommodation and refreshment facilities for...
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Sports reporting in the countrywide and regional daily paper
Kaufnerová, Jana ; Halada, Jan (advisor) ; Lukšů, David (referee)
The aim of this thesis is the comparison of sport reporting in the countrywide daily Sport and regional dailies Tachovsky and Breclavsky denik. This comparison is under two ways: the first one is a content analysis of these three dailies in a time period of fourteen days, the second one involves the comparison of work of sport journalists in a countrywide daily and regional daily. A content analysis of the sport pages enabled a comparison of dailies among themselves in categories such as number and structure of units, gender of all the units, photos and newspaper's front page, dependence the unit on its time categorization, source of the units, representation of each sport, the sport level of sport represented in units, the structure of sponsors, who are connected with units and so on. This content analysis together with the other theoretical parts of thesis gives an informational background for the qualitative analysis of the variance at sport journalist work in each daily mentioned above. Research has shown that their work is different in many aspects, not only in the area of media routines, prestige, salary, membership in the departmental organizations, but in the relationship with their readers as well. Apparently working in regional journalism has its specifics and they are present at sport...
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Proposing the financial performance prediction index for decision support of the hospital management
Hajdíková, Taťána ; Černá, Anna (advisor) ; Lieskovská, Vanda (referee) ; Lazar, Jaromír (referee)
Dissertation thesis deals with the managerial needs in the area of financial health. Managers need a tool to reveal the impending financial failure or to assess the financial quality of the organization. They link their decisions to performance, ability to pay, employee productivity, financial resources and financial risk. In the theoretical part of the thesis it is necessary to explain the non-profit sector and its connection with the hospital environment. It is also necessary to introduce models used both in the Czech Republic and abroad, which share common elements. The basic aim of this thesis is to propose a financial performance prediction index for decision support of the hospital management, the owners of hospitals and insurance companies. To achieve the basic goal, three sub-goals must be accomplished. The first goal is to divide the hospitals into healthy and unhealthy by using the multi-criteria methods. The second goal is, based on an expert approach with the support of statistical methods, the selection of indicators appropriate for the hospital environment and the third goal is to find a suitable method for the determination of weighted representation of individual indicators in the proposed index and to assemble the final form of the new financial index for the hospital environment.
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Fourier transformation for exon prediction
Rusina, Michal ; Škutková, Helena (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
In this bachelor thesis there are described the methods of the prediction of exon. The first part is aimed at the difference between the prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, the description of the DNA structure and the explanation of the terms exon and intron. The second section of the theoretic part includes four methods of the prediction of exons namely dynamic programming, neural networks, hidden Markov models and discrete Fourier transform. In the practical part there was created the program called Predikce_exonu that searches exons in nucleotide sequences and works on the principle of the Fourier transform. This algorithm together with 3 freely available programs was tested on 25 sequences and the success of their prediction was described by sensitivity and specificity.
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Causes and consequences of the global economic crisis in 2008
Cincibus, Ivan ; Severová, Lucie (advisor) ; Soukup, Alexandr (referee)
The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is made in the format of literary research. It defines and describes the basic terms that are closely related to the topic. It devotes to the key aspects that contributed to the crisis. It specifies the beginning of the crisis and its impact on the participants.
The analytical part uses the techniques of financial analysis. Based on the analysis of financial data it explains the course of the crisis in two organizations. Through cross-comparison of outputs of financial analysis is possible to monitor the course of the crisis in the specific companies BYSTROŇ Group a.s. and LUCEO, s.r.o.
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Cycling of selected metals in the environment.
Šebková, Michaela ; Diviš, Pavel (referee) ; Dočekalová, Hana (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with a group of selected metals (nickel, zinc, copper, cadmium and lead) in environmental components. It occupies with natural and anthropogenic inputs of metals to the atmosphere, the water und the soil and with their transport among them components. It engages too in a question of a penetration of metals to the biosphere and in their ensuant transport within the biosphere. At each metal is description of its natural sources, chemical and physical properties, inputs in environment, transport within the biosphere and positive and negative effects on living organism is described for each studied metal. The last chapter of this thesis deals with determination of selected metals in environmental components. It discribes procedures of determination from planning over sampling and processing of sample to the final determination of metals by instrumental methods.
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