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Measuring corruption in developed countries
Bajzíková, Anna ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Janda, Karel (referee)
The complex issue of corruption has attracted much attention over the last 20 years. The problem was analyzed mostly in the context of developing and transition countries, though not only the recent financial crisis showed the severity of corruption also in the world's most developed countries. This thesis analyzes twelve currently available corruption assessments for a cross section of 39 developed countries in the period 2007-2010. The thesis categorizes these assessments into three basic generations and characterizes the weaknesses and limitations of particular methods. The analysis is based on determination of relationship between individual corruption measures and recognizes specific aspects of corruption actually measured by particular indices. With the exception of strictly opinion poll-based corruption indices, the first and the second generation of corruption indices correlate well for a set of developed countries. This indicates that the sector specific indices, e.g. expenditure corruption assessment, are in analyzed countries closely related to the overall political corruption levels. An applied hierarchical cluster analysis gives better picture of otherwise inconsistent developed countries corruption rankings and divides countries into ten homogeneous groups. However, the analysis...
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Measuring corruption in developed countries
Bajzíková, Anna ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Janda, Karel (referee)
The complex issue of corruption has attracted much attention over the last 20 years. The problem was analyzed mostly in the context of developing and transition countries, though not only the recent financial crisis showed the severity of corruption also in the world's most developed countries. This thesis analyzes twelve currently available corruption assessments for a cross section of 39 developed countries in the period 2007-2010. The thesis categorizes these assessments into three basic generations and characterizes the weaknesses and limitations of particular methods. The analysis is based on determination of relationship between individual corruption measures and recognizes specific aspects of corruption actually measured by particular indices. With the exception of strictly opinion poll-based corruption indices, the first and the second generation of corruption indices correlate well for a set of developed countries. This indicates that the sector specific indices, e.g. expenditure corruption assessment, are in analyzed countries closely related to the overall political corruption levels. An applied hierarchical cluster analysis gives better picture of otherwise inconsistent developed countries corruption rankings and divides countries into ten homogeneous groups. However, the analysis...
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The preparation of porous materials for radionuclide capture
Bajzíková, Anna ; Smrček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Hrubý, Martin (referee)
Title: The Preparation of Porous Materials for Radionuclide Capture Author: Bc. Anna Bajzíková Curriculum: Teaching of Chemistry and Biology for Secondary Schools Type of thesis: Master's Department: Department of Teaching and Didactics of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague Elaborated: Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Psysical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague Advisor: Doc. Ing. Stanislav Smrček, CSc. Consultant: RNDr. Ján Kozempel, Ph.D. Abstract: The use of radionuclides is still increasing and with it also increases the amount of radioactive waste and this waste have to be processed. This thesis is focused on the preparation, characterization and testing of porous materials which could be used for the process of this waste. There were prepared and characterized materials based on silica and zirkonia with a modified surface. For the modification were used styren with divinilbenzene, polyacrilonitrile and diglycolamides at different configurations of these materials. Furthermore, there were prepared materials based on hydroxyapatite and its modifications. Prepared sorbents were tested for radionuclide capture - flow through the column and also in the static experiments. The capture of 227Ac and its daughter's radionuclides...
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The preparation of porous materials for radionuclide capture
Bajzíková, Anna ; Smrček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Čuba, Václav (referee)
This thesis is focused on the preparation of porous materials which may be usable for radionuclide uptake. These characteristics can be found at nanoporous materials (size of pores 1 - 100 nm) or at polymers. Nanoporous metal oxides and silica gel with styrene-divinylbenzene-TODGA modified surface were prepared and characterized for this purposes. All new prepared substances were tested for the efficiency of radionuclides capture. These measurements were done in Ústav jaderného výzkumu in Řež or in our laboratory.
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Measuring corruption in developed countries
Bajzíková, Anna ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Janda, Karel (referee)
The complex issue of corruption has attracted much attention over the last 20 years. The problem was analyzed mostly in the context of developing and transition countries, though not only the recent financial crisis showed the severity of corruption also in the world's most developed countries. This thesis analyzes twelve currently available corruption assessments for a cross section of 39 developed countries in the period 2007-2010. The thesis categorizes these assessments into three basic generations and characterizes the weaknesses and limitations of particular methods. The analysis is based on determination of relationship between individual corruption measures and recognizes specific aspects of corruption actually measured by particular indices. With the exception of strictly opinion poll-based corruption indices, the first and the second generation of corruption indices correlate well for a set of developed countries. This indicates that the sector specific indices, e.g. expenditure corruption assessment, are in analyzed countries closely related to the overall political corruption levels. An applied hierarchical cluster analysis gives better picture of otherwise inconsistent developed countries corruption rankings and divides countries into ten homogeneous groups. However, the analysis...
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Measuring corruption in developed countries
Bajzíková, Anna ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Janda, Karel (referee)
The complex issue of corruption has attracted much attention over the last 20 years. The problem was analyzed mostly in the context of developing and transition countries, though not only the recent financial crisis showed the severity of corruption also in the world's most developed countries. This thesis analyzes twelve currently available corruption assessments for a cross section of 39 developed countries in the period 2007-2010. The thesis categorizes these assessments into three basic generations and characterizes the weaknesses and limitations of particular methods. The analysis is based on determination of relationship between individual corruption measures and recognizes specific aspects of corruption actually measured by particular indices. With the exception of strictly opinion poll-based corruption indices, the first and the second generation of corruption indices correlate well for a set of developed countries. This indicates that the sector specific indices, e.g. expenditure corruption assessment, are in analyzed countries closely related to the overall political corruption levels. An applied hierarchical cluster analysis gives better picture of otherwise inconsistent developed countries corruption rankings and divides countries into ten homogeneous groups. However, the analysis...
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