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Taxonomy of bird schistosomes not only in planorbid snails in Europe
Holická, Monika ; Kolářová, Libuše (referee)
Cercarial dermatitis caused by bird schitosomes is in focus not only by scientists, but also by the general public. The disease has medical and economic impact, and it is responsible for financial losses in many resorts all around the world. Only some causative agents of the disease are known, because of parasite cryptic life style and biology (e.g. size and location of adults in the definitive host; gonochorism) and inaccurate descriptions in the past. With the onset of modern molecular methods taxonomic revisions of old species of bird schistosomes and descriptions of new ones are of top interest. In Europe pulmonate snails are used by bird schistosomes as intermediate hosts, with some exceptions. Descriptions of new species and genera were recently focused on findings from lymnaeid molluscs, in which the genus Trichobilharzia (the most significant causative agent of cercarial dermatitis) is often developing. Therefore, less attention was paid to the snails of the family Planorbidae. Planorbid snails are most commonly infected by the species of Bilharziella polonica, its typical host in Europe is Planorbarius corneus, less common hosts are Planorbis planorbis, Bathyomphalus contortus or Anisus vortex. B. polonica is spread all over the world. There are also known findings from the Czech Republic....
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Taxonomy of bird schistosomes not only in planorbid snails in Europe
Holická, Monika ; Kolářová, Libuše (referee)
Cercarial dermatitis caused by bird schitosomes is in focus not only by scientists, but also by the general public. The disease has medical and economic impact, and it is responsible for financial losses in many resorts all around the world. Only some causative agents of the disease are known, because of parasite cryptic life style and biology (e.g. size and location of adults in the definitive host; gonochorism) and inaccurate descriptions in the past. With the onset of modern molecular methods taxonomic revisions of old species of bird schistosomes and descriptions of new ones are of top interest. In Europe pulmonate snails are used by bird schistosomes as intermediate hosts, with some exceptions. Descriptions of new species and genera were recently focused on findings from lymnaeid molluscs, in which the genus Trichobilharzia (the most significant causative agent of cercarial dermatitis) is often developing. Therefore, less attention was paid to the snails of the family Planorbidae. Planorbid snails are most commonly infected by the species of Bilharziella polonica, its typical host in Europe is Planorbarius corneus, less common hosts are Planorbis planorbis, Bathyomphalus contortus or Anisus vortex. B. polonica is spread all over the world. There are also known findings from the Czech Republic....
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Lifestyle of the Third Age University Students
HOLICKÁ, Monika
Lifestyle of the University of the Third Age listeners The thesis as a whole is written in the spirit of the quality of senior life and active spending an old age. First chapter ? Current status - represents the theoretical frame of the thesis which introduces the reader with the key issues essential for the correct understanding of the work. In its´ main subchapters are described demographical development and the population aging, life quality of senior people and social security in old age. Special chapter is dedicated to the tools of an active old age where the both national and international activities on this field are described, the types of senior organizations such as Active seniors clubs or People´s universities are divided, and separate chapter deals with the education of senior people including the description of educational activities like University of the Third Age or the Academy of the Third Age. The last part of mentioned chapter is dedicated to functions, targets and positive results of the senior people education. Remaining chapters concern the qualitative research. In the chapter two the objective of the thesis is defined, including the main and component research questions. The objective of the thesis is to describe the lifestyle of the senior people who participate on the educational activities within the University of the Third Age (U3V). Specifically to describe how their lifestyle differs unlike to the senior people who does not attend the educational courses via U3V and which positive benefits the study brings. The secondary objective is to determine the factors that impede these senior people to attend the Universities of the Third Age. Third chapter refers to the detailed description of the research methodology. The qualitative attitude with the research design of the case study was chosen for this thesis. I used the moderated interview method and the semi-structured interview for the data collecting and right after the framework analysis was chosen in order to process gathered data. To evaluate the data I used the case comparison method. This chapter also includes the description of the research sample selection and also its characteristics. Forth chapter presents the results of evaluated interviews. Whereas the research file was divided into three groups, also these results have a structure of three separated subchapters. The summary of gathered key knowledge is mentioned at the end of this chapter. I managed to identify the base differences in particular branches of senior people lifestyles between senior people that attend the U3V educational activities, those who don´t and the senior people participate in the Active senior clubs thanks to the comparison of the particular case studies. It is possible briefly to say that the result shows us that the U3V study has no influence on the softening of the feeling of loneliness, although the important role of the U3V in senior people lives mainly in giving them both the kind of meaning of life and the opportunity to spend old age actively with the people of the same generation with the same interests. Senior people who do not attend the educational activities indicate the lower number of meetings with other people, but on the other hand they meet their relatives much more often, in some cases every day, and thanks to this fact, they do not feel the loneliness and see their meaning of life in the care od family. This is the reason, why they do not have a need to attend other activities. After this chapter the Discussion follows, which compares the gathered results of the research with already publicized knowledge. The conclusion, bibliographic sources and the annexes are placed in the end of the thesis.
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Extra-curricular education of adults with mild and moderate mental disorders importance, possibilities, perspectives.
HOLICKÁ, Monika
The Bachelor{\crq}s Thesis focuses on education, the prestige of which is continuously growing. Lifelong learning is becoming a part of everyone{\crq}s life. The first chapter describes the current state of affairs and it acquaints the reader with the consequences of the ever increasing demands of society on education. The individual sub-chapters provide a description of the historical development of adult learning, explain more about lifelong learning and give a more detailed description of the nonformal and extra-curricular education of adults. A separate sub-chapter is devoted to the education of adults with mental retardation. The second chapter explains the results of the qualitative research project conducted with organizations that provide extra-curricular education to adults with mental disorders and with organizations who do not cater for these persons. The conclusion presents a description of the motivation factors that lead staff in charge to implement these activities and the problems which they face. What concerns selected providers of extra-curricular education who do not cater for people with mental disorders, a description is given of the obstacles that prevent them from offering such learning programmes. Furthermore, the extra-curricular education programmes for adults with mental disorders on offer in the South Bohemian Region were mapped as part of the research project. The Bachelor{\crq}s Thesis may serve as a source of inspiration for the representatives of educational institutions and organizations in their including learning activities designed for persons with mental disorders in their programmes. It may also serve as a source of information in what regards the problems connected with the implementation of such activities.
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