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The New Cargo Aircraft for ACR
Mácha, Petr ; Chlebek, Jiří (referee) ; Ptáček, Pavel (advisor)
The purpose of this bachelor project is selection the new cargo aircraft for ACR. There is charakterized present condition of military cargo aircraft in Armed Forces of the Czech republic and causes of its renovation. The part of a project is exhaustive listing of demands on the new aircraft. Each parts contains subareas of this issue. Major part of this project is paid to choosing inner cabinet of aircraft from this category and their brief description. Last part solves choosing of the best candidate from the existent group.
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Screening for hypermobility and shortened muscles in professional soldiers
Veselouš, Tomáš ; Nováková, Tereza (advisor) ; Maršáková, Kateřina (referee)
Author: Bc. Tomáš Veselouš Supervisor: PhDr. Tereza Nováková, Ph.D. Title: Screening of hypermobility, shortened muscle groups and trunk stability in professional soldiers Objectives: The aim of the thesis was to determine and verify the condition of the musculoskeletal system, especially hypermobility according to Beighton, shortened muscle groups according to Janda and trunk stability according to Kolář in a specific group, namely in soldiers of the 13th Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Czech Republic. Other objectives were to verify the relationship between hypermobility and trunk stability, between hamstrings and trunk stability, and finally between shortened muscle groups and stretching before and after training. Methods: The research involved 171 soldiers of the 13th Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Czech Republic. Participants were subjected to three tests: testing of hypermobility according to Beighton, examination of shortened muscle groups according to Janda and examination of trunk stability according to Kolář. The obtained data were processed using descriptive statistics and Pearson's chi-square test. Results: Out of the total number of 171 participants, 24.6% were hypermobile. When examining shortened muscles groups test, the largest proportion of shortening occurred in the...
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Medial reflection of the invasion of Varsavia Pact army to Czechoslovakia in chosen italian daily newspapers
Růžičková, Sabina ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Křenová, Kateřina (referee)
Mediální obraz vstupu vojsk Varšavské smlouvy do Československa ve vybraných italských denících Media portrayal of Warsaw pact invasion to Czechoslovakia in selected Italian newspapers Bc. Sabina Růžičková Abstract The diploma work "Media portrayal of Warsaw pact invasion to Czechoslovakia in selected Italian newspapers" brings closer look at this historical phenomena from the view of several Italian newspapers. The task was to analyze journals published on the Apennine Peninsula and their reporting about this invasion regarding their political profile. The examined units were the form, the content and size of reports. In the beginning of my thesis, I was trying to provide a closer look at the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1968, the process of becoming more liberal and free, which was violently interrupted in August 1968 by the Warsaw troops. In the end of my diploma, I used a comparative historical analysis to see how the particular Italian media informed its readers about the situation and how much they different in the point of view at the situation
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Czech Citizens about Defense of the Czech Republic – June/July 2023
Kyselá, Monika
In the June and July 2023 the Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to NATO and defense of Czech Republic in general in its survey (find out more in previous article). Questions focused mainly on ability of the Czech Republic to defend its own sovereingty, attitudes towards defense expenditures, and exaluation of army's quality in comparison to developed western countries.\n\nThe Czech public largely agrees (84 %) that the sovereignty of the state must be defended at all costs. Compared to 2022, there has been a decrease of 9 percentage points after a significant increase. The situation is now at a level comparable to 2020.\nDespite this, more than half (56 %) of respondents doubt the Czech Republic's ability to defend itself if something would happen, compared to two-fifths of respondents (40 %) who disagree with this statement. Compared to 2022, confidence in the Czech Republic's ability to defend itself has increased by 13 percentage points.\nLess than half (47 %) of respondents do not consider the defence of the Czech Republic to be essential, as we are one of the small countries whose fate is in the hands of the superpowers anyway. Here there was an eight-point drop in scepticism.\nLess than two-fifths of respondents (39 %) think that our army is on a comparable level with the armies of Western countries. Compared to the last survey, there has been an increase in disagreeing responses, i.e. the view that our army is not on a par with that of advanced Western countries (from 46 % to 52 %), with the highest proportion of such sceptical responses found so far\nAlmost half of the respondents (46 %) said that defence spending is an unnecessary burden on the state budget. Compared to the significant increase in support for military funding in 2022, the proportions in this year's survey revert back to previous trends from 2015-2020.
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Trust in institutions of public life and interpersonal trust - April/May 2023
Kyselá, Monika
Of the public institutions surveyed, the police (74%), the army and banks (68%) are the most trusted. On the other hand churches (28%) and political parties & movements (24%) are the least trusted.\nHigher prevalence of trust over distrust is also evident in the case of courts, opinion polls, trade unions and radio. In relation to non-profit organisations, trust and distrust are more or less equal. For the remaining institutions (television, the internet), mistrust is already slightly or strongly prevalent (political parties and movements, churches, the press).\nCompared to the previous survey of March 2022 and August 2021 respectively, the biggest changes were recorded in the case of trade unions (10 percentage point increase in trust), non-profit organisations, opinion polls and political parties (6 percentage point increase in trust), the internet (5 percentage point increase in trust) banks and radio (4 percentage point increase in trust). The army and the police, on the other hand, recorded a year-on-year decline in trust (by 5 percentage points).\nInterpersonal (social) trust is slightly lower in Czech society compared to the previous survey from March 2022. 94% of respondents trust their closest relatives (down by 4 percentage points), while 73% trust ordinary people (down by 6 percentage points).
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The effects of total sleep deprivation and ammonia inhalants on the cognitive and physical abilities of military personnel
Maleček, Jan ; Tufano, James Joseph (advisor) ; Conkright, William (referee) ; Kročová, Zuzana (referee)
Given that this dissertation is built up upon three sequential studies, the objectives, methods and results of the thesis are accordingly divided into three distinct subsections (a, b, and c), each corresponding to an individual study. Title: The effects of total sleep deprivation and ammonia inhalants on the cognitive and physical abilities of military personnel Objectives: a) Conducting a literature review to identify the current understanding on the topic and substantial gaps in the literature by investigating the impact of ammonia inhalations on cognitive and physical performance. b) Conducting a methodological study to examine lacking test-retest reliability of standard-issued static and dynamic military shooting protocols for comprehensive investigation of the of total sleep deprivation impact and ammonia inhalants on handgun shooting accuracy. c) Conducting a control trial study to investigate the effectiveness of ammonia inhalants in altering the impact of 36 hours of total sleep deprivation on battery of cognitive and physical performance tests relevant for military personnel. Methods: a) For the purpose of this literature review, a search of the following electronic databases by the author JM was performed: MEDLINE by PubMed, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Due to the paucity...
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Army and Security: The Role of Czechoslovak Television's Army, Security and Military Ability Department between 1958 and 1990
Krušinová, Karolína ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Růžička, Daniel (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the history and functioning of Czechoslovak Television's Army, Security and Military Ability Department in the years 1958-1990. The author first introduces the reader to the historical context and maps the changes that Czechoslovak Television went through in connection with political situation, with an emphasis on the period of the Prague Spring, August 1968, and the subsequent onset of normalization. This part of the thesis also introduces readers to the position of the media in the political mechanism of Czechoslovakia and its interventions in the functioning of the media. The thesis also deals in detail with the Television's Army, Security and Military Ability Department itself, its main tasks, history and contractually secured connection to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Defence. In this part of the thesis, the method of department's financing and organizational structure are also described, including the tasks of employees and the editor-in-chief Miloslav Broumský. The author draws not only from available book sources, but mainly from internal primary sources obtained during archival research in the archives of Czech Television, the National Archive and the Military Historical Archive. Information obtained through archival...
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Effect of lighting conditions on fine hand motor skills in sleep deprived soldiers
Szewieczek, Jakub ; Maleček, Jan (advisor) ; Michalička, Vladimír (referee)
Title: Effect of lighting conditions on fine hand motor skills in sleep deprived soldiers Objectives: Determination of the effect of sleep deprivation performed during blue light exposure and during blue light blocking on fine motor skills of the hands. Methods: This theoretical-empirical work was conducted on a research cohort of 8 young men (n = 8) with an average age of 22,6 ± 1.6 years, height of 181,1 ± 3,7 cm and weight of 76,9 ± 4,9 kg. The participants were volunteers from the Military Physical Education Department at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport (FPE) of Charles University (UK). The participants were induced into total sleep deprivation for 36 hours in two interventions. During this time, they followed established rules to avoid bias in the results and the course of the intervention was conducted according to standardized conditions. The first sleep deprivation intervention was performed in light and the second in darkness with blue light blocking. Disassembly and machine gun collection took place at fixed times and conditions, always at 7:30 am and 7:30 pm. Before each measurement, probands completed the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) questionnaire, which monitored the subjective level of sleepiness. In total, four measurements were taken with sleep deprivation and one...
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