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The impact of human knowledge on animals and plants
Richterová, Klaudie ; Thein, Karel (advisor) ; Jirsa, Jakub (referee)
Název práce: Dopad lidského poznání na zvířata a rostliny Vedoucí práce: doc. PhDr. Karel Thein, Ph.D. Vypracovala: Klaudie Richterová Abstrakt anglicky The last century has seen the rise of interest in the welfare of animals and one of the leaders of this movement has been the philosopher Peter Singer. His theory says that animals have their own interests, just like humans, because they are able to feel pleasure and pain. On the basis of this assumption he recurs to the principle of equal consideration of interests. Nevertheless this principle applies only to animals and human beings. However, modern research proves that humans and animals are not the only sentient beings on the Earth. Plants are not simply passive things in vegetative state. According to the current research, plants are active individuals who communicate with each other, have their own system of self-defence and basically their own way of life. In accordance with this new scientific knowledge we should include plants into the application of the principle of equal consideration of interests that is if we do not want to be proponents of species superiority.
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Scientific Research Capacity and Innovation in the EU - Virtuality
Slavický, Marek ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Procházková Ilinitchi, Cristina (referee)
In today's globalizing world high-quality research and development is becoming an even more significant requirement for a competitive country. Modern communication technologies open up new possibilities of a simpler, cheaper and more effective long-distance cooperation between researchers. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to provide insight into the current state of scientific research in the EU and determine, how the new communication technologies are used on the level of the EU and its member states. Virtuality can be understood as any type of communication mediated by computers over information networks. The first chapter presents general characteristics of scientific research and shows how virtuality influences it. The second chapter describes the development of scientific research, current trends, institutions and programs in the EU and analyses the application of virtuality in scientific research in the EU. Similarly, the last chapter focuses on the state of virtuality and scientific research , but on the level of national states, specifically the Czech Republic.
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Evaluation in Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - past, present and future
Ráb, Petr ; Laiblová Kadlecová, Ivana
All past evaluation of AS CR is defined. Structure and organization of AS CR,- institutes, people, budgeting ; Past Evaluations 1993 - 2004 - internal, external, methodologies, results & consequences ; Past Evaluation 2008 - data-set, collecting data, bibliometry & scientometry, methodology, measurable structure and output of AS CR institutes ; Present Evaluation 2010 - automated data collecting system, bibliometry & scientometry + international context + peer & panel system.
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Organisation of the scientific and research base at the universities of agriculture in the years 1963-70
Mikovcová, Alena
The political détente in the 60's made posiible a boom of various forms of the institutionalisation ofscientific research in the University of Agriculture Prague and Brno. Very significant were scientific and researchactivities in new workplaces of school farms and enterprises, in stations established under natural conditions and in special laboratories. Corporated bodies of the agricultural universities and of the Czechoslovac Academy of Science were founded for their common activity.
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Socioeconomic and environmental development in protected landscape areas
Homola, Jakub ; Macháček, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kramulová, Jana (referee)
The analysis of environmental, economic and social effects, that appear in area as a result of its declaration to be protected. This strict mode of protection of natural and landscape qualities, limiting possibilities to use, brings various results, that I analyse. The teoretical part is based on an analysis of Czech and international legislature of protected areas -- especially Natura 2000 and program UNESCO Man and biosphere. An important output of this thesis is description of purposes of general declaration of protected areas. The analytic part ilustrates the real development in protected areas, including historical connections. The final, generalizing, part charakterizes discovered effects of declaration of protection.
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