The Effect of Anthelmintic Treatment on Coccidia Oocyst Shedding in a Wild Mammal Host with Intermittent Cestode Infection

While hosts are routinely exploited by a community of parasite species, the principles governing host responses towards parasites are unclear. Identifying the health outcomes of coinfections involving helminth macroparasites and microparasites is one area of importance for public and domestic animal health. For instance, it is controversial how deworming programmes affect incidence and severity of such important microparasite diseases as malaria. One problem is that most study systems involve domestic and laboratory animals with conditions hardly comparable to those of free-living animals. Here, we study the effect of anthelmintic treatment on coccidia infection intensity in wild Alpine marmots, M. marmota. Our results lend support to the hypothesis that helminth infection has a positive effect on concurrent microparasite infection. However, our work also points to the fact that within-host interactions between helminths and microparasites are context-dependent and can turn to negative ones once helminth burdens increase. Our study suggests that coccidia benefit from intermittent helminth infection in marmots due to the protective effects of helminth infection only during the early phase of the host’s active season. Also, the marmot’s response towards coccidia infection appears optimal only under no helminth infection when the host immune response towards coccidia would not be compromised, thereby pointing to the importance of regular intestinal helminth elimination by marmots just before hibernation

Pillar 3: market discipline of the key stakeholders in CEE commercial bank and turbulent times

The study presented in the paper contributes to covering the gap in the area of sufficient information disclosure that also increases the interests of relevant stakeholders in contributing to depository market discipline and in being relevant to their interest within Pillar 3 framework. This paper is focused on an analysis of website data dedicated to Pillar 3 disclosures of commercial banks and on studying the behaviour of stakeholders in relation to the timing of serious market turbulence. The examined data consists of log files that were pre-processed using web mining techniques and from which were extracted frequent itemsets by quarters and evaluated in terms of quantity. The authors have proposed a methodology to evaluate frequent itemsets of web parts over a dedicated time period. The results show that stakeholders’ interest in disclosures is lower after turbulent times in 2009, higher in the first quarter, also higher together with annual reports (lower for Pillar 3 solo information). The paper’s results suggest that further changes in commercial banks´ information disclosure are inevitable in order to achieve an effective market discipline mechanism and meaningful disclosures according to the regulator´s expectations

Web usage analysis of Pillar 3 disclosed information by deposit customers in turbulent times

Market discipline has been a scrutinized area since the last financial crisis in 2008. Regulators strengthened their role particularly through Pillar 3 in Basel III. However, there are still some aspects of market discipline that deserve special attention to avoid future failures. This study focuses on the analysis of the interest and behaviour of deposit stakeholders based on website data dedicated to disclosures of commercial bank in Slovakia during and after turbulent times (period 2009–2012). The data consists of log files, and web mining techniques were applied (the modelling of web user behaviour in dependence on time - based on the proposals of the authors). The results show that also in turbulent times, stakeholders’ interest in Pillar 3 disclosures is low (in line with (Munk, Pilkova, Benko, & Blažeková, 2017)) and the highest interest was identified for the Pricing List category. After turbulent times, Pillar 3 categories (Pillar 3 related information and Pillar 3 disclosures) have weak interest, with peaks at the beginning of the year, and the highest increase was in the Business Conditions category. The results suggest that the enhancement of interest of key stakeholders in disclosures inevitably requires changes to deliver sufficient disclosure data structures and to design a disclosure policy that fulfils regulatory expectations. © 2021 The AuthorsScientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR); Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) [VEGA-1/0776/18, VEGA-1/0821/21]Slovenská Akadémia Vied, SAV: VEGA-1/0776/18, VEGA-1/0821/2

Aesthetic opinions of Friedrich Nietzsche

Tato práce se zaměřuje na F. Nietzscheho pojetí umění v jeho rané tvorbě, především na umění v podobě řecké tragédie, hudbu a básnictví. Je zohledněn vývoj jeho myšlení a samozřejmě i to, kdo ho při jeho tvorbě nejvíce ovlivnil.ObhájenoThis work is focusing on Friedrich Nietzsche´s conception of art in his early period, particularly on art as greek tragedy, music and poetry. The development of his ideas is taken into account and of course, who influenced him most

Analysis of development of the Slovak foreign trade after joining the EU

Hlavním cílem této bakalářské práce je na základě provedené analýzy charakterizovat vývoj zahraničního obchodu Slovenska od vstupu do EU, tedy v rozpětí let 2004-2011. Práce je rozčleněna do tří kapitol. Úvodní kapitola je zaměřena na předchozí vývoj slovenské ekonomiky z důvodu lepšího pochopení změn, které nastaly v zahraničně obchodních vztazích SR. Druhá kapitola popisuje společnou obchodní politiku EU s cílem definovat vliv jejího přijetí na zahraniční obchod Slovenska. Závěrečná kapitola obsahuje analýzu zahraničního obchodu SR z pohledu komoditní a teritoriální skladby a základních ukazatelů obchodu, při současném zohlednění dopadů krize a přijetí jednotné měny euro na zahraniční obchod Slovenska.The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe the development of foreign trade of the Slovak Republic after the entry to the European Union - 2004-2011. Analysis was the method used. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is focused on the former development of the Slovak economy, because of better understanding of the changes that occurred in the Slovak Republic's foreign trade relations. The second chapter describes the common trade policy in order to define the impact of its acceptance on the foreign trade of the Slovak Republic. The last chapter contains analysis of foreign trade of the SR from commodity and territorial point of view and basic trade indicators, with crisis and Euro adoption taking into account.Hlavným cieľom tejto bakalárskej práce je na základe vykonanej analýzy charakterizovať vývoj zahraničného obchodu Slovenska od vstupu do EÚ, teda v rozpätí rokov 2004-2011. Práca je rozčlenená do troch kapitol. Úvodná kapitola je zameraná na predchádzajúci vývoj slovenskej ekonomiky z dôvodu lepšieho pochopenia zmien, ktoré nastali v zahraničnoobchodných vzťahoch SR. Druhá kapitola popisuje spoločnú obchodnú politiku EÚ s cieľom definovať vplyv jej prijatia na zahraničný obchod Slovenska. Záverečná kapitola obsahuje analýzu zahraničného obchodu SR z pohľadu komoditnej a teritoriálnej skladby a základných ukazovateľov obchodu, pri súčasnom zohľadnení dopadov krízy a prijatia jednotnej meny euro na zahraničný obchod Slovenska

The importance of SMEs for the development of foreign trade of Slovak Republic

The main aim of my thesis is to characterize and quantify the importance of SMEs to the economy and foreign trade of Slovak Republic. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter describes SMEs sector and its main features.The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the position of SMEs in the economy of Slovakia.The third chapter analyzes the significance of SMEs for Slovakia's foreign trade. The aim of the last chapter is to characterize the various support options available for Slovak SMEs

Old and new left in Czech Republic

Tématem diplomové práce je komparace staré a nové levice na české politické scéně. Diplomová práce se zaměřuje na komparaci vybraných relevantních politických subjektů působících v ČR. Práce zkoumá rozdíly a podobnosti mezi KSČM, socialistickým křídlem ČSSD na jedné straně a Zelenými a levicově-liberálními tendencemi a odnožemi ČSSD (například Idealisté) na straně druhé. Práce je rozdělena do tří hlavních částí. První část práce je částí teoretickou. V této části operacionalizuji pojmy politická strana, politické hnutí, levo- pravá osa politického spektra, stará levice, nová levice a další. Vysvětlení pojmů je důležité pro následující pochopení práce. V druhé části práce analyzuji významné a relevantní politické strany. Zaměřuji se na jejich vznik a vývoj, volební program, na jejich postoj k vybraným otázkám, elektorát a na jejich případnou spolupráci mezi sebou ad. Třetí závěrečná část je částí komparativní. Cílem práce je zjistit, zda analyzované subjekty naplňují levicový charakter. Dalším cílem je zjistit, zda zařazení politických subjektů na levo-pravé ose politického spektra v ČR je stále relevantní. Cílem je také analyzovat, zda takzvaná stará a nová levice má v českém stranickém systému tendence se k sobě ideologicky spíše přibližovat, anebo naopak více vzdalovat. Hlavní výzkumnou metodou...The topic of the diploma thesis is a comparison of the old and new left in the Czech Republic. The diploma thesis focuses on a comparison of the selected relevant left-wing political groups operating in the Czech Republic. The thesis examines differences and similarities between the KSČM, the socialist wing of ČSSD on one side and the Green Party and the left-liberal tendencies and offshoots of the ČSSD (such Idealists) on the other hand. The work is divided into three main parts. The first part of the thesis is theoretical. The theoretical part defines main terms such as a political party, political movement, left-right axis of the political spectrum, the old left, the new left etc. The explanation of the terms is very important for understanding the thesis. In the second part of this thesis, I analyze single significant and relevant political parties. I focus on the origin and development of political parties and their electoral program, their attitude to selected issues, electorate, potential cooperation between themselves and so on. The third part is comparative. The goal of this thesis is to find out whether the analyzed political parties fulfill leftist characteristic. Next goal of this thesis is to find out whether the classification on left-right axis of the political spectrum is still...Department of Political ScienceKatedra politologieFaculty of Social SciencesFakulta sociálních vě

Searching for Own Self: on the Boundary between the Ethical and Religious Stage

In the article the author deals with an analysis of Kierkegaard`s categories of ‘leap’ and ‘instant’which predicate of human existence in some way. Man as an original and unique being in himselfis hard, apprehensible and effable. Kierkegaard`s in some sense existential philosophy offersa conspicuous reflection of man and his inner life. The method of indirect communicationused by Kierkegaard indicates that if we want to grasp the phenomenon of human existencewe have to manage with only an indirect and particular assumption. Even a concrete man isnot able to grasp his existence in a whole way and at any time. There is only one place wherethe possibility of self-understanding and self-ownership becomes open. This is the boundaryor range of the ethical and religious stage of life. That is the reason why the aim of the articlebecomes a quest for an answer to the question: ‘What happens on the boundary between theethical and the religious?