Evaluating Go Game Records for Prediction of Player Attributes

We propose a way of extracting and aggregating per-move evaluations from sets of Go game records. The evaluations capture different aspects of the games such as played patterns or statistic of sente/gote sequences. Using machine learning algorithms, the evaluations can be utilized to predict different relevant target variables. We apply this methodology to predict the strength and playing style of the player (e.g. territoriality or aggressivity) with good accuracy. We propose a number of possible applications including aiding in Go study, seeding real-work ranks of internet players or tuning of Go-playing programs

Competition Law in the Czech Republic

This publication is part of an International Encyclopedia of Law. It deals with changes in the cometition law in Czech RepublicThis publication is part of an International Encyclopedia of Law. It deals with changes in the cometition law in Czech Republi

Operating Characteristics of a Timber Trailer with a Hybrid Drive

This paper deals with the design and operational evaluation of a timber tractor-trailer unit with a hybrid trailer drive. The source of electrical energy for the two induction motors driving the front wheels of the tandem trailer axle is a battery, which is recharged by an induction machine operating as a generator during periods of a lower demand for power from the tractor diesel engine. An electric drive was designed for the defined working cycle of the tractor-trailer unit, and its loading characteristics were tested in the laboratory. The parameters measured on the field tests during timber forwarding were battery voltage and power, and the energy balance. Three adjustment levels of the potentiometer controlling the trailer hybrid drive (50, 75 and 100%) were tested at three different forwarding distances of 100, 500 and 1000 m. Additionally, any slippage of the prime mover wheels and trailer was measured. The maximum peak power taken from the battery was ca. 33 kW during the field tests, whilst the drive was able to deliver a peak output of up to 72 kW for 10 s and permanently up to ca. 50 kW. Even in harsh terrain conditions, the electric drive assisted the combustion engine only when the loaded tractor-trailer unit was travelling uphill. The hybrid drive operation was sustainable for the whole working shift, without the need for recharging when the potentiometer was set to 50%. This appropriate setting of the potentiometer controlling the trailer's hybrid drive reduced the slipping of the driven wheels of the tractor-trailer unit whilst travelling uphill.O

Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian chronology and palaeoenvironments at Kůlna Cave, Moravia, Czech Republic

Kůlna Cave is the only site in Moravia, Czech Republic, from which large assemblages of both Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian archaeological materials have been excavated from relatively secure stratified deposits. The site therefore offers the unrivalled opportunity to explore the relationship between these two archaeological phases. In this study, we undertake radiocarbon, stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen and sulphur), and ZooMS analysis of the archaeological faunal assemblage to explore the chronological and environmental context of the Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian deposits. Our results show that the Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian deposits can be understood as discrete units from one another, dating to the Late Glacial between c. 15,630 cal. BP and 14,610 cal. BP, and c. 14,140 cal. BP and 12,680 cal. BP, respectively. Stable isotope results (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) indicate that Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian activity at Kůlna Cave occurred in very different environmental settings. Magdalenian occupation took place within a nutrient-poor landscape that was experiencing rapid changes to environmental moisture, potentially linked to permafrost thaw. In contrast, Epimagdalenian occupation occurred in a relatively stable, temperate environment composed of a mosaic of woodland and grassland habitats. The potential chronological gap between the two phases, and their associations with very different environmental conditions, calls into question whether the Epimagdalenian should be seen as a local, gradual development of the Magdalenian. It also raises the question of whether the gap in occupation at Kůlna Cave could represent a change in settlement dynamics and/or behavioural adaptations to changing environmental conditions

New radiocarbon data from Micoquian layers of the Kůlna Cave (Czech Republic)

The Kůlna Cave is a significant site due to the stratigraphic sequence documenting the development of Palaeolithic in the Central European territory. Despite large-scale interdisciplinary research, the chronological classification of the individual Middle Palaeolithic cultural horizons is unsatisfactory. Within a new grant project, 43 samples were taken for dating with a preference for bones with anthropic impact and a documented exact position of each sample. To a certain extent this enabled control of possible contamination, and at the same time diminished the negative impact of carnivores linked with the deposition of bones in the cave. Radiocarbon data were obtained for the upper layers of the Middle Palaeolithic sequence that contains Micoquian artefacts, corroborating the former chronological position of layer 7a in spite of a large quantity of ante quem data. Layer 6a, which is of key significance for the solution of issues relating to the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic transition, falls before the Hengelo Interstadial, and therefore it is older than the known EUP industries in Moravia

Hodnocení hydrologických povodňových předpovědí v srpnu 2002 v České republice

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Posouzení míry antropogenního narušení vodního režimu lesních ekosystémů a jeho důsledků na změnu funkčních schopností lesů‚ návrh revitalizačního managementu (řešení pro modelové povodí)

Stěžejním úkolem pro obnovení rovnováhy a revitalizaci území lesních ekosystémů je posouzení míry narušení sekundární hydrickou a lesní dopravní sítí a ekosystémová optimalizace vodního režimu, parametrizace cestních komunikací v synergii s vysokou polyfunkční efektivitou účinností lesních ekosystémů a jejich celospolečenských funkcí. Řešení projektu bylo věcně diferencováno mezi nositelem a spolunositelem projektu. Dílčí závěrečná zpráva dokumentuje rezultáty cílů ve zpracovatelské kompetenci spolunositele, Ústavu tvorby a ochrany krajiny Mendelovy zemědělské a lesnické univerzity v Brně. Specifikace cílů a adekvátních vědeckých metodických postupů byla směrována do reprezentativních modelových území, která tvoří záměrově charakteristická povodí Hučinky a Lesního potoka o rozloze cca 6 km čtverečních. Metodické postupy řešení jsou vyděleny do samostatných tvůrčích celků, specifikovaných pro hydriku území, lesní dopravní síť a celospolečenské funkce lesa. Návrhová část projektu podává věcná doporučení