A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of the Czech Excellence Award Winners

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the implementation of excellence approach in area of a total quality management (TQM) positively affects the financial performance of the Czech companies. This paper test whether the adoption of excellence model approach from European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) has the impact on companies in the monitored indicators of the level of excellence in the Czech Republic represented by the group of emerging countries. This study is based on information gathered through an extensive literature review using print media, research databases, and we employed the available reporting for awarded companies. We systemized the variables of business excellence with the higher impact on organizational performance. As an example was involved the Czech companies awarded in National Quality Award (NQA) in the area of excellence. The main findings of this study shows the positive relation in selected financial indicators after receiving NQA and implementation excellence approach. In terms of the Czech Republic, although the NQA system is in place, Czech companies are not so interested, even though they can get feedback and work on their approach within the set criteria of the EFQM model in NQA. Based on selected performance indicators, the positive development of the companies was demonstrated on performance achieved by the TQM-oriented award winning companies. This work is licensed under a&nbsp;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</p

A Research Agenda of Industry 4.0 from the Czech Perspective

Although the Czech Republic ranks among the most industrialized countries in Europe, it is not prepared for the coming of technological changes. For a country to take advantage of emerging technologies and the GDP growth and jobs they bring, it must be highly digitalized. Therefore, the chapter is intended to provide the Czech Republic Industry 4.0 approach with the latest issues to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The chapter aims not only to point out possible directions of development, to define proposals for measures that can support the economy and industrial base, but also to help prepare the stakeholders from the public and private sector for technological change. This chapter is based on information gathered through extensive documents using print media and research databases of European Commission focused on digital economy and society, and we also employed the available Digital Transformation Scoreboard, Digital Transformation Monitor, Europe’s digital Progress Report, Digital Index of Roland Berger, and Czech strategic digital transformation documents to systematize a research agenda of Industry 4.0. The chapter is expected to help in reviewing national digital performance strategies, and an overview of the collected outputs may help other entities to the process digitizing a society efficiently

A Comparative Analysis of the Performance of the Czech Excellence Award Winners

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the implementation of excellence approach in area of a total quality management (TQM) positively affects the financial performance of the Czech companies. This paper test whether the adoption of excellence model approach from European Foundation of Quality Management (EFQM) has the impact on companies in the monitored indicators of the level of excellence in the Czech Republic represented by the group of emerging countries. This study is based on information gathered through an extensive literature review using print media, research databases, and we employed the available reporting for awarded companies. We systemized the variables of business excellence with the higher impact on organizational performance. As an example was involved the Czech companies awarded in National Quality Award (NQA) in the area of excellence. The main findings of this study shows the positive relation in selected financial indicators after receiving NQA and implementation excellence approach. In terms of the Czech Republic, although the NQA system is in place, Czech companies are not so interested, even though they can get feedback and work on their approach within the set criteria of the EFQM model in NQA. Based on selected performance indicators, the positive development of the companies was demonstrated on performance achieved by the TQM-oriented award winning companies. This work is licensed under a&nbsp;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</p

Study of Electromechanical Power Generator for Energy Harvesting Use

Tato práce se zabývá souhrnem informací současného stavu o získávání elektrické energie z mechanické energie. Dále porovnává jednotlivé konstrukční a fyzikální principy elektro-mechanické přeměny. Následně prezentuje návrh generátoru, který by mohl majitel nosit stále sebou, aniž by ho obtěžoval (např. generátor elektrické energie v botě) a napájel energeticky nenáročná zařízení.This work deals with complex information about state-of-the-art harvesting electric energy from mechanical energy. Particular constructional and physical principles of electromechanical conversion are shown. Further, it presents a proposal of generator, which the owner would be able to carry always without being troubled by it (e.g. generator electric energy in shoe) and which would feed energetically simple devices.

Corporate Social Responsibility Education in the Czech Republic

AbstractThe corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement has gathered great momentum over the past number of years is now regarded as being at its most prevalent. However, there has been a lack of attention to, and discussion of, CSR in Czech and in relation to education. The paper reports findings from a survey of CSR education (teaching and research) in the Czech Republic. It analyses the extent of CSR education, the different ways in which it is defined and the levels of teaching. The paper provides an account of the efforts that are being made to mainstream CSR teaching and of the teaching methods deployed. It considers drivers of CSR courses, particularly based on historical development and the anticipation of future success being dependent on more institutional drivers. Finally it considers main developments in CSR research both by business school faculty and students, tomorrow's researchers and the resources devoted to CSR research. The conclusion includes questions that detected further research directions

Význam modulace nociceptivního synaptického přenosu na míšní úrovni za různých bolestivých stavů

Bolest je běžným příznakem mnoha klinických syndromů a nemocí. Zejména léčba bolestí neuropatického původu představuje závažný medicínský problém, neboť dostupná analgesie je v řadě případů neúčinná, nebo má výrazné nežádoucí účinky. Vývoj nových analgetických postupů a úspěšná léčba bolesti proto vyžaduje podrobnou znalost mechanizmů vzniku akutních i chronických bolestivých stavů. Proces vzniku, kódování a přenosu signálů o bolestivých podnětech zprostředkovává nociceptivní systém, který je klíčový pro vznik vjemu bolesti v mozku. Modulace nociceptivního synaptického přenosu v zadním rohu míšním představuje důležitý mechanismus ve vývoji a udržování různých patologických stavů bolesti. Tato disertační práce se zaměřila na zkoumání a objasnění některých mechanismů podílejících se na zpracování a modulaci míšního nociceptivního synaptického přenosu u různých modelů bolestivých stavů. Hlavní pozornost byla věnována studiu následujících otázek: (I.) Jakou úlohu mají TRPV1 (Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid type 1) kanály, TLR4 (Toll-Like Receptor 4) a PI3K (fosfatidylinositol 3-kináza) v rozvoji neuropatické bolesti po podání chemoterapeutika paclitaxel (PAC) v akutním in vitro a subchronickém in vivo myším modelu PAC-indukované periferní neuropatie (PIPN)? (II.) Do jaké míry je ovlivněna míšní...Pain is a common symptom of many clinical syndromes and diseases. In particular, the treatment of neuropathic pain represents a serious public health issue because currently available analgesia is ineffective in many cases or it has adverse effects. Treatment of pain-related suffering requires knowledge of how pain signals are initially generated and subsequently transmitted by the nervous system. A nociceptive system plays a key role in this process of encoding and transmission of pain signals. Modulation of the nociceptive synaptic transmission in the spinal cord dorsal horn represents an important mechanism in the development and maintenance of different pathological pain states. This doctoral thesis has aimed to investigate and clarify some of the mechanisms involved in the modulation of the spinal nociceptive processing in different pain states. The main attention was paid to study the following issues: (I.) Which is the role of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid type 1 channels (TRPV1), Toll-Like Receptors 4 (TLR4), and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) in the development of neuropathic pain induced by paclitaxel (PAC) chemotherapy in acute in vitro, and subchronic in vivo murine model of PAC-induced peripheral neuropathy (PIPN)? (II.) How is affected spinal inhibitory synaptic control...Katedra fyziologieDepartment of PhysiologyFaculty of SciencePřírodovědecká fakult

Optimalization of Financial Resources of the Investment Project

Cílem této bakalářské práce je v první části shromáždit teoretické a metodické poznatky o zdrojích financování investičního majetku a ve druhé, praktické části je pak využít pro sestavení modelů tří druhů financování. Vytvořené modely jsou založeny především na porovnání vzniklých peněžních toků. Následně je cílem za pomoci těchto peněžních toků a na základě dalších zjištěných skutečností v závěrečné fázi navrhnout doporučení, která by mohla být firmě nápomocná pro výběr optimálního zdroje financování investičního projektu.The aim of this work is in the first part to gather theoretical and methodological knowledge on the sources of financing of fixed assets and the second part is then used to build models of three types of financing. The created models are mainly based on the comparison of resulting cash flows. Subsequently, in order to help those cash flows and the additional findings in the final stage of design recommendations that could be helpful for the company selecting the optimum source of investment project funding.

An assessment of the financial effectiveness in purchase of own flat as possible alternatives of housing

Cílem této diplomové práce je v první části shromáždit teoretické a metodické poznatky o zdrojích financování při koupi vlastního bydlení a plánování osobních financí rodiny. Ve druhé, praktické části jsou pak poznatky využity pro sestavení modelových situací tří druhů financování pro každou nemovitost zvlášť. Vytvořené modely jsou založeny především na porovnání celkových finančních nákladů a zatížení rodinného rozpočtu. Následně je cílem za pomoci těchto vyhodnocení a na základě dalších zjištěných skutečností v závěrečné fázi navrhnout doporučení, která varianta pořízení vlastní nemovitosti bude pro rodinu nejvýhodnější.The aim of this thesis is the first part to gather theoretical and methodological knowledge about sources of funding in their own home and family planning personal finances. In the second part are then used to build the knowledge model situations three types of funding for each property separately. Produced models are primarily based on a comparison of the total financial cost and burden on the family budget. Consequently, the aim of using these evaluation and based on other findings in the final stage to propose recommendations that option purchase their own property will be best for the family.

Regional Entrepreneurship Culture and the Business Lifecycle: Patterns from the Moravian-Silesian Region

The main goal of the paper is to focus on relationship between business cycle under regional entrepreneurial culture. Many of the trends found were less than positive, although there were some new positive trends that could be identified as a source of sustainability in the area of the connection between the sector of small and medium sized enterprises and the local entrepreneurship environment as well as a source of entrepreneurial culture. Moreover, the frequency of co-operational activities with local government was investigated. Questionnaire-based research was undertaken within 194 organizations of various legal forms operating in the area of the Moravian-Silesian Region. The main factors, which had an influence on their current business stage (49.5% in the growth stage, 9.8% in stagnation, 31.96% in decline and the other 0.52% in crisis), were the locality in the region, the quality of the labour force, cooperation with local public bodies and the business relationships between suppliers. Finally, we have defined the current stage of the entrepreneurial culture as the “Sandbox”

Remote control of electrical appliances via power line 230V

The submitted work deals with problems of data transfer via power line 230 V for purposes of remote control electrical appliances. In this work were designed devices which provide relative communication via power line within the frame of the one-family house. Designed devices concretely input-output unit, PC interface and GSM gate work on a bus principle. The bus is constructed by power line 230 V. Designed devices are composed of microcontrollers AVR and modem TDA5051AT provides their relative communication via power line. Communications protocol with which devices work was developed so that corresponds with hardware resolution of particular devices. Particular devices were practically realized and their activity was checked up