Options for Regeneration and Rehabilitation in a Sport Club

Cílem bakalářské práce je zjistit možnosti regenerace a rehabilitace v hokejovém klubu HC Oceláři Třinec a přiblížení ekonomických aspektů regenerace a rehabilitace klubu. Práce je rozdělena na teoretickou část, kde popisuji pojmy týkající se tohoto tématu. V druhé praktické části přenáším teoretické pojmy do praxe. K vypracování práce jsem využil následující výzkumné metody jako rozhovory, pozorování a SWOT analýzu. Konec práce obsahuje shrnutí a návrhy na zlepšení ke kterému jsem došel na základě výzkumných metod. Celkově lze říci, že regenerace a rehabilitace v klubu má velmi vysokou úroveň a málo prostoru na zlepšení.The goal of this bachelor's thesis is to investigate the possibilities for regeneration and rehabilitation within the HC Oceláři Třinec hockey club and to provide insight into the economic aspects of the club's regeneration and rehabilitation. The thesis is divided into two parts: a theoretical section, where relevant concepts are described, and a practical section, where theoretical concepts are applied in practice. To develop this thesis, I utilized various research methods such as interviews, observations, and SWOT analysis. The conclusion of the thesis includes a summary and recommendations for improvement that were derived from the research methods. Overall, it can be concluded that the regeneration and rehabilitation practices within the club are of a very high standard and offer little room for improvement.115 - Katedra managementuvelmi dobř

How to Help the Poor to Save a Bit: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Worldwide, the majority of workers hold jobs in the informal sector that do not provide access to social insurance programs. We partnered with a savings product provider in Kenya to test the extent to which behavioral interventions and financial incentives can increase the saving rate through a voluntary pension program for informal workers with low and irregular income. Our experiment lasted for six months and included a total of twelve conditions. The control condition received weekly reminders and balance reporting via text messages. The treatment conditions received in addition one of the following interventions: (1) reminder text messages framed as if they came from the participant's kid (2) a golden colored coin with numbers for each week of the trial, on which participants were asked to keep track of their weekly deposits (3) a match of weekly savings: The match was either 10% or 20% up to a certain amount per week. The match was either deposited at the end of each week or the highest possible match was deposited at the start of each week and was adjusted at the end. Among these interventions, by far the most effective was the coin: Those in the coin condition saved on average the highest amount and more than twice as those in the control condition. We hypothesize that being a tangible track-keeping object; the coin made subjects remember to save more often. Our results support the line of literature suggesting that saving decisions involve psychological aspects and that policy makers and product designers should take these influences into account

Dynamic Eccentric Response of a Circular Footing on a Sand Stratum by Physical Modeling

Due to the stress dependent nature of the material properties of soil, it can be difficult to find a comprehensive approximate method that captures all features of the response of a structure or foundation under dynamic loading. For this reason, a fundamental problem in soil-structure interaction was investigated, both experimentally by means of centrifuge modeling, and computationally using boundary element methods. The problem consisted of a circular surface foundation resting on a soil stratum, subjected to random loading applied at a vertically eccentric location on the upper surface of the footing. The experimental data was compared with computational results for two soil material models: A soil with an equivalent homogeneous shear modulus, and a two-zone soil model that more directly accounts for the stress dependence of the soil’s material properties. The two-zone model represents the far-field using a shear modulus that has square root dependence with depth, and a local homogeneous zone directly underneath the footing. Computational and experimental results were also compared with a previous study involving square footings on a soil stratum, having contact pressures equal to the circular footings in this report

Genes and Small RNA Transcripts Exhibit Dosage-Dependent Expression Pattern in Maize Copy-Number Alterations

Copy-number alterations are widespread in animal and plant genomes, but their immediate impact on gene expression is still unclear. In animals, copy-number alterations usually exhibit dosage effects, except for sex chromosomes which tend to be dosage compensated. In plants, genes within small duplications (\u3c100 kb) often exhibit dosage-dependent expression, whereas large duplications (\u3e50 Mb) are more often dosage compensated. However, little or nothing is known about expression in moderately-sized (1–50 Mb) segmental duplications, and about the response of small RNAs to dosage change. Here, we compared maize (Zea mays) plants with two, three, and four doses of a 14.6-Mb segment of chromosome 1 that contains ∼300 genes. Plants containing the duplicated segment exhibit dosage-dependent effects on ear length and flowering time. Transcriptome analyses using GeneChip and RNA-sequencing methods indicate that most expressed genes and unique small RNAs within the duplicated segments exhibit dosage-dependent transcript levels. We conclude that dosage effect is the predominant regulatory response for both genes and unique small RNA transcripts in the segmental dosage series we tested. To our knowledge this is the first analysis of small RNA expression in plant gene dosage variants. Because segmental duplications comprise a significant proportion of eukaryotic genomes, these findings provide important new insight into the regulation of genes and small RNAs in response to dosage changes

Shot noise limited characterization of femtosecond light pulses

Probing the evolution of physical systems at the femto- or attosecond timescale with light requires accurate characterization of ultrashort optical pulses. The time profiles of such pulses are usually retrieved by methods utilizing optical nonlinearities, which require significant signal powers and operate in a limited spectral range\cite{Trebino_Review_of_Scientific_Instruments97,Walmsley_Review_09}. We present a linear self-referencing characterization technique based on time domain localization of the pulse spectral components, operated in the single-photon regime. Accurate timing of the spectral slices is achieved with standard single photon detectors, rendering the technique applicable in any spectral range from near infrared to deep UV. Using detection electronics with about $70$ ps response, we retrieve the temporal profile of a picowatt pulse train with $\sim10$ fs resolution, setting a new scale of sensitivity in ultrashort pulse characterization.Comment: Supplementary information contained in raw dat