The history of television audience research methodology in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic

Diplomová práce "Vývoj metodiky měření televizní sledovanosti v Československu a České republice" popisuje metodiku měření televizní sledovanosti s důrazem na rekapitulaci celého procesu získávání výsledků. Autor se v textu zabývá nejprve teoriemi vztahujícími se k výzkumu publika a k výzkumům sociálního užití televize. Následuje stěžejní část práce, která již pojednává o samotném vývoji měření sledovanosti od metody denního kontinuálního výzkumu k elektronickému měření sledovanosti pomocí TV metrů (peoplemetrů) a dalším nově vyvinutým metodám. Denní kontinuální výzkum je rozčleněn na období před rokem 1970, výzkum v letech 1970 - 76 a období po roce 1976. U elektronického měření sledovanosti se autor více soustřeďuje na metodologii výzkumu a vývoj nových technologií. V závěru jsou stručně popsány způsoby měření v dalších vybraných zemích.Diploma thesis "The history of television audience research methodology in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic" deals with measurement methodology of TV ratings with focus on the recapitulation of the whole process of data acquisition. In the first part of the work, the author approaches theories about audience measurement and social use of television. The following part already concentrates on the development of the audience measurement methodology from the diary method to electronic measurement. The diary method measurement is divided into three periods: measurement before 1970, surveys in 1970 - 76, measurement after 1976. As for electronic measurement author deals with measurement methodology and development of new technologies. The work is enclosed by the brief summary of the audience measurement methods in other selected countries.Department of Media StudiesKatedra mediálních studiíFaculty of Social SciencesFakulta sociálních vě

Environmental assessment of applicability of mineral-organic composite for landfill area rehabilitation

This paper undertakes an assessment of the impact of a mineral-organic composite on the environment as well as the potential for its application for land rehabilitation purposes. The analysis involves the release of the leachable contaminations from the material subjected to testing. This material was formed by a composite manufactured on the basis of communal bottom ash and stabilized sewage sludge. The sludge resulting from wastewater treatment was subjected to stabilization and dehydration in waste pounds at the phase of pre-watering until 20% of dry mass is obtained. Subsequently, they were mixed with bottom ash, which was obtained from selective waste collection, in a 1:1 mass ratio. The analysis involved the leaching of inorganic contaminants in the form of heavy metals, sulphates (VI), chlorides, and fluorides as well as organic compounds in the form of organic carbon solution under the effect of leachant with a various level of pH. The analysed components were characterized by various leaching behaviour depending on the leachant pH. On the basis of the results, it was able to assess the potential hazard posed by the examined material on the environment as a consequence of its application for landfill area rehabilitation

New Poles of Reurbanisation

Most of the urban studies define reurbanisation as a distinctive qualitative change in local population structures, particularly in the inner neighbourhoods of cities (Haase et al, 2003), urban renewal (Bernt, 2009) or middle-class housing change and gentrification (Bridge, 2006). In the post-socialist countries, reurbanisation is very much expressed as a suburbanisation (Ouředníček & Šimon, 2015), while the process of deconcentration and decentralisation is clearly generated by the political, economic and societal changes occurred after 1990 (Stan, 2015)

Planning urban shrinkage along the danube – a paradox or a new normality? // Introduction

COULD MACRO-LEVEL URBAN PLANNING be an effective solution to the issue of the shrinkage of many low-income cities in post-socialist countries in the eastern half of Europe? Although urban shrinkage is a rather complicated and often irreversible process, different global and local planning strategies are developed to overcome its consequences (Neill & Schlappa, 2016), which is often the subject of a “top-down” political regulation. These intentions have opened new perspective for traditional urban planning, embracing different novelties

Post-Socialist Shrinking City in the Borderland Danube Region

Border cities are particularly susceptible to urban shrinkage. The EU territorial documents consider borderland cities and regions as more vulnerable ones (EC, 1999). The border effect manifests itself in a two-fold manner, on the one hand, cities can be affected by accessibility issues, having few connections to their own country or be under the pull of larger nearby cities. On the other hand, they might experience an economic boom due to the border proximity, but once the connection is disrupted the effects are acute

Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients

Climate change and other global change drivers threaten plant diversity in mountains worldwide. A widely documented response to such environmental modifications is for plant species to change their elevational ranges. Range shifts are often idiosyncratic and difficult to generalize, partly due to variation in sampling methods. There is thus a need for a standardized monitoring strategy that can be applied across mountain regions to assess distribution changes and community turnover of native and non-native plant species over space and time. Here, we present a conceptually intuitive and standardized protocol developed by the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) to systematically quantify global patterns of native and non-native species distributions along elevation gradients and shifts arising from interactive effects of climate change and human disturbance. Usually repeated every five years, surveys consist of 20 sample sites located at equal elevation increments along three replicate roads per sampling region. At each site, three plots extend from the side of a mountain road into surrounding natural vegetation. The protocol has been successfully used in 18 regions worldwide from 2007 to present. Analyses of one point in time already generated some salient results, and revealed region-specific elevational patterns of native plant species richness, but a globally consistent elevational decline in non-native species richness. Non-native plants were also more abundant directly adjacent to road edges, suggesting that disturbed roadsides serve as a vector for invasions into mountains. From the upcoming analyses of time series, even more exciting results can be expected, especially about range shifts. Implementing the protocol in more mountain regions globally would help to generate a more complete picture of how global change alters species distributions. This would inform conservation policy in mountain ecosystems, where some conservation policies remain poorly implemented

Using a State-Bounding Observer to Predict the Guaranteed Limits of Drug Amounts in Rats after Oral Administration Based on an Uncertain Pharmacokinetic Model

In the first part of this paper, the problem of using an uncertain pharmacokinetic model is resolved to determine drug concentrations in rats after the oral administration of drug suspensions with and without added tenside. To this end, a generalized pharmacokinetic model determining the guaranteed limits of drug concentrations was designed. Based on this, the design of the so-called state-bounding observer is described in the second part. Rather than being driven by the output of the pharmacokinetic model, the observer can be driven exclusively by a concentration collected from a suitable part of the body and predict the possible risk of the drug concentration not remaining within the therapeutic range for a sufficiently long time. Specifically, the observer determines the upper and lower limits of the concentrations in all the compartments, especially those that are inaccessible for the collection of samples. The proposed approaches are demonstrated by examples

Using the flat tax in the system of the taxation in the Czech Republic

Bakalářské práce je zaměřena na problematiku rovné daně. Nejprve je stručně rozebrán pojem daň obecně, daňové principy a historie daní. Poté je pozornost věnována daňovému systému České republiky se zaměřením na fyzické osoby. Další části se věnují jiným způsobům zdanění příjmů, konkrétně rovné dani. V této souvislosti je bakalářská práce zaměřena na novelu zákona o dani z příjmů platné od 1. 1. 2004 na Slovensku a na daňové změny platné od 1. 1. 2008 v České republice. V závěru bakalářské práce jsou uvedeny dodatečné efekty zavedení rovné daně.The bachelor work is focused on problems of the flat tax. First part of work presents a brief description of a general concept of the tax, the principles of the taxation and history of the tax. Another part of work brings closer view of a system of the taxation in the Czech Republic with a focus on natural persons. The next part concerns with an alternative taxes methods particulary with the flat tax. In this context the work mentions a new law valid in Slovakia since 1. 1. 2004 and introduces the tax changes valid in Czech Republic since 1. 1. 2008. In the last part work pursue an impact of the flat tax on the population and on the state budget.Ústav ekonomieDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo

Physiotheraphy after Myocardial Infarction

Department of Rehabilitation MedicineKlinika rehabilitačního lékařstvíThird Faculty of Medicine3. lékařská fakult

František Otta (1848 - 1939), personality of Rakovník on the turn of 19th and 20th century

Katedra dějin a didaktiky dějepisuPedagogická fakultaFaculty of Educatio