Analysis of the Method for the Selection of Regions with Concentrated State Aid

The paper deals with the analysis of a method used by the Czech Government and the Ministry for Regional Development to select regions with concentrated state aid. It contains a comparison with several different basic methods of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). The analysis focuses on a mathematical algorithm of the established MCDM method and does not consider validity of any selected socioeconomic criteria and their weights. Both the strengths and weaknesses of the used MCDM method are presented. The paper includes a simple proposal of the modification of the examined method that will prevent incorrect data normalisation used for region’s evaluation before revision in 2010. Data used for all calculations were obtained from the Ministry for Regional Development.The weighted sum approach, the TOPSIS, multi-criteria decision-making, regions with concentrated state aid, district., Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, Research Methods/ Statistical Methods, GA, IN,

Inter-laboratory testing of the effect of DNA blocking reagent G2 on DNA extraction from low-biomass clay samples

Here we show that a commercial blocking reagent (G2) based on modifed eukaryotic DNA signifcantly improved DNA extraction efciency. We subjected G2 to an inter-laboratory testing, where DNA was extracted from the same clay subsoil using the same batch of kits. The inter-laboratory extraction campaign revealed large variation among the participating laboratories, but the reagent increased the number of PCR-amplifed16S rRNA genes recovered from biomass naturally present in the soils by one log unit. An extensive sequencing approach demonstrated that the blocking reagent was free of contaminating DNA, and may therefore also be used in metagenomics studies that require direct sequencing

Analysis of the Method for the Selection of Regions with Concentrated State Aid

The paper deals with the analysis of a method used by the Czech Government and the Ministry for Regional Development to select regions with concentrated state aid. It contains a comparison with several different basic methods of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). The analysis focuses on a mathematical algorithm of the established MCDM method and does not consider validity of any selected socioeconomic criteria and their weights. Both the strengths and weaknesses of the used MCDM method are presented. The paper includes a simple proposal of the modification of the examined method that will prevent incorrect data normalisation used for region’s evaluation before revision in 2010. Data used for all calculations were obtained from the Ministry for Regional Development

Rozhovor Britských listů 54. Bude odsouzen, protože je intelektuál a katolík = Britské listy interview 54. He will be sentenced because he is an intellectual and a Catholic

Jan Čulík interviews Ludmila Voříšková, the daughter of Rudolf Voříšek, Czech catholic intellectual and the editor in chief of the journal Řád (The Order), who was imprisoned by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the late 1940s and killed by working in uranium mines. Jan Čulík asks Ms. Voříšková about the impact of losing there father when she and her brother were small children

Rozhovor Britských listů 54. Bude odsouzen, protože je intelektuál a katolík = Britské listy interview 54. He will be sentenced because he is an intellectual and a Catholic

Jan Čulík interviews Ludmila Voříšková, the daughter of Rudolf Voříšek, Czech catholic intellectual and the editor in chief of the journal Řád (The Order), who was imprisoned by the Czechoslovak communist regime in the late 1940s and killed by working in uranium mines. Jan Čulík asks Ms. Voříšková about the impact of losing there father when she and her brother were small children