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Bateriová elektrická vozidla (BEV) jsou v současné době všeobecně považována za jednu z dostupných možností boje proti rostoucím emisím skleníkových plynů. Jejich rozšíření je však stále výrazně menší než v případě vozidel s konvenčním spalovacím motorem. Z důležitých faktorů, které brání jejich širšímu rozšíření, je jejich stále relativně krátký dojezd a dlouhá doba nabíjení. Z tohoto důvodu je při vývoji BEV stále důležitější používat co nejpřesnější simulační modely, které umožňují analyzovat dopad změn provedených na jednotlivých komponentech hnacího ústrojí na spotřebu elektrické energie vozidla. Za tímto účelem se autorova disertační práce zabývá vývojem simulačního modelu pro odhad spotřeby elektrické energie hnacího ústrojí BEV a popisuje způsob definování činnostních parametrů jednotlivých komponent hnacího ústrojí. Výsledky ze simulačního modelu pak byly porovnány s měřeními provedenými ve specializované zkušebně. V závislosti na jízdních cyklech byla naměřena maximální odchylka přibližně 8 %.

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Safe handling and correct holding of uncooperative patients who pose a threat to themselves or their surroundings are important skills that help healthcare professionals manage difficult situations when providing healthcare services and ensure the safety of the surroundings and the patient themselves. In the Czech environment, the issue of safe handling and holding has not received as much attention as in some neighbouring countries, where in some cases inappropriate holding has resulted in patient harm. In the following text, we focus on the risks of using the pronation position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

So far, the study presents the conclusions of the survey only from the central part of the Kaltenštejn Castle hillock, which has been imperilled for a long time by the illegal activities of the so-called treasure hunters, who destroy the castle with excavations and steal archaeological finds from it. Mainly non-destructive archaeological methods (surface prospecting, remote sensing, GPR and metal detectors) were used, which helped to protect movable finds (metal artefacts) and contributed to a better mapping of the real state of the site. The information obtained will primarily serve to evaluate the condition of the castle and the proposal for its preservation, but, at the same time, it will help to better understand this location, both chronologically and in terms of construction and history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a brief summary of the status and results of research related to the mapping of World War II sites using non-destructive archaeological methods. The primary goal of the project was to evaluate selected sites in order to determine their condition and, subsequently, to propose monument protection. The purpose of the second level was to find out and verify the potential of non-destructive methods in obtaining archaeological sources and evaluating their informative value in the reconstruction of events that occurred in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tobacco use is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. The prevalence of tobacco smoking is significantly higher among patients undergoing psychiatric treatment compared to the general population. Despite clear evidence of positive effects resulting from the cessation of smoking in patients receiving mental health treatment, quitting smoking still remains a controversial issue among specialists. In 2018, Military University Hospital Prague introduced a pilot fully non-smoking environment at the acute psychiatric care department. Part of this concept is a complex ban on tobacco use during hospitalization (including new forms of tobacco and nicotine products). The project proved to be viable, it doesn't significantly complicate the course of hospitalization and the acute psychiatric care department is already permanently in a non-smoking regime. All support is available to patients to bridging the period when they can't smoke. Because smoking cessation has an impact on the plasma concentrations of some psychopharmaceuticals, monitoring is established in teamwork with a clinical pharmacist. At the same time, the smoking cessation in psychiatric treatment is full of many myths that still prevent professionals from introducing non-smoking environments. The aim of this article is to contribute to a further discussion on the spread of non-smoking policy in psychiatric and addictology workplaces. Three years of experience from the psychiatric ward in Military University Hospital Prague show that it is possible to implement and adhere to it without negative consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The original objectives of the SGS/4/2020 project "Use of graphite in the northern part of the Moravian-Bohemian borderland in prehistory and the Middle Ages", carried out by the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences, Silesian University in Opava, and the Archaeological Department of Regional Museum Litomyšl, were restricted by the epidemic. Regarding its prehistoric part, only geomagnetical measurements were carried at the Neolithic settlement of Nedošín 11 (geomagnetical map of an area of around 5,400 sqm in the south-western part of the site) and at the Staré Město - Bílá Studně [Old Town - lonely house White Well] site (negative outcome). A total of 21 ceramic samples from 6 sites were selected from the collections of RML for micro-petrographic analysis, of which 9 samples came from the Staré Město 1 site and 7 samples from the Hradec nad Svitavou site. These are two generally synchronous (middle phase of Linear Pottery Culture) monocultural settlements that have been examined through excavation in recent years. In particular, the analyses showed a significant technological difference between the samples of ceramics from both sites. The rock used in the temper is different, while in Hradec the temper is also very often rough-grained, in contrast to Staré Město, and burnt organic (plant) additives are found in it, still completely missing in Staré Město. They also showed that we need to distinguish between two groups of graphite ceramics in the region - ceramics with the unintentional addition of graphite (mere fragments of graphite rock in the temper), which prevail in Hradec, and real or actual graphite ceramics (fine graphite pigment in the matrix, lumps of graphite in the temper), which prevail in Staré Město; however, ceramics from both groups are present in both locations. Unfortunately, it is still not possible to conclusively identify the source of graphite raw material for Staré Město 1. The assumption that it is located at the foot of Dubina Hill was supported by the discovery of a hitherto unknown outcrop at a distance of only around 500 m from the settlement. The site in Hradec certainly did not use material from Dubina; based on dislocation on the right bank of the River Svitava, we can perhaps consider sources in the vicinity of Svojanov, although their exploitation in prehistory has not yet been documented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Safewards model offers an inspiring approach to creating a positive atmosphere in psychiatric wards. It was developed by a team of researchers led by Prof. Len Bowers of Kings College, London. The authors try to understand and describe the basic sources of conflict in psychiatric wards, their triggers and possible reactions of staff. Based on extensive research, they then propose specific interventions to minimize the occurrence of conflicts, incidents and the use of restrictive measures. The Safewards model is currently used in many psychiatric wards in a number of European countries, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland and elsewhere. The current experience with its implementation is very positive and the results have been published in many scholarly journals. In 2020, we managed to translate into Czech a large part of texts that are freely accessible to professional and lay public on www.safewards.net. The following text summarizes the basic concepts of the Safewards model and briefly describes the constituent interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of smokers in the Czech population is around 25-30%. In the population of people with mental illness, the number of smokers is 2 times higher. Tobacco dependence is a very important preventable factor associated with a higher risk of many serious diseases. People with mental illness die 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. Despite the above facts, completely non-smoking psychiatric wards in the Czech Republic are rather the exception. There are numbers of barriers and prejudices preventing the emergence of non-smoking psychiatric workplaces. In this article we describe specific experiences with the introduction of non-smoking environment at the psychiatric ward at UVN. There, after the introduction of a total smoking ban, we tried to monitor various parameters showing the possible impact of this measure on life on wards. We have noticed the reactions of staff and patients, the cost of nicotine replacement therapy, patient satisfaction, the growth of conflicts. We present our findings in our text, which may be a motivation for other workplaces or at least an inspiration to reflect on the many myths that accompany smoking restrictions in psychiatric wards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the interdisciplinary training of students from the Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava in August 2018, among other things, a probe archaeological excavation was conducted in the settlement of Linear Pottery culture at Staré Město near Moravská Třebová (loc. 1) and a survey of lithic raw material sources in the environs was carried out. Relatively close to the settlement (2.5 km as the crow flies), a small natural occurrence of graphite rocks was discovered east of the area of the agricultural company I. MTZ, Ltd. on the outskirts of Moravská Třebová. Graphite appears to be admixed in about a quarter of the ceramics from the Neolithic settlement and fragments of graphite rocks were found during its surface survey as well. Graphite pottery is known also from other localities in the cadastral area of Staré Město village (loc. 4) (the La Tène period) and from the Staré Město built-up area (the end of the 12th-13th century AD). The basis for our study of the issue in a broader context was represented by two stages of surface survey at the mentioned and other localities in the surroundings and petrographic analysis of 17 samples of graphite rocks and graphite ceramics from older and new findings from the region of Moravská Třebová. As the most important results of the analyses can be considered the indications for the (at least regional) distribution of graphite vessels in the period of Linear Pottery culture and for existence of probably only one pottery workshop supplying all the microregion of StaréMěsto and its surroundings at the turn of the Early and High Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Medieval layers and a road pavement were discovered in Rybí trh Street and in the area of Horní Square in Opava (Opava District) during the construction of a gas pipeline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Reuse preferences for post‐agricultural brownfields on former socialist agricultural premises in CEE countries are likely to be diverse and may depend on communities' experiences. Our research question is to reveal, through a questionnaire survey of 774 respondents from 180 communities, the difference in reuse preferences among communities with different experiences: communities where former collective farm sites had been abandoned (leaving a post‐agricultural brownfield), those where such sites had remained in continuous agricultural use, and those where such sites had been abandoned and later remediated or reused. The responses from the three types of communities were compared using Kruskal–Wallis tests and the structure of preferences was analyzed by Non‐Metric Multidimensional Scaling. Communities with an existing post‐agricultural brownfield prefer housing and leisure activities, while communities with sites in continuous agricultural production prefer agrarian uses. Two main poles of choice were identified—productive and non‐productive uses. While productive uses are preferred by respondents from communities with continuous agricultural production, non‐productive uses are preferred by communities with former post‐agricultural brownfields. The presence of post‐agricultural brownfields within the community is an important factor in determining a community's preferences for its reuse. When agricultural sites are abandoned, communities' preferences for its reuse also change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our paper aims to explore the role of subsistence farming in Hungary by reviewing the literature, analyzing the primary data from a representative survey conducted in 2018 in Hungary and presenting two case‐studies. According to European and national‐level policy analysis, subsistence farming is a cornerstone of European agriculture, as it is a central element of a positive rural image. The paper is based on earlier theories on subsistence farming, and argues that it is worth analyzing the different factors influencing subsistence farming in order to better understand the motivations of participating in this kind of activity. The paper analyses the role of five different factors on subsistence farming: economic, societal, policy, discursive, and sustainability factors, and argues that, although all five factors are important in order to understand the phenomenon, economic and policy factors are the most important in this type of activity, while sustainability is almost imperceptible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines social and ethnic group membership among sixthgrade students at a Czech lower secondary school whose student population is predominantly heterogeneous in terms of ethnicity. The main focus is on group membership in the sixth grade, which is considered as the worst class at school and which is attended by several Roma boys and girls. Special attention is paid to the boundary constructions in the groups of children from an anthropological perspective and interactionism. The article is based on qualitative, and ethnographic fieldwork. The central method of the fieldwork was observation. This method was partially supplemented by materials from the school evaluations and interviews with teachers and other respondents during the field research. Research findings derive from fieldwork conducted at the school that is perceived as problematic by local residents. The school is located near a socially excluded locality in the Czech Republic where a large number of the buildings are in deplorable condition, with many apartments unoccupied. Many city residents consider the locality to be a "Roma ghetto". The article contributes to understanding the grouping and social and interethnic communication among twelve-year-old students. The article sheds light on the benefits of being in a group and how students and groups communicate with each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Appreciation for the contributions of urban home food gardens to social-ecological resilience, food security, and human health is growing, most recently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the precarities it has laid bare in the food system. In this study, we used actor-network theory as a guiding sensibility to explore the sociomaterial dynamics of urban home food gardens in a low-income, Black-majority neighbourhood on Chicago's south side. As collectives, gardens gathered diverse human and nonhuman actors including soil, plants, family members, friends, strangers, and government and non-government organisations. Relations of care, of humans and nonhumans, stabilised networks, as did the co-construction of identity. The care provided for nonhumans, however, did not always qualify as good care, and practices of care for humans through sharing food and plants from the garden were more complicated than suggested by previous studies. Gardening networks – and associated communities of practice – were contracting because of illness, death, and migration of gardeners from the neighbourhood. Based on study results, we make several policy recommendations for expanding urban home food gardening, including increased financial, technical, and material support from local governments and the promotion of gardening as a practice of care in a more-than-human world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the speech act theory as well as narrative and cultural criminology, this paper aims to make a contribution regarding the functions of narratives in a street context. The concept of narrative violence is introduced and used to analyze the phenomenon of podělávání (a hardly translatable Czech word, semantically close to a hustle) that takes place in marginalized and ethnically segregated areas of the Czech Republic. Podělávání refers to a situation in which a person borrows money without the intention of paying it back. Stories are central to this endeavor, as they legitimize the loan and make the lender believe that s/he is not a victim but merely the party in a transaction that has not yet been satisfied. In reality, however, such narratives contribute to the production of both perlocutionary and illocutionary harm. The story-telling and story-listening involved in podělávání deprive the victim of money (economic capital) as well as reputation (symbolic or street capital) in the streets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries, before three years ago starting to explore Poland and Polish gastronomy, and thus finding himself in the role of outsider. The two scholars have recently been working together. The power relations between the societies and the academic worlds from which they come turned out to be crucial to the research dynamics and became one of the paper's key interests. Two main topics provide the structure of the collaborative paper: 1) the question of the authors' positionality; 2) the legitimacy issues related to the study of food within academia and to scholars' engagement outside it. The authors agree that an inextricable connection of food and politics has not only an academic or theoretical dimension, but also impacts on the realities of people's lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Allotment gardens have played a significant role in Czech and Slovak society for decades, building upon a rich history of gardening. This article elaborates on Czech and Slovak allotments in the European context and identifies their core functions, services, and benefits. We provide a thorough historical review of allotments in this region, reaching back to the eighteenth century to trace significant periods and historic events that shaped society in general and urban gardening in particular. We analyze the development of allotments until and after 1989 and illustrate key aspects of their present situation using case studies and examples. The article provides a complex historical narrative as a good basis for discussions on contemporary trends, challenges, and visions for the future of urban allotment gardening in both countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research objective of the article is to analyse the rules on authorship and joint authorship of databases, as well as the ownership and joint ownership of database makers’ sui generis rights as provided for in the Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases (DD) and its selected national implementations, and to identify the underlying problems and discuss solutions how to overcome them contractually. In order to achieve this objective, an analysis of the black-letter law and case law is provided in the second section of the paper. The DD, however, does not provide much guidance when it comes to defining the author (or joint authors) and owner (or joint owners) and leaves a lot of leeway to Member States, as is further analysed in the third section. In the fourth section of the paper, the focus turns to issues of applicable law that determine the author(s) and rights owner(s) in cases where the protectable subject matter was created/produced jointly by multiple entities from various jurisdictions. In the final fifth section of the paper, the appropriate contractual arrangements of jointly owned rights are presented as a possible solution to the legal uncertainty raised by the current black-letter law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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