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In 2016, following spring barley malting varieties were registered in the Czech Republic: Soulmate, Remark, Pop, Leenke, and LG Monus. The variety LG Monus fulfi lled the requirements given in the application for the protected geographical indication “České pivo”. The highest extract content in malt was exhibited by the varieties Soulmate (84.1%) and Leenke (83.6%). The varieties Soulmate, Remark, Pop, and Leenke exhibited the above average to optimal level of proteolytic, amylolytic and cytolytic modifi cation. Further, non-malting varieties of spring barley Ovation and Forman were registered.

After three-year tests (2014–2016), the spring barley malting variety Soulmate was registered in the Slovak Republic. Extract content in malt dry matter in the studied variety was high, it moved in the scope of 83.4–84.4 %. The variety had strong proteolytic modifi cation. Amylolytic modifi cation, degradation of cell walls and β-glucan content were at the optimal level. Wort quality was above average to optimal. The value of the apparent fi nal attenuation was high (83.6%). The variety Soulmate provided clear wort.

A comparative cytogenetic analysis was carried out in five species of a monophyletic clade of neotropical Cichlasomatine cichlids, namely Cleithracara maronii Steindachner, 1881, Ivanacara adoketa (Kullander & Prada-Pedreros, 1993), Nannacara anomala Regan, 1905, N. aureocephalus Allgayer, 1983 and N. taenia Regan, 1912. Karyotypes and other chromosomal characteristics were revealed by CDD banding and mapped onto the phylogenetic hypothesis based on molecular analyses of four genes, namely cyt b, 16S rRNA, S7 and RAG1. The diploid numbers of chromosomes ranged from 44 to 50, karyotypes were composed predominantly of monoarmed chromosomes and one to three pairs of CMA3 signal were observed. The results showed evolutionary reduction in this monophyletic clade and the cytogenetic mechanisms (fissions/fusions) were hypothesized and discussed.

In the Czech Republic, major changes have happened in the field of infant institutional care in connection with amendment to the Act on Social and Legal Protection of Children and the Act on Family in 2013. Efforts to close down institutional facilities for children up to 3 years are in connection to deinstitutionalization, which has become societal philosophy of transformation of institutional care in the last decade. Students of helping professions are educated in modern trends, such as deinstitutionalization, because they should become “holders and implementers” of positive changes based on respect for human rights and freedoms. In connection with that, we focused on opinions on the closing down of infant homes and children’s homes for children up to 3 years among students of nursing fields and social pedagogy. Using the quantitative method of a questionnaire, we obtained responses from 416 respondents. One of the most interesting findings is that only 10 % of students agree with the idea of closing down these institutional facilities. There are also differences based on field of study. Students of social pedagogy on average agree more with this idea than students of nursing fields. This could be based on differences in curriculum.

In this first part of a two-paper set on the elastic properties of mullite and mullite ceramics the current literature is reviewed and, based on the available monocrystal data, a mutually consistent average set of elastic constants for polycrystalline mullite materials at room temperature is calculated and optimized via minimization of the total average relative root mean square (RMS) deviation. Based on the results of this paper, the recommended values of adiabatic elastic constants are 224.9 GPa for the Young’s modulus, 87.8 GPa for the shear modulus, 170.9 GPa for the bulk modulus and 0.281 for the Poisson ratio. The RMS deviation of this set is lower than for any other set, and thus these values exhibit a high degree of mutual consistency with respect to the elasticity standard relations. Micromechanical upper bounds and model relations are summarized for describing the porosity dependence of elastic moduli, and a simple relation is used to estimate the difference between adiabatic and isothermal elastic constants. The results show that this difference increases slightly with temperature, but is not larger than 4 % even at 1500°C. In particular, for the Young’s modulus the difference remains below 0.5 %. That means, the difference between adiabatic and isothermal Young’s moduli will usually be unmeasurably small and negligible in practice.

Cultivar is one of the most important internal factors affecting polyphenol concentration in the plants. However, influence of the grown locality, climate conditions and way of cultivation belong to important external factors. In our experiment the influence of different nitrogen doses (0 - 40 - 80 - 120 - 160 - 240 kg N.ha-1) applied in the form of Vermikompost on the total polyphenol content and derived total antioxidant activity in cv. Sorento were investigated. While in the 1st - 5th variants the determined polyphenol content in dry mater of potato tubers decreased from 399.2 to 70.40 mg.kg-1, in the 6th variant that was twice higher in comparison to the 5th variants (135.6 mg.kg-1). The statistically significant differences in values of total polyphenol content between variants (polynomial function of 2nd degree) were confirmed. The study also confirmed a strong statistical correlation between the content of polyphenols and the content of antioxidant activity has been confirmed (sign. F: 3.24E-10). The highest value of antioxidant activity was observed in the first variant. From the first to the fifth variant (7.62 - 4.84%), the value of antioxidant activity was decreasing and in the sixth variant this value increased to 6.31%.

There are many different types of datasets represented by maps in thematic cartography. It is possible to represent features and phenomenon referencing to area as well as to point. Furthermore, it is possible to represent qualitative data as well as quantitative data. There are many different ways to represent them. One of the most important and most used cartographic symbols of lettering is colour, resp. colour scales, which are chosen according to shown data. This article is focused on the perception of colour scales in relation to character of data. For experiment, a new questionnaire was created on the basis of colour scales classification. This questionnaire was posed to the students of years 1 and 2 of high school in order to find out how they perceive the colour scales. The study analyzes three main questions; whether students differentiate qualitative and quantitative datasets and corresponding colour scales, whether they prefer representing of features by context colours or by the colour they like more and whether they are familiar with principles of diverging colour scales. When processing it, the correlation between certain agents and the answers was established.

Gleba należy do najważniejszych elementów środowiska, dostarczając wodę i składniki odżywcze do uprawy roślin. Stanowi początkowy etap wprowadzania metali ciężkich do roślin a następnie do łańcucha pokarmowego. Spośród badanych pierwiastków stanowiących zagrożenie (Zn, Ni, Cd, Pb), stwierdzono podwyższone zwartości Cd i Pb w roztworze glebowym po zastosowaniu odpowiednio wody królewskiej i NH4NO3. Ponad 2-krotne stężenie mobilnych form Pb (0.218 mg • kg-1) spowodowało podwyższoną zawartość Pb w bulwach wszystkich trzech kultywarów ziemniaka: cv. Volumia 0.404, cv. Cicero 0.580 i cv. Mozart 0.638 mg • kg-1 FM. We wszystkich badanych kultywarach potwierdzono istotne statystycznie różnice w zawartości Pb (P

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of the season on incidence of footpad dermatitis and to determine the effect of footpad dermatitis on broilers performance expressed by EPEF (European Production Efficiency Factor). The incidence of footpad dermatitis was evaluated during the year. Daily mortality, weights and feed consumption were observed too. Scoring of the feet was done in slaughterhouse according to six-point scale (0–5) Ask (2010). There were classified between 1200 to 1500 shanks from each flock. To facilitate the evaluation of the feet damage the numbers in scoring groups were summarized as follows: negligible damage (0+1), intermediate damage (2+3) and severe damage (4+5). The highest incidence of negligible damage was found in the summer (34.0%, P < 0.05) followed by autumn (13.1%). The most severe damage of the feet was found in the spring (83.2%) followed by winter (72.4%). Only 12% of the feet were negligibly damaged. Almost 70% of the feet were severe damaged. The significant correlation between the feet damage and EPEF was not confirmed (P > 0.05). The study showed that footpad dermatitis is a severe problem. However chickens with severe feet damage were able to achieve excellent performance results.

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This literature review aims to assess the evolution of performance monitoring articles in relation to the business strategy based on an overview of articles indexed in the WoS and Scopus databases. The initial dataset of articles was obtained based on carefully developed keywords. In the second phase, we restricted the selection to business and management journal articles and reviews written in English before 2019. The authors simultaneously reviewed the abstracts of all 571 articles in the third phase of the study. These were subsequently re-read and limited; thus, the final dataset for further analysis includes 157 articles published between 1983 and 2019. The most important result is that the field of business strategy and performance is not subject to trends. While in the field of business strategy the literature is still dominated by generic strategies according to Porter and the strategy typology according to Miles and Snow, in the field of performance measurement we identified the market position (sales volume, growth in sales volume, etc.) and profitability (profit margin, return on assets, etc.) as the dominant method. Implications for Central European audience: Despite a considerable amount of work focusing on bibliographic analysis, there remains a lack of literature on the link between strategy and performance. The paper brings potential value for the Central European audience by drawing attention to the systematisation of knowledge in the field of performance articles and its trends in relation to the field of business strategy. The overview of the theoretical frameworks contributes to a better orientation of the current state of the art and creates opportunities for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In terms of the potential effects of the natural (geogenic) and anthropogenic agricultural environment on the crop quality, it must be remembered that it is necessary to maintain an uncontaminated environment with high soil production potential. The objective of this research was to analyse and evaluate soil under sugar beet, the compost produced and the soil affected by the addition of compost, in order to determine the Cd, NO3--N, NH4+-N contents in topsoil and soil with added compost (1:1 ratio), to evaluate the statistical significance of Cd in relation to the fertile forms of nitrogen, and to find out whether compost influences the monitored parameters. The analyses were carried out using the Atomic Absorption Spectrometry and Colorimetric methods. The obtained results were evaluated statistically using the SAS 9.4 software method and Spearman's correlation coefficient. The results showed that NO3--N contents in soil reached 14.73 mg·kg-1, NH4+-N 9.50 mg·kg-1, Nin 23.05 mg·kg-1, Cd 2.96 mg·kg-1, soil + compost (1:1 ratio) NO3--N 23.93 mg·kg-1, NH4+-N 26.42 mg·kg-1, Nin 42.63 mg·kg-1, Cd 2.71 mg·kg-1 dry matter. Very high statistical dependence (P < 0.001) was observed for all inorganic fertile forms of nitrogen. High statistical dependence (P < 0.01) was observed for soil Cd to soil NO3--N, soil + compost Cd to soil NO3--N, soil + compost Cd to soil Nin. Compost had a statistically highly significant effect on Cd in relation to forms of nitrogen, reducing Cd concentration levels and increasing the proportion of inorganic fertile forms of nitrogen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]