scholarly journals Effectiveness of Regulation of Educational Requirements for Non-Bank Credit Providers in Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Ivan Soukal ◽  
Eva Hamplová ◽  
Jiri Haviger
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
First Year ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Educational Requirements

Educational challenges for companies are created by market regulation less frequently versus market dynamics. Yet when law-enforced educational challenges appear, they have a significant impact on companies and their employees. This empirical study focuses on a new professional qualification regulation on the market of consumer credit in the Czech Republic. We analyze how companies cope with the new law-enforced educational requirements and whether the regulation has been successful. We analyzed more than 1900 certification tests. The sample accounted for approximately 10% of all employees tested in the Czech Republic in the first year of the regulation. All test variants were found unique, the expected point score of each variant had skewed distributions with only a small number of difficult variants. A significant majority of the tests showed expected values in an interval of 60–75% with only several outliers; test difficulty was balanced. The professional qualification tests separated employees with the required knowledge from those without and excluded accidental success. We identified a successful education management system that resulted in success rates above the country average: decentralized regional managers supervision, employee financial participation, and effective e-learning. We found structural changes in the market supply structure. Companies with professionally skilled employees met the regulatory conditions. The regulation combining centrally-provided requirements and questions with the market-based method of preparing for the professional qualification test was successful.

VINSAP Tool for Visualization of Severe Accident Progress

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kropik ◽  
Jiri Duspiva
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Staff Training ◽  
Data Transformation ◽  
Severe Accident ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Severe Accidents ◽  
Technical University

The contribution provides information about the development of a system for visualization of NPP severe accident progress. This visualization is under development in cooperation of UJV Rez, a.s. and Czech Technical University in Prague. The project is supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic and is planned to be solved from 2015 to 2017. The visualization uses results of an analytical code MELCOR for evaluation of the NPP severe accident progress. The visualization firstly reads MELCOR results, transforms them to a suitable format for quick processing and provides graphical screens with reactor components that could demonstrate the progress of the evaluated severe accident. The visualization can even provide parallel presentation of more different scenarios of the severe accident. The system is planned to be used for training of NPP staff to handle severe accidents. In the first year of the project solution (2015), the software for MELCOR data transformation, next for providing information about transformed data were developed. In the following year (2016), software for creation of graphical screens with reactor components and software for severe accident progress presentation is creating. In the final year of the project (2017), thorough testing is going to be carried out, and the applicability of the visualization for a practical use during a NPP staff training is going to be verified.

Qualitative research in reproductive medicine: From description to action

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Konečná ◽  
Tonko Mardešić ◽  
Taťána Rumpíková ◽  
Tomáš Kučera
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Reproductive Medicine ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Czech Republic

AbstractAssisted reproduction (ART), particularly that performed using donated gametes, increases the prospect of healthy babies being delivered to increasing numbers of people striving for parenthood. The psychosocial, ethical and legislative issues related both to the donation and receipt of gametes are perceived as extraordinarily complicated. In 2009, a research project aimed at mapping the issues was drawn up and implemented in the Czech Republic. The project should have provided material for consultation purposes, for the work of ethical and legislative bodies, and for better interdisciplinary and international communication in reproductive medicine. Work on the project was affected by several unforeseen events, particularly by the drafting and adoption of a new law on ART (to which the project was initially to have contributed material once concluded). The article describes the dynamic and structural changes occurring within the project due to drafting of the bill as well as the changes and consequences resulting from other circumstances related to the topic researched.

scholarly journals Incidence and distribution of Botrytis convoluta in a collection of Iris × barbata irises and options of control

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Ivana Šafránková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Causal Agent ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Latently Infected ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Few Data

In the years 2005–2007 in a collection of Iris × barbata irises in the Botanical Garden and Arboretum of MZLU in Brno a disease spread appearing in symptoms of poor budding and growth of the irises, or rotting and dying off of the rhizomes. As the causal agent we identified the fungus Botrytis convoluta. In the present study we describe the isolated pathogen. The disease appears in a number of species of the genus Iris and has been reported in the USA, Europe, Israel and Japan. Over a period of three years we evaluated the frequency of incidence of the pathogen in 527 iris cultivars and its distribution on five plots. While in the first year the incidence of the pathogen appeared in 4.4–28.7 % plants, in the last year of our investigations the pathogen spread to 17.7–66.6 % plants. In the course of three years seven cultivars out of the 527 planted out died as a result of B. convoluta attack (i.e. 1.33 %). The results were processed statistically. Spacing of the plants and gradient of the plot influenced the spreading of the pathogen. The weather in the winter played an important role, particularly mild and humid winters with temperatures above 0 °C. Even though B. convoluta was and remains to be a factor limiting the overwintering of irises, there are very few data on fungicide control of irises. Even fewer data are available about the control of irises against latently infected rhizomes. At the present time no fungicides protecting irises against this pathogen have been registered in the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in the Czech Republic, Analysis of Data from the First Year of the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1671
Author(s):  
Petr Klempt ◽  
Ondřej Brzoň ◽  
Martin Kašný ◽  
Kateřina Kvapilová ◽  
Petr Hubáček ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Vaccination Strategy ◽  
First Year ◽  
Diagnostic Efficiency ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Real Time Quantitative Pcr ◽  
First Case ◽  
Representative Cohort ◽  
Genome Variants

In the Czech Republic, the current pandemic led to over 1.67 million SARS-CoV-2- positive cases since the recording of the first case on 1 March 2020. SARS-CoV-2 genome analysis is an important tool for effective real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) diagnostics, epidemiology monitoring, as well as vaccination strategy. To date, there is no comprehensive report on the distribution of SARS-CoV-2 genome variants in either the Czech Republic, including Central and Eastern Europe in general, during the first year of pandemic. In this study, we have analysed a representative cohort of SARS-CoV-2 genomes from 229 nasopharyngeal swabs of COVID-19 positive patients collected between March 2020 and February 2021 using validated reference-based sequencing workflow. We document the changing frequency of dominant variants of SARS-CoV-2 (from B.1 -> B.1.1.266 -> B.1.258 -> B.1.1.7) throughout the first year of the pandemic and list specific variants that could impact the diagnostic efficiency RT-qPCR assays. Moreover, our reference-based workflow provided evidence of superinfection in several samples, which may have contributed to one of the highest per capita numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths during the first year of the pandemic in the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Structural changes in agriculture since EU accession in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abrahamová Miluše ◽  
Bartoň Petr ◽  
Boskova Iveta ◽  
Čámská Klára ◽  
Doucha Tomáš ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
The Czech Republic

scholarly journals Specjalizacja i konkurencyjność krajów UE w zakresie produkcji zbóż

2018 ◽  
Vol 18(33) (3) ◽  
pp. 323-331
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Tłuczak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cereal Species ◽  
European Union Countries ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office

This paper presents the results of research on the specialization and competitiveness of crop production in European Union countries. The Esteban-Marquillas method of competitiveness changes was used for the research. This method indicates specialized countries and the nature of structural changes in the scope of crop production. The research was carried out on the basis of data on the size of crop production. All data was taken from the databases of the Central Statistical Office. The research covers the years 2005-2016. The obtained results distinguish (inseparable) groups of countries specializing in the production of particular cereal species. The following countries specialize in the production of wheat: Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Austria; production of barley wheat: Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Greece; and rye: Portugal, Spain, France, Great Britain, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia.

scholarly journals The impact of global change - the COVID-19 pandemic on the evaluation of employee performance in companies in the Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Šárka Čemerková ◽  
Pavla Pokorná ◽  
Vojtěch Malátek
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Value Added ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Personnel Planning ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

Research background: Human resource management is a process that includes several consecutive phases. Employee performance evaluation is one of them. It is a starting point for rewarding employees as well as for several other personnel activities, such as personnel planning, job analysis, employee deployment, and more. The company may approach the evaluation of employee performance itself in different ways. Employee performance can be evaluated in different ways and with different frequencies. The setting up of the employee performance evaluation system is based on global and local conditions, corporate culture, and the needs of the company's management. Purpose of the article: The article aims discuss the approach of the companies in the Czech Republic to the evaluation of employee performance and to evaluate whether or not there have been any changes in this system due to the global pandemic COVID-19. Methods: The starting point of our research is quantitative data on companies in the Czech Republic, obtained by a questionnaire survey immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic and after its first year. Using the chi-square test the attitudes of these companies to the evaluation of employee performance and their changes as a result of COVID-19 are evaluated. Findings & Value added: Conclusions are drawn regarding changes in the system of employee performance evaluation, the method of implementation and frequency of evaluation, and its use in personnel work in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Employment structure and unemployment in the czech republic

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Flek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market Flexibility ◽  
Market Restructuring

Did exceptionally low unemployment between 1990-1996 mean that the CzechRepublic had sacrificed more labour market flexibility and faster changes inthe structure of employmnet in exchange for social stability? Or had thecountry made use of its specific initial conditions and managed to followits own mode of labour market restructuring, without the necessity ofincreasing the rate of unemployment drastically? Does currently increasingunemployment accelerate the coversion of the structure of employment towardsthe EU-15 patterns? In attemting to answer the above questions, the paperargues that the Czech unemployment miracle has disappeared as soon as theparticipation rate had become stable, labour shedding accelerated and theeconomic policies responded to macroeconomic overheating. The main sourcesof structural changes in employment were massive labour force withdrawals inagriculture and industry, coupled with job-to-job movements of labour. But,the process of further structural changes has nearly been stopped, despitethe recent rise in unemployment. Instead of being a driving force of labourmobility, current unemploymnet bears predominantly cyclical features.

scholarly journals Self-Regulation, Normative Beliefs, Alcohol Use and Consequences among University Students from Eastern Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-485
Author(s):  
Ondrej Kalina ◽  
Olga Orosova ◽  
Vilma Kriaucioniene ◽  
Andrea Lukács ◽  
Michal Miovsky
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
University Students ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Normative Beliefs ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Promising Target ◽  
First Year University

This study aims to explore the associations between descriptive normative beliefs (DNB), alcohol use and negative consequences and test whether self-regulation (SR) moderates this relationship. The data was collected online from 1621 first-year university students in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia. The AUDIT, self-regulation questionnaire and questions regarding DNB were used. DNB were found to be positively associated with drinking across all the samples. The associations between DNB and alcohol use as well as between alcohol use and negative consequences were stronger among students with lower SR. The protective effect of SR on alcohol use and consequences combined with the theory of social influence may improve intervention accuracy and make it a promising target for intervention among young adults.

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