Producing and Sharing Free Advanced Scientific and Technological Knowledge Using the Internet

2005 ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Rennard
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
World Scientific ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The Uk

During 1998-2000, the UK published 4,729 scientific articles per million inhabitants, the Czech Republic published only 1,401 and Turkey 278 (Sandelin & Sarafoglou, 2003). Each year, researchers produce about 2,000,000 refereed articles for 20,000 scientific journals (Harnad, 2003), the huge majority of them being printed in western countries. The contribution of developing countries to these publications is marginal. In 2000 India published less than 2% of world scientific articles. China’s share was about 3% and Brazil 1% (OST, 2004).

scholarly journals SELECTED ASPECTS OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS DURING GLOBALIZATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 112-119
Author(s):  
Martina Kovacikova ◽  
Katarina Stofkova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Added Value ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Continuous technological progress makes it possible to use the Internet of Things (IoT) in broader dimensions. Digitization, computerization, and innovation are now key factors for businesses and countries to achieve added value and make progress in competitiveness and attractiveness. These are also optimal conditions for the application of IoT. This study aims to show the status of the implementation of IoT in neighboring countries — the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic — compared to the United Kingdom, which is in the lead. Similarly, the goal was to compare the areas of digitization and informatization to the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), and the Digital Transformation Scoreboards (DTS). Material support for this paper was garnered from the relevant literature. The theoretical basis for issues related to IoT was presented after analyzing secondary sources to determine the current state of the industry and the level of digitization. The those indexes were compared using data from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and the UK. The UK is among the leaders in the field of IoT. The resulting data are presented graphically. Slovak companies that operate mainly in the industrial sector are beginning to discover and implement IoT. More and more cities are adopting this technology. The situation in the UK is already quite far along. During the evaluation of the NRI, DESI, and DTS, Slovakia was ranked lowest, the Czech Republic was ranked slightly higher, and the UK was rated the highest. Comparison of the digitization of the economy and society, and the deployment and use of ICT highlight the need for further development of these areas in the Slovak and Czech republics.

scholarly journals The Energy Industry in the Czech Republic: On the Way to the Internet of Things

Economies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milos Maryska ◽  
Petr Doucek ◽  
Lea Nedomova ◽  
Pavel Sladek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Reurbanisation in Postsocialist Europe – A Comparative View of Eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annegret Haase ◽  
Manuel Wolff ◽  
Petra Špačková ◽  
Adam Radzimski
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Inner City ◽  
National Scale ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Eastern Germany ◽  
East German ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
The Uk ◽  
German Cities

Since the 1990s, reurbanisation has become an increasingly frequent trajectory for urban development. Many formerly shrinking cities have been able to stabilise their population or even see new growth. Especially prominent in regions like Germany and the UK, but also observed across the whole continent, a lively debate on reurbanisation has developed as a reality of today’s, and a potential trajectory for tomorrow’s, cities in Europe.Postsocialist Europe has not so far been central in the reurbanisation debate, either empirically or theoretically. Subsequently, the postsocialist experience is missing in the discourse and the existing body of evidence. There is, however, some evidence that Czech and Polish cities are also seeing signs of new inner-city growth and a trend towards core city stabilisation.Against this background, the paper scrutinises the issues of reurbanisation and new growth after the shrinking of postsocialist cities. The paper uses the approach of a contrastive comparison between cities in eastern Germany, where reurbanisation has developed as the predominant trajectory for many large cities, and for cities in Poland and the Czech Republic, where this trend is considerably less prominent. It analyses the development of reurbanisation in these cities and their urban regions over the last few decades, its characteristics and the determinants triggering or impeding it. The paper includes data on a national scale as well as from relevant case studies of cities and their urban regions.It argues, among other things, that there is no “postsocialist model” with regard to influencing factors for reurbanisation. Eastern Germany, due to its specific postsocialist situation and transformation trajectory, can be viewed as an “outlier” or “hybrid” which exhibits characteristics typical of postsocialist and western welfare contexts and which is seeing especially dynamic reurbanisation after a phase of extreme shrinkage. Although there are clear signs of inner-city reurbanisation in Polish and Czech cities as well, it seems relatively unlikely that this process will reach the same high levels as in East German cities within the coming years. * This article belongs to a special issue on reurbanisation.

scholarly journals ICT in agrarian sector of the CR

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 540-542
Author(s):  
J. Vaněk ◽  
J. Jarolímek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agrarian Sector ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University

The fact that the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is a key factor of development of individuals, regions, sectors and whole countries is well known at the beginning of the 21st century. The real situation of ICT utilization is very different in particular sections and it fails to reach standards that we would expect. The sphere of the agrarian sector of the Czech Republic is a very good example. The Information and Consulting Centre FEM at the University of Agriculture in Prague (IPC) has been participating on research of the utilization ICT in agriculture for three years. According to the latest data from July 2002, 55% of agrarian enterprises are connected to the Internet, which is much less than in other sectors.

scholarly journals Still too little, too late? Ten years of growth hormone therapy baseline data from the NordiNet® International Outcome Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Polak ◽  
Daniel Konrad ◽  
Birgitte Tønnes Pedersen ◽  
Gediminas Puras ◽  
Marta Šnajderová
Keyword(s):  
Growth Hormone ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Standard Deviation Score ◽  
Outcome Study ◽  
Gh Treatment ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Late Start ◽  
The Uk

AbstractBackground:We investigated time trends in age, gender, growth hormone (GH) dose and height standard deviation score (SDS) in children with GH deficiency (GHD), born small for gestational age (SGA) or with Turner syndrome (TS) starting GH treatment.Methods:Data were obtained from children enrolled in the NordiNet®International Outcome Study (IOS) between 2006 and 2015 in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro (all indications), and Switzerland and the UK (GHD only). Trends were analyzed by linear regression. Patients were divided by age into early-, medium- or late-start groups in three different time periods.Results:Approximately one-third of children starting treatment for GHD were girls, with no apparent increase in proportion over time. The mean baseline age for starting treatment decreased significantly (p<0.001) for both GHD and SGA in the Czech Republic and Germany. In the other countries studied, over 40% of children started treatment for GHD and SGA late (girls >10, boys >11 years) between 2013 and 2015. The mean baseline GH doses were largely within recommended ranges for GHD and SGA, but below the lowest recommended starting dose for TS in almost every year since 2011 except in France.Conclusions:Approximately one-third of children starting treatment for GHD were girls. Between 2013 and 2015, more than 40% of children started treatment for GHD and SGA late except in Germany and the Czech Republic. TS patients received below-recommended doses. These results highlight the need for earlier identification of short stature in children, particularly girls, and for dose optimization in TS.

Role of employment-related inequalities in young adults’ life satisfaction: A comparative study in five European welfare state regimes

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Vancea ◽  
Jennifer Shore ◽  
Mireia Utzet
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Young People ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Welfare State Regimes

Aims: There is evidence that young people are less satisfied with their lives when they are unemployed or working in precarious conditions. This study aims to shed light on how the life satisfaction of unemployed and precariously employed young people varies across welfare states with different labour market policies and levels of social protection. Methods: The analyses are based on representative cross-sectional survey data from five European countries (Denmark, the UK, Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic), corresponding to five different welfare state regimes. For economically active young adults ( N=6681), the prevalence ratios of low life satisfaction were estimated through multivariate logistic regressions. Results: In all five countries, unemployed young adults presented a higher prevalence of low life satisfaction. When we compared employees with people with permanent and temporary contracts, the former were more satisfied with their lives only in Germany and the UK, examples of conservative and liberal welfare regimes, respectively. Experience of unemployment decreased young adults’ life satisfaction only in Germany and the Czech Republic, examples of a conservative and an eastern European welfare regime, respectively. In almost all countries, young adults with low economic self-sufficiency presented a higher prevalence of low life satisfaction. Conclusions: There are nuanced patterns of employment type and life satisfaction across European states that hint at welfare state regimes as possible moderators in this relationship. The results suggest that the psychological burdens of unemployment or work uncertainty cannot be overlooked and should be addressed according to different types of social provisions.

scholarly journals Detection of mosquito-only flaviviruses in Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1215-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Calzolari ◽  
Líbia Zé-Zé ◽  
Daniel Růžek ◽  
Ana Vázquez ◽  
Claire Jeffries ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Yellow Fever Virus ◽  
Human Pathogens ◽  
Aedes Vexans ◽  
Pathogenic Role ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Aedes Caspius ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relationship Of

The genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae, includes a number of important arthropod-transmitted human pathogens such as dengue viruses, West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus. In addition, the genus includes flaviviruses without a known vertebrate reservoir, which have been detected only in insects, particularly in mosquitoes, such as cell fusing agent virus, Kamiti River virus, Culex flavivirus, Aedes flavivirus, Quang Binh virus, Nakiwogo virus and Calbertado virus. Reports of the detection of these viruses with no recognized pathogenic role in humans are increasing in mosquitoes collected around the world, particularly in those sampled in entomological surveys targeting pathogenic flaviviruses. The presence of six potential flaviviruses, detected from independent European arbovirus surveys undertaken in the Czech Republic, Italy,Portugal, Spain and the UK between 2007 and 2010, is reported in this work. Whilst the Aedes flaviviruses, detected in Italy from Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, had already been isolated in Japan, the remaining five viruses have not been reported previously: one was detected in Italy, Portugal and Spain from Aedes mosquitoes (particularly from Aedes caspius), one in Portugal and Spain from Culex theileri mosquitoes, one in the Czech Republic and Italy from Aedes vexans, one in the Czech Republic from Aedes vexans and the last in the UK from Aedes cinereus. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed the close relationship of these putative viruses to other insect-only flaviviruses.

Investment appraisal of advanced manufacturing technology in the czech republic, usa and united kingdom

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Hájek ◽  
Josef Hynek ◽  
Václav Janeček ◽  
Frank Lefley ◽  
Frank Wharton
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Advanced Manufacturing ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Capital Projects ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Investment Appraisal ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The results of a survey large Czech manufacturing companies are presented which shows the current levels of investment in advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), the techniques and criteria used to assess AMT capital projects, and attitudes to the need for further investment. Comparisons are made with the results of earlier identical surveys in the UK and the USA. The comparisons reveal numerous statistically significant differences. The current levels of AMT investment in the Czech Republic are relatively low, the techniques used for evaluation relatively unsophisticated, the investment criteria used are more short term, and there is less concern about the need for AMT.

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