scholarly journals Vybrané pohledy na vztah české populace ke sportu

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Václav Stříteský
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Representative Random Sample ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
Active Sport

The paper explores attitudes of the Czech population towards sport. It deals with three main areas of people’s interest expression in sport. They are active sport participation, attending sport matches and watching sports on television. The purpose of the research is to determine the attitudes of the Czech population towards sport, including the assessment of differences by gender and age. The second objective is to identify the most popular kinds of sport in the Czech Republic in all three areas of interest, i. e., the active participation, attending sport matches and watching sport broadcasts. The paper also deals with the comparison of the various kinds of sport in terms of the relative dominance of active or passive interest in sport. Different groups of related sports are identified. Analyses are based on the data of the research project Market & Media & Lifestyle – TGI, which was provided for the purpose of this research by Median agency. Research is carried out on a representative random sample of the Czech population aged 12–79 years. The sample size is over 15 thousand respondents.

scholarly journals Application of Mg-fertilizers to prevent and to decrease Norway spruce yellowing

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Podrázský ◽  
S. Vacek ◽  
J. Remeš ◽  
I. Ulbrichová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Norway Spruce ◽  
Forest Decline ◽  
Forest Stand ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
Air Pollutant ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Stand Management ◽  
Areas Of Interest

Yellowing of the Norway spruce is a relatively common problem in many areas of the Czech Republic. In some of them, it is also connected with forest decline; it was studied in the Šumava (Bohemian Forest) Mts. and in the western part of the Krušné hory Mts. This unfavourable phenomenon is initiated by several ecological as well as anthropic processes, one of the most important being the imbalance of forest stand nutrition. Particular reasons lead to the deficiency of nutrients, especially of magnesium. Solution of this undesirable trend is the profound ecological analysis and cause-oriented treatments. Besides lowering the air pollutant input, fertilization with deficient nutrients is a successful treatment in the forest stand management in affected areas. In the areas of interest, the application of a relatively small amount of appropriate fertilizer (SILVAMIX Mg) led to considerable improvement in the defoliation dynamics and yellowing progress since the first years after use.

Boom of road races in the Czech Republic – sport for all or luxury amusement?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Slepičková ◽  
Pavel Slepička
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
University Education ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Participation Costs ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Road Races

Nowadays, similar to worldwide trends, running has become very popular in the Czech Republic. Since the mid of 1990s, the business sector has become very active in this area. Private companies organise many road races for the public, including participation of top level runners (i.e. Prague International Marathon). In 2016, within the framework of the international project IRNIST, we realised an empirical descriptive study of the Mattoni ½ Marathon in Ústí nad Labem, a middle size town. The IRNIST questionnaire was used. Analysing data on 491 runners (of 2,238 runners finished the race) we found that concern-ing socio-economic status of respondents, 56.9% of runners have a university education, one third advanced secondary education; and 63% earn more than the average wage. Participant were able to spend quite a lot of money for participation costs. These results raise the issue if the privatization and commercialization of running for the masses does not cause limit for sport participation for all.

scholarly journals Providing Public Sport Facilities in Post-Socialist Times: The Case of the Czech Republic

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-199
Author(s):  
Jakub Popelka
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Organized Sport ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Sport Facilities

AbstractThe paper aims to investigate current approaches to the management of public sport facilities by local governments. In the Czech Republic, local clubs traditionally played a key role in providing sport to the public. With decreasing participation in organized sport, a significant number of clubs have been forced to transfer their facilities to local governments and the sport position of local authorities has strengthened considerably in recent years. In consequence, there have been alterations in the management of public sport facilities. The findings of statistical analysis emphasize an increasing role of specialized organizations at the expense of in-house management or external provision (facilities hired out to sport clubs). Moreover, local population and type of facility were found to be the possible reasons for different approaches. In-house management is associated with smaller municipalities whereas most of their facilities have the character of public goods. In contrast, publicly funded organizations and municipal enterprises appear in municipalities with larger populations providing sport facilities of regional importance in the form of mixed goods. Finally, clubs, as representatives of external provision, mostly provide sport facilities primarily intended for their own purposes - club goods. In the context of recent works and contemporary trends in sport participation, the research findings indicate that different forms of management may have significant effects not only on efficiency of public budgets but also on conditions for sport at local level - especially on targeting those who would participate in sport if they had access to new opportunities or leisure programs.

scholarly journals New religious movements and their perception as conflict religious groups: the case of the Czech Republic

2006 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 393-403
Author(s):  
David Václavíc
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
Czech Society

At first sight, both the role and the position of religion in the Czech Republic may appear to confirm the secularization thesis. The results of sociological surveys and census statistics show a clear decline in religious faith and practice. According to last national census of 2001 more than 59 per cent of Czech people declared themselves to be ‘non-believers’, while only 32 per cent of Czechs declared themselves to be ‘believers’. And if we look at the statistics that concern the intensity of religious life, we can see a more ‘secularized picture’ of Czech society. For example, only 5 per cent of the Czech population attends religious services regularly, and only 20 per cent of population is willing to contribute 1,50 euro a month to a religious group or church. But do these data present a true picture of secularization in Czech society? What exactly is the attitude of Czech society towards religion? These and other questions are examined in this article.

scholarly journals The Effect of Socioeconomic Classes on the Subjective Perception of Economic Situation

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (33) ◽  
pp. 102-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radek Tahal ◽  
Zuzana Chytková ◽  
Marek Novinský
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Attitudes ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
The Future

Abstract The paper deals with the influence of a consumer´s inclusion in a socioeconomic class on the rate of optimism or pessimism in anticipating the future, with regard to the consumer behaviour, the attitudes towards finances, savings, working efforts and lifestyle. The data are based on a large-scale research carried out with a representative sample of the Czech population in the latter half of 2014. The regression statistical analysis was used for calculating and explaining the variables. The outcomes show that people are more optimistic in foreseeing their own future than the future of the Czech Republic. As for the consumer behaviour and financial attitudes, the differences between the classes are not prominent. There are, however, differences in such issues as the fear of poverty or finding suitable jobs.

scholarly journals Genetic confirmation of Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in the Czech Republic, its conservation significance and biogeographic context

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Alena Sucháčková Bartoňová ◽  
Jiří Beneš ◽  
Zdeněk Faltýnek Fric ◽  
Martin Konvička
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Cytochrome C ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Cytochrome C Oxidase ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
South Bohemia

We report here the first molecular evidence for the occurrence of Aricia artaxerxes (Fabricius, 1793) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in the Czech Republic. In Central Europe, this species may co-occur with its more common sibling, Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775). We sequenced the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 of darkly-coloured, putative A. artaxerxes specimens in the Czech Republic. We confirmed A. artaxerxes only from a limestone area in South Bohemia (Vyšenské kopce National Nature Reserve), which is probably the only locality of the species in the Czech Republic. This area is located at ca. 550 m A.S.L., showing that the elevation overlap with A. agestis could be high in Central Europe. Other surveyed individuals were confirmed as A. agestis, with a minimum p-distance of 1.98% between the two species. The South Bohemian area of occurrence is probably highly isolated (approx. 190 km) from localities of the species in neighbouring countries, highlighting the conservation importance of the A. artaxerxes population and of the insular calcareous areas in the Šumava Mountains foothills. We used database sequences of A. artaxerxes to place the Czech population into a wider phylogeographic context. The Czech population is monomorphic, consisting of a single haplotype, which is present from Scandinavia through Germany to Central Asia.

scholarly journals Item Analysis of the Czech Version of the WJ IV COG Battery from a Group of Romani Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (19) ◽  
pp. 10518
Author(s):  
Alena Kajanová ◽  
Tomáš Urbánek ◽  
Tomáš Mrhálek ◽  
Stanislav Ondrášek ◽  
Olga Shivairová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Differential Item Functioning ◽  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
Item Functioning ◽  
Culturally Influenced ◽  
Quota Sampling

The objective of the article is to present an item analysis of selected subtests of the Czech version of the WJ IV COG battery from a group of Romani children, ages 7–11. The research sample consisted of 400 school-aged Romani children from the Czech Republic who were selected by quota sampling. A partial comparative sample for the analysis was the Czech population collected as norms of the Czech edition of © Propsyco (n = 936). The Woodcock–Johnson IV COG was used as a research tool. Statistical analysis was performed in Winstep software using Differential Item Functioning; differences between groups were expressed in logits and tested via the Rasch–Welch T-test. It was discovered that higher item difficulty was noted in the verbal subtests, although variability in item difficulty was found across all subtests. The analysis of individual items makes it possible to discover which tasks are most culturally influenced.

scholarly journals Study on content and composition of trans-fatty acids in breast milk in the Czech Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-61
Author(s):  
JIří Ruprich ◽  
Svatava Bischofová ◽  
Kateřina Hortová ◽  
Martina Kalivodová ◽  
Zuzana Měřínská ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Acids ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Breast Milk ◽  
Energy Intake ◽  
Trans Fatty Acids ◽  
Dietary Exposure ◽  
Daily Energy Intake ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
Daily Energy

The objective of the study was the analysis of mature breast milk (BM) of 69 participants in order to describe the content and composition of trans-fatty acids (TFA) in BM fat. Estimated dietary exposure to TFA in currently breastfeeding women and their children, or rather in the Czech population, is 3−4 times lower than more than a decade ago. While in 2002 and 2007 TFA measured in BM reached 4.2 and 3.1−3.8% out of the total BM fat content, respectively, nowadays it is only 0.9% on average. It was found that the WHO limits for trans-fatty acids (i.e. max. 1% of daily energy intake) were met in all participants. Average TFA intake in participants reached 0.3% of daily energy intake.

scholarly journals Secular Trends of Adult Population and Their Impacts in Industrial Design and Ergonomics

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 7565
Author(s):  
Martina Lipoldová ◽  
Miloš Hitka ◽  
Róbert Sedmák ◽  
Branislav Kolena ◽  
Tsolmon Jambal
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Secular Trend ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Secular Trends ◽  
Arithmetic Means ◽  
Female Population ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Czech Population

Significant increase in 25 anthropometric variables of the Slovak and Czech population in time are defined in the paper. A total of 691 respondents from Slovakia and 688 from the Czech Republic were analyzed. Arithmetic means and standard deviations to characterize the anthropometric variables and their variation were defined and compared. Subsequently, quantiles of the selected anthropometric measurements of the adult male and female population in individual countries in the year 2004 and newly determined quantiles in the year 2018 were calculated and compared. Following the results, the fact that secular trend has stabilized and differences in population between individual countries have minimized over the course of the last 14 years can be stated.

scholarly journals Age structure and the burden carried by the productive population of the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Dufek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Age Structure ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
Demographic Feature ◽  
Independent State ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
Rate Fluctuation

The study evaluates the age structure of the Czech population with the emphasis on the burden born by the productive population due to the pre-productive and post-productive population. The extent of the burden born by the productive population is measured by the age structure coefficients. The situation is best described by the youth and old age dependency coefficients, the overall dependency coefficient, and the ageing index. The dynamic aspects can be best analyzed on the basis of the inflow and outflow coefficients. During the last century, the demographic development was seriously disrupted by a series of events that caused the birth rate fluctuation. The repercussions of these fluctuations are perceptible even today. This study focuses on the period ranging from 1993, when the Czech Republic became an independent state, to the beginning of 2004. The prevailing demographic feature of this time is the decreasing population and the negative development of the age structure. This is marked by a decreasing pre-productive population of children aged under 14, and an increasing post-productive population of old people above 64 years of age. The process of ageing of the Czech population is becoming evident. According to the published forecasts, these negative tendencies are not likely to dwindle in the future. The proportion of young people who were born towards the end of the twentieth century and who will in a few years become a part of the productive population will be considerably smaller than the number of the baby boom representatives who will have retired.

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