This Master´s thesis deals with investing in buying a real estate in the various regional cities in the Czech Republic. It focuses primarily on the determination of the yield of these investments at a pre-defined parameters. There are also described and considered property, tax and legal aspects of investment options.

博士（商学） / 甲第544号 / 3, 175p / Hitotsubashi University(一橋大学)

Transferring from an acute care setting to a sub-acute rehabilitation (SAR) setting can be challenging for both patients and providers because communication errors may occur. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a 2017 quality improvement (QI) initiative that was implemented to reduce 30-day rehospitalization in a SAR setting serving older patients. The project involved an evaluation of the implementation of the Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR) tool for patient rounding to decrease the incidence of 30-day re-hospitalizations. Aristotle's linear model of communication, which emphasizes the impact of message delivery on audience response, provided the framework for this project. The evaluation project was conducted using the project organization's internal database to determine if the 2017 QI initiative reduced 30-day readmissions to the hospital. Data were evaluated 3 months before the implementation of the 2017 QI initiative and 3 months after the start of the project. Components reviewed included the length of stay, clinician authorizing the transfer, day of the week, time of transfer, reason, and outcome of the transfer. There was a significant decrease in return-to-hospital for Monday through Friday, but an increase was seen on the weekend (Saturday-Sunday), mainly in the morning and evening. Full-time staff who had participated in the education program worked Monday through Friday. Weekend staff were part-time staff who had not participated in the SBAR training. There was no consistency in the reason for transfer to hospital. The introduction of the SBAR education program had a positive effect on the quality of life of patients readmitting to the hospital.

This dissertation examines whether simultaneously conditioning on the multidimensional characteristics of information signals can help predict returns that are of economic significance. We use large price changes, public announcements, and large volume increases to proxy for the magnitude, dissemination, and precision of information signals. Abnormal returns following large price change events are found to be unimportant. As we condition on other characteristics of information signals, the abnormal returns become large. Large price change events accompanied by both a public announcement and an increase in volume have a 20-day abnormal return of almost 2% for positive events and -1.68% for negative events. The type of news provides further refinement. If the news relates to earnings announcements, management earnings forecasts, or analyst recommendations then the 20-day abnormal returns becomes much larger: ranging from 3% to 4% for positive events and about -2.25% for negative events. For these news events, we also find that the underreaction is greater for positive (negative) event firms that underperformed (overperformed) the market in the prior period, earning 20-day post-event abnormal returns of 4.85% (-3.50%). This evidence is consistent with the Barberis, Shleifer, and Vishny (1998) model of investor sentiment that suggests that investors are slow to change their beliefs. The evidence from our sample does not provide much support for strategic trading models under information asymmetry. Finally, an out-of-sample trading strategy generates 20-day post-event statistically significant abnormal return of 2.18% for positive events and -2.40% for negative events. Net of transaction costs, the abnormal returns are a statistically significant 1.04% for positive events and a statistically significant -1.51% for negative events. / Ph. D.

To support further technology development and to promote the growth of a renewable biofuels industry that will satisfy the stated expectations of anticipated energy needs, it is essential that energy production systems provide a net energy gain over the course of their lifetime. As a means to provide accurate analysis to the value of alternative energy systems this paper provides a mechanism to evaluate energy systems in terms of energy generation ratios that is in terms of existing analysis techniques utilized in existing energy generation areas, such as the oil industry. This paper also proposes techniques that help perform this net energy analysis in terms of the specific economy considering the infrastructure investment.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant public health concern that affects an estimated 5.3 million Americans. Approximately, 1 out of every 60 individuals experience a disability related to TBI, thus highlighting the significant burden on the affected population (ASBMB, 2021). A study conducted by Sharma et. al, stated that only 40.8% of individuals were able to return to employment after two years of experiencing BI, while a significant proportion of 20% remained unable to resume work due to the secondary deficits of their BI (2022). Evidence indicates that return-to-work (RTW) rates among individuals diagnosed with BI are significantly lower due to physical and cognitive deficits. The presence of unemployment, especially among the BI population can result reduced opportunities for community engagement, a loss of sense of purpose or identity, and a notable decline in overall quality of life (QoL). Occupational therapy (OT) is critical in the development of employability skills necessary for successful community reintegration including RTW. Despite this connection, there is no training module for professionals to refer to when delivering prevocational services to individuals with BI. In the attempt to bridge this gap, the Comprehensive Intervention for Prevocational Programming (CIPP) was developed and implemented. The CIPP represents an OT centered approach designed to facilitate the RTW process following a brain injury (BI). The primary goal of CIPP is to provide professionals with education on the prevocational process, enabling successful RTW. This intervention is structured around four modules, each serving distinct purposes: introduction to prevocational services, examination of BI's impact on RTW, outlining covered services, and defining the Occupational Therapy Practitioner's (OTP) role within the prevocational sector. Results of the study provided clinical evidence supporting the effectiveness of the CIPP as an impactful tool in educating professionals on the delivery of pre-employment services and further defining the role of the OTP in this domain. / Temple University. College of Public Health / Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

The intent of this thesis is to analyze and compare the return migration policies in Germany, Russia, and Kazakhstan. It is a relatively new category of migration policy, having only been identified in the 1970s. There is no uniform policy for return migration and consequently, each country has its own unique policy. Ethnicity plays a major role in all three countries' policies. However, some policies of return migration are more successful than others.

This thesis encompasses five chapters. Chapter 1 details the background literature for how the inhibition of return effect manifests in 3D environments. Additional summary is provided about how positioning cues and targets within the boundary of the same objects affects the spread of IOR when compared to when attention is cued in empty space. Finally, the literature review also provides a background for whether the IOR effect is affected by a viewer-centered or world-centered frame of reference. Chapters 2-4 are empirical chapters. Chapter 2 observes a depth-specific IOR effect in a 3D composed of pictorial depth cues. Chapter 3 suggests that this depth-specificity can only occur when cues and targets are positioned in different objects rather than when positioned within a single object. Chapter 4 investigates how the distances between viewer and cue, viewer and target, and cue and target affect the magnitude of IOR, suggesting that the world-centered reference frame influences IOR. Chapter 5 serves as a general discussion and conclusion chapter, discussing the findings and implications of each empirical chapter. / The distribution of human attention in space can be modulated by spatial and temporal factors. This dissertation studied inhibition of return (IOR), a robust behavioural effect obtained through a spatial cueing paradigm where observers exhibit slower detection times to a target appearing over 300 ms after a cue in a previously cued location. Most research has studied the IOR effect in two-dimensional space; thus, it remains unclear whether, in three-dimensional space (3D) space, slower reaction times occur due to a target appearing in the same world location (defined in 3D coordinates) or in the same retinal location as the cue (i.e., anywhere along an observer’s line of sight to the cue). My thesis examines IOR in a computer-simulated 3D environment, with the location of the cue and target residing in the same versus different depth/distance position either within the same or different object and either relative to the observer or to the world environment. Following a general literature review (Chapter 1), the first empirical chapter (Chapter 2) demonstrates that IOR is depth-specific when the direction of depth switch between cue to target occurs from far-to-near space, suggesting a behavioural advantage for near space in the human attention system. Chapter 3 shows that this depth-specificity and depth-asymmetry of IOR is maintained only when cues and targets are not part of the same object; object membership can therefore override the depth-specific property of IOR in 3D scenes. Chapter 4 introduces motion of the viewpoint, showing that IOR is depth-specific when the cue and target appear in different depth locations in the world environment even when located at the same relative distance from the observer’s viewpoint. Thus, IOR could be the result of an inhibitory tag placed at a location relative to the environment rather than at a location relative to the viewpoint. / Dissertation / Doctor of Science (PhD) / Human attention can be distributed over space and affected by external events. Prior research using 2D environments has shown that some time after the first stimulus (a cue), the reaction time to a subsequent stimulus (a target) appearing in the same location is typically slower compared to when this target appears elsewhere. Thus, attention likely moves away from a previously observed to more novel location of interest. I examined, in a 3D environment, whether this “location” of reduced attention resides in the same 3D location or retinal location as that of the cue. I also assessed the impact on reaction time for when the cue and target belong to the same or different object and when their locations differ in reference to the observer or world environment. My research suggests that humans maintain a higher level of attention for nearer space when the cue previously appears at a farther location.

This dissertation examines the effects of return migration on Nikkei (of Japanese descent) sending communities in the Soconusco Region (Acacoyagua), Chiapas, Mexico and Lima, Peru. Massive numbers of Nikkei Latin Americans have been returning to Japan in the last two decades filling a shortage in low-skill labor. The Nikkei mass exodus is indicative of the global economic pattern that has caught Latin American countries in a downward economic spiral resulting in joblessness and class polarization. For many, transnational migration is the only viable option for economic survival. This research illustrates how Nikkei are strategically making home, shaping family and defining selves through return migration. Nikkei Latin Americans (those who go and those who stay) approach return as Ganbatteando (doing one's best) embracing and making-their-own the Japanese concept of Ganbarimas. This study examines the local impacts of a global phenomenon broadening the traditional anthropological approach on spatially localized groups to address identity-formation as a discursive phenomenon situated in-between, across and outside, yet still connected to fixed or bounded locations or nations. I explore how Japanese in Latin America reconcile their Japanese roots with their embedded experience in their Latin American birthplace as well as their newest and current experiences in Japan to construct variable, changing and unique identities. Nikkei, situated in and creating a temporal and spatial borderzone are forming, reforming, and transforming home, family and identity as their local communities and marriage options, are depleted. By incorporating non-Nikkei-but-Nikkei-enthusiasts, Nikkei are sustaining and reinforcing endogamous marriage at a time when the emigration of large numbers of marriageable-aged Nikkei make that otherwise impossible. In this process, they are making intimate choices: reasserting ethnic strongholds in the homes of their choice, shifting and strategically broadening kinship and community boundaries, and at the same time more strictly regulating inclusion and exclusion. Nikkei are eating potato chips with chopsticks at the same time that non-Nikkei in Latin America are frying sushi. / Anthropology

Yes / At a time when there are more people on the move than ever before, it is pivotal to explore people's motivations and experiences of return migration. Whilst motivations for migration are comparatively well explored, return migrants' experiences are less well-known and migrants' gender is rarely considered. This article addresses these gaps. It is based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews with 32 Polish women: 16 migrants and 16 return migrants. Considered through the lens of agency and structure, this research uncovers how fluid the process of migration has become; migration motivations and patterns are blurred and interlinked with one another while classic migration theories seem outdated. The study uses an “intersection of motivations” to show how inseparable migration-related motivations have become. This article contributes to the growing literature on East–West return migration and highlights women as migrants and the gendered nature of their mobility. / Jagiellonian Polish Research Centre in London