The thesis deals with economic theory and research of the drug markets. Analysis of the literature compares individual approaches to theories by present authors, including their conclusions on data for the U.S. Established hypotheses based on the conclusions of analyzed literature are tested mainly using regression analysis on the available Czech data, where data on marihuana markets have high interdependency. The effects of selected variables on the price of drugs, which is a key characteristic of drug markets, are tested on data for the EU-27. The work describes trends in European drug markets and provides evidence on the influence of the variables on the price of drugs.

The Thesis intends to introduce business in government regulated Water Industry, accurately the area of Water Supply and Sewerage. Its aim is to describe the business market of this field. Moreover, to find out whether the companies in private multinational corporation ownership don't burden their customers with too high price of water supply and find if there is any relationship between the price of water and the profitability of these enterprises. To achieve this aim, companies are categorized into five groups and compared. These groups are created on the basis of the shares of private foreign corporation. A separate group is made of companies that are in ownership of municipalities that means without the influence of private foreign corporations. Firstly the one component prices are compared, then two-component ones. In conclusion, these prices are compared to profitability of these enterprises.

La télédétection satellitaire est un outil privilegié pour estimer les caractéristiques des calottes polaires, régions difficiles d'accès de notre planète. Dans le spectre visible et proche infrarouge, les informations reçues proviennent des premiers centimètres du manteau neigeux. Or, la modélisation des propriétés optiques de la neige dans ces gammes d'ondes montre que la réflectance de la neige dépend de la taille de ses grains. Le sujet de cette thèse est d'étudier les relations entre les données de télédétection et la réflectance théorique de la neige pour calculer la taille des grains de la couche de surface d'un manteau neigeux. Une méthode de détermination de la taille des grains est proposée et on effectue une étude de sensibilité aux paramètres intervenant dans le processus: atmosphère, étalonnage, topographie. Deux modèles théoriques sont etudiés et utilisés, sur l'Antarctique et sur les Alpes. De simples rapports de réflectances mesurées dans des canaux différents donnent par ailleurs des résultats prometteurs, et permettront peut-être un suivi opérationnel du manteau neigeux. Enfin, une collaboration avec le Centre d'Etudes de la Neige de Météofrance a donné lieu à une étude des propriétés optiques de la neige polluée par des composants atmosphériques

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-08-16T20:39:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GeorgiaMoreiraGurgel_DISSERT.pdf: 12815990 bytes, checksum: 923ea7cc1d7d815f0404b42cfcd4f2c8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-18T23:27:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 GeorgiaMoreiraGurgel_DISSERT.pdf: 12815990 bytes, checksum: 923ea7cc1d7d815f0404b42cfcd4f2c8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T23:27:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GeorgiaMoreiraGurgel_DISSERT.pdf: 12815990 bytes, checksum: 923ea7cc1d7d815f0404b42cfcd4f2c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-22 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (CAPES) / O crescimento desordenado da maioria das cidades brasileiras n?o ?, de forma planejada, acompanhado pelo desenvolvimento da infraestrutura urbana. Com o aumento da impermeabiliza??o do solo, do escoamento superficial e a diminui??o do volume infiltrado, impactos sobre os recursos h?dricos e sobre a popula??o das ?reas afetadas pelo crescimento urbano s?o inevit?veis. Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar o uso e ocupa??o do solo de uma bacia e analisar o sistema de drenagem, de forma a controlar os impactos por meio de medidas que integrem o desenvolvimento urbano com a drenagem das ?guas pluviais em uma importante bacia na cidade de Natal/RN. O estudo envolveu a caracteriza??o da bacia XII.4, sobre o uso e ocupa??o do solo, referente aos anos de 2005 e 2014. Com a aplica??o do modelo SWMM foi poss?vel analisar os impactos causados pelo processo de urbaniza??o no sistema de drenagem existente, mostrando que os dois anos analisados encontram- se com suas ?reas muito pr?ximas do estado de satura??o, em termos de porcentagem de ?reas imperme?veis. Apesar da regi?o ainda ser predominantemente residencial unifamiliar, sofre crescente verticaliza??o, principalmente de edif?cios comerciais. Sobre o sistema de drenagem, este se encontra ineficiente para as necessidades da ?rea j? no ano de 2005. O sistema de drenagem tamb?m foi testado para quatro varia??es de uso do solo atrav?s da elabora??o de cen?rios. O cen?rio 1 ? relacionado ao ano de 2014, considerado atual. O cen?rio 2 foi adotada a taxa m?xima de 80% para a ocupa??o do solo, permitida para o munic?pio de Natal. O cen?rio 3 apresenta o estado cr?tico de ocupa??o do solo, estando ? ?rea 100% impermeabilizada. O cen?rio 4 ? aplicado para a exist?ncia de LID( Dispositivo de Baixo Impacto). A an?lise dos cen?rios mostrou que todos indicam defici?ncia em algum ponto do sistema de drenagem em conseq??ncia do alto grau de ocupa??o da ?rea que geram escoamentos superiores a capacidade inicial do sistema. Com o estudo ficou claro que a ado??o de medidas n?o estruturais s?o eficientes na redu??o de alagamentos e no aumento da capacidade do sistema de drenagem. / The uncontrolled growth of most Brazilian cities is not accompanied by the development of urban infrastructure. With increasing soil sealing, runoff and decreased infiltration volume, impacts on water resources and on population of the areas affected by urban growth are inevitable. This study aims to evaluate the use and occupation of a watershed and analyze the drainage system in order to control the impact using tools to integrate urban development with the drainage of rainwater in an important watershed in the Natal City, Rio Grande do Norte State. The study involved the characterization of the basin XII.4 on the land use and occupation, for the years 2005 and 2014. With the application of SWMM model was possible to analyze the impacts caused by the urbanization process in the existing drainage system, showing the two years analyzed have their areas very close to percentage saturation of impervious areas. Although the region is still predominantly single family residential, suffers increasing verticalization of mainly commercial buildings. The drainage system is inefficient for the area's needs by the year 2005. The drainage system was also tested for four variations of land use by developing scenarios. Scenario 1 is related to the year 2014, considered current. Scenario 2 was adopted the maximum rate of 80% for land use, allowed for the Natal City. Scenario 3 gives the critical condition of land use, with the area 100% impervious. Scenario 4 is applied to the existence of LID (Low Impact Device). The scenarios analysis showed that all indicate deficiency at some point of the drainage system as a result of the high degree of occupation of the area that generate higher flows than the initial drainage system capacity. With the study it became clear that the adoption of non-structural tools are effective in reducing flooding and improving the drainage system capacity.

The thesis deals with the analysis and description of the development of the wood market between Czech Republic, Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg. For the reference period 2004 to 2011 the harvested volumes and the obtained prices for the main assortments and quality grades were considered. For a better overview of the analysis only the main tree species were used. Spruce (Picea abies), pine (Pinus sylvestris), oak (Quercus spec.) and beech (Fagus sylvatica). Further, it was analysed how the prices and volumes of the wood assortments developed over the years and which parameters could have an influence on that. Also the development of the import and export between Germany and Czech Republic was observed and as a closure the price indices of the three states (Czech Republic, Saxony, Baden-Wuerttemberg) for raw wood were calculated and finally analysed.

This diploma thesis analyses the degree of nominal convergence in the market for new passenger cars in selected classes. The selected classes are a class of small, medium and large cars. Analysed areas are the European Union, the euro area and the 15 traditional members of EU. The evaluation period of convergence is 2007-2011. There are identified countries with the lowest and highest price levels. Part of the work is devoted to recommendations for the final consumer when buying a new car in another EU country.

Drinking water supply is exclusively secured by the companies in monopoly position. Many of us mistakenly believe that the supply of drinking water and the collection of waste water is secured by only one water management company. There can be one or more water management companies in every district. In the district of Břeclav there is one water management company which secures drinking water supply in three areas: Břeclav, Hustopeče and Mikulov. Water management companies represent a territorial monopoly. Because of this they are subjects of control of the price determining authorities. In the case of water management company it is competent financial authority. This diploma thesis demonstrates that there is a decrease in water consumption while there is simultaneously an increase in the price of the consumed water, so that the water management company can generate sufficient profit to cover the operating costs and investment activities.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the applied methods of calculation of costs in the selected accounting unit in terms of usability of price defining. Simultaneously to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of calculation methods due to the development or modification of the calculation procedures. In the case of identified deficiencies introduce recommendations which the entity should accept, including the reasons that led to the relevant proposals. There are used methods of description, relevant mathematical methods, analysis of internal data, methods of managerial accounting and others. The selected entity is the cutlery manufacturing cooperative. In the results of this works there are proposed recommendations for the manufacturing and administrative overhead. Additionally a few changes are proposed for process of setting product prices in the company stores and in the e-shop. Beneficial change a costing formula is separate item monitoring cooperation in the direct costs. Finally, it is suggested to assemble documentation for calculations.

The main aim of the Dissertation was to create a method enabling evaluation of a business plan of a firm doing business in the field of freight transport. The Dissertation is based on an actual investment project in which the transport company takes part in two tender procedures. The specific nature of the transport sector complicated the possibility to use classical methods for the evaluation of investment efficiency. Application of the net pre-sent value method to an already implemented investment project confirmed that this method cannot be used to assess the business plan of the transport company. For this reason, it was necessary to draw up a price creation method for both the tender procedures able to en-sure positive profitability of the project with regard to specifics in particular tenders. The subject matter of the tender procedures was the request for proposal concerning vehicle sets of various specifications. The NAL (net advantage to leasing) method was used to decide about the manner of funding of the vehicle sets. For the other tender procedure, a calculation was made to optimize the route in terms of costs, whereby usability of the price creation method was verified in practice.

In this paper, we report a new estimate of the absolute proper motion (PM) of the globular cluster NGC 5139 (omega Cen) as part of the HST large program GO-14118+ 14662. We analyzed a field 17 arcmin southwest of the center of omega Cen and computed PMs with epoch spans of similar to 15.1 years. We employed 45 background galaxies to link our relative PMs to an absolute reference-frame system. The absolute PM of the cluster in our field is (mu(alpha) cos delta, mu(delta))=(-3.341. 0.028, -6.557 +/- 0.043) mas yr(-1). Upon correction for the effects of viewing perspective and the known cluster rotation, this implies that for the cluster center of mass (mu(alpha) cos delta, mu(delta))=(-3.238. 0.028, -6.716 +/- 0.043) mas yr(-1). This measurement is direct and independent, has the highest random and systematic accuracy to date, and will provide an external verification for the upcoming Gaia Data Release 2. It also differs from most reported PMs for omega Cen in the literature by more than 5 sigma, but consistency checks compared to other recent catalogs yield excellent agreement. We computed the corresponding Galactocentric velocity, calculated the implied orbit of omega Cen in two different Galactic potentials, and compared these orbits to the orbits implied by one of the PM measurements available in the literature. We find a larger (by about 500 pc) perigalactic distance for omega Cen with our new PM measurement, suggesting a larger survival expectancy for the cluster in the Galaxy.