In the United State today, many people do not have access to adequate dental treatment, while tooth decay is the single most common chronic childhood disease-five times more common than asthma and seven times more common than hay fever. At the same time, studies show that 80% of dental illness takes place in 25% of the population, which is comprised mostly of lower socioeconomic groups. A study undertaken by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2000, concludes that poor children suffer five times as much tooth decay as their more affluent peers. Furthermore, in poor children with tooth decay, almost 80% remain untreated. Poor dental health there-fore is a major health concern for under privileged families.The goal of this project is to enhance and facilitate the delivery of better dental treatment by designing a new prototype for a portable dental office that will be more flexible and more usable in a variety of situations and locations. For the purpose of this study, this prototype will be considered or tested within the context of three different types of spaces: the single closed room; a large open public space; and within mobile and nonpermanent structures such as tents. Several aspects of working conditions specific to the dental office will be taken into account when developing this design including transportability, degree of flexibility, storability, hygiene, and the creation of a relaxing atmosphere all of which greatly impact both the dentists and patients experience and are essential to the creation of a successful portable dental office.

In the late 1960's the academic field of Women's Studies was created to give women a more equal education and a more accurate reflection of their history and impact on society. At the University of North Texas the effort to implement Women's Studies was not begun seriously until the late 1980's. This paper covers the effort to establish Women's Studies at UNT. My thesis is that this has been a grassroots effort led by professors and students who succeeded not only in establishing Women's Studies but also in changing the face and feeling of the University, creating a more positive environment for women. The bulk of the paper is made up of narrative selections drawn from oral history interviews with key individuals.

The South African Post Office is investing large amounts of money in IT. Organisations were encouraged by the notion that investing in IT correlates with higher returns and the delivery of expected results by replacing the human component in organisations. The employment of IT within business has often resulted in the replacement of old problems with new and the expected business benefits of IT not realised. The primary research objective was to determine the relationship between IT expenditure and the financial performance of a firm. The secondary research objective was to explore the perceived value of IT investment in SAPO. / Graduate School of Business Leadership / MBL

Error! Unknown document property name. English summary The aim of the thesis is to present the possible ways of a relocation of a registered office of a company to other member state of the European Union. Furthermore, I tried to focus on common complication which can be faced in practical realization of such transfer, as well as on forthcoming legislation and possible perspectives which can be expected. I believe that this topic is very current and progressive and that the wish for cross-boarder movability of companies will be increasing. The thesis is composed of ten chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of relocation of the registered office. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis and reasons why I've devoted myself to this subject matter. Chapter Two examines the term "personal statute of a company". The chapter consists of six parts. Part One focuses on registered office of a legal entity. Part Two investigates the term personal statute itself. Part Three addresses the issue of theory of the Registered office and the Part Four the opposite theory of Incorporation. Part Five briefly introduces some other theories and Part Six contains a summary and my own opinion. Chapter Three is subdivided into three parts and provides an outline of relevant Czech...

Remuneration of members of governing bodies of joint-stock companies The topic of this diploma thesis is the remuneration of members of the governing bodies of joint-stock companies under the Czech Business Corporations Act. Taking into consideration the tradition in the Czech Republic, I focused on joint-stock companies with the dualistic board system comprising of board of directors and supervisory board. This thesis mainly deals with the questions regarding the mandatory agreement on remuneration in the contract on performance of the office, the role of the general meeting and the new institute of subsidiary gratuitous office performance. In total, this thesis comprises of the introduction, six chapters, and the conclusion. The introduction is followed by the definition of basic terms, especially the definition of board member remuneration. The second chapter briefly introduces the corporate governance and focuses on the remuneration as a corporate governance instrument, which should contribute to the resolution of the agency problem between the shareholders and the management. The third chapter outlines the statutory regulation of remuneration within the contract on performance of the office and especially deals with the possibility of the agreement on remuneration outside the contract on performance of...

The purpose of this thesis is to identify the most common and the most severe deficiencies in the conduct of the contracting authorities in the case law of the Office for the Protection of Competition and based on the data about numbers of these deficiencies in the past years and by taking into consideration the proposed legislative changes forecast the future development in the numbers and severity of the deficiencies in the conduct of the contracting authorities. In case of an adverse forecast correct aim of future legislative changes will be suggested so that the principles of transparency, equal treatment and non-discrimination would be protected and more efficient use of public funds would be ensured. The thesis is composed of eight chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the deficiencies of the contracting authorities. Chapter One is introductory. Chapter Two describes how the case law of the Office for the Protection of Competition was researched and used in this thesis. Chapter Three briefly describes the history of the Office for the Protection of Competition as the body which supervises the adherence to the Act on Public Procurement and as such provides the main source of case law and information for this thesis. Chapter Four is divided into five parts, each devoted to on...

59 Tax Search - English summary The aim of this work is to describe the basics of tax search of Czech tax authorities in view of new tax procedure act, and jurisdiction. In 2011 a new Tax Procedure Act has come into operation. It affects all tax procedures including tax search. It has established new principles of tax procedures, and has also included some jurisdiction. However, it has also established some new questions, that must be sold by new jurisdiction. Tax search is a specific procedure how government, using its special agencies - usually Tax Authority Offices, monitors declared taxes. Sometime tax authorities think their work is so important that there is no limitation in used tools. Then a court must say there is a limitation not only in act but also in principles of good administration. Some of these opinions were included into the new act, some were left intact since government does not agree with them. Tax search must have its goal. According to Constitutional Court a tax authority cannot start arbitrarily but there must be some suspicions, and a prove of it. Tax search alone can be separated into 3 parts - beginning, process, and conclusion. All these parts have their guidelines. Especially at the beginning tax authority can start tax search in given time of 3 years, and whole tax search must...

The purpose of the thesis is to analyse exclusions and exceptions from patentability which is a negative requirement for an invention to enjoy a patent protection. It aims to answer the question why the exclusions are needed and whether they should be preserved as some of them proved to be very controversial. The law and practice of the European Patent Office, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom are compared with the emphasis on the European Patent Convention and the EPO's case law. In the national regulation, mainly the differences and peculiarities to the European approach are pointed out. The work is composed of four chapters. The first chapter explains the basic concepts of patent law and presents justifications for patent protection. The second chapter deals with various patent systems and reviews the most important international tools of harmonization. In the third chapter, the exclusions are introduced and the distinction between Article 52(2) and (3) EPC (exclusions) and Article 53 (exceptions) is clarified whereas it is submitted that the difficulty posed by the exclusions lies in the interpretation of the words "as such" used in Article 52(3) EPC. The main focus of the thesis lies in chapter four which is subdivided into nine subchapters, each discussing one of the exclusions and...

Title: The Evaluation of Managers and Employees' Awareness of the Ergonomics in Office Environment Objectives: The aim of the thesis was a quantitative research to assess the awareness of ergonomics, working environment, office equipment, motor behavior and the appearance of professionally conditioned diseases among office workers, recruiters and management of companies in the Czech Republic. In conclusion outlined recommendations to improve the situation. Methods: The thesis using electronic polling using non-standardized questionnaire, which provides primary data collection. The method is used to analyze the awareness of ergonomic environments, motor behavior in the workplace, the occurrence professionally conditioned diseases and office equipment. The questionnaire was distributed to companies throughout the Czech Republic, a total of 678 employees were contacted, data was compiled from 442 respondents with an average age of 32,6 years. For data analysis was used software Microsoft ® Excel for Mac version 15.20. Results: It was found that ergonomics training and OSH passed only 25% of employees of Czech companies in the research sample. It came up to 20% more employees of national companies rather than international companies of the total number. The data show that the awareness of ergonomics is...

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / The purpose of this strategic analysis of the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC) Norfolk Detachment Philadelphia was to determine strengths and weaknesses in the organization. The objective was to describe the extent of congruence among important variables in the organization's system framework. This document includes a detailed description of the FISC Det Philadelphia system. Data were collected through interviews with key personnel and employee surveys. Data were analyzed to determine the congruence of the variables that make up the system (inputs, design factors, and outcomes). Conclusions as to the strengths and weaknesses of the organization were drawn based on the analysis of the variables. Recommendations were made on how to improve the areas identified as weaknesses and capitalize on those that were found to be strengths to revitalize the organization. The thesis also provides an example of how systems thinking can be used to perform a strategic analysis of an organization. Seeing the system as a whole through a comprehensive analysis of the key variables allows us to understand the impact of our changes as they relate to the entire organization. / Civilian, Department of the Navy