of the paper The goal of the submitted work is to compare extensively the first hagiographical concerning the process of Christianization in the Central Europe. By paralleling these texts across the national rounds and comparing their image with the current state of the historical research the author tries to understand the role of legend in the Christianization and in particular their possible use as a source for this period. The hagiographical image of paganism, the baptism of the state units, of the ruler and the usual way of the institutional spread of the faith with regard to the image of the lower social classes in the process are all examined in the thesis. Further, attention is paid to the coherence of the Central-European area observable in the typology and the content of examined hagiography.

6 Abstract The thesis deals with detailed analysis of the climate change rate throughout the European continent with an emphasis on Central Europe in the period 1951-2005. The main aim was to find out whether the rate of climate change is getting lower or higher during the monitored period and identify when the changes in the rate occurred. Changes of three climatic elements - minimum air temperature, maximum air temperature, and precipitation, were described for climatic seasons of the year. Other climatic elements were also available, however, amount of data is insufficient for such a detailed trend analysis for the entire second half of the 20th century. First part of the thesis summarizes current knowledge of changes in climate change rate, which is so far rather scarce. Most scientific articles are limited to detecting warming or cooling, decrease or increase in precipitation during a certain period. They, however, do not research when these changes of climatic elements occurred. For my analysis, which tries to offer a detailed insight into changes in European climate, daily records from European Climate Assessment and Dataset (ECA&D) database of 122 stations (spaced as evenly as possible) were used. For examining variability trends (i.e. the rate of climate change) I tested moving 20-year trend (15-...

The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the genetic diversity of mtDNA of populations in Central Europe and to assess its relation to geographic distances and/or linguistic affiliation of individual populations. For this purpose, HVS-1 mtDNA segments of 194 individuals of 6 Slovak populations were sequenced. Basic parameters of genetic diversity were estimated for obtained sequences, and compared with similar data published by other authors (4 798 sequences of HVS-1 mtDNA segment of 42 population units in Central Europe in total). Intra-population analysis revealed a high level of gene and nucleotide diversity of studied populations, with values clearly decreasing from north to south. While the Slovak populations were bearing the highest rates of genetic diversity, the lowest values were detected in the Croatian populations. The results of ΦST distances point to a certain similarity of the Slavic population (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Germanic (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) as well as some groups from Hungary and Romania. As the most distant appeared especially the population of Croatia, which differed from almost all populations included in the study. AMOVA showed that the geographic division of population explains the layout of genetic variation...

The Lateglacial and Early Holocene are key periods with respect to the understanding of the present-day vegetation and environment. An interdisciplinary approach is important for the study of these changes. Only by interlinking biological and geoscience evidence can we obtain a more comprehensive picture of this key period. It is not possible to interpret any pollen spectrum in the sedimentary record without knowledge of the history of the locality and its vicinity. Rapid climate changes had a crucial effect on the environment and vegetation. Continentality of the climate and a deficit of precipitation amplify the effect of local conditions. Vegetation, as in the case of vertebrates and molluscs, comprises a combination of species of a continental steppe, mountain biotopes and disturbed habitats. This facilitated contact among species and populations that are biogeographically separated at present. Vegetation of the Lateglacial period in the Czech Republic ranges in character from frost barrens in the mountains, through steppe-tundra vegetation at medium altitudes to a continental steppe in the lowlands and pine woodlands constrained to a moist floodplain. The Western Carpathians were covered by a taiga. In the Pannonian Lowland, there were open forests with conifers and broadleaved woody plants....

This thesis describes the history and present situation of dollarization process and analyzes the situation in three new EU member states. It describes the development of the official and unofficial dollarization of credits and deposits, and concludes the results of previous studies. Furthermore, it provides a detailed analysis of situation concerning borrowing denominated in foreign currencies in the Czech, Hungarian and Polish household sector, for the period of last eleven years. The empirical analysis investigates the determinants of foreign currency loans in a household sector. Using three different panel data regressions, we found that share of foreign currency denominated loans in examined countries are positively influenced by dollarization of deposits, banks' net foreign assets and loan to deposit ratio. Other tested variables, such as EU membership, interest rate differential or exchange rate volatility, changes their significance and impact according to the model or the method used. Their impact on a dependent variable is insignificant and not stable. JEL Classification E44, G21 Keywords Foreign currency borrowing, dollarization, household sector, Central Europe Author's e-mail Nikola.Buresova@seznam.cz Supervisor's e-mail Roman.Horvath@gmail.com Bibliographic Record Burešová, N (2013):...

Diploma thesis Political Marketing in Central Europe analyzes the historical background, culture specifics, economical, geographical and socio-demographical factors which are influencing voters' decisions in individual countries, mentions the communication of political parties and analyzes the results of parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, and presidential elections in Austria and Poland, which took place in 2010. Based on the findings the author tries to predict the probable further development of political parties in the political scenes in the country and identifies key factors of voters' decisions in each country.

Cílem diplomové práce na téma Japonské investice v České republice je zhodnotit význam japonských investic pro Českou republiku jako nejatraktivnější zemi japonských investorů v rámci střední Evropy. Diplomová práce je rozčleněna do následujících kapitol. První kapitola popisuje přímé zahraniční investice v Japonsku. Následuje kapitola Investice ve střední a východní Evropě, která charakterizuje jednotlivé země střední Evropy z hlediska potenciálního vstupu japonských investorů. Kapitola Investice v České republice analyzuje investiční prostředí v České republice. Další kapitola Japonské investice v České republice charakterizuje některé japonské společnosti v České republice. Poslední kapitola hodnotí význam japonských investic pro Českou republiku a pro Plzeň. České republice patří první místo v přílivu japonských investic v rámci střední Evropy. Od roku 1998, kdy byl systém investičních pobídek zaveden, došlo v ČR k mnohem většímu přílivu zahraničních investic než v předchozích letech. Příliv japonských investic je pro ekonomiku České republiky životně důležitý, japonští investoři přinášejí nejen finanční prostředky, ale také zkušenosti, znalosti, nejmodernější technologie a výrobní a manažerské metody. Budoucnost ČR a příliv zahraničních investorů se ukazuje jako velice pozitivní. Úkolem bude změnit ČR z výrobní základny na vědeckotechnologické centrum Evropy.

This thesis focuses on the epidemiological situation in the incidence of measles in the Czech Republic and possibilities of influencing their unfavourable situation in Europe. Measles is a highly contagious disease of viral origin, which has a significant impact on the health of the child population in particular. The most effective protection against the measles is vaccination. The introduction of measles vaccination positively affected the epidemiological situation in the world. Priority of the WHO (World Health Organization, WHO, hereinafter) is elimination of the measles. The long term goal of the WHO and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC hereinafter) was the elimination of measles in the European region by 2010. This goal was not achieved. The cause was low immunization coverage of certain population groups in several European countries. The prerequisite of achieving elimination of measles is that the vaccination coverage in the population is high. Many countries, thanks to effective vaccination strategy, succeeded in reducing the incidence of measles. In the years 2007- 2009 the historically lowest incidence, of less than 10 measles cases per million inhabitants, in the European region was achieved. In subsequent years, there was again a rise in measles morbidity. A repeated rise in cases of the disease is attributed to the expansion of social groups where vaccination coverage was inadequate in terms of achieving herd immunity. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter describes the history of measles, the origin of the name of the disease and the first mention of it. The second theoretical chapter is devoted to the clinical characteristics of measles. In subchapters it describes the clinical picture of the disease, possible complications of the disease, how the infection is diagnosed and what treatment options there are. The third chapter defines the epidemiological characteristics of the disease. The subheads are aimed at the cause of the disease, possible ways of transmission, incubation period, period of communicability, susceptibility and incidence of this disease. At last, the fourth chapter of the theoretical part desribes possible epidemiological measures, which include measles surveillance, preventive and repressive measures and vaccination. The practical part of the thesis was elaborated through quantitative research - secondary data analysis. Analysed data were obtained from the information system for reporting and recording infectious diseases EPIDAT on Regional Hygiene Station of South Bohemian Region, based in Budweis and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The data on population, in terms of age groups and individual regions, were drawn from the demographic yearbooks, which are available on the website of the Czech Statistical Office. The resulting data were subsequently processed in tabular and graphical forms in Microsoft Excel. The research objectives were: 1) to set charting trends in the incidence of measles in the Czech Republic and Central Europe over the period 2004-2013, 2) to compare the incidence of measles in the individual regions of the Czech Republic, and 3) to identify the reasons for gaps in vaccination coverage against measles in the South Bohemian Region. Based on the above stated objectives, the five research questions were defined. The results are intended to highlight the issues of possible adverse influence on the epidemiological situation in the incidence of measles in Europe. This thesis can be used as a source of information on trends in incidence, vaccine development and immunization status for measles.

This master's thesis concerns itself with regional development in tourism. In general it focuses on the position and importance of tourism in Central Europe, and more specifically on the Visegrad Group i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The theoretical part of this thesis deals with the general characteristics of tourism as a whole and explains basic concepts that serve as a basis for the practical part. It defines tourism and its typology, describes the factors affecting tourism development, focuses on the countries of the Visegrad Group and specifies tourism in these countries. With regard to the topics discussed in the theoretical part, the main objective of this master's thesis is to create a new tourist route within the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. For this specific purpose, a tour of the V4 countries was planned. The plan itself foresees a tour lasting several days and includes a budget. The resulting outcome can be used to enrich the existing tour offers of travel agencies who focus on tours within Central Europe. This new tourist route will help to expand the customer base of travel agencies, especially with customers from overseas. The final outcome will lead to further tourism development within the Visegrad Group countries.

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the differentiation in mortality rates at the international and regional level (NUTS 2) in selected countries of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Switzerland). At the country level, it examines the development of total mortality and cause- specific mortality since 1990. At the regional level, it evaluates the regional differences in total mortality and cause-specific mortality in the period 2008-2010. The thesis makes use of demographic indices (life expectancy, dispersion measure of mortality, lifespan disparity, standardised death rate) and tools of statistical analysis (Poisson regression, cluster analysis). The analysis reveals that mortality rates have decreased in Central European countries, although significant differences in the intensity of mortality can still be observed at the international as well as regional level. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)