The purpose of my thesis is to describe unit owners association as a subject of law in the Czech Republic. It focuses on analysis of the most significant problems of the current legal regulation in the Act No. 72/1994 Coll., on apartment ownership. It also concurrently reflects the legislation in the new civil code, in which is the apartment ownership incorporated. The subject of thesis was selected because of its actuality in the professional literature and in the daily life. The issue of the unit owners association affects more and more inhabitants because of its mandatory membership and increasing amount of apartment owners. This dissertation consists of six individual chapters. Each chapter looks at the basic principles of the unit owners association and contains subchapter reflecting legal regulation in the new civil code. The first chapter concentrates on the legal regulation of the unit owners association. It looks at the most significant changes in the apartment ownership legislation, which have constituted unit owners association as a legal person. It also includes basic analysis and classification of amendment to apartment owners legislation in the new civil code. The second chapter looks at the legal status of unit owners association. It describes its characteristics as a person of law,...

Unit owners association as a subject of law (A comparative study of the new civil code bill) The purpose of my thesis is to analyse current legislation regarding apartment ownership which incorporates provisions regarding unit owners associations and compare it with the new Civil Code bill which will incorporate these provisions in the future. The methodology is primarily critical analysis. I explain the main problem by way of practical examples. The reason for choosing this subject of research is its topicality and the large numbers of people who live in apartments in the Czech Republic who are required to be members of unit owners associations. The thesis is composed of six chapters, five of which deal with various elements of the provisions regarding unit owner associations. Following these chapters, I look at the new Civil Code bill. The final chapter describes some provisions which apply outside the Czech Republic. Chapter One explains the legal status of unit owners associations as a legal entity and their characteristics. The chapter is subdivided into three main parts. Part One deals with the extent of the association's legal capacity. Part Two describes who represents the association and Part Three concerns the register of unit owners associations. Chapter Two describes the creation and...

As compared to short-term forecasting (e.g., 1 day), it is often challenging to accurately forecast the volume of precipitation in a medium-term horizon (e.g., 1 week). As a result, fluctuations in water inflow can trigger generation shortage and electricity price spikes in a power system with major or predominant hydro resources. In this paper, we study a two-stage robust scheduling approach for a hydrothermal power system. We consider water inflow uncertainty and employ a vector autoregressive (VAR) model to represent its seasonality and accordingly construct an uncertainty set in the robust optimization approach. We design a Benders' decomposition algorithm to solve this problem. Results are presented for the proposed approach on a real-world case study.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Background: Palliative care is specialised health care to support people living with a terminal illness, and their families. Palliative care aims to prevent and relieve suffering, to help people to live as well as possible until they die, and to support the processes of dying and bereavement. Palliative care is holistic care provided by Emergency and Oncology Nurses caring for cancer patients. Palliative care protocols for Professional Nurses working in Emergency Units and Oncology Departments are not always posted or in full view in the government hospitals of the Western Cape. The researcher had noted that the development of a palliative care protocol would be unique in its use at the three targeted government hospitals. Aims and Objectives: This study focused on the development and implementation of palliative care protocols for Emergency and Oncology Nurses in the targeted government hospitals of the Western Cape, i.e., protocols could be beneficial for cancer patients and their families. The overall aim of the research was to develop applied palliative care protocols for Emergency and Oncology Nurses to provide best practice palliative care nursing for Oncology Patients who may present at any one of three Western Cape Provincial Hospitals.

This thesis deals with a contrastive analysis of German phraseological units containing an animal and their Czech equivalents. In the theoretical part, we will explain the basic concepts of phraseology and focus on the contrastive phraseology. The core of the thesis is formed by analysis of German proverbs and other verbal phraseological units and finding their Czech equivalents. The selected phraseological units are accompanied by examples. The aim of the thesis is to divide the phraseological units into groups according to the degree of equivalence.

Die vorliegende Arbeit überprüft an einem nach Alter, Geschlecht, Barthel-Index und Mini-Mental-State-Test gematchten geriatrischen Patientenkollektiv mit erstmaligem Schlaganfall die Wirksamkeit einer vorausgegangenen Akutbehandlung an einer Stroke Unit (n=59) gegenüber einer allgemeinen (internistischen oder neurologischen) stationären Akutbehandlung (n=59) für die Prognose im Laufe einer nachfolgenden geriatrischen Rehabilitationsbehandlung. Hintergrund dieser Frage ist der erhöhte ökonomische Druck im Gesundheitswesen, der eine Effizienzprüfung einer personell, technisch und logistisch aufwändigeren und damit teureren Behandlung auf einer Spezialstation verlangt. Bei Anwendung zahlreicher funktioneller Skalen und Erhebung einiger sozioökonomischer Faktoren zeigte sich auf Signifikanzniveau, dass die auf Stroke Unit Vorbehandelten bei Aufnahme in die Rehabilitation motorisch schwerer beeinträchtigt waren (timed up and go-Test p=0,044, Lachs-Test p=0,34) und sich dann ausgeprägter (Transferleistung p=0,024) auf ein bei Rehabilitationsende schließlich vergleichbares Leistungsniveau verbesserten. Die ursprünglich geplante Langzeiteffizienzbetrachtung im Gruppenvergleich scheiterte an Datenschutzbedenken. Gesundheitsökonomisch relevant ist, dass die Vorverweildauer im Akutkrankenhaus bei Stroke Unit-Patienten sechs Tage kürzer war, die Rehabilitationsdauer allerdings vier Tage länger. Weitergehende Kostenbetrachtungen scheiterten am Unwillen zur Leistungsoffenlegung verschiedener Beteiligter im Gesundheitssystem. Eine plausible Erklärung für diese positive motorische Leistungsweiterentwicklung nach Stroke Unit-Vorbehandlung kann in einer frühzeitigeren und effektiveren Anstrengung durch Krankengymnastik, Ergotherapie, Logopädie, aktivierende Pflege, „enriched environment“ gesucht werden, die sich positiv auf die Plastizität im Gehirn als wesentliche Bedingung zur Funktionswiedergewinnung auswirken könnte, was aber noch umstritten ist und Ziel weiterer Untersuchungen sein muss. / This dissertation compares 2 groups of geriatric patients during their stay in a rehabilitation clinic after they suffered a first apoplexy. The first group is a group a 59 patients who have been admitted in the hospital on a general ward after their stroke. In the second group (n=59), the patients have been admitted in a special stroke unit after the apoplexy. In order to study the profit of the stroke unit pre-treatment, the 2 groups have been compared under the following criteria: age, sex, barthel-index and mini-mental-state examination. A long term comparison of efficiency was impossible because of data protection. The stroke unit patients stayed 6 day shorter in the acute hospital but they had to stay 4 days longer during the rehabilitation treatment before leaving the clinic of rehabilitation. Le travail suivant examine l’efficacité d’un traitement d’urgence dans un service de stroke unit par rapport à un traitement d’urgence dans un service général stationnaire (médecine interne ou neurologie) sur le pronostique lors du traitement de rééducation gériatrique à venir. Afin de pouvoir établir une comparaison, un groupe de patients gériatriques ayant subi un premier AVC a été choisi et couplé selon les critères de l’âge, du sexe, de l’index de Barthel et du test « mini-metal-state ». L’intérêt de cette question est la forte pression économique dans le secteur de la santé qui exige l’examen de l’efficacité d’un traitement dans un service spécialisé dont les moyens personnels, techniques et logistiques sont plus élévés et plus chers. L’utilisation de nombreuses échelles fonctionnelles et le relevé de quelques facteurs socio-économiques ont permis de mettre en évidence de facon significative que les patients traités dans un service stroke unit étaient plus gênés sur le plan motorique lors de l’admission mais qu’à la fin de la rééducation, ils s’étaient améliorés de facon nette, atteignant finalement un niveau de performance comparable. L’observation de l’efficacité à long terme dans le groupe de comparaison initialement prévue, a finalement échoué en raison de doutes quant à la protection des données. En ce qui concerne l’aspect éco-sanitaire, il est flagrant que le séjour à l’hôpital avant la rééducation a duré 6 jours de moins chez les patients du groupe stroke unit, mais la durée de rééducation 4 jours de plus. Il a été impossible d’examiner les coûts plus en détail en raison du refus de différents acteurs du système sanitaire à mettre leurs données à disposition. Cette évolution positive de la performance motorique suite au pré-traitement stroke unit peut s’expliquer par les efforts très précoces fournis en matière de physiothérapie, d’ergothérapie, de logopédie et de soins de rééducation active (enriched environment) qui ont une influence positive sur la plasticité du cerveau, laquelle est une condition indispensable au regain de fonctions. Ceci est encore controversé et devra faire l’objet d’autres études.

The critical care unit (CCU) is a unit where different health care professionals work together to care for the patient efficiently. A lot of studies in the past have shown that good communication and transfer of information from one health care professional to the other is an essential aspect in the transfer of a patients care. Most of these studies are concentrated on the reporter or informant. Lapses in communication and information transfer could result in unnecessary suffering both for the patient and for the health care worker. There are very few studies on how well the recipient of the information or report understands or comprehends the information passed. The aim of this study was to illuminate the critical care nurses (CCN) experiences of receiving report of patients transferred from other units. A qualitative design was chosen and five CCNs in a particular CCU were interviewed. The analysis was done using the content analysis method. The analysis resulted in four main categories which are: The patient’s situation-a determinant factor, the work environment, communication deficit creates uncertainty and structure enhances report and ten subcategories. The findings showed that CCNs' experience a feeling of uncertainty as a result of lapses in communication and their work environment and its attendant distractions has a great influence on the quality of the report they receive. To ensure a good quality of care that promotes patient’s safety and job satisfaction, it would be necessary to address the factors that hinder effective communication during handover in nurses' education programs and clinical practices.

This research report investigates the way that course designers in the financial services industry use and engage with unit standards. The origins of unit standards, theories drawn from the sociology of education, and interviews with course developers jointly contribute to understanding how unit standards are received and used within an organisational context. Eight informal interviews were conducted with self-employed course designers, to examine how they use unit standards when developing learning material in business contexts. These interviews indicated that course designers had many issues and concerns regarding these documents. Five course developers working in three large organisations in the financial services industry were further interviewed, formally, to establish how they use and engage with unit standards. The findings from both sets of interviews suggest that unit standards are used in a limited capacity in organisational course development in this industry, because they do not correspond to the training requirements of the respective organisations interviewed. However, unit standards are used in Learnership programmes, because a different training objective is pursued, namely a social justice and redress objective and not a business objective. Although the research indicates that course developers would welcome some kind of standardisation or regulatory system to direct course design, they are opposed to the existing design and structure of unit standards.

The subject of dissertation thesis is description of selected issues of apartment ownership. The thesis analyses in detail the historical development of the institute in the world from antiquity to the modern legal regulations of the 21st century. Particular attention is paid to the historical development of apartment ownership in the territory of today's Czech Republic. In the next part, the author describes the legislative and theoretical concepts of apartment ownership used in various legal systems of Europe. In the light of these foreign legal regulations, author also evaluates the legal construction of apartment ownership introduced by the new Czech Civil Code. After defining apartment ownership and describing its basic features, the author focuses on a detailed analysis of one of the basic elements of this institute - its subject. In this part, the thesis deals mainly with the question how the new Civil Code has defined the unit, the flat and the common parts of the land and building. The author deals in detail with new possibilities in determining the size of co-ownership shares of unit owners on common parts of the land and building. As part of the analysis of the subject of apartment ownership, the author does not just describe existing legislation, but also compares it with the previous...

A palavra estresse tem sido muito utilizada, sendo associada a sensações de desconforto em diversas situações, dependendo do ponto de vista de cada um. O estresse está relacionado à enfermagem principalmente pelo fato do enfermeiro trabalhar com pessoas doentes, em sofrimento físico e psíquico, que requerem grande demanda de atenção, compreensão e empatia. Lidando com as referidas pessoas e com as diversas situações, os sentimentos que desenvolve podem levá-lo a estados de irritação, desapontamento, e, até mesmo, à depressão. O trabalho na enfermagem, por si só, constitui-se em fonte de estresse decorrente do sofrimento dos pacientes, principalmente dentro de uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI), onde os mesmos necessitam de cuidados diretos e intensivos e estão sujeitos a mudanças súbitas no estado geral. Devido à importância do tema, este estudo, seguindo uma metodologia quanti - qualitativa, objetivou caracterizar os enfermeiros que desenvolvem suas atividades em UTI, verificar como associam o estresse a suas atividades, e, também, verificar a presença de estresse entre eles. Para tal, participaram do estudo 21 enfermeiros de UTIs de 5 hospitais do interior do Estado de São Paulo, que responderam a um roteiro de perguntas direcionadas a sua caracterização, um questionário com 2 perguntas sobre estresse e o Inventário do Estresse em Enfermeiros. Os resultados mostraram que a maioria dos participantes é do sexo feminino, na faixa etária dos 24 aos 50 anos, casados, com tempo de formação entre 1 e 16 anos e com curso de especialização. A falta de recursos humanos e materiais, o relacionamento interpessoal entre a equipe, o excesso de atividades e a rotatividade de leitos, foram alguns dos aspectos que os enfermeiros relataram relacionados à presença de estresse associados as suas atividades e que se manifestaram através de sintomas físicos e psíquicos. Dos enfermeiros pesquisados, 57,1% consideraram a UTI um local estressante e 23,8% deles apresentaram um escore elevado indicando a presença de estresse, o que leva a consideração de que este estudo evidenciou o fato de que o estresse, mesmo sendo discutido desde longa data, acomete, de certa forma, esses profissionais, e, as instituições, ainda não oferecem atenção especial aos seus profissionais no sentido de promover sua saúde integral. / The word stress has been frequently used, being associated with sensations of discomfort in many situations, depending of the point of view of each one. The stress is related to nursing mainly because the nurses have to work with sick people, suffering physically and psychologically, that requires a lot of attention, comprehension and empathy. Dealing with the referred people and with the diverse situations, the feelings that they develop can let them to irritating, disappointing states and, even, to depression. The work in the nursing area, for itself, it\'s a source of stress caused by the patient\'s suffering, mainly inside the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU), where they need straight and intensive care and they are subjected to sudden changes in the general state. As the importance of the theme, this study, following a quantitative and qualitative methodology, aims to describe the nurses that developed their activities in the ITU, verifying how they associated the stress with their duties, and, also, identifying the stress presence among them. For that, 21 ITU nurses from 5 hospitals of the inner State of São Paulo participated of the research, answering a list of questions related to their description; one questionnaire with 2 questions about stress and the Inventário do Estresse em Enfermeiros. The results showed that most of the professionals are women, between 24 to 50 years old, married, graduated for 1 to 16 years and with specialization course. The lack of human resources and materials, the relationship interpersonal among the staff, the exceeding activities and the rotation of the hospital bed, were some of the aspects that the nurses said associated with their activities and that were caused by the physical and psychological symptoms. Among the interviewed nurses, 57,1% considered the ITU a stress local and 23,8% presented a high score that indicates the presence of stress, that takes into consideration that this study reveals the fact that the stress, even being considered since a long time ago, it affects, in some way, these professionals, and, the institutions don\'t offer special attention for their professionals to promote their integral health yet.