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There are many studies about citizen participation in urban planning, but there are almost no studies about citizen participation in relation to climate change adaptation. This study was conducted in order to understand how Swedish municipalities work with citizen participation in this area. To fulfill this purpose, a caste study was built on the Swedish municipality Norrköping. Specifically, the study seeked the answers to the following four questions: How does the municipality work with citizen participation in their planning process? Does the work with citizen participation in any way touch upon issues regarding climate adaptation in the municipality? Are there any challenges with integrating citizens in the planning process when it comes to climate adaptation? What can the municipality do in order to overcome these challenges? These questions were answered using data from semi-structured interviews with municipality officers and two focus groups consisting of citizens from a residential area in Norrköping. The results indicate that no concrete work is made on citizen participation in relation to climate change adaptation in Norrköping. However, the municipality showed large potential for developing both effective and meaningful citizen participation in this area, for instance by using visualization technology and their exhibition arena. To make a good use of these tools, the municipality should define how citizen opinions are to be used and what they would like to achieve by integrating citizens in planning related to climate change adaptation.

This thesis focuses on state aid law as a specific part of EU competition law. State aid is therefore primarily set in the context of protection of competition in the EU internal market. Furthermore, the thesis provides an interpretation of Article 107, paragraph 1 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which contains four attributes of state aid: state resources, favoring certain undertaking or the production of certain goods, distortion of competition and effect on trade between EU Member States. Analysis of the attribute "effect on trade between Member States" is made in a separate part of the work. In this section, the work seeks to explore how European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union approach and interpret this attribute. Attention is paid especially to decision-making activities of the European Commission in recent years. Decisions of the Commission, as a body authoritatively determining whether a measure constitutes state aid, as well as the compatibility of state aid with the internal market, could also indicate the direction in which the state aid law will develop in the future. The analysis of the Commission's decisions found that not even potentially affects trade between Member States a measure with purely local impact. Such measure will...

The subject of this thesis is the issue of criminological aspects of drug-related crime. This topic is considerably wide, therefore this thesis focuses on two specific aspects of this particular crime: the relationship between drug use and crime and the criminal careers of drug-addicted offenders. Since these two aspects are still being overlooked in the Czech Republic, the aim of this thesis is to introduce this issue using foreign literature and to complement it with my own research carried out within the Capital City of Prague. The first part of the thesis (Chapters 1 and 2) represents an introduction into the issue of drug-related crime. First, it explains basic notions that are essential to know for easy orientation within the thesis. Then, it discusses the history of drug abuse in the Czech Republic from 1918 until nowadays, and also complements current situation with an actual drug policy strategy. The second part of this thesis (Chapters 3 and 4) focuses on acquainting with the issue of the relationship between drug use and crime and the criminal careers. Using mostly foreign literature, it looks at these specific problems from two different perspectives: describing both the most famous theories and models and the most recent or well-known empirical researches. The last part of the thesis...

Unterhalt zwischen den Eltern und den Kindern Resümee Meine Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema des Unterhalts zwischen den Eltern und den Kindern. Dieses Thema betrifft fast jeden von uns, entweder als den Unterhaltspflichtiger oder als den Unterhaltsberechtigter. Meiner Meinung nach ist das Thema des Unterhalts zwischen den Eltern und den Kindern sehr interessant und immer aktuell und verdient Beachtung der ganzen Gesellschaft. Das erste Kapitel meiner Arbeit erklärt die Grundbegriffe dieser Problematik, als der Unterhalt, seine Arten und Funktionen. Dieses Kapitel beschreibt auch kurz die historische Entwicklung der rechtlichen Regelung der Unterhaltspflicht und grenzt die Subjekte der Unterhaltspflicht ab. Die gröβte Aufmerksamkeit wird in meiner Arbeit der Unterhaltspflicht gegenüber dem Minderjährigen gewidmet, weil die rechtliche Regelung dieser Art der Unterhaltpflicht am wichtigsten und gesellschaftlich am bedeutendsten ist. Meiner Arbeit beschäftigt sich vor allem mit den Kriterien für die Festsetzung der Höhe des Unterhaltsbeitrags, der Zeitdauer und der Weise der Leistung des Unterhalts. Das wichtigste Problem stellen die Gerichtsentscheidungen über die Höhe des Unterhaltsbeitrags dar, die ab und zu in ähnlichen Fällen bedeutend unterschiedlich sind. Darum hat das Justizministerium im...

En France, de nombreux enseignants sont impliqués dans des réseaux professionnels en ligne pour échanger, concevoir collectivement ou partager des ressources pédagogiques. Cette thèse a pour objectif d’apporter une meilleure compréhension des modes de fonctionnement interne de ces réseaux. Parce que ce sont des organisations complexes et en mutation permanente, nous avons observé de façon participante 6 réseaux différents sur des périodes longues variant de 6 à 36 mois. Nous avons également procédé à des analyses ciblées concernant certains aspects spécifiques tels que la construction des identités numériques des membres (1 495 profils analysés) ou les stratégies conversationnelles mises en œuvre par les locuteurs (3 324 échanges). Nous avons recueilli les opinions des personnes responsables des réseaux et des membres impliqués (N= 28) et analysé les réponses de trois enquêtes en ligne (N=111). Cette thèse infirme l’idée d’une collaboration systématique dans les réseaux en ligne d’enseignants. Les résultats montrent que la nature des règles de fonctionnement est essentielle pour expliquer ce que produisent les enseignants dans leurs réseaux. Dans certains réseaux, fonctionnant avec des règles souples, les enseignants mutualisent des collections de ressources individuelles. Ces réseaux se développent en fonction des stratégies personnelles de leurs membres et sont souvent peu pérennes. Dans d’autres, des enseignants acceptent de se plier à des règles contraignantes pour produire collectivement des ressources en conformité avec les valeurs qu’ils partagent et qu’ils souhaitent diffuser. Cette thèse permet d’envisager des perspectives d’étude sur la conception et le partage de ressources pédagogiques. Elle peut également aider à la création et au développement des réseaux d’enseignants. Sur le champ de la prospective, elle offre des pistes de discussion sur la place que pourrait occuper les réseaux d’enseignants dans les systemes éducatifs, dans le futur. / In France, many teachers are involved in professional online networks to design, discus or share educational resources. This PHD aims to provide a better understanding of these networks internal functioning. Because they are complex organizations in constant changing, we decided to study them over a long period of time (6 to 36 month). We also conducted analyzes focused on specific aspects such as construction of members digital identities (1495 profiles analyzed) or active members conversational strategies (3324 exchanges). This PHD does not confirm the idea of a systematic collaboration in online teachers networks. Our results show that the nature of the operating rules is essential to explain what and how teachers produce resources in their networks. In some networks, working with very flexible rules, teachers mutualize collections of individual resources. Their development depends on members’ personal strategies and they are often not sustainable. In others type of networks, teachers agree to comply with binding rules for collectively produce resources in accordance with values they share and they want to broadcast. This PHD offers perspectives on designing and sharing professional resources and can provide help to create and develop teachers’ networks. On a prospective way, This PHD also offers matter of discussion about the place teachers online networks could take in the educational landscape.

My thesis focuses on electronic communication between adolescents and teachers and the aspects of communication among adolescents with regards to their teachers. I used all the resources mentioned below, as well as my realised research. This theme has not yet been completely processed. As a result, I have aimed to create a comprehensive view on the function of electronic communication within the teacher - student relationship. This essay consists of two parts; a theoretical view and a practical view. The theoretical view consists of four chapters. The first two chapters deal with the specificity of the virtual world and its place within the lives of adolescents and how they communicate. The last two chapters of the theoretical view are focused on the school environment. The third chapter talks about relations of adolescents with teachers and relations among adolescents themselves. The final chapter within the theoretical view covers issues of virtual communication in relation to the school and education. In the practical view, I present quantitative public opinion surveys carried out in the 3rd class of high schools. The research focuses on the neutral, positive or negative ways in which adolescents use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to communicate with teachers and how they...

Maintenance between parents and children Resumé My thesis deals with the mutual maintenance of parents and children in theory and in practice and the thesis consists of ten chapters. The topic of alimony is a very current topic. Our society is constantly changing and its relations in the families as well. The families which are functioning decrease so the needed family members have to seek for their rights. Each of us is a parent or a child, so this topic affects all of us. The first chapter defines the basic concepts of my thesis, such as the concept of maintenance obligations, the differences between different types of maintenance obligations, the definition of subjects of maintenance obligations and the differences between the Czech and the International legal system. The final part of the first chapter discusses the new regulations of maintenance obligations, which will come into effect with new Civil Code. The main chapters focus on alimony obligation of parents to children and on alimony obligation of children to parents. I discuss the basic concepts and I define them. In those chapters the newly created tables from the Ministry of Justice for calculating the alimony with its application in the practice of Czech courts, where also the latest judiciary decisions are mentioned, also are taken into...

Title: Patients' Knowledge about Physiotherapy. Objectives: To contact representatives of foreign professional organizations to determine whether they were surveyed public knowledge about the physiotherapy, and let them answer some solved questions. Secondly, to investigate patients' knowledge about physiotherapy, if they see the difference between a physiotherapist and a masseur and if they properly title or address the physiotherapists. In case of desinformation of the patients to think what would be the best way to improve that. Methods: An english written questionnaire containing 6 questions was sent to the representatives of professional organizations by e-mail. The survey among Czech patients was conducted using a structured questionnaire consisting of 10 questions. Distribution took place in Prague and Pardubice. Results: Only 31% of the representatives of the professional organizations reported that the survey about the public knowledge about the physiotherapy was conducted but the document could not be obtained. 77% of the representatives also stated that patients with no previous experience with the physiotherapy rather know what is the content of this field and 69% also believed that the patients used name / surname most commonly in addressing the physiotherapists. 38% said that the...

UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA KATEDRAANDRAGOGIKY A PERSONÁLNÍHO ŘÍZENÍ Bc. Markéta Dufková Ovlivňování kvality pracovního života rozvojovými aktivitami (Influence of development activities on quality of work life) DIPLOMOVÁ PRÁCE Praha 2013 Vedoucí práce: PhDr. Jan Gruber, Ph.D. ABSTRACT This work focuses on comparison of theoretical approaches to the quality of work life with practical approaches in international companies. At the same time, emphasis is placed on staff development, which includes education. The basis of this work is the analysis of approaches to quality of life or more precisely the quality of working life. Theoretical dimensions of quality of working life are a synthesis applied to a practical measurement tool used in the studied Corporation. Nowadays, the employee is valuable and essential element of organizational life. Orientation on cutomer and focus on employee requires a thorough knowledge of motivation patterns and human needs. Improving the quality of working life can affect not only the work performance of the employee, but also its satisfaction with the work. A secondary effect is a reduction in fluctuation. Quality of working life can be affected by a large number of ways, in this work, however, attention is focused on the effect of staff development on the...