Universiẗat, Diss., 2006--Würzburg.

Thesis (Diplomarbeit)--Georg-August Universität Göttingen, 2006.

University, Diss., 2001--Freiburg (Breisgau).

University, Diss., 2001--Bremen.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Kiel.

University, Diss., 2002--Bremen.

This thesis is focused on impacts that climatic and meteorological phenomena may display in reference to human´s health. Body of thesis is based on analysis of czech reference sources as well as foreign sources that discuss given issues. We found out that phenomena and effects that may affect our health are numerous. Most of them work complexly and interact with each other. It is hard to distinguish every single phenomenon, because it always works simultaneously with others. When defining an influence of effect that affects given area of health, it is necessary to calculate with genetic burden, diet, lifestyle etc. Factors that are mostly discussed in current reference books are sunshine, polluted atmosphere and radical weather changes. Moreover, nowadays is also the anthropogenic electromagnetic pollution (which is a product of mechanization and medialisation of modern world) a subject of discussion. In this thesis we sorted out and systematically elaborated all available information about changes in health, which appear in human organism under influences of climatic and meteorological phenomena.

Práce pojednává o vlivu referenčních skupin a aplikaci marketingových technik na ovlivňování spotřebního chování gymnaziálních studentů. Práce se snaží nalézt odpověď na otázku, zda existuje rozdíl v působení referenčních skupin na spotřební chování studentů státních a soukromých gymnázií v Praze. V rámci práce jsou nastíněny nejvhodnější marketingové techniky pro efektivní působení na cílovou skupinu gymnazistů. Součástí práce je analýza dvou dotazníkových výzkumů, a jedné provedené focus group.

The paper investigates Gyula Klima’s reconstruction of Aquinas argument for the immateriality of the intellect by the concept of human thought and its success to avoid the Content Fallacy. This fallacy, which is coined by Robert Pasnau, describes an illicit inference from a description of the nature of a thought, to what a thought represents, its content. The focus will be on a debate between Klima and Pasnau in Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, but also on Adam Wood’s critique of Klima. The paper concludes that if Klima is interpreted correctly, the argument is valid and Klima’s reconstruction of Aquinas argument does not fall victim to the Content Fallacy.

The observed summertime drying over Northern Central India (NCI) during the latter half of the twentieth century is not reproduced by the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) model ensemble average. At the same time, the spread between precipitation trends from individual model realizations is large, indicating that internal variability potentially plays an important role in explaining the observed trend. Here we show that the drying is indeed related to the observed 1950–1999 positive trend of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index and that the relationship is even stronger for a simpler index (S1). Adjusting the CMIP5-simulated precipitation trends to account for the difference between the observed and simulated S1 trend increases the original multimodel average NCI drying trend from −0.09 ± 0.31 mm d−1 (50 years)−1 to −0.54 ± 0.40 mm d−1 (50 years)−1. Thus, our estimate of the 1950–1999 NCI drying associated with Pacific decadal variability is of similar magnitude as our previous CMIP5-based estimate of the drying due to anthropogenic aerosol. The drying (moistening) associated with increasing (decreasing) S1 can partially be attributed to a southeastward (northwestward) shift of the boundary between ascent and descent affecting NCI. This shift of the ascent region strongly affects NCI but not Southeast Asia and south China. The average spread between individual model realizations is only slightly reduced when adjusting for S1 as smaller-scale variability also plays an important role.