Since the beginning of the last century there have been significant changes in the environment, farming and the landscape structure. Because birds are one of the longest- studied groups of organisms and are considered to be good indicators of environmental quality, it is advisable to relate environmental changes to changes in bird abundance. Understanding these relationships enables better and more accurate formulation of conservation plans and priorities, and therefore a large number of studies were dedicated to them. Although these studies achieved great progress in the knowledge of the most important factors that affect bird populations, their findings remained somewhat incomplete and fragmentary due to their limited temporal and/or spatial coverage. Therefore, it was not entirely clear which patterns are general and which are confined to some specific regional conditions. The fill this knowledge gap, I collected all studies on long-term trends in bird abundance in Europe and North America, which I was aware of, and made a meta-analysis of their results. Using linear mixed-effects models, I found a significant decrease in open-habitat species, probably as a result of agricultural intensification and abandonment of agricultural land. This pattern was consistent regardless of region or time period...

I investigate the relationship between expected stock returns and trading volume. I collect together 522 estimates from 46 studies and conduct the first meta-analysis in this field. Use of Bayesian model averaging and Frequentist model averaging help me to discover the most influential factors that affect the return-volume relationship, since I control for more than 50 differences among primary articles such as midyear and type of data, length of the primary dataset, size of market, or model employed. In the end, I find out that the relation between expected stock returns and trading volume is rather negligible. On the other hand, the contemporaneous relation between returns and volume is positive. These two findings cut the mixed results from previously written studies. Moreover, the investigated relationship is influenced by the size of country of interest and the level of its development. Besides the primary studies that employ higher data frequency provide substantially larger estimates than the studies with data from longer time periods. On the contrary, there is no difference among different estimation methodologies used. Finally, I employ classical and modern techniques such as stem-based methodology for publication bias detection, and I find evidence for it in this field. 1

Diagnostische und therapeutische Entscheidungen hängen bei der Behandlung von VLBW Frühgeborenen ( / In very low birth weight (VLBW) infants, diagnostic and therapeutic decisions depend on hematologic values. As few data are available, we studied the course during the first 6 weeks of life. Four prospective longitudinal cohort studies were retrospectively combined assessing hematologic profiles of 562 VLBW infants. We showed by metaanalysis that the values between the different four studies are not significantly different. For characterization of red blood cells and ferritin, infants receiving erythropoietin were excluded. For characterization of white blood cells and platelets, infants receiving antibiotics were excluded. Red cell parameters of VLBW infants were significantly lower than those of mature newborns. 29% of VLBW infants have thromboctopenia at the age of 3 days. Neutrophils decreased steadily, and were

Foi realizada uma análise quantitativa sistemática da literatura para verificar a acurácia do biomarcador ProEx C em pacientes com ASC-US, ASCH e SIL. Metodologia: A pesquisa foi realizada no MEDLINE (PubMed e OVID), EMBASE, LILACS, IBECS, BIOSIS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, desde 1966 até Novembro de 2011. Esta revisão esteve centrada em estudos que cumpriram as três condições para a seleção do estudo, que incluem teste de Papanicolaou, teste de triagem ProEx C e histopatologia como o teste de referência. Resultados: Cinco estudos, incluindo 713 mulheres, foram analisados. Das biopsias positivas, 83% (355/429) foram positivas para ProEx C, enquanto 14% (41/284) das biópsias negativas foram positivas para ProEx C. A sensibilidade combinada foi de 83% (95% IC, 79-87) e especificidade foi de 85% (95% IC, 80-89) usando o soaftware Meta-Disc. Para lesão cervical vs biópsia positiva ou negativa, a área sob a curva (AUC) foi de 0,90 com valor do ponto Q * de 0,84. Conclusão: nossos dados concordam com a hipótese de que ProEx C representa um evento precoce na carcinogênese cervical e que poderiam estar associados com a iniciação e progressão de lesões cervicais e, se expressados nos exames estudados podem revelar maior acurácia diagnóstica destes exames. / Undertook a quantitative systematic review of the literature to ascertain the accuracy of the biomarker ProEx C in patients with ASC-US, ASC-H and SIL. Methods: A comprehensive search of the MEDLINE (PubMed and OVID interface), EMBASE, LILACS, IBECS, BIOSIS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, index from 1966 to November 2011. This review focused on studies that fulfill the three mandatory conditions for study selection that include Pap Test, triage testing ProEx C and histopathology like the reference test. Results: Five studies, including 713 women, were analyzed. 83% (355/429) of positive biopsy were positive for ProEx C activity, while 14% (41/284) of the negative biopsy were positive for ProEx C activity. Pooled sensitivity was 83% (95% IC, 79 to 87) and specificity was 85% (95% IC, 80-89) using software Meta-Disc. For cervical lesion vs positive or negative biopsy, the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.90 with Q* point value of 0.84. Conclusion: our data agree with the hypothesis that ProEx C represents an early event in cervical carcinogenesis that could be associated with the initiation and progression of cervical lesions and is expressed in the studied tests may reveal greater diagnostic accuracy of these tests.

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Foi realizada uma análise quantitativa sistemática da literatura para verificar a acurácia do biomarcador ProEx C em pacientes com ASC-US, ASCH e SIL. Metodologia: A pesquisa foi realizada no MEDLINE (PubMed e OVID), EMBASE, LILACS, IBECS, BIOSIS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, desde 1966 até Novembro de 2011. Esta revisão esteve centrada em estudos que cumpriram as três condições para a seleção do estudo, que incluem teste de Papanicolaou, teste de triagem ProEx C e histopatologia como o teste de referência. Resultados: Cinco estudos, incluindo 713 mulheres, foram analisados. Das biopsias positivas, 83% (355/429) foram positivas para ProEx C, enquanto 14% (41/284) das biópsias negativas foram positivas para ProEx C. A sensibilidade combinada foi de 83% (95% IC, 79-87) e especificidade foi de 85% (95% IC, 80-89) usando o soaftware Meta-Disc. Para lesão cervical vs biópsia positiva ou negativa, a área sob a curva (AUC) foi de 0,90 com valor do ponto Q * de 0,84. Conclusão: nossos dados concordam com a hipótese de que ProEx C representa um evento precoce na carcinogênese cervical e que poderiam estar associados com a iniciação e progressão de lesões cervicais e, se expressados nos exames estudados podem revelar maior acurácia diagnóstica destes exames. / Undertook a quantitative systematic review of the literature to ascertain the accuracy of the biomarker ProEx C in patients with ASC-US, ASC-H and SIL. Methods: A comprehensive search of the MEDLINE (PubMed and OVID interface), EMBASE, LILACS, IBECS, BIOSIS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, index from 1966 to November 2011. This review focused on studies that fulfill the three mandatory conditions for study selection that include Pap Test, triage testing ProEx C and histopathology like the reference test. Results: Five studies, including 713 women, were analyzed. 83% (355/429) of positive biopsy were positive for ProEx C activity, while 14% (41/284) of the negative biopsy were positive for ProEx C activity. Pooled sensitivity was 83% (95% IC, 79 to 87) and specificity was 85% (95% IC, 80-89) using software Meta-Disc. For cervical lesion vs positive or negative biopsy, the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.90 with Q* point value of 0.84. Conclusion: our data agree with the hypothesis that ProEx C represents an early event in cervical carcinogenesis that could be associated with the initiation and progression of cervical lesions and is expressed in the studied tests may reveal greater diagnostic accuracy of these tests.

Foi realizada uma análise quantitativa sistemática da literatura para verificar a acurácia do biomarcador ProEx C em pacientes com ASC-US, ASCH e SIL. Metodologia: A pesquisa foi realizada no MEDLINE (PubMed e OVID), EMBASE, LILACS, IBECS, BIOSIS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, desde 1966 até Novembro de 2011. Esta revisão esteve centrada em estudos que cumpriram as três condições para a seleção do estudo, que incluem teste de Papanicolaou, teste de triagem ProEx C e histopatologia como o teste de referência. Resultados: Cinco estudos, incluindo 713 mulheres, foram analisados. Das biopsias positivas, 83% (355/429) foram positivas para ProEx C, enquanto 14% (41/284) das biópsias negativas foram positivas para ProEx C. A sensibilidade combinada foi de 83% (95% IC, 79-87) e especificidade foi de 85% (95% IC, 80-89) usando o soaftware Meta-Disc. Para lesão cervical vs biópsia positiva ou negativa, a área sob a curva (AUC) foi de 0,90 com valor do ponto Q * de 0,84. Conclusão: nossos dados concordam com a hipótese de que ProEx C representa um evento precoce na carcinogênese cervical e que poderiam estar associados com a iniciação e progressão de lesões cervicais e, se expressados nos exames estudados podem revelar maior acurácia diagnóstica destes exames. / Undertook a quantitative systematic review of the literature to ascertain the accuracy of the biomarker ProEx C in patients with ASC-US, ASC-H and SIL. Methods: A comprehensive search of the MEDLINE (PubMed and OVID interface), EMBASE, LILACS, IBECS, BIOSIS, Web of Science, SCOPUS, index from 1966 to November 2011. This review focused on studies that fulfill the three mandatory conditions for study selection that include Pap Test, triage testing ProEx C and histopathology like the reference test. Results: Five studies, including 713 women, were analyzed. 83% (355/429) of positive biopsy were positive for ProEx C activity, while 14% (41/284) of the negative biopsy were positive for ProEx C activity. Pooled sensitivity was 83% (95% IC, 79 to 87) and specificity was 85% (95% IC, 80-89) using software Meta-Disc. For cervical lesion vs positive or negative biopsy, the area under the curve (AUC) was 0.90 with Q* point value of 0.84. Conclusion: our data agree with the hypothesis that ProEx C represents an early event in cervical carcinogenesis that could be associated with the initiation and progression of cervical lesions and is expressed in the studied tests may reveal greater diagnostic accuracy of these tests.

Few studies have explored the relative strength of ecogeographic versus lineage-specific effects on a global scale, particularly for poikilotherms, those organisms whose internal temperature varies with their environment. Here, we compile a global dataset of life history traits in Daphnia, at the species-and population-level, and use those data to parse the relative influences of lineage-specific effects and climate. We also compare the thermal response (plasticity) of life history traits and their dependence on climate, temperature, precipitation, and latitude. We found that the mode of evolution for life history traits varies but that the thermal response of life history traits most often follows a random walk model of evolution. We conclude that life history trait evolution in Daphnia is not strongly species-specific but is ecogeographically distinct, suggesting that life history evolution should be understood at the population level for Daphnia and possibly for other poikilotherms.

This dissertation thesis follows from a wide stream of considerations of the relationship between the mass media, public and politics; in particular detail, it deals with a specific concept which attempts to grasp, model and empirically examine this relationship. The main goals of the thesis can be in short divided into two interrelated areas. The first aim is to introduce the concept of agenda setting to the Czech academic environment, with its theoretical, terminological and research frame for an analysis of relationships between the mass media content, dynamics of public opinion, and the political sphere. The second aim is to analyze how agenda setting processes are theoretically grounded and studied in the Czech social studies. The theoretical part of the thesis is structured according to two perspectives: diachronic and synchronic. In the diachronic perspective, I try to grasp the social context and historical origins of agenda-setting as a concept, its development, main trends, and developmental lines. This way, I move forward to the synchronic perspective and describe academic grounding of agenda-setting; I give a detailed analysis of the present level of the agenda-setting research and the main research areas through available classifications. The second fundamental area of the dissertation consists...

Univerzita Karlova v Praze 1. lékařská fakulta Autoreferát disertační práce Optimalizace indikací chirurgického a endovaskulárního ošetření intrakraniálních aneurysmat Anna Štekláčová 2018 2 Doktorské studijní programy v biomedicíně Univerzita Karlova v Praze a Akademie věd České republiky Obor: Neurovědy Předseda oborové rady: Prof. MUDr. Karel Šonka, DrSc. Školicí pracoviště: Neurochirurgická a neuroonkologická klinika 1. LF UK a ÚVN, Praha Školitel: Prof. MUDr. Vladimír Beneš, DrSc. Disertační práce bude nejméně pět pracovních dnů před konáním obhajoby zveřejněna k nahlížení veřejnosti v tištěné podobě na Oddělení pro vědeckou činnost a zahraniční styky Děkanátu 1. lékařské fakulty. 3 Obsah Abstrakt - Česky ..................................................................................... 4 Abstract - English ................................................................................... 5 Úvod........................................................................................................ 6 Hypotézy a cíle studie............................................................................. 6 Materiál a metody ................................................................................... 7 Výsledky...