The thesis focuses on female university students and their body image in relation with their parents' body image. The satisfaction of the students with their own bodies depends on many elements such as the influence of the media and the judgements of their peers, family and authorities. A substantial part of our thesis is an unprecedented analysis of the possibility of a trans-generation transfer of the extent of satisfaction with one's own body from parents to their daughters. We have used the quantitative research strategy to assess the results gathered from questionnaires focusing on the students' as well as the parents of both male and female children's perception of their own bodily features. Physical parameters such as height and weight were also checked. The study also focused on whether the trans- generation transfer is affected by the way the parents treat their children during childhood and adolescence. Our results have shown that there is a positive relation between the student's and the mother's body image. This positive relation can be perceived as a consequence of the trans-generation transfer which is probably a mechanism of observational learning. The results further show that the student's body image and their mothers' loving care during childhood and adolescence are also in a...

This diploma thesis deals with the issue of mental anorexia (AN), clinical and laboratory manifestations of the disease. The theoretical part is focused on summarizing the existing knowledge about the diagnosis, complications and treatment of AN. Attention is paid to the effects of the disease on individual organ systems and clinical and laboratory consequences. The practical part deals with the evaluation of laboratory parameters and clinical symptoms of patients monitored at the Department of Pediatrics and Inherited Metabolic Disorders, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General Hospital in Prague. The performed clinical examinations include anthropometric measurements, bioimpedance, measurement of resting energy consumption by indirect calorimetry, measurement of skin algae with a caliper and comparison of the results of methods for determining the proportion of adipose tissue using a caliper and bioimpedances. All patients underwent EKG and cardiological examination, blood pressure measurement, heart rate. The laboratory examination was focused on the determination of serum protein levels, lipidogram, electrolyte levels, triiodothyronine and vitamin D. The aim of the practical part of the work was to find out what are the most common clinical manifestations and laboratory...

Diploma thesis deals with the creation and use of worksheets in the subject of Health Education. The worksheets are focused on a nutritional behavior of students in the second grade. In the theoretical part there is defined how the worksheets are created and what sort of requirements they have. The practical part contains a research conducted among pedagogues of Health education, three specific worksheets for students and three specific teachers methodology. The survey was conducted by quantitative method, where thirty teachers responded in the questionnaire to determine their view on the use of worksheets in the classroom and on the necessity of making comprehensive set of worksheets in the teaching of Health education. The worksheets are made for the students of the second degree with a focus on a nutritional behavior and methodology for teachers, how to work with the worksheets in the classroom. The worksheets contain learning tasks with a focus on food components, determinants of health and eating disorders. The practical part also includes supplementary material for teachers with information about topics that worksheets contain. KEYWORDS worksheets, Health education, nutritional behavior of students, food components, factors affecting health, eating disorders, obesity

Anti-predator behaviour, sexual selection and reproductive success in the House Sparrow Passer domesticus Alena Klvaňová Summary of the thesis Individual components of parental care are disproportionally distributed among the parents in the House Sparrow. While the female broods the nestlings more often and feeds them more frequently, the male defends the nest more intensely. In an experimental study the parents did not adjust their nest defence intensity to behaviour of their partners, nor to brood parameters. Only males tended to defend the sooner broods more intensely, which is in concordance with the "brood value hypothesis". Male contribution to nestling feeding affected their body mass. Male nest defence intensity increased with the size of their melanin ornament. Thus, we assume that the ornament could signal male investment in this component of parental care, while it does not correlate with feeding frequency and time spent by incubation. This output is probably caused by pleiotropic effect of genes regulating melanogenesis, affecting e. g. testosterone plasma level, which is associated with increased agression and lower intensity of other components of parental care as nestling provisioning or incubation. We have also aked the question whether the anti-predator strategy in House Sparrow is stable...

This theses deals with the storage length of artificially spawn of hard roes of Tench (Tinca tinca) during different temperatures at the time before the semen discharging and activation to fertilization, hatching and consequent survival of fish hatchery throughout changeover from the embryonic to larval life period (beginning of active food intake). Homogeneous assortment of hard roes obtained from hormonally induced artificial hatching of 6 spawners has been used for this experiment. Samples of hard roes were put into plastic bowls and covered, immediately after artificial hatching. Subsequently, they were placed into tempered, thermo-isolating containers with temperatures of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 °C. In time intervals of 0.5; 1; 1,5; 2; 3; 4; 6; 8 and 10 hours, a small amount of hard roes were taken away from each temperature (estimated 50 -100 pieces) and put into dry, glass beakers (in 3 repetitions in each temperature combination and length of storage). Subsequently, the semen discharging from 6 milters was carried out and activation by water was performed. Incubation took place in non-sticking environment. During the incubation, or more precisely during the consequent storage of embryos through temperatures between 19-20.5 °C, water was changed daily. Fertilization was evaluated 48 hours after fertilizing. Hatchery was determined 48 hours after beginning of hatching of first specimen. After changeover from embryonic to larval period of ontogenetic development, living food was offered to hatching fish (artemia sp.). Thereafter, the amount of hatched fish with filled intestines was counted. Ascertained values were depicted as a percentage from the total number of seeded hard roes as well as fertilized hard roes with the use of statistic methods (two factors Anovy with the repetition). The highest level (in statistic evaluation on the importance level alfa = 0.05) of hard roe hatchery was accomplished throughout the length of possession and temperature 1 hour/ 25 °C (68.0 +- 3.1 %). The high level of hatchery was maintained by hard roes stored for 2 hours, afterwards a gradual value decrease was registered. Similarly, that was achieved with hatching parameter, where the high level of hatching was achieved with hard roes possessed for the period of 3 hours (except temperature of 30 °C), afterwards the hatchery was decreased. Pursued survival and food intake parameters of hatched fish (from the practical point of view) confirmed above stated dispositions. The high hatchery from placed hard roes was maintained for 1.5 - 3 hours (except 30 °C), thereafter there was its gradual decrease. In the time of 8 hours (temperatures 5 - 20 °C), the survival of 1.2 +- 1.8 %, was found out, with the rest, the survival was nearly zero.

This thesis consists of both theoretical and practical parts. The aim of the theoretical part is to present the basic concepts of this field of research, then discuss the types of nourishment intake defects, their causes and treatment, and also to define the term "pubescent". The entire theoretical part is based on the examined professional literature. The practical part focuses on research which ascertains pubescents´ awareness of the topic and the possible influence and occurrence of the nourishment intake defects in pubescents. Following the practical part, there is a summary and evaluation of the results based on the questionnaire method.

The diploma thesis titled The Magazines for Adolescent Girls as a Risk Factor of Negative Body Image and Eating Disorders discusses a possible influence of the girl's magazines on adolescent girls' body satisfaction. The thesis is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. The theoretical part focuses on theoretical definition of the main issue and further it presents the results and findings that were the starting point of the overall focus of the thesis. This part is divided into five chapters when each chapter focuses on the theoretical definition of the specific area. These areas are the period of adolescence, self-concept, body image, factors that may influence adolescents' body image and finally girls' magazines which are considered as a risk factor of adolescents' body dissatisfaction due to its contents. The diploma thesis reflects the important findings related to the main issue which are served as the basis for the following practical part. The second, practical part of this diploma thesis, is presented as an empirical investigation focuses on a possible influence of the girl's magazines on adolescent girls' body satisfaction and on the overall body satisfaction with adolescent girls' bodies. Within this empirical investigation are set questions that the investigation tries to answered. The results of the empirical investigation are divided into three parts according to the method that was used in a particular part of investigation. In thesis was used these methods: Silhouette Test, questionnaire and analysis of the text and image content of the most popular girl's magazines in connection with the theoretical focus of the thesis.

The aim of this work was to realize the first intensive rearing of juvenile fish of burbot in the Czech Republic (TL = 165.79 +- 18.87, W = 32.91 +- 10.27 g) in recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) at different water temperatures. A total of 9 tanks were used in the three separate RAS systems. For a period of 12 weeks survival (S), specific growth rate (SGR), feed conversion ratio (FCR) and the condition of the fish (FC) was observed at 3 week intervals. The best values of survival (98 +- 0.4%) were achieved in burbots kept at a water temperature of 15 ° C. Survival in the group of fish kept at a water temperature of 18 °C did not statistically differ from the group of fish reared at 15 °C and 21 °C. The SGR value for the fish at a water temperature of 15 °C was (0.7 +- 0.09%.d-1) at 18 °C the SGR value was (0.45 +- 0.1%.d-1) and fish kept at a water temperature of 21 °C reached SGR values of 0.33 +- 0.04%.d-1. The best FCR values (1.27 +- 0.35) were reached also in the group of fish kept at 15 °C. For burbot kept at a water temperature of 21 °C, the FCR value was 2.78 +- 1.17. Based on our results we can conclude that the most appropriate water temperature for rearing juvenile burbot was 15 °C.

Populations of European ungulates have grown substantially over recent decades, resulting in considerable environmental and socio-economic impacts. Availability and quality of natural and supplemental food sources are among the main factors driving their population dynamics. Detailed knowledge of feeding strategies of management-targeted species is therefore of primary importance for their successful management. Over time, methods to study the feeding strategies of animals have also evolved considerably but each has its advantages as well as limitations. This doctoral thesis uses a combination of traditional methods (i.e. stomach content analysis) and novel methods (i.e. stable isotope analysis, near infrared reflectance spectroscopy) to achieve a better understanding of feeding strategies of two important ungulate species (i.e. wild boar and red deer) in the Czech Republic, where their populations are on the rise and supplementary feeding is rampant. Next, this dissertation aims to introduce and to establish a basis for these novel methodological approaches for the study of free-ranging individuals. In this respect, it also addresses methodological issues related to their application in this field. The diet composition of wild boar was investigated by examining stomach contents in order to identify their dependence on food resources of human origin (i.e. agricultural crops and supplemental foods). Foods of human origin were the dominant diet type and constituted the bulk of the diet of wild boar throughout the year. A necessary prerequisite for application of stable isotope analysis is the trophic discrimination factor (i.e. systematic difference between the isotopic composition of the consumer tissues and that of the diet), which was experimentally determined for stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes, the two most commonly used in ecology, in hair tissue of wild boar and red deer. Furthermore, possible sources of variation (such as sex, age, body weight, and lactation) on isotopic discrimination were investigated. The results of the experiments provide a starting point for the successful use of stable isotope analysis in field studies on wild boar and red deer. Finally, application of near infrared reflectance spectroscopy was proven to be useful in measuring faecal indices of food quality for red deer. The results of this thesis will contribute towards efficient management of wild boar and red deer in the Czech Republic.

The subject of the thesis is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the human body, which is examined through the prism of eating disorders. Methodologically, the project rests upon the core methods of cultural anthropology. The purpose of the thesis is an application and testing of concepts apply concepts developed by the author of the thesis to research embodiment, specifically eating disorders perceived as culturally conditioned phenomena. The broader goal is thus to contribute to the development of the field of anthropology of body and contribute to the development of its theoretical and empirical foundations, while its specific aim is to apply the model of anthropology of body to the research of eating disorders. The thesis proceeds from the general interpretation to the specific research agenda It is divided into three interrelated sections. The first part presents a summary of concepts and approaches to embodiment in social sciences, accentuating a diachronic perspective. In the second section the concept of embodiment is outlined introducing three structural levels. Anthropology of body serves as a starting point for tackling the issue of eating disorders. The third part is an empirical section. The outputs of the research on the body image of people with eating disorders are presented,...