Title: Nutrition for performance tennis players Objective: The aim of this master's thesis is to explain the importance of training diet, particularly a diet for performance tennis players. Analyze the nutritional habits of performance player and suggest an appropriate diet. Methods: Master's thesis has character of a case study. Research in this work is based on the descriptive analysis. Data is being collected by semi-structured interviews and continuous diet. Obtained data are qualitative and quantitative. Results: The player had a negative energy balance. The energy deficit was caused by insufficient intake of complex carbohydrates and high-quality proteins. Player consumes too much saturated fatty acids. In the diet was a small amount of the mono and poly unsaturated fatty acids. In any days was not taken the recommended amount of fiber. Drinking regime was respected by player properly, but player had not chosen the right types of fluids. Keywords: nutrition, tennis, performance

Title Garbage Collection in Software Performance Engineering Author Peter Libič peter.libic@d3s.mff.cuni.cz Advisor doc. Ing. Petr Tůma, Dr. petr.tuma@d3s.mff.cuni.cz Department Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00 Prague, Czech Republic Abstract The increasing popularity of languages with automatic memory management makes the garbage collector (GC) performance key to effective application execution. Unfortunately, performance behavior of contemporary GC is not well understood by the application developers and often ignored by the per- formance model designers. In this thesis, we (1) evaluate nature of GC overhead with respect to its effect on accuracy of performance models. We assess the possibility to model GC overhead as a black-box and identify workload characteristics that contribute to GC performance. Then we (2) design an analytical model of one-generation collector and a simulation model of both one-generation and two-generation collectors. These models rely on application characteristics. We evaluate the accuracy of such models and perform an analysis of their sensitivity to the inputs. Using the model we expose the gap between under- standing the GC overhead based on knowing the algorithm...

The objective of the diploma thesis is to identify effects of EU direct investment subsidies on the economic performance of grape growers being active in the South Moravian region. The appropriate methodology will be drafted so that it is possible to elaborate the thesis and to meet its objectives. The thesis is structured according to formal conventional requirements into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is based on research of literature and internet information sources. In order to achieve the stated goal the sample of firms will be run through financial analysis. The sample consists of nine firms and the examined period is seven years. Both classical and modern approaches for assessing the economic performance will be used. The partial results will be verified via statistical and econometric methods and respective conclusions will be formulated in order to fulfill the objective of the diploma thesis.

Šimara, J. Key factors in the performance of enterprises in the meat industry. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University in Brno, 2014. This thesis deals with the identification of key performance factors of enterprises in the meat industry and the subsequent draft recommendations for improvement to the condition. To meet the main goals of this work the comparison of two businesses and the industry was selected. The work is divided into two parts. The first part is a literature review that provides the theoretical background of the chosen topic. The second part is own work, where using of financial analysis, model EVA entity, sensitivity and correlation analysis identifies and analyzes key performance factors of selected enterprises and the results are compared with the industry. This part ends with a discussion of relevant draft recommendation to increase a performance and competitiveness of the analyzed enterprises.

Olbrecht, V. Impact of the Institutional Framework on Firm's Performance during the Economic Contraction. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University in Brno, 2015. The diploma thesis focuses on exploring the impacts of the institutional framework on the firm's performance in the stage of economic contraction. The thesis extends current research by using microeconomic approach, the stage of economic contraction and TFP approach. By using panel regression with fixed effects it results in different effects and importance of some of the institutional factors. Political and legal environment is overvalued in the developed countries, in contradiction to the post-transition economies where improvements of this environment could contribute to economic performance. The size of government is overall negatively correlated with the performance while the openness of the economy to the foreign trade is correlated positively. Surprisingly, the worse macroeconomic condition is connected with increased firm's performance.

Regional integration such as ECOWAS is believed to be an important element to stimulate trade, which could lead to economic growth and development for countries in this regional group. Despite the efforts made at creating this regional group in West Africa, the benefits from intra regional trade have been unsatisfactory. The study examined the role of Nigeria in the integration processes in Africa and to quantify the impact of this regional group on trade and economic performance in Nigeria. Cross sectional time series data for 17 years from 1996 to 2012 were analysed using an augmented (or extended) gravity equation. Results show that being in ECOWAS has contributed very little to trade and economic performance in Nigeria. Lack of political will to implement treaty provisions, poor infrastructure, non diversification of individual countries' economies among other have been identified as the problem causing the very low level of intra regional trade in ECOWAS. There are potential gains to be made in ECOWAS including Nigeria if significant effort are made to implement policy recommendations

The objective of the thesis was to evaluate the effect of foreign sports breeds of horses in the breeding of warm-blooded horses upgraded for jumping performance in the Czech Republic. The source for creating a database were data from show jumping competitions obtained from the Přehledu sportovních koní ČR (Survey of sports horses of the Czech Republic) 2000 -- 2009. The sports performance of the horses is expressed as PPB (average auxiliary points). The data were processed statistically using the GLM linear model in the UNISTAT 5.1 statistical programme. If the effect was statistically significant we used Scheffe's method of comparison to compare the multiple differences in the values. On the basis of statistical evaluations of groups of breeds representing the individuals born in the Czech Republic we discovered that the pedigree group AUTWB4 achieved the highest PPB value (4.52), i.e. 50% blood of the Austrian warm-blooded horse. The most numerous pedigree group in the entire population of the monitored sports horses based on the number of PPB points (14.36%) was the group where no dominant breed prevailed in the pedigree. The most frequently used foreign breed in breeding horses for show jumping performance is the Holstein warm-blooded horse. In evaluations of the performance of horses based on the country of their birth the highest PPB values (4.25) were achieved by individuals born abroad. In terms of the effect of the year of their start the highest PPB value (3.37) was achieved by horses starting in 2009 when also most of the PPB values (10.72%) were recorded. Evaluations of the differences between the sexes showed that stallions achieved the highest PPB values (3.84) and that the most numerous group were mares (47.20%). In terms of the differences in the ages of the horses the highest PPB value (3.43) was achieved in the group of 9-year-old horses and the most numerous group in show jumping competitions based on the number of PPB's (14.91 %) were 6-year-old horses.

Diploma thesis is focused on description and quantification of the impact of an ERP system on business productivity of the company ISAN Radiatory s.r.o. The main content is dedicated to various approaches towards performance measurement, building on which the case study is assessed. Diploma thesis also includes a description of current IT management practices. The result is the application of the chosen theoretical models on the real company and summarizing the impact of the ERP system on the business performance of the company.

This thesis is focused on costs of machinery operations used for public green maintenance. The literary part describes the methodology and calculations of all costs related to the work with machinery, and it also includes the information about maintenance costs for chosen types of vegetation in public green. Results of this work were applied in the chosen area -- II. Building District Ostrava-Poruba where we can find all typical types of vegetation of public green in czech cities. Calculations of costs of grass mowing and leaf removing in spring and fall were compared with real costs of those services which were offered by a company which succeeded in the competition. This comparison gives an information to the municipality about real costs of those services, and about possibilities of costs saving if the municipality would do those services on its own.

In the literature review I focused on the history of this discipline in the Czech Republic, its characteristics, equipment, the description of an ideal horse for this sport and a list of suitable breeds. The aim was to compile a database of horses which competed in national and international competitions in the Czech Republic and statistically evaluate the effect of the gender of rider and horse, breed, country of origin of the horse, its age and color on the average speed and score in the race. The results showed that statistically significant effect had the rider's gender on the speed, women were faster than men. Furthermore, the country of origin had an impact on score, horses from the US had higher score than those from Russia and Germany, the horse without a country of origin were worse than the horses from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and the US. Likewise, horses age affected the score, a different pairs were between the group of unknown age and age groups between 6-13 years (with the exception of the twelve years old) and between a group of horses five years and horses at the age of 7,8, 10,11 and 13 years. A statistically significant effect of horses gender, breed and color was not demonstrated.