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Assessment of the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has become a lively area of research in the past decades; nonetheless, the existing primary literature seems to be inconclusive. The present thesis revises the literature through a meta-analytical approach using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA). Considering that the previous liter- ature reviews are of either inferior quality or incomparable focus, our research is based on a collection of 1081 estimates from 14 primary studies published between 2007 and 2017 comprising data from 1995 to 2012. A variety of 85 characteristics of the observations is coded whilst we employ at least 30 of these within each BMA estimation. Through separate testing of individual spillover measures (horizontal, forward, and backward), an extensive evidence of publication bias is collected for horizontal spillovers in PRC-exaggerating the mean magnitude of the reported estimates. Finally, the thesis identifies that the spillover effect from FDI inflows originating from the area of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan is systematically different from the others. JEL Classification O1, O3, O4 Keywords FDI, spillover effect, China, PRC, meta- analysis, publication bias, BMA Author's e-mail hermandominik@gmail.com Supervisor's e-mail...

The thesis focuses on the impact of courts tax practice on the procedure of tax audit in Czech Republic. The main purpose of the thesis was to evaluate the impact of tax judicature on the process of tax audit including the successive acts. Furthermore, the thesis should evaluate the view on tax administration of tax audit procedure reflecting the changes in judicature. The interpretation given by the judicature should be helping by illustration of the tax audit particular phases. Moreover, it should guarantee adequate level of peace to the tax subjects and tax administrators as well during this procedure. In the second part of the thesis, the particular phases of tax audit procedure were evaluated from the perspective of the tax code. This will be effective after January 1st 2011. In the course of the analysis it was shown the currently effective tax code is no more sufficient code of tax administration. It includes lots of deficits affecting the tax audit procedure. The courts tax practice covered these shortages greatly indeed. It also helped for better understanding of the current tax code tax audit paragraphs. Anyway, from the point of view of the controversy between two Czech main courts - the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Administrative Court - the absolute peace during the tax audit procedure is not achievable. From all these facts, as well as from the difficultness of following all the actual judicature concerned, I concluded, the function of the new tax code is unavoidable.

The aim of the diploma thesis is funding of the municipalities by the South Moravian Region. The theoretical part defines the technical terms such as fiscal federalism, public administration and funding. The practical part explores whether the funding is provided in compliance with the general terms and conditions. This work is aiming to define the parameters which form the basis of comparison of the information about municipal funding available on the South Moravian Region website with the actual terms and conditions under which the funding is provided. Through the analysis explained herein it has been proven that in majority of cases the region does not abide by the terms of the funding as available online. The lack of required information in the terms on the region's website gives the impression that the funding process is rather opaque. Additionally, we further examine whether political affiliation of mayors in municipalities of the region is a factor determining the size of the actual funding provided by the region. The result of this analysis is negative which concludes that political affiliation of mayors in the region does not have an impact on the size of the funding provided by the region to its municipalities.

The thesis deals with the importance of the events of August 1968 for the Czech-Russian relations. The analysis of the major factors that influenced the Czech-Russian relations since the establishment of the independent Czechoslovak state until now is carried out. The result of this analysis enables to incorporate the events of August 1968 into the context of the Czech-Russian relations. The aim is to answer whether the August 1968 represents a major obstacle to the development of good Czech-Russian relations in the future. The conclusion of the author is confronted with the results of the questionnaire filled in by Czech and Russian students of International relations.

This diploma thesis is focused on the harmonization of work and family life. Specifically focused to the return of women with completed secondary education without leaving exam to the labor market after the maternity leave. The aim of this work is to find the unique determinants that affect transition between maternity leave and labor market. Next step is to compare unique factors with those that can be seen in the literature and specific determinants that can be seen in the financical sector. Adopted research strategy is qualitative approach, specifically semi-structured interview and questionnaire, which is conducted on nine preselected respondents. Collected data are analyzed by using open coding method, which brings us following details and conclusions. The respondents with completed secondary education without leaving exam are not interested in harmonization of work and family life, they would rather separate both spheres.The biggest barrier of return to the labour market is low education, the lack of kindegartens, night shifts and the lack of work experience. On the other hand there is an advantage on labor market if the mother have enough work experiences. Newly identified determinants are: poor financial situation of the family, the lack of information and sick child as a barrier of the transition between maternity leave and labor market. Vice versa contacts in the work field makes huge advantage when the mother has them. The results of this study provide hypotheses for further research. The contribution of this work is an insight to the return of a particular group of women to the labor market. It is possible that these women could experience different barriers than better educated mothers.

This diploma thesis deals with food blogs as a current phenomenon. The theoretical part first brings a look at the historical context and development that preceded the existence of blogs. It focuses on communication, media and the Internet. It also offers definitions of these key and related terms and theoretical background that are needed to understand the context. Subsequently, the work discusses journalism and the position of blogs in this field. It continues with a detailed elaboration of the topic of blogs. It analyzes their historical context in our country and in the world, defines concepts, distinguishes types of blogs, draws attention to the pitfalls of blogging, deals with etiquette and laws, presents current trends and surveys, addresses authors - bloggers and their motivation, the position of bloggers towards journalists, the expected future and influencers. The following part deals with the audience, the audience of the blogosphere and methods of its research. The theoretical part concludes with a text that deals specifically with food blogs, their beginnings and development, food studies, sharing gastronomic experiences and related concepts, and also presents a list of currently successful global and Czech food bloggers. The aim of the theoretical part is to bring a compact view of...

Technical textiles play a highly important role in today's material engineering. In fibrous composites, which are being applied in a number of industrial branches ranging from aviation to civil engineering, technical textiles are used as the reinforcing or toughening constituent. With growing number of production facilities for fibrous materials, the need for standardized and reproducible quality control procedures becomes urgent. The present thesis addresses the issue of tensile strength of high-modulus multifilament yarns both from the theoretical and experimental point of view. In both these aspects, novel approaches are introduced. Regarding the theoretical strength of fibrous yarns, a model for the length dependent tensile strength is formulated, which distinguishes three asymptotes of the mean strength size effect curve. The transition between the model of independent parallel fibers applicable for smaller gauge lengths and the chain-of-bundles model applicable for longer gauge lengths is emphasized in particular. It is found that the transition depends on the stress transfer or anchorage length of filaments and can be identified experimentally by means of standard tensile tests at different gauge lengths. In the experimental part of the thesis, the issue of stress concentration in the clamping has been addressed. High-modulus yarns with brittle filaments are very sensitive to stress concentrations when loaded in tension making the use of traditional tensile test methods difficult. A novel clamp adapter for the Statimat 4U yarn tensile test machine (producer: Textechno GmbH) has been developed and a prototype has been built. A test series comparing yarns strengths tested with the clamp adapter and with commonly used test methods has been performed and the results are discussed. Furthermore, they are compared with theoretical values using the Daniels' statistical fiber-bundle model.

The deal of this thesis is study of the influence of LiOH added to electrolyte on Ni-Cd batteries. In theoretical part are analyzed properties of Ni-Cd accumulators in strong alkaline surroundings, especially with emphasis on structure changing of NiOH2 and NiOOH. In the second part of theoretical are also described methods for depositing Ni layers. In practical part electro-chemical spectrum and mass changing on Quartz crystal microbalance are measured by cyclic voltammetry method during charge/discharge process. The process of cation integration to the positive electrode structure in KOH, NaOH and CsOH electrolyte including related structural changes are observed.

This thesis describes the possibilities of wearable antennas and the basic properties description. Numeric model for ISM 2,4 GHz band is created by CST Microwave Studio®. The thesis also deals with the human body proximity effect by two models of human tissue. The effect of flexibility to antenna parameters is evaluated. Several samples of the antenna has been created and measured. Obtained results has been compared with numeric model and with the literature.