scholarly journals What Are the Most Important Factors Influencing Springtail Tetrodontophora bielanensis?

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 858
Author(s):  
Strahinja Mladenović ◽  
Jan Materna ◽  
Tereza Brestovanská ◽  
Jakub Horák
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Soil Layers ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Landscape Level

The springtail, Tetrodontophora bielanensis, dwells in the litter and upper soil layers. This arthropod mainly inhabits humid litter and soil and prefers a cold climate. We determined the main factors influencing this springtail in forests at the landscape level in Krkonoše and site level in Orlické hory in the Czech Republic. We used passive trunk-tree traps. These traps are highly effective for sampling flightless fauna. We used 128 traps in Krkonoše and 17 traps in Orlické hory. The springtail was significantly positively influenced by the presence of Norway spruce (Picea abies) at the landscape level. Springtails’ abundance was, furthermore, influenced by the spatial distribution of the sampling sites. The negative influence of bark coverage and the presence of fungi, and positive influence of an increasing dimension of trees were significant at the site level. We argue for a more diversified management of mountainous forests with respect to forest history. This appears to be also important for mountainous forests in protected areas.

scholarly journals Analysis of selected demand factors of wine market of the Czech Republic

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 304-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pyšný ◽  
Z. Pošvár ◽  
S. Gurská
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Ethanol Consumption ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Wine Consumption ◽  
Demand Growth ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Wine Demand

This paper analyzes the data on the development of the main factors of the demand for wine and wine consumption in the Czech Republic. The average annual wine consumption, one of the wine demand factors, grew between1991 and 2005 from 14.8 l to 17 l per capita. Following this trend, we can expect the average annual wine consumption 17.4 l per capita in year 2010. However there are critical factors in the development of the demand for wine demand here. Specifically it is the daily feasible ratio of alcohol in wine and other alcoholic drinks, especially beer that we can treat as the substitute of wine. The ethanol consumption in beer accounts for 50% of the total ethanol consumption in alcoholic drinks in the Czech Republic. The negative influence on wine demand growth has been the price of other alcoholic drinks, especially beer that is the cheapest form of ethanol.

scholarly journals Sytuacja na rynku ziemi rolniczej w wybranych krajach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej (wybrane problemy)

2019 ◽  
Vol 19(34) (3) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Szymańska
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Land Market ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Factors

The article presents the most important factors influencing both the supply and demand of agricultural land in such countries of Central and Eastern Europe as: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The study also analyzed the changes in the sales prices of agricultural land in the analyzed countries for the years 2005-2015. Both the periods of growth of these prices and their decrease were indicated, as well as the main factors that influenced these phenomena. It was found that the properly functioning agricultural land market did not develop in the countries surveyed.

scholarly journals Is the Czech Republic a Welfare State?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Christiana Kliková ◽  
Boris Navrátil
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract Is the Czech Republic a welfare state? This question is to be answered through this article, whose purpose is to classify Czechia into one of the types of the welfare state. The introduction of the article describes the creation of the welfare state and the main factors influencing its origin. The article also describes the characteristic features of the welfare state and presents its typology. The section entitled “The Czech Republic and the welfare state” expounds on the constituent stages of development of the Czech social policy until the present day. The article concludes with the comparison of some aggregate indicators and characteristics of social policies found in Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom with similar indicators from the Czech Republic; this basis forms the assignment of the Czech Republic to one of the types of the welfare state.

scholarly journals Supplier-industries of brewing and wine-production in the Czech Republic and their development

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (No. 7) ◽  
pp. 314-321
Author(s):  
P. Žufan
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors

The paper compares the main factors influencing the key supplier-industries for brewing and wine-production in the Czech Republic – hop-growing and winegrowing – and it is a part of a more extensive research focused especially on the processing industries, and the specifics of their analyses. The importance of hop-growing and winegrowing is based on the fact that they significantly influence not only the final product, but also the competitiveness in the successive industries of the product vertical. Similar influence within the examined industries is evidenced in the close interconnection with the above-mentioned (main) successive processing-part, and in the complicated position of the small growers. Differences are shown especially in the flexibility of reaction to the changes of demand for final products of the successive industries, and also in the position of both industries in the Czech Republic, and in the world. 

scholarly journals Beer Industry in the Czech Republic: Reasons for Founding a Craft Brewery

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9680
Author(s):  
Monika Březinová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Brewing Industry ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Beer Industry ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Main Motive ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Craft Beers

The goal of this article is to evaluate the evolution of the brewing industry in the Czech Republic with an emphasis on the phenomenon of craft-brewery development. It deals with the influence of globalization on the structure of the Czech beer market and the rise of craft-breweries between 2000 and 2019. The main outputs come from research where a representative sample of 48 craft breweries was questioned from the Czech Republic. The result is the identification of the main factors influencing the increase of craft-breweries (legislation changes enabling entrepreneurship, increase of purchasing power of consumers, increase in demand for different beer styles, craft beers and specials, change of consumer behavior) but also the challenges that prevent their further expansion (lack of qualified brewers, complicated administration). The main motive for founding a craft brewery is an effort to improve beer culture in the Czech Republic and the ever-increasing demand for diversified beer (as opposed to the demand for the so-called euro-beers) and a good business opportunity stemming from this, which has been attracting more and more investors into this field.

scholarly journals The development of regional differentiation of office construction in the Czech Republic: 1990–2010

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Pavel Domalewski ◽  
Jan Baxa
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Office Building ◽  
Regional Differentiation ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Dominant Position

Abstract The factors that were crucial for the construction of administrative buildings in the regional capitals of the Czech Republic are subject to examination in this article. One primary question is whether the development of office construction reflects the qualitative importance of the cities, or whether there are some other regularities in the spatial distribution of construction. To identify the key factors, controlled interviews with experts professionally involved in the construction of administrative buildings were carried out, and these data were then extended as part of a large-scale questionnaire survey with other experts on the issue. The results have confirmed the dominant position of the capital city of Prague in terms of its qualitative importance, as the remaining regional capitals have less than one-tenth of the volume of modern office building areas. The greatest differences in the construction of administrative buildings have been noted in Brno and Ostrava, despite the fact that they exhibit similar characteristics when considered in the light of respondent-determined factors.

scholarly journals Free and bound 3-chloropropane-1,2-diol in coffee surrogates and malts

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Divínová ◽  
M. Doležal ◽  
J. Velíšek
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Dry Matter Content ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Influencing

The levels are reported of the free 3-chloropropane-1,2-diol (3-MCPD), its bound forms, the recognised precursors of 3-MCPD, and the factors influencing its formation in 5 selected coffee surrogates and 18 malts in the Czech Republic. The coffee surrogates had the free 3-MCPD level in the range of < 9.0 to 32 &micro;g/kg while the highest amount was found in roasted barley. In malts, the free 3-MCPD levels were similarly low (< 9.0 to 45 &micro;g/kg) being the highest in roasted malts (16-45 &micro;g/kg). Nevertheless, the values found in either surrogates or malts, calculated after normalisation to 40% dry matter content, did not exceed the European Union limit of 20 &micro;g/kg adopted for soy sauces and acid-HVP. The risk for consumers could arise from the bound 3-MCPD, its elevated levels having been found in both coffee surrogates and malts. In coffee surrogates, the bound 3-MCPD levels varied between 145&minus;1184 &micro;g/kg product; the highest level was found in roasted barley. The bound 3-MCPD levels exceeded the free 3-MCPD levels 32 to 81 times. In malts, the bound 3-MCPD levels ranged from 4.0&minus;650 &micro;g/kg, the highest amount having been found in roasted malts (463&minus;650 &micro;g/kg). The bound 3-MCPD levels exceeded the free 3-MCPD levels 0.4 to 36 times.

scholarly journals Designing a hotel website: An empirical analysis for a classic destination using a conjoint experiment

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
R. Huertas-Garcia ◽  
J. C. Gázquez-Abad ◽  
S. Forgas-Coll ◽  
A. Casas-Romeo
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Objective Information ◽  
Customer Perceptions ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Conjoint Experiment

Internet has become one of the most important channels for the promotion and sale of services related to tourism. As a result, producers and distributors alike are keen to resolve the question as to which factors will determine website choice by internet browsers. In this paper we develop an experiment to determine the factors that need to be taken into consideration when designing a website for a mature, familiar tourist destination. To this end, the basic factors shaping the architecture of a website are theoretically described and, based on the results of a conjoint experiment, the main factors influencing a website for a classic destination are extracted. Our results suggest that a website that includes objective information (e.g., price, activities of interest, number of rooms) and multiple photos has a positive influence on customer perceptions. The paper also makes an important methodological contribution, as it proposes a new design for calculating the weight of the factors, interactions of two factors and the factors squared.

scholarly journals Evaluation of discrepancies in spatial distribution of rainfall erosivity in the Czech Republic caused by different approaches using GIS and geostatistical tools

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brychta ◽  
M. Janeček
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Interpolation Method ◽  
Rainfall Data ◽  
Rainfall Erosivity ◽  
Yearly Variation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
R Factor

The study presents all approaches of rainfall erosivity factor (R) computation and estimation used in the Czech Republic (CR). A lot of distortions stem from the difference in erosive rainfall criteria, time period, tipping rain gauges errors, low temporal resolution of rainfall data, the type of interpolation method, and inappropriate covariates. Differences in resulting R values and their spatial distribution caused by the described approaches were analyzed using the geostatistical method of Empirical Bayesian Kriging and the tools of the geographic information system (GIS). Similarity with the highest temporal resolution approach using 1-min rainfall data was analyzed. Different types of covariates were tested for incorporation to the cokriging method. Only longitude exhibits high correlation with R and can be recommended for the CR conditions. By incorporating covariates such as elevation, with no or weak correlation with R, the results can be distorted even by 81%. Because of significant yearly variation of R factor values and not clearly confirmed methodology of R values calculation and their estimation at unmeasured places we recommend the R factor for agricultural land in the Czech Republic R = 40 MJ/ha·cm/h +/– 10% depends on geographic location.

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