scholarly journals Quantitative relationship of spore and plant assemblages from the Radnice Basin, Middle Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic: preliminary results

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří BEK ◽  
Stanislav OPLUŠTIL ◽  
Josef PŠENIČKA ◽  
Jana VOTOČKOVÁ-FROJDOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Quantitative Relationship ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Plant Assemblages ◽  
Relationship Of

scholarly journals Analysis of Presumed IQOS Influencer Marketing on Instagram in the Czech Republic in 2018–2019

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Tobacco Product ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Philip Morris ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project

BACKGROUND: Heated tobacco products (HTP) are novel electronic devices that produce an aerosol by heating modified tobacco. In July 2017, Philip Morris launched a heated tobacco product, IQOS, on the Czech market. The release of IQOS was promoted by a massive marketing campaign using various marketing channels. AIM: This paper presents an analysis of the influencers’ posts promoting a heated tobacco product (HTP), IQOS, produced by Philip Morris, in the Czech Republic. METHODS: Critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used to uncover the hidden power relationships in both textual and visual representations of IQOS in Instagram posts. We analysed the posts of 22 Czech influencers identified with the hashtags #IQOSambassador, #IQOSambasabor, #IQOSlounge, #IQOSveVarech, and #mujIQOS, together with associated pictures and videos on Instagram. RESULTS: The hashtag #iqosambassador was used internationally in 940 posts (as of May 16, 2019). Our findings show subtle forms of persuasion that associate the IQOS product with an aspirational, exclusive lifestyle, healthy living, and a relaxed atmosphere within a community of friends. Preliminary results also show that influencers promoted IQOS to any and all Instagram users (including children and non-smokers). Covert advertising was indicated indirectly by the use of hashtags (#notriskfree, #onlyforadults, and #iqosambassador), which might be evidence that the influencers were paid indirectly by a digital marketing or PR agency. CONCLUSIONS: Czech celebrities and influencers have been actively presenting IQOS in their posts and videos since 2018 on Instagram. They present IQOS as a gateway to an aspirational, healthy, attractive and celebrity lifestyle. The preliminary results are being published as a part of a larger interdisciplinary research project by Charles University, Prague.

scholarly journals The relation and development of expenditure inequality and income inequality of Czech households

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (192) ◽  
pp. 55-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeňka Malá ◽  
Gabriela Cervená
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Consumer Expenditure ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Relationship Of

The paper focuses on an analysis of income inequality and expenditure inequality of households in the Czech Republic for the period 2001 - 2009, based on data from the Statistics of Family Accounts. The basic methodological tool is the Gini coefficient and its decomposition according to individual categories of consumer expenditure. The conducted research reaches the conclusion that income inequality is higher than inequality in consumer expenditure, and income inequality for the analyzed period is growing at a higher rate than expenditure inequality. Tax-transfer tools effectively eliminate income inequality, but nevertheless inequality of disposable income exceeds the inequality of net monetary expenditure. As regards the mutual relationship of income inequality and expenditure inequality, expenditure inequality within a period of economic growth and boom copied the course of income inequality, while within a period of economic decline and recession both inequalities showed a completely different development. The main determinant affecting income inequality may be considered to be non-consumer expenditure, particularly expenditure for the acquisition of real estate.

scholarly journals Relationship of activities in reverse logistics according to sell point in Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 01016 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Milichovský
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Chi Squared ◽  
Statistical Program ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Nominal Variables

The paper is focused on findings, if final customers in sell points reflect activities of reverse logistics. Main result of research provides relationship between sell point and reverse activity. The research was aimed at random chosen group of 811 respondents in the Czech Republic. Real participants have been 293, what is effectiveness in 36.13%. The primary research provides possible approaches for companies in sell points within reverse logistics activities to final consumers. To process the results of the questionnaire survey were used basic types of descriptive statistics on the selected data set. The data were processed by using the statistical program IBM SPSS Statistics 24, which was subsequently analysed the dependency between the two nominal variables by means of contingency tables and Pearson's chi-squared test. Limitation for this research is because of the chosen sample and targeting only on Czech Republic.

scholarly journals Detection of mosquito-only flaviviruses in Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 1215-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Calzolari ◽  
Líbia Zé-Zé ◽  
Daniel Růžek ◽  
Ana Vázquez ◽  
Claire Jeffries ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Yellow Fever Virus ◽  
Human Pathogens ◽  
Aedes Vexans ◽  
Pathogenic Role ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Aedes Caspius ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Relationship Of

The genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae, includes a number of important arthropod-transmitted human pathogens such as dengue viruses, West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus and yellow fever virus. In addition, the genus includes flaviviruses without a known vertebrate reservoir, which have been detected only in insects, particularly in mosquitoes, such as cell fusing agent virus, Kamiti River virus, Culex flavivirus, Aedes flavivirus, Quang Binh virus, Nakiwogo virus and Calbertado virus. Reports of the detection of these viruses with no recognized pathogenic role in humans are increasing in mosquitoes collected around the world, particularly in those sampled in entomological surveys targeting pathogenic flaviviruses. The presence of six potential flaviviruses, detected from independent European arbovirus surveys undertaken in the Czech Republic, Italy,Portugal, Spain and the UK between 2007 and 2010, is reported in this work. Whilst the Aedes flaviviruses, detected in Italy from Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, had already been isolated in Japan, the remaining five viruses have not been reported previously: one was detected in Italy, Portugal and Spain from Aedes mosquitoes (particularly from Aedes caspius), one in Portugal and Spain from Culex theileri mosquitoes, one in the Czech Republic and Italy from Aedes vexans, one in the Czech Republic from Aedes vexans and the last in the UK from Aedes cinereus. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed the close relationship of these putative viruses to other insect-only flaviviruses.

scholarly journals Does the Quality of a Place Affect Well-being?

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Murgaš ◽  
Michal Klobučník
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Golden Standard ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractAn important methodological question in the general discourses concerning the quality of life is scale and mutual relationship of its two dimensions. In this article, the subjective dimension is understood as well-being; data from its spatial differentiation in districts of the Czech Republic were obtained from a face-to-face interview. The objective dimension is understood from the geographical aspect as quality of a place; it is quantified by the indicators of the golden standard of quality of life. Data from its spatial differentiation in districts of the Czech Republic are secondary. The article aims to compare the data of well-being and quality of a place for all the districts, with a premise of a higher level of well-being in the districts with a higher quality of a place, and vice-versa. This would answer the question of whether the quality of a place affects well-being.

Inflation, wages and money

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vratislav Izák
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Special Meaning ◽  
Exogenous Supply

The preliminary results seem to confirm a greater relevance of postkeynesian than monetaristic approaches in the inflation field. Whereas prices are co-integrated, according to CRDW in a static regression, with wages, they are not co-integrated with money, therefore the association between money and prices in four-years period is lower than expected at first sight. One must mention that in the Czech Republic the term exogenous supply of money, has a special meaning.

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