Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2019 (vol. 67), issue 4
Corrigenda: Distribution of Western Hoolock Gibbons and Nutritional Status of Food Plants in Cachar District of Assam, India: Reaching out to Local Communities for Conservation
Mitrajit Deb, Shubhadeep Roychoudhury, Bibeka Nanda Saikia, Parimal C. Bhattacharjee, Indu Sharma, Sunil Nautiyal, Petr Sláma
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 913 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040913 
Yield and Quality of Straw of Italian and Perennial Ryegrass Cultivated for Seed Production
Stanislav Hejduk, Radek Macháč
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 915-923 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040915
Italian, annual and perennial ryegrasses are the most important grass species cultivated for seed production in the Czech Republic. The straw remaining after seeds threshing can be used as low quality forage, bedding material or as soil amendment. However, there are no comprehensive information concerning grass straw yields and quality in central Europe. The aim of this study was to investigate the Italian (IR) and perennial (PR) ryegrass straw yield and quality. These parameters were measured for two harvest years at two locations. IR did not provide statistically higher straw yield than PR (7.50 and 7.17 t.ha-1 respectively, p = 0.314),...
Repository of Drought Event Impacts Across the Danube Catchment Countries Between 1981 and 2016 Using Publicly Available Sources
Jiří Jakubínský, Monika Bláhová, Lenka Bartošová, Klára Steinerová, Jan Balek, Petra Dížková, Daniela Semerádová, Daniel Alexandru, Galia Bardarska, Sabina Bokal, Goran Borojević, Andreea Bucur, Ksenija Cindrić Kalin, Anda Claudia Barbu, Barbara Debre, Milica Đorđević, Ines Đurić, Bianca Florina Mircea, Sandra Gatarić, Gregor Gregorič, Stefan Hasenauer, Mirjana Ivanov, Andrea Kircsi, Lívia Labudová, Maroš Turňa, Ivana Marinović, Mihajlo Marković, Elena Mateescu, Gal Oblišar, Andreea Popescu, Zorica Srđević, Tatjana Savić-Šljivić, Dejan Supić, Andreja Sušnik, Natasa Pazin, Miras Drljevic, Tonka Kuc, Luka Mitrovic, Slavica Micev, Wolfgang Wagner, Josef Eitzinger, Vojko Daneu, Veit Blauhut, Kerstin Stahl, Miroslav Trnka
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 925-938 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040925
Drought directly and indirectly affects human society in a number of ways. In many regions of the world climate change will exasperate the effects of droughts, affect national economies more intensely. The main aim of this article was to catalogue and analyze the drought impacts in the 11 Central and South Eastern European states located in the Danube river basin. The identification of dry episodes was based on information from publicly available sources, namely, newspaper and journal articles that reported drought impacts. Information on drought impact occurrences was classified into one of five defined categories in which the drought impact report...
Genetic Evaluation of Reproductive and Metabolic Disorders and Displaced Abomasum in Czech Holstein Cows
Eva Kašná, Petr Fleischer, Ludmila Zavadilová, Soňa Šlosárková
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 939-946 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040939
We estimated the genetic parameters of the most frequent reproductive and metabolic disorders as recorded on-line by 55 milk producers in Czech Holstein cows in the Diary of Diseases and Treatments. The dataset covered the period from July 2015 to May 2019. The coefficients of heritability were estimated for retained placenta (h2 = 0.01), metritis (h2 = 0.04), endometritis (h2 = 0.03), cystic ovary disease (h2 = 0.03), parturient paresis (h2 = 0.01), ketosis (h2 = 0.01) and displaced abomasum (h2 = 0.03). Positive genetic correlations different from 0 were estimated between...
Socio-Economic Development and Diversity of the Selected CEC Regions After the EU Enlargement
Ingrid Majerová, Jan Nevima
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 947-956 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040947
Development and diversity is connected not only with GDP or GNI per capita level, but often with measurement of another socio-economic indicators as rate of unemployment, health and education fields or households equipment. The aim of this paper is, with the quantification of socio-economic indicators, to describe the development of regional diversification using cluster analysis at the regional level of selected Central European Countries after enlargement of European Union. The regions at NUTS 2 level of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia were selected for this purpose. There are 37 regions on the NUTS 2 level - eight in the...
Measurement of the Mammary Gland Cistern of Dairy Ewes
Pavol Makovický, Melinda Nagy, Milan Margetín, Janka Poráčová, Michal Milerski, Peter Makovický
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 957-961 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040957
At the 3rd and 5th month of lactation, using the ALOKA-250 ultrasonograph with a 3.5 MHz probe, the udder cistern size of the breed Improved Valachian (IV) and the crossbreed IV x Lacaune (IV x LC) was surveyed. Using the method from side 72 ewes were measured, in which the probe was placed in the inguinal-abdominal fold. Variance analysis was used to evaluate the obtained data (length, width and udder cistern area), taking into account the effect of the genotype, stage of lactation and lactation order. The average length, width and area of the left udder cistern (LUC) was 80.72 mm; 33.53 mm and 1907 mm2; for the right...
Benefit Sharing Schema from the Forest: Identifying Potential Distributions to Customary Communities in Teluk Bintuni District, Indonesia
Jonni Marwa, Mustofa Agung Sardjono, Afif Ruchaemi, Simon Devung, Reinardus Liborius Cabuy
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 963-972 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040963
This study identifies the benefits that traditional communities receive from the tropical rain forest in New Guinea, Indonesia. In this study, various benefit sharing schema developed by forest concession holder are assessed to understand the precise outcome compared to traditional welfare solutions. It further aims to identify benefit sharing schemas applied by concession investors in the forest sector and assesses these schema based on equitable principles. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from traditional communities, concession holders, and the government. Interviews and field observations were randomly conducted...
Study of Cows' Behaviour and Welfare on Dairy Farms in Serbia
Dušica Ostojić Andrić, Slavča Hristov, Vesna Krnjaja, Dragan Nikšić, Aleksandar Stanojković, Miloš Marinković, Nikola Molerović
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 973-979 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040973
Modern methods for assessing the welfare of dairy cows are, among other things, often based on the evaluation of animal behaviour. In this regard, behaviour is classified as the most reliable, so-called animal-based indicator as its expression comes from the animal itself and indicates a measure in which it has adapted to the environment. Starting from the need to explore the state of welfare and the ability to demonstrate adequate behaviour in dairy farms in Serbia, the Welfare Quality® Assessment Protocol for Cattle (2009) was used in this study. The overall assessment of behaviour was carried out by analysing four main criteria: social, other...
An Assortment of Woody Plants Produced in the Manor of Nové Dvory at the Turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries: North American Taxa
Miloš Pejchal, Lukáš Štefl
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 981-992 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040981
The noble family of Chotek began with the realization of extensive landscaping in their manor of Nové Dvory at the end of the 18th century. Lists of woody plants produced for these purposes and for sale were preserved from the years 1794, 1800 and 1814. 276 taxa of foreign woody plants in the current concept, permanently cultivated outdoors, have been identified in all three lists at least to the level of the species. 91 taxa come from North America, with 81 being the first documented place of their presence in the territory of the Czech Republic. All North American taxa are natural, none of them originated in culture.
Performance, Biochemical Profile and Antioxidant Activity of Hens Supplemented with Addition of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) Seed Cakes in Diet
Ondřej Šťastník, Eva Mrkvicová, Leoš Pavlata, Andrea Roztočilová, Barbora Umlášková, Eva Anzenbacherová
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 993-1003 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967040993
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of milk thistle seed cakes addition in laying hens diet to performance, blood biochemical parameters and antioxidant activity. A total of 30 Bovans Brown hens were included to the experiment. The trial was performed from the age of 69 weeks to 80 weeks of hens age. The experimental group received feed mixture containing 7% milk thistle seed cakes. Control group received feed mixture without milk thistle seed cakes. After the 69th week of age, the laying hens in the experimental group reached a higher number of eggs and produced more egg mass compared to the control group. In the evaluation...
Bacterial Contamination of Plant in vitro Cultures in Commercial Production Detected by High-Throughput Amplicon Sequencing
Dorota Tekielska, Eliška Peňázová, Tamás Kovács, Břetislav Křižan, Jana Čechová, Aleš Eichmeier
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1005-1014 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041005
The study overviews results of bacterial incidence in in vitro plant tissue cultures obtained from commercial laboratory dealing with plants micropropagation. For the exploration, the 454 pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA gene was used. Three samples of plant in vitro cultures with visual bacterial contamination were subjected for identification of present bacteria. Eleven genera as Acinetobacter, Lactobacillus, Methylobacterium, Roseomonas, Microbacterium, Mycobacterium, Curtobacterium, Acidovorax, Magnetospirillum, Chryseobacterium and Ralstonia were detected....
Cargo Securing - Comparison of Different Quality Roads
Martin Vlkovský, Petr Veselík
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1015-1023 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041015
The article deals with the subject of the impact which road surfaces have onto cargo and the securing of cargo against shocks during road transport. The applicability of the key EN 12191-1:2010 standard is discussed, not only for common conditions, but also for specific transport conditions on low-quality road surfaces. Part of the article involves carrying out a transport experiment on a road paved with granite blocks and on a highway, from which data on the impact of shocks on cargo (acceleration coefficients values) were obtained. The data were statistically evaluated and compared to the normatively determined values of these acceleration coefficients....
Quality Destination Management
Tomáš Dania, Kateřina Mlejnková, Ida Rašovská
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1027-1037 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041027
Tourism is recognized as a significant industry worldwide, a key sector and source of development and income in several countries. The article focuses on quality management in tourist destinations in the Czech Republic. The overall objective of the present study is to uncover the evaluation of destination management by tourist organisations. Hence, the importance of destination management for each organisation based on the model of excellence EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) is evaluated. Moreover, the article highlights and assesses the difference between organisations which possess a certificate of quality and those which do not....
Curbing Corruption in the Public Sector by Utilizing Electronic Public Administration
Veronika Linhartová
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1039-1048 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041039
Corruption is a highly debated issue that harms both the governments of individual countries as well as citizens themselves. Corruption in the public sector can lead to an increase in public spending and a reduction in the amount of taxes levied, thus increasing fiscal deficits and creating macroeconomic instability. Utilizing electronic administration within the public sector has recently been given much attention a key tool for fighting corruption in public administration. E-administration not only makes it possible to provide more information to the population more simply, efficiently, and quickly, but it also helps to eliminate discretion on the...
Criteria of Satisfaction with Universities from the Perspective of Czech Students: A Qualitative Research Study
Růžena Lukášová, Daria Kuchařová
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1049-1060 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041049
The environment in which current universities operate is globalized and highly competitive, both nationally and internationally. To succeed in this environment, the issue of student satisfaction as a factor that determines the loyalty of students and is also an important indicator of the quality of a university is of prime interest to universities. Research interests of researchers who deal with university management then focus on identifying students' expectations and criteria of their satisfaction with universities. The objective of the research presented in the article was to identify the criteria of satisfaction with universities from the perspective...
The Use of Eye-Tracker and Face Reader as Useful Consumer Neuroscience Tools Within Logo Creation
Katarína Neomániová, Jakub Berčík, Anka Pavelka
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1061-1070 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041061
Traditional methods of conducting consumer behavior do not provide enough detailed information and therefore the paper aimed to demonstrate the use of consumer neuroscience when examining a selected product policy tool by using biometric methods to identify emotions and subjective consumer preferences. Consumer neuroscience tools provide valuable information to decide on the success of the company in the future, so we consider it as essential to inform entrepreneurs and subjects alike about this modern way of studying consumer behavior. The subject of the research was the original logo of the selected company and the design of three new logo variants...
Impact of Stock Market Development on Economic Growth: Evidence from Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries
Daniel Kwabena Twerefou, Emmanuel Abbey, Emmanuel A. Codjoe, Peter Saitoti Ngotho
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1071-1083 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041071
This paper examines the impact of stock market development on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa using a balanced panel data of five selected countries over the period 1993-2013 and the system generalised method of moments dynamic panel estimation framework. The paper finds a positive impact of stock market development proxied by the turnover ratio of domestic shares and market capitalization on economic growth though minimal. Furthermore, investment, lagged gross domestic product and human capital were found to have a significantly positive impact on growth while trade and foreign direct investment negatively impacted on growth, even though...
Digital Society - Opportunity or Threat? Case Studies of Japan and the Czech Republic
Martin Záklasník, Anna Putnová
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1085-1095 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041085
Digital technologies, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence are seen as mater-of-course parts of the world today. Japan, as one of the leading countries in technological innovations, is the most advanced in terms of approach to digital society. Japanese society and government have been working on a new concept of life where all the digital technologies will communicate through the internet. Society organised in this way is called Society 5.0 - super Smart society. In Japan, this concept is centred about seventeen sustainable goals (United Nations, 2018). Society 5.0 is a reaction to the fundamental technological revolutionary changes known...
Comfort Indicators in Free-Stall Housing of Dairy Cows
Dimo Dimov, Ivaylo Marinov
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2019, 67(4), 1099-1107 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201967041099
In recent years the dairy farming massively went from tied to free housing of dairy cows, and more widely in conditions of Bulgaria the semi open free-stall barns housing system is applied. One of the main factors associated with cow comfort in this housing system are the dimensions and design of the individual stalls. Indicators for stall comfort can be postures of cows when using the - standing with four or two legs in the stall, standing or lying diagonally, lying back in the stall, and more, these postures can also greatly guide us on the specific design problems that make stalls uncomfortable for the animals. In uncomfortable stalls cows spend...