Since 2011, a unique project studying the effect of artificial canopy opening (Small-size clearings) on biodiversity in lowland forests has been carried out in the Podyjí NP. The response of communities of butterflies, moths, epigeic, floricolous and saproxylic beetles, birds, reptiles, and vascular plants was observed for three years. The results showed a positive effect of early stages in forest succession not only for the majority of groups studied, but also for many threatened species, and also demonstrated the importance of open forest remnants for biodiversity. In protected forests at low and middle elevations, conservation management should attempt to maintain a mosaic of forest at different stages of succession. and Pavel Šebek a kolektiv autorů.
In this present paper, attention is paid to the possibility of using the viscoelastic properties analysis carried out on the dynamic thermomechanical analyser as a method for identifying appropriate tool construction materials, which are suitable for selective mid spatial frequencies suppressing. For this purpose, a method of measuring the frequency dependencies of the elastic modules and the internal damping coefficient was proposed. Practical utilization of the obtained results was demonstrated on examples of tested samples, where the mechanism of their viscoelastic behaviour was analysed according to oscillation loading frequency. and V předkládaném článku je pozornost věnována možnosti využití analýzy viskoelastických vlastností materiálů prováděné na dynamickém termo-mechanickém analyzátoru, jakožto metody pro identifikaci vhodných konstrukčních materiálů nástrojů selektivně odstraňujících střední frekvence (MSF), které vznikají při subaperturním CNC opracování optických elementů. Za tímto účelem byla navržena metoda měření frekvenčních závislostí modulů pružnosti a činitele vnitřního tlumení. Praktické využití takto získaných výsledků bylo demonstrováno na příkladech testovaných vzorků, kdy byl analyzován mechanismus jejich viskoelastického chování v závislosti na frekvenci oscilačního zatěžování.
The aim of this article is mapping and assessing of the mid spatial frequencies occurrence in the CNC optical surfaces machining process, when due to precisely-defined tools path some typical surface structures with significant impact on optical properties are formed or suppressed. and Článek se věnuje mapování a hodnocení výskytu ''mid spatial frequencies'' v procesu CNC opracování optických ploch, kdy vzhledem k přesně definovaným drahám nástrojů dochází ke vzniku nebo naopak k potlačování určitých pro použité procesy charakteristických struktur, jež mají výrazný vliv na optické vlastnosti takto vyráběných optických prvků.
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a serious complication of diabetes and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is also considered in comprehensive treatment. The evidence supporting the use of HBOT in DFU treatment is controversial. The aim of this work was to introduce a DFU model in ZDF rat by creating a wound on the back of an animal and to investigate the effect of HBOT on the defect by macroscopic evaluation, quantitative histological evaluation of collagen (types I and III), evaluation of angiogenesis and determination of interleukin 6 (IL6) levels in the plasma. The study included 10 rats in the control group (CONT) and 10 in the HBOT group, who underwent HBOT in standard clinical regimen. Histological evaluation was performed on the 18th day after induction of defect. The results show that HBOT did not affect the macroscopic size of the defect nor IL6 plasma levels. A volume fraction of type I collagen was slightly increased by HBOT without reaching statistical significance (1.35±0.49 and 1.94±0.67 %, CONT and HBOT, respectively). In contrast, the collagen type III volume fraction was ~120 % higher in HBOT wounds (1.41±0.81 %) than in CONT ones (0.63±0.37 %; p=0.046). In addition, the ratio of the volume fraction of both collagens in the wound ((I+III)w) to the volume fraction of both collagens in the adjacent healthy skin ((I+III)h) was ~65 % higher in rats subjected to HBOT (8.9±3.07 vs. 5.38±1.86 %, HBOT and CONT, respectively; p=0.028). Vessels density (number per 1 mm2 ) was found to be higher in CONT vs. HBOT (206.5±41.8 and 124±28.2, respectively, p<0.001). Our study suggests that HBOT promotes collagen III formation and decreases the number of newly formed vessels at the early phases of healing., Jiří Růžička, Martina Grajciarová, Lucie Vištejnová, Pavel Klein, Filip Tichánek, Zbyněk Tonar, Jiří Dejmek, Jiří Beneš, Lukáš Bolek, Robert Bajgar, Jitka Kuncová., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Chronic wound is a serious medical issue due to its high prevalence and complications; hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is also considered in comprehensive treatment. Clinical trials, including large meta-analyses bring inconsistent results about HBOT efficacy. This review is summarizing the possible effect of HBOT on the healing of chronic wound models at the cellular level. HBOT undoubtedly escalates the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen radicals (ROS and RNS), which underlie both the therapeutic and toxic effects of HBOT on certain tissues. HBOT paradoxically elevates the concentration of Hypoxia inducible factor (HIF) 1 by diverting the HIF-1 degradation to pathways that are independent of the oxygen concentration. Elevated HIF-1 stimulates the production of different growth factors, boosting the healing process. HBOT supports synthesis of Heat shock proteins (HSP), which are serving as chaperones of HIF-1. HBOT has antimicrobial effect, increases the effectiveness of some antibiotics, stimulates fibroblasts growth, collagen synthesis and suppresses the activity of proteolytic enzymes like matrix metalloproteinases. All effects of HBOT were investigated on cell cultures and animal models, the limitation of their translation is discussed at the end of this review