Studie se zabývá officiem ke sv. Scholastice, dochovaném ve středověkých hudebních rukopisech kláštera sv. Jiří na Pražském hradě., Barbora Kabátková., Rubrika: Studie, and České resumé na s. 52, anglický abstrakt na s. 33
Mine roadways developed in highly stressed strata are subject to roof shear, which under severe conditions may manifest as the well known symptom of guttering, particularly at the roadway edge leading into the major horizontal stress. This roof shear can progressively reduce the effectiveness of bolt confinement of the strata within the lower roof horizon affecting stability of the immediate roof. This paper presents the results of a study to investigate the effectiveness of polymers as skin reinforcement in highly stressed coal mine roadways, as they may provide better roadway skin support than the currently used steel mesh. A large concrete block intercepted with artificial joints and reinforced with steel bolts without skin support, was loaded until significant slip occurred along the joints. Upon loading, a roof cavity resembling a gutter developed, as some of the jointed concrete parted from the free surface. In addition to bolts, subsequent models with identical fracture planes were supported with steel mesh or with glass reinforced polymer skin bonded to the free side. Loads and displacements were compared for models with and without skin reinforcement. As expected the skin support helped resist gutter formation, to various degrees, while increasing the residual strength of the concrete block. It was found that there was significantly less bedding displacements in models with the polymer skin, when compared with both steel mesh and no skin reinforcement. This suggests that there would be benefits to using a spray on polymeric skin as surface support in roofs subject to severe roof shear., Jan Nemcik, Ernest Baafi and Ian Porter., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Aging induced loss of chlorophyll (Chl), carotenoids (Car) and proteins was studied in suspensions of isolated wheat chloroplasts incubated in the light or dark. Faster rate of pigment loss in the light was due to photodestruction of pigments. Compared to Chl, a greater loss of Car in the light was due to photoprotective action of Car towards Chl resulting in its own destruction. The total protein content was lowered more in the light than in dark. Soluble proteins of chloroplasts declined by 36 %, whereas membrane proteins showed a loss of only 8 % after 6 d of light incubation.
In our study we find, from the analysis of VLBI observations, small quasi-periodic fluctuations of the period and quality factor of retrograde Free Core Nutation (FCN), ranging mainly between 429.8 to 430.8 days and 17000 to 21000, respectively. To this end, we use resonant effects in several dominant forced nutation terms to calculate the period and quality factor of FCN in running 6-year intervals. We also recently demonstrated that the atmospheric and oceanic excitations are capable of exciting FCN. Both amplitude and phase of the geophysically excited motion are consistent with the values observed by VLBI, in the interval of tens of years. The geophysical excitations are now numerically integrated, using Brzeziński’s broadband Liouville equations, and removed from the observed celestial pole offsets. The remaining part is then used to derive the period and quality factor of FCN in running intervals, and to study the temporal stability of these important Earth parameters. It is demonstrated that the observed quasi-periodic variations of both parameters are probably not caused by these geophysical excitations., Jan Vondrák and Cyril Ron., and Obsahuje bibliografii
V astronomické a fyzikální komunitě panuje všeobecné přesvědčení, že dodatečně relativistické stáčení perihelia dráhy Merkuru 43" za století je již dávno a mnohokrát prověřená hodnota, na které není třeba nic měnit. Že je dána rozdílem pozorovaného stáčení perihelia Merkuru a počítaného stáčení pomocí Newtonovy mechaniky. V tomto případě se ale odečítají dvě skoro stejně velká čísla, která jsou navíc zatížena mnoha chybami. Výsledný rozdíl 43" za století je tak nejistý a nemusí odpovídat skutečnosti., The perihelion shift of Mercury's orbit is thought to be one of the fundamental tests of the validity of the general theory of relativity. In the current (astro)physical community, it is generally accepted that the additional relativistic perihelion shift of Mercury is the difference between its observed perihelion shift and the one predicted by Newtonian mechanics, and that this difference equals 43" per century. However, as it results from the subtraction of two quite inexact numbers of almost equal magnitude, it may be subject to cancelation errors. As such, the above accepted value is highly uncertain and may not correspond to reality., Michal Křížek., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
In this article the history and current status of the standard model of electroweak interactions is briefly described. Starting with quantum electrodynamics and the phenomenological V - A theory of weak interactions, we proceed to the key theoretical concepts of the Yang-Mills field and the Higgs mechanism. The idea of the electroweak unification and the birth of the standard model is then discussed in more detail, including the peculiarities of the quark sector, anomalies and CP violation. Some open problems that could lead us to new physics beyond the standard model are mentioned in the concluding section. Future prospects of particle physics using high energy colliders are also briefly discussed., Jiří Hořejší., and Obsahuje bibliografii