Plant virology department of the Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is successful in description and sequencing of mycoviruses and plant viruses, recently. Most of the newly described viruses have unique genome organization and did not induce disease symptoms in their plant of fungal hosts, respectively. By contrast, some mycoviruses debilitate their hosts and are promising as tools for biological control of harmful fungi. and Karel Petrzik, Ondřej Lenz.
The article provides a language analysis of the idea of progress. It briefly outlines the method of search for mimimal vocabulary as has been proposed by Bertrand Russell in Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits. Then it coniders the application of this method to a social theory, namely to the language used in a theory of progress. As and expample theory it uses the well known essay L´anciene regime et la revolution (1856) by Alexis de Tocqueville. The language of the theory is analyzed, abstracted expressions are pointed out and the minimal vocabulary is presented: it consists of verb-expressions "to see", "to be wrong", "to dobut", "to think", "to feel", "to be surprised", " to choose", "to express" and To rely"; of noun-expressions "demise", "cause", "change", "nature" and "banality" together with pronouns and logical expressions. The rules for construction of composed expressions and propositions are set up and a reconstruction of the object language is suggested. The abstract character of the method is reflected., Tomáš Holeček., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Featured in this issue is the interwiew with Professor Petr Ráb, a member of Academy Council, and of the Steering Committee of the Evaluation of Academic Institutes. Through this evaluation, the Academy Council is provided a full report of the research effectiveness of Academy Institutes. The process of research assessment is supervised by foreign evaluators. and Marina Hužvárová.
V tomto roce se uskuteční další komplexní evaluace pracovišť Akademie věd ČR, tentokrát za období 2010-2014. Některé jeho nové aspekty přiblížila prof. Eva Zažímalová, která v Akademické radě AV ČR odpovídá za přípravu hodnocení a je rovněž zastupující osobností při řešení koncepčních otázek podpory vědy z veřejných prostředků. and Marina Hužvárová.