The article ‘Comments on the approach to human dignity in case law’ deals with some approaches to the interpretation of human dignity by international and constitutional courts including Czech Constitutional Court. It is the wide-ranging and extensive use of human dignity that certainly is a success of the post-war concept of human dignity as a basis for the protection of rights. On the other hand, the universal applicability of human dignity and it being ambivalently used is criticised for leading to vagueness and relativisation of the basic concept of dignity. However, given that the post-war conception is based on human dignity being the grounds for the human rights granted to all people, the universality of human dignity and its extensive use are the typical attributes thereof. The article describes fields of judicial interpretation of human dignity expressing diverse worlds of constitutional values., Helena Hofmannová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
The article deals with the principle of openness in the judiciary, specifically communicating judicial decisions to the public. Firstly, it discusses the relation between publicity and transparency of courts on the one hand and their legitimacy on the other. While the authors believe that the judiciary should be increasingly open to the public and point out benefits of that approach, they also recognize the risks thereof. Based on a comparative analysis of courts in a number of European states as well as the CJEU and ECHR the article analyses typical approaches to communication of judicial decisions. The final chapter contains normative conclusions which can serve as general guidelines applicable within the European judiciary., Daniel Askari, Kristina Blažková, Jan Chmel, Kristina Rademacherová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
Photoprotective pigments, like those involved in the xanthophyll cycle, help plants avoid oxidative damage caused by excess radiation. This study aims to characterize a spectrum of strategies used to cope with light stress by a diverse group of prairie plants at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (East Bethel, MN). We find that concentrations of photosynthetic and photoprotective pigments are highly correlated with one another and with other physiological traits across species and over time, and tend to be phylogenetically conserved. During a period of water limitation, plots dominated by species with constitutively low pigment concentrations showed a greater decline in mean reflectance and photochemical reflectance index, a reflectance-based indicator of photoprotective physiology, possibly due to alterations in canopy structure. Our findings suggest two contrasting strategies for withstanding light stress: (1) Using photoprotective pigments to dissipate excess energy, and (2) altering canopy structure to minimize absorbance of excess radiation., S. Kothari, J. Cavender-Bares, K. Bitan, A. S. Verhoeven, R. Wang, R. A. Montgomery, J. A. Gamon., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
Let \Omega \in L^{s}\left ( S^{n-1} \right ) for s\geqslant 1 be a homogeneous function of degree zero and b a BMO function. The commutator generated by the Marcinkiewicz integral μΩ and b is defined by \left[ {b,{\mu _\Omega }} \right](f)(x) = {\left( {\int_0^\infty {{{\left| {\int_{\left| {x - y} \right| \leqslant t} {\frac{{\Omega (x - y)}}{{{{\left| {x - y} \right|}^{n - 1}}}}\left[ {b(x) - b(y)} \right]f(y){\text{d}}y} } \right|}^2}\frac{{{\text{d}}t}}{{{t^3}}}} } \right)^{1/2}}. In this paper, the author proves the \left (L^{p\left ( \cdot \right )}\left ( \mathbb{R}^{n} \right ),L^{p\left ( \cdot \right )}\left ( \mathbb{R}^{n} \right ) \right )-boundedness of the Marcinkiewicz integral operator μΩ and its commutator [b, μΩ ] when p(·) satisfies some conditions. Moreover, the author obtains the corresponding result about μΩ and [b, μΩ ] on Herz spaces with variable exponent., Hongbin Wang., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
The impact of drought stress (DS) on eight Eurasian and North African genotypes of wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) was evaluated by analysis of chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence fast induction curves using the JIP-test. Three-week-old, pot-grown plants were exposed to a DS treatment by withholding water for nine days. The genotype-specific impairment of the functionality of the photosynthetic electron transport chain was quantified using the relative decline of the performance indices (PIabs and PItot), two key parameters of the JIP-test. The genotypes showing the highest (HOR10164) and lowest (HOR10710) relative PIs under DS were subjected to additional experiments, including measurements of leaf gas exchange, water status, pigment content, key enzyme activity, and protein abundance. The genotypes showed a specific profile of DS-mediated inhibition of photosynthesis, associated with higher relative leaf water contents in HOR10164 at the end of the treatment. Whereas decreased photosynthetic rate in HOR10164 was mainly caused by stomatal closure, nonstomatal limitations (decreased Rubisco content and activity) were detected in HOR10710. Additional genotype specific features were the upregulation of the NADP-malate dehydrogenase in HOR10164 and a decreased fraction of QA-reducing reaction centers in HOR10710., C. Jedmowski, S. Bayramov, W. Brüggemann., and Obsahuje bibliografii