Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2020 (vol. 68), issue 6
Molecular Evaluation of Three Populations of Farafra Sheep in Comparison to Ossimi and Rahmani Sheep Breeds
Talaat Bashandy, Ahmed Hussein, Mohamed Solma, Ayman Kassab, Hatem Hamdon
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 929-936 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060929 
Molecular markers are the most ideal approach to study genetic diversity. Consequently, we utilized both ISSR and RAPD markers to assess genetic diversity and relationships among three different populations of Farafra, Ossimi and Rahmani Egyptian sheep breeds. Both ISSR and RAPD gave moderate polymorphism 41.3% and 48.51%, respectively. Besides, this value was consistent with the moderate value of the mean of polymorphism information content (0.16 and 0.20, respectively). Farafra-F and Farafra-D populations had the highest similarity which was 0.92 for ISSR and 0.90 for the RAPD marker. Furthermore, ISSR and RAPD constructed dendrogram separated all...
Contribution of Current Photosynthesis and Reserves Remobilization in Grain Filling and Its Composition of Durum Wheat Under Different Water Regimes
Assia Bouzid, Ali Arous, Oum Cheikh Felouah, Othmane Merah, Ahmed Adda
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 937-945 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060937
In Algeria, drought affects grain weight and modified its biochemical composition. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of two water supplies (100% FC, 30% FC) on grain weight and composition of five genotypes of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.). We also examined the effects of shading of peduncle, spike and the entire plant and excision of awns, flag leaves and foliar system on grain weight, starch and amylose/amylopectin ratio. From this study, we found that grain weight was significantly reduced by the application of water deficit. However, this action is greatly related to genotype type. It is admitted that this trait...
Identification of Spring Barley Breeding Lines With Superior Yield Performance and Stability
Volodymyr Hudzenko, Tetiana Polishchuk, Oleksandr Demydov, Mykola Sardak, Nataliia Buniak, Vitalii Ishchenko
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 947-958 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060947
The aim of the present study was to substantiate theoretically and to test in practice scheme of multi-environment trials at the final stage of spring barley breeding process and to distinguish the genotypes which combine superior yield performance and stability. In the first year of competitive testing (2015) nine promising spring barley breeding lines have been selected under condition of the Central part of Forest-Steppe of Ukraine (latitude 49°64', longitude 31°08', altitude 153 m). In 2016 and 2017, the genotypes were additionally tested in two other different agro-climatic zones of Ukraine: Polissia (latitude 50°93', longitude 31°69', altitude...
Effect of Gender on Growth and Carcass Traits of Romney Marsh Lambs
Jan Kuchtík, Leona Konečná, Monika Šeligová, Tomáš Kopec
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 959-963 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060959
The aim of present study was to assess the effect of the gender on growth and carcass traits in lambs of the Romney Marsh breed. The experimental animals were male lambs (n = 12) and female lambs (n = 12) of the Romney Marsh breed. All lambs were twins and all their mothers were on the second parity. With regard to body weights and daily gains (DGs), the gender had a significant effect only on birth weight and DG from birth to the slaughter, while in all monitored intervals the DGs were higher in male lambs (MLs). The lamb gender did not have a significant effect on the easy of lambing, body condition score, depth of musculus longissimus lumborum et...
Rationale for Replacement of the Destructive Test by Non-Destructive One in Medical Devices Manufacturing
Oldřich Beneš, David Hampel
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 967-972 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060967
Due to expanding demand for the level of testing on one side and reduction of costs on the other side, the question how to replace expensive destructive testing of medical devices without compromising the quality of final product arising urgently. This situation is common within all highly regulated industries - in this article is addressed the problem from medical device manufacturing industry. Based on real data containing testing and validation datasets, logit model and classification tree model are estimated for establishing the relationship between result of destructive test and measurements of explored device. Results point to possibility of...
Utilization of a Local Coefficient for Immovable Property Tax in the Czech Republic
Lucie Formanová, Martina Halamová, Břetislav Andrlík
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 973-986 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060973
The paper deals with the issue of using a local coefficient as a tool to increase tax revenues of local government budgets in the Czech Republic. The local coefficient is defined as a corrective element increasing up to five times the immovable property tax that is 100% public budgets of local governments (municipalities) since 2009. As part of the paper, our own questionnaire survey was conducted across municipalities in the Czech Republic with the aim of identifying positive and negative consequences of application or non-application of this tax instrument at the level of local governments. Results of the research clearly demonstrate the use of the...
Inequality in the Income of the Population as a Determinant of the Country's Economic Growth
Tamara Kocurová, David Hampel
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 987-994 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060987
In this article, there is explored the dependence of economic performance and economic growth on income inequality expressed by Gini coefficient and S80/S20 ratio. Analysis is based on data collected upon EU countries in years 2007, 2012 and 2017. Cluster analysis points out to heterogeneity of EU countries in observed characteristics and enables creation of three groups of countries: post-socialistic, southern and northern. Regression analysis, which takes into account groups of countries, was used to assess and illustrate the dependence. The results show that income inequality has a negative impact on the country's GDP per capita, and its impact...
Risks of Regional Tax Systems and Their Portfolio Decomposition: The Case of Modern Russia
Marina Malkina, Rodion Balakin
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 995-1009 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068060995
The purpose of this paper is an assessment of the risk of regional tax systems at different levels of the budget system (consolidated, federal, regional and local), decomposition of this risk by sources (various taxes and tax groups) and the isolation of internal (related to own tax return volatility) and external (related to the correlation of tax returns volatility) risk components. Using the portfolio approach, we measured and decomposed the risk of tax systems of 80 constituent entities of the Russian Federation in 2006-2017. As a result, we found a weak positive relationship between the risk and return of the regional tax systems at all budget...
The Impact of Monetary Policy and Tax Revenues on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: An Empirical Study on Jordan
Shahriyar Mukhtarov, Mustafa Mohammad Alalawneh, Mayis Azizov, Farid Jabiyev
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 1011-1018 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068061011
The study examines the impact of monetary policy (proxied by money supply and interest rate) and tax revenue on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Jordan employing time series data period from 1991 to 2017. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the Canonical Cointegrating Regression (CCR) and the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) methods are applied in empirical estimations. Estimation results reveal that money supply has a positive and statistically significant impact on the FDI while, tax revenue has a negative impact on FDI in Jordan. Also, we find that the impact of interest rate is statistically insignificant.The results of current...
Economic and Political Determinants of Terrorism in Selected European Countries
Martin Tejkal, Jakub Odehnal, Jaroslav Michálek
Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2020, 68(6), 1019-1031 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun202068061019
In this paper, we aim to assess the connection between terrorist attacks and socioeconomic and political indicators through an empirical study of selected 16 European countries. In order to reduce the dimension of the problem, factor analysis is applied in order to transform the indicator variables into factors. The countries are classified into clusters based on similarity of their economic and political indicator development, using loadings of the indicators onto the factors. For countries in each cluster, the connection of their political and socioeconomic indicators with terrorist attacks is then studied via correlation analysis of the attacks...