New cultivated bitter hop varieties in the Czech Republic.

The new system of public registers in the Czech Republic

This paper discusses the basic principles of data-sharing as defined in the Basic Registry Act, No. 111/2009 Coll. Basic registers of public administration should become a new source of data for public authorities and for private entities. Authors describe the architecture of the basic registers’ system and discuss some possible technical solutions for each of the four basic registries (Registr...

Hantaviruses in the Czech Republic

Chlamydiae, and plant plastids, and uses a specific DNA probe. We considerably decreased the risk of horizontal and vertical contamination of the PCR reaction by using uracil and uracil-N-glycosylase and by keeping reaction cups closed since the first amplification cycle. More importantly, our study showed that Parachlamydia DNA is rarely found in bronchoalveolar lavage samples (0.083%). This s...

Genomics in the Czech Republic

The Functional Genomics and Disease 2003 conference was held at the Hilton Hotel in Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic, on 14–17 May 2003. This conference provided an ideal forum for European specialists to converge in the geographical centre of Europe to discuss the progress made in, and future prospects for, the important field of genomics in disease, and presented an opportu...

New Methods of Flash Flood Forecasting in the Czech Republic

In June/July 2009 the weather in the Czech Republic was influenced by a 12 days lasting baric low located over Mediterranean, which resulted in a sequence of many flash foods. The total damage was estimated to be about 200 mil. EUR and 15 people died. Although the flash flood is considered as hardly predictable phenomena, first efforts in flash floods forecasting have been already done [1]. Som...

Evidence from the Czech Republic