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American Cities in Post-Industrial Reality: Detroit and Pittsburgh
Černá, Iveta ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Sehnálková, Jana (referee)
The thesis studies possibilities of restructuring of post-industrial cities by closely following and comparing the restructuring efforts of two cities located in the U.S. Midwest, Detroit and Pittsburgh. It studies the consequences of globalizing economy on the area of so- called Rust-Belt, as well as the impacts of the federal urban policies on the older industrial cities located in this area. Through deindustrialization of their economies, both Detroit and Pittsburgh suffered from similar problems, such as depopulation, unemployment, factory closure, and urban decline. Therefore to evaluate the level of success of the cities' transformation, the thesis compares their demographic and economic development. The last two chapter of the thesis provide assessment of Detroit's and Pittsburgh's transformation efforts by focusing on the urban planning and economic restructuralization strategies.
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Visual perception of media photography
Černá, Iveta ; Lukavský, Jiří (advisor) ; Novák, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to describe the way people perceive media photography. Therefore I first focus on general aspects of photography perception, namely scene recognition, saliency and memorability. Then I focus on media photography, namely on reportage photography, its technical aspects, semantic saliency in the terms of emotional effect and ethics related to it. The aim of the suggested study is to contribute to the knowledge about semantic saliency of photography by empirically researching the emotional effect of photography on its memorability, including observing whether there is an difference in memorability depending on depiction of children or adults and also on depiction of individuals or groups of people. Keywords scene understanding, gist, saliency, memorability, media photography
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Money Laundering
Kryvosheieva, Ganna ; Bolotov, Ilya (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
The thesis deals with evaluation of ant-money laundering effectiveness. In theoretical part money laundering, FATF (Financial Ask Task Force) and AML(anti-money laundering) are defined. Practical part concentrates on the biggest scandals of the latest years and assessment of AML effectiveness. Based on this evaluation, weak places in AML mechanisms were identified. Additionally, tools of AML improvement were determined.
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Impacts of the Ukrainian crisis on the Russian economy
Šimíková, Barbora ; Bolotov, Ilya (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
This thesis aims to set a complex view on the economy of the Russian Federation and evaluate its current state in the context of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis which started in 2014. During this period significantly changed the situation on the oil market and at the same time there were introduced sanctions against Russia because of its involvement in the conflict. Therefore, Russia introduced its own sanctions in return. What is the cause of the current Russian economic crisis will try to uncover this thesis in three chapters. First chapter is dedicated to the Ukrainian crisis and to the role of Russia within the conflict. Second part analysis the Russian economy, its specifics and efficiency. Last chapter examines the impacts of the sanction regime, decrease of oil prices and the related lack of diversification and dependency on export of the recourses in the context of the monetary and fiscal policy and the impact on the selected sectors of the economy and international trade.
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Global value chains after the Great Recession: main challenges for advanced and developing countries
Tsyrulnik, Alexandr ; Bolotov, Ilya (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
The industrial revolution made great industrial powers out of North America and Western Europe. Hundred years after, ICT revolution and offshoring of production processes paved the way for intense economic growth of the developing countries. Following breakdown of the Soviet Bloc, market oriented reforms in China together with other circumstances have gradually changed balance of powers in favour of the developing world. However, developed economies have been keeping a competitive advantage consisting in activities associated with creativity and know-how, while the newly industrialized countries have been using mainly extensive growth model based on cheap labour and repetitive activities. These processes have been taking place across highly advanced and sophisticated global value chains. Our goal is to look deeply into the impact of the smiling curve and the evolution of the shares of value added for both developing and developed countries, before and after the Great Recession, across three industries: textile, electronics and automotive, and find out, whether developing countries are situated in a so-called low value added trap, in other words their shares for a longer period have either been stagnating or declining, while shares of developed countries have been constantly growing.
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American Cities in Post-Industrial Reality: Detroit and Pittsburgh
Černá, Iveta ; Kozák, Kryštof (advisor) ; Sehnálková, Jana (referee)
The thesis studies possibilities of restructuring of post-industrial cities by closely following and comparing the restructuring efforts of two cities located in the U.S. Midwest, Detroit and Pittsburgh. It studies the consequences of globalizing economy on the area of so- called Rust-Belt, as well as the impacts of the federal urban policies on the older industrial cities located in this area. Through deindustrialization of their economies, both Detroit and Pittsburgh suffered from similar problems, such as depopulation, unemployment, factory closure, and urban decline. Therefore to evaluate the level of success of the cities' transformation, the thesis compares their demographic and economic development. The last two chapter of the thesis provide assessment of Detroit's and Pittsburgh's transformation efforts by focusing on the urban planning and economic restructuralization strategies.
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How relationships help to cope with schizophrenia
Černá, Iveta ; Goldmann, Petr (advisor) ; Procházková, Jana (referee)
This work focuses on family relationships of people, who went through a psychotic episode. The main question is: How the relationships with relatives help to cope with life with mental disease, not only psychotic episode itself, but especially the period after fading the symtoms away? It is looking for an answer in the interviews with people with mental disease, focusing on their relationships before and after breaking out of the illness. It came out the relationships in the primar family are helpful in this new life situation of the respondents, not the partner relationships, as was expected. The first analysis focused on the main developmental phases in lives of the respondents. It was followed by the analysis of interpersonal relationships. Finally, based on the studied literature, there were established the categories of possible reactions of family members to the respondents'disease. These categories were looked for in the interviews.
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Approriatioon and recycling of media images
Černá, Iveta ; Láb, Filip (advisor) ; Slanec, Jaroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis Appropriation and Recycling of Media Images focuses on how media images get outside their original context and how this changes their function and meaning. The work contains of three parts. The first part acquaints the reader with the method of appropriation and recycling, with its beginnings and its specificity. The second part investigates what icons are and how art uses them. We need to introduce basic semiotic terms in order to be able to explain how the meaning changes and how media icons work. In the third part, I focus on particular cases of appropriation and recycling, which are divided into separate subthemes according to their character, i. e. painting, political iconography, models and self-projection into iconic photographs. The fourth part occupies with the relationship between appropriation and copyright. It embraces subchapters on Czech copyright, Creative Commons licences, theories about free culture and particular cases of apropriation and recycling from the point of view of copyright infringement.
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Economic Development of China with a Focus on Foreign Direct Investment
Pokorná, Monika ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Bolotov, Ilya (referee)
The thesis deals with economic development of People's Republic of China the country's role in global economy and its foreign direct investment. The initial chapter introduces the concept of development of a country from a general and economic point of view. The second part of the thesis aims to describe the current situation in China and focuses on concrete parts of its development. The purpose of the final chapter is to analyse the flow of foreign direct investment from China.
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The entry of the Czech company into the Polish market
Homolová, Hana ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Hinčica, Vít (referee)
This thesis contains information on the entry of Czech firms into the Polish market. The main goal is to provide a complete overview of the Polish market and describe the process of entry of the Czech company into this territory as its own branches. According to the truncated PEST analysis describes the situation on the Polish market. The first chapter deals with methods and indicators that are used at work. The second chapter provides general information about the Republic of Poland. The third, most extensive chapter describes the Polish market from specific angles of selected factors according PEST analysis. This chapter deals in details with economic factors and indicators of competitiveness, while the least is dedicated to social factors. Under the technological factors there are promising sectors for business emphasized particularly. In politic-legal factors there are highlighted mainly legal environment and conditions for establishing a company in Poland. The last part contains specific experience that related to the founding of the company in Poland.
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