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The change of normative perception and thinking about the Nuclear Sharing within NATO
Kořínek, David ; Ludvík, Jan (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the development of the NATO's normative perception and thinking over the nuclear weapons and the nuclear sharing concept. While the nuclear sharing lays in the main area of the interest of this thesis, the approach towards the nuclear weapons itself is the inseparable component of this research. This thesis is divided into three main chapters. The chapter one explains the historical position of the nuclear weapons in the NATO thinking and the history of the nuclear sharing in relation to the NPT. It also introduces the basic theoretical debate and definition of the concept. The chapter two explains the chosen methodological framework, describes the set of analysed documents and sets rules for the coding of those documents. For the purposes of this analysis, I decided to use the methodological framework of the content analysis, which is created through the content analysis software NVivo 12. It is followed by the chapter three which is visualising and explaining the results of the content analysis created following the script already described in the chapter two.
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An Analysis of Counter-Terrorism Strategies in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia
Buroňová, Zuzana ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
This thesis is focusing on counterterrorism policies that are used in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Because of the limited research on the counterterrorism in non-Western world, this thesis decided to contribute to this research and widen literature on this issue. It first introduces the term terrorism and analyses the counterterrorism models (criminal, war and disease models), which can be found mostly in Western literature. It includes critique of these models and attempt to create an alternative one, because it finds the current models unsuitable even for the Western counterterrorism policies. Besides that there is also introduction to other counterterrorism strategies such as terrorist financing and a subsection on deradicalization that is important part of counterterrorism as well. Then the thesis focuses on two parallel case studies of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. It examines counterterrorism policies of both of them. The thesis first introduces the countries character, threats they are facing and attacks they have experienced and then analyses what measures are used to fight terrorism. After analysing all aspects of their counterterrorism efforts - legislature, cooperation, deradicalization, military methods etc., the alternative model is applied on each case to see if it is suitable for...
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Procedural Modeling of Tree Bark
Laitoch, Petr ; Beneš, Jan (advisor) ; Kahoun, Martin (referee)
Even though procedural modeling of trees is a well-studied problem, realistic modeling of tree bark is not. However, the more general techniques of texture syn- thesis, including texture-by-numbers, may be helpful for modeling tree bark. Tex- ture synthesis is a process of generating an arbitrarily large texture similar to an input image. This method is capable of generating homogeneous textures. This is not enough as many types of bark are inhomogeneous. Texture-by-numbers improves texture synthesis by further guiding the process with provided label maps to allow the generation of even inhomogeneous textures. Many texture-by- numbers algorithms are not currently implemented. In this thesis, we implement a promising texture-by-numbers algorithm along with algorithms for generating the required label maps. This combination of algorithms creates a pipeline for synthesizing realistic tree bark textures based on a single small input image. We test out the pipeline on samples of multiple types of real-world tree bark images and discuss the results. We further suggest multiple directions for improving the employed techniques.
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Alphanumerical external wireless display device for PC
Veverka, Vítězslav ; Prokopec, Jan (referee) ; Beneš, Jan (advisor)
In this work was created the basic description and theoretical design of alphanumeric extern wireless module which could be connected to PC by the USB. This work includes the basic description of some alphanumerical visual modules connectable to PC, the charecterization of general used electrical networks and components, the basic parameters of high frequency modules and wireless transmision. On the basis of theoretical studies are described the oppotrunities of the project of complete alfanumerical extern wireless display and reasons of selected options. Next the creation of circuit diagrams and printed circuit boards. The result of this work is a functional prototype of the equipment including software for microprocessors and computer control. Verification of functionality and usability is part of the project.
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Security Dilemma between NATO and Russia in the Baltic States and its Perspectives in the 21st Century
Musil, Tomáš ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis examines the uncertainty in the region of Baltic States that has a significant role in shaping and the dynamics of bilateral relations between NATO and Russia. For the analysis of dynamics in current relations and its perspectives between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Russia in Baltic States the author of this thesis chose the application of the Security dilemma concept. Analysed time period between 2014-2017 by selected supplementary theoretic concepts, such as Deterrence strategy and Copenhagen school encompass the security situation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the context of bilateral relations between Russia and NATO. The main goal of this thesis is to provide a full insight about current security environment in the Baltic States and its tendency presuming the security dilemma as a possible perspective of relations between NATO and Russia. Conclusions state that the formation of the security dilemma between NATO a Russia in the Baltic States has been shaped on the basis of changing context of the security environment and in particular by incompatibility of interests competing actors, when some of them perceives the international system as anarchic. The current atmosphere of regional relations covered by uncertainty and distrust among competing sides...
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Progressive divergence? The development of Croatian and Slovenian strategic cultures since independence
Vogrinec, Matevž ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the development of strategic culture in Slovenia and Croatia since independence. Croatia and Slovenia are small countries in the Western Balkans. Both countries became independent in 1991 and since then they became important regional actors in the Western Balkans. This thesis traces Slovenia and Croatia's historical position within the former SFR Yugoslavia's defence system. The empirical analysis in the thesis examines official documents of both countries to find basic notions of the strategic culture of Croatia and Slovenia. The thesis' research focuses on finding how both countries' goal of Euro-Atlantic integration influenced the development of their strategic culture. Keywords: Strategic Culture, Slovenia, Croatia
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European Defence Industry in Times of Austerity
Kulichkina, Mariia ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
EUROPEAN DEFENCE INDUSTRY IN TIMES OF AUSTERITY ABSTRACT The end of the Cold War has marked the shift in bipolar world order. Changing geopolitical, economic and social environments, as well as rapid technological progress, have led to deep restructure of defence entities in Europe. The process of gradual national defence industries restructure and consolidation has been spreading across European borders, affecting every defence industrial sector. Thereof, this thesis aims to analyse the process of European Defence Industry's restructuring and integration process. It scrutinizes the process in terms of the European Defence Industrial Base on the one side and international integration efforts on the other. It investigates drivers of change for the defence industry, particularly: decreasing budgets, changing relationship between state and defence industry, advancement of technological innovations, importance of civil sector and internationalization of national defence companies. Regarding the restructuring process, the thesis examines National Defence Policies of Germany, France and the United Kingdom towards their respective National Defence Technology Industrial Bases along with the applications of these policies on the defence integration process within the EU. Key words: Defence industry, European Defence...
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Procedural terrain modeling using polygonal sketching
Knotek, Jaroslav ; Kahoun, Martin (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
This work presents a method of virtual terrain sketching using polygons where each polygon represents a feature of the terrain. Each feature is generated to a layer and the resulting terrain is then obtained by merging those layers. It can be further edited by convolution brushes, eroded, or have a river drainage generated. The final result can be previewed in 3D. The implementation allows a user to save and load the project as well as export the final height map.
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Procedural generation of cities in 3D
Krabec, Miroslav ; Gemrot, Jakub (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
Title: Procedural generation of cities in 3D Author: Miroslav Krabec Department: Department of Software and Computer Science Education Supervisor: Mgr. Jakub Gemrot Abstract: During development of computer games great amount of time is spent on creating game environment. For that reason there is an effort to generate this environment procedurally. One of the interesting areas is generation of cities. Algorithm (Weber et al., 2009) is fully geometrical and offers considerable freedom in parametrization of the city, however there has not been an open implementation of this algorithm. Our work offers such an implementation and includes the possibility of 3D visualization in Unity 3D, a tool designed for development of computer games. Here we emphasize the ease of using custom 3D models of buildings, roads and crossroads. Resulting software can help game developers to generate cities for their games. However it can generate only relatively small cities (several thousands of buildings), but in context of computer games this is usually sufficient. Resulting city is very parameter sensitive and it is not trivial to achieve desired outcome. Further research would be needed for evaluation of generated cities. Keywords: procedural generation, cities, 3D
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Social changes of Prague Liben and residents of new housing structures
Štěpán, Marek ; Pospíšilová, Lucie (advisor) ; Beneš, Jan (referee)
Liben district is part of Prague inner city, which is dynamically changing in post-socialist period. The former working-class district is gradually transformed into an attractive residential area. The work focuses primarily on changes of social environment after 1989. In the first part is compared social structure of Liben and Prague, follow by analysis of socio-spatial structure of Liben. The second part focuses on newly forming residential structures in Liben. Specifically, it is examined social climate in selected locations with new development. The emphasis is on understanding relationship between new residents and territory of Liben. Keywords: socio-spatial structure, the inner city, the post-socialist city, new residential structures, social climate Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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