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Evolution as a Way to God in the Work of Teilhard de Chardin
Jirousová, Františka ; Karfíková, Lenka (advisor) ; Sokol, Jan (referee) ; Macek, Petr (referee)
This dissertation deals with the notion of centration in the work of Teilhard de Chardin, the notion being examined with regard to two related aims: 1) to illustrate the logical structure of Teilhard's Christian theory of evolution, and 2) to explain the relation between centration carried out by created beings and centration assigned to God as the focal point of evolution. In other words: to explore the connection between fundamental freedom attributed by Teilhard to created beings and culminating in human beings according to him, and God's freedom demonstrating itself in controlling the universe and directing it to a goal being the fullness of being (pleroma). The first part presents Teilhard's life and the contexts of his work. The second part explains the main notions of Teilhard's theory and metaphysics, such as "consciousness", "spirit", "energy", "centro-complexity", and "matter", and relates them to the notion of centration. Centration is presented here as an activity of the consciousness consisting in the unifying formation of multitude by its interconnection with different types of relations around one centre. In such unification, the main law of evolution manifests itself - the Law of Differentiating Unity. This means that parts unified in such way start differentiating again. What is...
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The Theory of Communication as an Explanatory Principle for the Natural Multilevel Text Segmentation
Milička, Jiří ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Cvrček, Václav (referee) ; Altmann, Gabriel (referee)
1. Phonemes, words, clauses and sentences are not a logical necessity of language, unlike distinctive features and morphemes. 2. Despite this, such nested segmentation is very firmly present in languages and in our concepts of language description, 3. because nested segmentation and inserting redundancy on multiple levels is an efficient way to get the language signal through the burst-noise channel. 4. There are various strategies how redundancy can be added and what kind of redundancy can be added. 5. The segment delimiter is expressed by some additional information and the amount of delimiting information is independent from the length of the seg- ment it delimits. This principle can serve as a basis for a successful model for the Menzerath's relation.
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Phenomenon of Film - Information - Society
Vodrážková, Katrin ; Štogrová Jedličková, Petra (advisor) ; Vilgus, Petr (referee) ; Michalovič, Peter (referee)
The dissertation presents an analysis of film and photographic media as two specific information systems. It is based mainly on the system theory of Niklas Luhmann, the basis upon which film is understood as a social system. The phenomenon of film is further developed as an imaging technique in the contemporary information society and electronic culture. The work shows new forms of imaging in film, but also a comparison of imaging techniques in the photographic medium. The goal of the dissertation is to contribute to a more detailed understanding of moving images and to develop the possibilities of film, which has the potential to become a future information system. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Shape variability of diatom frustules during the life cycle.
Woodard, Kateřina ; Kulichová, Jana (advisor) ; Kleisner, Karel (referee)
The determination of diatom species is mostly based on morphology of a silicified cell wall. It is complicated by the fact of cell diminution during the vegetative phase of the life cycle, which is conected with shape changes and loss of some taxonomically importat characters. Even though the diminution during the life cycle is generally known phenomeon, there is a lack of studies on this theme. In this masters thesis, four monoclonal populations of model pennate diatom strains were used in order to study shape dynamics during the life cycle. The strains were cultivated for almost three years and parts of the cultures with a different size stages were fixed in permanent preparations. The digital photographs of the cells were used as a material for the geometric morphometrics analyses. The study revealed high contribution of significant allometric changes to an overall shape variability. During the vegetative phase of the life cycle, disparity of the cells increases and complexity of the cells decreases. The contribution of symetric variability to an overall shape variability is more than eighty percent. Phenotypic plasticity in a monoclonal populations is an interesting finding from an evolutionary point of view. It may indicate constraints caused by the silica cell wall. During the size diminution...
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Signal complexity evaluation in the processing of functional magnetic resonance imaging
Vyhnánek, Jan ; Boldyš, Jiří (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jiří (referee)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging has been recently the most common tool for examining the neural activity in human and animals. The goal of a typical data-mining challenge is the localisation of brain areas activated during a cognitive task which is usually performed using a linear model or correlation methods. For this purpose several authors have proposed the use of methods evaluating signal complexity which could possibly overcome some of the shortcomings of the standards methods due to their independence on a priori knowledge of data characteristics. This work explains possibilities of using such methods including aspects of their configuration and it proposes an evaluation of performance of the methods applied on simulated data following expected biological characteristics. The results of the evaluation of performance showed little advantage of these methods over the standard ones in cases when the standard methods were possible to apply. However, some of the methods evaluating signal complexity were found useful for determining the regularity of signals which is a feature that cannot be assessed by the standard methods. Optimal parameters of the methods evaluating signal regularity were determined on simulated data and finally the methods were applied on the data examining emotional processing of...
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Methodology for Managing of Enterprise Information System Complexity
Holub, Ilja ; Basl, Josef (advisor) ; Antlová, Klára (referee) ; Kopeček, Pavel (referee)
Complexity of business information systems (IS) and information and communication technology (ICT) in general is a challenge faced by both IT professionals and project managers, but also the users of these systems, whether as employees of enterprises and organizations or their customers, partners or suppliers. In this work we study the complexity and its manifestations in informatics. We review relevant literature to analyze the state of the art in methods and approaches used for building and maintaining business information systems. The main results of this analysis is realization that even though complexity is considered an important parameter that have a negative impact on performance of information systems, the current methods and approaches for IT system maintenance do not provide any tools for complexity evaluation or management. The author therefore based on existing approaches and methodologies is establishing his own definition of a metrics to measure the complexity of the information system. The complexity is defined as the sum of the individual entities of system UML models, which are selected according to the methodology MMDIS to consistently describe all relevant content dimensions of the system. Subsequently derives causal relationship between the complexity of each dimension. Both between each other in one phase of the life cycle of the information system and in time. The next section examines the reasons and mechanisms to increase the complexity of the corporate information system and identifies the causes, characteristics, stakeholders, processes and life cycle stages of the IS, which influence this growth. Next we investigate impact of IS complexity on its implementation and we identify the critical processes involved in day to day operation of IS, in its maintenance and in extending its functionality. The main aim of this dissertation thesis is to design a methodology for managing the complexity of the information system and its validation in practice on a real SAP implementation project. In addition, we provide a software tool written in ABAP programming language. This program can be used as a tool of the methodology for measuring SAP IS complexity.
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Design of B2B market to support product distribution of small and medium size enterprises
Hálek, Ondřej ; Šebesta, Michal (advisor) ; Vojíř, Stanislav (referee)
The thesis is focused on creation of B2B market place design to support small and medium size enterprises. It is based on research of issues of small and medium size enterprises and system complexity. Study of logistics, logistic distribution and contemporary supply chains in the Czech Republic from the point of view of small and medium size enterprises is another part of the thesis. The design is based on research of semantic web and is created according to MMSP methodology. The design is created to eliminate pressure points of studied areas such as small ability of semantic web to become a communication system used in exchange of enterprises' offers and demands, limited cooperation of small and medium enterprises, prices which do not depend on logistics costs and door to door deliveries which supports the prominent position of large retail companies.
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Analysis of enterprise's complex system
Malackanič, Roman ; Sigmund, Tomáš (advisor) ; Berta, Michal (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the analysis of a particular soft complex system in the company. This system is a running car service with a determined problem situation. This system and its problem is then evaluated in terms of soft systems methodology, system dynamics and critical systems heuristics. The theoretical section provides concepts to understand the complexity and also individual system approaches. As beneficial of work I consider the practical part, which is aimed to the analysis of complex real-world system using the selected approaches as well as an evaluation of these approaches. Main purpose is to bring comparisons and suggestions for improvement and also a broader view to the system. All of this increases information value of approaches and we are able to deliver more relevant information. Thesis is therefore focused not only to deal with examples from practice but also to extend the selected theories within the system approaches.
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Money, Time and Information: An Austrian Approach
Nohejl, Jiří ; Koderová, Jitka (advisor) ; Plíva, Rostislav (referee)
Thesis "Money, Time and Information: An Austrian Approach" presents analysis on theory of money through classic view of Austrian economics which is combined with mutual dependence of system complexity, time and information. Money are considered as market emergent phenomena and therefore as its basic element. Spontaneous processes leads into origin of complex economic structures which are not static, but in constant evolution. Emerging complexity makes reduction of economic phenomena to aggregates or index numbers impossible. It is therefore important to comprehend these problems in context of structure and time in which structural change come into existence. This thesis emphasizes relation of money to informational and intertemporal role of prices and interest rate. This approach is then applied to possibility of monetary and regulatory policy to perceive all those complex interdependencies.
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Possible Views of Informatics
Slovák, Martin ; Rosický, Antonín (advisor) ; Šubrta, Václav (referee)
Cílem práce je popsat informatiku, jakožto vědu, zabývající se informacemi a systémy (ačkoli její běžně vnímané pojetí směřuje spíše k využívání informačních technologií). Souhrnné poznatky jsou vytvořeny na základě studia dostupné literatury a získaných znalostí ze studia na Vysoké škole ekonomické v Praze. Za přínos této práce lze považovat komplexní nastínění dané oblasti, týkající se informatiky (ať již z pohledu na business, odvětví, informační systémy, či pojetí další) a taktéž srovnání, co je pod pojmem informatika míněno na světových univerzitách.
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