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TechPower to the People: States' Monopoly Over Security and Surveillance in Turmoil
Bogunovic, Marko ; Bruner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
Emerging technological trends have opened the possibilities for information manipulation across multiple platforms resulting in a power shift from the state to its citizens. This study takes on three cases as exemplars which will demonstrate how technology fabricates power in liberal states, causing a power dynamics shift. Each of the case studies will illustrate how technological vigilantism in one form or another allows for the citizen emancipation. The erosion of the relationship between the perpetrator and victim will also be discussed as private and public tracking devices becomes widespread. The initial findings suggest that the introduction of private software tracking has amplified the rate at which the state's monopoly over security and surveillance is eroding. Representing three key sections of a society - public, private, and civil - the cases analyzed show that each section is moving towards micromanagement meaning that citizens are taking the law into their own hands, despite high police competency. Find My iPhone, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, as well as other social networks and tracking software help support the rise of technology vigilantes. The state's monopoly over security and surveillance is in turmoil. Thus, this multi-case study will take on a discussion between two potential...
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A critical price analysis on the imperfect competitive market
Bábel, Martin ; Procházková, Kateřina (referee) ; Škapa, Stanislav (advisor)
Perfect competition can be considered as a theoretical state. For this reason, this work is focused on the imperfectly competitive market and pricing in it. The aim is to investigate in more detail how specific companies with elements of monopoly use their position to determine the price for their product and price discrimination - they are so-called price makers. The work analyzes specific approaches to the pricing strategy of these companies.
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Collective management in the context of modern technologies
Smolka, Lucie ; Dobřichovský, Tomáš (referee)
COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES MGR. BC. LUCIE SMOLKA, PH.D. The thesis focuses on transformation of the role of collective management in the online world. The main goal and the research question that this work sets is to analyse and provide an answer to the question how the collective management and its position changes depending on modern technologies (especially the Internet). Within this main research question, two tendencies are observed, two main areas influenced by the general characteristics of copyright, reflected in the functioning of collective management in the environment of modern technologies. An aspect that permeates the work is the view of copyright territoriality and its influence and its changes regarding the collective management. The goal is to find out how the application and perception of the principles of territoriality is changing in a context of ever-increasing intersection of copyright and modern technologies. In addition to the general features of collective management, in connection with the territoriality, we will concentrate on multi-territorial licensing instruments, which were introduced, despite the previous efforts, only through the Collective Management Directive. The second examined feature and an important principle is the autonomy...
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TechPower to the People: States' Monopoly Over Security and Surveillance in Turmoil
Bogunovic, Marko ; Bruner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
Emerging technological trends have opened the possibilities for information manipulation across multiple platforms resulting in a power shift from the state to its citizens. This study takes on three cases as exemplars which will demonstrate how technology fabricates power in liberal states, causing a power dynamics shift. Each of the case studies will illustrate how technological vigilantism in one form or another allows for the citizen emancipation. The erosion of the relationship between the perpetrator and victim will also be discussed as private and public tracking devices becomes widespread. The initial findings suggest that the introduction of private software tracking has amplified the rate at which the state's monopoly over security and surveillance is eroding. Representing three key sections of a society - public, private, and civil - the cases analyzed show that each section is moving towards micromanagement meaning that citizens are taking the law into their own hands, despite high police competency. Find My iPhone, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, as well as other social networks and tracking software help support the rise of technology vigilantes. The state's monopoly over security and surveillance is in turmoil. Thus, this multi-case study will take on a discussion between two potential...
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Board Game User Interface with a Camera
Cihlářová, Dita ; Hradiš, Michal (referee) ; Zemčík, Pavel (advisor)
Cílem této práce je vytvořit systém, který bude schopen nahradit reálného protihráče ve hře Dostihy a sázky. Hra je snímána kamerou, ze které se obraz přenáší do počítače, kde probíhá zpracování obrazu a identifikace herních objektů. Dále aplikace analyzuje stav hry a rozhodne o svém následujícím tahu. Rozhodovací algoritmus je schopen reagovat na každou herní situaci a tudíž dohrát hru do konce. Aplikaci mohou využít hráči, jež rádi hrají Dostihy a sázky, ale chybí jim protihráč. Aplikace také může najít uplatnění jako demostrace možností počítačového vidění.
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Use of didactical games in teaching mathematics at the lower secondary level
Svobodová, Veronika ; Novotná, Jarmila (advisor) ; Jančařík, Antonín (referee)
This thesis entitled "Use of didactical games in teaching mathematics at the lower secondary level" deals with the use of educational games in math classes at secondary schools. This work is composed of two main parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part introduces the concepts of the game, didactic game, math games. More specifically focus on the modification of the board game Monopoly. The practical part is devoted to quantitative research, which determines what is the attitude of mathematics teachers of lower secondary school teaching to the use of games in education, as well as focus on the views and experiences of students with didactic game. Also, the work compares the written test of the curriculum for the class that graduated mathematical hour with the inclusion of educational games monopolies and class that this teaching not undergone.
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Mandatory disclosure
Hrycej, Martin ; Gregor, Martin (advisor) ; Džmuráňová, Hana (referee)
The bachelor thesis firstly introduces the problems of mandatory disclosure and describes different attitudes to it. Following is the essential part of the work containing the definition and specification of the studied models of monopoly and duopoly. These models are further analysed and solved using the game theory tools and microeconomics methods for profit optimization. Subsequently the numerical results are evaluated and presented. The obtained results are suggesting whether voluntary or mandatory disclosure regime is more profitable for whom under different conditions - the models parameters in other words. Finally the discussion of the results, the results' relevance and interpretations in the context of related literature are presented. The particular numerical results are of a reasonable nature and rather fit to the literature context than not.
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Violence and the Political
Svorník, Petr ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Bíba, Jan (referee)
The main subject of this paper is the course of state and violence under the impact of processes of globalization and privatization, culminating in the beginning of 21st century. Max Weber's definition of state as the monopoly on legitimate violence within certain area is highlighted, the aim of this work is to show current unsustainability of a nation state by this definition and also to describe other possible meanings of state in globalized world. After the theoretical introduction characterization of historical process of monopolization of violence by the state follows - contemporary course looks like the exact opposite of historical process, during which the state expropriated all of the other possessors of rights to use physical force. Next chapter depicts the present-day role of the state in globalized world and also possible re-interpretaions of this role for new, cosmpolitan state, whose task should be worldwide promotion of human rights and defence against planetary self-destruction. The paper is closed by emphasis on openness of the whole process - transnational companies try to promote an opinion that there is no chance of state's survival - that is true, but only for the state defined in national, not cosmopolitan terms.
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Water Pricing
Janišová, Marie ; Pavláková Dočekalová, Marie (referee) ; Luňáček, Jiří (advisor)
The intention of this thesis is to assess whether it is economically advantageous formation of water prizes with using elements of price discrimination. The first part of thesis defines the theoretical basis on which it is based on practical part. The analytic part is dealing with cost of production and distribution of water, prizes of water and adequate profit in company. There is also described the current situation in the market including legislation related to the issue. The last part is own proposals for pricing.
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