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Three Liberal Theories of Justice
Macháček, Jiří ; Šimsa, Martin (advisor) ; Váňa, Tomáš (referee)
The mail goal of this thesis is to introduce the modern theory of liberal justice with a focus on distributive justice. In addition, the author addresses the issue of value neutrality in the liberal state and the concept of equality in liberal theory. The author presents the concept of "justice as fairness" described by liberal political philosopher John Rawls. Afterwards his concept is subjected to criticism of other contemporary liberal philosophers Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin. The author briefly looks into coherence between mentioned philosophers and earlier representatives of liberal theory, as well as their non-liberal critics. The first chapter contains a list of thinkers and their contributions to the issue of justice and the social contract theory. The following three chapters concerns the interpretation of the concepts of three mentioned authors using critical analysis of their publications. In the fifth chapter are described concepts of thinkers who critically respond to Rawl's theory of justice generally reffered to as communitarians. In the sixth chapter the author summarizes the main theoretical background and arguments of discussed liberal philosophers. Finally the thesis is concluded by their comparison and summary of key facts and features.
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Election strategy of candidates in Czech presidential campaign 2012/2013 - comparison of party and non-party candidates
Douděrová, Lucie ; Váňa, Tomáš (advisor) ; Just, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis Election strategy of candidates in Czech presidential campaign 2012/2013 - comparison of party and non-party candidates assesses the election campaign before the first direct vote presidential elections in the Czech Republic in 2013 with regards to the party classification of the candidates. The thesis consists of descriptive analysis of each campaign according to Dariusz Skrzypiński's criteria and a comparison of those criteria (communication strategy, financial strategy and strategy of relations between candidates) within the party and the non-party candidate campaigns. The assumptions verified in this thesis focus on both party and non-party candidates, advantages and disadvantages of their strategies and their comparison.
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Aspects of the relationship of the U.S. president with the American public
Gottwaldová, Petra ; Kotábová, Věra (advisor) ; Váňa, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis deals with the mutual relationship of the U.S. president with American public. Within this theme I investigate the ways in which the public expresses its opinion of the president, and which factors and issues influence presidential public ratings. Further, I analyze the relationship of the president with the public from the other side - it means communication strategies which the president employs in order to gain support of public opinion. An essential part of public relations is focusing public attention on a concrete issue of the president's agenda and subsequent framing of public debate about it. Through this process, the president can determine preferences which the public uses during their evaluation of the president's job. The media play an important role in forming public opinion, therefore my thesis deals with the president's approach to the media and with his communication with them as well. From the view of the Rottinghaus's theory of public opinion leadership, I analyze particular methods of presidential public relations and their potential influence on the growth of public support. The last point of my thesis is the role of the public support in the policy-making process, particularly in promoting presidential proposals in Congress, and also in a situation when the...
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Language and Totalitarianism
Váňa, Tomáš ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Kučera, Jan (referee)
The thesis Language and totalitarianism deals with the relation between these two phenomena. On the basis of key thinkers dealing with totalitarianism it formulates its own definition of totalitarianism. It presents the communication theory of Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, on which basis it points to the close relation between communication and political systems, concretely between language and totalitarianism. Language is analysed mainly on the thoughts of Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Totalitarian language is explained using mainly Orwell's totalitarian language newspeak in 1984. A practical analysis of a sample of Rudé právo fram the era of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948-1989 shows its manifestations in real use. At the end of the thesis political correctness is introduced as an example of totalitarian tendencies in liberal democracies.
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The birth of The New York Times
Váňa, Tomáš ; Köpplová, Barbara (advisor) ; Sekera, Martin (referee)
The diploma thesis The birth of the daily The New York Times deals with the birth and evolution of the daily newspaper The New York Times. It analyses its birth on the background of the state of American journalism in the middle of the nineteenth century. It deals with the rise of the penny press and the founding of the most important papers of this era, mainly New York Sun, New York Herald and New York Tribune. The birth of The New York Times is described as a natural step in the filling of a gap on the publishing market, which lacked a serious and unbiased paper. After describing the founding of The New York Times the thesis deals with the two most important eras in the history of the paper. These are the period after the death of its founder Henry Jarvis Raymond, when the paper was lead by his old collaborator George Jones and the repeated rise of the paper under Adolph S. Ochs at the turn of the nineteenth century. In the final part of this thesis, the state of the paper at the start of the twenty-first century is described. A description of the atmosphere of this explored era, the social conditions in USA in the middle of the nineteenth century and the situation on the media market also forms a part of this thesis. A part of the thesis is dedicated to short passages summarizing the lives of the...
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Language and Totalitarianism
Váňa, Tomáš ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Kučera, Rudolf (referee)
The diploma thesis Language and totalitarianism deals with the relation between these two phenomena. On the basis of key thinkers dealing with totalitarianism it formulates its own definition of totalitarianism. It presents the communication theory of Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, on which basis it points to the close relation between communication and political systems, concretely between language and totalitarianism. Language is analysed mainly on the thoughts of Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Totalitarian language is explained using mainly Orwell's totalitarian language newspeak in 1984. A practical analysis of a sample of Rudé právo form the era of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the years 1948-1989 shows its manifestations in real use. At the end of the thesis political correctness is introduced as an example of totalitarian tendencies in liberal democracies.
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Active and passive safety in Euro NCAP
Váňa, Tomáš ; Jindra, Petr (advisor) ; Hart, Jan (referee)
The aim of this work is to prepare current overview of all active and passive safety features in the car and compare their impact on safety. There will be described assessment of crash tests at three car brands in the same category. The whole work will be concluded and estimate how the developments in the security slide
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QT Interval Measurement
Váňa, Tomáš ; Chrobák, Martin (referee) ; Kozumplík, Jiří (advisor)
This semestral thesis deals with QT interval measurement. The theoretical part of the work describes ECG delineation, QT interval and methods for detection Q onset and T offset. The practical part of the work describes R wave detection, preprocessing of ECG signal and implementation of selected methods for QT interval measurement. Selected algorithms were evaluated on the standard CSE database. Detected positions were compared with reference values. Result of this work is evaluation of results.
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Biometric fingerprint liveness detection
Váňa, Tomáš ; Vítek, Martin (referee) ; Smital, Lukáš (advisor)
This master‘s thesis deals with biometric fingerprint liveness detection. The theoretical part of the work describes fingerprint recognition biometric systems, fingerprint liveness detection issues and methods for fingerprint liveness detection. The practical part of the work describes proposed set of discriminant features and preprocessing of fingerprint image. Proposed approach using neural network to detect a liveness. The algorithm is tested on LivDet database comprising real and fake images acquired with tree sensors. Classification performance approximately 93% was obtained.
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Biometric Fingerprint Liveness Detection
Váňa, T.
This paper deals with biometric fingerprint liveness detection. A software-based liveness detection approach using neural network is proposed. To distinguish between live and fake samples, three image quality features extracted from one image are used. The algorithm is tested on LivDet database comprising real and fake images acquired with three sensors.
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