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"In Oil We Trust?" US Policy in Persian Gulf after the Cold War
Kašík, Jakub ; Nálevka, Vladimír (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
6. Resumé (Shrnutí práce v anglickém jazyce) The end of the eighties was not just a change in the time but it happened to be one of the biggest historical changes in the twentieth century. Two camps that stood against each other in ideological as well as realistic animosity were enemies no more. The Cold War ended. American scholars became to question new world? Two main visions were represented by the theories of Fukuyama and Huntington. The first came with the thesis that the end of Cold war was not just the end of more than 40 years long struggle but that it was the confirmation of the superiority of the United States and the ideas that it was based on. Liberal democracy was said to be the final stage of human struggle to find the ideal way of statehood. The second theory came with totally opposite idea that considered the new world unleashed from the bounds of Cold war as full of geopolitical vacuum that will turn into more clashes between cultures and civilizations. The euphoria of those days appreciated the first theory but was afraid that the second one is closer to the truth. The main question was: how will the new world look like? United States were considered to be the winners but the main task was to find their role in the new world. The new administration of George H. W. Bush even though shocked...
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Moral reasoning of older school age children
Oborná, Denisa ; Klusák, Miroslav (advisor) ; Neuwirthová, Barbora (referee)
The thesis deals with researching the ethical judgement in middle-school children, i.e. boy/girl scouts at the ages of eleven to fifteen years. I have gathered the underlying data by regularly attending the meetings of a boy/girl scout squad, observing and interviewing the children and, most importantly, consulting their scoutmasters, thereby gaining a comprehensive idea of the ethically ambiguous situations the children face during their time in the squad. I have defined my research area as a result of this. Together with the scoutmasters, we have then devised an activity that allowed us to have discussions with the children within the scope of the scout law, with the aim to gain an understanding of their ethical judgement. I have gained my theoretical sensitivity and overview of the general subject primarily from the works of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg.
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Case study of physiotherapy treatment of a patient with the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis
BÁRTOVÁ, Adéla
The thema of this bachelor thesis is "Case study of physiotherapy treatment of a patient with the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis". The severity of multiple sclerosis incrementaly increases as the incidency of this disease - globaly and in the Czech Republic as well - rapidly grows year by year. Multiple sclerosis -as an autoaggressive chronic disease - is still incurable, however, plenty of changes in the diagnosis and the therapy have emerged during last years. This illness afflicts mostly persons during the productive period of their lifes. The patient is often without clinical symptoms during the first few years, which, until recently, misled to an idea that there is no urgent need to apply a long-term medical treatment. Today it is evident that only early executed diagnosis and early started therapy afterwards can prevent from the permanent neurologic impairment of the patient. Besides the pharmacological treatment, there is also physiotherapy which helps patients to live an active and valuable life. The point of this paper is to illustrate a complex view of this problem. The first, theoretical part deals with multiple sclerosis as a whole, with the goal to summarize the latest knowledge and findings about this disease. It describes the potential causes of the origin of the disease, its occurrence, particular symptoms, development of the disease, different types of the disease and the possible diagnosis together with the differential diagnosis. The ending of the theoretical part informs about the therapy comprising the pharmacological treatment and the complications it may bear, and the rehabilitation treatment summarizing therapy of all symptoms, which can appear. Nowadays, it is possible to find different approaches in the rehabilitation of multiple sclerosis. But according to many physiotherapy studies those methodologies, which are based on the neurophysiological fundamentals, were already very positively aplied on the patients. It is an objective of the practical part of my thesis to introduce one of these methodologies. The impact of an aplication of the individual physiotherapy, which utilizes the neurophysiological findings, can be evaluated by comparing the results from the entering and exit. This work is conceived as a case study in the form of casuistry. Qualitative research based on the data collection was chosen to verify the efficiency of the aplied physiotherapy. Data was obtained by interviews, observation, analyses of medical records and kinesiology testing. An entering and exit examination, comprised from the set of tests, were performed after the six months therapy to assess changes in the clinical conditions of the patient. These tests allows the therapist to comprehensively evaluate the effect of the rehabilitation on the patients with the central disabilities, particularly on the patients with multiple sclerosis. Tests were selected regarding the clinical signs of the disease. There were examinations done to test the balance, dysmetria, dysdiadochokinesia, scales of postural reactions, walking, muscle strength and spasticity. The test of grabbing ability was done to examinate the light motor skills and goniometry was aplied to determine the joint's range of mobility. The results of the research proven, that the individual physiotherapy employing findings in neurophysiology together with aerobic therapy and other techniques appropriately selected with the respect to the actual complications of the patient has a positive effect on the overall condition of the patient. This bachelor thesis can serve as a theoretical basis for the teaching needs or as an informational source for all, who are interested in the multiple sclerosis disease issue. It can also be an inspiration for physiotherapists on how to proceed in the rehabilitation of patients with multiple sclerosis.
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The self-portrait in the Czech baroque painting
Kacetlová, Miroslava ; Horyna, Martin (referee) ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor)
The se1f-portrait in painting is similar to an autobiography in literature. It is an unique testimony of painter' s life and art, of his desires, fears and whishes. It contains its own typical attributes: brusches, a palette, an easel with a canvas and specific studio clothes as well, which point to the painter's profession. Usually the sitter is in the contact with the viewer with the help of his eyes' sight. The deve10pment of the self-portraiture started in the Renaissance period, when the artist se1f-consciousness of his talent and uniqueness of his art spread. Painters started to offend against giuld rules which tied them. An important break into the obsolete system was the attempt to establish an Academy in Prague in 1709. The main authors ofthe project were the painter Michael Václav Halbax, the sculptor František Preiss and the architect František Maxmilián Kaňka. But their progressive idea broke down in the end. The barock self-portraits in the Czech painting were influenced by the previous period - the era of the emperor Rudolf II. and his great painters for example: Bartholomeus Spranger and Hans von Aachen. I diveded self-portraits into five chapters: the self-portraits alone, the se1f-portraits with attributes, the family self-portraits, the se1f-portraits in narative scenes, the self-portraits...
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SOA Governance
Pršala, Ondřej ; Bruckner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kasal, Jindřich (referee)
The thesis is focused on administration and supervision of Service oriented architecture (SOA). The main idea of SOA is system decomposition to functional units, which contain bounded and well understandable functionality. This functionality, in form of service, is provided to other units through clearly described interface. Well-identified relationships between service provider and service consumer are created. SOA governance aims to manage these relationships, to monitor quality of services and to control adherence of stated rules and policies. These rules and policies are established by central team responsible for integration and architecture development. Starting point of successful architecture development is acquaintance of service portfolio and their inter-relationships. Each service should go through whole formal life-cycle, which particular phases have special policies applied. Main interest is devoted to run-time phase - run-time monitoring and run-time governance. Theory is complemented by practical examples of report generation and service monitoring with SLA adherence observation. The thesis also contains structural model of SOA governance taking into account infrastructural elements of SOA and information flows between them.
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Decoration of Smetana Hall in Municipal House in Prague
Hošek, Petr ; Prahl, Roman (advisor) ; Wittlich, Petr (referee)
This thesis deals with the decoration of Smetana Hall in the Municipal House of Prague, which was built between 1905-1912. The emphasis is based on a complex description of each art work, mailny paintings of Karel Špillar and sculptures of Ladislav Šaloun, which are situated in Smetana Hall; and on position of these art works within the heritage of each artist. First chapters describe the formation of the ideas for the final image of Smetana Hall and in general also of Municipal House. The last part of this text is then devoted to a comparison with other concert halls, reflects contemporary critics on art decoration of the Hall, and also judges the Hall in its century long history.
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On-line learning in real-time environments
Pacovský, Ondřej ; Spier, Emmet (advisor) ; Mrázová, Iveta (referee)
In this work, a novel reinforcement learning algorithm, Stimulus Action Reward Network (SARN), is developed. It is targeted for application in real-time domainswhere the inputs are usually continuous and adaptation must proceed on-line, without separate training periods. Another objective is to minimise the amount of problem-specific teacher(human) input needed for successful application of the algorithm. The SARN architecture combines a connectionist network and scalar reinforcement feedback by employing Hebbian principles. By adapting the network weights, connections are established between stimuli and actions that lead to positive feedback. Since the links between the input stimuli and the actions are formed quite rapidly, it is possible to use a large number of stimuli. This leads to the idea of using recurrent random network (Echo State Network) as a pre-processing layer. Prototype implementation is tested in Unreal 2004 game environment. The comparison with Q-learning shows that on the time scale of tens of seconds to minutes, SARN typically achieves better performance. When coupled with an Echo State Network, SARN requires a uniquely low amount of problem-specific information supplied by the teacher. These features make SARN useful for domains such as autonomous robot control and game AI.
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Architecture in Landscape - Winery
Čermáková, Anna ; Boleslavská, Yvona (referee) ; Urbášková, Hana (advisor)
The building, combining the production of wine, accommodation and restaurant is surrounded by vineyards overlooking the Novomlýnské reservoir and Palava Hills. Part of the proposal are too small constructions in the landscape, which offers its users an added value in the perception of the cultural landscape. The basic idea itself winery is an intersection that connects the four routes, each of which is determined by another user.
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Centre of Culture Brno
Pieleszová, Katarzyna ; Teplý, Vladimír (referee) ; Odvárka, Antonín (advisor) ; Štěpánek, Ladislav (advisor)
The goal of this project is to design a new cultural centre building in the locality Brno-Starý Lískovec, Mikulášovo square. The building site is situated between two separate blocks of flats. The principle of this draft lies in a simple combination of compositional axes. The first axis is the square’s axis of symmetry, the second one represents the distinctive shapes of the built up area from the 60’s and the third one expresses a certain metaphorical axis of the landscape panorama. This connection of lines created material which, after consideration of space requirements of all the workflows and traffic, provided the final shape. The whole object is functionally divided into two parts – the cultural centre itself as the core, and the attached sub-parts. Among the supplemental facilities there are areas dedicated for a cafeteria, a bookshop with artistic theme and an exhibition space. The objective was to create a compact structure which would allow an unlimited movement across those facilities. An important part of the exterior is the façade. The building changes “moods” during the day, the colours and shades change with the sun going down. This idea includes a plan of exterior passage which can guide visitors to the main entrances. The outside areas are designed for relaxation and art.
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Copycats among internet-based companies: Success via imitation
Niklyaev, Ilya ; Lukeš, Martin (advisor) ; Mareš, Jan (referee)
This study is dedicated to providing readers with a holistic overview of the phenomenon of the imitation among internet based companies. Four research questions have been posed and answered through qualitative primary and secondary researches. As a result of this study major success factors that allowed a Berlin - based company Rocket Internet SE to imitate ideas and business models of others have been identified, numerous recommendations have been provided to future copycat companies as well as to companies that face the pressure from such copycats in their day-to-day activities. As an outcome, more transparency has been provided about the processes of imitation in the business environment in order to allow various players to compete more effectively, structure their operations in more efficient way and avoid costly mistakes.
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