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Conflict minerals and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Kocúnová, Oľga ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Šaroch, Stanislav (referee)
As already the title of the diploma thesis is saying " Conflict minerals and the Democratic republic of Congo" aims at discussing issues around conflict minerals produced in DRC, including illicit trade, exports, smuggling minerals from DRC and committing crimes such as human rights abuses including rapes, sexual violence, executions, forced recruitment, abduction, child work etc. The militarisation mostly in eastern parts of the country leads to escalated conflict, in which rebel groups are warring in order to obtain power and control over rich natural resources in country. Long lasting conflicts, insecurity in the country, failed governance, wide-spread corruption, illegal exploitation of natural resources and of miners as well have reach the level of poverty, economic weakness, as well as political inability to lead the country and control its own natural wealth and prevent from any kind of foreign touch, mostly by armed or rebel groups. This thesis presents measures, which have to be taken in order to mitigate rebel groups power in the country, enhance transparency, remove corruption and exercise due diligence for responsible supply chain and thus strengthen economic and political development as well as human right
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Oceňovanie cenných papierov v ČR a ich vykazovanie
Miškovič, Stanislav ; Procházka, David (advisor)
Cieľom tejto práce je predstaviť čitateľovi problematiku cenných papierov. Práca je členená na kapitoly od I. charakteristiky, ktorá pojednáva o funkcii a všeobecnej definícii cenných papierov, II. členenie, rozdelenie cenných papierov podľa rôznych faktorov, III. oceňovanie podľa účtovných kritérií, IV. vykazovanie podľa účtovných postupov a štandardov, V. medzinárodné porovnanie so štandardmi používanými vo svete.
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Foreign direct investment
Fertaľová, Zuzana ; Doláková, Helena (advisor) ; Tyll, Ladislav (referee)
Thesis analyses FDI flows to 9 of new member states of European Union basicly from other member states. FDI flows are described as a result of investment incetives, economic situation, political situation and atractivity of countries. The main aim is to compare countries FDI flows based on this characteristics.
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Bedtime story and sleep! Regulating the use of television in raising children under 6 years of age
Švecová, Martina ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Bednařík, Petr (referee) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The rigorous thesis "Bedtime story and sleep! Regulating the use of television in raising children under 6 years of age", describes the way and intensity of how parents regulate children's TV viewing. However, since a TV set (as an object) in our households is not the only displaying device and television (as an institution) is not the only broadcaster of television contents, this thesis also includes watching TV programmes on other displaying devices such as computer, tablet, laptop and smartphone, which are connectable to the Internet. The chosen target group are children from 0 to 6 years of age. The thesis is based on two hypotheses. Firstly, parents use TV as a babysitter, and do so for various reasons. The second hypothesis assumes that parents do not pay attention to the time and type of programmes that children watch, even at a very early age when children are most vulnerable. The theoretical part consists of two chapters. The first chapter describes the position and importance of a TV set (as an object), television (as an institution) and television programmes (as watched audiovisual contents) in our households, and deals with the influence of television on the socialisation of the child in the family. The second chapter describes both positive and negative influences of media (television...
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From machine to icon:car in popculture from the 60s
Rybář, Václav ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
An automobile is one of the most important phenomenons of modern technology. Since its origins, it has profoundly shaped our physical, economic, politic, social, cultural and media habitat. The objective of this Master thesis is to analyze the evolution of the role of the car in the popculture from the 60s onwards and its dimensions, with a primary focus on Anglosaxon culture, with excursions to Asia and continental Europe, primarily Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic. The core foundation of the thesis lies in the analysis of the popcultural genres, selected films, TV series, computer games and comic books. The main purpose of the thesis is to reflect upon the identity and conceptual shifts of car, going from a mere transport machine through a vehicle of product placement towards the concept of the icon, a narrative hero of popculture. The hypothesis to verify is that the car has become an essential part of the popculture itself, reflected in many various dimensions: car as a toy, car as a friend, car as a status symbol, car as a narrative extension of the hero and finally, car as a hero and subject. The thesis is divided into five separate chapters, all including case studies. Following an introduction summarizing cultural, economic and historic factors of the car industry, the first chapter describes...
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License Plate Detection and Recognition
Řepka, Michal ; Sochor, Jakub (referee) ; Herout, Adam (advisor)
This paper addresses the problem of object detection and recognition from still images using methods of computer vision. The objects of detection are czech license plates and the goal of this paper was to create an automatic license plate anotation tool. Suggested solution uses edge detection and machine learned cascading classifiers. Created application was then tested on dataset taken by the author.
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O problémech seřazení při řízení servisních operací
Lín, Václav ; Vomlel, Jiří (advisor) ; Jiroušek, Radim (referee) ; Kouba, Zdeněk (referee) ; Ottosen, Thorsten Jorgen (referee)
The subject of the thesis belongs to the field of operations management. We deal with sequencing problems arising when there are multiple repair operations available to fix a broken man-made system and the true cause of the system failure is uncertain. It is assumed that the system is formally described by a probabilistic model, and it is to be repaired by a sequence of troubleshooting operations designed to identify the cause of the malfunction and fix the system. The challenge is to find a course of repair which has minimal expected cost. We study several variants of the problem proposed in the literature. We analyze computational complexity of those variants, apply integer linear programming to one variant of the problem, and examine the relation to machine scheduling.
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Glacial modelation of cirques and stratigraphy of moraines in the High Tatras
Mida, Peter ; Křížek, Marek (advisor) ; Kalvoda, Jan (referee)
The submitted diploma thesis is concerned with the geomorphological analysis of specific landforms in the High Tatras which are the result of its Quaternary mountain glaciation. The traces of the last three glacials (Mindel, Riss and Würm) are well documented in the studied area. The presence of the Early Pleistocene glaciations (Biber, Donau, Günz) is more difficult to prove. The aim of this thesis is 1) to define the rate of glacial shaping of glacial erosional landforms - cirques; 2) to determine the number of glacials or stadial oscillations of glaciers on the basis of relative dating of moraines during the Last Glaciation. A total number of 122 cirques were analysed. Cirques were classified as follows: simple cirque, termination cirque, stepped cirque and highest cirque. Morphometric characteristics that were implemented are consistent with other studies (e. g. Federici & Spagnollo, 2004, García-Ruiz et al., 2000). A degree of glacial overdeepening of a cirque was quantified by use of k coefficient which is derived from k-curve (sensu Haynes, 1968). Value of k coefficient depends on profile location and cirque headwall foot location. Range of values of k coefficient for the cirques in High Tatras is between 0,503 and 1,951. Based on morphometric analysis the northern mountainside cirques are...
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The spread of moisture from sources of Mondi SCP and their impact on the microclimate after the project ECO PLUS - Installation of a new paper machine PM19
Sokol, Zbyněk ; Řezáčová, Daniela
The report summarizes the results of the assessment of the impact of changes in humidity and heat emissions from sources of Mondi SCP for selected climatic characteristics associated with the expansion of production at the new paper machine PS19A. The assessment is based on a comparison of impacts to the existing system resources, including an increase in pulp production (Project 2000), and extended system of resources associated with the operation of PS19A. The results were obtained by applying a mathematical model CT-PLUME/MONDI_R. The calculations were performed for the winter part of the years 2011 to 2014 and included an assessment of the impact of point and diffuse sources on the climatic characteristics of the model area.
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Optimization of Signalling Traffic in IMS Subsystem of NGN Networks
Nagy, Ľuboš ; Orgoň, Miloš (referee) ; Bezpalec, Pavel (referee) ; Novotný, Vít (advisor)
One of causes of increased latency service over the whole IMS network can be unbalanced SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) signalling traffic through CSCF (Call Session Control Function). This thesis is devoted to the proposal of weight-based load balancing algorithm which can be used for the S-CSCF assignment performed by I-CSCF during the initial registration procedure of subscribers over the IMS architecture. The designed mechanism is implemented and evaluated in the mathematical model of IMS subsystem based on single servers with FIFO queues with the unlimited capacity in the numerical computing environment - Matlab. Two test-cases with different performance conditions of available S-CSCFs are described. The influence of measured latency affected by performance of other nodes (e.g. P-CSCF, I-CSCF, HSS, etc.) is minimized. Each of simulated test-cases is measured with various service times of SCSCFs and inter-arrival times. The obtained results of designed algorithm are compared with well-known selection algorithm – the round-robin algorithm. It is shown that new selection mechanism improved the service latency of whole IMS network. The possible weakness of the designed weight-based algorithm is sensitivity to traffic model over the modelled IMS architecture.
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