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The Problem of human nature in the conception of pleasure in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Synek, Stanislav ; Špinka, Štěpán (advisor) ; Karfík, Filip (referee)
The essay is trying to reveal the sources of normativity in the Aristotelian conception of pleasure, resp. in general composition of his ethic. The interpretation works mainly with the two treaties of pleasure in the books VII and X of Nicomachean Ethics, but also takes other passages into account. The two main questions are: What is pleasure? What is the good pleasure? To answer these questions the conception of human nature (Pi?Jsis) must be set forth. The essay is trying to show that pleasure itself (hédone) does not allow to establish moral normativity and therefore cannot be acknowledged to be the highest good. The possibility of the difference between "good" and "bad" pleasures appears only with reference to the "object" of pleasure (to hécfy), i.e. with a sort of "stepping out" from solely subjective feeling of pleasure (hédone) to its "objective" content (to hécfy). The normativity itself is established on a specific conception of humanity that is introduced on the key motives of human "task" (ergon) and human nature (P1!Jsis). It shows up that the most important source of normativity is godhood which is represented by reason (logos) in men. The relation between pleasure and the highest good (eudaimonia) alias the actualization (energeia) of man's life in the best way (kat' arete) is ambivalent: on...
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The genus Puccinelia (Parl.) in Western Himalaya
KARÁSEK, Jakub
The aim of this study was found the best characters for determination of six Puccinellia species growing in western Himalaya. The sets of quantitative and qualitative were examined. The best characters for species determination were Lemma apex, glume apex, anthers length. New character the structure of cross section of leaf was examined and found to be good for species determination.
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Using Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Life Insurance Products
SUCHÁŇOVÁ, Markéta
The objective of this bachelor thesis titled Using Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Life Insurance Products is to familiarize the reader with life insurance products, explain the various types of supplemental insurance policies, and then apply the method of multicriteria decision-making on life insurance. The theoretical part of the thesis explains the basic terms related to life insurance. Next the thesis explains the methods that are used to determine weights and ranking. The practical part of the thesis focuses on applying these methods. First, our given client was presented with custom-made life insurance offers from 8 different insurers. The client chose the importance rankings of his individual criteria. Following was the application of the weight-determining methods ? the weighted-sum model, the sorted-weights method, the Fuller method, and the weighted sum model with group-wise assignment of weights. Based on the weights obtained from the weight-sum model with group-wise assignment of weights, ranking methods were used (weighted sum model, WSA, TOPSIS). Based on the resuls obtained from the ranking method, a final rank-based ordering was determined, i.e. the offers were sorted from the best to the worst one. As the best offer turned out the EVOLUCE life insurance policy offered by the Česká podnikatelská pojištovna a.s. insurance company.
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Multi-comparing multimedia live Linux distribution
SEVERA, Tomáš
The goal of this bachelor thesis was to handle a list of current live Linux distributions, and then choose the distributions that are designed to work with multimedia. Then next steps were set of tasks for teaching and working with multimedia and to establish of criteria for evaluating specifically selected live distributions and to choose the best of them. After performing tasks advice which set of applications should be included in the live distribution. Chosen distributions were tested on samples of users, which performed few tasks on selected distributions. All results were statistically evaluated.
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The region, regional policy of the European Union and enlargement 2004
Býma, Petr ; Romancov, Michael (advisor) ; Hnízdo, Bořivoj (referee)
The thesis deals with a region as a basic building unit of the regional policy of the European Union, describing the formation and development of the European regional policy as supranational one and therefore unique on a global scale. With the increasing regional policy budget (this policy being the second most expensive in the Union), the influence of regions proper is growing as well: they are becoming more independent and emancipated. In the running process of globalisation, regions with the highest added value seem to be the best off: innovative regions with qualified labour and a strong connection with the supranational business and information networks. Metropolises, or urban centres, are faring the best in the global competition. The role of these central areas is growing stronger. The task of the regional policy is to balance the differences between these richer, central areas, and peripheral, poorer regions. The enlargement of the European Union by adding ten new member states in 2004 has been accompanied by regional policy reforms as there has been a sharp increase in the number of less developed regions, i.e. those that are entitled to draw upon funds of the European regional policy. Opinions on efficiency of the said policy differ: its proponents see it as the main tool of regional convergence...
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The Prevention of Specific Breakdowns in the Learning of Children with Interruptions in School Attendance
Vesecká, Dana ; Strnadová, Iva (advisor) ; Kropáčková, Jana (referee)
Children's school failures is one of the basic themes of pedagogical and psychological literatuře. Experts realize that remedy of learning faults cannot be oriented only at their expression, but that is necessary to watch chilďs education in the whole and in complexity of the problém. All the signs of the learning failures evoke no success in the pupil and they will project in his school work. They disable him to understand teacheťs instructions, to do ordinary tasks and to work in optimal rate. Unsuccess in the school work project on to chilďs psyche, influence his self-regard, they can evoke feelings of fear and aversion to the school work. Failures in learning influence even the situation in the family of the child. Iťs obvious, that the best remedy of the specifíc learning disability is to prevent them and so the research is recently aiming on the prevention the learning failures in the pre-school age. In this age can be eliminated particular deficits in the evolution of the child, which could be a sign of the start of the learning failure after entering the school. The Knowledge of learning failures' signs and their remedy should come to awareness of the teachers and parents. Teachers and parents who are sufficiently informed about the problém, its matter and the whole prognosis, access the problém...
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Cycling ? History and Analysis of the One Hour Record
Vopálka, Petr ; Šafránek, Jiří (advisor) ; Oponent B, (referee)
Cycling - history and analysis of 1 hour record. Aim: The theme of this work is to record driving for 1 hour, which is the most recognized record in the cycling sport. It aims to give a comprehensive picture of its history and sort out the best Attempts by the rules in force at the time. A method: When the work will be used for research materials available, given the literature and archive Mr. Chad. Record in riding 1hour in Czech literature only partially worked Pacino (1969). A comprehensive review of the official world record was elaborated in the book Velo Rekords (Belgium 1992). Both these publications, however, are outdated and even in one not mentioned Czech record. Since 1992 UCI (International Cycling Federation) twice changed rules for the recognition of the record, the work will be supplemented, organized and updated information on domestic and foreign professional magazines and websites. Keywords: cycling, record hodinovka, velodrome Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Cold adaptation of insects: the role of shock proteins from Hsp family.
ŠTĚTINA, Tomáš
Heat shock proteins (Hsps) form evolutionarily conserved group of proteins that are best known for their unique function in repair of miss folded proteins that would otherwise aggregate in cells during stress conditions. The most extensively studied is the inducible Hsp70. Using 3rd instar larvae of transgene mutant of fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster that lacks all copies of hsp70 gene, we assessed: 1) whether the absence of this gene is deleterious for larvae in their capacity to survive cold stress; and 2) whether any other gene from Hsps family may compensate for the loss of hsp70. We found that 1) survival of cold stress is not altered in Hsp- larvae when compared to wild type Hsp+ larvae; 2) there is no other gene of Hsps family that would compensate for the loss of hsp70 at the level of transcription. Our ongoing effort is focusing on analysis of cold stress response at the protein level.
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Travelling around Vietnam-application of Travelling Salesman Problem
Pham, Thuy Trang ; Dlouhá, Zuzana (advisor) ; Fábry, Jan (referee)
The circular traffic problem, also known as the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) belongs to a group called distribution problems, which is one of the significant group of linear programming. These tasks can be used in many applications areas such as production planning, logistic or travelling. This thesis deals with the application of TSP or its modification to find the optimal route among selected Vietnamese destinations. The aim is to find the best circuit among 20 places out of 37 considering the cost and time. The first chapter concentrates on the general theory of linear programming including the description of economical and mathematical models of the selected distribution problems. The main part of this thesis focuses on The Travelling Salesman Problem itself and its practical application
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Word prediction using language models
Koutný, Michal ; Popel, Martin (advisor) ; Novák, Michal (referee)
The thesis utilizes ngram language models to improve text entry with QWERTY keyboard by the means of word prediction. Related solutions are briedly introduced. Then follows theoretical background for the work. The analysis in the next part divides problems into four tasks: language model training, incorporating model for word prediction, GUI component and evaluation framework. The realization combines Python and C++. The used corpora come from Czech (19\,M words) and (84\,M words) English Wikipedia articles. A small corpus of Czech educative texts was used to test domain adaptation. The quality metrics are defined and various configuration are measured. The best solutions reduced keystrokes per character to 0.44, resp. 0.55 for English, resp. Czech on testing data.
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