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Fossil energy sources: prospects and environmental impacts
Klimov, Andrey ; Matějíček, Luboš (advisor) ; Přibil, Rudolf (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis was to describe the system of fossil fuels as non-renewable energy sources, their overall supply in the World, predictions to the future, and namely their impact on the environment. The work is a literature review, with graphic and map examples. The work focused mainly on sources of petroleum, coal, and natural gas, their total supply, and the time before depletion. From environmental aspects, the work deals with the impact of these energy sources on ecosystems. Problems and risks of the survey, extraction, and transport of fuels are mentioned, and solutions for the future, with regard to environmental protection, discussed. Key words: Fossil fuels, petroleum, coal, natural gas, predictions, environmental impacts.
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Assessing Selected Indicators Using Statistical Methods
Vašková, Helena ; Blaháček, Libor (referee) ; Doubravský, Karel (advisor)
This bachelor thesis deals with an evaluation of economic situation of a company Vašíček – bakery and confectionery, Ltd. Provided data are processed by selected financial analysis indicators, time series and regression analysis. Applying regression analysis, the text provides predictions for selected indicators in the following two years. Furthermore, there is computational and graphical comparison with the performance of a competitor. At the end of the thesis, I provide my own improvement proposals for the company’s current state using the previously ascertained data and its analysis.
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Prediction Markets - Trade Based Mediation
Randus, Tomáš ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kyjonková, Petra (referee)
Prediction Markets -Trade Based Mediation Tomáš Randus Abstract Prediction markets are a collective intelligence, crowdsourcing and gamification based information systems. They organize and validate a wide information imputes into a form suitable for medial purposes. There are a significant number of currently running systems provided by universities, companies and other oganisations. Prediction markets are in detail huge gaming systems with simulated stock market implementations. There are some controversies connected with political and strategic usage of those systems. The rest of usages like show business, sport, medical etc. are legitimate.
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Mobile App with Predictions of e-Sports Matches
Věčorek, David ; Szentandrási, István (referee) ; Herout, Adam (advisor)
E-Sports, also known as progaming (professional gaming) has grown a lot in the last few years. Professional gamers are regularly attending tournaments watched by hundreds of thousands of fans and with prize pools of millions of dollars. There are many video broadcasts of those events and recently betting on e-Sports has also become available. The main goal of this thesis was to create a mobile app for OS Android, which aims to utilize this growth and create a service of providing predictions of results of the e-Sports matches, similar to that existing in regular sports. The application in its current form receives the predictions via Google Cloud Messaging service and shows an Android notification on their arrival. The predictions are then stored on the device into SQLite database so they are available for further view and filtering. After the matches are finished, their results are shown in comparison to the predictions and balance of the predictions is calculated. Users can display information about their subscriptions and predictions under that subscriptions. The app was created in Android Studio IDE with appearance based on the material design guidelines. The app was tested on several devices of different brand and Android version, then it was placed on Google Play for open beta testing. In the future the app will be offered to the users of the service of providing predictions of results of the e-Sports matches.
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Reflections on the Global Order after the End of the Cold War: the Perspective of Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington
Jurásek, Miroslav ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (referee) ; Vlček, Dalibor (referee) ; Gombár, Eduard (referee)
The times coming with the End of the Cold War were very turbulent. Politicians had to take into the consideration lots of scenarios and the next global trends to make correct decisions. Most of the very numerous visions of the future global order followed more or less the twofold pattern: order or anarchy. "The End of History and the Last Man" and "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" written by two prominent American political scientists Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington and published at the beginning of the 90s are the most representative works that fit into this pattern. These provocative and controversial theories have been criticized and empirically challenged by many on one side, on the other side it hasn't impeded others to use them as a starting point for their next analyses. This dissertation thesis is a contribution to the debate between the dissenters and the supporters of these theories from a predictive point of view. Through the research theoretical methodology it is argued that the examined theories are still valid even nowadays because their theoretical essence (or hard core in the Lakatosian research program) has not been refuted yet. Nevertheless, the hard core of the theories determines their very specific character which puts forward the importance of the factors labelled in the Lakatosian framework as an external history of a science. These factors organized according to the Mehtas criteria of so called strong idea are, especially in the social sciences, decisive for how a theoretical construct is accepted in a broader non-academic context. It is demonstrated that both theories fulfill all criteria to be very influential in practice, although the idea of clash of civilizations is even more powerful in this respect. The specific features of all theories are illustrated on two case studies: Union of South American Nations and Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Firstly, the selection of these case studies is justified and secondly, the anomalies in terms of the Lakatosian methodology are identified and then explained. There have been found no unexplainable anomalies, which practically confirms the validity of both research programs on one side, on the other side it facilitates a better assessment of the studied theories in a sense of their interpretative scope and possibilities.
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The road of Brazil to the BRICS countries: present situation and perspectives
Beleščák, Dušan ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; De Castro, Tereza (referee)
This thesis aims to describe the evolution of Brazil until the present day, with emphasis on the second half of the last century and the first decade of this century. Its second objective is to introduce the immense potential within the BRICS countries that resides in their cooperation and willingness to change the current power structure of the world, dominated for so long by the west. In this thesis Brazil is being compared to Russia, China, India and South Africa. These countries are also being compared to some of the important western states. The thesis describes strengths and weaknesses of Brazil and the BRICS group. It also tries to predict the future evolution of these countries and different obstacles that can occur on their way to the awaited prosperity, from internal social unrests to global conflicts.
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