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New features and technologies in current and future Invenio versions
Kunčar, Jiří
The aim of this paper is to introduce new features and technologies in upcoming versions of the Invenio software suite. Invenio was originally developed at CERN (Eu- ropean Organization for Nuclear Research) and covers all aspects of digital library management or document repository on the web. We focus on describing improve- ments of full-text search using external ranking tools, multimedia management, cir- culation and holdings module, and new user interface built on top of new technology stack using a Python micro-framework, modern templating engine and powerful SQL toolkit.
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Profitability analysis of vehicles powered by CNG
Milevová, Monica ; Hromádko, Jan (advisor) ; Jindra, Petr (referee)
The purpose of this thesis was first to make a survey of compressed natural gas and its characteristic properties, matters relating to safety, environmental impact, and other issues associated with the use of this fuel. Furthermore, this work also addresses economic analysis of vehicle performance of operating vehicles on compressed natural gas of selected company. A new car fleet was created from the data provided from the selected company. The operational efficiency of compressed natural gas was detected and compared to results with conventional liquid fuels such as automotive gasoline and diesel fuel. Furthermore, the calculation of operating costs was made and the calculated return of investment associated with the use of compressed natural gas to power motor vehicles.
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The explanatory power of the financial statements of the selected company.
ŠVECOVÁ, Vladislava
The objective of the Bachelor thesis is an assessment of the explanatory power of the financial situation of the company TIMAC AGRO CZECH s.r.o. The theoretical part deals with the content, structure and meaning of the individual financial statements. Also contains an overview of the basic techniques of financial analysis with a focus on ratio indicators and analysis of these indicators. In the practical part is first presented to the analysed company. The next part is devoted to the financial analysis for the period 2010 - 2011. The ratios were the profitability indicators applied, activities, indebtedness and liqutidy. A summary assessment of the health of the analysis of the company is in this part of the Bachelor thesis also used Altman Z-score. The final section is devoted to the evaluation of the results of financial analyses and specific recommendations and the influence of presentation of the individual items on the results of the financial analysis.
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Installation and operation of photovoltaic power plant
MERTLÍKOVÁ, Petra
In my dissertation I describe the photovoltaic power plant on the roof a family house, the conditions of connection to the electricity network, the electricity consumption and I state in detail the technical specifications of this solution. Moreover, I give details of price quotation plus estimated quantity of produced electric power. Besides, I pay attention to the investment efficiency. Main part of the dissertation is devoted to the analysis of produced electric power for the period from 1.1.2010 till 31.12.2010 for each quater of the year seperately. The above mentioned study implies that the photovoltaic power plant meets in so far all requirements and the investment should be returned in approximately 9 years. The aim of the dissertation is to judge the photovoltaic power plant with respect to its installation, operation and return on investment.
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Nutrition of athletes with a focus on fitness
Hájková, Eva ; Hučko, Boris (advisor) ; Hroncová, Zuzana (referee)
Nutrition is an important part of everyone's life. The way we eat affects our health and overall physical and mental condition. If we take a balanced and varied diet is a proven link with disease prevention. My thesis deals with nutrition of athletes who are dedicated to fitness. In sports in general, there is a nutritionist great emphasis mainly in terms of the of sports performance. The fitness is no different. Consuming the right foods at the right time can increase our performance, adjust our weight and overall strengthen our health. It is logical that the body of an athlete sets a higher power demand, the amount of nutrients and fluids. It is therefore very important that every athlete had their diet that fits his physical activity. Fitness activities are divided into the power part and the endurance part too. Along with a special diet the athlete can adjust his body, lose the body fat and make better condition. Most fitness athletes wants to acquire and retain muscle mass even during strenuous exercise and reduce body fat to the minimum possible. Without a modified diet and training, they would never reached their dream goal. If the athlete is not able to supply the body with sufficient nutrients from food, it is recommended to enrich your diet with supplements. Before an athlete begins taking a dietary supplement, one should find out what is he really missing, then carefully choose one that will be most suitable for his body. Some supplements help athletes not to lose muscle mass by training, other cause faster regeneration after training.
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Foreign Trade of China
Hoang, Thi Ngoc Thanh ; Maier, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kuzmenko, Elena (referee)
1 Introduction
This research divided into two parts: Literature Review and Practical Part.
The Literature Review is written based on literature on International Trade. This part introduces the main theories and a brief history of Foreign Trade and a brief history of International Trade in the world context.
To begin with, the author explained the Absolute Advantage theory from Adam Smith; the father of the Classical Trade Theory, Comparative Advantage by Ricardo and Heckscher Ohlin theory.
This research also used qualitative and quantitative method approach the practical part with the purpose to find out how important the Foreign Trade effect is to Chinas economy.
2 Keywords
China, Asia, foreign trade, economy growth, international trade
3 Objectives of this thesis
The basic objectives of this thesis is to analyze the foreign trade of China based on the impacts of imports and exports and other indicators. It can be studied via domestic products and free trade agreement made between China and its trading partners. These factors are believed to have explanatory power for China's foreign trade.
4 Methodology
For this thesis methodology, there will be data collected and after that analysed from the source information mainly from the Internet via search engine such as scholarly articles, journals, books from Vietnamese authors and others, trade documents, reports, and several other online academic sources.
This research was also based on quantitative method approach by collecting data from Bureau Statistics of China from 1978 to 2013, there are 27 observations, the unit is 100 million yuan. The main reason to analyse the China growth rate based on the relationship between GDP and Exports-Imports. The GDP and Linear Regression models were created as follow:
Y = a + b*x (1)
Where:
Y: Dependent variable as GDP
X: Independent variable as growth rate (X-M)
a: constant
b: parameter of received growth rate
The model was verified by compared the p-values with significant level alpha = 0.05 to identify the relationship between GDP and China growth rate (X-M).
5 Main Findings
My aim of this thesis is to have the overview about Foreign Trade of China. The reform process can be divided into the following main stages:
1979-1987 Period (period of exploration and trial)
1988-1990 Period (period of transition toward reform in depth)
1991-2001 Period
Over the past 38 years of reform, the Chinese nation experienced many ups and downs, changes; China's economy not only faced difficulties and challenges but also achieved a lot of achievements. That miraculous development of China was due to great efforts of the Chinese people in the cause of building the country with the target of bringing China to gradually integrate with the world economy and gradually become a strong economic power. In the coming years, China will still continue to grow, the economy will be increasingly integrated, becoming an important part of the world economy.
In the practical part, I used the Linear Regression with the help of SAS 7.1 to compute the relationship between GDP and exports-imports, after computing, I got the result as follow: if the GDP increase by 100,000,000 yuan, so that the (X-M) will increase by 2,030,000,000 yuan. For the statistical verification, we compare the p-value with significant level of 5% (alpha = 0.05). In this case, the p-value of (X-M) was 0.0001 lower than 0.05. From the result, the author rejected the hypothesis, and the GDP growth depends on (X-M). In another way the author can say it was statistically significant.
6 Conclusion
After 38 years of reform and opening up, it can be said that China has achieved great successes in economic development, especially foreign trade development. From a country with stagnant and undeveloped foreign trade, China now is a current foreign trade country with powers ranked the 5th largest in the world and, more importantly, in the future, Chinese position in international trade will be enhanced increasingly.
In past years, thanks to China had proper policies and methods were suitable for the foreign trade development so that it achieved such successes such as high achievements as follows:
It can be said that on the way to opening up and reform of foreign trade, China was not necessarily to always get success and achieve many accomplishments. Sometimes, China also faced the mistakes as results of until now it was also not necessarily to achieve as expected. It still existed with a number of problems to continue to be overcome, such as improving the quality of exported goods and foreign trade performance, issues of regional disparities etc.
Through the study of the development experience of Chinese foreign trade, can be realize the State's role in policy-making and overall macroeconomic method-making were very important for Foreign Trade. Moreover, the Chinese government was very flexible in creating and implementing policies although China is a developing country. In fact, China makes foreign trade reform with cautious and solid steps.
7 Reference
Brown Consultancy Service, Theory of International Trade, Brown Consultant
The Silkroad project, The Silkroad and related trade routes
Robert C. Feenstra, Alan M. Taylor, International Trade
Brown Consultancy Service, Theory of International Trade
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nation
Application of strategic mangement, Theory of Absolute Advantage
Charles W. L. Hill, International Business
Swedish economist who wrote his view about International Trade in 1919
Pham Thai Quoc, Chinese process of industrialization in the last 20 years of the twentieth century
Nguyen The Tang, The process of opening the foreign affairs of Republic of China
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Comparison of tractors of power range over 200 kW
Maštalíř, Jakub ; Šařec, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kavka, Miroslav (referee)
The aim of this work is to compare tractors with power over 200 kW, according to selected criteria. The first part deals with the construction of tractors and explanation of the function principle of technologies used in them.
The second part is devoted to the presentation of several selected international tractor manufacturers.
The third part is focused on the comparison of tractors according to specified criteria. There is presented comparative method, description of chosen tractors and the result of my comparison.
In the final part is explanation of the result of comparison and summary of the bachelor thesis.
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Analysis of power generators operating parameters
Kouba, Robert ; Hromádko, Jan (advisor) ; Mařík, Jakub (referee)
The theoretical part of this thesis gives a basic description of construction parts, functions, use and basic division of power generators. Fundamental indicators that play their role in electrical engineering and in the issue of power generators as such are also mentioned. For instance the requirements for the reliability of the electrical energy, or possible defects on the electricity network while using a backup power supply. The historical development of engines has also got its space in the thesis, mainly due to them being the fundamental functional element of mobile power sources. The practical part aims on the choice of a suitable power generator for the canteen building of Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, according to given operating parameters. The power generators have been described with the help of RENTAL company, who is also the provider of said generators. The conclusion shows an economic evaluation of the pros and cons of buying a new power generator or just renting one, and it also describes the estimated evolution of power generators in general.
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Influence of feed restriction on carcass and meat quality
Vacek, František ; Čítek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Vehovský, Karel (referee)
Pig breeding is significant in the Czech Republic. The consumption of pork represents about 41 % of the overall meat consumption per 1 inhabitant. Pig breeding is closely linked with the nutrition of pigs. The nutrition represents about 65 to 75 % of production costs.
The aim of this thesis is to create a literary review on the issue of the influence of nutrition on the quality of pork meat. The work describes generally the nutrients of the feed whose good knowledge is essential for successful pig breeding. The nutrition of livestock, including the pigs, is influenced by various factors. Above all, they are physiological and biochemical, connected with ingestion, digestion, resorption. These nutrients are necessary for keeping all vital functions, with a special regard to the efficiency of livestock.
The slaughter value was also described. It expresses the quantity and quality of the products obtained by processing slaughter stock after its slaughtering in manufacturing industry. It has a decisive influence during the evaluation of slaughter stock purchased and delivered to the slaughterhouses and it also serves as a guideline to the evaluation of success rate of breeding work in the section of pig breeding.
The work also focuses on the meat quality. The quality of pork meat can be defined as a summary of nutritive, sensory, technological and sanitary - toxicology characteristics. The result of strict selection for hig proportion of lean meat (which improves the overall economy of production) is partial deterioration in meat quality. In recent years there is a mounting interest in improving the pork meat quality which nowadays becomes the main consumers´ request. This fact is also caused by increasing economic power of consumers who don´t have to consider only the price any more these days.
The quality of meat is affected by a lot of factors, for example, the nutrition and the related influence of feeding technology. Genetic foundation of the individual is no less important. For the production of pork, refined high-breeds with high conformation are used, which can lead to a reduction in the quality of the meat. Another well-known factor is the impact of gender. Pig fattening is divided according to the gender. Boars use feed better for the creation of muscle in comparison with gilts and barrows. Their chief disadvantage is the boar´s odor of the meat. Barrows have an increased ability to store fat in comparison with gilts, that is why it is recommended to restrict feeding up to 20 % in the final stage of pig fattening. Meat to fat ratio changes as the age and weight increase.
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Recovering of Company's Website
Lang, Michal ; Lohr, Václav (advisor) ; Martin, Martin (referee)
Summary
Small business operating in villages usually face the problem of lack of customers,
especially if they offer luxury products. The budget of such companies is often limited
and therefore they cannot afford an expensive advertising. The company website is one of the few
solutions that can get customers from outside the rural areas and thus create new business
opportunities and increase revenues of such companies. The main goal of the thesis is to attract
customers to a company website and thus help small businesses seeking customers in their difficult
situation. The theoretical part starts with the basics. It describes what systems are suitable for
different kind of web pages and the main part is focused on factors that influence an overall website
performance.
The second part shows how to achieve the stated goal on an example of a small joinery
company Atyp truhlářství Lang. The company is present on the Internet since April, 2009. The
work with a real website allows to compare results before and after the changes implementation.
The practical part starts with an analysis of the original website. It determines strengths and
weaknesses of the web and it provides suggestions for improvement. After this, the academic work
deals with the implementation of suitable factors. The final chapter evaluates the original and new
version of the site and represents how the made changes are reflected in the site traffic.
Keywords
Website design, SEO, on-page factors, off-page factors, CMS, Content Management
Systems, increase site traffic
Objectives and Methodology
The main objective of diploma thesis is to increase the website traffic, its attractiveness for
customers and thus help small companies located in rural areas to get new clients. The first part
helps to achieve the stated goal by dealing with aspects influencing the overall web page
performance and also provide basic knowledge related to the website design. Consequently, the
sub-objective of this part is an identification of factors that significantly affect the site traffic. The
second part aims to apply the gained knowledge on an example web page of small company Atyp
truhlářství which faces a problem of a lack of customers. It starts with the analysis of the original
website that shows its strangeness and weaknesses. This will provide an information about possible
improvements. The part of authors own work aims to implement suitable factors from the
theoretical part into the website design. The objective of the final part is to compare the changes
made with the original design and determine if the new site solution has really improved the number
of visits and its attractiveness for customer.
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The essential information for the masters thesis elaboration were obtained from an analysis
of printed sources as professional books, journals, annual reports and online resources as well.
Statistical data reflecting the original website traffic were extracted from MySQL database. The
new data about number of visitors were already get in friendlier form of Google Analytics outputs.
In addition to that, author also discussed his academic work with website experts and used his own
knowledge acquired during the university studies of information technology.
Results and Conclusion
The website overall performance is greatly influenced by the system on which it operates.
For this reason, the literature review provides an overview about Content Management Systems
and Static Site Generators. There are explained differences between these two approaches to a website design and are given recommendations about what kind of pages are suitable for each
approach. The main part identifies 30 on-page and off-page factors that have a positive or negative
impact on the final website traffic.
The practical part consists an analysis of the examined site. It discovered the following
weaknesses. The positioning is very bad in Search Engine Result Page and it is almost impossible
to find the web without an exact knowledge of the company name or its location. Content can be
considered as extremely poor with overall 279 words only. There were also two technical issues.
The first caused a traffic data loss for the last five years due to exceeding 50MB of MySQL memory
limit. The second was related to plugins deployment that used up the whole PHP memory limit. It
resulted in WordPress strong unstability. The website speed test was disastrous. The small page
size of 762,52kB was loaded for 4,38 seconds. An acceptable result would be less than 2 seconds.
Concerning security, the site did not use secured protocol and the next risk could pose deployed
plugins that are frequent targets of hacker attacks. The used template was not mobile-friendly and
therefore it was difficult to browse the pages on mobile device. In addition to that the graphical
appearance had a low attracting power, it was not able to adequately impress the customers. The
site was visited by an average of 25 people a day in 2011. Furthermore, only 63% of visitors come
from the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, more actual data could not be obtained because of the
data loss. After considering of all mentioned issues above was proposed a complete website
recovery with an implementation of suitable factors from literature review.
The examined website is extremely static without a dynamic content and the frequency of
updates is relatively low. The web pages are managed by a technical contributor and it is the reason
why graphical user interface of CMS is not required. After evaluation of all previous technical,
speed and security issues was selected a static site generator for the website design.
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The important chapter is represented by implementation of suitable factors that should as a complex lead to an increase of a site traffic. First important factor is a content. The original word
count of 279 words was improved to 1809 words which is 7 times more than in the past. Before
writing the articles, an analysis of relevant terms were made. Those terms are included across the
web content. The new articles are meaningful and they provide product details and customer
reviews. Moreover, the content is structured, there are 9 unordered lists included and main titles
are differentiated by importance. Each page has internal links to other subpages. The text clarity
and an inclusion of relevant terms are equal to a better rank of a page. The number of images has
decreased from 112 original images to selected 42 images on the new website. This is because of
a very bad image quality of most old pictures. The high quality images can cause customer interest
for the product, higher time on site and lower bounce rate. Meta descriptions were implemented
individually for each web page with regard to the page content. The new website was accepted by
a certification authority (CA) and the unsecured Hypertext Transfer Protocol was replaced by
Secured Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS). It means the site is trustable and secure for
browsing. There are no plugins used and therefore an attack risk is much lower. The template was
tested on 17 screen resolutions. All tests were successful and the site is fully responsive. Almost
33% of customers use some mobile device to browse a web. The current web eliminates the loss
of visitors coming from mobile devices. Furthermore, Google officially announced that secured
and responsive websites get priority. The site speed test had two rounds. The first test can be
considered as very good. The page load time was 842ms and overall page size was 1.1.MB.
Nevertheless, after the compression of large files the site became even faster. The page size
decreased by 30% to 771,6kB and the final load time speed up by 31% to 580ms. Currently, the
website is faster than 96% of all tested domains which is a perfect score. The adjusted site speed is
7,5 times faster than the original speed. No flash, advertisement or other disruptive elements are
available on the web. The web page is newly available on Google+, Pinterest and Twitter. These
factors are able to boost direct page traffic. The design is clean and simple just to avoid leaving
customers confused. The readability is also very good. Combination of black/blue text on the white
background or white text on the black/blue background doesnt cause any readability issues. Social
buttons and a quick company contact is present on each page in header and footer section. Another
change was made in traffic measurement. The website started to use Google Analytics for tracking
visitors. The actual traffic data are more accurate and the possibility of data loss is reduced.
The main goal of diploma thesis was to improve the website traffic. The web page was
measured from 01.12.2015 to 29.02.2016. The average site traffic was 23,0 visits a day in
December 2015. This number reflects the original site traffic which was around 25 visits a day with
a decrease of 8%. The biggest change in traffic development was found between 08.01.2016 to
13.01.2016 when the average site traffic was 77,2 visits a day. Those changes are explained by an
influence of social media. Author has written a post about Atyp truhlářství on Facebook on 8th
January 2016. The post was shared by 8 people and it attracted many people to visit the website.
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From January 14th to the end of the month, the average daily traffic was 32,3 visits. The last month
was noted slightly higher traffic of 32,6 visits a day. The comparison of data from December 2015
and from February 2016 shows a visible increase in number of visits in February 2016 where the
traffic was higher by 41,7%. There is a positive increasing trend in a number of visits since the
beginning of December 2015. Moreover, majority of visitors 81,3% come from the Czech Republic
and it is a better result than by the original web pages with 62% only.
The recovery of a small joinery website atyptruhlarstvi.cz was successful. It improved the
website traffic and many other aspects as content, speed, security, responsiveness, social media etc.
The web design itself and implemented factors can be considered as crucial elements that influence
the final number of visits. For this reason, the made changes on a web page can really help small
business in rural areas to get new customers. There were also identified factors that affect an overall
website performance with an emphasis on a positive site traffic development. An overview about
different website design approaches is provided as well.
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