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"Death, Death, you are always so carving of lives." Mortality and funeral ritual in Cheb in the second half of 19th century
KOLOUCHOVÁ, Jana
The presented thesis deals with the phenomenon of death in the second half of the 19th century using the area around the Cheb town as an example. The source base is made up by information from Christian registers of deaths, prescriptive regulations and tangible evidences. As a main methodological basis the Historical Demography was chosen, but the other approaches were used as a Historical Anthropology and Art History. The most important emphasis was oriented on getting results from statistical research. The index of death issues was researched from several circumstances. Not only the data on approximate life expectancy, infant mortality and seasonal movement was reached, but also the analysis of the causes of death was made with the respect of its German terms. The attention was oriented on infectious diseases, with which the society of the second half of 19th century was afflicted too. The question of spread of epidemics is given into the wider context in the subsequent chapter, which is devoted to influence to prevent the gradual lengthening of life expectancy. The attention was devoted to the analysis of preserved tombstones from the 2nd half of 19th century on the base of fieldwork. The artifacts were assessed from the point of view of artistic representation. The epitaphs were recorded as well for the identification of specific persons. The conclusion of this topic was the thought of vandalism of modern time and the importance of preservation of the testimonial of funeral culture as a proof of high art. The main aim of presented thesis is not only to find out what were the mortality situations of the monitored period, but also the changes of funeral rite influenced by emancipation of bourgeois society. The connection with early modern period tradition of colossal noble funeral ceremony was pointed out. The shift of attention from the deceased to the bereaved was substantiated on the analysis of the preserved tombstones from the second half of 19th century and from the parsing of the funeral announcements in the regional press. The complexity was amplified by the study of lives of the two generations of sculptors from Cheb, who influenced unchangeably the appearance of the local cemetery. Thanks to the language analysis of the term ?the Death? presented on the pages of Glossaries from that time and by the excursion into the folk?s habits connected with the end of life journey of rural population, the issues of Death and funeral ritual were studied from multiple perspectives. For obtaining the complete view, there was necessary to work not only with results of statistics, but also to consider the interdisciplinary approach.
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The role of direct foreign investments in the Russian economy
Karmalkova, Evgeniya ; Sojka, Milan (advisor) ; Cahlík, Tomáš (referee)
Today, the urgency of inflow use of foreign capital investments in the Russian economy is obvious. The aspiration for openness of the economy, increase of the competitiveness of national industries, reestablishment of the confidence in the world market, the participation in the international financial exchange cause the necessity to create conditions for attraction of foreign investments. One of the major problems of reforming and modernization of the Russian economy is the ability to attract foreign direct investments. As considering serious technological gap of the Russian economy in the majority of positions, the foreign capital which could bring new (for Russia) technologies and modem methods of management is simply of utmost importance for Russia. The inflow of foreign capital investments is vitally important for the achievement of such purposes, as a way out from crisis and a basis for initial development of the economy. The Russian public interests cannot always coincide with the interests of foreign investors. It is important to involve capitals in a way that does not deprive their owners of motivations, and at the same time directing actions of investors for the welfare of the public purposes. The aim of my thesis is the complex research of a role of foreign direct investments in the economy of...
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Portfolio Optimization Using Metaheuristics
Haviar, Martin ; Doubravský, Karel (referee) ; Budík, Jan (advisor)
This thesis deals with design and implementation of an investment model, which applies methods of Post-modern portfolio theory. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) metaheuristic was used for portfolio optimization and the parameters were analyzed with several experiments. Johnsons SU distribution was used for estimation of future returns as it proved to be the best of analyzed distributions. The result is software application written in Python, which is tested for stability and performance of model in extreme situations.
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Changes in perception of work
Svatoň, Ondřej ; Petrusek, Miloslav (advisor) ; Mareš, Petr (referee) ; zatím nezjištěn, nerealizuje se (referee)
The concept of work became one of the central ideas in theories focused on the explanation of social processes. It is included in theories of Durkheim, Weber and Marx. Social theories based on the European Christian tradition deal with this substantial problem, too. The nowadays prevailing way of understanding the role of work in society is based mainly on the economic attitude to the social world and we can see this ideological stereotype when reflecting negative impacts of work on the everyday life and on forming human personality. Examples of these attitudes can be found in the contemporary sociological thought. New technologies affect the social perception of both paid work and the "society of work". The diminishing share of routine paid work on the total production of goods and even on offered services can not be explained only in terms of economic theories that assume the rationality of production and consumption. The traditional meritocratic principles are set to question. Changes in the perception of work also affect the perception of wealth that differs in post-modern society and in agricultural or industrial societies. The study aims at proposing new way of explaining social processes by putting stress on connections between labour market, resp. division of labour and distribution of power in...
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The issue of death and its psychological potencial
Ježková, Tereza ; Štětovská, Iva (referee) ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor)
In this study we wanted to explore, if there exists a relationship between spiritual orientation of people and their attitude to death. In the theoretical part, there were this two subjects (spirituality and death) described, explained and related to other important issues (for example: fear of death, the spiritual clime in the modern society, spiritual growth and motivation for the spiritual way of life, spiritual care of dying people etc.). This part discusses three representative kinds of spirituality too - the Christian reigion, the Buddhist spirituality and the "faith of atheists" - especially in their relation to death. In the empirical part we used a modified version of The Test of Colour Semantic Differential to verify that there exists greater integrity between conscious and unconscious dimension of attitude to death among the people with clear-cut spiritual orientation. Howewer, the results of the research haven't made it possible to falsificate the zero hypothesis.
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Veniamin, Ivan Peresvětov, Juraj Križanić in Russia (and historio-cultural context of their works)
Příhoda, Marek ; Svatoň, Vladimír (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee) ; Veber, Václav (referee)
Monk Veniamin (2nd half of the 15th century), Ivan Peresvětov (1st half of the 16 th century) and Juraj Križanić (1617/1618-1683) are remarkable thinkers of the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period. There are several interesting features common to all three of them which make the research of their works in a single monograph well-founded and inspiring. Each of the authors came to the territory of the Moscovian state from a different cultural and linguistic milieu. In each case the moment of their arrival and their stay in the country could be classified as a landmark in the historical and spiritual development of Eastern Europe, accompanied by a revaluation and relativization of the preceding tradition. Monk Veniamin arrived in Novgorod during the final phase of the process of "the collecting of Russian lands" when a fundamental question for the Moscovian society opened - the issue of the Church possession and its potential secularization. Ivan Peresvětov came to Russia at the beginning of the reign of Ivan IV. Vasiljevič in a period of prospective changes; Juraj Križanić on the eve of the reforms initiated by Petr I. Alexejevič. At the point of their arrivals to Russia Veniamin, Peresvětov and Križanić were all well-experienced men with a great intellectual outfit originating beyond the spiritual...
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Using Unity for 3D application development
Roček, Jan ; Brožek, Jiří (advisor) ; Junek, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the development of 3D applications using the Unity 3D multiplatform engine in C# scripting language for the Windows operating system. The theoretical part describes the historical insight into the development of 3D applications and considers the possibilities of modern development tools. There are discussed the pros and cons of available 3D engines. The practical part deals with the development of 3D applications which described in detail the course of development with a final evaluation. The result is a functional 3D game for two players from the isometric view.
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Development of unemployment in Russia
Zaytseva, Alina ; Maitah, Mansoor (advisor) ; Kuzmenko, Elena (referee)
Unemployment is the most important and the most pressing topics of economic and social problems of the modern times, and considered to the second evil of macroeconomics, has a wide range of social and economic negative impacts.
Bachelor thesis Development of unemployment in Russia deals with the assessment of development of unemployment in the Russian Federation after 1991 and the state of the labour market. In the theoretical part are discussed the general context of unemployment as a macroeconomic phenomenon: different labour market models, ways of measuring unemployment and its types. In the practical part place emphasis on the evaluation of unemployment in the Russian Federation for the period 1991-2014: the provision of the specifics of the labour market in Russia since 1991 and is analysed of statistical data related to unemployment.
Unemployment in Russia in the years 1991-2014 was in many ways affected by the changes, which went through the transformation of the Russian economy in the post-Soviet period.
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The ways of enriching the Arabic lexicon with a special respect to journalistic style
Bielický, Viktor ; Oliverius, Jaroslav (referee) ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor)
The present study consists of two parts. The first, theoretical part focuses on brief and mostly lexical characteristics of the Arabic media language style (Chapter 2) and describes in outline all word-formational methods used in Modern Standard Arabic for lexical innovation, especially in the field of scientific and technical vocabulary (Chapter 3), i.e. derivation (ištiqq), lexical borrowing (tacrb), composition (nah t), semantic extension (maz), and translation (tarama). The second part (Chapter 4), based on a digitalized corpus of newspaper texts (Lebanese daily newspaper al-H ayt), deals in detail with word-formational, structural, syntactic, and semantic analysis of selected one-word, compound and multi-word lexical units (collocations) in Modern Standard Arabic. An Arabic-Czech dictionary of all lexical material treated in the text is attached to the study (Appendix).
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Analysis of performance of russian mutual funds
Hofman, Elena ; Musílek, Petr (advisor) ; Baran, Jaroslav (referee)
This thesis is focused on the analysis of performance of chosen russian mutual funds on the basis of achieved yield and risk. After short introduction to the russian market of mutual funds, the paper deals with a theoretical background underlying the performance indicators. Risk perception and following construction of indicators are discussed in detail from the perspective of modern and post-modern portfolio theory. The indicators are interpreted and appropriateness of their application is assessed. The analytic part is devoted to the application of discussed methods on 10 open-ended equity mutual funds. Based on the result, the funds are compared with each other and with selected market index.
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