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Influence of Selected Factors on Students' Mathematical Literacy in Central European Countries : Secondary Analysis of PISA 2003 Data
Voňková, Hana ; Byčkovský, Petr (advisor) ; Půlpán, Zdeněk (referee) ; Boschek, Petr (referee)
In this work we investigate the impact of selected personal, family and school characteristics on the level of mathematical ability of fifteen year old pupils from 6 countries of the Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Austria and Slovakia) and from countries with excellent results in mathematics (Finland, Hong Kong and the Netherlands). Then we compare the impact of the factors in the individual countries. Much can be concluded from this analysis. The type of school attended by the pupil has a great impact. The maximal difference between type of schools can come up to 40 percentage points in some countries (CR, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). We do not discuss this factor in Finland and Poland, where all fifteen year olds attend one type of school. The results in these countries are therefore determined differently. As for other basic characteristics of the school, the size matters in some countries (Hong Kong and the Netherlands) and has always a positive effect. The urbanization level of the place of the school (the size of the village or city) is also positively correlated with the mathematics result. Here the Netherlands and Germany form an exception. The status of the school (public vs. private), lack of well-educated teachers, equipment of the school and enthousiasm of the...
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Legitimation and professionalization of a Romani NGO in the Czech Repulic
Synková, Hana ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Mušinka, Alexander (referee)
Legitimation and professionalization of a Romani NGO in the Czech Republic Hana Synková This PhD. thesis maps strategies of legitimation and survival of non-governmental organizations working with people that use to be categorized as "socially excluded" or "Roma". It attempts to answer the question: "What NGOs do to be able to look successful, gain resources, and create organizational reputation?" This work does not treat organizations as "things", but as processes and social networks influenced by state and European policies, funding mechanisms and internal competition. Despite the organizations being discursively divided into those preferring more ethnic or social definition of their clients, they have to cope with the same pressures in the shape of social services law, standards of quality or control systems that come with projects. Organizations are far from devoting their time to "work with clients"; they are also involved in enlarging social capital of their members and in production of "texts" that serve their legitimation claims towards control bodies, other organizations and public. In order to research these publicly less visible processes, the authoress uses methods of organizational anthropology - fieldwork inside organization and at many places which are contextually linked to the...
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China as a business partner for Czech companies
Šesták, Jan ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Hinčica, Vít (referee)
The thesis is divided into five main parts. In the introduction the author deals with fundamental analysis describing trade with China. The author describes strenghts and weaknesses of trading with China, choosing the right business partner and preparation of contracts. Furthermore, the author focuses on goods, which is on the Chinese market worth trading as well as on main projects, which are between the Czech Republic and China. In the thesis will be presented also important points of trading, such as mean of transport, market entry or basic iformation about chinese etiquette, which plays a major role. At the end of the thesis, there are two case studies that describe a specific example of trading.
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Consumer protection in banking
Pokorná, Adéla ; Horová, Olga (advisor) ; Bendlová, Veronika (referee)
The significance of personal data protection in the Czech Republic and in other developed countries has been continually increasing. A bank's security system breakdown can cause not only a misuse of the client's personal data but also a financial loss that harms the client and the bank reputation as well. The aim of the thesis is an analysis of the direct banking security and protection means of sensitive data of prime banks on the Czech market. First chapter characterises the consumer protection issues in regard of banking. The second part of the thesis concentrates on the area of direct banking, its forms, possible threats and the particular security tools used by local banks. Last section consists of an analysis of the survey among the banks and their clients.
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A four-part song of modern man: Czech translations of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
Kalandra, Jan ; Kalivodová, Eva (advisor)
This thesis analyzes Czech translations of Walt Whitman's poetry, especially of his central poem, Song of Myself. The main aim of the paper is to provide translation analyses of all four complete Czech translations. Some fragmentary translations are also mentioned, and a basic overview of Czech secondary literature on Whitman's work is provided. The main body of the thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter One describes Whitman's life and work in the context of his time, as portrayed in secondary literature. It concentrates on features reflected in the text of Song of Myself, including literary influences and censorship that influenced the work. It also sets out a hypothesis of possible censorship influences on the single translations. Chapter One continues with a detailed analysis of main structural features of Whitman's poetry, as reflected in Song of Myself. The features are contextualized with the main literary theories of the time and with Whitman's individual aesthetics. The structural features are sorted according to linguistic levels they belong to. This assortment is then used as a framework for the analyses in Chapters Two and Three. Chapter Two provides a detailed analysis of the translations in two selected sections of Song of Myself. The translations are compared to the original and one...
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A four-part song of modern man. Czech translations of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
Kalandra, Jan ; Kalivodová, Eva (advisor) ; Josek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis analyzes Czech translations of Walt Whitman's poetry, especially of his central poem, Song oj Myself. The main aim of the paper is to provide translation analyses of all four complete Czech translations. Some fragmentary translations are also mentioned, and a basic overview of Czech secondary literature on Whitman's work is provided. The main body of the thesis is divided into three chapters. Chapter One describes Whitman's life and work in the context of his time, as portrayed in secondary literature. lt concentrates on features reflected in the text of Song oj Myself, including literary influences and censorship that influenced the work. It also sets out a hypothesis of possible censorship influences on the single translations. Chapter One continues with a detailed analysis of mam structural features of Whitman's poetry, as reflected in Song oj Myself. The features are contextualized with the main literary theories of the time and with Whitman's individua! aesthetics. The structural features are sorted according to linguistic levels they belong to. This assortment is then used as a framework for the analyses in Chapters Two and Three. Chapter Two provides a detailed analysis of the translations in two selected sections of Song oj Myself. The translations are compared to the original and one to...
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Design of Pravčická brána 3D model and its integration with 2.5D TIN terrain model
Brýdl, Ivo ; Brůha, Lukáš (advisor) ; Lysák, Jakub (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to design integrated model containing a three-dimensional representation of Pravčická brána rock arch and 2.5D TIN model of surrounding terrain. Point cloud from airborne lidar measurements has to be classified into ground and non-ground features. The ground points are the basis of the TIN terrain representation. Second part of this thesis is focused on methods for reconstructing 3D surface from given points set retrieved with ground-based lidar measurement. The thesis describes the process of meshing point cloud with Poisson surface reconstruction. Finally, these two models are oriented and translated to real coordinates in order to form integrated hybrid model covering part of České Švýcarsko National Park.
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International conventions and protection of the environment
Pscherová, Kateřina ; Stejskal, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Humlíčková, Petra (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze international environmental agreements. It characterises the process of the making of international environmental agreements, the background in which they are made, the subjects, who take part in the process and generally define the position they have in international law. The focus is to point out their differences from the other international agreements. The second part concentrates on the analyses of the individual agreements, at first the general historical development and then follow the specific groups of agreements, divided by topics with the emphasis on the most important ones.
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Personal web pages of young people
Velíšková, Alena ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (referee) ; Šebesta, Karel (advisor)
Osobní webová stránka je jedním z nových typů textu, zrozených v prostředí počítačové komunikace. Od ostatních typů počítačově zprostředkovaných komunikátů (e-mailu, chatu, blogu) se odlišuje vyšší stálostí, trvalostí, nižší mírou adresnosti vzhledem ke konkrétnímu recipientovi a z ní vyplývajícím nižším potenciálem rozvinutí dialogu. Přestože jsou osobní webové stránky mladých lidí psaným typem komunikátu, pronikají do nich značné prvky z mluvené podoby jazyka. Textům stránek můžeme přisoudit poměrně velkou míru plánovitosti a uspořádanosti, typických pro psané texty. Podobně jako mluvené texty obecně, texty stránek zpracovávají jednodušší, osobnější tematiku, za pomoci jednodušších syntaktických struktur. V textech je patrné vysoké osobní zaujetí mluvčího, projevující se silnou emocionalitou a expresivitou. Existují ovšem další protikladné rysy psaných a mluvených textů, ve kterých texty osobních stránek oscilují mezi oběma póly, a tím i mezi póly psanost-mluvenost. Jedná se o pozici mezi póly veřejnost - soukromost (stránky jsou veřejně přístupné, zároveň však recepce neprobíhá hromadně, předpokládá se jisté "intimní" pouto mezi autorem a recipientem), stálost pomíjivost (oproti ostatním typům počítačem zprostředkovaným komunikátů má text osobní stránky trvalejší platnost, zároveň ale dochází k...
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Emulator for Intelligent Home End Stations
Šutovský, Filip ; Košař, Vlastimil (referee) ; Korček, Pavol (advisor)
This thesis deals with design and implementation of an application emulating end stations in intelligent home system, which are used to measure physical quantities and interact with switches. Application has a comprehensive graphical user interface developed in programming language Java, which allows testing of other system layers and recording of statistical data about emulation contributing to system analysis.
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