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Game Theoretic Modelling of the International Relations System
Halás, Matúš ; Drulák, Petr (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee) ; Křivan, Vlastimil (referee)
The thesis models interactions in the system of states. Fundamental research question asked what consequences for success of strategies and prospects of cooperative behavior have particular settings and properties of the system. Thesis includes two features peculiar to international relations that did not appear anywhere else before: (i) determination of interaction occurrence with help of distance and power; and (ii) emergence of (dis)trust out of the previous interactions. The model is based on three elements: agents, environment, and rules. Players interacted in the Hobbesian Prisoner's Dilemma environment as described by realists, but thanks to payoff shift representing emergence of (dis)trust I also formalized constructivist argument of different cultures of anarchy and of mutually constitutive agent-structure relationship. Multi-agent computer simulations set within the abductive reasoning framework were chosen because lack of heterogeneous enough data and impossibility of experiments made this data generating method a necessity. The source code is written in C#. I translated 62 Axelrod's behavioral rules and then added several others that seemed promising. Three new strategies mirroring usual behavior of states were proposed too. To secure robustness of the results, application was run...
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Treasure islands: the economic analysis of tax havens
Filip, Ondřej ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Adam, Tomáš (referee)
Bachelor Thesis Abstract This thesis strives to introduce a wider notion of tax havens. We alter a traditional paradigm by investigating tax havens' influence on economic performance of other countries. The first part of the thesis copes with issues implied by the absence of a suitable tax haven's definition which results in compiling an inclusive list of havens. Subsequently, we present a data-based description of the identified tax havens with an emphasis on several widely-held assertions. The second part delivers an empirical analysis. It illustrates the role of tax havens as financial intermediaries. We examined whether the volumes of capital flows between non-havens and tax havens correspond to the sizes of the counterpart economies and to their mutual distance. Foremost, we found intensified capital flows between tax havens and large non-haven countries in their close proximity. The thesis concludes by a discussion of results.
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Effectiveness of teaching the English passive voice in distance learning at an upper-secondary school
Dobrylovská, Klára ; Mikuláš, Martin (advisor) ; Uličná, Klára (referee)
The diploma thesis investigates the measurable progress in the ability of upper-secondary school students to form and use the passive voice after having been exposed to two online lessons on this grammar item. The theoretical part describes distance education, its varieties, and the tools that are assumed to make it effective. The empirical part of the thesis is based on the analysis of the two online lessons,the analysis of the students' development based on short pre- and post-tests developed to evaluate the students' knowledge, and an interview with two of the students.The thesis will attempt to reach a conclusion on whether there is a measurable development in students' understanding of the subject matter when taught in an online environment.The thesis proved that despite the distance form of education of the two lessons, the acquisitionof the grammar item was successful.
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Analysis and comparison of boxing styles of elite amateur boxers from Cuba and Kazakhstan
Čížek, Jakub ; Zdobinský, Adam (advisor) ; Pavelka, Radim (referee)
Title: Analysis and comparison of boxing styles of elite amateur boxers from Cuba and Kazakhstan Objectives: The main goal of this thesis was to find out whether the frequency of use of punching techniques and the distance from which these punching techniques are used are statistically significant for the style of two the most successful countries in amateur boxing. The countries were compared in the use and success of the strikes and compared to their preference for long or medium combat distance. Methods: The method of quantitative observation was used, in which data was obtained by watching video recordings. Part of the matches was evaluated by recording the results manually on paper, the other part in the BORIS program. All data was then transcribed into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, where it was also processed. The source for the data were publicly available video recordings from top competitions in 2010-2020. Results: Differences between countries in the monitored indicators are insignificant and boxing styles do not differ much. In the frequency of the use of striking techniques between the rounds, a significant difference was found only between the first and second round of the Kazakhs. In the case of determining the preference for long and medium distance combat between the rounds, there...
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Dot product in school mathematics
Krejčí, Veronika ; Halas, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Škorpilová, Martina (referee)
Title: Dot product in school mathematics Author: Veronika Krejčí Department: Department of Mathematics Education Supervisor: Mgr. Halas Zdeněk, DiS., Ph.D., Department of Mathematics Edu- cation Abstract: The theme of the bachelor thesis is the dot product in school mathe- matics. The bachelor thesis is adressed to the teachers, who teach at the secondary school. The first part consist of an analysis of the textbooks, the result of the ana- lysis is the reason to write this bachelor thesis and to build a new introduction to the theme of the dot product. In the second part we build the new introduction. The third and the fourth part consist of application of the dot product. Keywords: dot product, hyperplane, distance, angle 1
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Calibration of Surveillance Camera
Pištělák, Radek ; Hradiš, Michal (referee) ; Herout, Adam (advisor)
This work aims the issue of calibration of cameras, more precisely surveillance cameras, that monitor Ćat areas such as car parks. The calculation is based on several measurements of the same distance over the entire Ąeld of camera view. From the obtained set of measurements, the properties of the camera are calculated so that it is able to measure distances. With this approach, an error of 1.6 % was achieved, which was calculated by substituting back into annotated and unannotated images in the main experiment. The result of the work is a way to calibrate the camera with a view of large spaces, for which other methods of calibration could be difficult.
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