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AIDS and polygamy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pokorný, Jiří ; Verchuša, Kateřina (referee) ; Chytilová, Julie (advisor)
The objective of this work is to contribute to understanding the relationship between AIDS, polygamy and the economic performance of a country or of an individual by analyzing and discussing some particular questions, and by adding some new ideas to existing theories. The first part is theoretical, largely devoted to AIDS and it's influence on the economy. The second part is a microeconomic statistical analysis, which tries to find what are the characteristics of polygamous men and women, and what is the relationship between polygamy and AIDS. It shows that polygamous households are relatively more wealthy and that the men's motivation to have more wives is probably wanting to have lots of children. Then it was found that polygamy brings higher risk of being infected by AIDS, because of polygamous husbands being more often unfaithful. The conclusion is that families having the best outlook are probably those with a polygamous and faithful husband. Such families will be wealthy and will have many children.
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Landscape in Roelant Savery's work and his significance for Czech painting
Švrčinová, Šárka ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (advisor) ; Nespěšná Hamsíková, Magdaléna (referee)
Anotattion: Landscape in Roelant Savery's work and his significance for czech painting Roelant Savery is one of the most famous landscape painters, who came from Flanders where was experienced in Paul Bril's and above all in Brughels's work and his brother Jakob. Rudolf II. the Emperor was deeply interested in Savery's style of painting, for that reason he deceded to invite him to Prague, where he appeared in 1604 and lived there to draw and paint landscapes behind Prague usually, where found out wild nature, that influenced the theme of his works. He also attended to picturesque but veritable Prague rutes and houses. Thanks to him were made several drawings with waterfalls, rocks and virgin Alps. During early Baroque period landscape painting wasn't so usual, because requirements changed and landscape had to recede into the background. There prevail figural motive, both We can find in the work of Matyáš Mayer, Jan Jiří Hering, Jan Jiří Heinsch. Realism is also obvious for Karel Škréta. Famous was also Václav Hollar thanks to his cityscapes. Michal Leopold Willmann and his mythic figure Orfeus inspired Václav Vavřinec Reiner also. In 18. century Hartmanns' family works was making up landscapes in historical style, similar to Jan Brueghel and Roelant Savery mainly. We can admire animals by Wenzel Peter, who...
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Variability of Execution Environments for Component-based Systems
Malohlava, Michal ; Bureš, Tomáš (advisor) ; Racek, Stanislav (referee) ; Duchien, Laurence (referee)
Reuse is considered as one of the most crucial software engineering concerns. It allows for delivering software systems faster with less effort. Therefore, the thesis explores limits of reuse in the context of component systems. It analyzes in depth contemporary component systems, finds their commonalities and variation points, and introduces a meta-component system -- a software product line which allows for producing a tailored component system based on a set of requirements. The thesis addresses the meta-component system definition and focuses on its crucial aspects which play the key role in component systems preparation- (1) a configurable execution environment and (2) generation of implementation artifacts. To address the first aspect, the thesis proposes a model-driven method for creating configurable execution environments. Motivated by creating execution environments, the thesis contributes to (2) by introducing a notion of domain-specific languages interoperability in the context of the code generation. Furthermore, the thesis elaborates the proposed notion resulting into a family of interoperable domain-specific languages which is parametrized by a general purpose language.
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The Selection of Swimming School by Parents
Preiszlerová, Soňa ; Jurák, Daniel (advisor) ; Čechovská, Irena (referee)
Title: The parent's choice of baby club/swimming school The aim of the thesis: The aim of the thesis was to find out, how main parents reasons makes for login to baby club or swimming school. What attracts parents to teach their children to swim and you expect from this sport. Method: We used a qualitative questionnaire established for parents' children's, who attend to baby clubs or swimming schools. Results: The research examined whether the parents left, then swimming lessons positive relationship to water, whether the parents themselves swimmers. The results of the second part of the questionnaire shows that the most common reason to sign children into the baby club and swimming schools were for health reasons, to improve physical development and resilience of children to the outside environment (hardiness). Among other reasons, children log into the baby clubs or swimming sections were included fear of drowning, swimming as a lifelong activity and movement most responses were "I like the movement of the child in the water." Keywords: swimming, swimming school, baby clubs, baby "swimming", motivation, family
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Female marijuana users
Šlégrová, Petra ; Podaná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hamplová, Dana (referee)
This thesis focuses on specifics of marijuana use among teenage girls. Marijuana use is widely spread among young people and still considered deliquent. In the first part of thesis theories of girl's delinquency are summarized, followed by social control theory by Travis Hirschi on which the analytical part of thesis is based on. The last part completes the information obtained with new findings from qualitative research. The aim of this thesis is to study social situation of girl users, their family background, leisure time, motivation in using marijuana with interpretation of benefits and negatives of marijuana use. Obtained findings are compared with findings about marijuana boy users and non-users.
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Suffix Array for Large Alphabet
Šesták, Radovan ; Senft, Martin (referee) ; Lánský, Jan (advisor)
Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) [3] is used as the major part in block compression which has good balance of speed and compression ratio. Suffix arrays are used in the coding phase of BWT and we focus on creating them for alphabet larger than 2^8 symbols. The motivation for this work has been software project XBW[4] - an application for compression of large XML files. The role of BWT is to reorder input before applying other algorithms. We describe and implement three families of algorithms for encoding. First is inspired by the work of Sadakane [10] and further improved by Larsson [8]. Second family includes algorithm by Seward [11] and algorithm by Itoh further improved by Kao [5]. Finally we present algorithm by Kärkkäinen and Sanders [6] for constructing suffix arrays in linear time.
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Psychological issues of studies abroad subjective experience of living abroad of the Erasmus program students
Dokulilová, Denisa ; Šípek, Jiří (referee) ; Morgensternová, Monika (advisor)
The study presents a psychological view of studies abroad. W e investigated topics such as motivation to study abroad, adaptation and re-adaptation, self-concept changes, changes in partnership and family relations, and especially subjectively perceived changes in attitudes, value orientation and prejudices. We focus on students of the Charles University of Prague, who had been studying abroad (program Erasmus) in the academic year 2003/2004. We use qualitative methodology of research - semi structured interview and technique of unfinished sentences. Our objective was to find some practical conclusions that could be used for preparation of people who plan to study abroad.
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The Portrayal and Self-Image of Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye
FIBINGEROVÁ, Aneta
The aim of the thesis is to analyze the two possible views on Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger?s The Catcher in the Rye ? his self-image and his portrayal. The self-image discussion will be based on Holden?s own perception of himself (with his statements and fantasies being the source of information), while the portrayal will be analyzed from more objective point of view. The focus of the portrayal will be the discussion of Holden?s motivation and the influence of his attitude and his family on the situation he finds himself in.
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Theory and Practice with Children with Specific Needs
Morávková, Simona ; Pokorná, Věra (advisor) ; Michalová, Zdena (referee)
Bad succes of children is one of the most common topics of pedagogical and psychological literature in all the civilizated countries. Since sixties experts hav realised that the remedy oťall kinds of defects shouldn't be orientated only on children's behaviour, but on their globál condition. This should be an importatnt turnaround. Since then vve don't use a term: "disorder", byt vve ťocus on iťs solution itselť. For example vvhat to do vvhen a pupil switches letters while vvriting, has problems with reading, or even is difficult to control, cheats, steals things. My essay could be a kong of motivation to give the children more time, trying to get to knovv them better. The most imortatnt thing is chilďs sociál situation and iťs position in group, family, school. We should also try to fing out its way of communication. Iťs neccesary to communicate with a pupil as an individual.
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Supporting families in the context of current demographic trends in the Czech Republic
Kupková, Vendula ; Kaczor, Pavel (advisor) ; Sedláková, Jaroslava (referee)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the demographic trends in the Czech Republic, on explanation of the principal demographic terms, on comparison of trends in the Czech Republic with neighboring countries and it shows the predictions of demographic trends for the future. It also analyse the benefits for families, what types of the support exists in the Czech Republic and it compares this support with other countries. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the support for families in the Czech republic, find some imperfections and try to recommend some solutions how to motivate families to have children. The other aim of the thesis is to find some economic and social risks by the analysis of the historical demographic trends.
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