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Chechnya as Russia's dangerous frontier: On the Nature of Suicide Terrorism
Loginova, Karyna ; Valková, Irena (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
Ever since World War II up to the 80`s the world had not witnessed any form of suicide terrorism. Since then the rate of such attacks have been growing on a global level. Nowadays, suicide terrorism is one of the most researched and still not fully explained syndromes that imposes threat to nations, societies, individuals, groups, governments and other parties. Many studies and analyses focus on determining the reasons and the motives for such acts, including the damages that suicide terrorism causes on global level. There have been multiple variables determined as key factors influencing suicide terrorism, including religion, political occupation, nationalism and many others, yet there is no single answer as to why organizations and/or individuals decide on such radical tactic. Thus, as a modern phenomenon, suicide terrorism triggers the analysis from several perspectives of the individual, organizational and psychological background. This master thesis deals with the case study of Chechen suicide terrorism and its implications in the studies of suicide terrorism. The main focus of the research is on determining main motives and reasons of Chechnya to use suicide bombing against Russia. The analysis uses the Robert Pape's theory on suicide terrorism and done by using qualitative research, with...
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The Theme of Projective Instruction with a view to Phenological Studies and their Use in Natural-Science Classes in Primary Schools
Malá, Jaroslava ; Skýbová, Jana (advisor) ; Řezníček, Jan (referee)
Diese Diplomarbeit heisst "Der Vorschlag der Projektunterricht mit Konzentration auf fenologische Beobachtungen im botanischen Teil des naturwissenschaftlichen Seminars auf der Grundschule". Der Autor schlägt nicht das ganze Projekt vor (der theoretische Teil), sondern er realisiert es auch in Praxis (der praktische Teil). Der detailierte theoretische Teil kennzeichnet die Methode des Projektunterricht als die spezifische moderne Bildungsstrategie im gegenwärtigen Schulwesen. Am Anfang des praktischen Teiles wird eine kleine Forschung angeführt, welche untersucht die Frekvention der fenologischen Beobachtungen im Seminarinhalt mit naturwissenschaftlichen Spezialisierung auf auserlesenen Pragischen und Mittelböhmischen Schulen. Das Projekt besteht aus einigen Teilen, welche füllen die Schüller aus während einem Kalenderjahr in dem naturwissenschaftlichen Seminar. Die Schüller stellen selbst ein Kvadratnetz her, mit dem sie ein Territorium 2 mal 2 Meter abgrenzen. Einmal in jeder Jahreszeit beobachten sie dann in diesem Gebiet die durch Klima und Wetter verursachte Naturänderungen. Ihre Arbeit wird nach den Arbeitsblättern geführt, die der Lehrer vorbereitet hat. Ausser Naturbeobachtung müssen die Schüller aber auch andere Fähigkeiten und Geschicklichkeiten beweisen (manuelle, organisatorische, soziale...)....
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Algorithmic Trading Using Twitter Data
Kříž, Jakub ; Plchot, Oldřich (referee) ; Szőke, Igor (advisor)
This master's thesis describes creation of prediction system. This system predicts future market development based on stock exchange data and twitter messages analysis. Tweets from two different sources are analysed by mood dictionaries or via recurrent neural networks. This analysis results and technical analysis of stock exchange data results are used in multilayer neural network for prediction. A business strategy is created and tested based on results of this prediction. Design and implementation of prediction system is described in this thesis. This system achieved revenue increase more than 25 % of some business strategies by tweets analysis. However this improvement applies for certain data and timeframe.
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Gradient Boosting Machine and Artificial Neural Networks in R and H2O
Sabo, Juraj ; Bašta, Milan (advisor) ; Plašil, Miroslav (referee)
Artificial neural networks are fascinating machine learning algorithms. They used to be considered unreliable and computationally very expensive. Now it is known that modern neural networks can be quite useful, but their computational expensiveness unfortunately remains. Statistical boosting is considered to be one of the most important machine learning ideas. It is based on an ensemble of weak models that together create a powerful learning system. The goal of this thesis is the comparison of these machine learning models on three use cases. The first use case deals with modeling the probability of burglary in the city of Chicago. The second use case is the typical example of customer churn prediction in telecommunication industry and the last use case is related to the problematic of the computer vision. The second goal of this thesis is to introduce an open-source machine learning platform called H2O. It includes, among other things, an interface for R and it is designed to run in standalone mode or on Hadoop. The thesis also includes the introduction into an open-source software library Apache Hadoop that allows for distributed processing of big data. Concretely into its open-source distribution Hortonworks Data Platform.
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Party System Formation in Russia - a tendency to monocentrism
Gutsul, Yulia ; Prorok, Vladimír (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee) ; Iličeva, Ludmila (referee)
Research of process of forming of party system of Russia at the present stage acquires special relevance that is caused by changes of a political regime. Change of nature of a political regime, sharpening of personalistic, unicentric lines has caused search of a new format of party system which would minimize possibility of instability of a political regime and became the effective mechanism of maintenance of the status quo. Main goal of dissertation research is studying of forming of a tendency to a monotsentrichnost in development of party system of the modern Russian Federation. Hypotheses which have proved to be true have been formulated: forming of unicentric party system when using strategy of a party creation of the power and its positioning in political space I became reaction of political elite of Russia to a situation of democratic transit and manifestation of its pragmatical interests.
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Autonomy of Man and the Narrative Understanding of Bioethics
Šípová, Karolína ; Ovečka, Libor (advisor) ; Lorman, Jaroslav (referee)
My work is a critical view of a modern principle of personal autonomy and an idea of autonomous man, which stems from philosophy of liberalism. The practice of personal autonomy in bioetics, which takes over the features of this political concept and does not comprise a metaphysical question about a man seems to empty a concept of humanity. My work tries to turn attentation to this problem and show the difficulties of personal autonomy when presented from the secular point of view. I want to offer then the concept of narrative ethics as a vision of supplementing the concept of modern principal bioetics.
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Cryptographic modules for network protection
Tenora, Lukáš ; Pust, Radim (referee) ; Zeman, Václav (advisor)
This work deals with virtual private network (VPN) and authentication. The first section gives the modern cryptographic methods, the work of dealing with problems of authentication and authentication of objects and the issue of VPN. The second part describes the implementation of its own secure network-based technology company SafeNet.
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Šlechtitelský potenciál historických odrůd jádrovin
Reichlová, Petra
Modern varieties of pome-fruit lost during breeding some important properties, such as resistance to pathogens or tolerance to worse climatic conditions. Therefore, attention of breeders turns to some old varieties and landraces, which lost its market significance, but which can still offer a wide range of properties useful in breeding of new varieties. The apple breeding aims are focused on locating and obtaining donors of genes for resistance to Venturia inaequalis (causingapple scab), Podosphaera leucotricha (powdery mildew), Erwinia amylovora (fire blight) and Candidatus Phytoplasma mali (apple proliferation). Pear breedingis focused on finding a suitable donors of resistance to Venturia pirina (pear scab), Gymnosporangium sabinae (pear rust), Erwinia amylovora (fire blight). Landraces (local varieties) were often grown under the severe climatic conditions. Over the years they get their adaptability for the environment conditions. Adaptation to these conditions, especially resistance to frost, are one of the characteristics used in breeding.
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Subject-Author-Self-Portrait
Machajová, Dana ; Pospiszyl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bendová, Helena (referee)
The focus of my bachelor´s thesis is aimed at the connection of the functions of self-representation in arts during different periods in the history to philosophical concepts of the subject and concepts of the author. The anonymous creator of art (which was always socially legitimated) was replaced by the author brought to light with the birth of the modern subject. The ?mirror picture? of oneself in the other´s eyes is for the subject the essential constituting moment. Modern subject is above all ruling entity with all powers to control its representation and material world around. What happens to the subject when the logical modernist structures start to fall apart? Postmodern subject loses its contours and it becomes matter or the construct of a certain context. How is this connected to the invention of photography and the rise of masmedia and its machinery? And what will happen with the subject today, when everyone can have one´s own communication channel on the internet?
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The Phenomenon of Ancient Roman Armies in Modern Media
Kratochvil, Tomáš ; Putna, Martin (advisor) ; Tuček, Jan (referee)
Armáda starověkého Říma je natolik významným a dějinotvorným fenoménem, že stojí za to porovnat hmotné a písemné prameny antiky s představou, jakou si o ní v současné době může vytvořit laik na základě sledování filmů, hraní počítačových her a zkušenosti se skupinami antického historického šermu. Kritickým zhodnocením vybraných audiovizuálních děl jsme dospěli k závěru, že v porovnání se šedesátými léty dvacátého století kladou tvůrci větší důraz na správnou rekonstrukci historických detailů, ačkoli stále platí řada zjednodušujících a zavádějících klišé.
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