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The Rise of Protest Parties in Southern Europe
Třasáková, Irina ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This thesis analyzes the rise of populist parties in southern Europe - italian Five Star Movement, greek SYRIZA and spanish Podemos. The aim is to define the key factors, that contributed to the perception of these protest political formations as political alternatives. The thesis chronologically follows development of examined political parties. Further it defines their strategy in terms of levels of protests and programme. Finally it outlines probable transformations of party systems, which is caused by the rise of protest parties.
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Corruption in Slovakia: The role of non-government organizations in fight against corruption
Böhmová, Dorota ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Smetanková, Daša (referee)
Corruption as a contemporary phenomenon attracts attention of laymen but also experts who are trying to define this notion on the basis of various criterions. The aim of this thesis is to theoretically define corruption as the attendant phenomenon of the current society and to analyze methods of its solution. The studied country is Slovak republic which as a post-communist country shows some specifics. There are many proposed ways how to solve the problem of corruption however this thesis concerns itself primarily with the role of non-government organizations and their ability to actually influence political acts concerned with restricting of corruption possibilities. The intense cooperation among these non-government organizations and especially their cooperation with the government is crucial in order to be able to influence the political agenda. Therefore this thesis deals with this non-government organizations -- government relationship as well.
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English Mysticism in the Late Middle Ages
Kotrlý, Karel ; Hrdlička, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee)
This work can be divided to the two main themes which the first one has a function of introduction this for Central Europe a little exotic theme. First chapters treat of History of England in the Late Middle Ages. I want to present this historical period. from reign of Edward I. to Henry Tudor's victory at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 in its complexity. There is exposition of short political history and every day life of inhabitants in the late medieval England. There is also short exposition of churches history in England and intellectual life and its consequences for spirituality of ordinary men. The main part of the work English Mysticism in the Late Middle Ages I tried to centralize into the historical and theological exposition of the lives and writings of some representative English mystices like Richard Rolle of Hampolle, Walter Hilton and anonymous author of Cloud of Unknowing, as objective as possible presenting the facts which I found in the literature. In the final chapters I dealt with female mysticism in this period. England made the two great female mystics Julian of Norwich who spent her life like anchoress and her Showings of Divine Love is often studied book in nowadays and the pilgrim Margery Kempe with her highly passionate spirituality.
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Effect of taxes on economic growth in developed countries after 1945
Vít, Ondřej ; Ježek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Vebrová, Ludmila (referee)
The most discussed topics in economics is the relationship between economic growth and taxes. The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of different types of taxes on economic growth of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries after World War II. The thesis is based on extended neoclassi-cal growth theory from 1992 by Mankiw - Romer - Weil. Regression Analysis of Panel Da-ta is used as technique for verification of the correlation of economic growth and taxation. The impact of taxation is integrated to the model through its effect on accumulation of physical capital, development of human capital and technology. The source of panel data used in the analyses is statistical databases of OECD, World Bank, Maddison historical data and Penn World Table. For better comparison of the results more different methods of measuring tax burden were used. It was share of tax income on GDP, share of income from different types of taxes on total tax revenue, labor tax and compound tax quota. Results than differ by measurement of tax incidence. It is too complex to set clear recommendation for growth, nevertheless it is obvious, that the goal of economic and political authorities is to shift the tax burden from direct to indirect taxes.
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An analysis of the marketing strategy of the corporation TheRoom on the market of escape games
Valková, Pavla ; Kubálková, Markéta (advisor) ; Topolová, Ivana (referee)
The thesis disserts about marketing strategy of the corporation TheRoom. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the company marketing strategy, its marketing activities on the internet, evaluation and to create a list of opportunities, suggestions and recommendation. The theoretical part is dedicated to general meaning of marketing and other specifications of the classical and internet marketing. Practical part deals with corporate environment, including market and competition analyses. The thesis contexts also analysis of marketing communication, SWOT analysis and analysis of database of TheRooms clients. The contribution of the thesis lies in the complex view on the company, its marketing communication and whole market of escape games, which allows to create a comprehensive opinion about the current position and future develop of the company and this sector.
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Sub-optimal algorithms for solving sliding puzzles
Michalík, Petr ; Surynek, Pavel (advisor) ; Hric, Jan (referee)
Title: Sub-optimal algorithms for solving sliding puzzles Author: Petr Michalík Department: Department of Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Logic Supervisor: RNDr. Pavel Surynek, Ph.D. Supervisor's e-mail address: Pavel.Surynek@mff.cuni.cz In the present work techniques for solving the so-called sliding tiles puzzles, which generate optimal or sub-optimal solution, are studied. This thesis focuses especially on a specific variant of the puzzle: the (n^2-1)-puzzle. This work shows and compares current methods for solving this type of problem. A choosen method is a subject to a close analysis of complexity and is also implemented so that theoretical and experimental results could be confronted. An alternative sub-optimal algorithm is proposed and its theoretical analysis is presented. This algorithm is implemented as well and is compared with the existing algorithm. Both the theoretical analysis and the test results show that better (shorter) solutions can often be obtained using this alternative algorithm.
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Implementace algoritmů pro zpracovaní obrazu na IBM Cell
Klecanda, Václav ; Krajíček, Václav (advisor) ; Skrbek, Miroslav (referee)
This work summarize available information about IBM Cell/B.E. architecture to let the reader create a necessary overview for programming for this architecture. Practical information are based on development of an application that implements nontrivial image processing algorithm, sparse field level set segmentation. Next section contains description of the application development and associated problems solving. The work compares common and Cell B.E. architectures and describes conditions necessary for creation of an effective Cell/B.E. application. The work also contains brief procedure of the most important development tools installation. This procedure has to prepare everything necessary as fast as possible and thus to shorten the duration of the preparation phase to let the reader to start development.
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Decision of a Steel Company Trading with Emissions
Zapletal, F. ; Šmíd, Martin
We formulate a Mean-CVaR decision problem of a production company obliged to cover its CO2 emissions by allowances. Certain amount of the allowances is given to the company for free, the missing/redundant ones have to be bought/sold on a market. To manage their risk, the company can use derivatives on emissions allowances (in particular futures and options), in addition to spot values of allowances. We solve the decision problem for the case of an real-life Czech steel company for different levels of risk aversion and different scenarios of the demand. We show that the necessity of emissions trading generally, and the risk caused by the trading in particular, can influence the production significantly even when the risk is decreased by means of derivatives. The results of the study show that even for low levels of the risk aversion, futures on allowances are optimal to use in order to reduce the risk caused by the emissions trading.
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Vitality in the architectonic environment
Eyer, David ; Horáček, Martin (referee) ; Hudec, Mojmír (referee) ; Kyselka, Mojmír (referee) ; Žabičková, Ivana (advisor)
More and more research studies are being conducted on the quality of architectural space as a factor affecting our mental, social and physical health. In the past, this topic was often overlooked in its complexity. The establishment of the specialized fields of building biology, biophilic architecture and the works of Christopher Alexander and Nikos Salingaros now allow us to consider various facets of this subject. This dissertation aims to analyse the topic of vitality in architectural space by studying the abilities and perceptions of its users. Therefore its aim is not to develop a new theory of “vitality-enhancing architectural space”, but to describe how this phenomenon is perceived by the users themselves. Users can provide feedback on which features of architectural space they see as the most important for the feeling of vitality. These features have been hierarchically organized based on their perceived importance, analysed and described in detail to allow their relatively easy application in practice. This dissertation will also allow a comparison with other existing works on the studied topic.
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The influence of the European union on the world economy
Sabol, Branislav ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; De Castro, Tereza (referee)
This thesis deals with an in-depth analysis of the position and the influence of the European Union within the world economy, as well as within the global economic-political scene. The work is divided into 3 chapters. On the basis of showing the economic development of the European region from the end of the 19th century till present, the first chapter provides an account of the changes that its economy had to face. The following comparison between the present EU-27 and other economic centers provides a complex image of its actual position in the world economy. The second chapter deals with current economic problems that the EU currently has to face and that have impact on its functioning in world. In its last part, the work analyses the importance of the EU in an economic-political context with the example of its position in the International Monetary Fund as a typically international economic-political institution.
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