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Know yourself: write yourself! Queer subjects and the constructions of gender and sexual identity at the turn of the 19th century
Kolářová, Kateřina ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Mergenthal, Silvia (referee) ; Schülting, Sabine (referee)
1 Kateřina Kolářová Department of English and American Studies Anglo-American Literary Studies (English Resumé) Know Yourself: Write Yourself! Queer Subjects and the Constructions of Gender and Sexual Identity at the Turn of the 19th Century The thesis examines the normative structures that shape and pre-determine the construction of the gender and sexual identities at the turn of the nineteenth century in the British context. The focus of the study is the critical investigation of the binary - heteronormative - logic that governs the formation of these identities. The concern with gender intelligibility (and the "matrix of intelligibility") reflects the thesis's critical engagement with the technology that subjects the possibilities of identification, and in fact forms of subjectivity, to logic of specific governance. The second overarching concern of the thesis represents the attempt to encompass the diversity of the practices that the individual queer selves devise in the process of self-writing and making sense of themselves. Bringing together three diverse case studies - based upon the autobiographic texts of John Addington Symonds (1840-93), 'Michael Field' [Katherine Bradley (1849-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)], and Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) - the thesis explores the strategies of (gendered)...
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Customs duties in EU and in Ukraine
Ternovoy, Ivan ; Boháč, Radim (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
Resume The submitted thesis deals with customs as an instrument of custom tarrif regulation in European Union and in the Ukraine. This thesis defines in detail customs tariff regulation from prospective of financial and custom law in both legal systems. It further represents the views of the main principles of customs regulation, defines customs tarrif, its basic elements and types, and also compares legislation in the Ukraine and in European Union. The legal sources in the field of customs tarrif regulation valid for both in the Ukraine and in European Union are also stated. The main part of the work is dealing with the Community Customs Code, Code's implementing provisions (Commision Regulation No 2454/93), Common Customs tariff of the EU, which is the external tariff applied to products imported into the European Union, and Combined Nomenclature as the tariff and statistical nomenclature of the Customs Union. The Ukrainian Customs tariff Act and the Ukrainian Clasification of Comodities in foreign trade contain the comodity nomenclature of foreign trade. The last part of the thesis deals with value of goods and contry of origin of goods. I describe here the definition of value of goods and methods of its assessment in Ukraine and European Union. The valid law in both legislative systems use four methods...
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Professional requalification in Prague as a form of active employment policy
Klepačová, Klára ; Adámek, Petr (advisor) ; Dobrylovský, Jiří (referee)
This bachelor thesis is concerned with the development of unemployment in the Czech Republic and the display of the types of unemployment in Prague. Hereinafter, I mention the use of financial resources of the structural funds of the European Union and I analyse functioning of professional requalification as one of the instrument of the active employment policy. Considering that the Czech labour market faces high quantity of unemployed people older than 50 years, I introduce a project which was aimed at making these people's return to work easy. I also highlight current drawbacks of the Czech labour market and I propose suggestions on improvement.
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Environmetal insurance as one of instrument of the environmental protection policy
Bílková, Jana ; Hadrabová, Alena (advisor) ; Dvořák, Antonín (referee)
This thesis deals with the internalization instrument and with one of the form of provision and compensation of environmental damage, with the environmental insurance. It focuses on the development of this insurance, on the risk assesment, on the determination of premium and on the existing limitations in the insurance contract. The main problem is devoted to the analysis of the Czech insurance market and especially to the compulsory insurance of a major accident. By interrogation of firms and insurance companies, it evaluates a volontary access of the insurance contract conclusion. I try to show that the state intervation don't have to be so well-founded in this domain, because firms are willing to insure volontary and insurance companies are able to offer volontary insurance too. Free decision making of firms would be better and would lead to more effective solution than the state regulation.
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The Impact of the Implementation of the Wall Construction on the Building Construction Cost
Dvořák, Luboš ; Kocourková, Gabriela (referee) ; Krejza, Zdeněk (advisor)
The first theoretical part of the thesis quotes different types of prices and methods of pricing, including the international pricing standards. The second theoretical part deals with history of civil engineering, sorts of building structure and their construction. The practical part of the thesis examines 6 variants of vertical building structures considering their prices, thickness of walling masonry and overall coefficient of heat transfer. Every structures cover description of their construction inclusive making reference to pros and cons. The outcome of each structure is presented in graphs. At the end of the thesis, one particular building material is chosen as the best, in accordance with the criterion hereinbefore.
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Analysis of a Transportation System
Petržílka, Radek ; Černý, Jan (advisor) ; Lukšů, Vladimír (referee)
The presented Bachelor thesis is focused on a logistic sector of a chosen enterprise. It solves primarily the problem of transportation and forwarding. Based on identifiable data, it focuses on the analysis of chosen factors from logistics. The thesis makes full use of available information. Golem Company has been chosen for the analysis of a transportation system. It is a company with a well-built hinterland and specializes primarily in transportation of goods using road freight service. The solved factor is the analysis of variants for foreign trips. It describes the way drivers are used to their full capacity, possible saving of time, the AETR contract. Another logistic factor solved in this thesis is an analysis of a correct decision-making. Organizational incorporation of logistics takes the first place in this firm.
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Essays on Monetary Integration, Inflation, and Trade Competitiveness in Transition Countries
Uzagalieva, Ainura ; Cukrowski, Jacek (advisor) ; Fischer, Manfred (referee) ; Ratfai, Attila (referee)
This dissertation contains three essays focused on macroeconomic issues in the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS). The aim of the first essay is to analyze the possible impact of planned monetary integration on public sector revenues from seigniorage in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. Using the concept of total gross seigniorage, the main sources and uses of the central bank revenues in these countries is investigated. Special attention is given to the role of seigniorage revenues in financing public sector expenditures. Amounts of yearly transfers from central banks to the state budget in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia are evaluated, and the size of potential gains and losses in seigniorage revenues under different scenarios of monetary integration are estimated. The second paper focuses on the question of how labor market regulations can affect a country's competitive position in international trade and international trade patterns. The analysis shows that differences in labor market flexibility between countries affect their competitive positions in international markets and can serve as an independent cause of international trade. It is argued that an increase in labor market flexibility may change the relative price of goods within the country making it more competitive in international...
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IN ATTENDANCE OF PUBLIC..analysis of public discussion about the transport policy of city district Prague 6
Ptáčková, Kateřina ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Illner, Michal (referee)
Using the instruments of discourse analysis these master theses intend to explore, what is the core of the transport policy discussion in Prague, what are the main sources and discourses forming it. The discussion on the transport policy in one of the Prague city district's is used not only for the analysis of the transport base of the discussion but also as the illustration of forming the public discussion in general. The analysis focuses on the roles of two main groups of collective actors of public decision-making - elected politicians (local authority) and NGOs. Discourse is in analysis understood in the Foucault's view as the practices which form the objects of which they speak and do not speak. With reference to Fairclough it concentrates also on the specific role of individual actors. The analysis indicates that the main sources of the good transport solution are their suitable transport funcioning, evironmental assets and public support. First two sources are discussed in the first part of the thesis. The public support source is discused in the second part of analysis, dealing with the democratic discourse. The democratic discourse is identified as the framing discourse of the public discussion in general. Public participation and deliberation are considered both by politicians and NGOs to be...
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PPP projects - error or rational solutions to problems of financing public sector projects
Suchánek, Michal ; Ševčík, Miroslav (advisor) ; Loužek, Marek (referee)
The Diploma thesis is dealing with the usage of the private-public partnerships in the form of PPP projects. The main aim of this work is an evaluation of the PPP method whilst providing the public good as one of the main tools of financial projects from the public sectors. The thesis is briefly introducing the principles of public sector, its role and functions along with securing public good and their financing. The first part discusses the history of PPP projects, its characteristics and typology, as well as various advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional public contract model. The analytical part is dedicated to the implementation of the private projects and to public partnership in Czech Republic. The pilot projects are the D3 motorway and judicial complex in Usti nad Labem. Foreign projects are represented by M1/M15 motorway in Hungary and its comparison with the D3 motorway. The main section of the analytical part then focuses onto the analysis of the PPP projects, in terms of their effectiveness, financial aspects and the overall merits. In particular, a critical stance on the subject guarantees its objective evaluation. The conclusion of the thesis is evaluated whether it has indeed an effective method as it's sometimes called.
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Curse or Blessing: natural resources and economic growth - comparison of the development of Botswana, Nigeria, Norway and Canada in early 21st century
Zubíková, Adéla ; Chytil, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Zeman, Karel (referee)
This thesis seeks to verify the concept of so-called resource curse at the beginning of the new millennium. The theoretical part defines the symptoms of the alleged curse, curse transmission channels and criticism of the concept. Compared to other studies dealing with the theme of the resource curse this work is not focused on just one transmission channel. The practical part verifies several hypotheses established by comparing research papers on impacts of natural resources. The validity of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, Dutch disease symptoms and a negative impact on political institutions (inclination toward authoritarianism, high level of corruption, high government spending, low efficiency of economic and political decision-making and low investment in education) is verified. For the analysis have been selected two African countries (Nigeria and Botswana) and two advanced countries (Canada and Norway). The last part of this thesis provides policy implications. The results confirm the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis for selected commodities in the long term and some of the symptoms of Dutch disease at the beginning of the new millennium. Hypotheses regarding the impact on the political institutions have not been confirmed, since the results varied across the countries. The high vulnerability of the countries to movements in commodity prices was found.
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