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French holocaust literature: testimonies on (not) experienced
Machovská, Veronika ; Jamek, Václav (referee) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor)
The World War II represents a huge turning point in the modern history of humankind. Its particularity, which consists first of all in the system of concentration camps and the genocide of Jewish people, caused the creation of a new literary genre - the Holocaust literature. The objective of this thesis is to present this specific genre, its origins and evolution in France, as well as its most important French authors. The first part of the thesis tries to elucidate some of the particular aspects of this literature. It speaks not only about the influence of history and evolution of the postwar society on this genre or about questions that are closely associated with it, but also about the difficulty to define the holocaust literature itself. From a number of definitions that exist, we have chosen for the purposes of this thesis the one that includes all the texts on the concentration camps and the Holocaust (even the fictional ones) under the condition that they have an artistic, literary quality. The second part of the thesis presents an overview of the evolution of the French Holocaust literature and its writers. We speak about the authors of the first generation (mostly the survivors, for example Robert Antelme, David Rousset, Elie Wiesel or Charlotte Delbo) as well as about the authors of the second...
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Tests of motor operarators for low voltage circuit-breakers
Mlynář, Zdeněk ; Polák, Jiří (referee) ; Valenta, Jiří (advisor)
Nowadays increasing demands for energy, safe use and automation in modern systems. The last two mentioned areas can now be relatively easily done using low voltage circuit breakers, along with accessories. The main element is a motor operator of circuit breaker that can operate fully automatically. But that could be the motor operator together with a circuit breaker is sold, it is necessary to fulfill a number of requirements. This work deals with their summarization, partitioning and sequential treatment of individual tests that are necessary for motor operator or required by customers.
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Business cycles convergence between eurozone and the new EU member states
Janeček, Daniel ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Jiránková, Martina (referee)
The paper examines the degree of convergence between the business cycles of the new EU member states and eurozone. This convergence is a necessary condition for a troublefree operation of a monetary union. Several analyses have been used to assess the problem -- pure time series correlation, correlation of detrended time series and of lagged series, and above all impulse-response functions correlation and forecast error variance decomposition. Finally, the paper briefly assesses the evolution of business cycles convergence.
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Volume measurement in 3D data
Krajíček, Václav ; Felkel, Petr (referee) ; Pelikán, Josef (advisor)
Medical diagnostics using computed tomography or magnetic resonance is a common part of complex medical checkup for a long time. These devices produce vast volumes of data, which must be analyzed by an expert physician. There is a big space for utilising computers to aid medical diagnosis, or visualization. This work aims to measure volume of a specific organ in the human body, like kidneys or spleen. To measure volume of the organ it is necessary to reconstruct the object from three-dimensional data. Reconstruction is based on segmentation of the image data, which separates reconstructed organs from the background. The task of segmentation is specially adapted to this kind of data, which are, from specimen to specimen, characterized by big similarity in common shape, but also by big heterogeneity in tiny details. Deformable models were chosen as a primary tool for the segmentation of three-dimensional volumes. They are also the main topic of this work. Programs measuring volume in medical data exist, but thanks to increasing performance of modern computers it is possible to implement new algorithms, which are not present in today's software tools. The result of this work is a system which segments and measures volume in medical data. We also perform benchmarks, which expose an error of the measurement with...
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Volume measurement in 3D data
Krajíček, Václav
Medical diagnostics using computed tomography or magnetic resonance is a common part of complex medical checkup for a long time. These devices produce vast volumes of data, which must be analyzed by an expert physician. There is a big space for utilising computers to aid medical diagnosis, or visualization. This work aims to measure volume of a specific organ in the human body, like kidneys or spleen. To measure volume of the organ it is necessary to reconstruct the object from three-dimensional data. Reconstruction is based on segmentation of the image data, which separates reconstructed organs from the background. The task of segmentation is specially adapted to this kind of data, which are, from specimen to specimen, characterized by big similarity in common shape, but also by big heterogeneity in tiny details. Deformable models were chosen as a primary tool for the segmentation of three-dimensional volumes. They are also the main topic of this work. Programs measuring volume in medical data exist, but thanks to increasing performance of modern computers it is possible to implement new algorithms, which are not present in today's software tools. The result of this work is a system which segments and measures volume in medical data. We also perform benchmarks, which expose an error of the measurement with...
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Formation and evolution of dynamical binaries
Pavlík, Václav ; Šubr, Ladislav (advisor) ; Heyrovský, David (referee)
The aim of this work is the study of hard binary stars in the star cluster and their time of life before they crossed the energetic boundary, which separates the soft and hard binaries. We used our own method of identification of binary stars within the model of star cluster which is based on the given positions, velocities and masses of stars. This method uses three main criteria -- the proximity of two stars, the time that this pair was found together and negative total energy. The results that we obtained using our algorithm helped us to determie more precise boundary between the hard and soft binary than the analytical estimates based on the evaluation of the typical kinetic energy of the free stars within the cluster. We also studied the lifetime of the binaries before they become hard and we reached a correspondence with the results of Tanikawa et al. (2011), who studied similar topic. Due to a large set of numerical realizations, which we analysed, we got better statistics than previous works. We also found that the examined lifetime of binaries seems to be represented by exponential distribution. For better analysis of this distribution it would be necessary to use about five times higher time resolution than we worked with.
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Forms of electronic money
Malík, Jan ; Rydzi, Daniel (advisor) ; Zaoral, Ondřej (referee)
The intention of this work is to supply compact overview of most used forms of electronic money from the user's point of view. These forms represent kinds of products of payment methods available in the Czech Republic. First part contains facts about the evolution of bank cards in the whole world and about their short history in the Czech Republic. The work explains dif-ferences of various card types in two ways: type of record and the way, how the transaction is carried to account. Next part is focused on payment terminals from merchant angle of view. It contains real data of terminal payment records in a small shop. Based on this real-world example, there are costs necessary for maintaining of the terminal stated. At the end there are on-line payment options available on the Czech internet described. This information can help both e-shop's customers and e-shop itself.
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Origins of vertebrate hematiopoiesis
Svoboda, Ondřej ; Bartůněk, Petr (advisor) ; Divoký, Vladimír (referee) ; Živný, Jan (referee)
(ENGLISH) Hematopoiesis is dependent on the actions of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). This process is tightly controlled through a complex array of extrinsic and intrinsic factors. Even though the hematopoiesis seems to be well conserved across the disparate vertebrate animals, erythroid and thrombocytic differentiation have changed during the evolution of mammals. Specifically, adult mammalian red blood cells have the unique feature of being enucleated, and mammalian thrombocytes are not individual cells, but fragments of megakaryocytes, instead. It is likely that these enhancements provided a survival advantage to early mammalian species; however, they also bring up the question of evolutionary origin of these cells that studied using zebrafish (Danio rerio) model. First, it was necessary to generate a toolbox of a recombinant cytokines and optimized culture media that allowed us to manipulate zebrafish hematopoietic cells ex vivo in liquid and clonal cultures. Interestingly, teleost species underwent an extra duplication event during their evolution and as a result, two copies (paralogs) of some of the genes are present in zebrafish. This was also the case for majority of the cytokines from our toolbox and here, we provide functional characterization of these paralogs. Strikingly, our results...
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Bertolt Brecht Galileo's life (possibilities of B. Breht in contemporary theatre)
Ďurik, Andrej ; Dušek, Jan (advisor) ; Glogr, Karel (referee)
In my thesis I endeavoured to document the development of the view of Brecht?s works in our countries. It means mapping the interpretation attempts in the Czech Republic, coping with Brecht?s theoretical work, and last but not least with Brecht as a political man with social feeling due to what he remained many times miscomprehended. It is certain that the history mentions a large-minded, talented, educated personality, a strongly up to self-destructively hard-working one. On the one hand, he is artistically sensitive and fine, however, on the other hand he is a disintegrated and a very complicated person. In the course of time, I came to the conclusion that it is likely impossible to fully join a Brecht theoretician and a Brecht dramatist, while the theory of epic theatre significantly hungers for a formal aspect though on the other hand, it seems to fail to conform to ease and poetry of his dramas. It is important to say that Bertolt Brecht was practically a communist during all his life in a complicated period. His relationship to communism was developing and it can be learned that this relationship had undergone a long way from enthusiasm up to full disillusion. That is why this fact appears in my thesis; it is a statement, a truth about a great artist and a truth about the view and contemporary interpretations in our countries where he was quoted and belauded, as necessary.
At staging, it is impossible to consider all aspects of Brecht personality. It is good since it leaves space for a man, one can be both Brecht a bit and also himself. It provides ?space? while showing a human being in his complicacy, it is as a search in the human soul and mind. He does not psychologize, he just states, shows a human being in particular situations including his behaviour, and at the end all these situations make a whole picture about us and about our period. Therefore, we can say that Bertolt Brecht is a great author of great dramas with timeless themes. His characters reflect contemporary people. As if nothing has changed, just the time is perceived in a bit different way, it oscillates and befogs our perception, with decoding matters becoming more difficult for us but with the essence remaining the same as before. His dramas are interesting as for formal aspect, they are ?up-to-date? providing space also for an experiment. They may serve as a formal reflection, the beauty of speech for itself.
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Time going to the work and work injuries
ŘEŽÁBKOVÁ, Jana
Commuting is regular travelling between one?s place of residence and the place of work. A lot of us surely remember our grandmothers and grandfathers talking keenly how they used to go to work to a farm, weaving factory, distillery and further facilities. It used to be usual that people had jobs at distances they could walk. On the other hand nowadays it is quite normal that some people have their places of work tens of kilometres from their homes and they have to commute by various means of transport, get up early in the morning and return late in the evening. Technical evolution has made transport faster but it also brought longer distances to travel to work. Commuting is particularly necessary at places with imbalance between supply of and demand for jobs. About one third of inhabitants commute in the Czech Republic and the travel costs represent approximately ten per cent of family budgets. People that spend more time travelling to work are wrong tempered, they are tired and stressed by commuting and occupational accidents occur as a subsequence of these factors. The aim of the Thesis ??Commuting time and workplace accidents?q was to discover what the average commuting time was and whether commuting affected the health condition of a human. Another aim was to find out how frequent workplace accidents were and how consistent employees were in reporting workplace accidents. 5 hypotheses were set to reach the aim. A quantitative method of questionnaire survey was applied on the research; the data were collected from commuting employees of a health facility, a school and a manufacturing company and compared. The data analyses did not prove that commuting caused health problems, so the hypothesis No. 1 was refuted. The second hypothesis suggesting that people from villages spend more time commuting than those living in towns was confirmed. Another hypothesis that each employee has suffered from a workplace accident was on the other hand refuted. The fourth hypothesis suggesting that fatigue, bad concentration, insomnia as a subsequence of commutation cause workplace accidents was also refuted. The last hypothesis suggesting that employees often do not inform their employers on their workplace accidents was also refuted. The Bachelor Thesis may improve knowledge of the time spent by commuting to work and subsequent occurrence of workplace accidents. The manual designed proposes preventive measures against workplace accidents and brings information in this field.
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