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Aurelius Augustinus - controversy between religious and aesthetic experience
PODLAHOVÁ, Kamila
The bachelor thesis concerns with a significant philosophical figure of 4th and 5th century Aurelius Augustinus. It deals with all circumstances, e.g. the childhood or the education, which influenced the thinker and impacted on the development of his thoughts. The thesis follows up his view of art and religion and the controversy between them, which is typical for his philosophical, religious and aesthetical thoughts.
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Possible periodicities in occurrence of wars in Europe during the last 500 years
Střeštík, Jaroslav ; Mikulecký, M.
The occurrence of wars and their regularities are always the subject of investigation for historians. During centuries one can find some relatively quiet periods as well as periods of frequent war conflicts. For a quantitative research special indices have been constructed some time ago, which are done for each year starting 1495 till 1975. In this series some significant periodicities can be found. The most significant appears around 55 years, further ones around 131, 78, and 35 years, and also some periods less significant. No one of them corresponds to significant periods occurring in most heliogeophysical quantities; only for some less significant a similarity can be found. Therefore the correlation with solar activity as well as with mean annual air temperatures is low, though not to be neglected. The similarity is higher for long-term variations than for shortterm fluctuation. During the long-term maximum of solar activity and long-term maximum of air temperatures, which occurs usually simultaneously, a quieter period may be expected.
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Tourism product in tourism infocentre České Budějovice
KRÁLOVÁ, Miroslava
Českobudějovicko is the district situated in Southern Bohemia. Českobudějovicko can be found in the neighbourhood of town České Budějovice. The town was founded by King Přemysl Otakar II. in 1265 on the junction of Vltava and Malše rivers. This city lies in 381 metres above the sea. České Budějovice has population near one hundred thousand. It is a city full of history, magnificent monuments, but it can figure as a commercial, administrative and cultural centre. The České Budějovice district with its almost intact enviroment, its numerous ponds, forests and hills offers many opportunities for a pleasant holiday, hiking and cycling. Visitors can find here a lot of cykloturistic routes so when they decided to see the region from the bike, they are getting to know this region best. The best known sights of České Budějovice are castles, Black tower (it measures 72 meters) or historic Town Hall in the Přemysl Otakar II Square. This square is square-shaped and one hectare large. In the middle of the square is situated the baroque Samson{\crq}s Fountain from the 18th century decorated with a statue of Samson fighting with a lion. If tourists are hungry or thirsty they can wisit a restaurant. Most of today`s restaurants and hotels have a wide tradition, so it is a pleasure to sit down and taste some meal or beer and a half wich is real Bohemian product. The best-known beer in the world is certainly Budvar. When visitors want to know something they can use the tourist information center. The maps, guide books with description of the town or another souvenirs are sold there. People who live there say, that you may tour this district at any time of the year and you will allways find in it a new, still undiscovered, beauty.
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Hedge Funds and Their Impact on Financial Markets
Jeřábek, Tomáš ; Musílek, Petr (advisor) ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (referee) ; Čihák, Petr (referee)
The aim of this PhD thesis is to analyze the history and current situation of hedge funds and assess their potential to destabilize financial markets. The findings of the analysis are used to validate the assumptions underlying the major regulatory changes of hedge funds in the key global economic centres after the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009. Since their inception early last century hedge funds have gone through a period of great expansion in the sixties, followed by a decline due to large losses sustained in the early seventies. The nineties meant a real breakthrough for hedge funds as a result of which they became prominent players in the alternative investment space. As of today, there is over ten thousand hedge funds that globally manage close to 3 trillion US dollars. Compared to mutual funds and other financial institutions the volume of assets under management is still relatively small, the rate of growth over the past fifteen years has however been very significant. What is emphasized with respect to the impact of hedge funds on financial markets is the contribution to increasing the liquidity and efficiency and their role on the financial derivatives market where hedge funds are actively involved in the transfer of risk. They are at the same time subject of criticism for their purported destabilizing effect on financial markets and contribution to fluctuations in the prices of investment instruments. Although the share of hedge funds in triggering major financial crises has not been conclusively established, these investment entities were one of the targets of the wide-ranging regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. The dissertation first discusses the history and current situation of hedge funds and defines the term hedge fund. The following section describes the basic characteristics and principles of their functioning and reviews the regulation in the major domiciles. The final chapter is focused on the empirical analysis of the impact of hedge funds on financial markets. The inputs for this analysis include a global hedge fund index and representative market indices and data from the CFTC on positions in the 10 year US government treasury note futures. In the first step the descriptive statistics for the transformed time series are presented. The second part of the analysis focuses on lagged correlations between returns and volatility of the global hedge fund index and representative market indices. Granger causality tests are applied in the following section to determine the relationships between the returns and volatility of hedge fund and representative market indices. In the final step of the analysis Granger causality tests are used to analyze the link between the changes in positions in the 10-year US treasury note futures held by hedge funds and the change in settlement prices of these futures with the aim to assess whether hedge funds have the capacity to move the market. In conclusion, the results of this analysis are discussed in light of the recent regulatory changes and the potential for the future growth of hedge funds is assessed.
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The construction of collective identity and collective Memory in biographical narratives of Czech Germans
Kreisslová, Sandra ; Pargač, Jan (advisor) ; Nosková, Jana (referee) ; Šatava, Leoš (referee)
The aim of the dissertation is to find answers to questions that are connected to the problems of the construction of ethnic/national identity and related identification signs. This discourse creation of collective identity is analyzed on the basis of biographic texts of the citizens of the Czech Republic who identify with Germans, and remained, after the forced extradition of the German-speaking population, for various reasons in the country of their origin. The research project is, from the territorial point of view, situated in the border region of Chomutov which has been for centuries formed mainly by the German population. Using the biographic method there has been recorded, in the course of the terrain investigation itself, a total of 50 biographic narratives of the representatives of three successive generations of this community. By means of analysis and interpretation of the content of these biographic materials there are primarily captured the collectively shared pictures of the past and important identification attributes by which protagonists of the oldest generation of this community form their ethnic/national identity. In this way it is clarified how the narrators themselves re-construct and re-interpret their subjectively experienced "we", at the same time defining themselves against...
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The Construction of collective identity and collective Memory in biographical narratives of Czech Germans
Kreisslová, Sandra ; Pargač, Jan (advisor) ; Nosková, Jana (referee) ; Šatava, Leoš (referee)
The aim of the dissertation is to find answers to questions that are connected to the problems of the construction of ethnic/national identity and related identification signs. This discourse creation of collective identity is analyzed on the basis of biographic texts of the citizens of the Czech Republic who identify with Germans, and remained, after the forced extradition of the German-speaking population, for various reasons in the country of their origin. The research project is, from the territorial point of view, situated in the border region of Chomutov which has been for centuries formed mainly by the German population. Using the biographic method there has been recorded, in the course of the terrain investigation itself, a total of 50 biographic narratives of the representatives of three successive generations of this community. By means of analysis and interpretation of the content of these biographic materials there are primarily captured the collectively shared pictures of the past and important identification attributes by which protagonists of the oldest generation of this community form their ethnic/national identity. In this way it is clarified how the narrators themselves re-construct and re-interpret their subjectively experienced "we", at the same time defining themselves against...
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The Thangkas - Tibetian Paintings with a Story
Gyaltso, Lenka ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Bělka, Luboš (referee)
Thangkas are Tibetan paintings which can be explained in many different points of view. Their meaning is different for Buddhist practitioners, painters, collecters, arts historians or researchers. This thesis should introduce the variaty of perspectives. The composition of the painting is given by the patron, artist or follows the Buddhist sacred scripts. Preparing the base, drawing, using colour pigments, outlining and doing final details belong to the process done by the master himself or partially by his students or monk or layman helpers. For impowering the thangka for the Buddhist praxis is necessary to do a sacrification ceremony by an educated monk. It is a religious and also social event connected with the painting. Thangkas are then used for the visualisation of figures of the Tibetan pantheon, mostly peaceful and wrathful deities. They are used in the monasteries, temples, home shrines or altars, are part of Buddhist ceremonies and festivals shown to the audience hung on the terraces or carried by the monks. Their vivid topics and colours encharme not only monks and lamas but also laymen. The expression differs according to local schools influenced by artists of Kashimiri, Bengali, Nepalese or Chinese origin. Tibetan painting style was probably created in the second half of 15th century...
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Formation and maintenance the identity of Slovak migrants in the former Hungarian Kingdom from 1711 to present: Case study Báčsky Petrovec
Filadelfi, Samuel ; Chromý, Pavel (referee) ; Jeleček, Leoš (advisor)
The thesis dissertates about Slovak minority in the former Hungarian Kingdom, focusing on the Slovak minority in Báčsky Petrovec. Slovak minority is located in the following countries: Hungary, Serbian Vojvodina, Croatia, Romania. Research is done in four dimensions: the historical-geographic, dimension focussing the current state of the formation and maintenance of Slovak identity and inquiry which was made in Slovak community in Báčsky Petrovec and with Serbs in Novi Sad. The aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of social and cultural situation of the Slovaks in the successor countries of former Hungarian Kingdom, where Slovak immigrants flowed after the defeat of the OttomanEmpire, mainly from 17th to 19th century. Two issues are presented: regions where there was a significant Slovak minority and the situation of the Slovak minority in these regions over time. The most important regions which retain Slovaks to present time are South Backa and South Banat in Vojvodina, Pilis Mountains, Békés county and Beech Mountains in Hungary and Bihor Mountains in Romania. According to the latest census the Slovak nationality in these areas was declared by 96.3 thousand people, but it is not even half of the original number of Slovaks in present area of Hungary a hundred years ago. There was an...
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