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Trading on Internet Auctions
Obůrková, Markéta ; Sedláček, Jiří (advisor) ; Slaba, Jiří (referee)
Diploma thesis entitled Trading on Internet Auctions deals with the analysis and comparison of important international and Czech internet auctions. Under examination are not only important auctions in terms of number of users, but also those that surpass other interesting business solutions and innovative thinking. The diploma thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter, entitled Establishment and Development of e-commerce describes the most important events and milestones for the development of e-commerce and the subsequent emergence of online auctions. The second chapter is specifically devoted to the analysis and comparison of foreign auction sites. The third chapter focused attention on the Czech auction sites, including the legal aspects that are related to trading on internet auctions. The whole thesis ends by conclusion and evaluation of reaching the given object.
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Psychology of love letters
Kuldová, Michaela ; Klusák, Miroslav (referee) ; Kučera, Miloš (advisor)
The thesis deals with love letters. They are approached from the point of relationship problems, communication pragmatics, and aesthetic literary writing. It is supposed that letters mediate contact between physically absent partners. Writers present solution of interpersonal questions in their letters, they think about their characters, abilities and appearance, they develop ideas about a partner. A feedback from a partner enables own self-cognition as well. Self-cognition manifests itself by means of stylization of a writer in letters. Stylization can be idealized in an effort to interest a partner at first. Hereafter, it enables sincerity and openness in an intimate relationship. Writers use a certain procedures or steps in order to achieve their intentions. These procedures are called communicative strategies and they manifest itself in the final version of a letter. Love letters are instrumental in creation of a relationship. Thus, they are written with the intention to please, endear, influence a partner, and eventually influence his/her attitudes. Therefore, writers attract attention to them and display themselves in the best way. They act on the basis of their own ideas concerning what could interest a partner and what is their stylization focused on. When considering a letter as a literary...
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Artists and resilience
Lorencová, Tatiana ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This master thesis offers a comparison of the characteristics of resilience, concrete hardiness, Sense of Coherence, and traits of creativity between a population of artists (composers) and a normal population. Along with it, it considers the possibility that higher creativity may correlate with higher resilience. The thesis is questioning the opinion of majority, that artists are weaker than normal population, when facing stressful event. The research shows, that artists are equal with normal population in resilience, and even stronger in characteristics of the "challenge" in concept of hardiness. The research also proves the correlation of resilience with some elements of creativity.
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Theme of a character and an actor's tools. King Basilio and characters during studies
Horák, Jan ; Mrkvička, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kudláčková, Jana (referee)
At the very beginning there were a lot of impressions, explosions of inspirations and ideas and I wished to write them down and to share them. I am leaving the school full of fresh experiences and this diploma work is an opportunity for me to judge my activity in DAMU, to recall some moments, to organize them and to give names to these experiences, which remind in my memory in a form of feelings and impressions.
I will go chronologically through each period of my studding, describe my work on the received tasks in view of actor's tools and themes of characters. Sometimes I will stop, once because of a new idea, once because of problems, that I had to get through.
"I am coming to confess to you" - Those are the very first verses of king Basilio, my final role. I wish this diploma work, would be nothing more.
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Volunteering as a possible supplement to nurse's professional activity in infant's and children's homes
Kukačková, Markéta ; Štětovská, Iva (referee) ; Šulová, Lenka (advisor)
Volunteering in Infants' homes is quite a new area of volunteering in the Czech Republic and is slowly developing. The aim of the present study was to introduce and evaluate one concrete example of a volunteer program in the Infants' and Childrens' home for children up to three years in Prague - Krč. This program was started four years ago and its main idea is to find one volunteer for each child in the home who would visit the child regularly at least once a week and who would pay him individua! attention. So every child can ha ve at least for a while o ne adult person only for himself and doesn 't have to share that person' s attention with other children. We were interested in the opinions of volunteers and nurses about this · new program. These two independent groups are the main participants and also observers of this kind of volunteering, so their opinions are important for evaluating the program and also for creating a functional methodology. This methodology is the outcome of this diploma thesis, and could be an inspiration for other similar institutions. Nurses and volunteers agree, that the relationship between child and volunteer develops with regular visits. This can be observed mainly in the behaviour of toddlers older than one year. The children usually look forward to their volunteer's visit,...
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The Olympic Games - phenomenon of tourism
Grynovetská, Valeriya ; Vaško, Martin (advisor) ; Valentová, Jana (referee)
The idea of staging the Olympic Games is getting into many cities all over the world. In recent years the idea has also got into the quite small country from the middle of Europe -- the Czech Republic. And that is why the right time is coming, in order that citizens of this country could find out advantages and disadvantages that are brought by this event of grandiose extents. The aim of this bachelor thesis is objective assessment and analysis of the whole period influenced by staging of the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games and presentation of this complex analysis to the public. For the achievement of this aim there are used especially facts and experiences from the previous Summer Olympic Games starting with the year 2000.
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Management of exceptional events
Řehořová, Jitka ; Holmerová, Iva (advisor) ; Válková, Monika (referee)
Management of exceptional events should be an integral part of increasing quality in every health care center. In provision of health care there are and there inevitably will be mistakes made from different reasons. Therefore, safe health care should be a priority of every health care facility. Exceptional events may vary between different wards and it is important for the middle management to know there sorts and numbers. The goal of my thesis is to map the different kinds and numbers of exceptional events in our hospital, city hospital in Jablonec nad Nisou. I also want to emphasize that careful tracking of exceptional events is possible only in the climate of safety at every ward. By knowing the kinds and numbers of exceptional events it is possible to reduce or ideally eliminate them.
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Lean production in company Benteler CR s.r.o.
Caletková, Iva ; Plášková, Alena (advisor) ; Baše, Miroslav (referee)
Intention of this work is to introdukce ideas of lean enterprise in general but also on concrete example of company BENTELER, ČR s.r.o. and take a think on influences and difficulties. Dissertation is divided into theoretical part which describing basic methods and principles of lean enterprise and practical part. In practical part I am introducing company BENTELER, ČR s.r.o. and actions to establish lean production on concrete example in plant Chrastava.
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Ritualization of death and dying in the Revolution of 1848: the cult of the dead
Randák, Jan ; Hlavačka, Milan (advisor) ; Řepa, Milan (referee) ; Kořalka, Jiří (referee)
Looking apart from subsidiary topics, the presented thesis generally attempts to take a non-traditional view of the subject of the revolutionary year of 1848. While a vast majority of the existing research has been focused on the course of the revolution, particular political camps and leaders of the contemporary movement, I have put emphasis on a phenomenon seemingly concealed and disregarded. My attention was aimed on the dead, the victims of the events of this hectic period. Death as such has indeed been a traditional interest of historians, nevertheless, reception and reflection thereof in a political or rather a revolutionary context is a fairly less regarded subject. Therefore, I have laid out an indeed concrete topíc in my thesis - ritualisation of death and dying during the revolution of 1848. A simple question is apparent: why study this subject of the dead and victims in the Czech context when no major fights occured here and thus the number of fatalities was not extreme? After reading my thesis the answer com es up as obviously as the question does: despite a relatively low body count of the Pentecost events in June 1848, a cult of the dead and victims of the revolution 1848 is present in the course of the few restless months. The cult of the dead was a sophisticated means of using the victims to...
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On-line learning in real-time environments
Pacovský, Ondřej ; Spier, Emmet (advisor) ; Mrázová, Iveta (referee)
In this work, a novel reinforcement learning algorithm, Stimulus Action Reward Network (SARN), is developed. It is targeted for application in real-time domainswhere the inputs are usually continuous and adaptation must proceed on-line, without separate training periods. Another objective is to minimise the amount of problem-specific teacher(human) input needed for successful application of the algorithm. The SARN architecture combines a connectionist network and scalar reinforcement feedback by employing Hebbian principles. By adapting the network weights, connections are established between stimuli and actions that lead to positive feedback. Since the links between the input stimuli and the actions are formed quite rapidly, it is possible to use a large number of stimuli. This leads to the idea of using recurrent random network (Echo State Network) as a pre-processing layer. Prototype implementation is tested in Unreal 2004 game environment. The comparison with Q-learning shows that on the time scale of tens of seconds to minutes, SARN typically achieves better performance. When coupled with an Echo State Network, SARN requires a uniquely low amount of problem-specific information supplied by the teacher. These features make SARN useful for domains such as autonomous robot control and game AI.
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