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The Legacy of the Composers of Holy Minimalism
Christou, Marios ; Nedělka, Michal (advisor) ; Pecháček, Stanislav (referee) ; Riedlbauch, Václav (referee)
This dissertation is a result of the author's great interest in contemporary music and especially musical "styles" known as "Holy minimalism", "New simplicity", etc. In a way, this work is an extension of my master thesis that dealt with the music of Arvo Pärt which only deepened my interest for this kind of music. Here I also deal with the music of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki whose name very often appears beside that of Arvo Pärt's and he is usually characterized as his Polish counterpart. As a student of the Pedagogical Faculty of the Charles University I realize that the music education students of this university are not familiar with the musical output of the post-modern era, a fact that means that they will not be able to teach anything about contemporary music in their role of music teachers. Undoubtedly, the music of the second half of the 20th century and 21s1 century is an integral part of the history of music and I strongly believe that it has a very high artistic value. Consequently, it is essential that pedagogues know and understand this music. This is the main reason for choosing this topic. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Rethinking the Animal: Post-Humanist Tendencies in (Post) Modern Literature
Gridneva, Yana ; Vichnar, David (advisor) ; Procházka, Martin (referee)
This thesis posits post-humanism as a philosophy that engages directly with the problem of anthropocentrism and is concerned primarily with the metaphysics of subjectivity. It studies five literary texts (James Joyce's Ulysses, Virginia Woolf's Flush, Djuna Barnes' Nightwood, Brigid Brophy's Hackenfeller's Ape and J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons) that challenge the humanistic or classical subject through critical engagement with what this subject traditionally saw as its antithesis - the animal. These texts contest various fixed assumptions about animality and disrupt the status-quo of the human. Breaking with the tradition that treats animals exclusively as a metaphor for the human, they attempt to see and understand animality outside the framework of anthropocentric suppositions. This project aims to describe the strategies these texts employ to conceptualize animality as well as the methods they apply to delineate its subversive potential and to disrupt the human- animal binary. Its theoretical framework combines the work of thinkers belonging to the new but thriving field of Animal Studies with the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It is this project's great ambition to contribute towards the development of new post- humanist ethics defined by its...
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Advanced Robot Path Planning (RRT)
Knispel, Lukáš ; Kuba,, Martin (referee) ; Matoušek, Radomil (advisor)
Tato diplomová práce práce se zabývá plánováním cesty všesměrového mobilního robotu pomocí algoritmu RRT (Rapidly-exploring Random Tree – Rychle rostoucí náhodný strom). Teoretická část popisuje základní algoritmy plánování cesty a prezentuje bližší pohled na RRT a jeho potenciál. Praktická část práce řeší návrh a tvorbu v zásadě multiplatformní C++ aplikace v prostředí Windows 7 za použití aplikačního frameworku Qt 4.8.0, která implementuje pokročilé RRT algoritmy s parametrizovatelným řešičem a speciálním dávkovým režimem. Tento mód slouží k testování efektivnosti nastavení řešiče pro dané úlohy a je založen na post-processingu a vizualizaci výstupu měřených úloh pomocí jazyka Python. Vypočtené cesty mohou být vylepšeny pomocí zkracovacích algoritmů a výsledná trajektorie odeslána do pohonů Maxon Compact Drive všesměrové mobilní platformy pomocí CANopen. Aplikace klade důraz na moderní grafické uživatelské rozhraní se spolehlivým a výkonným 2D grafickým engine.
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Horizons
Horáčková, Alena ; Kornatovský, Jiří (advisor) ; Hůla, Zdenek (referee)
In the first part conceivable interpretation of the term, which is written more serious and argumentative tone, we view the horizon in several stops, which are based primarily on theories of art and Philosophy and carry the wave of post-modern methodology in style Umberto Eco. Didactic of DP indicates possible use as a theme for the term hours of art education, two of these ideas were implemented at Red Hill Primary School and are further detailed. In the end I tried to enter into a theoretical problem and evaluate show some benefits for my work. The practical part of the thesis is a series of paintings and drawings incurred in the last five years, and bear in themselves the poetic approach horitontu on a line that clearly separates our sometimes mundane lived world and spirituality, and sometimes disappear again behind a tangle of "objects" in which the But still somehow present.
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Portfolio Optimization Using Metaheuristics
Haviar, Martin ; Doubravský, Karel (referee) ; Budík, Jan (advisor)
This thesis deals with design and implementation of an investment model, which applies methods of Post-modern portfolio theory. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) metaheuristic was used for portfolio optimization and the parameters were analyzed with several experiments. Johnsons SU distribution was used for estimation of future returns as it proved to be the best of analyzed distributions. The result is software application written in Python, which is tested for stability and performance of model in extreme situations.
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Psychological care design concept for cardiocenter
Voldřichová, Ilona ; Kořán, Martin (referee) ; Kebza, Vladimír (referee)
in English My thesis is focused on integration of diagnostic and terapeutic methods of clinical psychology into the concept of contemporary cardiology. Modern medicine consider not only somatic aspects of patient's ilness, but also the aspects of personalitie's diferencies and needs. Psychologist applies the knowledge of psychological theories and psychophysiological mechanisms into the field of clinical diagnostic and treatment thinking about the individual patient. (A) Psychologic treatment of in-patients involves: (1) Crisis intervention (KI), i.e. treatment of the patients with urgent psychological difficulties. Cisis intervention presents the most indicated type of intervention in in-patiet's psychological treatment. (2) Pre-operative psychological care before recent cardiothoracic surgical intervention reduces patient's distress in pre-operational and post-operational period. (3) Individual approach to problematic personalities can significantly improve cooperation with medical staff. (B) Specific psychological problems of cardiac out-patients involves: (1) Depressive disorder developes after the frustating exposure of medical problems. (2) Cardiologists are the most visited professionals by the patients suffering from panic anxiety disorder. The reason is, that the panic anxiety symptoms...
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Nursing care of Pacients after spine surgery
TAKÁCSOVÁ, Alena
The title of my thesis is Nursing care after spinal surgery. The number of patients with problems of different parts of the spine is growing as well as indications to operational solutions. This is due to society trends and a greater load on the body. Therefore operational procedures requiring specific nursing procedures for treatment in the early post-operative period increase. The thesis highlights the issue of specific nursing care for patients with various diseases and parts of spine. It points out that there is no universal measurement of nursing care for different types of operations on the same section of the spine and it is necessary to choose the right procedure in specific nursing care along with subsequent rehabilitation care. The number of people with diseases of the spine indicated for surgery continues to increase. Research mentions modern days numbers compared with the time 20 years ago and I dare say the numbers are disastrous. There is nothing to wonder about. Disproportionate load does not decrease, a sedentary way of life either at work or at home also adds to the risk of developing these diseases. These have resulted in discomfort mainly in personal life of a human, but also threaten their working and social role and disrupt the economic security, which we cannot do without nowadays. In our thesis we deal with already incurred pathological manifestations indicated for a surgery. In other words, what happens to the patient, if they are recommended by our outpatient physician - neurosurgeon for a surgery. The lack of nursing literature on this specific issue was the reason for us to choose this theme. In the theoretical part we will discuss the general structure - spine anatomy and physiology, basic terms related to the basic movements, and curvature of the spine. Since our thesis is focused on nursing care after a surgical treatment of diseases of various sections of the spine at the department of Neurosurgery, Traumatology and the Infectious department in České Budějovice, the theoretical part includes basic theoretical outlines of the most important surgical procedures performed at these departments in the hospital of České Budějovice a.s.. Furthermore, we will get to the specifics of nursing care after these surgeries related to early rehabilitation care and close cooperation with physiotherapists. It should be emphasized that teamwork is the cornerstone in the care of patients after spinal surgery, whose subsequent rehabilitation and education in self-care after being discharged from the hospital care is one of the basic prerequisites for a successful recovery and return to their working and social role. The research part focuses on the following objectives: Aim 1: To determine whether nurses know the correct procedures for early rehabilitation of patients after spinal surgery Aim 2: Find out what is the level of collaboration between nurses and physiotherapists in the specifics of patients after spinal surgery Aim 3: To determine whether the nurse´s education and length of practice has an impact on the provision of specific nursing care for patients after spinal surgery Furthermore, using the research questions related to this issue: Research 1: How do nurses and physiotherapists cooperate in a patient´s care after spinal surgery? Research 2: Is a nurse´s length of practise connected with higher expertise in providing specific nursing care to the patient after a spinal surgery? Research 3: Does the education of nurses affect the knowledge of the specifics of the nursing care to the pacients after a spinal surgery? Research 4: How do nurses extend their knowledge in specifics nursing care for pacients after spinal surgery?
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Essay on Financial Innovation, Credit Constraints, and Welfare
Janíčko, Martin ; Chytil, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Tlustý, Adolf (referee) ; Pavelka, Tomáš (referee) ; Frait, Jan (referee)
The submitted thesis is composed of three different articles dealing with issues of financial innovation, credit constraints, and their impact on welfare. The first article treats the contemporary theoretical grasp of the interaction between the financial and real economies, focusing primarily on the role of modern financial innovation in the business cycle. For this purpose, a framework promoted by the Regulation School and Post Keynesians is frequently employed, whilst some other unorthodox streams and mainstream economics are partially discussed as well. All of them aspire -- either per se or under the pressure of the contemporary economic agenda -- to clarify the evolution of financial innovation and credit in the recent era. It is generally found that certain consensus across the schools of economic thought exists, but some of them have done a better job in predicting the consequences of the financial innovation for real economic activity than others. Further, two dynamic macroeconomic models are developed in order to, inter alia, identify the possible effects of extended credit availability presented in the former article on the example of the housing market, and simulate the effects of housing price changes on general welfare. Clearly, this part of the thesis exhibits the indirect consequences of financial innovation as, once again, being rather ambiguous: after having partially unleashed the unprecedented credit granting in the economy, impacting interest rates and loan-to-value ratios, with a subsequent impact on housing prices, it has also influenced credit constrained and unconstrained households in a different manner. Based on an analysis of the situation using partial and general equilibrium analytical frameworks, two somewhat different conclusions are drawn up with respect to the occurrence of various shocks in the models. Under the partial equilibrium framework the effects of relaxation of credit constraints are visible and quite straightforward, indicating relatively simple and intuitive relationship between the price appreciation and general welfare. This is primarily perspicuous for the credit constrained households. In the general equilibrium framework, on the other hand, the transitional dynamics of shock proliferation is more transparent and the impact on credit constrained vs. unconstrained households is more ambiguous and much different from the basic intuition used in the article anchored in the partial equilibrium toolbox.
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Compensatory therapy in patients with hallux valgus
DUŠKOVÁ, Šárka
This bachelor thesis is focused on the most common issue of foot acquired deformities, hallux valgus. This condition is characterized by the valgus positioning of the hallux with metatarsophalangeal joint rotation, varus and prominence of the first metatarsal head. The etiology of hallux valgus is multifactorial although risk factors for the developt of valgoid position of halluxes are divided in hereditary factors, direct and indirect effects. Deformity is often associated with longitudinal and transverse flatfoot. Deformity causes considerable difficulties to the patients, particularly in the form of post-exercise pain, calluses and blisters. Developing deformities may likewise create hammer fingers on the other toes. Last but not least, deformity and its complication significantly limit the selection of appropriate footwear. The main objective of this bachelor thesis is to summarize the available information concerning risk factors in the development of hallux valgus, the contemporary approaches in physiotherapy for the treatment of this deformity as well as the aplication of complex therapies and its effectiveness evaluation. In modern kinesiology, hallux valgus is not regarded as a foot problem only as it is rather a complex movement disorder. Therapy was applied symptomatologically on all body, using a movement compensation reaction system. An appropriate therapy compilation for this issue is also included. In the theoretical part, the basic terminology regarding hallux valgus is explained, breaching the subjects of foot kinesiology, phylogenetic and ontogenetic development. It also describes diseases and deformites caused by intermetatarsal angle calcification. The largest part of this section is devoted to risk factors in the development of hallux valgus and its conservative therapy. Conservative therapy was based on the thorough obtention of anamnestic data and kinesiological analysis; the selection and application of physiotherapy procedures was determined by the present symptomatology. Therapy was carried out individually according to the current status, age and overall condition of the patients when seeking to correct muscle imbalance, posture, stereotype walking practice, education and regime measures. A quantitative research method was approached, performed by studying 3 patients? case reports with hallux valgus and who had not yet underwent surgery. Every case report contains anamnestic data, kinesiology analysis, description of therapy and long term draft planning for physiotherapy. The patients come from the Private Practice Olga Poláková in Jihlava. At the start of the study, the patients were acquainted with the process and aims of the therapy. Therapy results are evaluated in discussion and conclusion sections. All patients showed improvement in foot pain and overall foot kinesiology improvement. Experimental results demonstrate that the therapy was chosen accurately thereby accomplishing the aim of the present study. This bachelor thesis can be useful in raising awareness regarding the conservative treatment of hallux valgus and in the clinical practice of physiotherapy.
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