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Innovation Policy of USA and its Impact on Balance of Trade
Kalousová, Tereza ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Klosová, Anna (referee)
The diploma thesis describes innovation environment of United States of America and the influence of US innovation policy on its foreign trade. The analysis and comparison of qualitative and quantitative data were mainly used from secondary sources of American Census Bureau and innovation programs of individual Departments and federal agencies for purposes of this diploma thesis. United States of America is still seen as one of the most competitive and powerful world nations. Long term negative balance of trade in goods and increasing import of technology products in the first place are weakening the USA position as world innovation leader. Research and development activities are becoming more globalised in the last decade and USA have to deal with strong influence from emerging economies, mainly from Asian region. Current innovation policy agenda attempts to support broad development of innovation and technology, not only particular fields of interest. Obama's administration intensively focuses on key areas for maintaining the country's competitiveness considering current financial crisis and increasing role of other world economies. These key areas are however not in line with commodities, which mainly represents negative figures of country's balance of trade. In this respect, the innovation policy of United States rather falls behind.
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Requirement management tool
Jelen, Martin ; Hoksza, David (referee) ; Kopecký, Michal (advisor)
Managing requirements for software projects is a key task throughout the whole lifetime of the project. Recognizing this, it is the goal of the bachelor thesis to design and implement a tool that simplifies and automates requirements management and provides a clear view of the current state of managed projects as well as their history. It is not intented as a single project management solution but rather to be used with other specialized software. Implemented is the ability to capture the managed project's structure and multiple types of requirements (e.g. functional, performance, usability) with clearly defined relationships. The project's representation can further evolve, all previous versions are stored and changes can be reviewed. Data presentation is accomplished with multiple views of requirements and allows to trace changes through the relationships. Finally, the gathered data may be exported in either structured form for further transformation or as user-readable reports. Requirements, their atributes and types, as well as views on the requirements are highly configurable to provide support to projects independent of development methodology used - from agile approaches with minimum administrative documents to more formalized processes such as RUP.
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"In Oil We Trust?" US Policy in Persian Gulf after the Cold War
Kašík, Jakub ; Nálevka, Vladimír (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
6. Resumé (Shrnutí práce v anglickém jazyce) The end of the eighties was not just a change in the time but it happened to be one of the biggest historical changes in the twentieth century. Two camps that stood against each other in ideological as well as realistic animosity were enemies no more. The Cold War ended. American scholars became to question new world? Two main visions were represented by the theories of Fukuyama and Huntington. The first came with the thesis that the end of Cold war was not just the end of more than 40 years long struggle but that it was the confirmation of the superiority of the United States and the ideas that it was based on. Liberal democracy was said to be the final stage of human struggle to find the ideal way of statehood. The second theory came with totally opposite idea that considered the new world unleashed from the bounds of Cold war as full of geopolitical vacuum that will turn into more clashes between cultures and civilizations. The euphoria of those days appreciated the first theory but was afraid that the second one is closer to the truth. The main question was: how will the new world look like? United States were considered to be the winners but the main task was to find their role in the new world. The new administration of George H. W. Bush even though shocked...
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Process of mortgage loans in conditions of Czech bank's system
Beranová, Petra ; Půlpánová, Stanislava (advisor)
This bachelor thesis is divided into several parts. The first chapter is about characteristic of mortgage loan, legislative definition of mortgage loan and more focused on mortgage-bond. Next chapter is about history of Czech mortgage market, mortgage laws in Czech Republic. Part of this thesis is about current situation on market which is affected by mortgage crisis in USA. Thesis also contains administration of credit risk by mortgage bank, property security for a debt. There is also comprehensive information about process of mortgage loan. Bachelor thesis provides global view of mortgage markets and loans in Czech Republic.
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Whom does the European ombudsman help?
Kuberová, Lucie ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Balon, Jan (referee)
The European Ombudsman works as one of the institutionalized mechanisms of complaining within the EU. The thesis deals with certain aspects of an inherent duality of this institution in three different levels. First, the throughout narrative motive of ombudsman as a "potent patron of weak individuals" is being analysed. The element of an intense protection seems to be in contrast with throughout limited means ombudsman usualy dispones of. Second, we might view an assertion of ombudsmen into the continental legal system as kind of a comeback of a long past system of equity - "natural equity" so that we see it as a meet of certain element of an Anglo-Saxon legal system with the continental one. The formal system of codified law comes to its limits with the dynamic development of western societies; the ombudsman should serve as kind of "safety-fuse" against its imperfections. Last but not least, the institution of the European Ombudsman was proposed to approximate the european administration to the citizens of Europe. The interference of such a "promotional" role with the "control" one works in favor of a potential role-conflict, which has to be ward off by ombudsman day by day. In the last section we show how the institution deals with such conditions. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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State-building and developing governance capacity in East Timor
Šestáková, Michaela ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis elaborates on state-building in the form of a case study of East Timor. East Timor has hosted an international state-building intervention as a result of the lack of governance capacity. East Timor is not the first case of a failed state with implied international state-building, but applied transitional administration in this format is unique. The United Nations established UNTAET with a finite time period which has been prolonged twice since May 2002. This thesis examines international state-building and its linkage with local participation and ownership. The goal of the thesis is to determine whether the peace-building in East Timor was successful. It continues with the second research question regarding the main aspects of state-building which helped to enhance performance in governance and public administration areas. Using Fukuyama's theoretical background, this thesis builds a hypothesis on the notion, that aspects which helped enhance performance are those connected with local participation and ownership. The method of the research is process tracing between autumn 1999 to May 2002, when the independent state of Timor-Leste was established. Although UNTAET was successful in creating institutional and process bases in areas of governance and public administration, local...
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Selected educational aspects of human resources management
PRENER, Zdeněk
The thesis describes and evaluates selected eduacational aspects of human resources management. It introduces some recent conceptions of specialization and evolution from personnel administration through personnel management to human resources management as the unity of emloyee development and utilization of their potential to achieve organization`s objectives according to their needs. It outlines the structure of human resources management (recruitment, performance management, evaluation {\dots}) and compares the aplication of principles of specialization in the work of a human resources manager and a line manager. Subsequently, several determinants of educational processes within human resource management are pointed out in connection with human factors (personality, health, human relations) and job performance (work, free time, work environment). Furthermore, educational dimension of human resources management is evaluated. In the final part Possible prognosis and future expectations are included. Namely, the worth of information for functioning of organizations and comparing the modern roles of technology with the role of humanity in the modern world.
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Portrayal of war prisoners in american media after the election of Barack Obama
Jelínek, Jiří ; Kruml, Milan (advisor) ; Jirák, Jan (referee)
The US attitude towards the prisoners of war, more accurately its media portrayal, is the main theme of this bachelor thesis. The main goal of this thesis is to find out whether this attitude in real situation corresponds with the similar attitude in the US movies and series. The real one has been changing significantly since 2001 depending on the Afghanistan and Iraq situation, and also on the decisions of the Supreme Court of the US and the people opinion. This thesis is based on official documents of the US administration as well as on several movies (24, Homeland, Zero Dark Thirty and Ghosts of Abu Ghraib). The essential thesis whether the real attitude was reflected in the movies was generally confirmed, however the differences between pictures were considerable, therefore the overall generalization is not possible.
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Advantages and disadvantages of common currency euro in the current crisis ( on the example of Slovak Republic)
Pohorelcová, Mária ; Koderová, Jitka (advisor) ; Gevorgyan, Kristine (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to assess the impact of the introduction of the euro on the Slovak economy during the global economic crisis. The work is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents short historical development of the euro and the process of integration within the European area, leading to the creation of economic and monetary union. The second chapter presents a technically and administratively demanding process of preparing for the new currency. The progress in the implementation of fiscal and nominal convergence criteria conditioning the membership in the euro area is also evaluated. The third chapter provides an analysis of selected advantages and disadvantages of euro. Compares the forecasts of the National Bank of Slovakia with the actual development of the Slovak economy in the context of the ongoing crisis.
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Reagan´s Administration and U. S. Economy
Průša, Tomáš ; Ševčík, Miroslav (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
Diplomová práce analyzuje hospodářský vývoj a hospodářskou politiku administrativy amerického prezidenta Ronalda Reagana mezi lety 1981 až 1989. První část popisuje postavení amerického prezidenta v politickém systému, ekonomické teorie, ze kterých vycházela americká hospodářská politika, situaci ve Spojených státech před nástupem Ronalda Reagana do úřadu a konečně situaci mezi lety 1981 až 1989, kdy Reagan zastával úřad amerického prezidenta. Závěrečná část práce komparuje hospodářskou situaci Spojených států v době vlády Ronalda Reagana s obdobím před rokem 1981 a po roce 1989. Analýza je postavena na hrubém domácím produktu, nezaměstnanosti, cenové hladině, vnější rovnováze, fiskální politice, měnové politice a životní úrovni.
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