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IT GOVERNANACE AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SYSTEMIC APPROACH AND FIELD IMPLEMENTATION
Protiva, Tomáš ; Pour, Jan (advisor) ; Pilař, Luboš (referee)
The diploma thesis reacts on the interest of the Czech foreign ministry IT department to get an overview of ITIL 2 and COBIT 4.1 world-wide acknowledged IS/IT management best practice libraries. Both libraries are put in the framework of IT Governance theory and practice. COBIT is presented as world ITG standard, meaning the alignment of organization's strategic goals and IT goals. It is focused on organizations, where the shift of IT perception towards a strategic partnership with the business is driven by top-down board initiative. On the other hand, the ITIL core texts Service Support and Service Delivery are treated as a standard of IT service management, suitable as a framework to establish processes within the foreign ministry's IT department. Three alternative implementations of the two libraries are shown, in a situation of non-existent process management and information architecture. Moreover, the IT Governance initiative has a bottom-up character. The first variant connects ITIL and COBIT process models to the goals and projects outlaid in the 2008-2010 IT Strategy draft (IT BSC was used in the strategy to set up goals). The COBIT processes are aligned to the IT BSC domains and projects; further on, more detailed ITIL tools are assigned to the COBIT processes using the toolbox [IT GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE; OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT COMMERCE. Aligning COBIT, ITIL and ISO 17799 for Business Benefit]. As the projects formulated in the IT Strategy don't focus on the fundaments of process management, a stepwise approach to document the current processes using the ITIL: Service Support and Service Delivery framework is suggested. The second variant came into reality in mid 2008: COBIT has been used without success to estimate users' preferences. The reasons of the failure are discussed. Czech translation of COBIT 4.1 maturity models by the author intended to use as one of the tools in the opinion poll is attached as Annex 2. The last variant is not directly aligned to the problems of foreign ministry's IT/IS, but it is the most pragmatic guide to the implementation of the libraries. As an external help desk has been already launched, I suggest the establishment of ITIL Incident Management and Problem Management processes, supported with a CMDB configuration database.
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Analysis of the position and operations of the International monetary fund in the global economy
Hromádka, Jan ; Žamberský, Pavel (advisor)
The thesis analyzes how IMFs operations transformed as the changes took place in the global economy after world war two. Policy and means used by IMF to achieve its purposes are examined focusing on their effectiveness. The analysis illustrates an apparent change in the role the institution is playing in the global economy. In the first three decades after the world war two the IMFs key role was to maintain surveillance over the rules of the monetary system established at international financial conference in Bretton Woods. The introduction of floating exchange rate systems in developed countries, oil crisis and independence of many African countries caused a shift in IMFs main focus towards developing countries, long-term financing and technical assistance. The analysis concludes that the institution was only in part successful in its mission to maintain global economic stability only in part. In the nineties it reacted promptly to financial crisis by introduction of new facilities and by activating in coordination with other global players of large financial support for the affected countries. However in the period before the financial crisis occurred more attention IMF should have given more attention to precautionary measures eliminating the risks associated with capital volatility.
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Pole Vault Technique of the Women World Record Holder
Palasová, Lucie ; Vindušková, Jitka (advisor) ; Krátký, Petr (referee)
Title Pole vault technique of the woman world record holder Aim: The aim of my study is to analyze the Jelena Isinbajeva's pole vault technique. I will compare her performance in 2003, when she jumped 465 cm, and her 2005 vault of 501 cm; and try to find qualitative differences in the realisations of technique. Methods used: The resources used in the analysis were found on a web page dedicated to Jelena Isinbajeva. Methods of analysis were description and comparison. Results: Jelena Isinbajeva's world record technique has improved in these parametres: Keywords: track and field, technique, pole vault,
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Pro and con acceptance Euro - application on the Czech Republic
Jandová, Barbora ; Mach, Petr (advisor) ; Chytilová, Helena (referee)
The aim of this work is to appraise advantages and disadvantages of accepting EURO, in Czech Republic, which has already taken steps in order to join the EMU. The first part focus on the establishment and development of the EMU and about requirements, which have to be fulfilled by the countries, which are supposed to become members of the EMU. Afterwards, I would like to speak about pros and cons associated with this membership and consequently, I will analyse consequences caused by acceptance of a single currency. With regard to previous theory and experience of the EMU members, the second part is adressed to the Czech Republic. Except from analysis of current economic factors, which are important when talking about accepting the EURO, I will mention opinions and positions of the leaders of the main political parties and alternative institutions. Then, I will compare the Czech Republic with other countries, that are adepts for accepting common currency. Finally, I will put together the benefits and costs associated with single currency and I will make adequate conclusions on the basis of previous analysis.
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Healthy lifestyle of young population
Ženíšková, Petra ; Polišenský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Lenka, Lenka (referee)
Name of the thesis is Healthy lifestyle of young population. Teoretic part explains elementary concepts, which related with this topic, highlights the main principles of healthy lifestyle and describes risky behavior at adolescents. Attention is given to programs and projects which support sports and healthy food for adolescents. Besides legislation and financing examined institution is define institutional analysis from the Bronislaw Malinowski in last chapter of teoretic part.
Institucional analysis from the Bronislaw Malinowski is applied in practice in the empirical part of the thesis, concretely on Elementary school Město Touškov. From this analysis enables to determine whether the institution fulfils its public role regarding healthy lifestyle of its pupils and whether it has enough resources for this purpose. The values of the pupil´s BMI is used to determine whether the activities of the institution have an effect on the health condition of the pupils. Another step is describing the provision, which the school apllies for pupils of first class. After overal evaluation is recommendation for school and better healthy lifestyle of young population.
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Main and supporting activities in a company with a focus on facility management
Wittek, Ondřej ; Tichý,, Jan (referee) ; Tichá, Alena (advisor)
This diploma thesis is focused on main and supporting business activities in the company with focus on facility management. In the theoretical part are described main terms of this topic and differences are explained. Theoretical part contains chapter Customer relationship management which is an important topic in the practical part of the work. Practical part is focused on some of the main and supporting business activities. By using software CRM, activities are more efficient because of connection between process and employees. Result of this work is proposal of work with software CRM.
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Návrh podzemní stěny ovlivněné výkopem z obou stran
Kočičková, Veronika ; Polák, Barnabás (referee) ; Uhrin, Michal (advisor)
The aim of this thesis was simplified design of diaphragm wall affected by excavation from both sides. This wall is a part of temporary shaft that serves for exchange of tunnel boring machines and at the same time it is a permanent structure of an adjacent metro station. Part of the thesis deals with description of construction sequence of diaphragm walls, excavation of the shaft, excavation of the adjacent metro station and following construction of metro tubes and backfilling of the shaft. Inseparable part of the thesis is assessment of geological conditions and geotechnical parameters. Furthermore, a study on temperature loads on struts was carried out and the results of the study were used for design of the struts. To fulfil the requirements of the assignment several models of the shaft structure and adjacent metro station were built in program Plaxis and one model of the diaphragm wall of the shaft was created in program Geo5. The model outputs were subsequently compared to each other. Furthermore a model of lateral support frame was created in program Scia Engineer. Outputs from programs Plaxis and Scia Engineer were used as a basis for design checks of the structure. The design checks were done according to Eurocodes. The diaphragm wall and the lateral support frame were designed to support the loads considered in this thesis. In order to simplify the calculation variable loads from construction machines were not considered and the only variable load considered was the temperature load on struts. Lateral support frame was also designed to accidental load – loss of a strut.
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Optimal Choice of Financial Resources for the Carrying out of Construction Investment
Vránová, Petra ; Tichá, Alena (referee) ; Puchýř, Bohumil (advisor)
This diploma thesis focuses on choice of financial resources for realization of construction investment in a public sector, classifies investments based on multiple criteria and describes funding sources including Czech and European grant programs which are suitable for carrying out a construction investment. Next chapter introduces an organization structure of a village with focus on budget structure and establishment of the budget. Village Jaroměřice and organization Svazek obcí skupinového vodovodu Malá Haná are introduced for purposes of the practical part of this work, which describes their planned construction investments and identifies the best source of funding.
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Visual Programming Backend for a Mobile Robot
Staněk, Ondřej ; Obdržálek, David (advisor) ; Bednárek, David (referee)
Title: Visual Programming Backend for a Mobile Robot Author: Bc. Ondřej Staněk Department: The Department of Software Engineering Supervisor: RNDr. David Obdržálek, Ph.D. Supervisor's e-mail address: David.Obdrzalek@mff.cuni.cz Abstract: In this work, the author designs and implements a solution for programming small mobile robots using a visual programming language. A suitable visual programming front-end is selected and back-end layers are created that allow execution of the program in a mobile robot. The author designs and implements a virtual machine that runs alongside the original robot firmware on an 8-bit microcontroller with limited resources. A code generator layer compiles the visual representation of the program into a sequence of bytecode instructions that is interpreted on board of the mobile robot. The solution supports typical features of procedural programming languages, in particular: variables, expressions, conditional statements, loops, static arrays, function calls and recursion. The emphasis is put on robustness of the implementation. To verify and maintain code quality, methods of automated software testing are used. Keywords: visual programming language, virtual machine, mobile robot, Blockly Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Accelerated Neural Networks on GPU
Tomko, Martin ; Zachariášová, Marcela (referee) ; Krčma, Martin (advisor)
This thesis deals with the implementation of an application for artificial neural networks simulation and acceleration using a graphics processing unit. The computation and training of feedforward neural networks using the Backpropagation algorithm are the main focus of this thesis, but the application also supports other network types, and it makes it possible to extend the application with different training algorithms. Next, the application allows us to create neural networks with structural anomalies, and thus, to test the neural network's fault tolerance. The application is implemented in the C++ language, using OpenCL to manage GPU computation. The Backpropagation acceleration results were compared with the free open source library FANN.
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