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Analysis of the Israeli far-right activities on the West Bank
Mrázek, Vojtěch ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Nováček, Aleš (referee)
There are many negative consequences related to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The phenomenon of the settler's violence is one of them. The aim of the thesis is to explain the conditionality of the violence and to put it into context with Israeli political scene. A quantitative analysis is made to examine the relationship between Israeli far-right parties' electoral gains and the incidence of violence against Palestinians residents of the West Bank. Also, spatial analysis is made to measure the level of clustering of the incidents. To articulate the theoretical assumptions, the theory of social cleavages was used. In line with the assumptions, the results suggest that in Jewish settlements on the West Bank, there is statistically significant connection between Israeli far-right parties' electoral gains and the number of the violent incidents. The strongest correlation is proven between the incidents and the electoral gains of the parties influenced by Kahanism, a militant racist ideology. There is a weaker correlation between the incidence of violence and the electoral gains of the parties representing Religious Zionism, an ideology that combines religion and nationalism. The spatial distribution of the incidents was irregular. There was a clustering of high values in several areas,...
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Connection between distribution of socio-economic characteristics of population and economy in relation to railway network in Czechoslovakia in 1921 and 1930
Marek, Martin Václav ; Marada, Miroslav (advisor) ; Nováček, Aleš (referee)
Connection between distribution of socio-economic characteristics of population and economy in relation to railway network in Czechoslovakia in 1921 and 1930 Abstract Transport is closely related with social and economic processes in space and they affect each other. History of transport, and economy and history of the population are themes quite well covered. Attempts to synthetically cover history of transport and society and its activities in the space have not been numerous, if any they only referred to certain examples, although the transport, especially rail, is mentioned as an important factor of development. The diploma thesis analyzes statistical dependece of selected demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of national censuses in 1921 and 1930 and economic characteristics and agriculural units in 1930 on rail infrastructure in the Czechoslovak Republic. The key statistical data are selected census results (eg. age of population, literacy and inhabitans in the sector of the national economy), results of census of economic and agricultural units (for example units equipment) at the level of administrative units in Czechoslovakia. Spatial data (maps) are an important source, too. These allow statistical and visualization operations in the GIS. They had to be digitized in order to create map...
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Regional identity of the inhabitans of the Šumava foothills: comparison of towns Klatovy, Sušice and Vimperk
Kovárnová, Pavlína ; Chromý, Pavel (advisor) ; Nováček, Aleš (referee)
KOVÁRNOVÁ, P. (2015): Regional identity of the inhabitants of the Šumava foothills: comparison of towns Klatovy, Sušice, and Vimperk. Master thesis. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Prague, pp. 98. The thesis deals with the regional identity of the inhabitants of the Šumava foothills. The main goal of the thesis is to identify and evaluate the factors forming regional identity in the Šumava foothills which could be considered as a base for discussions on the possibilities of future regional development of this region. The thesis is based on general assumptions of study of territorial identities and border peripheries, which are based on heuristics of literature discussing the process of forming regional identity, polarization of space, and the problematics of the areas of peripheral and border regions. The assessment of differences of regional identity in continuously inhabited, partly relocated, and resettled areas is component objective which is focused on the definition and assessment categories determining the potential formation of regional identity. The object of the research are the three places with extremely complicated historical development, the towns Klatovy, Sušice, and Vimperk. The achievement of this objective...
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Media and Space: Influence of the Colonial Past on Cotemporary Media Coverage of France and Britain
Brádková, Hana ; Havlíček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nováček, Aleš (referee)
This thesis examines the influence of the colonial past on contemporary media coverage of France and Britain. It focuses on selected colonies and the frequency of their references on two websites - Skynews.com and France24.fr. Thus the thesis tries to answer the question whether or not the colonial past is still a strong determinant which governs the media's priorities. Imperial history has always been very vivid in these countries, where vast colonial land was possessed. Consequently they must now deal with the impact of their incursions. A strong relationship with former colonies exists and still be seen through the media. In addition, the fact that news media still prefers those states to the information about different former colonies, proves the existence of very strong bonds after the end of decolonial processes. The thesis is divided into two main sections. The first section considers the theoretical frame of analyzed notions (e.g. the geography of communication, colonialism or postcolonialism etc.), colonial history and pursuits the basic facts from media studies. Subsequently, the second section focuses on research results, whereby the principal aim is to confirm the assumption that British and French media prefers to inform more about their own former colonies than colonies of the second great...
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Duality of Europe: historical-geographical analysis of the development and its delimitation
Nováček, Aleš ; Jeleček, Leoš (advisor) ; Baar, Vladimír (referee) ; Gurňák, Daniel (referee)
14 Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Aleš Nováček DUALISM IN EUROPE: HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS DELIMITATION Summary Prague 2010 15 The Twentieth Century gave the European structure as well as the world new face. However, this assertion is true only partially. Behind these "fresh" traces as results of more and more intensive and dynamic development there are still hidden hundred-year-old fundaments which, thanks to their influence, continuously determine and jointly form the current geographical structure of Europe, including its special contours and division. Looked at from the most general level, the European structure was at least till the year 1989 clear: on one side there was the capitalist and democratic West and on the other side the socialistic and communistic East. It was this period when the dual perception of Europe became dominant, not only in the geopolitical concepts of the literature focused on this field but also in the perception of the public itself. The fact that the phenomenon of dualism in Europe is clear and continually followed from the ancient times till the present days makes this conception even more stable. This continuum can be also found behind the fact that not even after the...
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Historical development of teritorial polarization of Czech lands
Nováček, Aleš ; Semotanová, Eva (referee) ; Chromý, Pavel (referee)
Hlavním cílem práce byla analýza, interpretace a pokus o rekonstrukci historického vývoje teritoriální polarizace českých zemí jako výsledku komplexních socioekonomických proměn. V rámci této problematiky pak konkrétněji a podrobněji přistupuje k příkladu kraje Vysočina, dějinným aspektům jeho perifernosti a vnitřní diferenciace. Bylo úkolem pomocí analýzy dlouhodobého populačního vývoje nalézt a objasnit kořeny dnešní polarity jádra a periferie. Na obou zkoumaných úrovních, jak vnější (mezi kraji), tak vnitřní (uvnitř sledovaného kraje), bylo záměrem hledat a následně identifikoval základní vývojové determinanty stavu i populačně-prostorové dynamiky s důrazem na jejich časovou proměnlivost a variabilitu. V tomto se výzkum opíral o reprezentativní historické prúl·ezy stavu populace. Na základě jejich rozboru a vzájemné komparace jednotlivých územních jednotek došlo za pomoci statistických metod k pokusu konstruovat dobovou teritoriální hierarchii sídelního, potažmo i hospodářského systému včetně stanovení jednotlivých kategorií polarizace: jádro - periferie. Obdobným zpi'1sobem bylo postupováno i v otázce historického vývoje a v jeho rámci užití pojmú: jadernizaee periferizace. Největší prostor byl přirozeně vymezen industriální de, jež mčla hlavní podíl na formování současné reality. Tento dúraz se ukázal...
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Protecting of image data
Nováček, Aleš ; Přinosil, Jiří (referee) ; Číka, Petr (advisor)
Bachelor´s thesis is about protection of digital images, especially about modern watermarking techniques. It consists of three main parts. The first one is the theoretical part, that describes watermarking terminology, techniques of embeding and detection of watermark, watermarking applications and watermarking requirements such as robustness and impercebility. The second and third part compares two methods of watermarking. Both methods are based on the transformation of image to the frequency domain. The first method uses discrete cosine transformation and the second one discrete wavelet transformation. Method using DCT embeds watermark by swaping DCT coefficients. The second method embeds watermark by modifying some coefficients of DWT decomposition according to the equation vi´= vi (1+sxi ), where vi´ is a coefficient of watermarked image, vi is a coefficient of original image, xi is pixel of watermark and s is scale factor, constant, that affects robustness of watermark.
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Performance of Anchor-Free Localization in Wireless Sensor Network
Nováček, Aleš ; Morávek, Patrik (referee) ; Šimek, Milan (advisor)
Many applications that use senzor data from a wireless senzor network require corresponding node position information as well, information from the senzors is useful only if node location information is also available. There are many ways to get information about location of senzor, but some are expensive and inefficient. My work presents fully decentralized algorithm AFL (anchor-free localization) for localization of wireless sensors. Aim of my master´s thesis is to describe main features and advantages of AFL and to create program that simulates localization process.
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