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Language education in foreign countries
BILANSKÁ, Květa
Language education is getting more and more important nowadays. English is one of the most favored languages in the world and in the Czech Republic as well. World globalization brings more pressure to standardize language education. Unification of the style and teaching way in Europe and all around the world has some negatives, for example suppress of teaching another languages then English. A few documents focusing the analyses and creation recommendation for language teaching have been made. The most important document in Europe is Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) which determine knowledge of language to A, B and C and also describe which level should a student have after completing each school year. One of the instruments supporting language education is CLIL (Content and language integrated learning). Different teaching styles and attitudes had been compared during history. Comparative pedagogy has been established for this purpose. Comparative pedagogy is mapping and comparing particular education systems. A lot of organizations interested in comparative pedagogy have been established after the Second World War. Different states have distinct requirements for language teachers. The Czech Republic bases its language education policy on EU. EU´s goal is that all its citizens should be multilingual. This means that beside the native tongue people should speak two foreign languages. The Czech Republic is on the similar level as the majority of Europe. Pupils start to learn foreign language in the third class of the basic school.
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Analysis of the EU regulations in the field of Information and Telecommunication technologies and their effect on the single market
Hart, Ludvík ; Procházka, Pavel (advisor) ; Strejček, Ivo (referee)
The bachelor thesis describes the EU regulations in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly the Digital agenda for Europe strategy. These regulations are then tested for their influence on the European single market. The major question answered here is whether the EU regulations in field of ICT have a positive impact on the EUs single market. Answer to this question helps us evaluate the ongoing Digital agenda strategy. The impact of the regulations is analysed by induction of the following indicators, international trade, ratio of population buying online, DESI index and NRI index. With this method it is possible to tackle the wide range of fields the Digital agenda covers. I conclude this work with the statement, that European ICT regulations do have a positive impact on the single market, although are problematic due to the slow legislative process and low efficiency in addressing the regulated issue.
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Time management
Hanus, Filip ; Franková, Emilie (advisor) ; Motlová, Veronika (referee)
It is of great necessity to know how to manage time. The theoretical part of this thesis is concerned with the definition of time management, its origin and evolution. It covers the basic rules of efficient time management and the principles of efficient work organization. It describes the usage of goals and their setting, circadian rhythms and their influence on our productivity and the most common factors that steal our time. Based on the analysis of time frames and half-structured interviews, the empirical part follows the lives of six university students for two weeks. Our goal is to find out how the respondents use their time, what is their knowledge of time management and also to cover the difference between students living in a room alone and students sharing a room with one or multiple roommates.
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The impact of the economic cycle to finance the defense of the Czech republic in years 2004-2014
Heres, Ondřej ; Chmelová, Pavla (advisor) ; Strejček, Ivo (referee)
This bachelor work examines the impact of economic performance on financing the defense sector in the Czech Republic in the years 2004-2014. The main questions are whether this influence is clear and the extent to which is essential for funding this sector. The work also provides a basic overview about development and structure of the Ministry of Defence budget in these years. The theoretical part contains theories of business cycle and public sector and briefly introduces the basic institutions that are tasked to provide a defense. The analytic part analyzes the expenditures and revenues of the Ministry of Defence and assesses their mutual influence and simultaneously the influence of GDP on these indicators. To compare with previous findings, the GPD growth rate and the growth rate of defense expenditures in selected countries of NATO are analyzed in brief in the last chapter. While findings based on data from the Ministry of Defence have rather anticyclical development of defense expenditures, in selected countries of NATO, the development is more procyclical. It highlights the very ambiguous impact of the economic cycle on expenditures in the defense sector.
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Misleading advertising and deceptive business practice when shopping online
Žáčková, Veronika ; Hejda, Jan (advisor) ; Kaczor, Pavel (referee)
This Bachelor´s thesis deals primarily with the issues of misleading advertising in online shopping, especially when purchasing at single-item e-shops. The thesis provides a description and comparison of misleading advertising and deceptive business practice, an analysis of a specific ´problematic´ e-shop and its comparison with a ´problem-free´ e-shop and a comparison of characteristics that are common to misleading e-shops. The thesis also includes a list of institutions that are authorized to resolve issues related to misleading advertising and deceptive business practice. The practical section of the thesis proposes a website add-on that might help reduce significantly the number of fraudulent e-shops.
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Fairy tales in Czechoslovak cinematography
Vondráčková, Lucie ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hubáček, Ondřej (referee)
Předmětem mé rigorózní práce je teoretická analýza filmové pohádky jako sociokulturního jevu. Zvláštní pozornost jsem věnovala nejen charakteristice žánru filmové pohádky a jejímu vývoji ve druhé polovině dvacátého století, ale také terénnímu výzkumu. Zabloudila jsem několikrát mezi ty nejdůležitější. Mezi pohádkové tvůrce. Nemohla jsem sice všem klást stejné otázky vzhledem k jedinečnosti jejich charakterů a profesí, ale předpoklady, které jsem si dovolila anticipovat se mi i tak vrátili silou bumerangů jako liché i oprávněné. Nutno říct, že to byla akce velice dobrodružná a podnětná. Podle mého názoru sehráli významnou roli při realizaci těch nejpovedenějších filmových pohádek vynikající režiséři. Proto jsem právě těmto tvůrcům věnovala jednu celou kapitolu. Jsem si vědoma toho, že toto téma vyžaduje také empirickou analýzu. Proto závěr mé diplomové práce tvoří kvalitativní rozhovory s lidmi, kteří zásadním způsobem vývoj české filmové pohádky ovlivnili a mají tedy v tomto oboru dlouholetou zkušenost. Tendence dnešních dnů k předpovídání budoucnosti z karet, neuvěřitelná koncentrace vykladačů z ruky na každé hlavní třídě větších měst, bezzubé neštěstí rozmazlených třicátníků, kteří si vlastně pravé utrpení ani nedokáží představit, to vše mě vedlo k zamyšlení, co vlastně chybí. Napadla mě tradice. Navíc s...
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Interspecific hybridization in Acrocephalus warblers.
Majerová, Veronika ; Reifová, Radka (advisor) ; Kotlík, Petr (referee)
Acrocephalus warblers have gone through the adaptive radiation during last severalmillion years, which gave rise to thirty one species occupying mainly Eurasia,Africa and Australia. The majority of species are morphologically very similar,however, they differ in ecological requirements, migration strategy, and song.Interspecific hybridization seems to be quite common among Acrocephaluswarblers, not only between sister species, but also between more distantly relatedtaxa. The main goal of this study was to determine whether this hybridization leadsto gene flow between species and which factors affect the rate of interspecific geneflow. For this purpose we conducted population-genetic analysis in three Europeanspecies of the Acrocephalus warblers of the subgenus Notiocichla: reed warbler (A.scirpaceus), marsh warbler (A. palustris), and blyth's reed warbler (A. dumetorum).Our results based on the analysis of sequence data from eight nuclear loci indicate,that gene flow between the studied species occurs, but only in one direction. Thegene flow is higher between genetically more related species than betweenecologically more similar species. We also estimated that the reed warbler and themarsh warbler diverged approximately 1,1 million years ago. The blyth's warblerand ancestor of the reed and marsh warbler...
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Differences between men and women in the Czech labour market
Stroukal, Dominik ; Kadeřábková, Božena (advisor) ; Pavelka, Tomáš (referee) ; Němec, Otakar (referee)
This thesis consists of five articles that apply current world research on labor economics at the Czech Republic and confirms the significant differences between men and women in this market. It shows that gender has a significant influence on the preference on the labor market and, consequently, on employment and health. First, the thesis shows that preferences are relevant determinant of career and then we study the difference in preference of salary for men and women. Subsequently it shows that gender plays a significant role in explaining the relationship between homeownership, and unemployment, as well as unemployment and health. The first chapter was able to demonstrate that the preference for a career has a positive influence on the choice of career. The influence of higher education on prioritizing career proved to be positive and significant. Probability of a career choice is reduced by the presence of children, however, is not dependent on their number, which is contrary to the theory of preferences. The second chapter shows that Czech women prefer more non-monetary rewards than men. It has also been shown that people with university education are same in the preferences of non-monetary rewards regardless of the gender of the respondents, however, compared to the world's research, the Czech higher education increases this preference. It turned out that women prefer risk less than men. The third chapter demonstrates that although the housing market undermines labor mobility and employment in the Czech Republic at the regional level, therefore, that in regions with a higher rate of home ownership is higher unemployment, at the individual level, the owners of housing are unemployed are less likely. The estimates are significantly different for men and women. Men living in owner-occupied housing have a higher likelihood of employment than women. At regional level, however, this thesis shows that the high rate of home ownership increases unemployment for both men and women, in the long run only to women. The fourth chapter showed that men transition to homeownership reduces the likelihood of unemployment next year. For women, this relationship has proved to be insignificant. In addition, as insignificant showed the opposite relationship, the transition from unemployment to the newly acquired home ownership. The last chapter shows that the change in the working status to unemployment will increase in the future probability of worse health. Influence in less than two years, however, proved to be significant. An important conclusion is that men have a significantly stronger relationship between health and unemployment than women.
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Multicriteria games
Tichá, Michaela ; Dlouhý, Martin (advisor) ; Lachout, Petr (referee) ; Čičková, Zuzana (referee)
Theory of multicriteria games is a special field of game theory, when one or more players have at least two payoff functions and want to maximize simultaneously. The work introduces a number of new findings. It examined the concept of finding equilibria in pure strategies in noncooperative multicriteria game. It is possible to find all the equilibria in pure strategies by full search and solving two linear programs for each point. Furthermore, two linear programs are formulated for verifying that a selected point is the equilibrium of the game or not. In the noncooperative games is also introduced the concept that with knowledge of the equilibrium of bimatrix game determines preferences of the players. Although finding the equilibrium point of the bimatrix game is nonlinear problem, finding the preferences is linear problem. The latest findings in the noncooperative games is a generalization of the concept that solves multicriteria game by assigning weights to each criterion of each player. The work demonstrates that it may not be necessarily linear weights, but it can be more general function that describes the player's preference. The remaining part is devoted to knowledge in cooperative games. There is considered that the players know their preferences and are able to express them by weights. The game with known preferences is defined and solved with the use of bargaining theory. Then it is generalized to a case where players have more payoff functions, from which they can choose. Finally, the multicriteria case of voting game is defined. It is designed completely new concept, which selects the winning coalition in the voting game. This concept is then applied to the real situation after the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2013.
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