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Devolution and the Scotish national party
Kasáková, Zuzana ; Rovná, Lenka (advisor) ; Říchová, Blanka (referee) ; Fiala, Vlastimil (referee)
This thesis addresses the issue of devolution and its relation to the Scottish National Party (SNP) through the lenses of historical institutionalism. It aims at answering the question, how and to what extent the devolution influenced the policies and political behaviour of the SNP as well as its internal organization. The change of the SNP is also viewed on the basis of various political theories and typologies of political parties. Because the primary aim of the SNP is to deliver independence to Scotland, the special attention is also paid to the mutual relation of devolution as a weaker form of self-determination and independence. It is possible to define three waves of the impact of devolution on the SNP. The last one leads to the establishment of Scottish autonomous institutions. Althoutgh the Labour Party tried to minimized the SNP in the political arena, the SNP took a full advantage of a new institutional setting and managed to form a Scottish government. Keywords New Labour, Labour Party, devolution, Scottish National Party, decentralization, Scotland
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Qudratic field based cryptography
Straka, Milan ; Žemlička, Jan (referee) ; Stanovský, David (advisor)
Imaginary quadratic fields were first suggested as a setting for public-key cryptography by Buchmann and Williams already in 1988 and more cryptographic schemes followed. Although the resulting protocols are currently not as efficient as those based on elliptic curves, they are comparable to schemes based on RSA and, moreover, their security is believed to be independent of other widely-used protocols including RSA, DSA and elliptic curve cryptography. This work gathers present results in the field of quadratic cryptography. It recapitulates the algebraic theory needed to work with the class group of imaginary quadratic fields. Then it investigates algorithms of class group operations, both asymptotically and practically effective. It also analyses feasible cryptographic schemes and attacks upon them. A library implementing described cryptographic schemes is a part of this work.
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Tarahumara/Rarámuri in Northwestern Mexico. From cave dwellings to ejido
Halbich, Marek ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Kováč, Milan (referee) ; Hlúšek, Radoslav (referee)
This paper refers to Northwestem Mexico, name1y to the largest present native group the Tarahumara IRarámuri Indians. The thesis, which consists of three independent parts and nine chapters, shoves foremost on the reconstruction of development of this area (with a view to the Tarahumara people) from the prehistoric times to the arrival of first Spanish conquerors and missionaries and it seeks, simultaneously, to do certain more critical evaluation of the archaeological (ethnoarchaeological) researches, the biology anthropological researches and investigations in cultural geography, first more serious ethnographic fieldworks and principal historical resources with them some historians are working. It has been taken advantage of many works and older researches which represents the definite representative sample for the frame of one~s own hypotheses and questions at what we are looking for the answer. The second part targets the some theoretical conceptions as ethnicity (ethnic identity), social and cultural identity, the acculturation or transculturation or some Mexican (Latin American) version of political identity indigenism with them it works generally and more concretely and it nears namely on the Mexican material some doubtable theses as interna/ c%nialism and with it connected the simplified idea about...
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Højskole and their specifics in the Danish educational system
Laudová, Marika ; Kolář, Zdeněk (referee) ; Váňová, Miroslava (advisor)
This Thesis provides a short analysis of theory, history, and practice of the so-called folkehjskole (folk high schools) that represents a Danish contribution to pedagogy with worldwide importance. Those schools resulted from the social and cultural climate in Denmark as well as from the intellectual creativity of the churchman, philosopher, historian, member of parliament, and bard N.F.S. Grundtvig as well as of the pedagogue and organizer Ch. Kold. The first one was founded in 1844 in Rdding, North Schleswig. The political situation after the war between Prussia and Denmark and the need to improve the education and competence of rural youth to develop their farms provided an impetus for those schools as well. Those free schools were run on new principles, independently from the state school system, and influenced very positively the development and democratization of Danish society. After some time elapsed, similar schools were founded in the whole Scandinavia, to lesser extent in other European countries, in some Scandinavian and other communities in the USA, during the recent years in some developing countries. Lifelong education, supported by those schools, is providing inspiration for the contemporary European Union, as testified by the Grundtvig programme. The intellectual foundations, organization...
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The phenomenon of "Czech aesthetics" in reflection of the Czech aesthetic thought
Čechová, Alena ; Hlobil, Tomáš (referee) ; Foglarová, Eva (advisor)
century. Before that, F. Palacký dealt with the aesthetics history, although his "Přehled dějin krásovědy a její literatury" (1823) deals only with the world aesthetics history. Palacký was convinced about the fact that in the Czech setting it is not possible to talk about a development of any aesthetic theories. His work significantly influenced Czech aesthetic historiography because Palacký accepted the idea of development. In his opinion all man's endeavour is aimed to achieve humanity (much later M. Novák also thinks the same way). The need for recording history of the Czech aesthetics appeared not until a half of 19th century. The effort to make the national philosophy independent was the main condition for this need. Herbartians - F. Čupr, J. Dastich and J. Durdík - returned to aesthetic ideas of Tomáš Štítný ze Štítného whom they, by mistake, considered to be the original thinker and predecessor of formal aesthetics. Among Czech Herbartian writings we can find not only revivalist efforts, but also certain "cosmopolitanism", knowledge that Herbart's philosophy is the holder of the truth (Herbart's philosophy was important for Czech philosophical thinking mainly because of terminology). The name Štítný became "a milestone" in the Czech aesthetics history. It played an important role in A. Krecar's work...
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Tarahumara/Rarámuri in Northwestern Mexico. From cave dwellings to ejido
Halbich, Marek ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Kováč, Milan (referee) ; Hlúšek, Radoslav (referee)
Tarahumara IRarámuri Indians. The thesis, which consists of three independent parts and nine chapters, shoves foremost on the reconstruction of development of this area (with a view to the Tarahumara people) from the prehistoric times to the arrival of first Spanish conquerors and missionaries and it seeks, simultaneously, to do certain more critical evaluation of the archaeological (ethnoarchaeological) researches, the biology anthropological researches and investigations in cultural geography, first more serious ethnographic fieldworks and principal historical resources with them some historians are working. It has been taken advantage of many works and older researches which represents the definite representative sample for the frame of one~s own hypotheses and questions at what we are looking for the answer. The second part targets the some theoretical conceptions as ethnicity (ethnic identity), social and cultural identity, the acculturation or transculturation or some Mexican (Latin American) version of political identity indigenism with them it works generally and more concretely and it nears namely on the Mexican material some doubtable theses as interna/ c%nialism and with it connected the simplified idea about socia1 egalitarianism of all the indigenous groups or the theory for dissolution of the...
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Qudratic field based cryptography
Straka, Milan ; Stanovský, David (advisor)
Imaginary quadratic fields were first suggested as a setting for public-key cryptography by Buchmann and Williams already in 1988 and more cryptographic schemes followed. Although the resulting protocols are currently not as efficient as those based on elliptic curves, they are comparable to schemes based on RSA and, moreover, their security is believed to be independent of other widely-used protocols including RSA, DSA and elliptic curve cryptography. This work gathers present results in the field of quadratic cryptography. It recapitulates the algebraic theory needed to work with the class group of imaginary quadratic fields. Then it investigates algorithms of class group operations, both asymptotically and practically effective. It also analyses feasible cryptographic schemes and attacks upon them. A library implementing described cryptographic schemes is a part of this work.
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Epistemologic limits of selected approaches to language
Beneš, Martin ; Lehečková, Eva (referee) ; Macurová, Alena (advisor)
The aim of this text is to comment and critically evaluate the epistemology of selected approaches to language: namely European structuralism (Saussure, Hjelmslev, Prague School), generative grammar, the linguistics of la parole and text linguistics and cognitive approaches to language. In particular, the aim is to comment epistemological limits of these approaches with regards to the two basic facts. Firstly, with regard to the fact that what these approaches define as their object field is in fact only a partial section of the whole subject field of linguistics (looked upon through the purposes of this work as a specifically structured communication model). Secondly, this text will investigate the relations between these approaches and an important claim of the philosopher of science T. S. Kuhn. Kuhn in his widely known book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions says: "There is, I think, no theory-independent way to reconstruct phrases like ‚really there'." (Kuhn, 1970, p. 206). That means whether claims based on epistemology of particular approaches describe objective reality or only give us a description of their own theoretical constructs.
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Regulation of insurance in the Czech Republic
Filippi, Michaela ; Ducháčková, Eva (advisor) ; Křížek, Tomáš (referee)
The work deals with the current conditions and developments in the field of insurance regulation in the Czech insurance market. Initially, the issue itself needs and merits of regulation. Then analyze the insurance contract and the rights and obligations arising therefrom. Among the most part are the conditions change the conduct of assurance business. Within this section are not only insurance and reinsurance, but also the activities of insurance intermediaries and independent liquidators claims under a separate law on this issue in 2004. Then followed the issue of supervision of insurance companies, and its development activities, carried out supervision body, which was recently amended. Is also included cooperation with the EU, including EU projects show the insurance industry for the near future. Finally, on the basis of the preceding description of an evaluation carried out development of the regulation of the insurance market and future prospects in the coming years, which is going primarily from dominance of European legislation in this area in recent years.
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Polish Daily Newspapers' Portrayals of the Events Related to the Velvet Revolution
Chvíla, Jakub ; Rusin Dybalska, Renata (advisor) ; Junek, Marek (referee)
(in English) The aim of this diploma thesis is the discourse analysis of polish daily newspapers' portrayals of the so-called Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in the last days of 1989. I have focused the analysis on every category of newspapers, which were officially published in Poland at that time. The selected questions are analyzed according to methods, which are mentioned in the theoretical part of this thesis, and everything is set into a historical context. Theoretic part is composed of the history of that period, the characterization of the polish media market in the 80s and the theory of propaganda, newspeak and discourse. In the practical part of this thesis there is the analysis which was made by the quantitative and qualitative method. The chief contribution is the determination of the exact quantity of the articles in monitored daily newspapers, the analysis of selected topics and the answers on the selected questions related to the role of propaganda, the differences (state vs. independent media; polish vs. american-polish newspapers; regional newspapers from northern Poland vs. southern Poland) among the articles in selected newspapers and the theme-orientation articles in the newspapers intended for soldiers, Catholics or teenagers. The main intention of the practical part is to...
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