Evaluation of the Company’s Competitiveness

Import 22/07/2015Diplomová práce se zabývá konkurenceschopností realitní kanceláře RE/MAX Reality Servis, která sídlí v centru města Opavy. Práce je rozdělena na teoretickou a praktickou část. V teoretické části jsou definovány pojmy týkající se konkurenceschopnosti a pojmy spojené s činností zkoumané společnosti. Dále jsou zde rozebrány zvolené metody z teoretického hlediska. Následující praktická část prostřednictvím zvolených metod analyzuje zkoumanou realitní kancelář a její okolí. V závěru této práce bylo navrhnuto několik doporučení, které by měly přispět ke zvýšení konkurenceschopnosti zkoumané realitní společnosti na místním realitním trhu.This thesis deals with competitiveness real agency RE/MAX Reality Servis, which is located in the center of Opava. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part defines terms relating to competitiveness and concepts associated with the activities of the investigated company. There are also discussed methods chosen from a theoretical perspective. The following practical part through selected methods of analyzes examined real estate agency and its surroundings. In conclusion, this work was suggested several recommendations, which should contribute to increasing the competitiveness researched real estate company in the local real estate market.152 - Katedra podnikohospodářskávýborn

Financial Analysis of the Company

Import 30/10/2012Základním cílem této bakalářské práce je aplikovat vybrané metody finanční analýzy na společnost POUBA TRAVEL s.r.o.. Tato práce je rozdělena na teoretickou a praktickou část. V teoretické části jsou vysvětleny základní informace spojené s finanční analýzou a zejména jsou zde představeny vybrané metody finanční analýzy. Praktická část se zabývá seznámením se s činností společnosti, praktickým použitím metod finanční analýzy na vybranou společnost a následným celkovým shrnutím, včetně návrhů pro vedení společnosti do příštích let.The basic aim of the bachelor ̍s work is to apply selected methods of financial analysis on the company POUBA TRAVEL s.r.o.. This work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part explains the basic information related to financial analysis and in paticular are presented selected methods of financial analysis. The practical part deals with presentment of business activity , using practical methods of financial analysis of the selected company and then an overal summary, including suggestions for management in the coming years.152 - Katedra podnikohospodářskávelmi dobř

Geyserite in Hot-Spring Siliceous Sinter: Window on Earth’s Hottest Terrestrial (Paleo)environment and its Extreme Life

International audienceSiliceous hot-spring deposits, or sinters, typically form in active, terrestrial (on land), volcanic terrains where magmatically heated waters circulating through the shallow crust emerge at the Earth's surface as silica-charged geothermal fluids. Geyserites are sinters affiliated with the highest temperature (~ 75–100 °C), natural geothermal fluid emissions, comprising localized, lithologically distinctive, hydrothermal silica precipitates that develop around geysers, spouters and spring-vents. They demarcate the position of hot-fluid upflow zones useful for geothermal energy and epithermal mineral prospecting. Near-vent areas also are “extreme environment” settings for the growth of microbial biofilms at near-boiling temperatures. Microbial biosignatures (e.g., characteristic silicified microbial textures, carbon isotopes, genetic material, lipid biomarkers) may be extracted from modern geyserite. However, because of strong taphonomic filtering and subsequent diagenesis, fossils in geyserite are very rare in the pre-Quaternary sinter record which, in and of itself, is patchy in time and space back to about 400 Ma. Only a few old examples are known, such as geyserite reported from the Devonian Drummond Basin (Australia), Devonian Rhynie cherts (Scotland), and a new example described herein from the spectacularly well-preserved, Late Jurassic (150 Ma), Yellowstone-style geothermal landscapes of Patagonia, Argentina. There, geyserite is associated with fossil vent-mounds and silicified hydrothermal breccias of the Claudia sinter, which is geologically related to the world-class Cerro Vanguardia gold/silver deposit of the Deseado Massif, a part of the Chon Aike siliceous large igneous province. Tubular, filament-like micro-inclusions from Claudia were studied using integrated petrographic and laser micro-Raman analysis, the results of which suggest a biological origin. The putative fossils are enclosed within nodular geyserite, a texture typical of subaerial near-vent conditions. Overall, this worldwide review of geyserite confirms its significance as a mineralizing geological archive reflecting the nature of Earth's highest temperature, habitable terrestrial sedimentary environment. Hot-spring depositional settings also may serve as analogs for early Earth paleoenvironments because of their elevated temperature of formation, rapid mineralization by silica, and morphologically comparable carbonaceous material sourced from prokaryotes adapted to life at high temperatures

Constraining long-term denudation and faulting history in intraplate regions by multisystem thermochronology: An example of the Sudetic Marginal Fault (Bohemian Massif, central Europe)

The Rychlebské hory Mountain region in the Sudetes (NE Bohemian Massif) provides a natural laboratory for studies of postorogenic landscape evolution. This work reveals both the exhumation history of the region and the paleoactivity along the Sudetic Marginal Fault (SMF) using zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe), apatite fission track (AFT), and apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe) dating of crystalline basement and postorogenic sedimentary samples. Most significantly, and in direct contradiction of traditional paleogeographic reconstructions, this work has found evidence of a large Cretaceous sea and regional burial (to >6.5 km) of the Carboniferous-Permian basement in the Late Cretaceous (~95–80 Ma). During the burial by sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin System, the SMF acted as a normal fault as documented by offset ZHe ages across the fault. At 85–70 Ma, the basin was inverted, Cretaceous strata eroded, and basement blocks were exhumed to the near surface at a rate of ~300 m/Ma as evidenced by Late Cretaceous–Paleocene AFT ages and thermal modeling results. There is no appreciable difference in AFT and AHe ages across the fault, suggesting that the SMF acted as a reverse fault during exhumation. In the late Eocene–Oligocene, the basement was locally heated to <70°C by magmatic activity related to opening of the Eger rift system. Neogene or younger thermal activity was not recorded in the thermochronological data, confirming that late Cenozoic uplift and erosion of the basement blocks was limited to less than ∼1.5 km in the study area

Classification of Web Service Users

Tato práce prozkoumává metody klasifikace uživatelů webových služeb podle jejich chování. Důraz je kladen zejména na klasifikaci lidských uživatelů a robotů. Zkoumaných metod je několik, od jednoduchého porovnávání časů přistupů na web ke klasifikátoru na bázi Markovova modelu. Součástí práce je také aplikace, která tyto metody využívá a testuje. Všechny metody v aplikaci byly vykoušeny, jejich úspěšnost změřena na několika datasetech a výsledky porovnány mezi sebou.ObhájenoThis thesis explores methods of classification of web users depending on their behaviour. it emhasizes classification of robots and human web users. There are multiple explored methods, from simple classification based on times of requests to classification based on Markov models. Another part of this thesis is an application that uses and tests these methods. All methods were tested and measured on multiple datasets and their results compared

System for Parallel Execution of a General Genetic Algorithm

Tato práce prozkoumává možnosti a funkce genetických algoritmů při řešení obecných problémů, možnosti jejich paralelizace a spouštění v distribuovaném prostředí. Cílem práce je napsat aplikaci, která bude umožňovat spouštění obecného genetického algoritmu v paralením a/nebo distribuovaném výpočetním protředí a tuto aplikaci otestovat zejména s ohledem na urychlení, které paralelizace přináší. Cíle byly splněny, napsaná aplikace přináší znatelné urychlení oproti sekvenčnímu algoritmu, což bylo potvrzeno testy a měřením.ObhájenoThis thesis explores the options and functionality of genetic algorithms for general problem solving and options for their parallelization and execution in distributed environment. The goal of this thesis is to implement application, that will allow execution of general genetic algorithm in parallel and/or distributed computational environment and to test this application with respect to speedup that parallelism brings. The goals were met, implemented application shows noticeable speedup compared to sequential algorithm, which was confirmed by tests and measurements

On-line film distribution

This Thesis, named ?On-line Film Distribution? describes and asesses new distribution channels which have brought movies to the forefront of online content by the net phenonmenon. This thesis is focussed on on-line platforms, where audiovisual content is available and gives rise to new trends in online content and multimedia. The thesis is essentially an introduction to the current view and evaluation of online movies from an artists perspective as described by distributors, film makers and the end user. Specific chapters are dedicated to following topics: new models of audiovisual distribution, the internet phenomenon, on demand video, catch up content, IPTV, on-line piracy, user generated content, digital cinema and content on mobile devices. The conclusion is dedicated to the technological development and outlook of future of distribution channels

Lunacy in the 19th Century: Women's Admission to Asylums in United States of America.

Between the years of 1850-1900, women were placed in mental institutions for behaving in ways that male society did not agree with. Women during this time period had minimal rights, even concerning their own mental health. Research concluded that many women were admitted for reasons that could be questionable. Since the 19th century, many of the symptoms women experience according to admittance records would not make a woman eligible for admittance to a mental asylum today. Women with symptoms were later diagnosed insane by reasons such as religious excitement, epilepsy, and suppressed menustruation. The symptoms and diagnoses presented, show that labeling of women as insane was done very lightly and was influenced by social attitudes toward women. Did these women truly need to be admitted to asylums, or was their admittance an example of their lack of power to control their own lives? Further research could raise additional questions such as a comparison of the rate of admittance between American-born and immigrant women

The functions of an asylum: an analysis of male and female admissions to Essex County Asylum in 1904

BACKGROUND: Contrasting historical views represent the asylum as a manifestation of humanitarian and therapeutic progress or as an institution of social control designed to bolster the capitalist economic order. More extreme critics suggest it was used to incarcerate people exhibiting only political or social deviance. METHODS: Case notes of 200 consecutive male and female admissions to the Essex County Asylum in 1904 were inspected. The nature of presentations was classified in contemporary terms into broad categories of disorder. Outcomes were identified and differences between men and women were explored. RESULTS: We found no evidence that patients were admitted without signs of significant mental and behavioural disturbance. In total, 44% of admissions had signs of an organic condition, and these were more frequent among men. Women were admitted at a faster rate and were 1.6 times more likely to have mania or a psychotic disorder. Overall, 45.5% of patients were discharged, with 62% of patients with non-organic disorders discharged recovered or improved. CONCLUSIONS: Evidence partially supports both views of the asylum. In line with other studies, there is no evidence that the asylum was used to incarcerate people who did not show significant signs of disorder, but it did provide care and containment for those who could not be accommodated elsewhere, including many with organic conditions. The asylum also had a therapeutic orientation, however, and encouraged discharge where possible. In contrast to some other studies, women were more likely to be institutionalised than men, possibly reflecting their greater economic dependency