Strategic choice in accounting software selection: Case Lähialuematkat Oy Russian Tours Ltd

This thesis describes the identification and evaluation of generic accounting software alternatives to be implemented at Lähialuematkat Oy Russian Tours Ltd. The author had an internship in the company and participated in the accounting system and business operations improvements. This project focused on the selection of an appropriate generic software alternative that would provide the company with a platform for the future and solve an issue with the payment module of the current accounting system. In the first chapter of the thesis, objectives are set and research questions are defined. The main objective of the research is to define the most suitable generic option for the case company, as opposed to a specific software solution provider. To help answer the main research question, supporting questions are defined related to the necessity of changing accounting software, the benefits and costs of changing accounting software, the types of software licenses that exist, issues to be taken into account when changing software, and the best practices employed by companies when changing the software. The second chapter provides the answers to the supporting questions that were introduced in chapter one through related literature review in order to prepare then theoretical perspective for the project part The third chapter is devoted to the case company, Lähialuematkat Oy Russian Tours Ltd. There is a description of the company and of the situation when there is a need to make a strategic decision and buy or make the software. SWOT analysis and transaction costs analysis of all possible options for Lähialuematkat Oy are also performed in this chapter. The recommendation is to choose the option of buying the new software (package, not a module) and simplify the whole IT environment of the company. Based on the research work and the analysis, the main findings of the thesis and recommendations concerning the further development of the project in Lähialuematkat Oy are presented in the fourth chapter

COMICS AS EDUCATIONAL TOOLS IN TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR, LEXIS AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

The paper claims comics to be efficient multimodal tools in teaching students of English not only grammar and vocabulary but also some communication skills, social and language norms of conducting a conversation. Being entertaining and having the multimodal potential that results in a strong effect on the recipients’ responsiveness, comics highly motivate students to integrate in education process and make learning fun for teachers and children alike.The authors aim at presenting an algorithm of teaching English and conversation skills by means of comics design teaching  passing through the following stages: introducing the communicative situation, learning cultural data (linguistic and extralinguistic) and a conversation pattern (social rules for opening, developing and closing a conversation), imitating the conversation, working with grammar patterns and speech clichés, reproducing the conversation following the pictures, and, finally, acting it out. Comics vividly demonstrate facial expressions and gestures of the characters that are crucial in communicating certain ideas in a multisemiotic way either accompanying speech or performing on their own.The authors present the results of the experimental teaching to nine/ ten-year old children in a secondary school in Russia which prove comics to be functional, well-structured tools for acquiring grammar, lexis and communication skills by young learners of English.

Sex Differences in Absolute and Normalized Rapid Force During Maximal Handgrip Contractions

Sex differences in strength are well documented. However, the influence of the strength disparity on the absolute and normalized rate of force development (RFD) is not as well described, particularly for the handgrip. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine differences in absolute and normalized RFD between sexes during maximal handgrip contractions. METHODS: During a single visit, 32 right-hand dominant participants (n = 16 males, n = 16 females) performed maximal, unilateral isometric handgrip contractions with their dominant hands. Maximal force, the RFD from 0-50ms (RFD50), 0-100ms (RFD100), and peak RFD (RFDpeak) were computed. The RFD responses were normalized to the maximal force values during each contraction (nRFD50, nRFD100, nRFDpeak). Independent samples t-tests were used for statistical analysis and the effect size for the mean comparisons were computed. RESULTS: Males were stronger than females (p \u3c 0.01, d = 2.36) and demonstrated greater absolute RFDpeak (p \u3c 0.01, d = 1.11) values, but there were no sex differences for RFD50 (p = 0.112, d = 0.578) and RFD100 (p = 0.088, d = 0.624) despite the moderate effect sizes for greater RFD values for the males. There were no sex differences for the normalized RFD responses. Specifically, nRFD50 (p = 0.112, d = 0.624), nRFD100 (p = 0.167, d = 0.501), and nRFDpeak (p = 0.217, d = 0.446) showed moderate effect sizes for greater normalized RFD values for females compared to males. CONCLUSION: The data shows that sex differences in RFD are influenced by the interval of measurement and normalization procedures. These results have implications for studies comparing RFD between sexes

Complementarity means of training in vocational education

Teacher complementary embedded in learning tools, considering the ratio of students to educational and scientific literature; student-generated intangible component due to the educational environmentПреподаватель комплементарно встраивается в систему средств обучения, учитывая отношение студентов к учебной и научной литературе; формируется личностно-обусловленный нематериальный компонент образовательной сред

Soft gluon emission from heavy quark scattering in strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma

We apply the Low's theorem to soft gluon emission from heavy quark scattering in the nonperturbative strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP). The sQGP is described in terms of the DQPM (Dynamical QuasiParticle Model) based on a propagator representation in 2PI representation and adjusted to reproduce the EoS from lQCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. Since the emitted gluon is soft and of long wavelength, it does not provide information on the detailed structure of the scattering, since only the emission from incoming and outgoing partons is accounted. It simplifies the calculations making the amplitude factorizable into the leading-order scattering and the emission of soft gluon. Imposing a proper upper limit on the energy of the emitted gluon, we obtain the scattering cross sections of charm quarks with the massive partons of the medium as well as the transport coefficients (momentum drag and diffusion) of charm quarks in the QGP and compare with those from elastic scattering, i.e. from only the leading-order calculations.Comment: 13 pages, 8 figure

Extraction of the microscopic properties of quasi-particles using deep neural networks

We use deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain the microscopic characteristics of partons in terms of dynamical degrees of freedom on the basis of an off-shell quasiparticle description. We aim to infer masses and widths of quasi-gluons, up/down, and strange quarks using constraints on the macroscopic thermodynamic observables obtained by the first-principles calculations lattice QCD. In this work, we use 3 independent dimensionless thermodynamic observables from lQCD for minimization. First, we train our DNN using the DQPM (Dynamical QuasiParticle Model) Ansatz for the masses and widths. Furthermore, we use the DNN capabilities to generalize this Ansatz, to evaluate which quasiparticle characteristics are desirable to describe different thermodynamic functions simultaneously. To evaluate consistently the microscopic properties obtained by the DNN in the case of off-shell quarks and gluons, we compute transport coefficients using the spectral function within Kubo-Zubarev formalism in different setups. In particular, we make a comprehensive comparison in the case of the dimensionless ratios of shear viscosity over entropy density $\eta/s$ and electric conductivity over temperature $\sigma_Q/T$, which provide additional constraints for the parameter generalization of the considered models.Comment: 22 pages, 20 figure

Radiative energy loss of heavy quark through soft gluon emission in QGP

The Low's theorem is applied to the soft gluon emission from heavy quark scattering in quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The QGP is described by the dynamical quasi-particle model (DQPM) which reproduces the EoS from lQCD at finite temperature and chemical potential. We show that if the emitted gluon is soft and of long wavelength, the scattering amplitude can be factorized into the scattering part and the emission part and the Slavnov-Taylor identities are satisfied in the leading order. Imposing a proper upper limit on the emitted gluon energy, we obtain the scattering cross sections of charm quark as well as the transport coefficients (momentum drag and diffusion) in the QGP with and without gluon emission.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, proceeding for the Hard Probes 202

Annotated translation of the first and the second chapters of Karel Srp's book "Toyen"

This bachelor thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a translation of selected chapters from the book Toyen written by Karel Srp. The second part represents a commentary of the translation. The commentary is divided into the following sections: translation analysis of the source text, translation method, typology of translation problems and translation shifts. Key words: translation, translation analysis, translation method, translation problem, translation shift, surrealism, artTato bakalářská práce se skládá ze dvou částí. První část je překladem vybraných kapitol z knihy Karela Srpa Toyen. Druhá část představuje odborný komentář k překladu, který obsahuje následující části: překladatelská analýza výchozího textu, překladatelská koncepce, typologie překladatelských problémů a posunů. Klíčová slova: překlad, překladatelská analýza, překladatelská koncepce, překladatelský problém, překladatelský posun, surrealismus, uměníInstitute of Translation StudiesÚstav translatologieFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art