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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KAAT PROJECT - KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE IN AIR TRANSPORT – THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT
No full textČlánok sa zoberá problematikou vysokoškolského vzdelávania v nadväznosti na potreby leteckého priemyslu ako odvetvia národného hospodárstva. V súvislosti s narastajúcou potrebou skvalitňovania a zefektívňovania procesu vzdelávania, je potrebné riešiť medzinárodnú spoluprácu pri vzdelávaní odborníkov v leteckej doprave. Odpoveďou na tento problém bolo vytvorenie znalostnej aliancie v rámci projektov ERASMUS+, ktorá analyzuje globálny trh povolaní a kvalifikácií v leteckej doprave. Cieľom projektu bolo špecifikovať zoznam súčasných povolaní, ale aj budúcich povolaní v nadväznosti na analýzu kvalifikácií v odvetví leteckej dopravy. Na základe týchto výstupov projektu bol vytvorený nový študijný program ako aj upravené programy ďalšieho vzdelávania v letectve. Príspevok poukazuje na výstupy a prínosy takejto spolupráce.The paper is focused on the higher education system in relation to the needs of the aviation industry as a branch of the national economy. In connection with the growing need to improve and streamline the education process it is important to develop and create the international cooperation in education of professionals in aviation industry. The response on this problem was the creation of knowledge alliance supported by the ERASMUS+ project, which analysed the global market of occupations and qualifications in the air transport. Based on the results of qualification analyses a list of current occupations was specified, as well as future occupations in the aviation sector. On the project outputs a new study program was created and further lifelong learning programs were modified. The paper points to the outputs and benefits of this cooperation
TYPOVÉ SCHVÁLENIE AUTONÓMNYCH (SAMOJAZDIACICH) VOZIDIEL
No full textThe technologies of vehicle automation are constantly evolving to make vehicles more efficient. The vehicle approval legislation must allow this innovation while ensuring road safety, cyber security etc. Autonomous vehicles are therefore not only a challenge for vehicle manufacturers, but also for the approval authorities themselves, which authorize vehicles for road traffic. An internal market that promotes new technologies and at the same time protects citizens from the new risks posed by self-driving vehicles must be guaranteed. New technologies not foreseen in the current legislation can be approved on the basis of a derogation granted under a national ad hoc safety assessment. In this way, level 3 and 4 autonomous vehicles can currently be approved for road traffic. Level 3 and 4 vehicles are already being tested and are expected to be available.Technológie automatizácie riadenia vozidiel sa neustále vyvíjajú s cieľom efektívnejšieho využívania vozidla. Právne predpisy pre schvaľovanie vozidle musia umožniť túto inováciu a zároveň zabezpečiť bezpečnosť cestnej premávky, kybernetickú bezpečnosť a podobne. Autonómne vozidlá nie sú preto len výzvou pre výrobcov vozidiel, ale aj pre samotné schvaľovacie orgány, ktoré schvaľujú vozidlá na prevádzku v cestnej premávke. Musí byť zaručený vnútorný trh, ktorý podporuje nové technológie a zároveň chráni občanov pred novými rizikami, ktoré predstavujú vozidlá bez vodiča. Nové technológie, ktoré sa nepredpokladajú v súčasných právnych predpisoch sa môžu schváliť na základe výnimky udelenej na základe vnútroštátneho ad hoc posúdenia bezpečnosti. Takýmto spôsobom je možné v súčasnosti schváliť na prevádzku v cestnej premávke autonómne vozidlá úrovne 3 a 4. Práve vozidlá úrovne 3 a 4 sa už testujú a očakáva sa, že budú dostupné
THE IRRATIONALITY OF CONSUMERS CHOOSING PLANE TICKETS: CASE STUDY OF GENERATION Z REPRESENTATIVES IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
No full textEconomic models can be used to describe consumer behavior or to predict expected behavior of the consumers. In order for the application of the selected economic model to describe realistically the issue under study, it is necessary that the individual components of the economic model are able to reliably identify and possibly even quantify main characteristics of the studied problematique. In the last few years, one of the basic theses based on which several economic models are built upon has been "questioned" within the scientific community, namely the one that portraits human as always rationally behaving individual. The goal of this article is to verify whether, in the framework of predicting consumer behavior, one can still use a person as a so-called homo oeconomicus (economic man who always behaves rationally) or whether this theory has been already overcome, and human behavior should be rather described as irrational. To validate the theory of irrationality in the context of consumer behavior, an experiment in the field of air transport will be used, monitoring consumer decision making while choosing the plane tickets
Melvillian Meditations in Charles Johnson’s “Executive Decision”
No full textRegardless of its philosophical para-text, an overt reading of Charles Johnson’s short story “Executive Decision” suggests very obvious ideological connotations. The story displays the racial pride and black agency along with the ideologically loaded either-or antithesis of a competition between a white woman and a black man within a protracted job interview. At one point, the story even lapses into a sociological exposé. However, Johnson’s intertextual pairing of the story with Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” significantly enhances its allusive potential, thereby redeeming the formulaic template of racial melodrama which Johnson frequently criticizes. By casting the African American character as a stand-in for Bartleby, the story opens up its narrow concern (affirmative action) to the larger theme of redistributive justice and the dangers of self-entitlement. In an eclectic reading, the story can even signify on the scarcity of positive male African American role models in the public eye, a theme which Johnson is very much preoccupied with
The Past as a Multi-perspective Structure in Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers
No full textMatthew Kneale’s neo-Victorian novel English Passengers (2000) is underlain by contemporary, revisionist views of Victorian ideologies. In particular, by placing its action on board a ship headed towards Tasmania as well as in Tasmania itself, the novel examines colonial attitudes and relations between cultures. Accordingly, it has been analysed as a novel about national identity and imperial politics (Boccardi 2009). This article takes the novel’s form as the starting point for analysis. Told in twenty voices, with events developing on two temporal planes which continually intersect and eventually converge, English Passengers foregrounds the co-existence of multiple perspectives and the simultaneity of events in its representation of the past, and by doing so it disrupts the convention of narrative. The article argues that, rather than relying on linearity and causality, Kneale’s novel constructs an image of the past as a structure with many dimensions, in which temporal change depends on a variety of overlapping, conflicting or convergent points of view and attitudes. Ultimately, the discussion attempts to demonstrate that through its structure English Passengers, without being overtly metafictional or metahistorical, addresses the problem of representing the past
Ordinary Stories in Extraordinary Times: Marcie Hershman’s Tales of the Master Race
No full textThis paper examines the categories of perpetrators, bystanders and victims as represented among the characters of Marcie Hershman’s short story cycle Tales of the Master Race. The main focus is on the characters of perpetrators, as it is predominantly from their perspectives that Hershman depicts life in a small German town during the Third Reich. The paper aims to explore the social-psychological reasons for the perpetration of evil, be it conformity to authorities or ideological anti-Semitism. It also points to a certain fluidity in the examined categories of the characters, demonstrating the thin borders among them
“Neither Innocent, nor Guilty”: the Scapegoat in the Ironic Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham
No full textThis article aims to examine several short stories of W. Somerset Maugham in terms of ironic victimization. Northrop Frye’s claim that a pharmakos or a scapegoat is a typical ironic victim inspired my idea of dissecting a number of characters in Maugham’s stories as pharmakoi. In the analysis two types of pharmakoi characters were discovered: primary and secondary ones, with each implying a different targeting of irony. Primary pharmakoi are disguised as scapegoat characters, but it is through the contact with them that the real victim of irony is revealed. The stories these characters are featured in are usually more complex, and the irony is built either on a stereotype or an archetype. The stereotype proposes the thematical background on which the irony is built, while the archetype – here a structural model – is based on the readers’ subconscious expectations. In secondary scapegoat stories, irony is targeted at one of the characters or the community they stereotypically represent. Several short stories are analysed in the article: “The Mother,” “The Fall of Edward Barnard,” “The Alien Corn” and “Rain.
MODELING OF THE INDENTATION INTO HARD AND BRITTLE MATERIALS
No full textTento článek se zabývá stručným popisem modelování indentace do tvrdých a křehkých materiálů, například skla, vrstveného skla nebo různých druhů keramiky pomocí metody konečných prvků. Vytvořený model je velmi užitečný jako podpora indentační zkoušky proto, že touto cestou získáme další materiálové charakteristiky, které je obtížné nebo dokonce nemožné získat experimentálně, ale také z důvodu odhalení zdrojů nepřesností měření. Dalším přínosem je možnost zkoumat odezvu nějaké neznámé kombinace vrstvených materiálů a posoudit tak vhodnost použití pro daný účel, aniž by bylo nutné vzorek předem vyrobit.This paper deals with a brief description of indentation modeling into hard and brittle materials, such as glass, laminated glass or various types of ceramics using the finite element method. The created model is very useful as a support for the indentation test because in this way we obtain other material characteristics that are difficult or even impossible to obtain experimentally, but also due to the detection of sources of measurement inaccuracies. Another benefit is the ability to investigate the response of an unknown combination of laminates and assess the suitability for use for a given purpose without the need to pre-fabricate the sample
SUSTAINABILITY TRENDS IN THE POSTAL SYSTEMS OF LAST-MILE DELIVERY
No full textPostal systems are characterized by strong infrastructure and appropriate human, technical, and technological resources. The activities of these systems are economically demanding and impact the environment, which represents some of the most delicate problems of sustainable development. This paper presents the basic principles and proposals for the improvement of sustainable development capabilities in the postal systems. A review of modern means of transport is offered. Some of these means are still in the trial phase; however, their implementation is expected in the near future based on both, economic and environmental reasons. 
COMPARISON OF HOGHORN ANALYSIS METHODS
No full textThe paper compares an aperture method and full-wave numerical simulations of hoghorn, which is used as a simple primary feed for reflector antennas or individually without reflector. The hoghorn consists of a sectoral horn flaring in only one plane and a parabolic cylinder. We briefly explain the calculations of hoghorn dimensions, aperture distributions and radiation patterns. This is suitable for numerical computations. We analyze the completely new simultaneous comparisons of the ample experiments with numerical results of both the aperture method and the numerical simulations. This enables to obtain innovative conclusions. Proposed improvements can diminish slight differences of one polarization between experiments and numerical simulations. We have used the described methods for the design of certain antennas for multilateration systems, such as Tamara and Vera passive radars, for civilian and military air traffic control, which greatly improve the accuracy of tracking aircrafts
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