470 research outputs found
Vaclav Klaus and "nature"
No full textThesis is based on the views of authors of sociology of knowledge (Berger, Luckman, Bourdieu) and authors of discourse analysis (Foucault, Fairclough). The central assumption is that knowledge is socially constructed and that this construction has its strong ideological and hierarchic aspects. Author is analyzing books and texts of Vaclav Klaus using the critical discourse analysis. Author is convinced that Vaclav Klaus has a substantive influence on public opinion in Czech Republic. Also author is convinced the struggle in the discussion over environmental topics is based in different basic assupmtions of discussion participant. Thus author decided to analyse the Vaclav Klaus's basic assumptions for the notions of nature and environment
A novel testing system for a Cycloidal drive
No full textAt present, for mechanical power transmission, Cycloidal drives are most preferred - for compact, high transmission ratio speed reduction, especially for robot joints and manipulator applications. Research on drive-train dynamics of Cycloidal drives is not well-established. This paper presents a testing rig for Cycloidal drives, which would produce data for development of mathematical models and investigation of drive-train dynamics, further aiding in optimising its desig
How cyber breeds crime and criminals
No full textUnderstanding how cyber breeds novel crime
and new criminals is a contribution to
criminological models with significant
applied value. It is highly important for law
enforcement and particularly pivotal for
preventive intervention. In this paper we
propose a human rights-based crime
definition, present explanatory models for
cybercrime, and outline future arenas and
drivers to suggest to the stakeholder
community prevention focuses and priorities.
The presented work ultimately aims towards
supporting two crime preventive design
initiatives, one targeted at accounting for and
narrowing the cybercriminal space of means,
opportunities, and motives; the other aiming
at augmenting early and proactive adaptation
of crime legislation. Finally, life-based and
agile design paradigms are briefly introduced
as suitable methods to be pursued in future
research and developmental projects.peerReviewe
Vaclav Havel : le premier président postmoderne?
No full textDans cet article, l’auteur tente de cerner la pensée philosophico-politique du dramaturge tchèque et ex-dissident Vaclav Havel. À la lumière de sa critique à l’égard de la modernité et de l’européocentrisme, l’auteur s’interroge sur la portée de la réflexion de celui qui fut porté à la présidence de son pays suite à la révolution de velours, et se demande si elle peut s’inscrire dans le sillon postmoderniste.In this article, the author tries to define the philosophical and political thought of the Czech dramatist and the ex-dissident Vaclav Havel. In the light of his critical position against modernity and europeocentrism, the author is questioning himself about the Havel's thought's impact, and wondering if this one can be connected with the postmodern thought
Library of Vaclav Cerny
No full textThis thesis presents the personality of Vaclav Cerny and his personal library. First, the author turns the Černý's professional resume. The second part focuses on the critical activities readership portrait and popular heroes. Another part is defined Černý's personal library, general characteristics, its formation, the ways in which Černý harvested books, his work with books, literature review, and libraries that Černý visited during his life. The final part describes in detail the part of the library with existential literature, deals with the forerunners of existentialism and the Czech and foreign representatives of this philosophical direction
A Hybrid Trust Management Framework for Vehicular Social Networks
No full textThis paper addresses the trust management problem in the emerging Vehicular Social Network (VSN). VSN is an evolutionary integration of Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) and Online Social Networks (OSN). The application domain of VSN inherits the features of its parental VANET and OSN, providing value-added services and applications to its consumers, i.e. passengers and drivers. However, the immature infrastructure of VSN is vulnerable to security and privacy threats while information sharing, and hard to realize in the mass of vehicles. Therefore, in this paper, we particularly advocate for communication trust establishment and management during information exchange in VSN. First, we establish functional architectural frameworks for VSN that are based on the underlying applications. Second, based on these frameworks, we propose two trust establishment and management solutions, i.e. email-based social trust and social networks-based trust, to target different sets of applications. Third, we discuss the contemporary research challenges in VSN. Our proposed scheme is a stepping stone towards the secure and trustworthy realization of this technology.</p
Georgian translations of Vaclav Havel's texts
No full textThe translation is of special significance for the history of culture, since it implies not only overcoming of lingual borders, but it serves as the breakthrough in cultural, historic and social dams and the intellectual „conquest” of new geographical area. The principle of “intercultural” translation is based on a transfer of cultural tradition. Back in the old world, it was called “translatio”. European culture developed three major modifications of “translatio”: translation - 1) translatio religionis, that is translation of true religion; 2) translatio imperii - that is translation of ideal state management and 3) translatio studii – translation of science and true wisdom. Thus, the idea of translation is interpreted as a transfer of spiritual inheritance, translation of definite spiritual values.
In the history of the world, there are persons, whose life and activity stimulate others, whose strength and unwavering position inspires, and their ideas strengthen and fill others with the hope for the future. Vaclav Havel, Czech drama playwright, essayist, and a poet belongs to namely such group of people, who passed his life road from dissidence to the post of a president and whose ideas are especially urgent for present day society.
The author of the present report has been publishing translations of Vaclav Havel’s works of various genres – essays, plays, interviews from the Czech language from the 90s of the 20th century. In the present report, the author offers her observations on the specificity of her translation on Vaclav Havel’s texts. She makes emphasis on the peculiarities of Havel’s language, which in his works often bears a function of expression of a pressure of totalitarian regime on a man
Fuzzy neuro theory and technologies for cloud computing; edited by Young-Sik Jeong, Vaclav Snasel, Hamid R. Arabnia and Jason C. Hung
No full textAn empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of different types of predictor attributes in protein function prediction.
No full textMany classification schemes for defining protein functions, such as Gene Ontology (GO), are organised in a hierarchical structure. Nodes near the root of the hierarchy represent general functions while nodes near the leaves of the hierarchy represent more specific functions, giving the flexibility to specify at which level the protein will be annotated. In a data mining perspective, hierarchical structures present a more challenging problem, since the relationship between nodes need to be considered. This chapter presents an empirical evaluation of different protein representations for protein function prediction in terms of maximizing predictive accuracy, investigating which type of representation is more suitable for different levels of the GO hierarchy
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