Cette recherche constitue une incursion dans la bioéthique de l’Asie. Elle vise à vérifier s’il existe une approche de la bioéthique spécifique pour l’Asie et, s’il s’avère que tel est le cas, d’identifier les particularités les plus apparentes de la nature de cette ‘bioéthique asiatique’. La recherche a été réalisée à même des sources documentaires constituées d’un corpus d’articles publiés entre 2001 et 2005, dans les versions électroniques de revues scientifiques reconnues. La recherche conclut à l’existence d’une ‘bioéthique asiatique’ qui accorde à certaines valeurs humaines une prédominance spécifique, de même qu’un sens différent qui lui est propre. Le lien, entre la culture et les traditions morales locales d’une part, et l’ordre de prédominance et l’interprétation des valeurs éthiques d’autre part, doit être reconnu et pris en compte pour que la bioéthique soit pertinente et applicable aux personnes touchées par les enjeux évalués en Asie. La recherche identifie également quatre particularités de la ‘bioéthique asiatique’ qui constitue le début d’une tentative pour en cerner la nature : le rapport entre ‘soi’ et les autres, la compassion, l’harmonie, de même qu’une conception spirituelle du monde dont la base est l’interdépendance et l’interconnexion d’un ordre universel entrelacé et participatif. / This research study represents an incursion into Asian bioethics. The goal is to verify whether a specific bioethics approach is attributed to Asia and, if so, to identify its most obvious distinctiveness. This research was based on a corpus of articles published between 2001 and 2005 in electronic versions from acknowledged scientific magazines. This research infers the existence of an Asian bioethics which allows for a specific predominance to certain human values as well as unique and distinct meaning. On one hand, the cultural and local moral traditions relationship and, on the other hand, the predominance and interpretation of ethical values, must be recognized and considered so bioethics become relevant and applicable to those affected by the assessed issues in Asia. This study also identifies four distinctiveness in ‘Asian bioethics’ which represent the beginning of an endeavor to define their nature: The correlation between ‘the self’ and the others, compassion, harmony and a spiritual idea of the world based upon interdependence and networking in an intertwined and participative universal order.

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The subject of this diploma thesis is the Employer's Strategy for Employing Parents on Parental Leave. The theoretical starting points of the thesis map the area of equal opportunities policy, the concept of family policy and employment policy in the Czech Republic. In addition, the work focuses on the personal and working life of parents on parental leave, describes the development of personal and work satisfaction, the motivation of parents to return to work and the expectation of parents from the employer. The last part of the theoretical framework focuses on employers' strategy, focuses on the social responsibility of organizations in the context of the topic, the motivation of employers to employ parents, their expectations of cooperation, and examples of different approaches to employing parents in the private and public sectors. The aim of the research part of thesis is to identify the causes that prevent parents from taking part in the labor market during parental leave and to educate and broaden their qualifications and to identify opportunities that lead to facilitating access to the labor market for parents on parental leave. The research problem looks at the perspective of parents (women) employed in the private and public sectors. The problem is processed through qualitative research....

Goal of this master thesis is to study harmonization based on knowledge of given melody and to design a system which will meaningfully automate this activity. In the work there is covered basics of music theory needed for this topic and previous other approaches to this problematic. There is also covered machine learning, neural networks and recurrent neural networks. In the end, there is outlined design of the system, how to make it work and how to use it. Three experiments were executed with the system. Harmonization of the melodies were unpleasant though. A possible cause might be relatively small used neural network of the system.

This Thesis is focused on the arranging of the melody, which is accompanied by jazz chords. It deals with creating a more harmonious voices using Block Voicing method. Distribution to target notes and passing notes is made using techniques of constraint programming (CSP). Passing notes are reharmonized by dominant seventh chord or by parallel chord. Using CSP a bass part is also created. To solve CSP is used Gecode library. The harmonious voices are arranged by Four Part Close Voicing. The application result is a tool for the music arranger.

Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) lebte und wirkte von 1934 an für gut ein Jahrzehnt in Leipzig. Untersuchungen seiner Werke aus jenen Jahren und ihrem unmittelbareren zeitlichen Umfeld stehen im Zentrum dieses Bandes. Die Autorinnen und Autoren nehmen je ein Werk bzw. ein Werkkonvolut Davids in den Blick, vorzugsweise solche für öffentlichkeitswirksame Bereiche wie für Orchester und für Chor. Eine Unterhaltung über in den dreißiger Jahren entstandene Männerchöre, eine zeitgeschichtliche Untersuchung und ein Gespräch über das Verhältnis von Werk und öffentlichem Handeln Davids ergänzen die Beiträge. Der Band verdankt sich einer Initiative der Fachrichtung Komposition/Tonsatz der Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“ Leipzig. In seinem Kern ging er aus Vorträgen hervor, die bei einem halbtägigen Symposium im Wintergarten des Bläserhauses gehalten wurden, das im November 2011 im Rahmen der David-Tage stattfand.

Title: Cover Song Identification using Music Harmony Features, Model and Complexity Analysis Author: Ladislav Maršík Department: Department of Software Engineering Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Pokorný, CSc., Department of Software Engineering Abstract: Analysis of digital music and its retrieval based on the audio fe- atures is one of the popular topics within the music information retrieval (MIR) field. Every musical piece has its characteristic harmony structure, but harmony analysis is seldom used for retrieval. Retrieval systems that do not focus on similarities in harmony progressions may consider two versions of the same song different, even though they differ only in instrumentation or a singing voice. This thesis takes various paths in exploring, how music harmony can be used in MIR, and in particular, the cover song identification (CSI) task. We first create a music harmony model based on the knowledge of music theory. We define novel concepts: a harmonic complexity of a mu- sical piece, as well as the chord and chroma distance features. We show how these concepts can be used for retrieval, complexity analysis, and how they compare with the state-of-the-art of music harmony modeling. An extensive comparison of harmony features is then performed, using both the novel fe- atures and the...

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