This essay investigates how male hip-hop artists assert different masculine identities in their song lyrics. The study considers songs released by American, male hip-hop artists during a 20-year time span, 1990-2010. The 20-year period has been divided into four periods spanning five years each, i.e., 1990-1995, 1995-2000, 2000-2005, and 2005-2010, and songs from best-selling artists during these periods have been chosen. A total of 8 artists are considered in this study, representing 12 songs comprising the data. By focusing on the lexicon of the song lyrics, I show how three recurring heterosexual masculine identities are discursively constructed: the male artist as a womanizer, a misogynist, or a homophobe. I furthermore show how these identities are not mutually exclusive, but can rather co-exist and in this way contribute to an unmistakable alpha-male identity. Finally, the diachronic aspect of the data collection methodology enables an additional investigation of the evolution of identity construction in hip-hop, such that prevailing trends in the early 1990s can be compared to trends evident in the current hip-hop scene.

This Diploma thesis deals with the analysis and proposal of the pilot BI solution for the company Svoboda & Partner CZ s.r.o., engaged in the automechanic expertise. Fundamental objectives of this work focus particularly on the above mentioned pilot BI solutions and partial objectives deal with an analysis of the company and its needs, arising from business strategy and market analysis applications available to support the visualization of transaction reporting. These objectives have been achieved by analyzing the company's business model in chapter seven, further analysis of needs and problems within the company in chapter eight. Before the analysis, the diploma thesis deals with a survey of available applications that offer functionality of dynamically generated graphs to aid visualization of transaction reporting in chapter six and finally a major analysis and preparation of pilot BI and transaction reporting for this business which you can find from chapter 9 to chapter eleven. Contribution of this work for the company will be a complete analysis and delivery of all necessary documents in order to decide whether the above BI solutions to the company implement or not. In the case of a positive decision of the company, it is expected that thanks to BI solutions the ways of looking at corporate data can be more expanded, more precise and more operational management of the company, achieving better performance, higher profits and more efficient decision-making based on better data for decision making.

L'objet de cette thèse est l'étude de revêtements ramifiés V' to V de variétés hyperboliques compactes V cubiques, c'est-à-dire dont le groupe fondamental pi_1(V) opère proprement et cocompactement sur un complexe cubique CAT(0). Notre première approche consiste à construire un complexe cubique localement CAT(0) comme revêtement ramifié du complexe obtenu par cubulation de V. La difficulté est alors de vérifier que ce complexe a le même groupe fondamental que V’. On réalise ce programme dans le cas ou V’ est une « variété de Gromov-Thurston ». Notre seconde approche concerne plus généralement le cas où le lieu de ramification du revêtement V' to V est contenu dans une sous-variété convexe de codimension 1. La préimage de cette variété dans V’ puis dans le revêtement universel X’ de V’ fournit un système naturel de « murs ». La difficulté consiste alors à montrer que ces murs séparent linéairement X’ afin d'utiliser les théorèmes classiques de cubulation. / The goal of this thesis is to study of branched covers V' to V of closed hyperbolic manifolds that can be cubulated, i.e. Whose fundamental group pi_1(V) acts properly and cocompactly on a CAT(0) cube complex. We give sufficient conditions for pi_1(V') to be cubic as well.We tackle this question in two different ways. In a first approach we build a negatively curved cubical complex as a ramified cover of a cubical complex obtained by cubulating V. Then the main issue is to check that the fundamental group of this complexe is isomorphic to the fundamental group of V'. We manage to do so when V' is so called “Gromov-Thurston manifold “. Our second approach deals with the more general case where the branched locus of V' to V is contained in a codimension 1 convex submanifold. The preimage of this submanifold on V' and on the universal cover X' of V' provides a natural system of “walls”. Then the main issue is to show that these walls linearly separate X'. This enables us to use classical cubulation theorems.

This master’s thesis focuses on monitoring and profiling multidimensional database and reports. The project was created in MS SSIS to this purpose and it contains 4 ETL packages. The thesis is divided into three main sections. First section consists of theoretical background needed to accomplish the goal. In second section there is analysis of the company for which is the solution created and in the third part of the thesis there is described the proposal and it’s solution. Proposal of the solution and the solution itself was created in MS Visual Studio 2015, MS SQL Management Studio and Power BI.

This master‘s thesis deals with development and realisation of robotic lawn mower with satelite navigation. It begins with preparation of a platform for outdoor mobile robot navigation and it’s control HW and SW. There are discussed different options of navigation both commercial and experimental. Further on I have chosen the right GNSS receiver based on market research and user experience. The GNSS receiver’s parameters are measured with different antennas. Following with the choice of suitable open-source control unit and it’s software implementation. Furthermore control from a companion computer is described and physical realisation is done. In the end of the thesis activation of the whole mower is performed and described. Lastly there are discussed possible ways of future development.

The aim of this work is to propose such a methodology for designing of SW applications architecture that allows effortless, exact and systematical transformation of the real business process into a model suitable as an assignment for implementation by programmers. The aim of this proposal is such a methodology that would allow to reach the above mentioned goals on the basis of easy-to-understand and simple principles and that would be available either as a fundament for its usage within methodologies that are focused on the management of such projects, or as an alternative to methodologies that are much to expensive, complex and/or designed for very large development teams.

This thesis focuses on the area of detection of potential insurance frauds by using Business Intelligence (BI) and its practical application to real data of compulsory and accident insurance. It describes the basic concepts of insurance business, the individual layers of BI architecture, and a detailed description of the implementation process from data transformation through the use of advanced analytical methods to the presentation of acquired information.

THE DIPLOMA THESIS WHITE CUBE2 DEALS WITH THE ISSUE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE GALLERY. THE AIM OD THE THESIS IS TO DEFINE THE ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE ARCHITECTURAL SPACE OF THE GALLERY AND ITS EXHIBITIONS. THIS PART IS PRECEDED BY A DISCOVERY OF INSTALLATION DISCOURSE AND THE OVERALL CONCEPT OF WHITE CUBE2. THE WORK DEALS WITH THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE MODEL GALLERY IN THE GALLERY AND WITH THE CHANGE OF THE USED MODEL OF THE TRADITIONAL ROLE OF THE VIEWER AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE WORK. THE WORK PRESENTS THE SCI-FI IDEA OF THE FUTURE OF THE MALE ELEMENT.

This thesis describes OLAP and data mining technologies and methods of their communication with users by using dynamic tables. Key theoretical and technical information is also included. Next part focuses on particular implementation of dynamic tables used in Vema portal solution. Last parts come close to analysis and implementation of the metadata editor which enables the metadata to be effectively designed.

Concrete is the work, which sets its goal to make connection between digital game and interactive art. Visuals of the work rely on brutalism architecture. Game mechanics is based on options offered by the aesthetics of the architecture. Visual content has been created within game engine Unity and it is controlled thru the custom controller. The controller is based on mechanics of the Rubik's cube. Visually it is adapted to the content of the work. The work is presented as a working prototype.