This diploma thesis deals with monitoring the development and analysis of selected indicators affecting living standards in the Visegrad group. The Visegrad group includes country in Central Europe: Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. The diploma thesis analyzes a selected indicators, which determing living standards. The thesis also analyzes their development and mutual comparisons between selected countries from entering countries into the European Union in 2005 to 2013. The main data source for this work is provided by Eurostat especially EU-SILC. The next part is a principal component analysis of the monitored indicators and the results are interpreted in mutual comparison of the countries of the Visegrad group.

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<p>En komponentbaserad mjukvaruutveckling syftar till att minska utvecklings- och underhållskostnader för mjukvaruprogram. Trots att det idag inte finns någon enhälligt accepterad definition av en komponent så existerar komponentteknologier som ämnar till att minska utvecklingstiden för mjukvara genom komponenter.</p><p>De olika teknologierna som undersöks i denna rapport är Microsofts COM, OMGs CORBA och Suns JavaBeans. Dessa jämförs på tekniska egenskaper, prestanda, språkberoende, plattformsberoende och distributionsstöd då dessa egenskaper är viktiga för programvaruutvecklare vid val av teknologi. Detta genomförs med hjälp av en litteraturstudie över specifikationerna för respektive teknologi. Litteraturstudien täcker även material av teknologiernas existens på dagens kommersiella komponentmarknad.</p><p>Resultatet från jämförelsen pekar på att COM-teknologin kommer att dominera marknaden för komponenter på Windows-plattformarna och att CORBA kommer att smälta ihop med JavaBeans för att dominera marknaden för icke Windows-plattformar.</p>

Vi har i detta examensarbete tagit avstamp i våra egna hantverksmässiga snickerierfarenheter för attutöka vår kunskap om träbearbetning i större skala. Med oss har vi haft tankar på egna framtida verksamheter och hur vi där skulle kunna kombinera småskalighet med storskalighet. Genom att lära känna delar av den svenska träindustrins tillverkning av möbelkomponenter har vi velat utvidga våra kontaktnät såväl som öka vår kunskap om deras utrustning och arbetssätt.Vi har valt att utgå från en produkt, vilken vi formgav för uppgiften, för att på så vis begränsa vårt område. Vår idé har varit att jämföra tillverkningen av delar till denna produkt mellan ett litet snickerioch småskalig industri. Vi har delat in tillverkningen i olika tekniker och inom var och en av dessa sökt upp specialiserade företag, att samla i en lista samt att besöka under arbetet.Vi anser att vår undersökning visar att det finns goda möjligheter för det lilla snickeriet att nå framgång både genom att lära av och samarbeta med den småskaliga träindustrin. De arbetssätt och de maskiner vi sett under våra besök hos industrin, skulle i flera fall gå att använda i det lilla snickeriet. Till tekniker som varit extra spännande att lyfta fram hör bland annat rationell svarvning av raka föremål, frässvarvning i kopieringsfräs samt den utveckling som skett inom basning och böjning av trä genom komprimering. Det vi i ett första läge tror är mest lönsamt för det lilla snickeriet att köpa från småindustrin är olika typer av svarvade eller frässvarvade ämnen samt avancerad bearbetning som kan göras enkelt i en CNC-styrd maskin. I arbetet har vi också erfarit att det finns många faktorer, i vissa fall svåra att tydligt redovisa, som påverkar vilken väg som är möjlig och lämplig att ta. / In this thesis we have expanded our experiences of handcrafting furniture into larger scale furniture making. With us we’ve had thoughts of our own future occupation and the possibilities to combine small and large scale cabinet making. In getting to know parts of the Swedish industrial manufacturing offurniture components, we’ve wanted to extend our network of contacts as well as increase our knowledge of their equipment and work methods.We have chosen to use a product that we designed for the task, thus limiting our area. Our idea has been to compare the manufacturing of parts for this product in a small workshop and small scale industry. We have divided the production into various techniques and for each of these we’ve sought out specialized manufacturers, to be listed and for us to visit and learn from.We believe our study shows that there are good opportunities for the small wood workshop to add to its success by both learning from and cooperating with the small scale wood industries. The modus operandi and the machines we have seen during our visits to industries, would in many cases be possible to use in the small workshop. Techniques that have been especially exciting for us to highlight include efficient turning of straight components, turning of irregular shapes in copy milling machines as well asthe development of steam bending through compression. What we firstly believe to be most profitable for the small woodworking shop to purchase from small industries are different types of turned or copy-milled components alongside the advanced processing that can be easily done in a CNC machine. In the process we also learned that there are many factors, in some cases difficult to clearly acknowledge, that affect which path is feasible and appropriate to take.

The present master's thesis focuses on relationships between the director and the other creators of a theatre production and on the ways in which these relationships develop during the creative process. The author describes and reassesses specific practical examples from her directorial and dramaturgical experience in years 2012-2015. The first part is devoted to those productions in which the author collaborated also on the playtext. It seeks to identify specific primary impulses which had inspired individual projects and to track any subsequent evolution of these impulses, a process which the author defines as assignment formulation. The second part concentrates in more detail on collaboration with actors and explores the circumstances in which a free creative process can be established, the border between the actor's creation and the director's direction of the actor. The third part addresses the interaction between three theatre professions, namely the director, the dramaturgist and the set designer.

En komponentbaserad mjukvaruutveckling syftar till att minska utvecklings- och underhållskostnader för mjukvaruprogram. Trots att det idag inte finns någon enhälligt accepterad definition av en komponent så existerar komponentteknologier som ämnar till att minska utvecklingstiden för mjukvara genom komponenter. De olika teknologierna som undersöks i denna rapport är Microsofts COM, OMGs CORBA och Suns JavaBeans. Dessa jämförs på tekniska egenskaper, prestanda, språkberoende, plattformsberoende och distributionsstöd då dessa egenskaper är viktiga för programvaruutvecklare vid val av teknologi. Detta genomförs med hjälp av en litteraturstudie över specifikationerna för respektive teknologi. Litteraturstudien täcker även material av teknologiernas existens på dagens kommersiella komponentmarknad. Resultatet från jämförelsen pekar på att COM-teknologin kommer att dominera marknaden för komponenter på Windows-plattformarna och att CORBA kommer att smälta ihop med JavaBeans för att dominera marknaden för icke Windows-plattformar.

Diploma thesis analyzes procedure of implementing new component of information system on universities in Czech Republic. Data were collected with the aid of question-form and complemented by interview on chosen universities. Analyze of implementation is divided into several areas: IS architecture, component cooperation, opening analysis, contractor selection, contract, methodology used, project management, time table, global analysis, verification of data purity, testing, training, documentation and acceptance. General recommendations of implementation new component into information system are made from gained information in chapter 6 and summary of thesis.

Presented master's thesis deals with detection of brain wakefulness from scalp EEG data with higher order statistics. Part of the thesis is a description of electroencephalography, from the method of signal generation, sensing, electroencephraphy, EEG signal artifacts, frequency bands of EEG signal to its possible processing. Furthermore, the concept of mental fatigue and the possibility of its detection in the EEG signal is described. Subsequently, the principles of higher statistical methods of PCA and ICA and the specific possibilities of decomposition of EEG signal are described using these methods, from which the method of group spatial-frequency ICA was chosen as a suitable method for selection of partial oscillatory sources in EEG signal. In the next part there is described a method of acquisition of data, a the suggestion of solution with selected method and a description of the implemented algorithm, that was applied to real 256-lead scalp EEG data captured during a block task focused on subject allertnes. The absolute and relative power of the EEG signal was decomposed. From the achieved results, we observe that the fluctuations of the spatial frequency patterns of relative power (especially for theta and alpha bands) significantly more closely correspond with the change of reaction time and the error of the subjects performing the task. These observations appear to be relatively consistent with previously published literature, and the current study shows that spatial frequency ICA is able to blindly isolate space-frequency patterns whose fluctuations are statistically significantly correlated with parameters (reaction time, error rate) directly flowing from the given task.

The following report outlines a project that has been implemented as a degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and Design at the Faculty of Health, Science and Technology at the University of Karlstad.. The project is carried out in behalf of Flexit AB in Töcksfors. Flexit AS/AB has an ongoing project of heat and ventilation systems for family housing. The project covers the required development of a combi device for the installation. The combi device is installed on the facade and combines the handling of outdoor and exhaust air. The device is visible on the facade of the building, therefore the design of the device impacts on how customers agrees to it. The current device was not considered enough aesthetically pleasing to be accepted by customers. The objectives of the project was to enable sales of the company’s ongoing project of heat and ventilation systems for family housing. The work has been carried out according to the product development process where the combination of functionality and design has been the main focus to achieve the objectives of the project. Several concepts were created trough design methods. The concepts were compared to the specification of requirements and one final concept was chosen for further development. The result was five different solutions of a thinner device. All the solutions had the same basic design where the front steelplate varied. The solutions were presented in CAD constructions with renderings. The result also contains simulations of the designs. The designs were considered more attractive than the original product. The solution meets 21 of 28 requirements from the product specification.