Title: UniCredit Bank - the sponsorship utilisation of UEFA Champions League. Objectives: The main objective of this diploma thesis is to analyze the mutual relationship of sponsoring between the UEFA Champions League and UniCredit Bank. Based on the results, recommendations for improvement of the sponsorship cooperation will be suggested. Methods: In this thesis will be used survey in order to obtain the necessary information regarding the impact of the sponsorship from czech fans. Furthermore, SWOT analysis method will be realized to analyze the actual benefit of the sponsorship for UniCredit. And method of case studies which will analyze itself sponsorship with all its consequences. Results: The results will be processed according to the selected objectives and will be interpreted in a separate chapter as suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the sponsorship. Keywords: sport, sponsorship, advertising, UEFA Champions League, UniCredit Bank

Title: Participation of the players on the team game performance in ZBL matches Objectives: My work deals with the proportion of female players on the team's performance in the game of basketball teams in the women's top basketball competition - ZBL. My main aim is to explore these trends from the season 1998/1999 to 2012/2013. The file of observed extraleague players was divided into three categories (Czech players under 20 years, foreigners, Czech players over 20 years). At the same time I determined the monitored characteristics (number of players, numbers of minutes played, numbers of points scored, coefficients of validity) that are signifiant for the research. This work follows my Bachelor thesis ( 2012). Methods: The study is based on the secondary analysis of statistical data of different teams that participated in the seasons from 1998/1999 to 2012/2013 in the Women's Basketball League (ZBL). For further processing I used basic statistical and comparative methods, whereby the situation in the Czech women's basketball is being mapped out. The data from the Women's Basketball League can be found on the website of Czech Basketball Federation, where they are available. Results: The given results have confirmed all three set hypotheses - an increase in players from abroad and their significant...

Title: The most common injuries in the professional floorball players in Czech Republic for the season 2011/2012. Objective: The aim of this thesis is evaluation of collected informations from questionnaire. Evaluation most common injuries in the professional floorball male and female players for the season 2011/2012.Evaluation their mechanism, what is the level of compensation and regeneration between league teams in Czech Republic. Methods: For collection and evaluation I have used a form of non-standardized questionnaire, which was distributed among floorball teams and their players. The evaluation covered the extra league competitions for the season 2011/2012. Total of 120 questionnaires were evaluated from men and 116 questionnaires from women. Results: The survey showed that the most common injury in male and female professional floorball players is contusion / distension of the muscle in the lower extremity. This injury reported a total of 19% of all respondents. Injury in the ankle suffered a total of 16.6% of all respondents and followed by injuries in the knee joint in 9.6% of all players. Among men dominated most injuries in the ankle joint - 19.3% among women then contusion / distension of the muscle of the lower limb - 21.6%. Most injuries were reported in the post forward. The most...

Title: Licensing system in professional football in case of Gambrinus league Objectives: The main aim of diploma thesis is description of licensing system in professional football in Czech Republic, which has to be observed by professional football clubs, if they want to get a professional licence. Without this required licence clubs can not figure in I. and II. league. The next object was the comparison of Czech football and German football. Methods: In thesis is used a method of interview, method of content analysis and method of comparison. Semistructured interview took main part in datas collection. The method of content analysis was used for analysis of these datas. The method of comparison was helpful for research of second aim of this diploma thesis, which was comparison between football in Czech republic and football in Germany. Results: This diploma thesis shows positive and negative of licensing system. Further describes differencies between Czech and German football. It recommends which way is the best for raise match attendance and make match more attractive like in Germany. Keywords: football, licensing system, interview, Gambrinus league

The main objective of this thesis is the description and characterization of media content generated within the community around the game League of Legends inside the phenomenon of e-sports. The central issue is the definition of metagame term and anchoring its functions in different types of media content rising in the community around the game League of Legends. The output of this work is analysis of different types of media content, in which the term metagame is designed, interpreted and transmitted to the audience.

The principal aim of this study was to create longitudinal profiles (1988-2002) for the games of rugby union and rugby league football in order to identify whether changes in time, offence, defence and game action variables, and positional and game performance indicators were a reflection that the two codes of rugby were 'converging'. Anecdotal evidence had suggested that due to certain administrative developments within this time frame many facets of the two games were becoming similar, thereby spawning the notion of a future single, unified game of 'rugby'. This thesis presents the first empirical and objective assessment of whether such convergence has occurred. The data for this study were extracted from 48 video-taped recordings of First Grade rugby league and International rugby union in the Northern hemisphere over the specified time frame. The matches were identifiable by Era (pre-/post-professional) and Period (1988-92, 1993-95, 1997-99 and2000-02). Key aspects of play or performance were distinguished via game models and expert opinion and were scrutinised via a series of specifically designed and validated hand notation systems. Initial analysis considered (and established) the reliability of these systems, thereafter parametric and non-parametric inferential statistical teohniques were employed to identify Era and Period effects within each Code, with the additional analyses to consider the effects of Game Result and Game Quarter Outcomes. The findings from these analyses, particulaily the observed increase in ball in play time, changes at the ruck, maul, and lineout, and alterations in defence patterns of play, have provided a strong argument that the two Codes underwent a discernable degree of convergence over the years being considered. It was concluded that the introduction of professional playing status (rugby union), the summer playing season (rugby league), and law changes were likely causes of the two games being now similar in many respects. Although additional analyses should be encouraged to corroborate the present findings, the case for the development of a single Code of rugby can now be made.

Master of Science / Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering / Todd Easton / Throughout an NFL season, 512 games are played in 17 weeks. For a given fan that follows one team, only 16 of those games usually matter, and the rest of the games carry little significance. The goal of this research is to provide substantial reasons for fans to watch other games. This research finds the easiest path to a division championship for each team. This easiest path requires winning the least number of games. Due to NFL’s complicated tiebreaker rules, games not involving the fan’s team can have major implications for that team. The research calls these games critical because if the wrong team wins, then the fan’s team must win additional games to become the division champion. To identify both the easiest path and the critical games, integer programming is used. Given the amount of two-team, three-team, and four-team division tie scenarios that can occur, 31 separate integer programs are solved for each team to identify the easiest path to the division championship. A new algorithm, Shortest Path of Remaining Teams (SPORT) is used to iteratively search through every game of the upcoming week to determine critical games. These integer programs and the SPORT algorithm were used with the data from the previous 2 NFL seasons. Throughout these 2 seasons, it was found that the earliest a team was eliminated from the possibility of winning a division championship was week 12, and occurred in 2012 and 2013. Also, throughout these 2 seasons, there was an average of 65 critical games per season, with more critical games occurring in the 2013-2014 season. Additionally, the 2012 season was used to compare flexed scheduled games with the critical games for those weeks and it was found that the NFL missed three weeks of potentially scheduling a critical game.

Thesis advisor: Karen Arnold / Currently, there are nearly a million high-achieving, low-income students in the United States. In the nation's most selective institutions of higher education, students from low-income families have been persistently under-represented. Elite colleges, in particular, have only recently begun admitting low-income students in large numbers, a result of full need-based financial aid programs that began in the early 2000s as a way to attract a more socioeconomically diverse student body. This hermeneutic phenomenological study describes the lived experiences of these undergraduates and how they navigated a college environment historically reserved for wealthy students. Although participants initially expected to feel marginalized due to unfounded concerns of elitism, they formed friendships both within and across socioeconomic class divisions and described feeling integrated within the elite college. Participants developed self-protective narratives to compensate for their low-income backgrounds and employed strategies to make up for poor high-school preparation. Participants were grateful for the opportunity to attend an elite college and were proud and relatively forthcoming about their financial aid status because they considered it a reward for their intellectual ability. Three main conclusions derive from the findings of this research: Low-income students' tendency to make a distinction between socioeconomic and financial aid status; the notion of a new cultural capital hierarchy for high-achieving, low-income students within an elite college setting; and, a specific application of Bronfenbrenner's ecological developmental model for this niche population. The results of this study indicate that high-achieving, low-income students are flourishing in full need-based financial aid programs as a result of their own resilience and intellectual capital. Participants' experiences indicate that this population of undergraduates faces unique challenges and requires specific support services to equalize their opportunities vis-à-vis higher-income peers. From these findings, implications for colleges and universities and full need-based financial aid programs are discussed. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Administration and Higher Education.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-12T14:05:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Damião Cosme de Carvalho Rocha.pdf: 4230112 bytes, checksum: 5ced09cdfcdd01de5f53a5344a1153a2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-12T14:05:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Damião Cosme de Carvalho Rocha.pdf: 4230112 bytes, checksum: 5ced09cdfcdd01de5f53a5344a1153a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-27 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Piauí - FAPEPI / Secretaria Municipal de Educação - SEMEC / Universidade Estadual do Piauí - UESPI / In the late 1950s and early 1960s, agrarian reform in Brazil fell on the national agenda as an urgent and pressing need. Among the different political and social actors who defended it and those who rejected it, there was a point of convergence: the misery and abandonment of the rural man, as well as the immediate need to solve it, in the danger of the nation being destabilized By a great social revolution. The peasant leagues received from the press, from other political subjects active in the period, and also from memory, the symbolic meaning of this attestation of social upheaval in which Brazil and, particularly, the northeast experienced. Anchored in the importance of this moment for the History of Brazil and Piauí in particular, the core objective of this research is to analyze the process of formation of the Peasant Leagues in the State, based on the successful, singular and distinct experience of the League of Matinhos in the land of the Carnaubais. In this perspective, the analysis is based on the constitution of this social movement based on the systematic struggle of rural workers who have been able to forge forms of organization and resistance capable of opposing the unilateral dictates of landlords and the state as historical agents in the struggle for political, By rights and against any experience of social demotion. I argue that these absolutely unique historical experiences of these subjects were fundamental for the creation of the leagues in Piauí from, mainly from the Government of Chagas Rodrigues in the late 1950. and early 1960. In this approach structured from a renewed theoretical framework, whose concepts and categories provided elements that prioritize historical dynamics, not static portraits of reality that, because they are formulated as watertight models, never existed, I try to emphasize the question of land, Debate on agrarian reform in Piauí, tensions between local power groups, including highlighting the Catholic Church's action and the daily struggle for access to land, most often without any mediation of the state legal apparatus. The analysis is based on oral sources, hemerográficas, judicial processes and in the available academic bibliography on the subject and object. Regarding the theoretical references, I emphasize the importance of the concept of experience elaborated by EP Thompson, applied as an instrument to discuss the ways in which the subjects of this research understood the reality in their surroundings, and became main actors of this plot aligned in a time saturated with Agoras, to build expectations of social and political transformation framed by the hope of accessing and conquering the land / No final dos anos 50 e início dos anos 60, a reforma agrária no Brasil entrou a contrapelo na agenda nacional como uma necessidade urgente e imperiosa. Entre os diferentes atores políticos e sociais que a defendiam e os que a reprovavam havia um ponto de confluência: a miséria e a situação de abandono do homem do campo assim como a imediata necessidade de solucioná-la, sob o perigo de a nação ser instabilizada por uma grande revolução social. As ligas camponesas receberam a partir da imprensa, de outros sujeitos políticos atuantes no período, e também da memória, o significado simbólico deste atestado de convulsão social em que o Brasil e, particularmente o nordeste experimentavam. Ancorado na importância desse momento para a História do Brasil e do Piauí em especial, o objetivo nuclear desta pesquisa é analisar o processo de formação das Ligas Camponesas no Estado, a partir da experiência exitosa, singular e distinta da Liga de Matinhos, na terra dos Carnaubais. Nessa perspectiva, a análise recai sobre a constituição deste movimento social embasado na luta sistemática dos trabalhadores rurais que conseguiram forjar formas de organização e resistência capazes de se contrapor aos ditames unilaterais dos latifundiários e do estado, como agentes históricos, na luta por reconhecimento político, por direitos e contra toda e qualquer experiência de rebaixamento social. Argumento que essas experiências históricas absolutamente únicas destes sujeitos foram fundamentais para a criação das ligas no Piauí a partir, principalmente do Governo de Chagas Rodrigues no fim dos anos 50 e início da década de 1960. Nesta abordagem estruturada a partir de um arcabouço teórico renovado, cujo os conceitos e categorias forneceram elementos que priorizassem a dinâmica histórica, e não, retratos estáticos da realidade que, por serem formulados como modelos estanques nunca existiram, procuro enfatizar a questão da terra, o debate sobre a reforma agrária no Piauí, as tensões entre grupos de poder locais, inclusive destacando a atuação da Igreja Católica e a luta cotidiana por acesso à terra, na maioria das vezes sem qual quer mediação do aparato jurídico estatal. A análise sustenta-se em fontes orais, hemerográficas, processos judiciais e na bibliografia acadêmica disponível sobre o tema e objeto. No que diz respeito aos referencias teóricos destaco a importância do conceito de experiência elaborado por E. P. Thompson, aplicado como instrumento para discutir as maneiras como os sujeitos desta pesquisa compreenderam a realidade no seu entorno, e se fizeram atores principais dessa trama alinhavada num tempo saturado de agoras, para construir expectativas de transformação social e política emolduradas pela esperança de acessar e conquistar a terra

Based on the case study of the mediation of the Polish-Lithuanian dispute from 1920 to 1923, this dissertation explores the League of Nations' emergence as an agency of modern territorial and ethnic conflict resolution. It argues that in many respects, this organization departed from prewar traditional diplomacy to establish a new, broader concept of security. At first the league tried simply to contain the Polish-Lithuanian conflict by appointing a Military Commission to assist these nations in fixing a final border. But the occupation of Vilna by Polish troops in October 1920 exacerbated Polish-Lithuanian relations, turning the initial border dispute into an ideological conflict over the ethnically mixed region of Vilna, claimed by the Poles on ethnic grounds while the Lithuanians considered it the historical capital of the modern Lithuanian state. The occupation spurred the league to greater involvement via administration of a plebiscite to decide the fate of the disputed territories. When this strategy failed, Geneva resorted to negotiating the so-called Hymans Plan, which aimed to create a Lithuanian federal state and establish political and economic cooperation between Poland and Lithuania. This analysis of the league's mediation of this dispute walks the reader through the league's organization of the first international peacekeeping operation, its handling of the challenges of open diplomacy, and its efforts to fulfill its ambitious mandate not just to prevent war but also to uproot its socioeconomic and ethnic causes. The Hymans Plan reflected this ambition as well as commitment to reconciling the tenets of balance of power and territorial status quo with the principle of self-determination and minorities' protection when drawing new boundaries and creating new states.