The thesis deals with the design of a single-purpose process tool for the production of sheet metal parts. It contains an analysis of the technologies used by the tool, the calculation of important quantities such as shear clearance, bending radius, suspension and more. The topic also deals with the description of important parts of the tool and their functions.

This master’s thesis deals with order management improvement, based on the theoretical basis and analysis of current status. It deals with practical proposal for the procedural changes in the company to improve the existing safety stock planning and validation of a changes to the metrics of the company.

This diploma thesis deals with the design of disability traction elevator cabin OTI 630 / 0,63. In addition, the mounting procedure of the cabin, the calculation of the floor frame finite element metod in the program I-DEAS and the creation of drawings.

Diploma thesis focuses on inventories from own operations in the Strojírny Prostějov, a.s. The first part of the work is focused on theoretical background related to this area. In the analytical section there is description of the procedures of the current valuation, accounting and stocktaking according to current internal guideline. The practical part of the thesis is a draft amendment to the current directive, which describes the valuation of inventories from own operations and booking from the year 2016 so that the company has fulfilled the requirements of the valid legislation on the true and fair view of its assets.

While historians often point to the rise of the United States as a major global player and technological leader on the world stage in the 1890s and early 1900s, this study argues it was the 1850s, not the 1890s, that this transition occurred. It utilizes transnational methodologies to analyze European perceptions of the United States, American international businessmen, and new ways Americans thought and talked about their place in the world. During the 1850s, European travelers to the United States began to recognize the young nation was taking the lead in technological innovation, while American businessmen like Samuel Colt began to take mass-produced goods to Europe and the world. American politicians, infrastructure boosters, and the commercial press worked to reimagine the place of the United States in the world, not as peripheral to Europe but rather at the center of a global commercial system. These trends would only be amplified as the nineteenth century wore on, until Europeans like the British journalist William Stead announced the “Americanization of the world” in the early 1900s. This study analyzes the origins of this process in the United States of the 1850s.

Three groups of Academic librarians in Louisiana were surveyed to determine what factors other than job performance influenced professional progress (Salary increases, promotion and tenure) for them. Staff development activities were also investigated to determine if they played any significant role in influencing professional progress. Three opinion questions were also asked in this investigation about the feasibility of using an index that was developed to assess quantitatively staff development activities.

This two-article dissertation examined the impact of enhanced educational dialogue, in terms of periodic email feedback on course progress and an invitation to participate in a discussion board, on student achievement and course satisfaction in an introductory statistics course offered in an independent study setting. Participants in the study were students enrolled in the year-long online course. They were randomly assigned to different types and levels of educational dialogue and their completion status, final exam scores, average quiz scores, and course satisfaction ratings were compared after controlling for the following covariates of interest: age, gender, high school GPA, Math ACT, learner autonomy, attitude on the usefulness of statistics, and confidence in learning statistics. The different types and levels of educational dialogue used in this study were: email reminders only, discussion board only, email and discussion board, and no email or discussion board. Successful completion of introductory statistics courses in online learning environments can be predicted by student's attitude toward statistics and learner autonomy, in addition to the conventional measures of mathematics aptitude (ACT Math score) and effort as measured by High School GPA; however, there is a scarcity of psychometrically sound and brief measures of these constructs. The first article developed and validated the following scales as measures of attitude toward statistics and learner autonomy: perceived value of statistics (4 items), confidence in learning statistics (4 items), and learner autonomy (3 items). These abbreviated scales are shown to have content and discriminant validity. They can be used by statistics education researchers with confidence. The second article used MANCOVA and logistic regression to analyze the data collected from the randomized controlled experiment. The MANCOVA results show that students who have higher confidence in learning statistics have higher final exam scores and higher course satisfaction at the 5% level of significance. In addition, students assigned to the email group have the highest average quiz scores. Logistic regression results show that older students and those who have high confidence in learning statistics are more likely to complete the course. Overall, the completion rate for this study is significantly higher than the previous sections of the course. One of the implications of this study is that basic course progress feedback to students with minimal teacher-student interaction may have a beneficial impact on student achievement in online courses.

Recent literature in couple therapy has demonstrated the effects of physical health on some common presenting problems; however, few studies have considered progress as a construct on its own, irrespective of client-identified presenting problem. The current study used an Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediated Model to determine the connection between each partner's physical health and their own and their partner's self-reported progress in couple therapy, mediated by each partner's emotional regulation. Physical health was measured every four sessions using the Health-Related Quality of Life scale, and progress was measured by the Presenting Problem Progress Questionnaire given each time a couple attended therapy. Emotional regulation was measured by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale. The research questions asked whether healthier people and/or their partners would be more emotionally regulated and therefore experience more progress. Results indicated a significant predictive relationship between individual health and presenting problem progress for males and females; however, neither association was mediated by emotional regulation. Additional results suggested that health may predict emotional regulation for both male and female clients, with female health also predicting variation in male emotional regulation. Clinicians are encouraged to consider client health as a predictor of emotional regulation and create treatment goals that facilitate improvements to client health.

TITLE: The Influence of Theological and Philosophical Thinking Not Only in the Exact Sciences AUTHOR: Jana Follprechtová DEPARTMENT: Social Sciences and Philosophy Department SUPERVISOR: Prof. PhDr. Anna Hogenová, CSc. ABSTRACT: This thesis attempts to discover and characterise the interfaces at which the sciences meet and provide incentives for interdisciplinary dialogue. It is not the aim of this thesis to show the need for their fusion into one universal science. The aim is to show that it is important to re-establish communication between scientists with humanities and exact science education, as their results affect our society. Although an analytical method is used in the first chapters, the emphasis in the majority of this thesis is placed on comparison with possible subsequent synthesis. On this basis, the thesis not only examines the philosophy of R. Descartes and the consequences of his thinking today, which stands in opposition to the views of J. A. Comenius, but also the issue of education, which is one of the ways of re-establishing dialogue. All sciences have an ontological basis; thereby they must not only take the concept of creation seriously, but also the anthropic principle. The sciences are united by the limitations of their λογων, which are symbols meant to encourage efforts to review...

We evaluated the effects of one year of schoolwide cluster grouping on the academic achievement growth of gifted and non-identified elementary students using a piecewise multilevel growth model. Scores from 186 non-identified and 68 gifted students' Measures of Academic Progress Reading and Math scores were examined over three school years. In 2008-2009 within-class ability grouping was used. In 2009-2010 schoolwide cluster grouping was implemented. In 2010-2011 students once again were grouped only within classrooms by ability and students identified as gifted were spread across all classrooms at each grade level. Results suggest that schoolwide cluster grouping influenced student performance in the year following its implementation, but only for mathematics and not the area of reading.