The object of this diploma thesis is the evaluation of job satisfaction within the company Nakladatelství Fraus, s. r. o. The aim is to analyse the job satisfaction of the employees of this firm using a questionnaire and idividual interviews and according to the outcomes found to suggest recommendation to make this situation better. The diploma thesis is primary divided into two parts - a theoretical and a practical one. The theoretical part rely on literary sources and explains basic terms such as motivation, its sources and tools or the atributes of job satisfaction. The theoretical part includes the characteristics of the company Nakladatelství Fraus, s. r. o., individual interviews and the evaluation of the questionnaire. The final part pays attention to the suggested recommendations, how to improve the current situation of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction of the employees of the company.

This thesis focuses on the flourishing music-publishing industry in England in the second half of the seventeenth century, and examines its relationship to and influence on the activities of professional musicians. Music publishing as a commercial entity developed in England during this period, particularly, but not exclusively, through the endeavours of the Playford family. By placing the printed music books within the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced, this thesis explores the consequences of printing on the musical text, understanding the purposes for which the printed book was created and how different functions of print affected the musical texts that they contained. A detailed examination of the printed music sources sheds light on how publication (including posthumous publication) related to the image and status of the composer, and draws attention to the interaction between public music-making, compositional activity and music publishing during this period. Through an investigation of the contemporary printed outputs of five case-study composers - William Lawes, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell and John Blow - this thesis explores the individual nature of the composers' relationships with the printed music book trade and how their contemporary printed outputs relate to their overall compositional output. This is followed by a detailed analytical study of specific compositions by the five case-study composers, examining both contemporary manuscript and printed sources, in order to determine to what extent the commercial print market influenced professional musical creativity. Different versions of compositions of certain genres, particularly secular vocal works, were disseminated via print as opposed to manuscript, and these alternative versions appear to have been instigated by both composers and stationers. This approach to examination of contemporary sources calls for the contextual consideration of sources and the musical texts within them.

This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century Canadian literary and general interest periodicals through the prefaces and other editorial missives written by the editors who created them. It seeks to demonstrate how these cultural workers saw their magazines as vehicles for promoting civic and literary development. While the handful of previous Canadian magazine dissertations take a “snapshot” approach to the genre by profiling a handful of titles within a region, this study attempts to capture the editorial impulse behind magazine development more widely. To do so, it examines multiple titles over a wider geographical and chronological span. To provide context for these primary documents, the dissertation begins with a chapter that summarizes the development of magazines as a genre and the history of publishing in nineteenth-century Canada. Subsequent chapters examine prefaces by theme as well as by rhetorical strategy. Themes such as nationalism, cultural development, and anti-Americanism emerge most prominently, alongside rhetorical techniques such as metaphor, imagery, analogy and personification. The dissertation also examines other sites of editorial interaction, most commonly the “correspondent’s columns,” where editors provided public feedback on topics ranging from versification to currency to prose style as a means of educating writers and readers alike. Finally, the dissertation relies on existing indexes to identify some of the most prolific contributors to the magazines, considering how these writers used the magazines to boost their literary careers. In the early century, these sources verify the productivity of canonical writers such as Susanna Moodie and Rosanna Leprohon, and call attention to obscure writers such as Eliza Lanesford Cushing, W. Arthur Calnek, James Haskins, and Mary Jane Katzmann Lawson. In the later century, the same approach is used again to examine the hive of writers who emerged to contribute to late century magazines like The Canadian Monthly and National Review and The Week, confirming the immense productivity of writers such as Agnes Maule Machar and drawing attention to now-obscure contributors like Mary Morgan. By recovering these overlooked editorial elements and figures, this dissertation draws scholarly attention to a more nuanced view of literary production and affirms the importance of magazines to literary development in nineteenth-century Canada.

Recent advances in information technology have enabled public organizations and corporations to collect and store huge amounts of individuals' data in data repositories. Such data are powerful sources of information about an individual's life such as interests, activities, and finances. Corporations can employ data mining and knowledge discovery techniques to extract useful knowledge and interesting patterns from large repositories of individuals' data. The extracted knowledge can be exploited to improve strategic decision making, enhance business performance, and improve services. However, person-specific data often contain sensitive information about individuals and publishing such data poses potential privacy risks. To deal with these privacy issues, data must be anonymized so that no sensitive information about individuals can be disclosed from published data while distortion is minimized to ensure usefulness of data in practice. In this thesis, we address privacy concerns in publishing longitudinal data. A data set is longitudinal if it contains information of the same observation or event about individuals collected at several points in time. For instance, the data set of multiple visits of patients of a hospital over a period of time is longitudinal. Due to temporal correlations among the events of each record, potential background knowledge of adversaries about an individual in the context of longitudinal data has specific characteristics. None of the previous anonymization techniques can effectively protect longitudinal data against an adversary with such knowledge. In this thesis we identify the potential privacy threats on longitudinal data and propose a novel framework of anonymization algorithms in a way that protects individuals' privacy against both identity disclosure and attribute disclosure, and preserves data utility. Particularly, we propose two privacy models: (K,C)^P -privacy and (K,C)-privacy, and for each of these models we propose efficient algorithms for anonymizing longitudinal data. An extensive experimental study demonstrates that our proposed framework can effectively and efficiently anonymize longitudinal data.

A popular school of thought in the study of publishing, exemplified by the influential Long Tail theory, suggests that the economic advantages of e-books will lead to a boom in self-publishing. However, this position focuses on economic factors at the expense of other potential influences. This thesis applied Azjen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behaviour to explore which factors have the most influence on authors' decision to self-publish e-books, and, conversely, which factors influence others' decision not to. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 11 authors in the Ottawa area who have self-published or who are considering doing so in the near future. We discovered that there is significant resistance to e-books as a format for self-publishing, and that normative factors such as a lack of prestige and different promotional requirements were particularly influential. While e-books were seen to reduce economic risk, they were believed to be a less prestigious format, and so to represent an elevated risk to what Bourdieu called symbolic-capital. Some authors were also resistant because they felt unable to promote e-books in the way they are expected to. However, most said they would be willing to abandon their resistance if they perceived sufficient demand from their audience. These results open up paths for future study, including more focused examinations of the resistance factors that emerged; more longitudinal studies to see how authors' opinions change over time, particularly those of the non-adopters; and a further examination of the digital skills developed by adopters.

For 141 years, The Ryerson Press was both a cultural engine for and a reflection of Canadian society. Founded in 1829 as the Methodist Book Room, it was Canada’s first English-language book publisher and became the largest textbook publisher in Canada. Its contributions to Canadian literature, particularly under long-time editor Lorne Pierce, were considerable. In 1970, however, the press was sold to American branch plant McGraw-Hill, causing a cultural and nationalist crisis in the publishing community. The purpose of this thesis is to explanation many of the factors causing the United Church to sell the House. The purchase of an expensive and outdated printing press in 1962 has been blamed for the sale, as has the general state of Canadian publishing at the time. However, the whole story is much more complex and includes publication choices, personnel shifts, management failures, financial ruin, organizational politics, inflation, and the massive cultural shift of the late 1960s. Specifically, the thesis looks at the succession crisis that followed Lorne Pierce’s retirement, the Woods, Gordon Management Report, the New Curriculum, The United Church Observer, the practice of hiring ministers as managers, the formation of the Division of Communication, the proposed merger of the United Church of Canada with the Anglican Church of Canada, and falling church membership.

Les travaux présentés dans ce mémoire traitent de la conception des chaînes éditoriales Numériques XML : des logiciels de production documentaire qui outillent la rédaction de et l'assemblage de ces fragments pour former des documents. fragments La publication des documents s'opère par transformation de fragments XML en documents numériques aux formats standards. La composition des fragments permet d'instrumenter la rééditorialisation documentaire soit l'usage de contenus existants dans la rédaction de documents originaux. La production de documents rééditorialisés implique une modification de la représentation logique des documents de la forme classique d'arbre à celle de graphe de fragments liés entre eux. Ces travaux s'intéressent aux limites rencontrées lorsque la complexité du graphe devient un frein à la production de documents cohérents.Nous avons élaboré une théorie pour la conception des chaînes éditoriales qui s'appuie sur deux approches complémentaires s'articulant autour de la figure de l'atelier - soit l'environnement d'écriture des fragments - pour accompagner les rédacteurs dans l'édition de graphes complexes.La première approche est une articulation interne à l'atelier. Nous proposons de modéliser des fragments pragmatiques dont l'enjeu est d'assister les rédacteurs dans la gestion des fragments tout en enregistrant l'activité sur le graphe. Ces fragments participent à la documentarisation de l'activité puisqu'ils produisent et mettent à jour une documentation des actions opérées sur le graphe.La seconde approche est une articulation externe à l'atelier. Nous proposons de structure rle graphe documentaire dans plusieurs ateliers en fonction des projets éditoriaux (projets de documents à publier) et auctoriaux (projets d'organisation de la production). L'enjeu est d'éclater le graphe dans plusieurs ateliers afin d'en simplifier la perception et donc la manipulation.Nous avons participé aux développements de la suite Scenari afin d'expérimenter notre approche théorique. Les modèles de fragments pragmatiques de la tâche, du fragment commenté, et les responsabilités et cycles de vie sur les fragments ont été développés afin de documentariser l'activité. Les ateliers calques et fragments proxys ont été conçus afin de structurer le graphe. Nos expérimentations nous ont permis de synthétiser une méthodologie pour la conception de chaînes éditoriales exploitant des graphes complexes. Nos travaux se concluent sur une réflexion épistémologique sur la recherche technologique et plus particulièrement sur ses modalités de validité. / This thesis deals with the design of digital XML publishing chains : document production software which allows writing fragments and composing them in order to publish documents. Document publication is computed by transforming XML fragments into digital documents in standard formats. The composition of the fragments allows the repurposing of existing contents into new documents.The writing of repurposed documents involves a change in the logical representation ofdocuments from the classical form of the tree to a graph of linked fragments. This work is dedicated to the limitations encountered when the complexity of the graph becomes an obstacleto the writing of consistent documents.We developed a theory for the design of publishing chains which is based on two complementary approaches around the concept of the writing workspace - the space where the authors write the fragments - to assist writers in the editing of complex graphs.The first approach is internal to the workspace. We propose to model pragmatic fragments intended to assist authors in fragment management while recording graph activity.These fragments are involved in the activity documentarisation since they produce and maintaina documentation of the actions performed on the graph.The second approach is external to the workspace. We propose to structure the graph asseveral workspaces based on publishing and authorial projects. The challenge is to distribute the graph over several workspaces in order to simplify their perception and handling.We participated in the development of Scenari in order to experiment our theoretical approach. The pragmatic fragment models of the task, of the commented fragment, and of there sponsibilities and life cycles on fragments were developed to document the activity. The layerworkspaces and proxy fragments were designed to structure the graph. Our experiments allowed us to summarize a methodology for designing publishing chains which handle complex graphs. Our work is concluded with an epistemological approach in order to qualify and evaluate this technological research.

The scope of this work is to realize a good business plan of a Czech-Italian publishing house of a children's book that could demonstrate the success and viability of the project. In the theoretical base, the structure of a business plan and the content of its single parts will be analyzed. In the practical application, the specifics of a publishing business and book market will be described. Afterwards a concrete business plan including in particular the analysis of company environment, marketing plan, implementation plan and financial plan will be created. In the end the risks will be evaluated.

The goal of the diploma thesis "Support of marketing through social networks" is to pro-vide an overall series of recommendations for editorial staff of magazines and similar journals how to proceed in communication on social networks. Afterwards, these recom-mendations are applied to a specific title, Exclusive magazine. The practical part contains an introduction and analysis of communication on social networks. Based on the analysis of communication magazine Exclusive, and an analysis of the competition is designed a proposal of how to improve the use of social networks in the communication mix of the mentioned journal. The theoretical part describes the possibilities of online marketing and online PR with a focus on social media and networks.

D. Litt. et Phil. / The use of data in science has evolved to a new level in e-science. Collaboration in e- science is important as scientists, engineers and technologists work together to solve scientific problems, through the collection and analysis of large data sets. These experiments can generate enormous amounts of data, creating a need for more efficient storage, management and processing of data. Data needs to be managed effectively to ensure possible future use for secondary analysis and further experimentation. The practice of data curation deals with the management of data, with the objective of sustaining data as a resource for future use. A number of frameworks and models have been developed to address the curation of data, but only the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) has been accepted internationally. The World Data Centre (WDC) is an organisation that was established to ensure access to scientific data for a number of different scientific disciplines. This organisation consists of 52 individual data centres (iWDCs) that are members of the WDC, and are responsible for the curation of scientific data. Because the data curation practices and needs of each iWDC differ, the purpose of this study is to determine to what extent it is possible to develop a framework for the curation of data in the WDC. This study used a mixed method research design through the collection of data from an online survey (quantitative data) and a multiple-case case study (qualitative data). All the iWDCs were invited to participate in the online survey, which was created to quantify OAIS functional model compatibility, sampling for the case study was conducted based on the OAIS functional model compatibility scores. v Based on the findings from this study, suggestions towards a suitable framework for the curation of data in the WDC are made. The key outcomes from this research included a quantitative OAIS functional model compatibility test and suggestions towards a suitable framework for the curation of data. The suggestions towards a suitable framework for the curation of data in the WDC should in future be tested in the newly formed World Data System (WDS) and adjustments made to create a viable framework for curating data in the WDS.