The master´s thesis is a proposal of a business plan for establishment of catering company in the city Náměšť nad Oslavou. The theoretical part is focused on the structure of the business plan, necessary analyses, sources of financing, and legal forms of business. In the practical part there is the theoretical knowledge applied to the particular situation, where the feasible entrepreneurial plan will be created.

Bakgrund: Palliativ vård syftar till att ge symtomlindring och om möjligt bibehålla livskvalité. Forskning visar att digital teknik används av sjuksköterskor för att dokumentera mätvärden, journalföring, men även att patienter kan fylla i mätvärden självständigt. Det finns behov av forskning som inriktar sig på och undersöker sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att använda digital teknik inom palliativ vård. Idag använder sjuksköterskor inom palliativ vård alltmer teknisk utrustning för att stödja patienters behov i dagligt liv. Syfte: Att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av digital teknik i specialiserad palliativ vård. Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ design där sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av att använda digital teknik utforskas för att få ny kunskap. Tio individuella intervjuer genomfördes inom specialiserad palliativ vård. Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades med inspiration från Graneheim och Lundmans kvalitativa innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatet visar sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av att använda digital teknik för att främja personcentrerad vård, patienten och sjuksköterskans relation samt hur digital teknik påverkar sjuksköterskors arbetssätt. Resultatet presenteras i ett övergripande tema: min digitala medhjälpare som byggs upp av två teman: främjar personcentrerad vård och digital teknik i sjuksköterskans kliniska arbete. Sex subteman är: patientens röst i journalen, fokus på patient och situation, interaktion och relation, uppgiften styr användningen, hinder och stöd avstår från användning. Slutsats: Resultatet bidrar/stärker personcentrerad palliativ vård och patientens delaktighet i vården, vilket kan kännas igen i modellen om De 6 S:n. Resultatet kan bidra med ökad förståelse och kunskap om digital teknik i specialiserad palliativ vård och bidra till utveckling av personcentrerad palliativ vård. / Background: Palliative care aims to provide symptom relief and, if possible, maintain quality of life. Research shows that digital technology used by nurses is used to document measurements, record keeping, but also that patients can fill in measurements independently. There is a need for research that focuses on and examines nurses' experiences of using digital technology. Today palliative care nurses are increasingly using technological equipment to support patients' needs in daily life. Aim: To describe nurses' experience with digital technology in specialized palliative care. Method: The study has a qualitative design where nurses' experience of using digital technology is explored to gain new knowledge. Ten individual interviews were conducted within specialized palliative care. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed with inspiration from Graneheim and Lundman's qualitative content analysis. Results: The results show nurses' experience of using digital technology to promote person-centered care, The relationship between patient and nurse, and how digital technology affects the way nurses work. The results are presented in an overall theme: my digital assistant, which is built up by two themes promotes person-centered care and digital technology in the nurse's clinical work. The six subthemes are: the patient's voice in the medical record, focus on the patient and situation, interaction and relationship, the task controls the use, barriers and support discourages use. Conclusion: The result contributes/strengthens person-centered palliative care and patient participation in care, which can be recognized in the model of the 6 S's. The result can contribute with increased understanding and knowledge of digital technology in specialized palliative care and contribute to the development of person-centered palliative care.

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認購權證已在台灣發行與交易已接近七年的歷史，提供了更多套利、投機與避險交易的機會給市場參與者，也同時增加資本市場之完整性。而由於認購權證提供持有者在一段期間內依照特定價格購買特定數量標的股票之權利，投資人可以根據其意願與看法於到期日前來決定是否進行履約。而權證投資人購買權證之權利金即是包含內含價值與投資人願意支付的時間價值兩部分。時間價值的多寡反應出投資人對於未來權證履約價格是否可以無限增加的看法。而在其他條件不變之下，距到期時間越久之權證的價值應是越高。不過，是否時間越接近到期日時，投資人對於時間價值的看法就會呈現單純線性下降的狀態，還是另外有其他的資訊內涵會影響投資人對於價值的看法，即為本研究所欲探討之主題。 本研究針對台灣市場中個股型認購權證不同時點之時間價值變化程度，與可能影響時間價值變化的因素進行分析，其研究結果如下： 1.研究樣本並非完全符合越接近到期日時間價值減少的現象越明顯的狀態，顯示時間價值的變化隱含著會有其他之因素影響投資願意支付金額的多寡。且部分權證的確曾發生短期內時間價值大幅衰減的現象。 2.權證之價內外程度、距到期日之遠近、相對交易量的多寡與標的股票是否為電子業，對時間價值減少均有顯著的影響。另外，距到期日之天數、權證相對成交量、標的股票所屬產業與市場是否處於多頭與否均顯著影響短期內發生時間價值大幅衰退之現象。 3.本研究發現目前無法利用權證發行條件的差異，來判斷此權證是否會在存續期間當中發生時間價值急速衰退的現象。 / Warrants has been traded in Taiwan for seven years, and provides more opportunities for participants to arbitrage, hedge and speculate in capital market. Warrant gives holders the right to buy stocks at certain price during a period of time. The premium (price) to long warrants is contained intrinsic value and time value. Other things being equal, the longer the time to expiration day, the higher the value of warrants, since there is larger probability for investors to get more return. However, would any other terms expect time to expiration affect the variations of time value, or if we can find some variables could provide other content of information and result the change of time value. This is what the study focus on. Followings are the results of this study: 1. There are not all thetas of warrants in this sample decreasing simply by the time to expiration. It seems to be other variables would cause the change of theta. Besides, some warrants had serious time-decay in a short period of time. 2. Intrinsic value, time to expiration, trading volume, whether underlying stock in electronic industry or not and the market condition all have obvious effects on decrease of time value and serious time-decay. 3. It is still impossible to use issue information to identify if this warrant will have time-decay in its life.

Ao largo da costa oeste da Am´erica do Sul o sistema de ressurg^encia costeira apresenta uma excepcional produtividade, um resultado da alta efici^encia do ecossistema biol´ogico em converter a produ¸c~ao prim´aria em biomassa. Esses processos qu´?micobiol ´ogicos s~ao fortemente modulados pelo ambiente f´?sico da regi~ao. Por exemplo, durante eventos do El-Ni~no a produtividade pesqueira ´e fortemente prejudicada em resposta a uma inibi¸c~ao da ressurg^encia costeira. Apesar disso ser um fato j´a bastante conhecido desde ´epocas pr´e-colombianas, muita d´uvida ainda persiste sobre o mecanismo pelo qual o sistema costeiro ´e afetado por esses fen^omenos de grande escala. O presente trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de se contribuir com esse conhecimento, estudando como ocorreram as mudan¸cas do sistema durante recentes eventos El Ni~no, principalmente na escala intrasazonal. Nessa investiga¸c~ao foram utilizadas diferentes metodologias de an´alise de dados para identificar a natureza dos for¸cantes de oscila¸c~oes significativas observadas durante o El Ni~no 1997-1998. Tamb´em foi investigado se essas oscila¸c~oes foram for¸cadas remotamente e se propagaram como ondas aprisionadas na costa; quais foram suas propriedades espaciais e sua propaga¸c~ao longo da costa. A primeira parte do trabalho consiste na an´alise da variabilidade temporal e a caracteriza¸c~ao das flutua¸c~oes de baixa freq¨u^encia ocorridas durante eventos El Ni~no. Essa an´alise faz uso do espectro de ondeleta aplicado a s´eries temporais longas de dados do n´?vel do mar de esta¸c~oes costeiras distribu´?das ao longo da costa sul do Equador, costa do Peru e costa norte do Chile. O espectro de ondeleta cruzada e o espectro da coer^encia foram usados para avaliar a import^ancia relativa das for¸cantes remota e local das varia¸c~oes do n´?vel do mar associadas com os efeitos do El Ni~no 1997-1998. Na segunda parte, as flutua¸c~oes for¸cadas remotamente foram comparadas com modelos lineares simples e o modelo de Brink e Chapman (1987) para se obter as propriedades das ondas aprisionadas na costa durante o El Ni~no Extraordin ´ario (1997-1998). Uma importante conclus~ao dessas an´alises foi a constata¸c~ao de que variabilidades intrasazonais ao largo da costa do Peru durante esse El Ni~no foi, em parte significativa, o resultado da atua¸c~ao de for¸cantes remotas e locais, associadas com ondas equatoriais incidindo na Costa Oeste da Am´erica do Sul e com o efeito do vento, respectivamente. / Off the western coast of South America, the coastal upwelling system presents an exceptional productivity, a result of the high efficiency of the biological ecosystem in converting the primary production into biomass. These chemical and biological processes are strongly modulated by the physical environment. For instance, during El Ni~no events the fishery productivity is strongly impaired in response to an inhibition of the coastal upwelling. In spite of this fact be widely known since pre-Colombian times, much doubts still persist about the mechanism by means of which the coastal system is affected by the large scale phenomena. The present work was idealized with the intention of contributing for this knowledge, studying how occurred the changes in the system during recent El Ni~no events, with emphasis on the intraseasonal scale. In this investigation, different methodologies of data analysis were used to identify the nature of the forcing which produced significant oscillations observed during the El Ni~no 1997-1998. Also, it was investigated if these oscillations were remotely forced and propagated along the coast as coastal trapped waves; what were their spatial and propagation properties. The first part of the work consists of an analysis of the temporal variability and the characterization of the low-frequency fluctuations occurred during the El Ni~no events. This analysis uses the wavelet spectrum applied to time series of sea level data collected off southern Equador, Peru and northern Chile. The cross wavelet spectrum and coherence spectrum were used to evaluate the relative importance of local and remote forcing of the sea level, associated with effects of the 1997-1998 El Ni~no. In the second part, the fluctuations remotely forced wer compared with results of simple linear models and with the model of Brink and Chapman (1987), in order to obtain the coastal trapped waves properties during that extraordinary El Ni~no event. One important conclusion of these analyses was the confirmation that the intraseasonal variability observed offo Peru during the 1997-1998 El Ni~no was, in part, the result of remote and local forcing, associated with equatorial waves and the wind effect, respectively.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:57:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Doutorado Maria Inez Miguel.pdf: 1466295 bytes, checksum: cab4a04224edf6b54669d1e1fa9d3e99 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-10-25 / This researche concentrates on the teaching and learning of the Poisson s Model, whose questioning refers to the use of the Mathematical Modeling, to the steps to be considered and to the results both in the didactic interaction and in the acquisition achieved and mistakes made by the participating pupils. We considered the hypotheses that pair-work, computer use and practical experiments might favor the development of the didactical situations in order to validate it or not. For that purpose, a teaching sequence was elaborated based on our interpretation of the Mathematic Modeling Process suggested by Henry (1997) and it was applied to a group of University undergraduates students from the second year of the College of Electric Engineering and Computer Science. We adopted the Didactic Engineering as methodology, which allows for the validation of hypotheses through the confrontation between the two analysis, a priori and a posteriori, and favors the realignment of the activities during the process. The theoretical framework was constructed with some elements of Chevallard s praxeology and Godino s ontological-semiotic approach to cognition and mathematic instruction; the first guided the analysis of the didactic books and the elaboration and presentation of the proposed tasks in the intended sequence; the second was the basis for the determination of meaningful elements in Poisson s Model to be considered in the teaching and guide the result analysis, allowing for the identification of the knowledge acquired that were in accordance with the intended institutional guidelines and those that could be considered learning mistakes. This research lead to the conclusion that not only the use of the Mathematic Modeling is favorable for the study carried out but also that it made it possible for all the modeling steps to be interpreted, adapted and considered essential for the purposes to be achieved, emphasizing that the experiment carried out should be carefully chosen to serve as motivation for the target public and, if possible, contemplate interdisciplinary. Among the several significant elements of Poisson s Model taken as reference, many were acquired by the group of participating pupils. However, some difficulties related to the use of the software, to the interpretation of terms such as: at least, at most, etc and to the symbolic representation persisted throughout the whole process. The construction of Poisson s Model as hypotheses about the experiment carried out proved to be a viable and efficient strategy, guaranteeing relative easiness in the application the model in the most varied situations, including those with proximity with the Binomial Model; that result allows for the suggestion of the introduction of the mentioned model in the way it is presented, replacing the classical way, consisting of definition, example and exercises, or even, through the proximity with the Binomial Model. The use of a software proved to be efficient to expedite the representations and to make it easier for the visualization of properties; however, learning to handle the software cannot be simultaneous to learning the target content under the risk of compromising it. Pair work proved that information exchange, enriched and complemented by the backgrounds of the two individuals involved, allowed for the emergence of new questions and guaranteed greater reliability in the execution of the proposed tasks. / Esta tese é centrada no ensino e na aprendizagem do Modelo de Poisson, seu questinamento refere-se ao uso da Modelagem Matemática, das etapas a serem consideradas e dos resultados, tanto na interação didática como nas aquisições e erros dos alunos participantes. As hipóteses de que o trabalho em dupla, o uso do computador e o experimento realizado na prática pudessem favorecer o desenvolvimento do projeto foram admitidas, a fim de serem validadas, ou não. Para tal, uma seqüência de ensino, elaborada com base nas etapas de Modelagem Matemática de Henry, foi aplicada a um grupo de alunos do segundo ano de graduação em Engenharia Elétrica e Ciência da Computação de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior. No estudo, a metodologia adotada foi a Engenharia Didática que permite a validação das hipóteses pela confrontação entre as análises a priori e a posteriori e favorece o realinhamento das atividades durante o processo. As bases teóricas foram a praxeologia de Chevallard e o enfoque ontológico-semiótico da cognição e instrução matemática de Godino. A primeira norteou a análise dos livros didáticos, a elaboração e a apresentação das tarefas propostas na seqüência pretendida; a segunda fundamentou a determinação de elementos de significado do Modelo de Poisson para serem considerados no ensino e orientar a análise dos resultados, possibilitando a identificação dos conhecimentos adquiridos que estão conforme a pauta institucional e os que podem ser considerados erros de aprendizagem. A pesquisa permitiu concluir que, não só o uso da Modelagem Matemática é favorável ao estudo realizado, como também todas as etapas de modelagem puderam ser interpretadas, adaptadas e consideradas essenciais, para que os objetivos fossem atingidos, salientando-se que o experimento realizado deve ser cuidadosamente selecionado, a fim de servir de motivação aos sujeitos visados e, se possível, contemplar a interdisciplinaridade. Entre os diversos elementos de significado do Modelo de Poisson tomados como referência, muitos foram adquiridos pelo grupo de alunos participantes, embora algumas dificuldades relacionadas à utilização do aplicativo, à interpretação de termos do tipo: ao menos, no máximo, etc., e à representação simbólica persistiram durante todo o processo. A construção do Modelo de Poisson baseada nas hipóteses citadas sobre o experimento realizado mostrou ser uma estratégia viável e eficiente, garantindo relativa facilidade na aplicação do modelo nas mais variadas situações, inclusive, naquelas de aproximação ao Modelo Binomial. O resultado permite que se sugira a introdução do referido modelo nos moldes apresentados, em lugar do modo clássico com definição, exemplo e exercícios, ou ainda, por meio da aproximação ao Modelo Binomial. O uso de um aplicativo mostrou-se eficiente para agilizar as representações e facilitar a visualização de propriedades; no entanto, a aprendizagem da manipulação do aplicativo não pode concorrer simultaneamente com o estudo do conteúdo pretendido sob pena de comprometê-lo. O trabalho em dupla revelou que as trocas de informações, enriquecidas e complementadas pelas duas formações dos sujeitos envolvidos, permitiram o levantamento de novas questões e maior confiabilidade na realização das tarefas propostas.

Ao largo da costa oeste da Am´erica do Sul o sistema de ressurg^encia costeira apresenta uma excepcional produtividade, um resultado da alta efici^encia do ecossistema biol´ogico em converter a produ¸c~ao prim´aria em biomassa. Esses processos qu´?micobiol ´ogicos s~ao fortemente modulados pelo ambiente f´?sico da regi~ao. Por exemplo, durante eventos do El-Ni~no a produtividade pesqueira ´e fortemente prejudicada em resposta a uma inibi¸c~ao da ressurg^encia costeira. Apesar disso ser um fato j´a bastante conhecido desde ´epocas pr´e-colombianas, muita d´uvida ainda persiste sobre o mecanismo pelo qual o sistema costeiro ´e afetado por esses fen^omenos de grande escala. O presente trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de se contribuir com esse conhecimento, estudando como ocorreram as mudan¸cas do sistema durante recentes eventos El Ni~no, principalmente na escala intrasazonal. Nessa investiga¸c~ao foram utilizadas diferentes metodologias de an´alise de dados para identificar a natureza dos for¸cantes de oscila¸c~oes significativas observadas durante o El Ni~no 1997-1998. Tamb´em foi investigado se essas oscila¸c~oes foram for¸cadas remotamente e se propagaram como ondas aprisionadas na costa; quais foram suas propriedades espaciais e sua propaga¸c~ao longo da costa. A primeira parte do trabalho consiste na an´alise da variabilidade temporal e a caracteriza¸c~ao das flutua¸c~oes de baixa freq¨u^encia ocorridas durante eventos El Ni~no. Essa an´alise faz uso do espectro de ondeleta aplicado a s´eries temporais longas de dados do n´?vel do mar de esta¸c~oes costeiras distribu´?das ao longo da costa sul do Equador, costa do Peru e costa norte do Chile. O espectro de ondeleta cruzada e o espectro da coer^encia foram usados para avaliar a import^ancia relativa das for¸cantes remota e local das varia¸c~oes do n´?vel do mar associadas com os efeitos do El Ni~no 1997-1998. Na segunda parte, as flutua¸c~oes for¸cadas remotamente foram comparadas com modelos lineares simples e o modelo de Brink e Chapman (1987) para se obter as propriedades das ondas aprisionadas na costa durante o El Ni~no Extraordin ´ario (1997-1998). Uma importante conclus~ao dessas an´alises foi a constata¸c~ao de que variabilidades intrasazonais ao largo da costa do Peru durante esse El Ni~no foi, em parte significativa, o resultado da atua¸c~ao de for¸cantes remotas e locais, associadas com ondas equatoriais incidindo na Costa Oeste da Am´erica do Sul e com o efeito do vento, respectivamente. / Off the western coast of South America, the coastal upwelling system presents an exceptional productivity, a result of the high efficiency of the biological ecosystem in converting the primary production into biomass. These chemical and biological processes are strongly modulated by the physical environment. For instance, during El Ni~no events the fishery productivity is strongly impaired in response to an inhibition of the coastal upwelling. In spite of this fact be widely known since pre-Colombian times, much doubts still persist about the mechanism by means of which the coastal system is affected by the large scale phenomena. The present work was idealized with the intention of contributing for this knowledge, studying how occurred the changes in the system during recent El Ni~no events, with emphasis on the intraseasonal scale. In this investigation, different methodologies of data analysis were used to identify the nature of the forcing which produced significant oscillations observed during the El Ni~no 1997-1998. Also, it was investigated if these oscillations were remotely forced and propagated along the coast as coastal trapped waves; what were their spatial and propagation properties. The first part of the work consists of an analysis of the temporal variability and the characterization of the low-frequency fluctuations occurred during the El Ni~no events. This analysis uses the wavelet spectrum applied to time series of sea level data collected off southern Equador, Peru and northern Chile. The cross wavelet spectrum and coherence spectrum were used to evaluate the relative importance of local and remote forcing of the sea level, associated with effects of the 1997-1998 El Ni~no. In the second part, the fluctuations remotely forced wer compared with results of simple linear models and with the model of Brink and Chapman (1987), in order to obtain the coastal trapped waves properties during that extraordinary El Ni~no event. One important conclusion of these analyses was the confirmation that the intraseasonal variability observed offo Peru during the 1997-1998 El Ni~no was, in part, the result of remote and local forcing, associated with equatorial waves and the wind effect, respectively.

Title: Values, Desirability and Ideology in CNN Travel -- a Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories Author: Emmi Laine Course: Journalistikvetenskap, Kandidatkurs, H13 J Kand (Bachelor of Journalism, Fall 2013), JMK, Stockholm University, Sweden Aim: The aim is to examine which values and ideologies CNN Travel fulfills in their stories. Method: Qualitative discourse analysis. Summary: This Bachelor ́s thesis asks what is desirable, which are the values of CNN Travel, the major U.S. news corporation CNN ́s online travel site. The question has been answered through a qualitative discourse analysis on 20 chosen travel stories, picked by their relevancy, diversity, and their expressive tone. Due to the limited space and the specific textual method, the analysis was restricted to the editorial texts of these stories. The chosen method was discourse analyst Norman Fairclough ́s model of evaluation, which revealed the explicit and implicit ways the media texts suggest desired characteristics. These linguistic devices took the readers ́ agreement for granted, as they imposed a shared cultural ground with common values, which is a base for a mutual understanding. After identifying the explicit and implicit evaluations, they were organized according to some major discursive themes found in the texts, and finally analyzed in order to expose their underlying values. The results showed how these certain values brought forth certain ideologies, to some extent in keeping with recent research of tourism and travel journalism. As the study has been put into a larger context of related research, the following pages will first explain some larger concepts of discourse analysis, such as representation, cultural stereotypes, ideology and power. A cross-section from older to more contemporary theories in culture studies has been utilized; moving from Edward Said ́s postcolonial classic Orientalism, an example of cultural stereotyping, to the more recent topics of ‘promotion culture’ and consumerism, and tourism researcher John Urry ́s ideas about the consumption of places and the ‘tourist gaze.’ In the end, the study considers what kind of power does travel journalism possess over the represented tourism destinations. Finally, when questioning the travel journalists ́ legitimacy and power to represent the travel destinations, poststructuralist Michel Foucault ́s theory about the ‘regime of truth,’ as well as Antonio Gramsci ́s ideas of ‘hegemony,’ theory of dominance through consent, were discussed and confirmed.

Bulk metallic glasses represent a newly developed class of materials. Some metallic glasses possess combinations of very good or even excellent mechanical, chemical and/or magnetic properties uncovering a broad range of both industrial and vital applications. Besides all advantages metallic glasses have also significant drawbacks, which have to be overcome for commercial application. Apart from low critical thicknesses, brittleness and chemical inhomogeneity one important problem of metallic glasses is the lack of an appropriate theory describing their structure. Therefore, the search for new glass forming compositions as well as the improving of existing ones occurs at present by means of trial-and-error methods and a number of empirical rules. Empirical rules for good glass-forming ability of bulk metallic glasses have been established in recent years by Inoue and Egami. Two of these rules, (i) Preference of more than 3 elements and (ii) Need of more than 12 % radii difference of base elements, seem to be closely related to topological (geometrical) criteria. From this point of view topological parameters contribute essentially to the glass-forming ability. The third rule (iii) demands a negative mixing enthalpy of base elements and refers to the chemical interaction of the atoms. The generalized Bernal’s model (hard-sphere approximation) was used for the simulation of monatomic, binary and multi-component structures. Excluding chemical interaction, this method allows the investigation of topological criteria of the glass-forming ability. Bernal’s hard-sphere model was shown to be a good approximation for bulk metallic glasses and metallic liquids and yields good coincidence of experimental and theoretical results. • The Laguerre (weighted Voronoi) tessellation technique was used as the main tool for the structural analysis. Due to very complex structures it is impossible to determine the structure of bulk metallic glasses by means of standard crystallographic methods. • Density, radial distribution function, coordination number and Laguerre polyhedra analysis confirm amorphism of the simulated structures and are in a good agreement with available experimental results. • The ratio of the fractions of non-crystalline to crystalline Laguerre polyhedra faces was introduced as a new parameter . This parameter reflects the total non-crystallinity of a structure and the amount of atomic rearrangements necessary for crystallization. Thus, the parameter is related to the glass-forming ability. It depends strongly on composition and atomic size ratio and indicates a region of enhanced glass-forming ability in binary mixtures at 80 % of small atoms and atomic size ratio of 1.3. All found maxima of parameter for ternary mixtures have compositions and size ratios which are nearly the same as for the binary mixture with the maximum value of . • A new method of multiple-compression was introduces in order to test the tendency towards densification and/or crystallization of the simulated mixtures. The results of the multiple-compression of monatomic mixtures indicate a limiting value of about 0.6464 for the density of the amorphous state. Further densification is necessarily connected to formation and growth of nano-crystalline regions. • The results of the multiple-compression for binary mixtures shows a new maximum of the density at the size ratio of 1.3 and 30 % to 90 % of small atoms. This maximum indicates a local island of stability of the amorphous state. The maximal receivable density without crystallization in this region is enhanced compared to neighbouring regions. • The comparison of the parameter and the density to the distribution of known binary bulk metallic (metal-metal) glasses clearly shows that both parameters play a significant role in the glass-forming ability. • The polyhedra analysis shows regions with enhanced fraction of the icosahedral short-range order (polyhedron (0, 0, 12)) in the binary systems with the maximum at 80 % of small atoms and size ratio of 1.3. Comparison of the distribution of the (0, 0, 12) polyhedra to the distribution of known binary metallic (metal-metal) glasses and to the parameter shows that icosahedral short-range order is not related to the glass-forming ability and is a consequence of the high non-crystallinity (high values of ) of the mixtures and non vice versa. Results for the ternary mixtures confirm this observation. • A new approach for the calculation of the mixing enthalpy is proposed. The new method is based on the combination of Miedema’s semi-empirical model and Laguerre tessellation technique. The new method as well as 6 other methods including the original Miedema’s model were tested for more than 1400 ternary and quaternary alloys. The results show a better agreement with experimental values of the mixing enthalpy for the new model compared to all other methods. The new model takes into account the local structure at atom site and can be applied to all metallic alloys without additional extrapolations if the atomic structure of the considered alloy is known from a suitable atomistic structure model.

An integral part of business should be systematic and continuous process of creation, coordination and control of marketing activities. Marketing is important for easy penetration of the market, so that a prosperous and firm to ensure the continued existence market. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the marketing activities of selected service firms, mutual comparison of these activities on the basis of analyzes carried out to design the next process of improving these activities. For analysis, three firms were examined in which their marketing activities. Based on the analysis of the marketing mix, Porter's model, analysis of the communication mix and SWOT analysis to identify appropriate strategic approaches and suggestions for how marketing activities of units. Suggestions for improvement were recommended with respect to the financial possibilities owners analyzed service companies.