Short range wireless data communication networks that are used for sport and health care are sometimes called Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) and they are located more or less on a person. Sole Integrated Gait Sensor (SIGS) is a research project in WBAN, where wireless pressure sensors are placed like soles in the shoes of persons with different kinds of deceases. The sensors can measure the pressure of the foot relative to the shoe i.e. the load of the two legs is measured. This information can be useful e.g. to not over or under load a leg after joint replacement or as a bio feedback system to help e.g. post stroke patients to avoid falling. The SIGS uses the ANT Protocol and radio specification. ANT uses the 2.4 GHz ISM band and TDMA is used to share a single frequency. The scheduling of time slots is adaptive isochronous co-existence i.e. the scheduling is not static and each transmitter sends periodically but checks for interference with other traffic on the radio channel. In this unidirectional system sole sensors are masters (transmitters) and the WBAN server is the slave in ANT sense. The message rate is chosen as 8 Hz which is suitable for low power consumption. Hence in the SIGS system, it is necessary to synchronize the left and the right foot sensors because of low message rate. In our thesis, we found a method and developed a prototype to receive the time synchronized data in WBAN server from ANT wireless sensor nodes in SIGS system. For this thesis work, a hardware prototype design was developed. The USB and USART communication protocols were also implemented in the hardware prototype. The suitable method for time synchronization was implemented on the hardware prototype. The implemented method receives the sensor data, checks for the correct stream of data; add timestamp to the sensor data and transmit the data to the Linux WBAN server. The time slots allocation in the ANT protocol was found. Alternative solution for the time synchronization in ANT protocol was also provided. The whole SIGS system was tested for its full functionality. The experiments and analysis which we performed were successful and the results obtained provided good time synchronization protocol for ANT low power wireless sensor network and for Wireless Bio-feedback system.

Olika aktörer på fastighetsmarknaden har svårigheter att värdesätta kommersiella fastigheter på grund av den minskade transparensen på marknaden. Den minskade transparensen är ett resultat av att färre fastigheter överlåts genom köpehandling idag. Syftet med denna studie är att skapa en ökad förståelse på fastighetsmarknaden och på så vis underlätta för olika aktörer på fastighetsmarknaden att genomföra marknadsanalyser. Målet är att utreda varför vissa bolag väljer att överlåta sina fastigheter med köpehandling istället för att överlåta fastigheter genom att paketera den i ett dotterbolag. Två rättsfall har studerats för att få rättsväsendets bedömningar. Genom rättsfallen kunde det konstateras att det råder en viss osäkerhet i hur beskattningen ska genomföras vid fastighetsöverlåtelser. Denna osäkerhet kan leda till att bolagen väljer att överlåta fastigheterna genom köpehandling där rättsläget är mycket tydligare.   För att utreda varför bolag väljer att överlåta kommersiella fastigheter genom köpehandling har en intervjustudie genomförts. Intervjustudien påvisade att bolagens val av överlåtelseform är beroende av de för- och nackdelar samt de skattemässiga konsekvenser som överlåtelsen medför. Intervjustudien visar även att enklare överlåtelseprocesser föredras av bolagen samt att de säljande bolagen vill uppnå en ekonomisk vinning genom överlåtelserna av fastigheterna.   Slutsatsen är att säljarens val av överlåtelseform är beroende på utfallet av kalkyleringsmetoden, köparens påverkan på överlåtelseformen samt hur komplicerad överlåtelseprocessen får vara. Den ökade transparensen som överlåtelser genom köpehandling bidrar till gör att de olika aktörernas marknadsanalyser på fastighetsmarknaden kan förenklas och bli mer tillförlitliga. Utöver detta avser regeringen att tillsätta en utredning angående skatteplanering i samband med då fastigheter paketeras i bolag. Beroende på vad regeringens utredning får för utfall kan antalet överlåtelser på fastighetsmarknaden ändras vilket skulle kunna vara intressant att undersöka i en framtida studie. / Different participants in the real estate market have difficulty in valuing commercial real estate due to reduced market transparency. The reduced transparency is a result of fewer properties being transferred by way of document of purchase today. The purpose of this study is to create a better understanding of the property market and be able to provide market participant with an improved understanding how to analyze this market. The objective is to investigate why some companies choose to sell properties by way of document of purchase instead of transferring the property by using a limited company structure. Two legal cases have been reviewed for judicial assessments. The court cases analysis showed the degree of turnover of property transfers can lead to uncertainty in terms of possible tax implications. This uncertainty might lead to companies choosing to transfer properties by way of document of purchase due to the much clearer legal position.   An interview study has been conducted to investigate why companies transfer commercial properties through the use of purchase document. The study showed that companies’ choice of transfer form is dependent on the advantages and disadvantages of the form together with possible tax implications. The interview study also showed a simple transfer process is preferred together with financial gains when selling properties.   The conclusion is that the seller’s preferred choice of transfer form is dependent on the outcome of the project models, the purchasers’ impact and how complicated the transfer process may be. The increased level of transparency achieved by using document of purchase makes it easier for participants in the real estate market to conduct market analysis and also to make the results more reliable. In addition to this the Swedish government intends to launch an investigation into potential effects of tax planning in connection with the use of limited corporate structures. The number of transferals in the property market could potentially change dependent on the outcome of the government’s investigation and if so this could be an interesting topic for a future study.

Esta pesquisa investiga a prática de artistas do Nordeste brasileiro a partir do uso do carimbo como linguagem, no intuito de compreender essas produções, sob o contexto sociocultural e político no qual estão inseridas. Apresentamos uma arqueologia do carimbo, aproximando-o da xilogravura a partir da técnica de impressão, para, em seguida, traçar um panorama mais geral de sua emergência na história da arte moderna e contemporânea. A partir da pesquisa no acervo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP) propomos um levantamento que contempla uma tipologia dos carimbos bem como o contexto politico e social de seus usos. Em paralelo, uma pesquisa de campo foi desenvolvida no Triângulo Amoroso região compreendida nesta pesquisa pelas cidades de Natal, João Pessoa e Recife no intuito de investigar junto aos artistas suas produções no recorte temporal entre 1960 e 1980. Por fim, apresentamos as práticas dos artistas José Cláudio, Falves Silva, Jota Medeiros, Unhandeijara Lisboa, Daniel Santiago, Leonhard Frank Duch e Paulo Bruscky, com intuito de problematizar o uso do carimbo como dispositivo gráfico e político situado em uma produção que caminha à margem das instituições artísticas no Brasil. / This research investigates the use of the rubber stamp as a language in the practice of artists in Brazilian Northeast in order to understand these productions under the social, cultural and political context in which they work. We present an archeology of the rubber stamp, approaching it to the woodcut thought the printing technique and then, we draw up a more general overview of its emergence in the history of modern and contemporary art. Based on a research through the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP) a data raising is being proposed including a typology of rubber stamps regarding the political and social context of their use. In parallel a field research was conducted in the Love Triangle region delimited in this research through the cities Natal, João Pessoa and Recife in order to investigate with the artists about their productions in the time frame from 1960 to 1980. Finally, we present, the practices of the artists José Cláudio, Falves Silva, Jota Medeiros, Unhandeijara Lisboa, Daniel Santiago, Leonhard Frank Duch and Paulo Bruscky, aiming to discuss the use of the rubber stamp as a graphic and political device in an artistic production that works in the fringe of artistic institutions in Brazil.

The late Neolithic of North Mesopotamia has long been held up as the first example of a ‘global’ culture with aspects of shared material culture, most notably pottery styles and subsistence strategies, spread across North Mesopotamia, the Northern Levant, and parts of south-east Anatolia. Increasing research in the past twenty years has illustrated that the material similarities visible in the late Neolithic do not represent a closed cultural community, but instead reflect a network of loosely connected groups who were members of imagined communities that linked people within shared cosmologies. Since their discovery in the early decades of the twentieth century stamp seals have been treated as a type artefact of the late Neolithic (particularly one of its constituent parts the Halaf) where they have been used to argue for the presence of sealing systems based around administrative storage of personal or communal property and possibly trade relations. However, except for a thesis published in 1990, late Neolithic stamp seals have never been comprehensively studied or interpreted primarily within their own context. Instead previous studies of stamp seals have tied stamp seals into a modernist narrative of progression that implicitly culminates in modern, Western, Nation States. This research challenges and deconstructs this narrative to demonstrate there is little evidence that seals in the late Neolithic were used for administrative purposes. To this end it gathered and re-classified the available data on provenanced stamp seals using a classificatory ontology called prototype theory that allows for more reflexive classification then the existing Aristotelian classifications. The thesis argues that stamp seals were indexical symbols with their symbolism being used to link members of imagined communities within real communities across the late Neolithic ‘world’. These people were members of a perceived descent group originating in shifting relationships to place during the change from sedentary farming communities in the eighth millennium BC to more mobile communities in the seventh millennium BC. At the same time as negotiating these supra-community identities seals were also used indexically in a variety of sub-community ways being used for a variety of magical (primarily apotropaic and talismanic) uses. As part of this I argue sealing practices in the late Neolithic relate to specific events of efficacious sealing using the power in the seal’s design.

Le présent mémoire a pour but de contextualiser et d’analyser Visions du Canada, une série de douze paysages représentant chaque province et territoire du pays. Commandés par la Société canadienne des postes en 1982 au peintre québécois Jean Paul Lemieux, ils sont émis en 1984 dans le cadre de Jour du Canada, une série annuelle visant à souligner la fierté et l’appartenance nationale lors de la fête du Canada. Les paysages variés et colorés d’apparence sereine, réalisés dans un style semi-classique, exhibent l’image d’un Canada uni, égalitaire et diversifié. Le contexte historique et politique dans lequel ils sont produits lève toutefois le voile sur une réalité plus complexe, puisque l’échec du référendum sur la souveraineté en 1980 et le mécontentement des Québécois face aux conditions du rapatriement de la Constitution en 1982 accentuent les clivages culturels entre le Québec et le reste du Canada. La nature présentée dans Visions du Canada est alors envisagée par le gouvernement fédéral comme la source de l’unité nationale. En commandant au peintre québécois des œuvres conçues pour être diffusées à l’échelle nationale, le gouvernement, par l’entremise de la Société canadienne des postes, brouille en fait les dichotomies entre l’identité québécoise et canadienne. Les fonctions intrinsèques du timbre permettent par la suite de rendre ce message accessible à tous les Canadiens. Ainsi, l’analyse des œuvres de Visions du Canada révèle une perception plus nuancée et plus complexe du paysage canadien. Les interrogations qui ponctuent la carrière de Lemieux, comme la relation entre l’Humain et l’univers et l’angoisse face à la modernisation, viennent également remettre en question les mythes de la coexistence avec la nature et de la nordicité qui affirment l’unité du pays. / The purpose of this thesis is to contextualize and analyse Visions du Canada, a series of twelve landscapes representing the country’s provinces and territories. Commissioned to Quebec painter Jean Paul Lemieux by the Canada Post Corporation in 1982, they are issued in 1984 as part of Canada Day, an annual series designed to highlight national pride and belonging on Canada Day. Created in a semi classic style, these varied, colourful, and serene-like landscapes display a united, equal and diverse image of Canada. However, the historical and political context in which they are produced reveals a more complex reality. Indeed, the failure of the 1980 referendum on sovereignty and the Quebecers’ dissatisfaction with the terms of the Constitution’s patriation in 1982 fuel the cultural divide between Quebec and the rest of Canada. In Visions du Canada nature creates the basis for national unity as envisioned by the federal government. By commissioning works designed for national dissemination to the Quebec painter, the government, through the Canada Post Corporation, thus blurs the dichotomy between Quebecer and Canadian identity. The stamp’s intrinsic functions then render this message accessible to all Canadians. Therefore, an analysis of Visions du Canada reveals a more nuanced and complex perception of the Canadian landscape. The questions that punctuate Lemieux’s career, such as the relationship between the human being and the universe and the anguish in front of modernization, also challenge the myths of coexistence with nature and northerness that sustain the country’s claim to unity.

The aim of the presented work is to demonstrate and evaluate the contribution of computing system SIMD especially units MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 and SSE4 from Intel company, by creation of demostrating applications with using Intel Integrated Performance Primitives library. At first, possibilities of SIMD programming using intrinsic function, vektorization and libraries Intel Integrated Performance Primitives are presented, as next are descibed options of evaluation of particular algorithms. Finally procedure of programing by using Intel Integrated Performance Primitives library are ilustrated.

The goal of the thesis is to analyse the issue of e-government in the Czech republic and its impact on private sector. It both describes the current situation and searches for new opportunities to enhance and modify the system. Based on the performed analyses the thesis designs a suitable way to benefit from e-goverment utilization within the company.

The diploma thesis is focused on property taxes in the Czech Republic and Ireland. The first part is aimed at tax theory and history of the property taxes. The next part describes current tax legislation for property taxes in both states. The main aim of this work is to compare the property taxes in the Czech Republic and Ireland and formulate the conclusion with particular property taxes applied in the Czech Republic. This problem is treated in the last chapter.

The project, which has been elaborated within the framework of Master's Degree in Manufacturing Technology (2303T002), processes a technology proposal for the production of stamped part čelo from DD14 material, with a thickness 4 mm, with production quantities of 100 000 pieces per year, in cooperation with the company UNIRON Ltd. Based on the literature study of deep drawing without thinning of the walls and calculations, production of the part of simple single-function drawing tools was proposed. The first three operations performed on a PYE 100 S/1 hydraulic press and the last calibration operation carried out on a LEK 250 eccentric press. The semi-finished product is blank with a diameter of 195 mm, produced in a simple cutting die. The cutting die is designed for both the material in the form of a sheet metal strip in coils and cut strips of metal sheet, which is associated with the use of two eccentric presses of the LEK 250 and LE 400C types. The proposed manufacturing process was simulated in the PAM-Stamp 2G software, in which the influence of the radius the functional parts of tools to change the thickness of the material is further simulated. The part of the project is a technical and economic evaluation, in which the price of one piece of the product and production quantity at which production becomes profitable was rated.

Klasická inkoustová razítka, která se používají k autorizaci dokumentů, se dnes díky rozšíření moderních technologií dají relativně snadno padělat metodou oskenování a vytištění. V rámci diplomové práce je vyvíjen automatický nástroj pro ověření pravosti razítek, který najde využití zejména v prostředích, kde je nutné zpracovávat velké množství dokumentů. Procesu ověření pravosti razítka musí přirozeně předcházet jeho detekce v dokumentu - úloha zpracování obrazu, která zatím nemá přesvědčivé řešení. V této diplomové práci je navržena zcela nová metoda detekce a ověření pravosti razítka v barevných obrazech dokumentů. Tato metoda zahrnuje plnou segmentaci stránky za účelem určení kandidátních řešení, dále extrakci příznaků a následnou klasifikaci kandidátů za pomoci algoritmu podpůrných vektorů (SVM). Evaluace ukázala, že algoritmus umožňuje rozlišovat razítka od jiných barevných objektů v dokumentu jako jsou například loga a barevné nápisy. Kromě toho algoritmus dokáže rozlišit pravá razítka od kopií.