This thesis deals with the detection of Uniform Marker Fields and the position of a camera in a space. The steps of the UMF detection, the Windows Phone 8 platform, DirectX working and the concept of augmented reality are described in the thesis. Implementation and design of the demo application together with the whole architecture of the project is described in the thesis. The result of the thesis is an application using the UMF detector and plotting a 3D object into a scene. Finally the application is tested and evaluated.

Tato práce stručně popisuje moderní metody v rozšířené realitě a dále se zabývá generováním a detekcí Uniform Marker Fields. Hlavním cílem je zlepšovat markery známé jako Unifrom Checker-Board Marker Fields. Toho je dosaženo několika vylepšeními návrhu těchto markerů. Mezi hlavní patří využití širší barevné palety, zaměření na podobnost s vybraným obrázkem a změna tvaru modulů. Výsledný algoritmus byl navržen ke generování právě takových markerů. Výstupem jsou esteticky vypadající markery, které umožňují spolehlivou detekci i v případě výrazného překrytí nebo za špatných světelných podmínek.

Artificial lighting is an integral part of our everyday life. Nowadays, a large number of people spend practically all their productive time in the presence of the artificial lighting system. This places considerable demands on the quality of this artificial lighting system. One of the indicators of the quality of the lighting system is the evaluation of glare. The UGR evaluation methodology is currently used to evaluate glare. However, the UGR rating has its limitations. These limitations include ambiguous assessments of luminaires with non-uniform luminous surface (so - called non - uniform luminaires). This diploma thesis deals with the issue of discomfort glare of non-uniform luminaires. The aim is to make a literature review of this issue. The first part focuses on theoretical knowledge of glare and its evaluation. Another part is an analysis of recent studies on the topic about glare from non-uniform types of luminaires. The last chapters of the thesis deal with own practical evaluation of glare.

The purpose of this bachelor's thesis in sociology is to understand and reflect on how blue-light professions such as police, ambulance, emergency services and other professions such as social services and leisure leaders work with young people based on the project the Man behind the uniform. The sociological problem being studied is the disbelief young people can create towards the blue light professions as well as professions such as social services and leisure leaders. The study is based on the theories of social ties, organizational culture, shame and pride, over-, under- and optimal differentiation, habitus and segregation. Through a qualitative method in the form of eight interviews, the purpose has been to answer our question: In what ways can the project The Man Behind the Uniform strengthen the relationship and mutual trust between young people and those who work in the blue light profession? The result indicates that the attitude towards uniformed officials as well as professions such as social services and leisure leaders may be disturbed by many young people and that this is due to the ongoing negative effect of society on, among other things, vulnerable areas. The segregation that exists in the vulnerable areas is also a factor of the prevailing circumstances against officials.

Expensive medicine cost is always a thorny livelihood problem that most people complain about in China. From pharmaceutical factories to consumers, medicines prices increases several times during the circulation. Due to this situation, many hospitals launched different pattern of purchasing and selling medicines to decrease patients’ drug costs. Among them, the uniform bidding mode is the mode most commonly used by state-operated institutions in China. However, as a typical innovation pattern of purchasing and selling medicines, the drug direct supply mode launched by Hubei Zhongshan Hospital has achieved remarkable progress.   In this thesis, I intend to analyze these two modes and compare the performance of them to give some suggestions for future medical reform. The unified bidding mode achieved a win-win-win between pharmaceutical suppliers, medical institutions and patients. The direct supply mode compressed intermediate circulations to transfer multilayer wholesalers' profits to the patients to reduce their burden of medicine costs. However, the introduction of this purchasing mode may lead to market concentration which may influence prices in the longer run. For future medical reform, in the long run, the key is the separation of medical services and pharmaceutical sales. However, from a short-term perspective, direct supply mode can be adopted to solve the core issue of excessive price-adding in medicine circulations.

The objective of this study is to determine whether the accumulation of dirt on a battle dress garment affects the emissivity of said garment in the thermal radiation spectrum (8-12 μm). This is researched for the purpose of identifying whether there is a need for military units to spend time and resources on keeping battle dresses clean to minimize their thermal signature.To accomplish said objective, two experiments were conducted with the Swedish uniformssystem 90 (battle dress system) to determine change in emissivity due to dirt accumulation in relation to clean garments. Dirty garments were borrowed from active service personnel provided they had been used daily and not washed for over 6 months. Emissivity was gauged with a thermal camera from FLIR Systems.While differences could be identified in unison with the hypothesis, can no conclusion be drawn due to the low statistical significance of the results. This is due to the small sample sizes in relation to the difference observed.

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This article proposes a simple method to visualize peak and tails in continuous distributions with finite variance. The excess peak and tails areas in unimodal symmetric and nonsymmetric distributions, and the missing area in U-shaped distributions, are identified by comparing the distribution under consideration with the uniform distribution with equal center and variability. Agreement with kurtosis orderings based on the CDFs, and a strong correlation between the total peak and tails area with quantile kurtosis, were found for the distributions examined. The visualization of tails and peak could be used to introduce the notion of kurtosis in undergraduate statistics courses.

This thesis aims to highlight the smock-dress within the context of Soviet-Estonia during the post-war epoch, ca. 1950s until 1990s. Through Mauss’s socio-anthropological tripoint view, the concepts and identities of the smock-dress are studied from the angles of biology, sociology and psychology. The intention is to show its widespread use amongst Soviet- Estonian women and their remembrance of it, in accordance with the Soviet ideological structures. Using semi-structured interviews, I have assembled oral history from women who attain this historical retrospective, aiming to depict the smock-dress as both a concept and an object, thus functioning as an emblem of Soviet society rather than a historical artefact. Relying on the terms nostalgia, socio-cultural belonging and phenomenology, I seek to capture the smock-dress as both a vestiary phenomenon and representation of social structures. Thus, creating a dual identity, individual and collective, through its usage, showing that sartorial fashion encompasses more than just emotions and promoted stylistics.

In many irrigation systems and networks, there are multiple water users and shareholders who take their water from different locations along a single canal or pipeline. Often, irrigation splitter boxes are used to divert water to multiple shareholders from a single location. The splitter boxes, which can be small and compact, are generally installed at different locations along a piped irrigation supply line. The purpose of a splitter box is to split a specific amount of water so that each user receives their allotted portion, regardless of the flow rate in the system. Each splitter box usually includes two compartments, separated by a wall that acts as a weir for the water to flow over. The water in the supply pipe enters the box and fills the upstream compartment until it spills over the weir. As water flows over the weir, it is separated by vertical dividers. Each divider is positioned to split a certain percentage of the total flow to one of the outlet pipes, which carry the water to various destinations. In general, splitter boxes perform very well at lower flow rates. However, if high flow rates are present in the box, due to under-design of the box or for any reason, the water surface becomes turbulent and the flow profile over the weir becomes disturbed and nonuniform. Because of these conditions, the flow becomes unevenly distributed and an accurate flow split cannot be achieved. This study focuses on developing a solution that can be installed in flow splitter boxes to effectively dissipate energy and uniformly distribute the flow across the length of the weir during times of high flow rates.