Der reichhaltige Musikinstrumentenbau in Pressburg (slowak. Bratislava) wird jüngst von Eva Szórádová in einer umfassenden Publikation minutiös dargestellt. Rund 350 Instrumentenbauer – Orgel- und Klavierbauer, Saiten- und Blasinstrumentenbauer – werden hierin erfasst, angefangen mit dem ersten namentlich überlieferten Orgelmacher Nicolaus de Zechen (nachweisbar 1466–1515) und endend in den 1990er Jahren. Unter den Personen finden sich 23 Damen.

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Vybíralová, E. Identification of key factors of financial performance of mixed agricultural primary production concerns in connection with changes in production structure. Diploma thesis. Brno: Mendel University in Brno, 2019. Diploma thesis deals with the identification of key factors of financial performance of the Agricultural concern Olbramkostel in connection with changes in production structure. The results will be compared with the business environment based on a representative sample of agricultural concerns. The theoretical part focuses on gathering theoretical knowledge from the area of measuring financial performance and agricultural production. In the practical part, a financial analysis will be done using selected tools, ensuring the basic evaluation of the company and the business environment. Based on the results of the financial analysis, the Discussion will identify the key factors affecting financial performance and the scenarios will model the effects of structural change on the business environment.

The objective of this diploma thesis is to suggest recommendations leading to improving firm performance, determined by economic value added (EVA) using EVA equity with INFA benchmarking system. Key performance indicators (value drivers) were identified by financial analysis and mathematical-statistical methods, mainly regression analysis. Recommendations improving key performance indicators of metalworking industry companies were suggested. These recommendations were used to create specific solution for main analyzed company HDO spol. s.r.o. Simulation of balance sheet and profit and loss statement was used to prove positive effects on economic value added.

This diploma thesis focuses on the evaluation of suitable methodological procedures in business valuation. Firstly, it means comparison of different ways of every author, depending on international and national valuation standards. Second step is practical application of valuation methods. In the result, there are three values and each of them is looking on valuation from different way. That’s one of the most important aspect in this thesis, and main reason, why is thesis focusing on singularity of each method in particular situations. In the final recommendations, this thesis considers, that main problem are valuations standards in Czech Republic. For higher level of business valuation is important complete these standards.

Tunnel safety – an inventory of accidents in four road tunnels in Stockholm This report investigates traffic accidents in four road tunnels in Stockholm. The tunnels investigated are Klaratunneln, Söderledstunneln, Törnskogstunneln and Häggvikstunneln. The main purpose of this project was to work with a delimited part of the project TUFS (Tunnel Framkomlighet och Säkerhet, Tunnel practicability and safety, my translation) that is going to build a knowledge bank for Swedish road tunnel accidents. The goal of this project was to investigate if the forecasts for accident rates in the tunnels calculated from empirical data differ from the forecasts of the road network made by the forecast program used by Trafikverket, Lill-EVA, for the observed tunnels. Another goal was to determine where accidents occur in the tunnels. In addition, two different tunnel types were compared in terms of accident rates. The tunnel types are located in: countryside (high speed, low traffic flows, no on- and off ramps) or urban center (low speed, high traffic flows, on- and off ramps). Accident data has been collected from the data bases STRADA and NTS and compiled in histograms displaying accident type, light conditions, the seriousness of the accident and number of accidents/year. The results showed that there are no differences in accident rates calculated by Lill-EVA and empirical data for accident rate, serious accident rate and death rate. However, there was a difference in the results concerning light injuries. No difference was found regarding the two tunnel types. Rear-end collision was the most common accident type in Söderledstunneln and serial vehicle crashes in Törnskogstunneln and Häggvikstunneln. Vehicles that got stuck in the tunnel entrance dominated the accident type in Klaratunneln. The majority of the accidents occurred in daylight. The coordinate positions for the accidents showed that there was a concentration of accidents near the tunnel entrance in Klaratunneln, Söderledstunneln and Häggvikstunneln. This is not the case for Törnskogstunneln where accidents have occurred in the tunnel center.

Research submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, March 2017 / The creative component of the research project explores, through the medium of sculpture, the notion of the liminal, with a particular focus on themes of the absurd and the unstable as characteristics of liminality. These themes may be useful for investigating and providing a valuable source for critical assessment, so as to allow for the opening of and extending of debates on reading and thinking about art regarded as ‘in-between’ the poles of a binary opposition. Broadly, it seeks to explore the historical trajectory of the 1960s artist Eva Hesse in relation to these themes, and how it resonates with my own sculpture-making and development. The aim of the written research is, therefore, through engaging with a close critical and theoretically informed reading of selected examples of Hesse’s work, to identify themes and approaches which may inform and advance the understanding of my own work produced in the context of this study. Connections will be drawn to the way in which these themes facilitate a favourable space in which the making of art flourishes. As far as viewers are concerned, such work may encourage the viewer to be an active participant in a dimension of human experience potentially not yet encountered, thereby liberating viewers’ fixed and rigid perceptual constructs. Entering into a discussion of the themes of liminality, the absurd and unstable, serves this aim. / XL2018

The portrayal of other groups of people than our own often run the risk of depicting the individuals in these groups in a simplified way. We often view ourselves as complex beings, with several defining memberships connected to our person. These memberships can be as students, siblings, religious, political, friends, and musicians, to name but a few. This definition is not always as certain in our portrayal of others, more foreign to our everyday life. The supporters of the opposing football team or voters of the rivalling political party might just be defined by these confining identities. Examples of this phenomenon are legion in human history, whether it is nazi Germany’s propaganda that dehumanized the Jewish population or Apartheid’s definition of worth through skin colour. The understanding of how this style of simplified portrayal dehumanizes the portrayed subject is important to teach in our schools. The power of our choice of definition of the people around us needs to be taught to students. The first step towards giving students an understanding of the subject is to show them solid examples of this in history. The focus of this study is therefore to analyse letters from Swedish missionaries in South Africa and how they portrayed the South African population during the official introduction of Apartheid. Amartya Sen’s theorem of identity and violence has been used as a tool during the analysis to achieve this goal. The results showed that many of the missionaries changed their portrayal of the black population during the investigation period, 1945–1951, from a simplified to a diverse description. Their depiction of the white population, however, stayed relatively the same during the entire period.

Los adhesivos hot melts sensibles a la presión (HMPSAs) se caracterizan por no contener disolventes (100 % sólidos), y su formulación consta principalmente de polímero y resina. La cualidad más relevante de un adhesivo HMPSA es que posee la capacidad de formar enlaces a temperatura ambiente al aplicar una ligera presión durante un corto tiempo, presentando pegajosidad permanente y permitiendo realizar uniones adhesivas reposicionables y reversibles. En lo que respecta a aplicaciones que requieren temperaturas de uso inferiores a la ambiental, los adhesivos HMPSAs se emplean en etiquetas de envasado de productos alimenticios que se conservan en frigorífico (5-10 ºC). Los adhesivos HMPSAs actuales de caucho sintético SBS (estireno-butadieno-estireno) contienen aceites que, debido a su bajo peso molecular, pueden migrar a la superficie y transferirse al alimento, lo que limita su uso. Para solventar esta limitación, en la actualidad se propone el empleo de adhesivos sensibles a la presión (PSAs) acrílicos, los cuales presentan un buen comportamiento a baja temperatura, pero poseen limitada pegajosidad y contienen pequeñas cantidades de disolventes orgánicos. Por ello, se precisa el desarrollo de nuevas formulaciones de adhesivos HMPSAs que superen estas limitaciones, siendo las basadas en copolímeros de etileno las que constituyen una potencial y prometedora alternativa. En este trabajo se propone desarrollar nuevas formulaciones de adhesivos sensibles a la presión basados en copolímeros de etileno basados en mezclas de copolímero de etileno y acrilato de n-butilo (EBA27). La adición de diferentes cantidades (20-62% en peso) de una resina de éster de colofonia y glicerol hidrogenado (ECH) proporciona propiedades adhesivas optimizadas, ya que se obtienen buenos valores de tack (tack se mantiene hasta 5 ºC, y el tack a 25 ºC es 1329 kPa), buena adhesión de pelado a 180º tanto a film de PET como de PP (600-1700 N/m), buena adhesión a cizalla simple (2-3.2 MPa). y buena resistencia al creep a 25 ºC (más de tres días). Se establece 43% en peso de resina como cantidad óptima y se preparan mezclas de EBA27 con 43 % en peso de resinas de diferente naturaleza química y temperatura de reblandecimiento, concluyendo que las resinas más polares y con menor temperatura de reblandecimiento incrementan el tack, y lo extienden a temperaturas más bajas (5 ºC). Se estudia el efecto de aumentar el contenido de co-monómero en las formulaciones de HMPSAs, lo que conlleva que el tack aparezca a menores temperaturas y que el máximo de tack se desplace a menores temperaturas. Adicionalmente, se realizan mezclas de copolímeros de etileno con co-monómeros de diferente naturaleza química (EBA27 - copolímero de etileno y 27 % en peso de acrilato de n-butilo; EVA27 (copolímero de etileno y 27 % en peso de acetato de vinilo) con 20, 30 y 43 % en peso de resina de éster de colofonia y glicerol hidrogenado (resina ECH). Las mezclas EVA27+resina ECH son más compatibles y presentan mayor tack, pero menores fuerzas de pelado a 180º y de cizalla que las mezclas EBA27+resina ECH. Por otro lado, también se ha sustituido la resina en los adhesivos HMPSA por un biopolímero (polihidroxibutirato), para dotarlos de potencial biodegradabilidad. En este trabajo se han desarrollado nuevos adhesivos HMPSA basados en copolíemros de etileno con propiedades adhesivas controladas y tack a temperatura sub-ambiental.

Berättelsen i Genesis 3 har fascinerat människor genom tiderna. Hur Adam och Evalockas av ormen att äta av den förbjudna frukten är något som de flesta känner till utanatt för den skull vara bekännande troende. Den är helt enkelt en av våra mest kändamyter som påstås säga något viktigt om människans villkor i den här världen. Men vadhandlar den om, vad är det den vill säga och är det relevant för oss som lever idag? Vadär det för fel med att vilja ha kunskap, det vill säga varför hade Gud förbjuditmänniskan att äta av frukten från kunskapens träd? Är inte det något bra? Eller handlardet om, som författaren Karen Armstrong hävdar, en annan typ av kunskap än den vivanligtvis tänker på idag när vi associerar till begreppet? Armstrong menar att kunskap iBibelns mening inte är detsamma som en hellenistiskt inspirerad, vetenskapligdefinition där man söker finna fakta om världen vi lever i. Snarare handlar det om enpraktisk kunskap om hur man kan få leva ett gott liv. Det är något som kräver insikt ochvisdom eftersom vi måste leva med våra tillkortakommanden, i en brusten värld(Armstrong, 1996:16-17, 25-26).Är Edennarrativet i Genesis 3 främst en berättelse om hur synden kom in imänniskors liv eller handlar den om något annat? Dessa frågor vill jag försöka besvara idenna uppsats genom att söka mig tillbaka till några tidiga uttolkare. För migpersonligen har det känts viktigt att informera mig om tidiga tolkningar av berättelsenför att få en grund att stå på innan jag ger mig i kast med nutida. Detta för att kunnahandskas respektfullt med berättelsen i en samtida läsning.