Few would deny the importance of art education in the total educational development of the child. Drawing is an integral component of art education. Drawing for children appears to be a natural form of expression. Studies involving the observation of children's drawing development have had a long history in relation to child art. Recognition that children pass through identifiable stages of development in drawing and that these stages could be affected by cultural and individual differences is an important focus in art education research. This study is concerned firstly with drawing development and secondly, with differences in drawing development across cultures. Eight year old children with predominantly European background and eight year old children with Vietnamese/Kampuchean background were chosen for this study. The study was concerned with determining whether there were any significant differences in drawing development between the two ethnic groups, using a modified scale of the Rouse "Descriptive Scale for Measurement of Art Products". The results of this study indicate that there are differences in drawing abilities between the two ethnic groups.

The left-right concept is considered to facilitate communication and orientation in the political world. It has a long tradition in European politics due to its capacity to absorb different associations over time. However, this dynamic nature of the concept requires periodical reassessments in order to assure that a common conceptualisation endures. This dissertation focuses on reassign what individual left-right orientation means. Usually, this is measured by asking people to place themselves on a scale labelled ‘left’ and ‘right’ at its endpoints. The first empirical analysis of this dissertation shows that this measure is comparable across groups and countries. Thereafter, the relationship between an individual’s issue preference and left-right orientation is considered. The second empirical analysis shows that this relationship is conditioned by the importance people assign to the respective issues. The final analysis demonstrates that what explains left-right orientation is contingent on individual and contextual factors. This implies that in order to understand left-right orientation, it is not enough to identify what has an impact on a person’s position but also account for all those factors that predict variation between individuals. Given this complexity, my conclusion is that the left-right concept runs the risk of becoming too complicated to serve as an analytical tool to shed light on political attitudes and behaviour. / El concepte esquerra-dreta és considerat com un factor facilitador de la comunicació en el món polític. Té una llarga tradició’ en la política europea degut a la seva capacitat d’absorbir diferents associacions a través del temps. Tanmateix, aquesta natura dinàmica del concepte requereix revisions periòdiques per assegurar que persisteix una conceptualització comuna. La present tesi es centra en resignar el que significa l’orientació esquerra-dreta. Normalment, es mesura tot demanant als enquestats posicionar-se a ells mateixos en una escala que va de l’esquerra a la dreta. El primer anàlisi empíric de la present tesi mostra que aquesta mesura és comparable entre grups i països. Seguidament, es considera la relació entre les preferències temàtiques dels individus i llur orientació esquerra-dreta. El segon anàlisi empíric mostra que aquesta relació està condicionada per la importància que les persones assignen als temes respectius. L’anàlisi final demostra que el que explica l’orientació esquerra-dreta depèn de factors contextuals i individuals. Això implica que per entendre l’orientació esquerra-dreta no és suficient identificar què té un impacte en la posició d’una persona sinó també una explicació per a tots aquells factors que preveuen la variació entre individus. Donada aquesta complexitat, la meva conclusió és que el concepte esquerra-dreta corre el risc de convertir-se en massa complicat per a servir com a eina analítica per a l’estudi de les actituds i el comportament politics.

This Diploma thesis deals with the design of device for measurement of vehicle shock absorbers. It describes shock absorbers and options for their diagnostics. In the next part describes design of device, strength analysis, modal analysis, and cost estimate. Transferring torque of device is realized by scotch yoke mechanism.

Master's thesis "Classrooms' psychosocial chmate in the secondary schools of different focus" is divided into the theoretical part and the practical part. In the theoretical part the main focus is dedicated to an explanation of the basic terms concerning the theme followed by the analysis of its parts. This is mainly an analysis of classroom development, stages, types of class climate and mapping the factors that contribute to create the climate in the class including gender difference. The key attitudes towards the class climate research, the exploratory method which has been used in the practical part also play an important role in the theoretical part. The empirical part focuses on diagnosis of classrooms'climate at selected secondary schools of different focus in the region Klatovy and summarizes the results received by quantitative method through selected standardized questionnaire KLIT. The aim of this part is firstly to compare school climate in the secondary schools of different focus including evaluation of stated hypothesis in the research and secondly interpret the discovered information.

Master`s thesis in the first part deals with the theoretical description of the basics of photovoltaics, principles of solar cell, failures occurring in solar cells. There were also described diagnostic methods for measuring the solar cells and methods of temperature measurements and control . The second part of the thesis deals with the practical measurements of solar cells by electroluminescence at different temperatures. This chapter also describes measuring workplace of solar cells with temperature control.

Das Rissverhalten von Stahlbeton wird maßgeblich durch die Verbundwirkung zwischen Bewehrung und Beton beeinflusst. Aktuelle Untersuchungen befassen sich mit der Rissbreitenentwicklung und Verbundspannungsverteilung unter Langzeitbelastung. Dabei werden verschiedene Betonsorten (fcm ≈ 30–70 MPa), drei unterschiedliche Probetypen sowie faseroptische Sensoren verwendet. In diesem Artikel sind der experimentelle und messtechnische Aufbau sowie die Ergebnisse der ersten Versuchsreihen im Vergleich zu bestehenden Verbundmodellen dargestellt. Darüber hinaus werden Einflüsse des Prüfkörpers und der Verbundlänge sowie die Möglichkeiten zur Erfassung des lokalen Verbundverhaltens mit faseroptischen Sensoren aufgezeigt.

Pulsed laser ablation, calcium, absorption spectrum, spectral line