This thesis presents different points of view on vocabulary. Its aim is to define its role in language teaching. There are four main chapters in the theoretical part: history of methodologies, psychological and neurolinguistic aspects of teaching, fields of vocabulary knowledge and finally stages of vocabulary teaching. The work addresses both the historical development and current tendencies. In the practical part, we first made a didactic analysis of selected textbooks which deal with vocabulary. Furthermore, a selected range of vocabulary (family) was analysed according to the techniques of introducing, semantisation and practicing activities. Several shortcomings were revealed, such as lack of information about the pronunciation, word grammar, register, audio recordings and especially dearth of language skills nowadays often emphasised in Europe. The last part of this work was to create a separate file for teaching the topic of family, so that on the one hand it corresponds to the theoretical knowledge and on the other hand, is based on an analysis of textbooks. Therefore it was possible to demonstrate their applicability to the given range of vocabulary. The aim of the thesis was to define the role of vocabulary in teaching, which we did not do only in methodology, but also in linguistics and...

This thesis deals with the comparison of methodological approaches of Czech urban sociology and social geography. The aim of the thesis is to ascertain whether sociologists have maintained their specific view on urban issues different from that of other disciplines. Currently, it is rather difficult to distinguish between purely sociological and socio- geographic research activities. Therefore, the research part of this thesis is focused on the analysis of diploma and dissertation theses. In the case of students, it is clear which discipline their theses represent. The comparison of theses is based on observation of their topics, theoretical assumptions, methods, techniques and the nature of conclusions. The concluding part of the thesis summarizes the results of the research, supplementing them with the comment on the current state of urban sociology in the Czech Republic. Key words: urban sociology, social geography, city, methodology

The main subject of the thesis was to create epigraphic catalogue of th e Jewish cemetery in Kožlany, as one of the basis to the further knowledge of the Jewish settlement of studied region. The first part is devoted to methodological approaches and solutions of the documentation process of Jewish epigraphic heritage on which the terrain research and the subsequent evaluation has been carried out. The second part provides a summary of documentation and the third part presents evaluation of the data obtained, which is based on the epigraphic catalogue. The final part of the thes is is devoted to the history of selected Jewish families, whose members were buried at the cemetery in Kožlany.

1 This paper consists of two different parts. The first part is theoretical and descriptive and its three chapters are organized deductively. The second part analyses a methodology of interpretation of the Constitutional court of the Czech Republic. The first chapter concerns with important legal concepts such as law certainty, predictability of courts' decisions, justice and equality. It concludes that a methodology of interpretation plays a crucial role in all of these concepts. Next chapter examines such terms as application of law, interpretation of law, law argumentation and methodology of interpretation. The last chapter of the descriptive part presents two judicial strategies to interpretation. Judges in the first strategy use only internal law arguments (mainly text of the statutes) as opposite to the second strategy where judges do not rely on the text at all, but interpret the law with external law arguments (such as intent, unexpressed law principle, economical argument etc.). This chapter also briefly describes the most common methods of legal interpretation for every judicial strategy. Eventually this part tries to provide modern strategy which combines methods used by both strategies and is based on rational, full and open explanation of court decisions. Afterwards the paper shifts the focus...

This paper elaborates on the issues arising during evaluation of quality in tertiary education, specifically in the area of business schools. It provides an overview of theoretical approaches to quality and its measurement, and analyzes current methodologies in quality evaluation of business schools. Part of the thesis consists of results from an inquiry among academics from 4 departments of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Economics, Prague, and students of the CEMS International Management program. The results provide a comparison of current practices and stakeholder views, and shows whether these two are in alignment or contradiction.

Práce se zabývá návrhem uceleného teoreticko-metodologického rámce nové podnikové funkce revenue assurance pro telekomunikační společnosti, které usilují o systematický a koncepční přístup k zajištění a maximalizaci příjmů. Popsány jsou role revenue assurance funkce v podniku, cíle, vývojová stádia. Dále jsou popsány hrozby a konkrétní podoby úniků a nadhodnocení příjmů. Podrobně je rozebrána metodika pro plnění úkolů revenue assurance a techniky pro eliminaci úniků a nadhodnocení příjmů. Práce obsahuje také výsledky empirického průzkumu funkce revenue assurance mezi telekomunikačními společnostmi v roce 2003 a 2004.

Práce se zabývá návrhem uceleného teoreticko-metodologického rámce nové podnikové funkce revenue assurance pro telekomunikační společnosti, které usilují o systematický a koncepční přístup k zajištění a maximalizaci příjmů. Popsány jsou role revenue assurance funkce v podniku, cíle, vývojová stádia. Dále jsou popsány hrozby a konkrétní podoby úniků a nadhodnocení příjmů. Podrobně je rozebrána metodika pro plnění úkolů revenue assurance a techniky pro eliminaci úniků a nadhodnocení příjmů. Práce obsahuje také výsledky empirického průzkumu funkce revenue assurance mezi telekomunikačními společnostmi v roce 2003 a 2004.

La ricerca s’inserisce nel quadro delle attività promosse dall’Università del Salento all’interno del Progetto “Lecce Sotterranea”, un’iniziativa nata nel 2000 che mira a sviluppare a Lecce le moderne prospettive dell’Archeologia Urbana. La stretta collaborazione avviata fra Università, Comune e Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia ha portato negli anni 2000-2009 alla realizzazione di numerosi scavi archeologici all’interno del centro storico. Questi interventi hanno evidenziato la ricchezza stratigrafica del sottosuolo leccese portando alla luce nuovi e significativi elementi per la ricostruzione della topografia della città e delle trasformazioni che ne hanno definito la fisionomia attuale. Il lavoro di ricerca è basato principalmente sull’analisi e lo studio di dati ancora inediti che, sommati ai numerosi ritrovamenti effettuati a partire dalla fine dell’Ottocento, spesso occasionali o avulsi dal contesto di provenienza, hanno permesso di pervenire ad una lettura diacronica delle fasi della città di Lecce compresa tra l’Età del Ferro e l’Età moderna. Il progetto di ricerca ha previsto lo studio analitico e contestuale di tutte le evidenze rinvenute fino ad oggi. Sono stati presi in esame, inoltre, tutti i cantieri urbani attivati nell’ambito del Progetto Lecce Sotterranea illustrando i dati emersi secondo una suddivisione in periodi e fasi cronologiche. L’utilizzo della tecnologia GIS ha permesso di gestire agevolmente la grande mole di dati recuperata negli ultimi anni e di creare una base cartografica informatizzata diacronica che comprende la sistematica localizzazione di tutte le evidenze acquisite fino ad oggi. Questa cartografia costituisce una griglia critica sulla quale posizionare ed elaborare tutti gli scavi futuri. All’interno della Piattaforma GIS di Lecce confluisce il GIS di scavo di Palazzo Vernazza, un grande archivio dati facilmente interrogabile ed in futuro consultabile attraverso il web. Sono stati individuati complessivamente IX periodi più ampi, corrispondenti alle grandi trasformazioni che hanno interessato l’area di indagine che coprono un arco cronologico che va dall’Età del Ferro a quella moderna. L’analisi contestuale di tutti i dati editi e di quelli inediti ha permesso una organica rilettura della ricostruzione urbanistica e topografica della città, permettendo di cogliere le sue trasformazioni, le continuità e le cesure avvenute durante i secoli che hanno contribuito a modellare il paesaggio urbano attuale. Il recupero di tutta la documentazione edita e di tutti i dati pregressi ha consentito, inoltre, la realizzazione di una Carta Archeologica dei rinvenimenti per la città di Lecce, al momento inesistente. Il dato grafico, rappresentato attraverso una simbologia che permette di visualizzarne il grado di affidabilità, è corredato da schede descrittive che compendiano le informazioni visualizzate nella Carta. La cartografia archeologica della città permetterà una corretta valutazione delle sue risorse archeologiche e sarà utilizzabile oltre che in ambito scientifico (ricerche archeologiche e storiche) anche in quello amministrativo (programmazione degli interventi, protezione del patrimonio). / Urban archaeology Lecce

Analisi di due siti di lavorazione metallurgica in altrettanti centri urbani della Cisalpina romana, Milano e Verona, contestualizzandoli nel complesso delle conoscenze già acquisite relative alle attività di lavorazione dei metalli nelle due città, a loro volta inserite nella più vasta problematica delle città dell’Italia Settentrionale.

Final thesis deals with information-mining from large sets of medical data using methods and machine learning algorithms. The subject of the theoretical part is machine learning and its distribution, description of the basic data types in data mining, most important classifications and predictions methods, criterion defining the quality of prediction methods, description of data mining methodology and frequently used systems. The practical part focuses on statistical and informatics survey of provided medical data, appropriate transformation, subsequent design and implementation of experiments using machine learning methods to acquire new knowledge and hidden information and finally interpretation of the results together with conclusions for target groups.