This diploma thesis examines the image of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2019 in the Czech and Chinese media. The framing of these protests in selected media is compared using the method of quantitative content analysis, with the aim of revealing similarities and differences both between the individual Czech media in the context of the Czech public debate on China and between the Czech and Chinese media. The theoretical part of this thesis presents the concepts of media theory such as framing, agenda setting and social construction of reality and characterizes the specifics of given media systems. Furthermore, the work describes the previous findings of the protest paradigm, which are then employed in analytical part of this study. At the same time, the concept of soft power with Chinese characteristics and its specific manifestations in the efforts of the People's Republic of China to influence the Czech public debate on China is introduced. The methodological part then presents the research goal, research questions and hypotheses, defines the research sample and the research method used, including the characteristics of individual variables. The analytical part of the work presents the results of the research, which are then discussed in the framework of previous findings of the protest...

The diploma thesis aims to examine and compare public sector structures involved in managing the deals under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP)/Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK and Spain as well as application of Public-Private-Citizen Collaboration (PC2) framework within the two systems in the era of post-New Public Management. The spread and use of knowledge and skills capacities and the overall ability of the national institutional models to protect the public interest in an effective and efficient way is assessed together with openness and transparency of PPP programmes using the Web 2.0 tools able to reach and engage citizens in the process of implementing the policy and procurement of individual schemes. Special attention is paid to the ways in which the private sector entities on the one side and citizens on the other can approach the public authorities and influence the shape and features of the partnership and its results. PPP has been widely used for financing of investments into the public infrastructure in many countries in Europe and elsewhere. Through PPP, private sector is invited to take care of financing, construction or modernization and subsequent maintenance of certain public assets over the life of the contract that usually lasts about 30 years. The programmes of...

The present PhD thesis deals with nominal suffixal derivation in pre-classical French (about 1550-1610). Based both on traditional data collection and on available digital corpuses, especially Frantext, it first strives to define basic concepts such as language standard, problems of periodization, productivity, lexicalization, paradigmatization, panchronic validity of word-formation rules etc. On selected derivational patterns, it also tests the operationality of Optimality theory (OT) and other mechanisms (i.a. paradigmatization) in diachronic perspective. In several follow-up chapters, it then analyzes, from a diachronic point of view, a number of suffixes (-age, -aison, -ance, - ment, etc.).

The Thesis "The Change of Development Aid's Paradigm on the Microfinance Example" deals with the issue of microfinance from the point of view of development theories. Microfinance as a form of development aid is a relatively new phenomenon. It is a form of a direct financial support of small entrepreneurs in developing countries. Since the 90s commercial institutions have become increasingly involved in the process of microfinancing and projects and financing have gone beyond borders of individual states. After 2000 microfinance has become a part of the agenda of international organizations. In the last century, there was a dynamic development in the area of development theories. The change of development aid's paradigm, which took place during the 90s, marked a culmination of this process. Since the 90s the term Comprehensive Development Framework is being used. This thesis verifies validity of the subsequent hypothesis, interest in microfinancing is in accordance with the change of development theories paradigm. The incorporation of microfinance into the development aid's agenda is assessed by concepts the new paradigm works with; the human potential (individual as an active player of development), role of the institutional environment, multidisciplinarity and sustainable development.

The daunting challenge that faces South African business is to redress the inequalities of past discrimination and to develop to its maximum the potential of every team member while remaining competitive. Some of the key challenges include creating a supportive and attractive work environment that's inclusive of diversity, staff retention and an organisational culture that will leverage diversity. The case study organisation faced similar challenges. In order to understand the dynamics a diversity workshop was designed and consulted from a systems psychodynamic paradigm. The primary task of the Diversity Workshop was to provide opportunities for members to study and learn about intrapersonal, interpersonal and inter group relationships in relation to diversity behaviour in the workplace. 50 participants attended the workshop and 22 participants completed the questionnaire. The content was analysed and themes from a psychodynamic stance identified. The overall objective of the workshop was met as it made unconscious behaviour visible, allowed participants to reflect, facilitated dialogue and enabled transfer of learning to the workplace. This approach allowed groups to move from basic assumptions to task oriented behaviour. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial Psychology)

El presente trabajo de investigación identifica y describe las dimensiones de los personajes presentes dentro de las series de animación infantil: Rugrats y Clarence con el fin de señalar como ha sido la evolución de los estereotipos de género presentes en estas series animadas. Se eligieron los primeros capítulos de las primeras temporadas de ambos programas de televisión con el fin de tener una aproximación al primer contacto que el público infantil de cada época tuvo con estas series. La metodología empleada para conseguir dicho propósito corresponde al formato de teoría fundamentada, así mismo la técnica empleada es la de revisión documental. / This research identifies and describes the dimensions of the characters present in the children's animation series: Rugrats and Clarence in order to indicate the evolution of the gender stereotypes present in these animated series. The first chapters of the first seasons of both television programs were chosen in order to have an approach to the first contact that the children's audience of each era had with these series. The methodology used to achieve this purpose corresponds to the grounded theory format, and the technique used is documentary review. / Trabajo de investigación

Practice managers are facing challenging expectations when deploying a managed-care paradigm. The problem addressed in this study was a gap in knowledge regarding practice managers' decision-making strategies that affect, or could be perceived to affect, a climate of excellence with business and client relationships, primary health care, physicians, and patients in a managed-care paradigm. The purpose of the qualitative exploratory study was to explore practice managers' decision-making strategies affecting primary health care, physicians, and patients. Guided by Simon's ideology of decision-making strategies in a management environment, the overarching research question and 3 subquestions centered on how practice managers delineate their decision-making strategies and how those strategies affect primary health care, physicians, and patients. To close the gap in knowledge, the study included (a) a homogeneous purposive sampling of 14 practice managers (n = 2, pilot study; n = 12, main study) as research participants; (b) face-to-face interviews with semistructured, open-ended questions to collect data; and (c) in vivo and pattern coding during data analysis. The study results indicated a need for change agents, interactions, partnerships, and accountability in a managed-care paradigm. Managing health care is complex and practice managers will continue to be challenged. Alliances between practice managers and stakeholders are recommended to meet those challenging expectations. As a result, positive social changes may be observed in improved access to primary health care, better health care treatments, and collaborative interactions in a managed-care paradigm.

Background: Anxiety disorders constitute the most prevalent subgroup of mental health conditions. While anxious individuals are more widely known as being socially withdrawn and shy, recent research highlights a rather non-prototypical image, one that is aggressive. The main goal of this event-related brain potentials (ERPs) study is to augment our knowledge of the neurophysiological responding of hostile attribution biases of anxious individuals to ambiguous situations. Methods: Using pre-collected data from a sample of 68 undergraduate and community-based adult participants, this study aims to explore the N400 deflection utilising Gagnon et al.’s (2016) Hostile Expectancy Violation Paradigm with anxious individuals, and whether the N400 deflection persists after controlling for aggression. Results: A more negative amplitude was observed in response to a critical word that mismatched rather than matched with the character’s expected hostile intention. Regression analyses revealed that anxiety scores negatively predicted the N400 following the mismatched expected hostile intention while controlling for reactive aggression suggesting that the violation of hostile expectancy about the intention behind an ambiguous provocative behavior is more pronounced among anxious participants. Conversely, in the hostile condition, the overall model was significant, although anxiety scores did not account for the overall effect, reactive aggression did. Conclusion: This study provides preliminary evidence that anxiety symptoms are uniquely related to hostile attribution bias independent of reactive aggression. Future research should aim to replicate these findings with a clinically diagnosed sample of individuals with anxiety disorders. / Contexte : Les troubles anxieux constituent un sous-groupe le plus répandu dans les conditions de santé mentales. Malgré cette prévalence, ils ne reçoivent pas la même reconnaissance en raison des comorbidités, une étiologie inconnu et une manque de traitement spécifique. Récemment, la littérature scientifique s'est concentré sur la neuro-imageries de l`anxiété. Par contre, une compréhension plus complète sur comment l'électrophysiologie et le stress interagissent et mène aux symptômes de l’anxiété est requis. Méthodologie : À l'aide de données pré-recueillies auprès d'un échantillon de 68 participants, cette étude visait à étudier la déflexion N400 en utilisant le Paradigme de la Violation d'Espérance Hostile de Gagnon et al. (2016) chez les individus adultes présentant de l'anxiété. Résultats : dans la condition non-hostile, nous avons observez une déflection négative significative du N400 chez les individus qui ont un score de BIAH plus élevée, en contrôlant pour l’agressivité. Les analyses de régressions ont démontré une déflection négative du N400. En d’autres mots, les adultes qui ont plus d'anxiété étaient surpris suivant un contexte hostile et une intention non hostile car il s'attendait à une contexte hostile. Tandis que dans la condition hostile, le modèle global s’est avéré significatif, par contre l’agressivité réactive a tenu compte de l'effet global et n’ont pas les scores d’anxiétés. Conclusion : À notre connaissances, aucune articles scientifiques à explorer le BAIH avec des mesures électrophysiologique du cerveaux, comme preuve des influences des symptômes d'anxiété sur la cognition. Cette recherche à augmenter notre connaissance sur la présence du BAIH chez les adultes avec des symptômes d’anxiété en examinant des marqueurs électrophysiologique du cerveaux. Les implications et limites de l’étude sont également discutées. Reproduire ces résultats avec un échantillon cliniquement diagnostiqué de personnes souffrant de troubles anxieux, devrait donc être l'une des priorités de la recherche future.

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