1 ABSTRACT Title: Calmness of Heart as Topos of the Epicurean Lifestyle Reflected in the Biographical Narration of Contemporaries Author: Pavlína Havlová Department: Oral History - Contemprorary History Supervisor: Mgr. David Bartoň Abstract: The proposed diploma thesis focuses on the presence of the Epicurean tradition in the biographical narration of selected contemporaries. The main emphasis is laid on substantiating relatedness between the thoughts that were formulated by the Greek thinker Epicurus at the turn of 3rd and 4th century BC and the values and lifestyle of the given individuals. The theoretical basis of the thesis is Epicurus's Letter to Menoeceus, which contains the explication of human life and ethics in particular. Based on the analysis of the letter, four general topics were defined (sobriety, moderation, internal and external lifestyle). These topics served as starting points for the interviews that also enabled their analysis and interpretation. The interviews were recorded using the oral history method, which facilitates individual approach to the scrutiny of biographical narration of selected contemporaries. Keywords: Epicurus, Epicurean, Ethics, Character, Sensibility (Temperance and Sobriety, Sophrosyne resp.), Happiness (Well-fare/Flourishing, Eudaimonia resp.), Moderation...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:30:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Jose Laerte Rodrigues da Silva Junior.pdf: 1539460 bytes, checksum: 734766715ffd43b1be965ce4c8870c7a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-17 / Objectives: To evaluate the effect of the climate seasonality on the occurrence of respiratory symptoms in patients attending a primary health unit in a tropical city. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study on subjects attending an out-patient primary health unit in relation with meteorological data collected daily. During one year, forty-four cross-sectional observations categorized by season were made. The observations were chosen randomly, in twelve-hour intervals (7am to 7pm). Analysis of variance was used to compare means across seasons. Pairwise correlation was conducted to verify the association between the number of patients and each meteorological variable. A model of autoregressive moving average with exogenous variables was conducted to evaluate the ability of the meteorological variables to predict the proportions of subjects with respiratory symptoms on each season. Results: Among the 3,354 subjects enrolled, 14.6% had respiratory symptoms. The temperature variation was not enough to change the number of individuals with respiratory symptoms, however there was an increase of subjects with respiratory symptoms coinciding with low levels of humidity during winter, with a statistically significant difference between seasons (p=0,01). Correlation showed that the mean of previous three days minimum air humidity correlates negatively with the number of respiratory subjects (p < 0.04). An ARMAX model that included the same variable showed a statistically significant coefficient (p < 0.0001). Conclusion: In a Brazilian city with tropical weather, the number of subjects with respiratory symptoms attending a primary health unit is increased with the reduction of air humidity and it is possible that this increase could be predicted by meteorological data. / Objetivo: Avaliar o efeito da sazonalidade climática na ocorrência de sintomas respiratórios nos indivíduos que procuraram uma Unidade Básica de Saúde em uma cidade de clima tropical. Métodos: Foi realizado um estudo de corte transversal relacionando os indivíduos que procuraram assistência médica em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde com dados meteorológicos coletados diariamente. Durante um ano, quarenta e quatro observações foram realizadas, onze em cada estação. O dia de cada corte transversal foi escolhido de forma aleatória e ocorreu em intervalos de 12 horas. Análise de variância (ANOVA) foi usada para comparação das médias das variáveis dependentes em cada estação. Correlação pareada foi conduzida entre as variáveis dependentes e cada variável meteorológica. Um modelo auto-regressivo, de média móvel com variável exógena (ARMAX) foi empregado para avaliar a capacidade das variáveis meteorológicas em prever a proporção de indivíduos com sintomas respiratórios em cada estação do ano. Resultados: Entre os 3.354 indivíduos incluídos, 14,6% possuíam sintomas respiratórios. A variação de temperatura não foi suficiente para provocar mudanças no número de indivíduos com sintomas respiratórios, porém houve aumento destes indivíduos coincidindo com baixos níveis de umidade no inverno, com diferença estatisticamente significativa entre as estações (p=0,01). Foi observado que a média da umidade relativa mínima dos três dias que antecederam as observações correlacionou-se negativamente com o número de indivíduos com sintomas respiratórios (p<0,04) e um modelo ARMAX que incluiu a mesma variável apresentou um coeficiente estatisticamente significativo (p<0,0001). Conclusão: Em uma Unidade Básica de Saúde de uma cidade de clima tropical, o número de indivíduos com sintomas respiratórios aumenta com a redução da umidade relativa do ar e existe possibilidade de esse aumento ser previsto a partir de dados meteorológicos.

I föreliggande uppsats kommer ledarens upplevelse av kommunikationen till sina medarbetare att belysas. Studien bygger på fenomenologisk ansats och det är den egna upplevelsen av lärandet som ligger till grund i undersökningen. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur en kvinnlig respektive manlig ledare upplever kommunikationen med en homogen arbetsgrupp av motsatt kön, samt att studera vad ledarna lärt sig i kommunikationen med sina medarbetare. De frågeställningar som kommer att ligga för grund i studien är hur de kvinnliga respektive manliga ledarna upplever att de kommunicerar med sina medarbetare då det är en manlig eller kvinnlig arbetsmiljö. Likaså vad kvinnliga ledare i en manlig arbetsmiljö respektive manliga ledare i en kvinnlig arbetsmiljö har lärt sig i kommunikationen med sina medarbetare. Vi behöver kommunicera för att fungera i samhället som individer och det finns olika modeller för det hos män och kvinnor. Redan i tidig ålder lägger vi grunden för hur vi kommunicerar olika för att sen utveckla det till typiskt kvinnlig och manlig kommunikation. Det handlar också om hur ledares kommunikativa förmåga bör vara till sina medarbetare. Intervju har skett med en kvinnlig och en manlig ledare för att få fram just deras upplevelse i kommunikationen till sina medarbetare och vad de lärt sig i sin kommunikation. Det som framkom var att kommunikation är viktig och att det finns en tydlighet. Att informera, att kunna lära av varandra och att kommunicera på ett positivt sätt tycker ledarna är viktiga lärdomar som de har tagit med sig under sitt yrkesverksamma liv. Men för att kunna kommunicera rätt behöver du som ledare vara med klara med vad du själv menar innan du kan förmedla dig till andra.

Deck caps of bridges—in Germany shortly known as “bridge caps”—are usually made of steel reinforced concrete to form the anchoring area for the guardrail of bridge deck edges on existing cantilever slabs. Combined with protective devices, the outside arranged deck caps provide safety against lateral breaking or crashes of vehicles. Due to their exposed position in the cross section of bridges and the particularly intensive stresses, the deck caps are considered as wear parts and have to be renewed several times during the service life of a bridge. The decisive factor here is the discrepancy between the frost resistance of the concrete and the crack width restriction. On the one hand, only very small cracks (<0.2 mm) can be accepted to prevent corrosion of the rebars under the strong exposure of these elements. To confine crack widths without applying an excessively high degree of reinforcement, a low concrete compressive strength is advantageous. On the other hand, a sufficient frost resistance requires a correspondingly high compressive strength. With carbon reinforcement, these contrary points could be defused and simultaneously the needed durability could be provided. Therefore, slightly modified deck cap concretes combined with a carbon reinforcement mesh were tested to examine the bond behavior with and without freeze–thaw attack. To prove the characteristics of this combined system, the crack formation and crack distribution were investigated experimentally. The test results were compared to calculated values from a mathematically tool to be able to develop different reinforcement concepts in future that can ensure an optimized crack formation and crack width for deck caps.

The Czech Republic is a country of a great number of historical sights. To protect them, the system of state preservation care has been established, the part of which are the Czech Ministry of culture, the Regional Councils' and Municipalities' with extended scope of authority Branches of Historical Sights Care and the National Historical Sights Institute. Nevertheless, the problem is that despite existing extensive system of state historical sights care there are cases of protection failure and progressive devastation and extinction of many cultural sights. The similar failures occur in Poland and Slovakia as well. The objective of this diploma thesis is to find out whether the present system of the sights care in the Czech Republic and comparable systems in the neighbouring countries - Poland and Slovakia secure the sufficient care of the cultural heritage, or if there are alternatives in organization of this area of the state administration. Subsequently, according to the available information it will be considered which of the systems of the state sights care seems to be the most suitable and effective for the defined role and at the same time the potential risks that can be caused by the particular systems will be identified. The following methods are used in my diploma thesis: Comparing -...