This thesis deals with the business valuation. The main goal of this diploma thesis is to estimate the market value of a company with the purpose of a sale to a potential buyer. The thesis is structured into two parts: theoretical a practical part. The theoretical part describes the methods and process of company valuation. The goal of the practical part is to apply theoretical findings on the specific company and make an estimate of its value. The practical part includes description of the chosen company, strategic and financial analysis and prediction of the business plan. There are three methods used for the company valuation - discounted cash flow in the form of FCFF, the method of accounting value and method of similar transactions.

L'analyse de séries temporelles multivariées, créées par des capteurs présents sur le moteur d'avion durant un vol ou un essai, représente un nouveau challenge pour les experts métier en aéronautique. Chaque série temporelle peut être décomposée de manière univariée en une succession de phases transitoires, très connues par les experts, et de phases stabilisées qui sont moins explorées bien qu'elles apportent beaucoup d'informations sur le fonctionnement d'un moteur. Notre projet a pour but de convertir ces séries temporelles en une succession de labels, désignant des phases transitoires et stabilisées dans un contexte bivarié. Cette transformation des données donne lieu à plusieurs perspectives : repérer dans un contexte univarié ou bivarié les patterns similaires durant un vol, trouver des tronçons de courbes similaires à une courbe donnée, identifier les phases atypiques, détecter ses séquences de labels fréquents et rares durant un vol, trouver le vol le plus représentatif et déterminer les vols «volages». Ce manuscrit propose une méthodologie pour automatiquement identifier les phases transitoires et stabilisées, classer les phases transitoires, labelliser des séries temporelles et les analyser. Tous les algorithmes sont appliqués à des données de vols et les résultats sont validés par les experts. / Analysing multivariate time series created by sensors during a flight or a bench test represents a new challenge for aircraft engineers. Each time series can be decomposed univariately into a series of stabilised phases, well known by the expert, and transient phases that are merely explored but very informative when the engine is running. Our project aims at converting these time series into a succession of labels, designing transient and stabilised phases in a bivariate context. This transformation of the data will allow several perspectives: tracking similar behaviours or bivariate patterns seen during a flight, finding similar curves from a given curve, identifying the atypical curves, detecting frequent or rare sequences of labels during a flight, discovering hidden multivariate structures, modelling a representative flight, and spotting unusual flights. This manuscript proposes : methodology to automatically identify transient and stabilized phases, cluster all engine transient phases, label multivariate time series and analyse them. All algorithms are applied on real flight measurements with a validation of the results from expert knowledge.

Bakgrund: Inom psykiatrisk vård är hot- och våld mot personal vanligt förekommande. Studier visar också att sjuksköterskor är särskilt utsatta eftersom sjuksköterskan handhar läkemedel och också oftast är den person som leder arbetet i tvångsåtgärder. Socialt stöd på arbetsplatsen samt adekvat stöd från chefer lyfts fram för att kunna bearbeta dessa situationer. Tidigare studier antyder att de negativa följderna av hot- och våldssituationer kan reduceras genom adekvat stöd men det finns ett behov av ytterligare kunskap om hur detta stöd ska utformas för sjuksköterskor. Syfte: I föreliggande studie har syftet varit att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av stöd i samband med hot- och våldssituationer. Vilka situationer föranleder behovet av stöd? Vilket stöd har de fått? Påverkar stödet kring hot- och våldssituationer sjuksköterskans arbete? Metod: Föreliggande studie har genomförts som en intervjustudie med sex informanter, varav två är specialistsjuksköterskor inom psykiatrisk vård och åldersspannet är 34år till 50år gamla. Innan studien genomfördes godkändes den av Forskningsetikkommittén vid Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola. Resultat: Hot och våld från patienter med neuropsykiatriska diagnoser samt personlighetsstörningsdiagnoser ansåg informanterna vara extra allvarligt och föranleda behovet av stöd. Kollegor gav bäst stöd i form av kamratskap, samtal och humor. Stöd från chefer i form av att bli tagen på allvar och att erhålla uppföljning koncentrerad kring arbetstagarens känslor saknas. Att kunna möta människor med svåra psykiska problem kräver att du själv är psykiskt stabil och välmående vilket är en effekt av att erhålla adekvat stöd. Diskussion: Föreliggande studies resultat diskuteras mot Aron Antonovskys teori Känsla av sammanhang. Förhoppningsvis kan föreliggande studie ligga till grund för att identifiera förbättringsområden i klinisk verksamhet samt upprätthålla en medvetenhet om ämnet. Framledes vore det intressant att utvidga studiens omfattning till att inkludera fler sjuksköterskor och även sjuksköterskor i psykiatrisk öppenvård. / Background: In psychiatric care, threats and violence against personnel are commonplace. Studies also show that nurses are particularly vulnerable because the nurse handles drugs and also usually the person who leads the work in coercive measures. Social support at the workplace and adequate support from managers are emphasized in order to be able to process these situations. Previous studies suggest that the negative consequences of threat and violence situations can be reduced by adequate support, but there is a need for additional knowledge about how this support should be designed for nurses.Aim: In the present study, the aim has been to describe nurses' experiences of support in connection with threat and violence situations. What situations require the need for support? What support have they received? Does the support for threat and violence situations affect the nurse's work? Method: The present study has been conducted as an interview study with six informants, of which two are specialist nurses in psychiatric care and the age range is 34 years to 50 years old. Prior to the study The Department of Health Care Sciences at Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College approved it. Results: Threats and violence from patients with neuropsychiatric diagnoses as well as personality disorder diagnoses considered the informants to be particularly serious and the need for support. Colleagues gave the best support in the form of companionship, conversation and humor. Support from managers in the form of being taken seriously and receiving follow-up focused on the employee's feelings is lacking. Being able to meet people with severe psychological problems requires that you yourself be mentally stable and well-off, which is an effect of obtaining adequate support. Discussions: The results of the present study are discussed against Aaron Antonovsky's theory Sence of coherence. Hopefully, the present study can form the basis for identifying areas of improvement in clinical activities and maintaining an awareness of the subject. In the future, it would be interesting to extend the scope of the study to include more nurses and also nurses in psychiatric outpatient care.

Registration of medical images is technique, which is developing with new hybrid diagnostic imaging systems. Nowadays is a trend in image registration focused on monomodality and multimodality images registration. The first part of this master’s thesis is intent on present basic information about image registration. Concretely is intending on image transformation, interpolation, criteria function and at optimalization. Further part present realized Optical Flow technique and used “Demon” algorithm for image registration. The next part is focused on presentation of program solution and GUI. In the last section of this master’s thesis is verifying of created program on usual images and real CT images.

Mimesis - Imitatio in the Authentic Letters of the Apostle Paul The first part of the thesis provides the reader with a concise overview of different semantic levels of the term mimesis as found in the ancient literature written in the Greek language. Furthermore, the author focuses her attention on the use of the concept of mimesis in the Old Testament, and the New Testament writings other than Paul's authentic letters. Such a survey prepares the ground for a detailed study of the concept of mimesis in the authentic letters written by the Apostle Paul. The idea of mimesis is present in Paul's authentic letters in five explicit passages (1 Tess 1:6-7; 1 Tess 2:14; 1 Cor 4:16; 1 Cor 11:1 a Phil 3:17). Each of the passages is studied within the whole context of the respective letter, written for a group living its own particular situation. The thesis compares different exegetical solutions from several researchers. Some of the researchers understand Paul's appeal to imitation as a call to be obedient to his teaching. Other experts are more inclined to understand this imitation as an authentic representation of the Cross in the life of Jesus' followers. The thesis tries to prove that the mystery of Christ's kenosis, expressed in a very significant way in the Christological hymn contained in the Letter to the...

Title: Options under Stable Laws. Author: Andrea Karlová Department: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Supervisor: Doc. Petr Volf, CSc. Abstract: Stable laws play a central role in the convergence problems of sums of independent random variables. In general, densities of stable laws are represented by special functions, and expressions via elementary functions are known only for a very few special cases. The convenient tool for investigating the properties of stable laws is provided by integral transformations. In particular, the Fourier transform and Mellin transform are greatly useful methods. We first discuss the Fourier transform and we give overview on the known results. Next we consider the Mellin transform and its applicability on the problem of the product of two independent random variables. We establish the density of the product of two independent stable random variables, discuss the properties of this product den- sity and give its representation in terms of power series and Fox's H-functions. The fourth chapter of this thesis is focused on the application of stable laws into option pricing. In particular, we generalize the model introduced by Louise Bachelier into stable laws. We establish the option pricing formulas under this model, which we refer to as the Lévy Flight...

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Die Berücksichtigung der flächenhaften bodenhydraulischen Variabilität gilt bei der Modellierung von Wasser- und Stofftransportprozessen als problematisch. Dies liegt vorrangig an ihrer Erfassung, die kosten- und zeitintensiv ist. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht verschiedene Messstrategien, die zur Abbildung der flächenhaften Bodenhydraulik mit wenigen, einfach zu bestimmenden und physikalisch begründeten Bodenparametern führen. Die Vorgehensweise erfolgt mit der Anwendung eines Ähnlichkeitskonzeptes, das die Böden in bodenhydraulisch ähnliche Klassen unterteilt. Innerhalb einer Klasse kann die Variabilität der Retentions- und hydraulischen Leitfähigkeitcharakteristik auf einen freien Parameter (Skalierungsparameter) reduziert werden. Die Analyse der Zusammenhänge zwischen Boden- und Skalierungsparametern führt letztendlich zu den geeigneten Parametern die eine flächenhafte Abbildung möglich machen. Diese Untersuchungen bilden die Grundlage für die weitere Entwicklung eines stochastischen Modellansatzes, der die Variabilität der Bodenhydraulik bei der Modellierung des Bodenwassertransportes im Feldmaßstab berücksichtigen kann. An Hand von drei Datensätzen unterschiedlicher Skalenausbreitung konnte dieses Konzept angewendet werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Beschreibung der hydraulischen Variabilität nur für die vertikale (Profil) nicht aber für die flächenhafte Ausbreitung mit einfachen Bodenparametern möglich ist. Mit einer ersten Modellanwendung konnte gezeigt werden, dass über die Variabilität der Bodenparameter Trockenrohdichte und Tongehalt auch die Variabilität der Bodenhydraulik und damit die Berechnung des Bodenfeuchteverlaufs am Standort darstellbar ist. / The consideration of the spatial variability of the unsaturated soil hydraulic characteristics still remains an unsolved problem in the modelling of the water and matter transport in the vadose zone. This can be mainly explained by the rather cumbersome measurement of this variability, which is both, time-consuming and cost-intensive. The presented thesis analyses various measurement strategies which aim at the description of the soil-hydraulic heterogeneity by a small number of proxy-parameters, which should be easily measurable and still have a soil-physical meaning. The developed approach uses a similarity concept, which groups soils into similar soil hydraulic classes. Within a class, the variability of the retention and hydraulic conductivity curves can be explained by a single parameter (scaling parameter). The analysis of the correlation between the soil parameters and the scaling parameters can eventually indicate which soil parameters can be used for describing the soil hydraulic variability in a given area. This investigation forms the basis for the further development of a stochastic model, which can integrate the soil-hydraulic variability in the modelling of the soil water transport. Three data sets, all covering different scales, were subsequently used in the application of the developed concept. The results show that depth development of the soil-hydraulic variability in a soil profile can be explained by a single soil parameter. Contrarily, the explanation of the horizontal variability of the soil-hydraulic properties was not possible with the given data sets. First model applications for a soil profile showed that including the variability of the soil parameters bulk density and clay fraction in the water transport simulations could describe the variability of the soil-hydraulic variability and thus, the dynamics of the soil water content at the investigated profile.

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The topic of the thesis is to build physically similar systems to simulate behaviors of real-life heavy-duty vehicles using LEGO Mindstorms as hardware platform and Buckingham π theorem as theoretical basis for the parameter scaling. The thesis work includes software and hardware system design and theoretical research in order to prove a newly proposed concept: Using LEGO to build a scaled model of real-life vehicles with specific similar physical properties. To implement the work described above, scaled models were built with LEGO and a software and hardware system was developed for controlling the scaled model. Tests were performed both on real-life vehicles and scaled models. A generalized mathematical model for the vehicle was derived in order to interpret the behaviors of the vehicle in a scientific way. Then, test results of both real-life vehicles and the corresponding scaled model were compared with the mathematical model in order to investigate if they have similar behaviors. Finally it was concluded that the scaled model built with LEGO Mindstorms combined with Buckingham π theorem could calculate the speed and turning radius of the physically similar real-life vehicle with an average accuracy of 94.68% within low speed, conservatively speaking. For further investigation and research, similar research could be performed with higher speeds to generalize the conclusions and results. / Uppsatsen ämnar till att bygga ett fysiskt likvärdigt system, som simulerar beteendet av verkliga tunga fordon, med LEGO Mindstorms som hårdvaruplattform och med Buckingham П teoremet som teoretisk grund from skalning av parametrar. Arbetet inkluderar mjukvaru- och hårdvarusystemdesign samt teoretisk forskning för att kunna bevisa ett nyligen föreslaget koncept: Att använda LEGO för att bygga en skalad modell av verkliga fordon med specifika likartade fysiska egenskaper. För att implementera det ovan föreslagna arbetet, byggdes skalade modeller i LEGO samt ett kombinerat hård- och mjukvarusystem för att styra den skalade modellen. Tester utfördes på både riktiga lastbilar samt de skalade modellerna. För att kunna identifiera parametrar samt simulera och tyda fordonens beteende så adapterades en generell matematisk modell. Testresultaten för på verkliga samt motsvarande skalade modeller jämfördes med den matematiska modellen för att påvisa om beteendet är likartat. Till sist drogs slutsatsen att den skalade modellen bygg med LEGO Mindstorms och parameterskalad med hjälp av Buckingham П teoremet kunde beräkna skalningsfaktorn av hastighet samt svängradie för det fysiskt likartade fordonet med en tillförlitlighet på 94.68%, konservativt räknat. Detta gäller för låga hastigheter och som fortsatt forskning skulle en liknande studie med starkare och snabbare motorer genomföras för att generalisera slutsatserna och resultaten.