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Czechoslovak-Mongolian political, economical and cultural relations 1968-1984
Pokorný, Miroslav ; Mikeska, Tomáš (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
This thesis research relations between Czechoslovakia and the Mongolian People's Republic during the normalization process. The work is focused on the transformation of relations between both countries from the Prague Spring period to the revocation of Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal in 1984. The remaining five chapters, covering the time scope of foreign policy, monitor economical relationships, ideological and cultural section of Czechoslovak-Mongolian relations during the normalization process. The content of the thesis draws chiefly primary sources: government delegations, period articles, official reports, cultural campaigns and other archival material. Thanks to these sources it was possible to authentically describe relations of both countries
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Crustaceans of Antarctic lakes - past and present status
Pokorný, Matěj ; Sacherová, Veronika (advisor) ; Nedbalová, Linda (referee)
Antarctic continent is one of the most severe regions on Earth and it is characterized by low annual temperatures, low precipitation, extensive ice cover and low energy input from the Sun. Nevertheless its lakes host not only microbial communities and protists but in many cases even in the most extreme localities also metazoans, especially rotifers and crustaceans. For at least the last 15 million years Antarctica has experienced massive glaciations that shape the distribution of organisms on this continent. Although it was originally thought that freshwater animals did not survive Quaternary glaciations in situ but migrated to milder regions in the north, nowadays it appears that at least in some cases it is not true. Direct evidence of survival of rotifers (Notholca sp.) and crustaceans (Daphniopsis studeri) in Antarctica was given by paleolimnological studies that were carried out in the Larsemann Hills and circumstantial evidence for permanent survival of crustaceans in Antarctica (e.g. Gladioferens antarcticus) is also growing. Antarctica is currently inhabited by about 14 species of freshwater crustaceans but recent climate changes and rapid warming of Antarctic Peninsula will probably lead to changes in the distribution of some species (e.g. Bockella poppei, Branchinecta gaini) that could, combined...
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Written Voice: Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855) and Miller's Tropic of Cancer
Skovajsa, Ondřej ; Vojvodík, Josef (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
The PhD. dissertation Written Voice examines how Walt Whitman and Henry Miller through books, confined textual products of modernity, strive to awaken the reader to a more perceptive and courageous life, provided that the reader is willing to suspend hermeneutics of suspicion and approach Leaves of Grass and Tropic of Cancer with hermeneutics of hunger. This is examined from linguistic, anthropological and theological vantage point of oral theory (M. Jousse, M. Parry, A. Lord, W. Ong, E. Havelock, J. Assmann, D. Abram, C. Geertz, T. Pettitt, J. Nohrnberg, D. Sölle, etc.). This work thus compares Leaves (1855) and Tropic of Cancer examining their paratextual, stylistic features, their genesis, the phenomenology of their I's, their ethos and story across the compositions. By "voluntary" usage of means of oral mnemonics such as parallelism/bilateralism (Jousse) - along with present tense, imitatio Christi and pedagogical usage of obscenity - both authors in their compositions attack the textual modern discourse, the posteriority, nostalgia and confinement of literature, restore the body, and aim for futurality of biblical kinetics. It is the reader's task, then, to hermeneutically resurrect the dead printed words of the compositions into their own "flesh" and action. The third part of the thesis...
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Language and Institiution
Kučerová, Barbora ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Švec, Ondřej (referee)
(in English): The aim of this thesis is to clarify the normative character of language, that is, how we are bound by a certain set of rules in every speech. We will look into this normative character of language by articulating two essential questions: in what is this normativity grounded and which aspects constitute language as an institution. In the first part of the paper we interpret the work of three authors, Ferdinand de Saussure, Charles S. Peirce and Pierre Bourdieu, in order to answer the question on what the normative character of language is founded. In this part we mainly look into the relationship between language and social consensus, habit/acting and institutions. In the second part of the paper we give a definition of language institution which is inspired by the work of Peirce and Bourdieu. Further on we clarify in systematic way those aspects of language which can be considered as normative. Firstly, we point out those which are clearly part of language, such as lexicon, pronunciation and intonation, official language and institution symbolized by language. The last aspects that we will analyse are speech genres, belief, habit/acting and power.
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Fictional languages in literature
Jelínek, Jiří ; Hrdlička, Josef (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to introduce the so far ignored topic of fictional languages in literature. In the first part it focuses mainly on the function of the fictional languages in the literary works, and analyses the basic options of the fictional languages classification, based on whether they can be labeled as an independent work of art, as an autonomous part of a work, or as an instrument of the aesthetic function in the work. Furthermore, it divides the fictional languages in accordance to the way in which they take effect, either through the expression-form, through the expression- substance, through the content-form, or through the content-substance, taking the terminology from the Louis Hjelmslev's sign model. The second part consists of the analysis of the cases of fictional language usage in prose; these usages are grouped into three divisions. Languages, which help to create an invented world (and eventually add up to its authenticity), are represented by J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional languages. The dystopian languages include Newspeak from the novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell, ptydepe and chorukor from the play The Memorandum by V. Havel, and "Moon Czech" from the prose The True Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon by S. Čech. Fictional languages related to philosophy are...
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Laser spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum dots
Pokorný, Martin
This work is focused on examining photoluminescent properties of InAs quantum dots (QDs) on GaAs substrate covered by GaAs1-xSbx strain reducing capping layer (SRL) prepared by Stranski-Krastanow method. We measured luminescence decay time of two samples with different concentration of Sb in this layer. We investigated the influence of temperature, intensity and wavelength of the excitation pulse on the luminescent decay time. We also compared the properties of the samples after excitation by 760 nm pulse and 850 nm pulse - the former one is energetically above the substrate band gap; in the second case we excited only the QDs and the wetting layer (WL). We consequently derived recombination and relaxation processes occurring inside InAs QDs and also the transport of charge carriers from the substrate and the WL into QDs. One part of this diploma thesis was to learn about the methods of measuring ultrafast photoluminescence and build the experimental set-up.
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Interpretative Semantics as a Contribution to Reception of a Literary Text
Koblížek, Tomáš ; Pokorný, Martin (advisor) ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (referee) ; Petříček, Miroslav (referee)
The thesis deals with the project of interpretative semantics as it has been developed by the French linguist François Rastier. The aim of the thesis is twofold: Firstly, to introduce and to further elaborate on the principles of this theory. Secondly, to point out possible benefits of Rastier's project for interpretation and analysis of literary texts. The key issue which characterizes the Rastier's semantics and which also represents the main axis of the present thesis can be put forward as follows. On one hand, the interpretative semantics grasps the text as a linguistic object which is open to various formal arrangements and to various articulations of semantic units. On the other hand, each text in its linguistic and non-linguistic context receives a particular shape and particular meaning. This general issue is discussed in detail in four mutually bound chapters where it is also applied on literary texts: (1) The first chapter deals with the notion of isotopy as the main textual principle. From the perspective of this concept a text cannot be grasped as a "big sentence" with an apriori determined syntax. Textuality rather resides in relationships between iterated (isotopic) elements which can be detected in the particular text on different linguistic levels (morphemes, lexies, sentences)....
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The adoption of Christianity by the Goths
Pokorný, Martin ; Veverková, Kamila (advisor) ; Lášek, Jan Blahoslav (referee)
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE HUSITSKÁ TEOLOGICKÁ FAKULTA BAKALÁŘSKÁ PRÁCE PRAHA, 2014 MARTIN POKORNÝ UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE HUSITSKÁ TEOLOGICKÁ FAKULTA Bakalářská práce PŘIJETÍ KŘESŤANSTVÍ U GÓTŮ THE ADOPTION OF CHRISTIANITY BY THE GOTHS Vedoucí práce: Autor práce: ThDr. Kamila Veverková, ThD. Martin Pokorný Poděkování Děkuji paní ThDr. Kamile Veverkové, ThD. za laskavou pomoc, cenné rady a komentář při tvorbě bakalářské práce. Prohlášení Prohlašuji, že jsem bakalářskou práci /Přijetí křesťanství u Gótů" zpracoval samostatně a výhradně s použitím citovaných pramenů, literatury a dalších odborných zdrojů.. Současně dávám svolení k tomu, aby má bakalářská práce byla umístěna v Ústřední knihovně UK a používána ke studijním účelům. V Praze dne 10. 6. 2014 Martin Pokorný ANOTACE Tato bakalářská práce pojednává o Gótech - germánském kmeni, který v průběhu sedmi století sehrál významnou roli v evropských dějinách. Práce je zpracována do dvou oblastí - historické a teologické. Historická část popisuje původ gótského národa, jejich vzájemný válečný vztah s římským impériem a nevyhnutelné rozdělení na Vizigótskou a Ostrogótskou říši. Teologická část líčí odklon Gótů od pohanství, následnou christianizaci národa včele s biskupem Wulfilou a přijetí křesťanství v ariánské podobě, jak Vizigóty, tak i Ostrogóty. KLÍČOVÁ...
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The Poetics of Space in The Alexandria Quartet.
Malý, Lukáš ; Bílek, Petr (advisor) ; Pokorný, Martin (referee)
Poetics of space in The Alexandria Quartet is created by multilevel structures. This poetics is closely connected to the main space of the story - Alexandria, which is at the same time one of the novel's topics. Each level is suggested in connection to various theoretical conceptions which are subsequently used for my own analysis. Alexandria is initially an aesthetic coulisse of the story which is portrayed by descriptive passages. Strongly subjective and lyrical descriptions of the city establish overall impression of the story and potentially support reader's experiential illusion. Alexandria and its specificity is further modulated and thematised by its special macroscopic conditions which border Alexandria as an autonomous fictional space with its own rules within the novel's fictional world. Part of poetics of the space in this novel is also portraying spatio-temporal aspect of the reality (chronotope) no only on the level of the story, but also on the level of storytelling. Alexandria is further explicit rhetoric and also through semantic indexation personified and enters semantic relations with the main characters and events. Each level is complementary to another and all are part of the semantic gesture of the novel. Alexandria becomes a separate symbol, mythical entity which importance is...
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Praktické datové struktury
Pokorný, Michael ; Mareš, Martin (advisor) ; Babka, Martin (referee)
In this thesis, we implement several data structures for ordered and unordered dictionaries and we benchmark their performance in main memory on synthetic and practical workloads. Our survey includes both well-known data structures (B-trees, red-black trees, splay trees and hashing) and more exotic approaches (k-splay trees and k-forests). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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