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The cycle of murals in Znojmo and problem of the development of Czech monumental painting in 12th century in the context of Central Europe
Louženská, Monika ; Kubík, Viktor (advisor) ; Všetečková, Zuzana (referee)
Monika LOUŽENSKÁ: The cycle of murals in Znojmo and problem of the development of czech monumental painting in 12th century in the context of Central Europe. The study developes the theme of foregoing bachelor's thesis, aimed on paintings in rotunda of St. Catherine in Znojmo, and deals with question of further development of Bohemian mural panting in 12th century. Currently known monuments of Czech mural from 12th century are decorations of churches of St. Catherine in Znojmo, St. Clement in Stará Boleslav, St. George on Prague castle, St. Peter in New Town in Prague and St. Peter and Paul in Albrechtice nad Vltavou. These paintings are related by its style resources and pictorial form also to murals from early 13th century in churches of St. Wenceslav in Prague on Prosek, Assumption of Virgin Mary in Tismice, St. Lawrence in Lesser Town in Prague, St. John and Paul in Krteň and St. Jacob in Stříbrná Skalice. The main part of thesis is dedicated to the analysis of particular paintings, with the using of iconographic method, formal analysis, elder literature about theme, restoration reports and other documentation. It deals with themes of murals and its style qualities and searches for its style resources, questions of dating and its donors. Important section is focused on historical context of...
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Development of the Status of Prague - Tourist Destination in the Central European Space
Dumbrovská, Veronika ; Fialová, Dana (advisor) ; Špaček, Ondřej (referee)
Title: Development ot the Status of Prague - Tourist Destination in the Central European Space Author: Veronika Dumbrovská Department: Social Geography and Regional Development Supervisor: RNDr. Dana Fialová, Ph.D. Abstract The objective of this thesis is to analyse the development of the status of Prague as a destination of city tourism in Central European since 1989. Prague, the Czech capital, is compared to other capitals in the region - Berlin, Vienna, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest. The research is focused especially on a comparison between Prague on the one hand and Vienna and Budapest on the other in the period 2003-2011. For the research presented in the submitted thesis, secondary data from national statistical offices of the selected countries and specialized statistical databases were used. This quantitative research has been combined with qualitative studies. Since 1989, Prague has transformed from a destination of "former Eastern bloc" into a destination comparable with major cities of Western Europe. The development of tourism in Prague has been rapid and misbalanced. Tourism impact on Prague is higher than in other capitals of Central Europe, especially in its historical centre. This thesis presents major theoretical characteristics of city tourism and applies them on the case of Prague -...
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Securitization of migration in Central Europe
Tůmová, Dominika ; Šánová, Lucie (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
The Thesis "Securitization of Migration in Central Europe" deals with the issue of international migration in Central European countries from the perspective of Security Studies. The aim of this thesis is to point out to the prevailing security concept of this issue in selected countries of Central Europe (Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary), to find out the reasons for this approach to the migration and asylum issues and also to determine whether the security approach to the issue of migration does reflect the real situation of migration phenomenon in selected Central European countries. Through comparative analysis of the issue of migration in selected countries, this thesis verifies validity of the subsequent hypothesis: The security approach to the issue of international migration does not reflect the real situation of migration phenomenon in selected Central European countries. The variables are migration issues most often connected with the security of state and its society: illegal migration, criminality of foreigners, integration, employment of foreigners, access to the welfare benefits and demographical factors.
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Typology of land cover changes and landscape structure in the post-communist countries of the Central Europe
Kuna, Petr ; Romportl, Dušan (advisor) ; Lipský, Zdeněk (referee)
Study of landscape change is a subject of interest for a wide range of professional work both in the Czech republic and abroad. This thesis therefore does not give a simple description of the changes in the landscape, but rather focuses on the further synthesis of these findings and the subsequent creation of a typology of land cover changes and their impacts on landscape structure in the region of interest, including also its heterogeneity. It is therefore a process of allocated areas that formed and still form the same processes that lead to homogenization of the landscape, as opposed to its fragmentation. Area of interest is so-called Visegrad Group of countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland). There are four countries of the former Eastern bloc in Central Europe, which shared some relatively similar initial conditions for the further development of the landscape after the "release" of the regime change in 1989. The landscape began to develop in different way. Each country began a different way to approach a completely different landscape interfering in its development. Review starts with describing landscape development in the period up to 1989, when it was not too taken of the ecological functions and the importance of the landscape. This period was characterized by the...
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Environmental gradients during Late Glacial in Central Europe
Petr, Libor ; Sádlo, Jiří (advisor) ; Magyari, Eniko (referee) ; Roleček, Jan (referee)
The Lateglacial and Early Holocene are key periods with respect to the understanding of the present-day vegetation and environment. An interdisciplinary approach is important for the study of these changes. Only by interlinking biological and geoscience evidence can we obtain a more comprehensive picture of this key period. It is not possible to interpret any pollen spectrum in the sedimentary record without knowledge of the history of the locality and its vicinity. Rapid climate changes had a crucial effect on the environment and vegetation. Continentality of the climate and a deficit of precipitation amplify the effect of local conditions. Vegetation, as in the case of vertebrates and molluscs, comprises a combination of species of a continental steppe, mountain biotopes and disturbed habitats. This facilitated contact among species and populations that are biogeographically separated at present. Vegetation of the Lateglacial period in the Czech Republic ranges in character from frost barrens in the mountains, through steppe-tundra vegetation at medium altitudes to a continental steppe in the lowlands and pine woodlands constrained to a moist floodplain. The Western Carpathians were covered by a taiga. In the Pannonian Lowland, there were open forests with conifers and broadleaved woody plants....
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Changes in climate elements in central Europe and the Czech Republic from the mid-20th century, focusing on autumn
Maryško, Kryštof ; Huth, Radan (advisor) ; Cahynová, Monika (referee)
This thesis deals with climate elements changes in Central Europe in the 2nd half of the 20th century which are being compared to changes in global and European scale. The entire thesis is divided into three main chapters according to the climate elements. The most described are temperature indicators which the authors of papers study most frequently. Also the precipitation forms a separate chapter, while other elements are all summarized in one chapter, because there are not that many studies about them. The average annual temperature and precipitation trends calculated for Europe or the world were similar to those in Central Europe. As for the temperature indicators, during the 2nd half of the 20th century warming was found in most cases and insignificant trends prevailed for precipitation indicators. Among the seasonal changes in climate, autumn stood out. Its trends were in some cases (especially for temperature indicators) different from the other seasons. Whilst there is warming in Central Europe in spring, summer and winter, it cools in autumn. Keywords: climate elements, long-term changes, Central Europe, autumn
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Signaling by IPO Under-Pricing: Evidence from the Central Europe
Čornanič, Aleš ; Novák, Jiří (advisor) ; Serdarevič, Goran (referee)
i Abstract This Master Thesis is focused on under-pricing of initial public offering. We examine the possibility of signaling by IPO under-pricing on Polish data over the period 2005 - 2010. Signaling by IPO under-pricing is analyzed using signaling model. Taking into consideration the uniqueness of Polish sample, we also analyze the signaling by IPO under- pricing used to the build up the government reputation as market-oriented. Our results suggest the statistical significant positive effect of IPO under-pricing on probability of seasoned equity issue as well as on size of seasoned issue. These findings together with negative relation between IPO under-pricing and lag between IPO and seasoned issue are consistent with predictions of signaling model. We do not find any statistical significant evidence that the Polish government tries to build up reputation for its privatization policy over time by under-pricing and selling a high fraction at the initial offer. Keywords IPO under-pricing, signaling hypothesis, Central Europe, asymmetric information, seasoned equity offering, privatization
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Memory lanscapes in centraleuropean literature - Galicia and Bukovina
Iljašenko, Marie ; Činátlová, Blanka (advisor) ; Bílek, Petr (referee)
MA thesis Memory landscapes in centraleuropean literature - Galicia and Bukovina is dedicated to an analysis of the links between landscape, text, memory and cultural identity. Using cultural-semiotic and comparative approaches, it delimits and examines the mnemonic constructs that appear in German written, Polish and Ukrainian literature related to the regions. Two, mostly theoretical chapters are dedicated to the chosen approaches. The order of examined texts follows the development of mnemonic constructs, a process that takes place in all the literatures. The constructs were developed after Galicia and Bukovina ceased to be a part of one of the states. The thesis' structure is topical, each chapter includes an account of German written, Polish and Ukrainian literature. The first chapter focuses on the imaginary topography, geography and symbolic landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina. The second chapter examines the cultural identity that is anchored in the mnemonic constructs. The third chapter concentrates on various myths, constructs and literary phenomena that contributed to the image of Galicia and Bukovina as memory landscapes.
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