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Exploring the Process of Reading in Modern Standard Arabic
Složilová, Eva ; Ondráš, František (advisor) ; Zemánek, Petr (referee) ; Gažáková, Zuzana (referee)
(English) The dissertation presents the findings of a mixed method research project aimed at analysing the process of reading in Modern Standard Arabic. Think aloud method represents the main instrument for collecting qualitative data in the form of verbal reports that the students produce while taking a test of reading comprehension. The test is used as an instrument for distinguishing good and poor readers whose reading strategies are analysed using protocol analyses. The resulting codes of reading strategies are then categorized and their specificities are discussed at length. Key words: Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic as a second language, construct of reading, reading comprehension, proficiency testing, reading aloud, reading strategies, think aloud, verbal protocols, validity.
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Integration of Arabic loanwords into Czech
Columby, Aleksandar ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Pospíšil, Adam (referee)
Arabic loanwords are present in many Slavic languages. Arabic words have also entered the Czech language, and still do. Arabic loanwords in Czech have been studied previously, however to a small extent. This research focuses on the contemporary layer of Arabic loanwords, which previous research did not deal with. Specifically, the work deals with their semantics. The author asks the question whether contemporary Arabic loanwords in Czech undergo changes in meaning, and if they have undergone changes, the author asks what changes. He bases his answer on a comparison of their meaning deduced from the collocations that they form in corpora. Using the Czech National Corpus (ČNK), the author first created a list of contemporary Arabic loanwords and then examined their collocations in the Czech corpus SYNV12 and the Arabic corpus The Arabic Web Corpus (artenten18). The research shows that most contemporary Arabic loanwords in Czech (12/18) have not undergone a significant change in meaning. All the words that have undergone a change (6/18) have narrowed their meaning. In addition to the meaning being changed by narrowing it down, two words (šarīᵓa and ğihād) have acquired a negative connotation. Despite certain limitations, this research brought new knowledge about the current layer of Arabic loanwords...
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Evaluation of water vapour permeability
Zemánek, Petr ; Rozsívalová, Zdenka (referee) ; Frk, Martin (advisor)
The theme of this work is the knowledge of technical terminology and the laws of physics permeability materials in various industries. There are described basic properties of water vapor permeability and their meaning. This work refers to the possibility of measuring permeability in different application areas. The practical part involves the measurement and evaluation of water vapor transmission on selected samples.
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Programmable Remote Control
Zemánek, Petr ; Pavlata, Karel (referee) ; Kučera, Pavel (advisor)
This thesis deals with the hardware and software design for programmable remote control. It describes the theory of infrared radiation and its applications in wireless data transmission, modulation methods of infrared radiation and transmission protocols, that remote controls use. It describes features of the ARM Cortex-M3 and selected microcontroller STM32L151C8. It is followed by the hardware and software solution for programmable remote control. This thesis solves receiving, storage and transmission infrared signal from original remote control. It describes a communication protocol, that allows communication between PC application and programmable remote control via USB. It contains user manuals for PC application and programmable remote control user interface, what user allows device control and allows to enter all commands like in PC application.
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Modular RGB LED display with Ethernet
Zemánek, Petr ; Kaczmarczyk, Václav (referee) ; Bradáč, Zdeněk (advisor)
This thesis deals with an electronic circuit and a PCB of a modular RGB LED display with the Ehernet interface. Firstly, author describes a RGB colour model, features of RGB LED displays, ways of control them. The next chapter contains a short description of the Ethernet interface, UDP and TCP protocols and a lwIP TCP/IP stack. The last theoretical chapter is an introduction to ARM Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 based microcontrollers. The next chaper is deals with a hardware design of the modular RGB LED display. The device is designed to be modular. Individual devices can be combosed together and create a larger display. Data from the Ethernet interface will be displayed on the RGB LED matrix, resolution of the matrix is 32 × 32 (1024 diodes). A refresh frequency is 100 Hz, a color depth is High color (16 bits) and a scanning 1/16 (two rows is driven at the same time). The next chapter describes the firmware for the RGB LED display, all its logical parts including a web page. Author also created the PC application, which sends pictures using UDP protocol to individual modules.
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Apartment Building
Zemánek, Petr ; Pilík, Václav (referee) ; Struhala, Karel (advisor)
The subject of this bachelor's thesis is a design of an new apartment building in Bystřice nad Pernštejnem. It is a three-storey building situated on a slightly sloping terrain. The building is detached. The entrance is from the north side, where is an existing acess road. There are 4 same house units in the apartment building. The building is made of ceramic brick blocks. The ceilings are made of prestressed reinforced concrete panels and reinforced concrete prefabricated elements. The roof is flat, single-skinned, green and with a constant inclination. This work contains documentation of the real execution.
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Proposal of Marketing Mix of the Selected Company to the Switzerland Market
Zemánek, Petr ; Mráček, Pavel (referee) ; Milichovský, František (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with the issue of marketing mix of a company entering a foreign market. The work is divided into three main parts. The first part of this work defines the theoretical basis related to the researched issues. The second part of the work is devoted to the analysis of the current state of the selected company and the foreign market using selected analyzes. In this part, the evaluation of the questionnaire survey is also performed. The last, third part of the diploma thesis is devoted to the creation of specific proposals for the marketing mix, through which it is possible to introduce the company to a foreign market in order to address and gain new customers and bring the company to mind.
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Reflexes of laryngeals in the Akkadian loanwords from the West-Semitic Languages in the 1st millenium BCE
Dobrota, Andrej ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Dušek, Jan (referee)
The aim of this work is to determine the patterns used by the speakers of Akkadian to adapt laryngeal phonemes in loanwords from West-Semitic languages by analysing the reflexes of these phonemes in the Akkadian words. Corpus used for analysis is taken mainly from already existing lists of West-Semitic loanwords in Akkadian (von Soden 1966, 1968, 1977; Cherry 2017; Zadok 2021, 2022) subsequently reduced using criteria based on Abraham - Sokoloff (2011) and supplemented by additional lexemes (mainly from CAD). The results of this analysis are further corroborated by analysing transcriptions of West-Semitic personal names occurring in RINAP 1 - 5 containing laryngeals into cuneiform. Findings of these analyses are then presented in the final part of the work. It was possible to determine quite unambiguously the individual patterns of adaptation of the respective laryngeal phonemes. Original /ḥ/ and /ḫ/ were adapted as /ḫ/, original /ˤ/ and /ˀ/ as /ˀ/ or ∅, depending on its position. Original /h/ and /ġ/ were not present in the studied corpus, thus precluding any possibility of determining their adaptation patterns. The results of this work may be applied to better understand strategies employed by Akkadian speakers in adapting loanwords and they give a systematic survey of these patterns when applied...
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Vetný slovosled v maltčine: Kvantitatívna analýza
Čéplö, Slavomír ; Zemánek, Petr (advisor) ; Fabri, Raymond (referee) ; Zeman, Daniel (referee)
This dissertation is a quantitative analysis of constituent order (i.e. the order of subject, verb and object) in contemporary (post-2000) Maltese, a Semitic language descended from North African varieties of Arabic, spoken primarily in the Malta archipelago and Australia. The analysis is based on data collected in two corpora: a general corpus and a syntactically annotated corpus (dependency treebank); the compilation and descrip- tion of the treebank is the secondary aim of this work. The dissertation comprises 8 chapters divided into two parts: the irst three chap- tersofwhichprovideaconceptualfoundation(chapter1),areviewofexistingmajorap- proaches to the study of constituent order (chapter 2) and a review of previous works on Maltese constituent order (chapter 3). Using these as the background, chapter 4 then sets the research questions and methodology. The remaining three chapters form the core of the dissertation: chapter 5 describes the composition and enrichment of the general corpus of Maltese. Chapter 6 then provides a thorough description of the Maltese treebank and the annotation decisions, thus in effect assembling a sketch of Maltese syntax. Chapter 7 then provides the actual quantitative analysis of constituent order in Maltese based on the treebank, arriving at the conclusion that...
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