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An annotated translation of Muriel Spark's selected short stories with an introduction to the author, the style of the short stories and their translation complexities
Tichá, Kateřina ; Brotánková, Šárka (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis consists of two parts. The first, practical part presents a translation of short stories The Portobello Road (1956), The Curtain Blown by the Breeze (1961) and The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life (2000) by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark. The texts represent various periods of Spark's writing career and offer a complex insight into her style and its various shades. The translation is succeeded by a study focusing on the life and work of Muriel Spark and mainly on an analysis of the key translation issues encountered in the process of translation. The key problems include the translation of Spark's specific literary language, the rendering of natural speech and the idiolects of the characters, the translation of names and other culture-specific facts. The theoretical part devoted to the translation analysis stresses the link between various translation theories and the work of a translator.
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Life before myocardial infarction
Tichá, Kateřina ; Votroubková, Michaela (advisor) ; Vlášková, Dana (referee)
Author: Kateřina Tichá Institution: Department of Social Medicine, Medical Faculty of Charles University in Hradec Králové, Department of Nursing Title: Life before myocardial infarction Supervisor: Mgr. Michaela Votroubková Number of pages: 68 Number of attachments: 3 Year of defense: 2012 Keywords: lieve, heart, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, risk factors The bachelor thesis deals with patient's life style before suffering myocardial infarction within a few regions of the Czech Republic. It points out risk factors which can cause myocardial infarction. It emphasizes the difference between life style of women and men. The focus is created by quantitative research targeted on risk factors of cardio-vascular disease. The researched sample is created by patients who are hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction solved by percutaneous coronary intervention in regions Hradec Králové, Pardubice, Ústí nad Orlicí, Brno and Rychnov nad Kněžnou.
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Relationship of inhabitants to their home place in Eastern and Western Ore Mountains (Krušné hory)
Tichá, Kateřina ; Mikšíček, Petr (advisor) ; Braun Kohlová, Markéta (referee)
Diplomová práce Vztah obyvatel k místu 5 Abstract This thesis entitled "Relationship of inhabitants to their home place in Eastern and Western Ore Mountains (Krušné hory)" focuses on the issue of a relationship the current inhabitants have to the area they live in. This relationship is defined on the basis of several distinct theoretical areas. The first portion of the thesis covers the basic terminology key for understanding the relationship of inhabitants to their home place. It deals with the definition of the term "home place", its character and ways in which it may be perceived. It also contemplates the term "settlement" and focuses on "identity" which is further defined as biographical and regional identity. Identity may be studied in the context of a relationship to the countryside, local community and historical awareness. The paper also characterises the Sudetenland region and provides the historical context necessary for a comprehensive outlook at the area researched without marginalizing the issue of nationalism. The practical portion employs qualitative methodology to process eighteen semi-structured interviews with representatives of elites (mayors, businessmen and members of associations) of the selected are of the Eastern and Western Ore Mountains. Subsequent analyses point to identical and...
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Proposal for the use of new technology
Tichá, Kateřina ; Vysloužil, Martin (referee) ; Juřica, Pavel (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the use of new technology, concretely a welding robot. The importance of the work lies in the evaluation of this design in the terms of productivity, investment and contains the specifications of the selected welding robot and welding cell. At the end of the work, the whole proposal will be economically evaluated.
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Chmelové produkty a možnosti jejich použití při výrobě piva a dalších nápojů
Tichá, Kateřina
The bachelor thesis deals with the theme of hop products which are available on domes-tic market. The first part of the work is focused on the chemical composition of hops, where the most important part is isomerization of bitter acids. There are also mentioned hop varieties, cultivation and processing technology after harvest. The second part describes the technology of domestic production of hop products and their use in the brewing industry. There is also a comparison to technology abroad. In conclusion the work focuses on the utilization of hop products generally in the beverage industry.
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Možnosti chmelení piva chmelovými extrakty a výrobky z chmele
Tichá, Kateřina
The aim of this thesis is to summarize the options of hop products leaded by hop extracts. The literature research focuses on chemical composition of hop, key transformation of hop bitter acids used in the brewing industry and also describes the technology of production of individual hop preparations and possibility of their application. The next part summarizes the beer production process including associated mikrobiology, which is an importand part of all stages of beer production. The experimental part describes production of six variations of beer chosen from different hop products, their chemical analysis and sensory evaluation. The results of the tests are evaluated statistically and are compared with each other at the end of the thesis.
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Barriers to education for children from socially excluded localities from their parents point of view
Tichá, Kateřina ; Němec, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Mužáková, Monika (referee)
Diploma thesis deals with pupils from socially excluded localities and their education. The theoretical part defines the term socially excluded locality and deals with distinctive features that influence the situation of people living here. The Roma minority, which is often associated with social exclusion, is also characterised, and unfortunately is still frequently represented in socially excluded localities. The main topic is a socially disadvantaged pupil, their needs and current educational opportunities are taken into account. Special attention is given to Roma children and pupils with regard to cultural and ethnic specifics. The practical part is processed in the form of 12 case studies describing individual families from socially excluded localities and their attitude to children's education. The main objective of the research was to identify barriers that influence the education of their children from the parents' point of view. Partial objectives focus on other circumstances that families may have to limit access to school in relation to their social situation. The results of the research point to a close connection between the unfavorable social situation of the family, when these circumstances have a negative effect to the school education of children. Parents themselves perceive these...
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An annotated translation of Muriel Spark's selected short stories with an introduction to the author, the style of the short stories and their translation complexities
Tichá, Kateřina ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis consists of two parts. The first, practical part presents a translation of short stories The Portobello Road (1956), The Curtain Blown by the Breeze (1961) and The Young Man Who Discovered the Secret of Life (2000) by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark. The texts represent various periods of Spark's writing career and offer a complex insight into her style and its various shades. The translation is succeeded by a study focusing on the life and work of Muriel Spark and mainly on an analysis of the key translation issues encountered in the process of translation. The key problems include the translation of Spark's specific literary language, the rendering of natural speech and the idiolects of the characters, the translation of names and other culture-specific facts. The theoretical part devoted to the translation analysis stresses the link between various translation theories and the work of a translator.
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Attractiveness in online dating
Tichá, Kateřina ; Reifová, Irena (advisor) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
The main point will be to describe and explain the peculiarities of on-line dating in practice that arise from the use of digital platforms in dating. The main goal will be to find out cross- platform dating, whether participants use chat in dating applications and servers, or choose their counterparts to move to different type of communications. The following procedure will be chosen to search the work and fulfill the research questions. First of all we are going to make literary research. The reader will be acquainted you to expect your author to work out the goals of the work. Subsequently, societal values will be believed with a possible impact on our cultural environment and habits. We are going to solve issue of "singles", which is particularly important for exploring the field of dating portals, will be mentioned. Next step are parasocial and technological relationships will be examined. So there are relationships, for which establishing and maintaining communication technology is needed. The main method used in this work will be netnography. That's method which looking at world of the internet people and groups which are active in web pages and social medias where they leave their footprints. Using these methods, four fictitious profiles will be available on the Badoo and Tinder web lists....
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