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European medieval women writers
Bednaříková, Eliška ; Stehlíková, Eva (advisor) ; Doležalová, Lucie (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with writings of women writers of European Early and Central Middle Ages, particularly with four women writers, who flourished from the half of the 9th century to the beginning of the 13th century in western Europe. In the Middle Ages there were much more male than female writers, but unique personalities, influencing the world of literature, could be found even among the women writers. Ladies presented in this thesis exemplify with their writings general literary development of the Middle Ages, but, simultaneously, they are always at the beginning of something new. These women writers are Dhuoda, infelicitous wife of nobleman, canoness Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and finally conscious author from the royal court, Marie de France. Dhuoda created in the middle of the 9th century with her writing Liber manualis unique didactic-educational work, the oldest "in France" written piece about education.377 Hrotsvit wrote, as her fellows did, legends and historical epics, but, moreover, she created first performable plays of the Christian world.378 Hildegard of Bingen represensts with her writings the breaking period of the 12th century, but her work is really vast and in its range unique. The last one, Marie de France, is the representative of the courtoise...
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Two translations of Lady Chatterley's Lover by S. Jílovská and F. Vrba
Petrášková, Radka ; Kalivodová, Eva (advisor) ; Abdallaova, Naděžda (referee)
This thesis attempts to explore the role of the translator's gender in the two translations of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lacfy Chatterlry's Lover. Within the limited context of an M.A. thesis, the writer submits the following: 1. A biography of D. H. Lawrence and a short overv1ew and periodization of his extensive work. 2. An exploration of the position of D.H. Lawrence among his contemporaries together with an attempt to determine his position in the context of the modernist movement and other literary streams and of his life and of the previous epoch. 3. A short overview of D. H. Lawrence's individual philosophy, his attitude to and understanding of women and men women relationships and the reflection of these views in Lawrence's work. An exploration of Lawrence's fiction of women and his fiction woman's experience of physical love is included. 4. An overview of the genesis of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lacfy Chatteriry'J Lover, including a factual appraisal of previous versions and an account of its content. A more comprehensive coverage of the topic follows, including an account of the reception of D. H. Lawrence's work in Great Britain and in the USA, and of Lacfy Chatterlry'.r Lover in particular, as well as Lawrence's clash with censorship. There is an examination of the early reception of Lawrence's work...
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Utilization of Radar Echo Extrapolation for Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
Frolík, Petr ; Novák, Petr (advisor) ; Žák, Michal (referee)
At present time weather radar data are essential for national meteorological services. Utilization of this data for quantitative precipitation forecast and severe weather prediction for short period (nowcasting) becomes more and more common. Increasing interest for quantitative precipitation forecasts can be noticed in hydrological applications, where it can give early warning on flash floods and can improve large scale precipitation forecasts. This paper verifies usability of COTREC nowcasting method based on extrapolation of radar echo for quantitative precipitation forecast. Quality of COTREC forecast up to 3 hours was investigated on data from 1.4.2006 to 30.9.2006. Comparison of COTREC method with Aladin NWP model forecasts was also made. Hourly mean precipitation estimates on catchments were chosen for comparison because of verification focused mainly on utilization of the forecasts in hydrological applications. Forecasted precipitation estimates were compared with optimal operationally available precipitation estimate - adjusted radar estimate combined with available raingauge measurements.
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Cooking Stone Soup: Porous Workforce Training at the Czech National Library of Technology as a Supplement to (Impermeable) University Education
Chodounská, Alena ; Krueger, Stephanie
As in many other countries around the world, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) libraries in the Czech Republic are facing the difficult challenge of meeting the rapidly-evolving service needs of the communities they support in an environment in which the current university educational system does not provide graduates—neither those from STEM subjects nor those graduating from Czech library/information professional schools—with the appropriate set of skills needed for working in today’s specialized information provision settings. As a result, the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK) has been forced to provide on-the-job workforce training since early 2015 to its reference, instructional, and front-lines services staff simply in order to keep pace with STEM library developments outside the Czech Republic. This weekly workforce training effort, christened NTKu (short for NTKyouniversity), does not resemble traditional university education with its rigid structures and focus on the attainment of a degree. NTKu is, instead, porous: traditional “impermeable,” less flexible university curricula are supplemented with on-demand, ever-changing targeted instruction on specific issues, topics, and skills applied immediately to real-work settings. This manner of instruction, as the authors discuss in the paper, can yield highly effective results; however, unique challenges can emerge in an instructional environment lacking traditional measures of effectiveness (i.e., grades) and requiring voluntary participation by both learners and instructors. Such porous instructional efforts resemble those of open source software (OSS) communities, in which voluntary effort can produce results benefiting a particularly community—but only to the degree of investment provided by contributors. Such initiatives resemble cooking stone soup: the results can be tasty, but everyone involved needs to bring something to the table.
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Performance management system and motivation
Petera, Petr ; Fibírová, Jana (advisor) ; Wagner, Jaroslav (referee) ; Havlíček, Karel (referee)
The positive impact of performance measurement and management (in connection with rewards) on motivation of workforce have been questioned in recent years and decades. The conceptual part of the thesis strives to identify whether the above mentioned criticisms of discussed systems is based on their inherent properties (characteristics) or on properties (characteristics) of their specific implementations. Extensive multidisciplinary literature review (especially from the fields of accounting, performance measurement, financial management, microeconomics, labor economics, behavioral economics and psychology) showed that the performance measurement and management systems (including linkages to remuneration) have the potential to positively impact motivation, work effort and performance of workforce. Refusing this potential, which often occurs especially in relation to remuneration, is based on specific applications, and it must be dismissed as simplistic. The literature review also helped identify the factors and characteristics of the discussed systems, which are crucial for their positive motivational effect, as well as properties that are usually undesirable in terms of motivation. Another significant outcome of the conceptually oriented part of the thesis is a model framework enabling detailed analysis of rewarding for performance. The thesis also describes and discusses the results of two empirical surveys, the first of which was focused on the analysis of performance measurement and management system and remuneration system, and the second survey was primarily focused on detailed analysis of the system of remuneration and motivation of workforce. Regarding performance measurement, as positive can be perceived the fact that strategic performance measurement systems of the balanced scorecard type are intensively used, including the search for causal links between measures and efforts to link these systems to the remuneration of workforce. It should be noted however, that the issue of interconnection of balanced scorecard systems with remuneration of workforce is by respondents considered to be one of the biggest problems of balanced scorecard implementation. Therefore is identified an area where further research is needed, particularly in the form of case-study based research. All respondents indicated the use of budgets to fulfill many functions (e.g. tool for financial management in terms of coordination and verification of planned business objectives and early risk detection, tool for setting of targets of the business as a whole, and tool for internal motivation and management) and it is possible to conclude that there is no abandonment of budgets (as sometimes implied by "beyond budgeting"). A surprising finding was little use of new performance measures, especially economic value added (as top financial measures were usually referred EBITDA and EBIT). The results of both surveys showed that respondents seek to implement quality systems of remuneration, but revealed were also some problematic features of these systems. Particularly important is the fact that rewards for long-term performance are relatively little used, which can lead to short-term oriented decision making of managers. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that rewards are usually awarded in the form of money; the use of equity-based rewards (e.g. shares) is very low. Furthermore, insufficient is also utilization of rewards in the form of work-life balance programs and utilization of rewards in the form of appreciation.
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European medieval women writers
Bednaříková, Eliška ; Doležalová, Lucie (referee) ; Stehlíková, Eva (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with writings of women writers of European Early and Central Middle Ages, particularly with four women writers, who flourished from the half of the 9th century to the beginning of the 13th century in western Europe. In the Middle Ages there were much more male than female writers, but unique personalities, influencing the world of literature, could be found even among the women writers. Ladies presented in this thesis exemplify with their writings general literary development of the Middle Ages, but, simultaneously, they are always at the beginning of something new. These women writers are Dhuoda, infelicitous wife of nobleman, canoness Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and finally conscious author from the royal court, Marie de France. Dhuoda created in the middle of the 9th century with her writing Liber manualis unique didactic-educational work, the oldest "in France" written piece about education.377 Hrotsvit wrote, as her fellows did, legends and historical epics, but, moreover, she created first performable plays of the Christian world.378 Hildegard of Bingen represensts with her writings the breaking period of the 12th century, but her work is really vast and in its range unique. The last one, Marie de France, is the representative of the courtoise...
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The analysis of Boris Antonenko-Davydovytch's of early novels
Svobodová, Petra ; Chlaňová, Tereza (advisor) ; Morávková, Alena (referee)
In my diploma I concentrate on the analysis of short stories by Boris AntonenkoDavydovych, the Ukrainian writer, whose works belong to the first half of the 20th century. I especially aim at Davydovych's prozaic works from the 1920s which had been affected by revolution changes and after-revolution-chaotic reality. First I introduce the literary process and time when the author was active and I chronologically name the sequence of Davydovych's prose. In the first chapter I analyze the single stories at large while focusing on the action that is later divided into partial chapters and focusing on the most important plots and expressive characteristics, I explore the composition issue, the characters themselves, time and space point of view and also the author's style, the method of his narration and his choice of lexical and figurative instruments. The second chapter concerns the topics of Davydovych's stories. His works from the 1920s map the historical topics of the World War I and the year 1905, the civil war and the famine in the years of 1921-23, the after-revolution reality. The third chapter focuses Davydovych's stylistic range that does not divert from realistic mantinels. Though his work is also influenced by revolutinary impressionism, neoromantism and symbolism. The fourth chapter deepens the view...
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A reflexion of Lima in the work of Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Torresová, Hana ; Housková, Anna (advisor) ; Fousek, Michal (referee)
The thesis aims at reflection of Lima in several pieces of literary work by Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro: two novels Geniecillos dominicales and Cambio de guardia and chosen stories from his early work. Lima appeared in Peruvian literature even before, but it was Ribeyra who achieved to depict Lima's atmosphere thanks to his using modern techniques, which he acquired by reading European authors. He does not focus only on simple description of the city as the place where the characters meet and influence one another. On the contrary, descriptive scenes are in his work rare. They are mostly written in phrases without active verbs - this technique reminds us of film shots. A reader gets to know the characters according to their acting and expressions as well as according to the places where they move along and habits they keep. For better orientation, the thesis divides Ribeyro's view on Lima into three categories: the first comprises the city itself, with its streets, squares, buildings, means of transport, etc. Ribeyra intended to catch the changes in Lima in 50's, the time of great boom of industry, destruction of the old quarters of the city and construction of the new ones. He shows the nostalgia of the citizens who long for the old face of Lima, cling to old things and detest all the new and...
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Experiment's arts of Jiří Nekvasil
Černý, Milan ; Just, Vladimír (referee) ; Herman, Josef (advisor)
The author tries to point out some of the experimental elements in Jiří Nekvasil's work. His experiments instinctively and gradually began to appear in all of his performances. This was determined by a completely new and different approach to opera. Opera in itself became a modern and creative material that had not been strongly connected to a conventional reception. Nekvasil often adapted and altered it in various ways, touching a completely new type of audience. Thanks to Nekvasil's modern "video excerpts" and "destructive" point of view, it started to become understood as a different form of entertainment in the early nineties. The first overwhelming reception in the process gradually became a standard for theatrically revived opera performances. Nekvasil proved that opera is not a dead and outlived musical type of theatre; it has become playful, amusing and creative. It was necessary to unleash its post Romantic and veristic reins. Experimentation in Nekvasil's work started to become more and more obvious. When the libretlo appeared too restraining, he used absurd and trivial non-literary collages. He was not afraid to combine heterogeneous parallel opera stories and create a completely new piece. Later he was able to use previous experience from his early alternative years in staging performances in...
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