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Sign, symbol and allegory in Hawthorne's stories and The Scarlet Letter
Strouhalová, Slávka ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Robbins, David Lee (referee)
In my thesis I will examine Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories The Minister's Black Veil and The Artist of the Beautiful as well as his famous romance The Scarlet Letter in terms of sign, symbol and allegory. I chose these particular works as typical representatives of Hawthorne's production. The Minister's Black Veil, first published in 1836, is an expression of Hawthorne's Puritan heritage recovery period, The Artist of the Beautiful, which came out in 1846 is an expression of his Romanticism and his dealings with Transcendentalism, while his major work, The Scarlet Letter, 1850, is a remarkable and complex blend of the two strains of his thinking and art. My thesis consists of four chapters. In the first chapter, named Sign, Symbol, and Allegory, I try to define what these terms mean, and to establish the difference between the first two, as some critics use the term sign and symbol interchangeably. I base my analysis on the Saussurian concept of sign, which will be outlined and contrasted with symbol. I will try to adumbrate the way in which reading of signs differs in the Puritan era and in the nineteenth century. I will characterize allegory and the patterns that enable us to recognize it, and I will mention how the understanding of what allegory is has changed in modern times. In the following three...
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The artist of the late modernism
Hudymač, Martin ; Chmel, Rudolf (advisor) ; Holý, Jiří (referee) ; Jedličková, Alice (referee)
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The evaluation of RUDOLF JELÍNEK a.s.
Kotrbová, Dominika ; Scholleová, Hana (advisor) ; Smrčka, Luboš (referee)
The goal of the thesis was to evaluate the company RUDOLF JELÍNEK a.s.. This company is very successful now. It sticks at modernization of its factory and technologies but it put attention to expansion as well. It expands to the other countries of Europe but to America, too. Thesis was divided into two parts, theoretic and analytic. There were described the basic steps of the evaluation process and some methods in the theoretic part. Then all the process was applied in the analytic part of the thesis. The main result is the concrete value value of the company.
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Map Information System
Doležal, Zdeněk ; Skopal, Tomáš (referee) ; Kopecký, Michal (advisor)
This work describes design and implementation of a system for on-line displaying multileveled maps in the modern web browsers. The system supports operation with multilayer maps, smooth moving of the map with variable count of the map levels in different areas, searching for routes as well as points of interest and their showing in the map. It is supposed that there will be several client applications running on the system with their own user interfaces. These applications can modify the standard functions of the system which ensures their independency and scalability.
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Pierre Roland François Butet and his Léxicologie latine et française
Nikolovová, Pavla ; Duběda, Tomáš (referee) ; Štichauer, Jaroslav (advisor)
In this work, I analyze the system of lexicology proposed by P. R. F. Butet in 1801. My main goals are to explain the inspiration Butet found in the progress of natural sciences at his time and to point out the originality and modernity of his method. I present Butet's study in its philosophic, scientific and linguistic context; I describe its theoretic background and summarize and comment its main conclusions. In this perspective, I highlight the analogy with Lavoisier's system of chemistry and discuss the reasons for such an unusual inspiration, as well as its consequences. I compare Butet's lexicological system to the modern linguistic theory, showing the similarities which can be found between the two approaches and explaining the differences. My conclusion prove that the analytic tools which Butet invented for the purpose of his study are in principle the same as those used in modern linguistic, although they are introduced under a different name.
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Leukemias in CR - Epidemiologic Characteristics and Incidence and Mortality Trends
Hruda, Martin ; Čelko, Alexander (advisor)
This final thesis deals with four main types of leukemia (AML, ALL, CML, CLL). Their etiology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, diagnostics and treatment are described in detail in the first chapter. Second chapter deals with the main purpose of this thesis, which is the description of epidemiological characteristics and incidence and mortality trends of leukemia in Czech Republic. Czech statistical data is compared with world statistics. Leukemia is malignant blood diseases, which accounts for 3% of all malignant tumors. Over the past 30 years there has been an increase in leukemia incidence and mortality in Czech Republic by approximately 50%. This is in accordance with the same development in the world. By the year 2015 we expect these values to increase further by 10%. The highest incidence of leukemia occurs in countries with high living and economic prosperity. In 1997 there was recorded a decrease in the rate of mortality increase. This is due to modern diagnostics and therapy and the possibilities of allogenic and autologous bone marrow transplantation.
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Gene expression profiling after experimental perinatal asphyxia and the effect of complement-derived anaphylatoxin C3a
Šourková, Hana ; Wsól, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šimůnek, Tomáš (referee)
Background: The complement system is involved in neuroprotection and brain repair after brain damage. To understand the molecular mechanisms of these processes, we performed gene expression profiling using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which is the most accurate modern strategy for gene expression analysis. Project: Our project was directly aimed at expression profiling of selected genes potentially involved in loss and rescue of neural tissue during three weeks after hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, an experimental model of perinatal asphyxia. Recent experiments have shown that over-expression of C3a under the control of the GFAP promoter (C3a/GFAP) reduced hippocampal injury after left common carotid artery ligation in neonatal mice by 50%, compared to wild type mice. Here, we assessed how the local expression of C3a/GFAP transgene affects gene expression profiles. Gene expression was measured on samples from hippocampus ipsilateral and contralateral to the injury and ipsilateral part of cortex, taken at the time of injury, 6 and 24 hours; 3, 7 and 21 days after the injury. Results: Our data showed that the regulation of gene expression after hypoxic-ischemic injury differs in timing and intensity and may also be region dependent. The analysed genes belong to families...
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The Czechoslovak-Polish dispute over Javorina within the billateral relations of the inter-war period (1921-1939)
Jakubec, Pavol ; Nálevka, Vladimír (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
In this study, an interesting chapter of Czechoslovak foreign policy linked with the High Tatras region in the north of present-day Slovakia is questioned - Polish-Czechoslovak dispute on Javorina. Unique natural setting of this mountainous pocket and a bit non-standard ethnical conditions of the periphery (the locals were at best amidst their identification with a modern political nation) played their part in the collision of Czechoslovak and Polish aspirations. The following dispute has broken twice in the inter-war period, thus being a question of recurring interest. Though not of a decisive importance, the Javorina question was one of symptomatic dissonances in the relations between Prague and Warsaw. The story of the controversy about the village and its environs goes back to the formative months of the both Slavic states succeeding the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In absence of Czechoslovakian troops, the whole country of northern Scepusia (better-known in German as Zips), as far as the towns of Stará Ľubovňa and Kežmarok on the river Poprad, was taken over by Polish troops in November-December 1918. Czechoslovakia did not want to give up the territory at any rate, and, with a slight delay, examined a local campaign to push the Poles north of historical Galician-Hungarian border. Collision was presented...
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Remote interpreting
Koskanová, Aneta ; Rejšková, Jana (referee) ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor)
The subject of this thesis is remote interpreting (RI). Our objective has been to describe the current experience with this new kind of interpreting, the reasons for its application, the opinions of the interpreters and the impact of RI on their work and health. The paper is divided in two sections. In the theoretical part, we explained the term remote interpreting and its two meanings: (distance interpreting in general x simultaneous conference interpreting without direct view at the speaker). A short description of the various types of distance interpreting (telephone interpreting, interpreting for deafs and in media) and the modern ways of conferencing make a panorama of situations in which the distance interpreting is (or could be) used.
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Administrative data propagation in an information system
Vostatek, Filip ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Borguľa, Martin (referee)
The goal of this paper is to demonstrate a technologically superior solution of data propagation from an administration interface of an information system and formulate it as a design/solution pattern. That corresponds with the basic form of the text, where the design pattern is defined in 13 subchapters in a structure commonly used to define design patterns. The solution is introduced as a design pattern because of high reusability and because of the problem it challenges being so frequent in modern information systems -- that is also where the benefit of this paper lies.
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