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The Means of Humor and Irony in Children's Literature by Lemonyho Snicketa and Roalda Dahla
Vítková, Tereza ; Provazník, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
The thesis deals with aspects of humor, concretely with means of humor in children's literature by Lemony Snicket (series called The Series of Unfortunate Events) and Roald Dahl {The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG). It deals with the choice and use of these means in order to cause humorous effect. It analyses the means of humor in categories of situation and language, also including the translation difficulties. Concerning the means of language, it deals with the category of sound and graphics (e.g.articulatory problems, onomatopoeic sounds and their graphic recording), of lexis, of syntax and additionally it defines figurative descriptions (e.g. comparison, oxymoron, etc.). The author also includes the issue of using verses in children's literature. Moreover, the paper deals with irony and absurdity and their humorous effect in this type of literature. It also includes a brief summary of both authors' biographies relevant to their following works. The aim of the thesis was especially to define the individual means of humor used by mentioned authors and to state, what the difference between the means used by them is.
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Financial frauds and their impact while investing
Hafizi, Ani ; Brůna, Karel (advisor)
The thesis analyzes the biggest international fraud cases, including the reasons why a fraud is caused and the way it affects individuals, organizations and firms. My aim is to warn people of different ways of financial cheating. The first part explains the reasons and the ways how fraud cases were caused in different years and countries, for example Matrix scheme, Ponzi scheme, scheme of American businessman Madoff. The second part is concretely concentrated on Albania. Albanian pyramid schemes in 1997 allow us to better understand the fraud effects. It analyzes the economic, political and social effects and the preventive measures that state should have taken, in order to prevent such a big collapse.
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Role finančních derivátů a strukturovaných produktů v subprime krizi 2007
Hranaiová, Beáta ; Witzany, Jiří (advisor) ; Witzany, Jiří (referee)
This paper is addressing the topic of financial crises and focuses mainly on the US 2007 subprime mortgage crisis. It examines the causes of the current meltdown and provides an introduction to relevant financial derivatives and structured products in the roots of the crisis (CDS, CDO, MBS, RMBS). The paper describes the period before and during the meltdown, focusing on the instruments' and securitization weaknesses, including their rating assessment and inadequate regulation and impact on reducing the capital cushion in the economy. It also suggests possible solutions to the current financial system shortcomings with the main focus on proper regulation.
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Lower urinary tract dysfunctions in patients with diabetes mellitus
Osdal, Arnfinn ; Zachoval, Roman (advisor)
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a endocrine metabolic disorder that is associated with many complications and lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) is one of them. In addition LUTD can be caused by many other disorders and sometimes it can be difficult to isolate the cause. Incidence of diabetes is increasing and prevalence is expected to increase worldwide to 300 million people in 2025. The most important causes for diabetes and lower urinary tract abnormalities are diabetic neuropathy caused by hyperglycaemia. Approximately 50% of diabetic patients develop some form of neuropathy. Diabetes can cause LUTD many ways and research have shown many possible mechanisms involved. Among the suggested mechanisms are up-regulation of muscarinic receptors, smooth muscle hypertrophy, increase in myosin light chain phosphorylation and changes of certain calcium sensitive potassiumchannels (MaxiK). The increasing knowledge of pathophysiology and pathogenesis of LUTD made it necessary with a new approach to patients, terminology changes, better definitions and classifications. Among the contributors is European urologic association (EUA). The importance of preventive measures and good treatment in diabetes can not be underestimated. Their role has an increasing importance today and for the future because of its negative...
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Men and women images in commercials
Szilágyi, Tomáš ; Koudelka, Jan (advisor) ; Stříteský, Václav (referee)
Bachelor thesis Men and women images in commercials is focused on actual overview of commercial itself, with emphasis on television advertisment. It is focused on definition and problem of sex roles in advertisment and marketing. The whole thesis is done theoretically -- empiric, where theoretical part, discusses bacis terminology and explains relevant factors for better understanding of practical part. Practical part uses quantitative content analysis following by interpretation of its results.
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Czech Consonants and Their Realization by Vietnamese Speakers
Čepelíková, Monika ; Machač, Pavel (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Veronika (referee)
Present diploma thesis deals with perceptively noticeable deviations in realization of consonants in Czech of Vietnamese native speakers. The aim of the thesis is identification, characterization, categorization and quantification of the deviations from common Czech pronunciation according to specific ways of realization. In the theoretical part the consonant systems of both the languages and their syllabic structures are compared contrastively. The following chapter is dedicated to a short analysis of the pronunciation exercises and their didactic contribution in the most frequently used textbooks of Czech as a foreign language. Moreover, a textbook designated for Vietnamese speakers and an English textbook were analyzed for a better comparison. The research itself is based on an analysis of 16 records of Vietnamese native speakers by a method of careful listening in Praat program. The results have shown that the most frequent deviations in the speech of Vietnamese speakers were caused by interference from their mother tongue, especially because of the different consonant systems of Czech and Vietnamese and their different phonotactic rules. Keywords: Czech as a foreign language, Vietnamese, pronunciation, consonants, phonetics, didactics
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Market segmantation of dog food
Gruntová, Petra ; Koudelka, Jan (advisor) ; Vávra, Oldřich (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with marketing segmentation of food for dogs. The market is specified by companies existing on the market, devided into five pricing group. For better understanding of the problem there are mentioned also general principles of dog feeding and researches realized in past. Segments are revealed on basis of one segmentation criteria, other possible views are just briefly mentioned. Marketing strategy is suggested for three chosen target groups.
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Social aspects of taxes
Loubková, Eliška ; Marková, Hana (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
Title of thesis is "Social aspects of taxes." The main objective of this study is to characterize the various social aspects that can be found in the Czech legal system. The work is divided into several parts. The first part contains the definition of basic concepts such as social aspect, tax and its functions, the main attention is paid to the redistributive function of taxation together with an explanation of what causes uneven distribution of income. The first part includes the description of the rates, particularly progressive tax rate. The first part is completed by a definition of a flat tax. The second part deals with the tax principles of legality, efficiency, and different views on tax fairness and its two main principles, the principle of utility and welfare. The second part also concludes chapter devoted to the description of a reasonable tax rate. The third part describes the various types of social aspects, ie. exemption from tax object, full and partial exemptions, standard and non-standard deductions and tax credits. A brief overview of taxes that constitutes the tax system in the Czech Republic is ranked at the end of the third parts. The last part of my work deals with social aspects, which can be found in taxes. The thesis is completed by a summary of the social aspects and outline...
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Loans in accounting of commercial banks
Macháňová, Alena ; Novotný, Jan (advisor) ; Procházka, David (referee)
This thesis deals with reporting of loans by commercial banks in accordance with rules imposed by the International Financial Reporting Standards. In the interest of better understanding of the issues by the reader, more complex calculations and accounting procedures are accompanied by practical examples. The thesis also includes research of the financial statements of some Czech banks, which aims to show the application of accounting procedures specified in the theoretical part.
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Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Case Study Kosovo
Kodrazi, Suzan ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Veselý, Zdeněk (referee) ; Pelikán, Jan (referee) ; Vávra, Přemysl (referee)
The main ambition of this doctoral thesis is to contribute to the development of interdisciplinary application of the concept of moral hazard developedin economic and insurance theory to the context of the inter-state conflicts with potential international intervention. The basic theoretical framework used in the thesis is derived from the concept of moral hazard of humanitarian intervention by Alan Kuperman who claims that the newly established norm of humanitarian intervention may well have unintended negative consequences. Kuperman argues that if the mere existence of insurance creates sufficient incentive for the insured to modify their behavior to the extent that they engage in the riskier behavior due to the fact that they are insured against the consequences of their actions, the rebels may well optimize their behavior in the same way. Currently, the transfer of the moral hazard theory to the context of interventions is hindered by a number of existing obstacles stemming from the differences in these areas. This thesis concentrates on reduction of three main identified drawbacks and addresses them by formulating three main research questions and derived hypothesis. The aim of this approach is to examine the limits of application and create the space for development of the concept of moral hazard of humanitarian intervention in the future research. (1) What is the interpretation potential, value added and limits of application of economic theory of moral hazard to the context of humanitarian intervention from the theoretical perspective? Hypothesis 1:The concept of moral hazard represents an efficienttool for evaluation of humanitarian intervention. (2) What is the potential of causal mechanism established by the Kuperman´s hypothesis to explain the reasons why in certain cases the state decides to escalate the inter-state conflict despite the public threats of intervention at a general level of research? Hypothesis 2: The threat of intervention causes the escalation of the inter-state conflict. (3) To what extent does Kuperman´s hypothesis modified to the conflict in Kosovo correspond with the actual state of affairs and their development? Hypothesis 3: The threat of intervention NATO/USA caused the escalation of conflict in Kosovo.
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