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Aid to the Distant Ethics in Foreign Aid
Princová, Květoslava ; Haškovcová, Helena (advisor) ; Prudký, Libor (referee) ; Tomeš, Igor (referee)
AID TO THE DISTANT Ethics in Foreign Aid Květoslava Princová Abstract Humanitarian aid and development assistance (foreign aid) are generally considered to be positive actions which help to save people affected by disaster, striving or suffering by diseases. It is done by satisfying basic needs with the help of food, water, sanitation, health care, or in long-term perspective by education, reconstruction of houses, prevention, protection and development projects. Foreign aid happens in very specific environment: after disasters, in conflict situations, in the midst of epidemics, extreme poverty, drought and floods. It is mainly provided by people who come from quite different environment and culture, from "the wealthy world". The humanitarian and development workers are just links in the "aid chain" which is quite long and starts with big donors and public subscribers, as well as governments. Due to the cultural differences, distance and many "chain links" the aid causes not always good but sometimes it does not work or does even harm to the intended recipients. The goal of this work was to identify possible risks of damages, which threatens the help to recipients. Speaking about damages, threats and risks it is necessary to come out from that cultural and value context, which is expressed in international...
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WE and THEY – Names of Foreigners in Czech Literature
Procházková, Žaneta
Authors usually choose “typical“ or “common“ names for foreigners in literary works. Names are understanded as “typical“ because of their origin, form and frequency of presence in real world. According to my opinion a signal of attribute of character’s “foreignness“ is more important than typicalness (i.e. classification function). Graphic form of the name, its phonetic or morphologic structure can be a signal of the foreignness.
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Music and Musical Culture in the Old Town of Prague 1526 - 1620
Baťa, Jan ; Černý, Jaromír (advisor) ; Horyna, Martin (referee) ; Hulková, Marta (referee)
This disertation is a contribution to our knowledge of music and musical culture in the Old Town of Prague between 1526 and1620. The first methodological chapter, Musical culture of a Renaissance city as a topic, discusses different views on the problem of musical culture in the city, both in domestic and foreign academic literature. This text is followed by a survey of the present state of research entitled Musical Culture in the Old Town of Prague 1526-1620 in the light of present literature. It focuses only on the items that contributed significantly to the topic. The third chapter, Focus on the musical privacy of Prague citizens in the period before the Battle of the White Mountain, opens the main part of the dissertation with the results of newly-undertaken research. It discusses eight concrete samples of inventories and shows the presence of musical scores and instruments in citizens' households and their function in life in those times. The fourth chapter, Musical Culture in the Old Town of Prague 1526-1620 viewed through preserved musical sources tries to focus broadly on those preserved musical manuscripts, that can be attributed to a specific place. The following chapter, The Gradual of Trubka of Roviny, is closely related to the previous one. It is a detailed examination of one of the...
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Unintended impoliteness of Czech speakers in English. A Czech-English contrastive study
Vokurková, Iva ; Klégr, Aleš (advisor) ; Šaldová, Pavlína (referee)
In the world of today, cross-cultural interaction takes place every day at many levels of our lives, be it a study stay abroad, work, migration or simply a holiday. The world is getting more and more interconnected, the term "global village" is today more true than ever and with globalisation and European Union integration people from various parts of the world and with various cultural backgrounds are brought together and interact in one way or another. However, communication, although having a number of universally applicable features, is culturally (as well as socially, etc.) determined and therefore it is of great importance to the interactants from culturally different backgrounds to keep this fact in mind and be constantly aware that in different cultures people can be accustomed to achieving the same ends by using different linguistic (and other) means. The field that studies the differences as well as similarities between linguistic means and communicative patterns of different languages is called cross-cultural pragmatics. Its outputs and conclusions help to detect the pragmatic sources of miscommunications as well as bring a new perspective on the languages and cultures in question. This knowledge proves useful not only in foreign language classrooms but in all sorts of situations to all kinds of...
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Spectrofluorimetric assay for activities of aldo/keto reductases
Zavřelová, Iva ; Skálová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kubíček, Vladimír (referee)
The aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) are one of the three enzyme superfamilies that perform oxidoreduction on a wide variety of natural and foreign substrates. It's possible to specify their activity spectrofotometrically, but this method isn't selective and specific enough. On the base of fact, that all AKRs are dependent on nicotinamide cofactors for catalysis, whose reduced form has fluorescence properties, in contrast to oxide form, there is one possibility - application spectrofluorimetry - we can determine AKR with the aid of continuous monitoring of NADPH/NADP+ transformation. This project deals with conditions of optimisation of spectrofluorimetry determination of acenaphthenol dehydrogenase in subcellular fractions (cytosol and microsomes) from rat liver homogenate and in cytosol of MCF-7 cell line. Obtained results proved that spectrofluorimetry can be use as a perspective method for acenaphthenol dehydrogenase activity determination. The selectivity, sensibility and easy implementation represent the advantages of this method. Further optimisation using other substrates and inhibitors will be necessary. The risk of microsomes interference in cytosolic enzyme preparation should be taken into account.
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The Mutual Economic Relations between the Czech Republic and Austria
Pejčochová, Kristina ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
The objective of this bachelor thesis was to analyze the mutual economic relations between the Czech Republic and Austria (especially since the Czech Republic joined the EU), to consider the potential of their future development and to show how important Austrian capital has proven in modernisation of the Czech banking sector. The thesis is divided into two parts: The first part defines economic relations, determines the legislative and political background of those between the Czech Republic and Austria, describes the recent development in the fields of merchandise trade, trade in services, foreign direct investment as well as movement of labour force, and contemplates its perspectives. The second part consists of the above-mentioned case study.
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The Development of Foreign Trade of The Czech Republic with Brazil
Novotná, Hana ; Kalínská, Emílie (advisor) ; Bolotov, Ilya (referee)
This bachelor's thesis The Development of Foreign Trade of The Czech Republic with Brazil analyses the structure and the perspective of the development of international business relation between Brazil and the Czech Republic. The aim of this study is to record the basic and economic characteristics of Brazil and their impact on the development of foreign trade with the Czech Republic. The study depicts also the comodities structure of imports and exports. According to the bilateral trade are mentioned the most important companies in this area. At the close of this study is described the perspective of future development.
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Public Private Partnership and PPP project of construction higwways in Slovakia
Vitko, Juraj ; Kapinusová, Jana (advisor) ; Štěpánek, Pavel (referee)
The Bachelor project deals with new age phenomenon in ensuring public values by Public Private Partnership (PPP). Within the first part I have summarized the most important of theoretical knowledge about PPP. At the beginning define the basic facto related to topic of PPP, specify what PPP is, outline theoretical possibilities of systematical use of PPP, and define basic characteristics, basic types of PPP, advantages and disadvantages of PPP, at the end theoretical development of PPP project. Within the next part I would like to introduce the ongoing PPP project for construction of highways and fast highways in Slovakia. I will analyse the project, mainly from the financial perspective, outline the impact on state budget during the duration of the project and compare the financing by PPP vs. PSC. In the end of my bachelor project I would like to underline success and failure of PPP projects in other foreign countries.
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Interdisciplinary relations in basic English textbooks for basic schools
Kretová, Petra ; Čadová, Jana (referee) ; Mothejzíková, Jarmila (advisor)
With respect to the increasingly high importance which the foreign language mastery comes to play in the life of the 21 st century man and with respect to the trends in the contemporary educational system which attempts to eliminate the ineffective and no longer satisfactory mechanic memorising and route-learning, a special tendency has appeared to base English teaching and also the teaching of all school subjects on the creation of mutually bound interdisciplinary relations. Furthermore, in the context of the reorganised Europe of the present day, it is not possible at schools any more to rely on out-dating principles, which have to be, in fact, selectively renewed so as to fit the demands of the today's society, which points out, in fact, the necessity to view education as a complex of educational and instructional perspectives which can be successfully realised at schools only if new and modified ways of teaching and learning are sought and applied in order to complement cleverly the cultural heritage represented by the previous generations. What arises as a reaction to this is an urgent need to abolish uncreative and non-stimulating teaching procedures, which cannot prepare pupils for life adequately and whose relevance for the demands of the present-day society can, rightly, be doubted. As special...
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Přímé zahraniční investice do těžebního průmyslu v Africe
Král, Jakub ; Štěrbová, Ludmila (advisor) ; Halík, Jaroslav (referee)
The goal of this diploma thesis is to analyse the trend of foreign direct investment into mining industry in Africa. In this thesis, I focus solemnly on the extraction of minerals, excluding the oil and gas industry. The analysis looks at the FDI from a historical perspective in the new millennium up to the current situation, which is characteristic for low commodity prices, which subsequently depress the activities of mining corporations. Furthermore, the important part of the thesis is also the projection of future development of FDI, the analysis of the correlation between commodity prices and FDI development and the research of African investment environment. A brief case study regarding the real-life foreign direct investment into copper mining projects in Democratic Republic of the Congo is carried out in the end of this thesis. In this case study I present details about this project, however, also the professional opinion of co-head of mining division at Trafigura, Emmanuel Henry, on the investment environment in Africa in regard to the mining industry and his feelings about the future development of the investment.
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