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The intersection of image and sound
Galajdová, Katarína ; Fulková, Marie (advisor) ; Palkovská, Jana (referee) ; Bláha, Jaroslav (referee)
The dissertation thesis is an insight into correlations between contemporary artistic modalities in acoustic and visual realms. It discusses the development dependencies and - through the spectrum of fusions and transformations of these realms - it traces forms of perception, the perceptional "patterns" which stem from synaesthesias. It also relates to practices peculiar to synaesthesia, their method of informational feeding intended for educational institutions, in the centre of which is school. It points to relational and inspirational potentialities of disciplines' contexts which are decisive in scholarly discourse on the phenomenon of perception. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Minangkabau culture in the mirror of randai theatre plays
Pflegerová, Mariana ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Šalanda, Bohuslav (referee)
The dissertation thesis is focused on the culture of the ethnic group Minangkabau, whose home territory is situated in the present-day Indonesian province of West Sumatra, yet whose diaspora, reaching its highest density in the islands of Sumatra and Java, recently covers the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, overlapping to the neighbouring countries of Malaysia, Singapore, and beyond. In the thesis, Minangkabau culture is viewed through the looking glass of the Minang folk theatre randai, which traces its origins to the iniciation of young Minang males, yet which has with time transformed into an important means of symbolic expression of the Minang identity. Selected randai plays recorded by the author in their authentic social context are used to provide examples for the explanation of some of the key concepts that form the core of Minang culture, while socio-historical conditions are considered for the influence they have had upon the shaping of these concepts to their present form. Topics that are subject to explanation include the following: the social position and the key social roles performed by women in the context of a system of social organization based on the principals of matrilineal kinship, relative to the position and roles of men; basic principals of Minang ethnopsychology as source of...
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On the borders of modernity: west and east in Turkish prose from the Tanzimat period until the Blue Anatolia movement.
Kučera, Petr ; Malečková, Jitka (advisor) ; Šedinová, Jiřina (referee) ; Celnarová, Xénia (referee)
This dissertation examines the construction of images of "West" and "East" in modern Turkish fiction from its beginnings in the 1870s to the end of the "Kemalist prose" in the 1950s. It shows how the process of Westernization of Turkish society is reflected in literature, how the alteristic discourse about "us" and "the Others", East and West, is developed in literary texts and what impact it has on the shaping of modern Turkish identity. Part I focuses on the period of the "literary Tanzimat" (1870s - 1890s) and analyzes the perception of West and East in the novels of Namk Kemal, Şemsettin Sami, Mizanc Murat, Samipaşazade Sezai, Nabizade Nazm, Beşir Fuad, Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem and Ahmet Midhat. Special attention is given to Ahmet Midhat who had been studying and comparing both civilizations all his life. In this part, we also attempt to reevaluate some of the prevalent views of the Ottoman cultural transformation in the 19th century. We argue that this transformation was not based on the duality and collision of Western and Ottoman-Islamic ideas, institutions, lifestyles or practices (alafranga vs. alaturka), but that it gave birth to a uniquely Ottoman modernity, coming to life on the borders of both epistemological and semiotical systems and embracing positively the "hybrid" character of Ottoman...
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Analysis of the social services planning in the region Hradec Králové
Květenská, Daniela ; Matoušek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Holda, Dalibor (referee) ; Lašek, Jan (referee)
The transformation of social services is a current topic. Social services in context of their social change are the topic of this dissertation. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on social serivices in wider context of social politics and social help as a basic background of providing social services. Furthermore, you can find here roles of individual subjects and objects of social services. The course of social services transformation is described in the chapter which characterises the aims and main changes of the new social services. The chapter describing the planning of social services introduces the research. The theoretical part leads to the summary of the theoretical analysis. Empirical research is introduced by the characteristics of the region, i.e. Hradec Kralove. The research itself deals with the analysis of the current state of social services planning in selected municipalitites of Hradec Kralove region. We have chosen two research strategies: quantitative and qualitative, the latter is an integral part of the research. The aim of the dissertation is the analysis of the social services planning in the municipalitites of Hradec Kralove region. We are trying to find the influences of future and social services planning and also what strategies are used by the municipalities.
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Analysis of the social services planning in the region Hradec Králové
Květenská, Daniela ; Matoušek, Oldřich (advisor) ; Holda, Dalibor (referee)
The transformation of social services is a current topic. Social services in context of their social change are the topic of this dissertation. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on social serivices in wider context of social politics and social help as a basic background of providing social services. Furthermore, you can find here roles of individual subjects and objects of social services. The course of social services transformation is described in the chapter which characterises the aims and main changes of the new social services. The chapter describing the planning of social services introduces the research. The theoretical part leads to the summary of the theoretical analysis. Empirical research is introduced by the characteristics of the region, i.e. Hradec Kralove. The research itself deals with the analysis of the current state of social services planning in selected municipalitites of Hradec Kralove region. We have chosen two research strategies: quantitative and qualitative, the latter is an integral part of the research. The aim of the dissertation is the analysis of the social services planning in the municipalitites of Hradec Kralove region. We are trying to find the influences of future and social services planning and also what strategies are used by the municipalities.
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Landscape functioning assessment using Landsat multispectral remote sensing data
Hesslerová, Petra
The main aim of the dissertation thesis was to develop method, based on the use of multispectral satellite data and the theory of dissipation, allowing the analysis of landscape functioning. The theoretical basis is Prigogine's theory of dissipation and self-organization of structures in which energy dissipation is seen as the transformation of solar energy to other forms of energy. In this process the essential role play water availability and vegetation, which is able to bind solar radiation into biomass (through photosynthesis) and by transpiration convert it effectively into latent heat. Maximum dissipation of the daily pulse of energy is considered as a major ecological function of the landscape; land cover temperature and its changes over time are indicators that determine the balance between the flow of water, energy and mass balance. The model area of northwest Bohemia and Saxony present various types of landscape - from relatively natural landscapes to that one, with an extremely high anthropogenic load. Landsat satellite images from the years 1986, 1995 and 2004 come from different periods of the season, so it was possible to analyze not only time changes, but also the behavior of vegetation in different phenological phases. Land cover, relative surface temperature, gained from Landsat...
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Convergence or Divergence: The Analysis of Economic Growth in the CIS Countries
Hakimov, Durbek ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Holub, Tomáš (referee)
This dissertation examines from a comparative perspective the growth experience for a sample of twelve countries of the former Soviet Union over the period from 1991 to 2008. Two meth- ods of econometric analysis are applied: cross-section regressions and dynamic panel data esti- mation techniques. The main focus of the study has been to empirically establish whether coun- tries in the region are converging or diverging in terms of their income per capita and to find important sources of cross-country differences which determine the shape of this process. I did not find statistically significant support for conditional convergence in any cross-section period. It is partly supported by the increased dispersion of per capita income levels during the sample period. Meanwhile, panel data fixed-effects and GMM methods provide strong support for con- ditional convergence hypothesis. The first-differenced GMM estimator indicates a rate of con- vergence of around 2 per cent a year, which is surprisingly similar to the standard cross-section findings in empirical literature. However, it could be the result of the cyclical behaviour of out- put during transition. In general, results indicate that structural transformation is not yet over in most of the countries. Therefore progress in market-oriented reforms and...
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Privatization and Stock Market Creation: Evidence from Transition Economies
Fungáčová, Zuzana ; Hanousek, Jan (advisor) ; Fidrmuc, Jarko (referee) ; Hasan, Iftekhar (referee)
Research Journal Articles Working Papers Research in Brief Series Dissertations Other Publications Featured Article Dissertations Date: Friday, June 26, 2009 - 14:00 Zuzana Fungáčová: "Privatization and Stock Market Creation: Evidence from Transition Economies" Dissertation Committee: Jan Hanousek (chair) Randall Filer Evžen Kočenda Jan Švejnar Abstract: The importance of finance for growth has already been confirmed in numerous studies. This relationship is especially crucial for the transition economies where financial systems had to be built from the scratch after the collapse of central planning. This work investigates stock markets that constitute an important part of the developed financial system. Functioning stock markets are found to be necessary even if the country's financial system is bank-based. In fact, in the transition countries stock markets are a relatively new phenomenon. Even though in comparison to the developed countries these markets remain still underdeveloped, they have been evolving as an important complement to the banks in the course of the transition process (EBRD Transition Report 2006). Stock markets emerged to help with the transformation of the state-owned assets to private hands and afterwards also with the rearrangement of ownership structures. They were also expected to...
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The Funeral and the Cemetery in the Legislation of the Code of Canon Law in View of the Laws of the Czech Republic
Kotrlý, Tomáš ; Hrdina, Antonín (advisor) ; Opatrný, Aleš (referee) ; Knoll, Vilém (referee)
The dissertation thesis analyses legal guarantees of the respect for human mortal remains and human remains in Canon laws, including the protection of places where they are sepulchred or deposited, i. e. cemeteries in particular, in the course of history in view of secular laws in the Czech lands. It further deals with the Canon legal aspects of ecclesiastical funeral rites. In the Church the rites are understood as a sacramental and through the symbolic meaning thereof they point at Christian hope for resurrection with Christ. Primarily the deceased Catholics, including those who have had serious legal pastoral problems in the course of their lives have got the right to ecclesiastical funeral rites, where they have shown certain signs of penitence prior to their death. The office of Christian funeral rites consists in the accomplishment of the current community of the bereaved with the deceased and strengthening of the hope for the reunion in resurrection. Thanks to Christian faith in resurrection, traditional funeral rituals of pagan nations have transformed in voicing the hope for the eternal life.
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The intersection of image and sound
Přikrylová, Katarína
The dissertation thesis is an insight into correlations between contemporary artistic modalities in acoustic and visual realms. It discusses the development dependencies and - through the spectrum of fusions and transformations of these realms - it traces forms of perception, the perceptional "patterns" which stem from synaesthesias. It also relates to practices peculiar to synaesthesia, their method of informational feeding intended for educational institutions, in the centre of which is school. It points to relational and inspirational potentialities of disciplines' contexts which are decisive in scholarly discourse on the phenomenon of perception. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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