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Beyond sectarianism: the dynamics of memory in Northern Irish muralism
Rava, Gabriella ; Řehořová, Irena (advisor) ; Asavei, Maria Alina (referee) ; Kocián, Jiří (referee)
Gabriella Rava- Doctoral Thesis Beyond Sectarianism: the Dynamics of Memory in Northern Irish Muralism Abstract: The present research aims to analyze the famous political murals of Northern Ireland within a renewed frame that moves beyond the theoretical dimension that has dominated the study of mural painting in the province. Proposing the concept of 'muralism', which allows for the adoption of a systematic and unitary perspective on this well-rooted practice, this work investigates its contemporary development through the analysis of some functions/trends underlying it. These are identified as: commodification and heritagization, transnationalism, commemoration, archival impulse and the related digitization and archiving of images of murals. These functions/trends, which encompass muralism both within the realm of material culture and digital practices, fall within a theoretical model that describes muralism as a dynamic system through which the communities of Northern Ireland have embodied and transmitted their own collective memories, especially those of the conflict. It is within this model, which highlights the dynamic nature and (auto)poietic character of muralism as a system of memory, that the aforementioned functions/trends are examined, moving on multiple levels of manifestation. These include...
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The effectiveness of mind-mapping learning strategy to extend vocabulary knowledge among elementary students
Šnevajsová, Helena ; Mikuláš, Martin (advisor) ; Kacafírková, Petra (referee)
Knowledge of vocabulary is an essential part of linguistic competence. Many students learn English vocabulary by translation and rote memorisation of vocabulary lists, which can result in the inability to use the words in well-formed sentences and appropriate contexts. Some students may find rote memorisation monotonous. This study examines the effectiveness of using the mind-map learning strategy to extend English vocabulary. Thirty-one elementary school students (15 men and 16 women) from two different elementary schools completed a short test before vocabulary instruction to obtain baseline data. Vocabulary instruction with the use of mind maps learning strategy followed. The recall was measured at the end of the lesson and one to two weeks after vocabulary instruction. A subjective assessment of the mind map learning strategy to learn vocabulary was taken. The results show that the knowledge of vocabulary items improved compared with the baseline. Moreover, students retained similar knowledge even after one to two weeks. New information was moved to the long-term memory of the students. Students were able to recall vocabulary from a medium- term perspective. Subjective assessment of the learning strategy showed that students enjoy learning vocabulary with mind maps more than writing vocabulary...
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Control Unit for Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner
Matějů, Jan ; Kopečný, Lukáš (referee) ; Žalud, Luděk (advisor)
This paper is in introduction focused on review of robotic vacuum cleaning and evaluation of available products qualities. However the main focus of this paper is system design of all subsystems, control systems and PCD design of robot electronics. In this paper is also described a method for evaluating approximate distance of robot from the obstacle. There are also described problems of system design of IR proximity sensors. The last part of this work is development of control software for robot and its testing.
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Automatization of Analysis of Performance and Power Consumption
Rudolf, Tomáš ; Jaroš, Jiří (referee) ; Nikl, Vojtěch (advisor)
This thesis deals with increasing efficiency of supercomputers. Higher efficiency can be achieved by reducing frequency of processor if the algorithm does not slow down significantly. This thesis presents set of scripts designed to monitor consumption of processor along with scripts that visualize these measured values. It also allows easy control of processor frequency. The created solution gives user a capability to measure given algorithm efficiency and optimize computing power of specific computer exactly for the algorithm. Due to this work the user will be informed about whether it is advantageous to run his algorithm on one or other frequency of the processor.
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Datalogger with parallel data logging
Havlena, Marek ; Minář, Petr (referee) ; Zuth, Daniel (advisor)
This Bachelor's thesis is dedicated to the design and implementation of the Datalogger module, which stores data in two different memory storages. First memory storage is solved by using an SD card and the second is the internal EEPROM memory of the microcontroller. It also deals with data synchronization between these memory storages. Communication between the cards is through the SPI bus and communication with the module is provided by a serial interface designed by USB transmitter (UART).
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Memories
Prokop, Tomáš ; Veselý, Petr (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
The topic of death and closely associated fragments through which I presented my opinion in this work had a long development. During my life I came across very often with parting my close persons. It is not reaction to present situation. It is a long time process which resulted in solving this problem in my mind. Consideration of the situation in this way helped me to put up with reality and to accept death as the natural phase of living organism. This exhibition was concipated as the memory for people who were a part of my life but now they exist only in my memories. Although this topic may produce a gloomy or controverse impression, my aim was not provocation or agressivity. I want my work to be a gesture of respect for people who are not among us and we should never forget them. The instalation is strongly dependent on space, it goes out of it. I tis necessary to perceive the exhibition completely which is one of the most principal things. A very important thing is a change of space and its cleaning. In this way I tried to achieve the communication between the space and the work of art. The space itself produces a monumental, almost sacral impression which is perfect for my topic. I didn’t want to overfill the space, that is why I chose a minimalistic composition including number of works of art. On purpose I let the space influence in it’s spiritual emptiness and gave it a chance to breath. The intervention in it must be perceived as a support of its expression. My work of art is based on cleanliness and stylisation of symbol.
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Enhanced mathematical library for C++
Temel, Aleš ; Macho, Tomáš (referee) ; Petyovský, Petr (advisor)
I create a library for storing matrices and working with matrices in this bachelor’s thesis. In this case, the issues concern mainly so-called sparse matrices. C++ do not provide among the standard libraries tools for easy working with sparse matrices. The most frequent alternative is the application of two-dimensional array (2D array). 2D array may be realized as a double pointer representing the rows and the columns of the matrix. The basic problem is that behavior of 2D array is identical both to the sparse, and to the full non-zero matrix. 2D array ignores the possibility to store matrices more favorable. The library for storing matrices designed by me takes into account the storing of sparse matrices by several different ways. It offers the sparse format CSR (Compressed sparse rows), as well as alternatives to save the specially structured matrices. In the course of creating library the main emphasis first of all I put on the amount of memory that is necessary for storing matrices. Because it is a mathematical library, it contains different functions suitable for working with matrices, such as determinant calculation, inverse matrix calculation and so. When calculate these functions it is necessary to take into account used memory size as well. Intermediate results are stored also in sparse format, and removed as soon as possible after their use. I created also the second library that deals with the floating point numbers stored with greater precision than standard data types like float and double. The size of occupied memory increases according to precision of floating point number.
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The Working Title: Things I Have Not Done
Bendová, Ivana ; Smetana, Matěj (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
My bachelor thesis deals with the studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, and with unrealized projects. These are works that remained as ideas in my mind, and that I started but have not yet been fully realized. The material for this work is in the form of texts, these lyrics are slightly poetic memories of my thoughts, the reconstruction of memories, influenced by the current state of my mind. I created a portfolio of my unrealized projects visually looking like the real portfolio, that was required to be produced during the last four years of my studies. The work that I am presenting is a confrontation of those two portfolios like instalation.
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