In early 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan put China in the spotlight of international news. China’s development in the field of politics, society, and economics still occupies media attention in the context of the global public health crisis. Previous studies have shown that China’s image in the western media, including the Canadian media, adopted a generally negative tone. The objective of this thesis is to investigate China’s image in one of the mainstream Canadian media platforms, the Globe and Mail, during the whole epidemic year of 2020. This research is based upon news reports published in 2020 by the Globe and Mail and is conducted with the support of corpus linguistic methodology and with the guideline of Critical Discourse Analysis, especially van Dijk’s ideology square. In order to discern and identify the image of China as portrayed by the Globe and Mail, the underlying discourse strategies are analyzed. Findings show that “China”, “Chinese government”, and “Chinese citizens” are the main subjects that make up the broad concept of China’s image. And in China’s related news report in the Globe and Mail from 31 December 2019 to 31 December 2020, (1) rhetoric devices, including number game, news source selection, illustration, irony, implication, presumption, vagueness, comparison, and history as lesson, are employed to polarize the image of the Chinese government and the Canadian government. (2) China’s image in the Globe and Mail is generally negative, which can be described via four aspects: China as a threat, callous, dishonest/untrustworthy, and powerful (3) the China-related news as constructed by the Globe and Mail reflects its own particular national ideologies and interests.

Deal of this master´s thesis is processing of a business plan for a new McDonald’s franchising branch. The first part of the thesis focuses on theory of this issues. In the analytical part is solved a question if estabilishing of a new branch does make a sense using several analysis. And in the final praktical part are dissected ditails of a new McDonald’s branch founding.

The work is focused on the construction of the multifunctional building in the atypical-shaped corner area on Burian Square in Brno. The house has four floors above the ground and one underground floor. The architectural design was created according to the requirements of the city-part authority - enlarge the city road and maximize the usability of the whole parcel.

The project elaborated in frame of engineering studies branch M-STG describe characteristics of plasticity of non-anneal materials E 235, E 190 and E 220. Materials characteristic was receive by static and dynamical tests. Based on the literature study it was conducted survey of the current state of experimental techniques for high-speed deformation. The materials were designed by Holomon approximation of rigid-plastic material model without hardening. It was conducted force analyses for machine Unison MG 2790 for rewind bending and bend with compressive force considering the identified material model. It was describe the impact passive and active forces to move the neutral axis.

The diploma thesis deals with a design hotel located on the square Hanácké náměstí in Kroměříž, in place of the original military barracks. The hotel is designed in garni*** standard with 60 beds for quests and hotel is with limited options of catering service. The building looks like the existing military barracks bordering the square. The building consists of the central part (the entrance hall and the conference room) and the two side parts (hotel and restaurant facilities on the ground floor, hotel rooms on the first and second floor). The building has four floors in the central part and three floors in the side parts, the gable roof with hipped ending. The structural is the masonry wall-system

Orientador: Luciene Cristina Risso / Resumo: Pirassununga é um dos municípios do Estado de São Paulo. Localizado na região administrativa de Campinas, está completando seus 196 anos de história e memória. Seu surgimento e consequente desenvolvimento estão ligados às atividades produtivas em expansão na região durante o século XIX. As atividades no município impulsionaram historicamente a construção da praça central, onde há uma relação a ser estabelecida junto aos patrimônios do entorno. Assim surgiu o desejo de se estudar o espaço público central da cidade enfatizando o conceito de lugar, focando patrimônios urbanos e recontando a história do ponto de vista dos moradores com suas memórias-lembranças. Os procedimentos metodológicos incluíram revisão de literatura, leituras, história oral pela população mais velha e representações feitas pelos mais jovens com a análise de mapas mentais, a fim de estabelecer ressignificações através da perspectiva experiencial e contribuindo como base para a elaboração de políticas públicas que preservem e valorizem os patrimônios e espaços públicos e desse modo busca-se contribuir com a ciência geográfica e produzir um marco importante para a história de Pirassununga e de seus habitantes. / Abstract: Pirassununga is one of the municipalities of the state of São Paulo. Located in the administrative region of Campinas, is completing its 196 years of history and memory. Its emergence and consequent development are linked to the expanding productive activities in the region during the nineteenth century. Activities in the municipality have historically boosted the construction of the central square, where there is a relationship to be established with the surrounding heritage. Thus arose the desire to study the central public space of the city emphasizing the concept of place, focusing on urban heritage and retelling the story from the point of view of residents with their memoriesmemories. The methodological procedures included literature review, readings, oral history by the older population and representations made by younger people through the analysis of mind maps, in order to establish resignifications through the experiential perspective and contributing as a basis for the elaboration of public policies that preserve and value the heritage and public spaces and thus seek to contribute to geographical science and produce an important milestone for the history of Pirassununga and its inhabitants. / Mestre

We investigate power graphs of quasigroups. The power graph of a quasigroup takes the elements of the quasigroup as its vertices, and there is an edge from one element to a second distinct element when the second is a left power of the first. We first compute the power graphs of small quasigroups (up to four elements). Next we describe quasigroups whose power graphs are directed paths, directed cycles, in-stars, out-stars, and empty. We do so by specifying partial Cayley tables, which cannot always be completed in small examples. We then consider sinks in the power graph of a quasigroup, as subquasigroups give rise to sinks. We show that certain structures cannot occur as sinks in the power graph of a quasigroup. More generally, we show that certain highly connected substructures must have edges leading out of the substructure. We briefly comment on power graphs of Bol loops.

Herein, a series of tin and oxidovanadium complexes, as well as a hexanuclear manganese cluster, supported by the bidentate, dianionic perfluoropinacolate (pinF) ligand, {(O(C(CF3)2)2}2−, are reported. While six-coordinate SnIV-pinF complexes (2.1−2.3) were found to be spectroscopically similar to SnO2 (cassiterite), four-coordinate SnII-pinF complexes (2.4−2.5) possess low 119Sn NMR chemical shifts and remarkably high quadrupolar splitting. Additionally, the Sn(II) complexes are unusually unreactive towards both Lewis acids and bases. Computational analysis suggests that this lack of reactivity with Lewis acids arises from the energetic inaccessibility of the HOMO (5s), and the lack of reactivity with Lewis bases is due to donation into the LUMO (5px) by fluorine atoms on the ligand. Furthermore, monomeric and dimeric {VIV=O}- and {VV=O}-pinF complexes (3.1−3.4) were synthesized and characterized, including (Me4N)2[V2(O)2(μ-O)2(pinF)2] (3.3a). Complex 3.3a was found to catalyze the oxidation of several benzyl alcohols at room-temperature under ambient conditions, reproducing reactivity known for VOx surfaces and demonstrating the thermodynamically challenging selective oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes/ketones. Finally, a hexanuclear manganese cluster, {MnIII4MnIV2(pinF)6(OK(THF))4(OH)4}, abbreviated {Mn6} (4.1) which contains four-fold axial symmetry, and its oxidized analog {MnIII3MnIV3(pinF)6(OK(THF))4(OH)4}[PF6] (4.2), were prepared and characterized. High-field EPR measurements of 4.1 confirm a high spin magnetic ground state of ST = 11, corroborating the oxidation state assignments of the manganese centers. While EPR and CTM data suggest the possibility of slow magnetic relaxation for 4.1, field-dependent SQUID magnetometry reveals a lack of magnetic hysteresis, precluding the SMM behavior hypothesized for 4.1.

Given a square with integer side length n, we ask for the number of different ways to divide it into sub-squares, considering only the list of parts. We enumerate all possible lists and check whether a placement with those squares is possible. In order to do this, we propose a new algorithm for creating perfect square packings.

Målet med projektet är att jämföra algoritmerna Perlin noise och Diamond-square för procedurell terränggererering inom exekveringstid och framkomlighet. Projektet implementerades i Unity i form utav ett editor-verktyg som både genererar terräng och utför diverse tester. Framkomlighetstestet för terrängen är en modifierad version av en Flood fill algoritm och mätningen av exekveringstid utförs med en timer. För att undvika att vara partisk mot någon av algoritmerna har det implementerats flera typer av terränger med varierande egenskaper. Mätningarna som utförs på varje terräng för respektive algoritm testas ett stort antal gång för olika givna storlekar och med varierande frön. Efteråt utförs en analys som visar att Diamond-square definitivtär den snabbaste av de två algoritmerna och att Diamond-square ger högre framkomlighet för större banor, medan Perlin noise visar en mer konsekvent framkomlighet. Framtida relaterade projekt bör inkludera flera modernare algoritmer för att se hur de förhåller sig till Perlin noise och Diamond-square.