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The fraction of the total labor force which is unionized has remained fairly stable, at about 25 percent, for the past quarter century, while unionization in the public sector has increased rapidly over the last 15 years. One example of this growth has been the trend in unionization of college faculty. This particular group presents an interesting opportunity to study unionization, in that there are both private and public institutions of higher education; and there is a definite pattern of unionization in the public institutions, while few private institutions are unionized. Such differences allow for comparisons which help to identify the causes of unionization. Unionization has been studied by economists and sociologists. Economists tend to emphasize aggregate analysis and relate unionization to environmental factors, such as the inflation rate and unemployment rate. Sociologists tend to relate prior socialization and attitudes to unionization. This dissertation applies the economic approach to human behavior to individual choice in the context of voting for or against unionization. That is, the benefits and costs of unionization are assumed to be the relevant factors in the choice calculus of voting faculty. The primary source of benefits and costs come from the competitive market environment, which exists in the absence of a union, and the cartel power of a union. Because of the cartel power of a union, job satisfaction factors (compensation, working conditions, and job security) can be offered to faculty, provided they give up the conditions of the competitive market. That is, collective choice will replace individual choice under unionization. The power of a cartel of labor and the efficiency of labor markets vary among institutions of higher education, and these differences are shown to be consistent with the pattern of unionization of college faculty. These differences can be said to reveal the causes of unionization of college faculty. / Ph. D.

A tank test technique was developed to evaluate the resistance of one-year-old stems of 111 Malus rootstock cultivars and hybrids to pine vole damage. The tank fest proved to be an excellent method for: testing several clones at one time; providing the animals with more of a natural environment; exposing all animals to each stem in the test; and using small quantities of wood per experiment. Robusta 5 and PI 286613 when crossed with cultivars possessing other horticulturally desirable characteristics, produced several progeny containing varying degrees of vole resistance. Some other cultivars displaying high resistance to pine vole damage were: Fusca (M. fusca (Raf.) Schneider); M. sieboldii Rehd. cv. zumi·calocarpa; M. X sublobata (Cipp.) Rehd. PI 286613; NY 11928 (M. pumila niedzwetzkiana x M. atrosanguinea (Spaeth) Schneider) ; and Vilmorin (M.yunnanensis (Franch) Schneider). / Master of Science

Within the overthrust belt of southwest Virginia, windows in the Pulaski thrust sheet expose a variety of parautochthonous and allochthonous rocks, ranging in age from Cambrian to Mississippian. The décollement of the Pulaski fault as exposed in the Price Mountain and East Radford windows is in places a thick, highly complex, deformation zone. In this zone, a suite of carbonate breccias, cataclastic quartzitic rocks and deformed shales occur. The rocks of the décollement comprise a thrust chaos and tectonic mélange. Mélange and chaos fabrics are typified by folding, faulting and cataclasis. The East Radford window exposes a complexly folded and faulted antiform consisting of a telescoped, inverted stratigraphic section of Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian rocks. The antiformal structure is entirely allochthonous with minimum horizontal displacement of several kilometers. Deformation of the parautochthonous Mississippian rocks below the Pulaski décollement in the Price Mountain window includes thrust and normal faults, folds of at least 3 orders and cataclasis. / Master of Science

Rocks, situated in a stream riffle, can.be interpreted as islands. A sampling of macroinvertebrate communities found on a series of rocks 31 to 1000 cm² in surface area, produced a Log species- Log area curve with a slope of 0.352. This slope could not be compared to Preston’s prediction of a slope value of 0.17 or 0.27 because individuals in invertebrate communities on rocks are not lognormally distributed nor are densities of individuals (per cm²) constant with area. The physical topography of the rock surface affected species numbers. Rocks with a complex surface (havin crevices, smooth areas, pores, etc.) surfaces; Log species- Log area curves were steeper for a series of simple rock communities. Most taxa were not restricted to specific rock sizes or complexities, though both factors did affect population sizes. The dynamics of stream rock invertebrate community formation was examined as were the effects of area and complexity on formation. Larger and more complex substrates had higher colonization, immigration, invasion, and replacement rates during the first 30 days of colonization than smaller substrates. Extinction rate was independent of substrate area (assuming constant turnover). A simulation of colonization, using random immigration and extinction, produced a colonization curve that was very similar to the actual colonization curve, though relative abundances of most taxa were altered. It was hypothesized that stream invertebrates communities are a product of random immigration and of a combination of random and deterministic extinction. Methods for monitoring the activities of individuals are needed to estimate turnover; only by assessing turnover can the importance of extinction be determined. / Master of Science

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Orientador: João Manuel Cardoso de Mello / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-13T23:42:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Quadros_WaldirJosede_D.pdf: 7602795 bytes, checksum: 37afacacf9a61f5bef7fe1dc109178be (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Doutorado / Doutor em Ciências Econômicas

Orientador: Modesto Carone Neto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / O exemplar 2 do IEL possui paginação diferente (174f.) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-16T00:48:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Franco_RenatoBueno_M.pdf: 4731482 bytes, checksum: 53aa37f9cc8e50be380b835b20133e8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1992 / Não tem resumo na obra impressa Resumo base IEL: A cultura elaborada durante os anos 70 não apresenta um caráter homogêneo e tampouco uma única característica efetivamente dominante. Ela viveu com os nervos tensos e experimentou muitos caminhos, alguns verdadeiramente surpreendentes. Entretanto, apesar dessa complexidade constituída pela pluralidade de tendências que a irrigaram, é possível - não contudo sem alguma dose de exagero ou arbitrariedade - dividi-la em (ao menos) dois momentos distintos. Ao primeiro deles, que começa em 1969 e se estende até 1974 (e coincide com os anos mais truculentos da ditadura militar) chamaremos de "Cultura da Derrota". Ao segundo, que coincide com a política "de abertura" (e vai de 1975 a 1980) chamaremos de "Época de Resistência". Estudar a produção cultural - ou melhor - a atividade literária dessa década não é, dada sua natureza complexa, tarefa fácil. Esse período é, desde 1964, decisivo para a moderna configuração política do País e ele certamente propõe à literatura um elenco considerável de problemas temáticos e estéticos bastante original. / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Letras

Orientador: Ferdinando de Oliveira Figueiredo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-16T04:58:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_FabioVillaresde_M.pdf: 2853522 bytes, checksum: 8e3f052194232045dac445e1e258220a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1985 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Mestrado / Mestre em Economia