Orientador: João Manuel Cardoso de Mello / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-14T01:12:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carneiro_RicardodeMedeiros_D.pdf: 5677937 bytes, checksum: cf5a391e0fecc671fd05a39cb871f2c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed / Doutorado / Doutor em Economia

This thesis argues that F.W. de Klerk's historic February 1990 speech was the end product of a set of circumstances in recent South African and global history which made possible the new phase of transitional politics which South Africa is currently experiencing. It seeks to establish that of all the factors that contributed to change, it was the late 1980s thaw in the Cold War, and its resultant repercussions internationally and regionally which was the catalytic factor which made the new era possible. In all the literature on transition there has been no comprehensive analysis of the plausible link between the two superpowers agreeing in the mid-1980s to abandon confrontational practices and to change their approaches to regional conflicts and the South African government agreeing to negotiate for a new political dispensation. This thesis will seek to establish and analyse such a link. By 1986 there was in certain governmental circles a non-public view that the policy of apartheid had failed both as a solution to the problem of black political aspirations and as a legitimating ideology. Constraining any serious move towards political change was a widely held fear at the top level of government that an accelerated reform process would make South Africa vulnerable to external aggression and internal revolutionary forces. This thesis suggests that the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe and the 'new political thinking' in Soviet foreign policy resulted in the notion of a communist-inspired total onslaught against South Africa losing currency - as did the position of those within the ruling elite who remained dogmatically attached to it. The end of the Cold War is the common thread which links South Africa's international , regional and domestic environments. Two important events occurred in the international and regional arenas, which against the backdrop of the end of the Cold War, strengthened the credibility of the alternative view in government: (i) the October 1986 Reykjavik Summit and (ii) the South African Defence Force setback at Cuito Cuanavale. P.W. Botha's resignation as leader of the National Party and soon after as State President created the political space through which the view of the reformers could emerge as dominant. Recognising that neither the international nor regional environments sustained the beliefs and fears held by the military hawks, F.W. de Klerk was able to capitalise on the ambience of negotiations and apply it to the South African situation. De Klerk's February 1990 speech was therefore the culmination of a process which had its origins in the mid-1980's.

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Traditional criticism of Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable has sought to establish a universal "truth" or unified consciousness behind the dispersive nature of the text, and consequently readings of the novel have been both reductive and inadequate. Because Beckett's text distorts and displaces traditional narrative tools, and the Western metaphysical tradition from which they arise, criticism concerned with the upheaval of tradition is more appropriate for reading The Unnamable. The thesis takes three different textual positions in the text--the question of beginnings and endings in the text, the problematic of the subject (the proliferation of the "I" versus a concept of the unified consciousness), and the notion of propriety in the concept of the proper name--and engages in textual play with the text. By using certain modified methods of what we might provisionally call "deconstruction," the readings open the metaphors in the text, and examine the nature of the distortion of tradition that Beckett achieves? the readings are productive rather than reductive. The thesis is more concerned with enacting the upheaval of The Unnamable, and is less concerned with describing the textual ruptures or arriving at any fixed meanings or conclusions, for that would be to remain strictly within the tradition that Beckett and the decontructors attempt to dislodge. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Luiz Gonzaga de Mello Belluzzo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-18T11:13:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Baer_Monica_D.pdf: 7866149 bytes, checksum: 6410e9be0069cee69676af0cca179d0d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1993 / Resumo: Não informado / Abstract: Not informed. / Doutorado / Doutor em Economia

The current mission of the U.S. Army requires the rapid worldwide deployment of troops to scenarios of critical interest to the United States within short notice. Currently, the only troops that can meet this deployment criteria are categorized as light and special operations forces. These forces do not have Armor or Armored Cavalry support because current U.S. Army Armor systems are not transportable within the deployment criteria, neither strategically nor tactically. Armor support traditionally provides combat endurance as well as increased mobility, lethal firepower, and shock effect to the enemy in a manner not attainable by dismounted troops alone. Therefore, the light forces of the U.S. Army are missing a key ingredient to land combat success and have a. requirement for a system to provide this capability_ A Light Armored Assault Vehicle (L~V) would meet this requirement. The objective of this project and report is to conduct a feasibility analysis and to establish a preliminary system baseline for a LAAV. The LAAV is designed through the system engineering process to have the necessary operational characteristics and transportability to provide the missing key combat capability. The LAAVwould use current, low development risk technologies. This project and report presents a preliminary system baseline that investigates the performance trade-offs, schedule, potential cost, and recommended configuration for the LAAVsystem. / Master of Science

The purpose of this work is to introduce the reader to people whose lives have only been of marginal interest to modern historiographers. It portrays the formation of personal stories of people who live on the edges of society. The narrators are people who were older than 18 years in 1989 and who have personally experienced homelessness after the Velvet Revolution. Homelessness is explored as a public phenomenon appearing alongside the transformation of the Czech Republic. However the work also touches on the history of homelessness in the area before 1989. The research is based primarily on the oral history method with currently homeless people. Key words homelessness, oral history, 1989

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Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Laboratory studies of the cognitive processes of performance appraisal which employ undergraduates as raters necessarily imply one of two assumptions of processing invariance: the constant category assumption or the constant familiarity assumption. The constant category assumption is implied in studies having undergraduate students rate unfamiliar occupations, and then generalizations are made to supervisors in organizational settings who are much more familiar with the job they are rating. On the other hand, the constant familiarity assumption is implied in studies in which generalizations of performance ratings are made only when raters rate an occupation with which they are familiar (i.e., when students rate teaching). The present study tested these two competing assumptions by varying job familiarity and appraisal purpose in a 2 (rater population) X 2 (target occupation) X 2 (appraisal purpose) X 3 (performance) mixed factorial design. 40 professional carpenters recruited from various contracting firms in the Southwest Virginia, and 40 undergraduate college students from Virginia Polytechnic Institute viewed videotaped performances of three carpentry students performing four different woodworking tasks, and three teaching assistants giving brief lectures. Appraisal purpose was manipulated orthogonally by telling half of the subjects to form a general impression of the ratees’ performances (impression-set) and telling the other half to remember as many of the behaviors and actions of the subjects as possible (memory-set). Job familiarity served as a repeated measure, and was manipulated by crossing rater population (student vs. carpenter) with target occupation (teaching vs. carpentry). It was predicted that subjects familiar with the occupational category they assessed would (a) vary their processing strategies according to appraisal purpose (i.e., recall more judgments under an impression-set and recall more behaviors under a memory-set); (b) better recall the order of ratee performance information; (c) better discriminate between ratee performance levels; and (d) provide more accurate ratings than unfamiliar raters. Analysis of subjects’ free recalls generally failed to support the hypotheses, partly due to the failure of the appraisal purpose manipulation. For outcome measures, results provided partial support for the hypotheses in that job familiarity led to significant differences in performance discrimination and rating accuracy only when subjects rated the carpentry occupation. No differences were seen when subjects rated teachers. While these findings tend to provide greater support for the constant category assumption than for the constant familiarity assumption, some problems with the use and development of the teaching videotapes may have exacerbated these effects. Implications for future performance appraisal research and the application of performance ratings are offered. / Ph. D.