Measurement of price level with consumer price indices forms some gap between measured inflation and perceived inflation. The graduation theses is concerned with quantification of gap in particular group of individuals and shows on measuring data, how this gap influents individuals, if growth of cost of living according to consumer price index copies price perception. It illustrates influence the incorrect construction of indices as important orientation point in economy, which redistribution of recourses, in context with usage of indices for income indexation and suggests more appropriate approach for constructing aggregate price index. It investigates what factors influence price perception and comes into gain and loses calculation which people are confronted. Price perception is influenced both socio-economic and political environment. The end of theses overlaps into political vote and investigates if there is causal of relationship between price perception and political vote.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender o fenÃmeno da corrupÃÃo polÃtica no Brasil. Inicialmente, traÃo os elementos que caracterizam essas prÃticas, discutindo as causas e consequÃncias do comportamento corrupto para a democracia, tomando como referÃncia as anÃlises internacionais e os principais estudos brasileiros sobre o tema. Em seguida, analiso o papel das comissÃes parlamentares de inquÃrito (CPIs), ressaltando seus maiores desafios e crÃticas, os discursos sobre corrupÃÃo na arena parlamentar e a relaÃÃo com o campo jornalÃstico. Partindo de matÃrias produzidas pela imprensa e, principalmente, do RelatÃrio Final elaborado pela CPMI dos Correios, que investigou nos anos de 2005 e 2006 o famoso escÃndalo do âmensalÃoâ, elaboro uma anÃlise sobre a relaÃÃo entre o sistema polÃtico brasileiro e as prÃticas de corrupÃÃo, destacando os principais pontos de discussÃo no perÃodo do referido escÃndalo: a questÃo do financiamento de campanha e a complexa relaÃÃo entre partidos, empresas privadas e estatais, tratados a partir do âvaleriodutoâ e o debate sobre a formaÃÃo e manutenÃÃo das coalizÃes parlamentares, abordado atravÃs do âmensalÃoâ. Na conclusÃo, chamo atenÃÃo para algumas propostas de reforma polÃtica, trazidas à tona no momento dos trabalhos de investigaÃÃo parlamentar e a necessidade de participaÃÃo por parte da sociedade civil, pensados como mecanismos para combater a corrupÃÃo. / The research aims to understand the phenomenon of political corruption in Brazil. Initially, I trace elements that characterize these practices, discussing the causes and implications of corrupt behavior to democracy, by reference to the international analysis and the main Brazilian studies on this topic. Next, we analyze the role of parliamentary committees of inquiry (PCI), highlighting its major challenges and critical discourse on corruption in the parliamentary arena and the relationship with the journalistic field. Based on material produced by the press and especially the Final Report prepared by the JPCI of the Post Office, which in 2005 and 2006 investigated famous scandal of the "monthly allowance", an elaborate analysis of the relationship between the Brazilian political system and corrupt practices highlighting the main points of discussion during the period of this scandal: the issue of campaign finance and the complex relationship between political parties, private and state companies, treated from the "valerioduct" and the debate on the formation and maintenance of parliamentary coalitions, approached through the "monthly allowance". In conclusion, it just draws attentions to some proposals for political reform, brought to the fore at the time of research and the need for parliamentary participation by civil society, conceived as mechanisms to combat corruption.

Deslocamentos das cabeças da mandíbula entre as posições de máxima intercuspidação habitual (MIH) e de relação cêntrica (RC) são ocorrências encontradas nas mordidas cruzadas posteriores unilaterais em crianças. Desta forma os mesmos foram estudados em 18 crianças com a referida maloclusão, com media de idade de 7,2 anos para o gênero feminino e 8,4 anos para o gênero masculino. A correção dessa foi efetuada com o aparelho de recobrimento oclusal de acrílico associado ao parafuso hyrax, ajustado à oclusão do paciente de modo a promover contatos bilaterais simultâneos e múltiplos, resultando em algum grau de desprogramação. Os deslocamentos foram medidos nos três planos do espaço por meio do indicador de posição condilar (IPC), antes e após a expansão rápida da maxila com o referido aparelho. Pode-se observar que os deslocamentos condilares entre as posições de RC e MIH, nos planos vertical e horizontal, no tempo pré-expansão, mostraram-se significativamente maiores que os encontrados no tempo pós-expansão, demonstrando assim, diminuição dos mesmos após a correção da maloclusão. No plano transversal não houve diferenças entre os tempos pré e pós-expansão. A comparação entre os lados direito e esquerdo dos deslocamentos estudados no tempo pré-expansão, evidenciou diferenças estatísticamente significantes apenas no plano horizontal (p= 0,039), sendo maiores os deslocamentos do lado esquerdo. No tempo pós-expansão, não se encontraram diferenças estatisticamente significantes entre os lados direito e esquerdo, indicando maior semelhança entre os lados, após a correção das mordidas cruzadas posteriores unilaterais. Os deslocamentos no plano horizontal, de sentido mesial, apresentaram-se em maior porcentagem no lado esquerdo no tempo pré-expansão e no lado direito, no tempo pós-expansão. Os deslocamentos no plano transversal apresentaram maior porcentagem para o lado esquerdo, tanto no tempo pré-expansão, quando a mordida cruzada era deste mesmo lado, como no tempo pós-expansão, quando a mordida cruzada original era do lado oposto. Entretanto, tais prevalências citadas não resultaram em diferenças estatisticamente significantes em nenhum dos sentidos considerados, tanto nos planos horizontal como transversal. As mordidas cruzadas do lado direito foram prevalentes tanto para o gênero feminino como masculino. Após a ERM as cabeças da mandíbula assumiram uma posição mais concêntrica, o que pode favorecer o equilíbrio e desenvolvimento adequados de todo o sistema envolvido. / Changes in the relationship between the condyle and glenoid fossa when the habitual intercuspal position (MHI), to the position of centric relation (CR) events are found in unilateral posterior cross bites in children before treatment of malocclusion installed. Thus condylar displacement between the positions mentioned were studied in 18 children with this malocclusion with a mean of 7.2 years for females and 8.4 years for males. The correction of this device was made with the acrylic coating associated with occlusal screw hyrax, the same being adjusted to the patient\'s occlusion promoting bilateral simultaneous and multiple contacts, resulting in some degree of deprogramming. The displacements were measured in three planes of space through the condylar position indicator before and after rapid maxillary expansion with that instrument. It can be observed that the condylar displacement between the positions of RC and MIH, vertical and horizontal, in the pre-expansion, were significantly higher than those found in the post-expansion, thus demonstrating a decrease of it after correction of malocclusion. In the transverse plane there were no differences between pre-and post-expansion. The comparison between right and left shifts studied in the pre-expansion, showed statistically significant differences only in the horizontal plane (p = 0.039), the greatest displacements side esquerdo.No time post-expansion, there were no statistical differences significant between the left and right sides, indicating a greater similarity between the sides, after correction of cross bites. The displacements in the horizontal plane, the mesial, presented themselves in higher percentage on the left side in the pre-expansion and the right side, in the post-expansion. The displacements in the transverse plane showed a higher percentage to the left side, both in the pre-expansion, when cross-bite was of the same side as in the post-expansion, when the original cross-bite was on the opposite side. Prevalences were not identified statistically significant shifts in the way of mesial and distal in the horizontal plane, or left and right in the transverse plane, both in pre and post-expansion, regardless of which side of the crossbite. The cross bite on the right were so prevalent for females as males. After the ERM heads jaw took on a more concentric position, favoring a balanced and proper development of the entire system involved.

The Gaoping (GP) river which has the largest drainage basin and is the second longest river in Taiwan. Highly erodible sedimentary and metamorphic rocks in the drainage basin, coupled with a steep landscape, humid climate, frequent typhoons and earthquakes, provide favorable conditions for bedrock weathering and soil erosion in the GP drainage basin. Its exceptionally high sediment yield and tidal-dominated dispersal system presents a unique case for comparative study. In this study, we collected sediment and soil samples not only from estuary region but also traced up to upper stream areas of the GP drainage. We analyze the content of n-alkanes in the sediments and soils of GP river-sea system, and utilize compositional patterns to discuss the sources and process of transmission of terrigenous organic matter of GP river-sea system. Analyzed results show that the average carbon chain distribution shows same pattern for rocks, riverine and seafloor sediments but is different with soil samples. Hierarchical cluster analysis helps us to distinguish differently compositional patterns of n-alkanes. And the riverine, seafloor and rock samples have high similarity, except for soils. The spatial distribution of the carbon preference index (CPI) and temporal distribution of CPI in cores, show that values are all close to ~1, but not for soils (>2). This result indicates that for the past 150 years, lower CPI values not merely from petroleum pollutions, but also due to thermal mature terrestrial organic matter eroded from bedrock caused by tectonic and climatic events, such as typhoons and earthquakes.

As the price level soars up, it become more important to study the dynamic relation between stock prices, price indices. In this paper we suspect that property stocks serve as tools of anti-inflation and examine whether there exists a positive correlation between the prices of property stocks and price indices, such as the Rent Index, CPI, and WPI. Our results confirm the positive correlation between the prices of property stocks and the price indices. More precisely, it is revealed by applying VAR and the impulse response analysis that the positive correlation between the prices of property stocks and CPI/WPI in the short run. Using the cointegration analysis, we detect the long-run relation between the prices of property stocks and the Rent Index.

Biodegradable edible films are both economically and environmentally important to the food industry as packaging and coating materials, as the industry seeks to find a replacement to traditional petroleum-derived synthetic polymers. The overall goal of this thesis was to design a canola protein isolate (CPI)-based biodegradable and edible film that provides excellent mechanical, optical and water vapor barrier properties. A better understanding of the potential of CPI for use as a film-forming ingredient could lead to enhanced utilization and value of the protein for food and non-food applications. In study one, the mechanical, optical and water vapor barrier properties of CPI-based films were investigated as a function of protein (5.0% and 7.5% w/w) and glycerol (30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, and 50% w/w of CPI) concentrations. Overall, as the glycerol concentration increased for the 5.0% and 7.5% CPI-based films, mechanical strength and flexibility decreased and increased, respectively. Film strength was also found to increase at the higher protein concentration; however corresponding changes to film flexibility differed depending on the testing method used. For instance, puncture deformation testing indicated that film flexibility was reduced as the CPI concentration was raised, whereas tensile elongation testing indicated no change in extensibility between the two CPI concentrations. Film transparency was found to increase with increasing levels of glycerol and decreasing levels of CPI, whereas water vapor permeability was found to increase with increasing levels of both glycerol and protein. In study two, mechanical, optical and vapor barrier properties of CPI-based films were evaluated as a function of plasticizer-type (50% (w/w of CPI), glycerol, sorbitol, polyethylene glycol 400 (PEG-400)) and fixative condition (0% and 1% (w/w of CPI), genipin). CPI films prepared with sorbitol were significantly stronger than films with PEG-400, followed by films with glycerol, whereas the flexibility of CPI-based films with glycerol was higher than films with PEG-400, followed by films with sorbitol. In all cases, films prepared with genipin were stronger and less malleable than un-cross linked films. CPI films with glycerol were more transparent than films with sorbitol, followed by films with PEG-400, and the addition of genipin significantly increased the opacity of CPI films. CPI films prepared with glycerol also showed poorer water vapor barrier property than films with PEG-400, followed by films with sorbitol, however, no differences were observed in the presence and absence of genipin. In summary, as the plasticizer concentration increased or protein concentration decreased, CPI films became weaker, more flexible and clearer; however their water vapor barrier properties became poorer as both plasticizer and protein concentration increased. Moreover, CPI films with sorbitol and genipin were found to be stronger, less malleable and permeable to moisture than CPI films with or without genipin, and in the presence of glycerol or PEG-400. Overall, CPI could be considered as a potential material for the development of biodegradable edible packaging in the future.

Submitted by silvia matos (silvia.matos@fgv.br) on 2011-05-11T12:11:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_SilviaMatos.pdf: 612943 bytes, checksum: afbbe0d255820e85eb4639ae4f0ef00e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Virginio Machado(andrea.machado@fgv.br) on 2011-05-11T12:35:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_SilviaMatos.pdf: 612943 bytes, checksum: afbbe0d255820e85eb4639ae4f0ef00e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-11T18:12:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_SilviaMatos.pdf: 612943 bytes, checksum: afbbe0d255820e85eb4639ae4f0ef00e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-08 / The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the price-setting behavior in Brazil and, in particular, the effects on inflation and good-level real exchange rate persistence. This thesis is composed by three Chapters. In the first Chapter, we present the main stylized facts about the behavior of retail prices in Brazil using micro data from the CPI index computed by the Fundação Getulio Vargas. Moreover we construct time series of price-setting statistics and relate them to macroeconomic variables using regression analyses. In Chapter 2, we investigated the relevance of heterogeneity in countries price stickiness on good-level real exchange rate persistence, considering a newly constructed panel data set of relative prices of 115 common products between the U.S. and Brazil. Chapter 3 is devoted to the relation between sectoral price stickiness and inflation persistence. / O objetivo desta tese é investigar as estratégias de precificação no Brasil, enfatizando os efeitos sobre a persistência da inflação e da taxa de câmbio real setorial. Esta tese é composta por três capítulos. No primeiro capítulo, nós apresentamos as principais características do comportamento dos preços no Brasil, utilizando os microdados do Índice de Preços ao Consumidor, computado pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Adicionalmente, nós construímos as séries de tempo das estatísticas de price-setting e as relacionamos com as variáveis macroeconômicas utilizando análise de regressão. No capítulo 2, nós investigamos o efeito da heterogeneidade da rigidez de preços entre países sobre a persistência da taxa de câmbio real setorial, considerando um painel de preços relativos de 115 produtos comuns entre Brasil e EUA. Por fim, o capítulo 3 explora a relação entre rigidez de preço setorial e persistência inflacionária.

Deslocamentos das cabeças da mandíbula entre as posições de máxima intercuspidação habitual (MIH) e de relação cêntrica (RC) são ocorrências encontradas nas mordidas cruzadas posteriores unilaterais em crianças. Desta forma os mesmos foram estudados em 18 crianças com a referida maloclusão, com media de idade de 7,2 anos para o gênero feminino e 8,4 anos para o gênero masculino. A correção dessa foi efetuada com o aparelho de recobrimento oclusal de acrílico associado ao parafuso hyrax, ajustado à oclusão do paciente de modo a promover contatos bilaterais simultâneos e múltiplos, resultando em algum grau de desprogramação. Os deslocamentos foram medidos nos três planos do espaço por meio do indicador de posição condilar (IPC), antes e após a expansão rápida da maxila com o referido aparelho. Pode-se observar que os deslocamentos condilares entre as posições de RC e MIH, nos planos vertical e horizontal, no tempo pré-expansão, mostraram-se significativamente maiores que os encontrados no tempo pós-expansão, demonstrando assim, diminuição dos mesmos após a correção da maloclusão. No plano transversal não houve diferenças entre os tempos pré e pós-expansão. A comparação entre os lados direito e esquerdo dos deslocamentos estudados no tempo pré-expansão, evidenciou diferenças estatísticamente significantes apenas no plano horizontal (p= 0,039), sendo maiores os deslocamentos do lado esquerdo. No tempo pós-expansão, não se encontraram diferenças estatisticamente significantes entre os lados direito e esquerdo, indicando maior semelhança entre os lados, após a correção das mordidas cruzadas posteriores unilaterais. Os deslocamentos no plano horizontal, de sentido mesial, apresentaram-se em maior porcentagem no lado esquerdo no tempo pré-expansão e no lado direito, no tempo pós-expansão. Os deslocamentos no plano transversal apresentaram maior porcentagem para o lado esquerdo, tanto no tempo pré-expansão, quando a mordida cruzada era deste mesmo lado, como no tempo pós-expansão, quando a mordida cruzada original era do lado oposto. Entretanto, tais prevalências citadas não resultaram em diferenças estatisticamente significantes em nenhum dos sentidos considerados, tanto nos planos horizontal como transversal. As mordidas cruzadas do lado direito foram prevalentes tanto para o gênero feminino como masculino. Após a ERM as cabeças da mandíbula assumiram uma posição mais concêntrica, o que pode favorecer o equilíbrio e desenvolvimento adequados de todo o sistema envolvido. / Changes in the relationship between the condyle and glenoid fossa when the habitual intercuspal position (MHI), to the position of centric relation (CR) events are found in unilateral posterior cross bites in children before treatment of malocclusion installed. Thus condylar displacement between the positions mentioned were studied in 18 children with this malocclusion with a mean of 7.2 years for females and 8.4 years for males. The correction of this device was made with the acrylic coating associated with occlusal screw hyrax, the same being adjusted to the patient\'s occlusion promoting bilateral simultaneous and multiple contacts, resulting in some degree of deprogramming. The displacements were measured in three planes of space through the condylar position indicator before and after rapid maxillary expansion with that instrument. It can be observed that the condylar displacement between the positions of RC and MIH, vertical and horizontal, in the pre-expansion, were significantly higher than those found in the post-expansion, thus demonstrating a decrease of it after correction of malocclusion. In the transverse plane there were no differences between pre-and post-expansion. The comparison between right and left shifts studied in the pre-expansion, showed statistically significant differences only in the horizontal plane (p = 0.039), the greatest displacements side esquerdo.No time post-expansion, there were no statistical differences significant between the left and right sides, indicating a greater similarity between the sides, after correction of cross bites. The displacements in the horizontal plane, the mesial, presented themselves in higher percentage on the left side in the pre-expansion and the right side, in the post-expansion. The displacements in the transverse plane showed a higher percentage to the left side, both in the pre-expansion, when cross-bite was of the same side as in the post-expansion, when the original cross-bite was on the opposite side. Prevalences were not identified statistically significant shifts in the way of mesial and distal in the horizontal plane, or left and right in the transverse plane, both in pre and post-expansion, regardless of which side of the crossbite. The cross bite on the right were so prevalent for females as males. After the ERM heads jaw took on a more concentric position, favoring a balanced and proper development of the entire system involved.

Dans le cadre du procès pénal, un minimum de garanties doivent être accordées à chaque accusé. La justice pénale internationale n’est pas exempte de cette prescription, qui est également valable pour les individus accusés des crimes les plus affreux contre le genre humain, comme les crimes de compétence de la Cour pénale internationale. L’année 1998, année de la signature à Rome du Statut de la Cour pénale internationale, a marqué une étape définitive dans le processus de codification du D.I.P.. Le statut se fonde sur des valeurs communes propres à la communauté des Etats signataires, qui ont formellement introduits en droit international l’élément de la sanction et de la responsabilité pénale individuelle, sans toutefois négliger l’élément de la réglementation procédurale qui conduit à la sanction pénale à travers le respect des droits de la défense. Le Statut de la C.P.I. représente l’enveloppe normative formelle qui contient le patrimoine de droits inhérents à l’individu et, en même temps, le texte normatif de garantie sur lequel se fonde le consensus de la communauté des Etats en ce qui concerne la nécessité de combattre l’impunité selon les règles démocratiques du vivre social et de juger et punir selon les règles propres à l’état de droit universellement reconnues. / Dopted on July 1998 by the Rome Diplomatic Conference, the Statute of the International Criminal Court marks the culmination of a process of the international criminal justice, that started at Nuremberg and Tokyo and further developed through the establishment of the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The Rome Statute crystallizes the whole body of law that has gradually emerged over the past fifty years in the international community in this particularly problematic area and guarantees the same rights of the accused that are enshrined expressly in several conventions and treaties. In particular, the Statute of the International Criminal Court provides in articles 55 and 67 that the accused is entitled of a number of rights during investigation and trial. One come into existence the ICC has started a new era for the effective prosecution and punishment of serious violation of international humanitarian law wherever such abuses may occur and by whomever they may be perpetrated. This is accomplished in conformity to the rule of law and in the respect of the rights of the accused.

This thesis tries to fill in the research gap on whether the ideologies of armed groups can change. Tokdemir et al. (2021) discovered that an increase in the number of competitors leads to a polarisation of an armed group’s ideology, I theorise that a decrease in the number of competitors will lead to depolarisation of an armed group’s ideology, because then the armed group gains more access to the finite resource pool. I conducted a structured, focused within-case comparison over time using discourse analysis. Discourse analysis allows for a detailed and complex operationalisation of ideology. The case study focuses on the People’s War Group/Communist Party of India-Maoist, a communist group part of the Naxalite movement in India. For the independent variable, I use multiple secondary sources to establish the number of competitors in 1991 and 2008. For the dependent variable, I analyse multiple magazine publications from 1991 and 2008 written by the PWG/CPI-Maoist to establish their ideology. The findings of this research do not support the hypothesis. There is limited change over time in the ideology of the PWG/CPI-Maoist even though the number of competitors changed between 1991 and 2008. Suggestions for future research are given at the end.