Close to two decades after the break-up of the Soviet Union, there is still a marked difference in developmental paths, including institutional as well as economic development and performance among the states emerging from the ruins of the vast empire. Turning attention to the least successful post-Soviet region, Central Asia, and Tajikistan in particular, this thesis provides a contribution to the discussion of how to institutionalize social power and build the foundations for political community in post-colonial societies. It is argued here that increased institutional stability may be achieved through inter-organizational cooperation among main actors within an institutional setting. Through the dispersion of intra- and inter-organizational effects of cooperation beyond the action situations where they are produced, several goals may be achieved. These are increased predictability, transparency and durability in governance, a more equitable distribution of wealth, and (in relation to the kinship-foundation of Tajik society) the embracing of kin-divisions in society. The study examines how and why organizations decide to get involved in cooperative collective activities within the Tajik cotton industry, an industry infamous for its unscrupulous financing schemes to which local investors tie farmers; schemes lacking business ethics and the interconnection of the social and economic with political relations. The study, through an embedded case study of one project (the Farmers’ Ownership Model), also examines the institutional implications of inter-organizational collective activities. The study’s empirical base is a combination of data derived from literature, reports, reviews of official documents, as well as from interviews and an expert survey conducted among organizational representatives with expert knowledge on the Tajik cotton industry.                The results suggest that it is possible to divide the forms of cooperation into three broad categories; business based cooperation, development and support-based cooperation and unilateral cooperative activity. The latter category contains interactions based on helping as well as on coercion. The motives for cooperating follow the same divisions, with profit and position-related motives dominating business-based cooperation. Development and support-based cooperation are primarily motivated by non-profit factors, such as community-(re)building and knowledge enhancement, as well as position-related motives. Within the group of unilateral interactions, the same divisions valid for business-based cooperation (unilateral cooperative activity based on coercion) and development and support-based cooperation (unilateral cooperative activity based on helping) are found. The actors approached for this study confirm that the institutional setting is “difficult” and that the social and political climate is not supportive of inter-organizational cooperative collective activities. Despite this, the actors agree that the time is right for cooperative efforts. The implications of inter-organizational cooperative collective activities within the frameworks of the examined Farmers’ Ownership Model project are many and important from a stabilizing perspective. Numerous strategic effects have been identified, among which is the creation of the first open farmer-owned joint stock company in the country, providing crop financing, high quality input, and technical assistance to the farmers in the northern Sugd region.  This is the most tangible effect, as is legislative change related to the marketing of cotton. The learning and knowledge-creation effects as a result of inter-organizational interactions within the project are also substantial. Client as well as non-client farmers have, through the technical assistance provided through the project company, managed to improve awareness in terms of their legal status. In addition, the technical assistance component of the project has served to improve productivity and the quality of the cotton grown. Despite indications of attitudinal changes within the action situations examined, there is no clear-cut evidence of trust effects at the institutional level. The results of empirical examination of the Tajik cotton industry to a large extent support the central thesis of the study.

Orientador: Letícia Marcondes Rezende / Banca: Marília Blundi Onofre / Banca: Vanice Maria de Oliveira Sargentini / Banca: Antônio Carlos Gomes / Banca: Alessandra Del Ré / Resumo: Esta pesquisa, ancorada no quadro teórico da Teoria das Operações Predicativas e Enunciativas, objetiva a descrição do sistema de representação metalinguística, elaborado por Antoine Culioli, a partir do qual nos propomos a investigar os valores referenciais dos marcadores verbais ser e estar numa perspectiva semântico-enunciativa e por um viés operatório. Para tanto, consideramos a articulação entre linguagem e línguas naturais e que as línguas são representadas por sistemas dinâmicos e constitutivamente variáveis, o que lhes confere estabilidade e plasticidade. Nesse sentido, é que pretendemos analisar, com base nos conceitos de deformalidade e invariância, o funcionamento dessas unidades linguísticas que se manifestam nos enunciados por meio de operações e que se configuram em uma prática textual de produção e interpretação de significação. Assim, optando por um modelo de análise que se instaura na relação enunciador, enunciado e enunciação, pautamos nossas reflexões no modo de construção dos valores referenciais dos marcadores linguísticos, objeto da pesquisa, dada a singularidade do real valor significativo desses lexemas. Esse processo de construção que se manifesta na circunstância particular que a produz e na qual se inscreve o sujeito evidencia-se nos arranjos léxico-gramaticais, principalmente, quando os confrontamos com os cânones impostos pela tradição gramatical / Abstract: This research is based on Enunciative and Predicative Operations Theory and aims to describe the metalinguistic representation system, elaborated by Antoine Culioli, from which we propose to investigate the reference values of the verbal markers "being", within a semantic-enunciative perspective and by an operative bias. To this end, we consider the relationship between language and natural languages and the languages representation by dynamic systems and constitutively variable, which gives them stability and plasticity. The analysis is done from concepts on deformality and invariance, the functioning of these units language that are expressed in utterances through operations that take place in a textual practice of production and interpretation of meaning. Thus, by choosing an analysis model that establishes in the relationship enunciator, statement, and utterance, our reflections are based on the construction mode of reference values of the linguistic markers, object of this research, aiming at the uniqueness of the significant real value of these lexemes. This construction process that is manifested in the particular circumstance that produces it and which the subject is subscribed. The lexical grammatical arrangements are evidenced, mainly when they are confronted with the canons imposed by traditional grammar / Doutor

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Equações diferenciais de quarta ordem aparecem naturalmente na modelagem de oscilações de estruturas elásticas, como aquelas observadas em pontes pênseis. São considerados dois modelos que descrevem as oscilações no tabuleiro de uma ponte. No modelo unidimensional estudamos blow up em espaço finito de soluções de uma classe de equações diferenciais de quarta ordem. Os resultados apresentados solucionam uma conjectura apresentada em [F. Gazzola and R. Pavani. Wide oscillation finite time blow up for solutions to nonlinear fourth order differential equations. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207(2):717752, 2013] e implicam a não existência de ondas viajantes com baixa velocidade de propagação em uma viga. No modelo bidimensional analisamos uma equação não local para uma placa longa e fina, suportada nas extremidades menores, livre nas demais e sujeita a protensão. Provamos existência e unicidade de solução fraca e estudamos o seu comportamento assintótico sob amortecimento viscoso. Estudamos ainda a estabilidade de modos simples de oscilação, os quais são classificados como longitudinais ou torcionais. / Fourth order differential equations appear naturally when modeling oscillations in elastic structures such as those observed in suspension bridges. Two models describing oscillations in the roadway of a bridge are considered. In the one-dimensional model we study finite space blow up of solutions for a class of fourth order differential equations. The results answer a conjecture presented in [F. Gazzola and R. Pavani. Wide oscillation finite time blow up for solutions to nonlinear fourth order differential equations. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207(2):717752, 2013] and imply the nonexistence of beam oscillation given by traveling wave profile with low speed propagation. In the two-dimensional model we analyze a nonlocal equation for a thin narrow prestressed rectangular plate where the two short edges are hinged and the two long edges are free. We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solution and we study its asymptotic behavior under viscous damping. We also study the stability of simple modes of oscillations which are classified as longitudinal or torsional.

Este trabalho é em parte baseado no livro The Stability and Control of Discrete Processes de Joseph P. LaSalle. Nós estudamos equações como x(n+1) = T(x(n)), onde T : \' R POT. m\' \' SETA\' \'R POT. m\' é uma aplicação contínua, com o sistema dinâmico associado \'PI\' (n,x) := \' T POT. n\' (x). Nós fornecemos condições suficientes para a estabilidade de equilíbrios usando o método direto de Liapunov. Também consideramos sistemas discretos da forma x(n+1)=T(n, x(n),\'lâmbda\' ) dependendo de uma parâmetro \' lâmbda\' e apresentamos resultados obtendo estimativas de atratores. Finalmente, nós apresentamos algumas simulações de sistemas acoplados como uma aplicação em sistemas de comunicação / This work is in part based on the book The Stability and Control of Discrete Processes of Joseph P. LaSalle. We studing equations as x(n+1) = T(x(n)), where T : \' R POT.m\' \' ARROW\' \' \' R POT.m\' is continuous transformation, with the associated dynamic system \'PI\' (n,x) := \' T POT.n\' (x). We provide suddicient conditions for stability of equilibria, using Liapunov direct method. We also consider nonautonomous discrete systems of the form x(n + 1) = T(n, x(n), \' lâmbda\') depending on the parameter \'lâmbda\' and present results obtaining uniform estimatives of attractors. We finally we present some simulations on synchronization of coupled systems as an application on communication systems

Equações diferenciais de quarta ordem aparecem naturalmente na modelagem de oscilações de estruturas elásticas, como aquelas observadas em pontes pênseis. São considerados dois modelos que descrevem as oscilações no tabuleiro de uma ponte. No modelo unidimensional estudamos blow up em espaço finito de soluções de uma classe de equações diferenciais de quarta ordem. Os resultados apresentados solucionam uma conjectura apresentada em [F. Gazzola and R. Pavani. Wide oscillation finite time blow up for solutions to nonlinear fourth order differential equations. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207(2):717752, 2013] e implicam a não existência de ondas viajantes com baixa velocidade de propagação em uma viga. No modelo bidimensional analisamos uma equação não local para uma placa longa e fina, suportada nas extremidades menores, livre nas demais e sujeita a protensão. Provamos existência e unicidade de solução fraca e estudamos o seu comportamento assintótico sob amortecimento viscoso. Estudamos ainda a estabilidade de modos simples de oscilação, os quais são classificados como longitudinais ou torcionais. / Fourth order differential equations appear naturally when modeling oscillations in elastic structures such as those observed in suspension bridges. Two models describing oscillations in the roadway of a bridge are considered. In the one-dimensional model we study finite space blow up of solutions for a class of fourth order differential equations. The results answer a conjecture presented in [F. Gazzola and R. Pavani. Wide oscillation finite time blow up for solutions to nonlinear fourth order differential equations. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 207(2):717752, 2013] and imply the nonexistence of beam oscillation given by traveling wave profile with low speed propagation. In the two-dimensional model we analyze a nonlocal equation for a thin narrow prestressed rectangular plate where the two short edges are hinged and the two long edges are free. We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solution and we study its asymptotic behavior under viscous damping. We also study the stability of simple modes of oscillations which are classified as longitudinal or torsional.

Este trabalho é em parte baseado no livro The Stability and Control of Discrete Processes de Joseph P. LaSalle. Nós estudamos equações como x(n+1) = T(x(n)), onde T : \' R POT. m\' \' SETA\' \'R POT. m\' é uma aplicação contínua, com o sistema dinâmico associado \'PI\' (n,x) := \' T POT. n\' (x). Nós fornecemos condições suficientes para a estabilidade de equilíbrios usando o método direto de Liapunov. Também consideramos sistemas discretos da forma x(n+1)=T(n, x(n),\'lâmbda\' ) dependendo de uma parâmetro \' lâmbda\' e apresentamos resultados obtendo estimativas de atratores. Finalmente, nós apresentamos algumas simulações de sistemas acoplados como uma aplicação em sistemas de comunicação / This work is in part based on the book The Stability and Control of Discrete Processes of Joseph P. LaSalle. We studing equations as x(n+1) = T(x(n)), where T : \' R POT.m\' \' ARROW\' \' \' R POT.m\' is continuous transformation, with the associated dynamic system \'PI\' (n,x) := \' T POT.n\' (x). We provide suddicient conditions for stability of equilibria, using Liapunov direct method. We also consider nonautonomous discrete systems of the form x(n + 1) = T(n, x(n), \' lâmbda\') depending on the parameter \'lâmbda\' and present results obtaining uniform estimatives of attractors. We finally we present some simulations on synchronization of coupled systems as an application on communication systems