As alterações legislativas ocorridas no ano de 2015, notadamente a promulgação do Código de Processo Civil e da Lei de Mediação, inseriram uma regulamentação mais detalhada sobre os meios consensuais e os instrumentos processuais de cunho consensual, inclusive no âmbito do processo judicial adjudicatório. Esses parâmetros de atuação profissional diferem da forma atualmente difundida e aplicada, fazendo com que os advogados precisem se adequar à nova realidade. Na presente dissertação, as formas de atuação foram sistematizadas em três categorias, de acordo com as características apresentadas pelo cliente: assessor neutro, conselheiro e cocriador do projeto de sistemas de disputas. Para investigar como essas práticas poderiam ser operacionalizadas, especialmente em relação aos meios e instrumentos consensuais, foram analisados: as possíveis abordagens analíticas de conflito, com enfoque em sua percepção como um fato natural e neutro, positivo ou negativo; a tendência à judicialização de conflitos; e alguns meios e instrumentos consensuais, a título exemplificativo, passíveis de utilização para resolução de controvérsias. Tais temas foram estudados para que pudessem ser feitas proposições, ao final desta pesquisa, sobre capacitação do profissional, formas de atuação e a conveniência de criação de setores específicos nos escritórios de advocacia para que os advogados possam utilizar a consensualidade de forma estratégica, beneficiando sua imagem e favorecendo a resolução adequada e efetiva dos conflitos que lhe são apresentados para análise. Dentre tais propostas, estão uma formação acadêmica e profissional mais voltada à adequação de meios - em substituição à busca automática pelos meios adjudicatórios a serem utilizados, à personalização dos serviços advocatícios oferecidos aos clientes e à análise cuidadosa dos mais diversos aspectos fáticos - em virtude dos possíveis impactos na fidelização do contratante e nos ganhos financeiros auferidos pelo profissional. / Legislative changes of 2015, notably the enactment of the Civil Procedure Code and Mediation Law, inserted more detailed rules about consensual dispute resolution and consensual procedural instruments, including in the context of judicial adjudicatory proceedings. These parameters of professional performance differ from the currently widespread and aplied form, making lawyers need to adadpt to the new reality. In the presente dissertation, the forms of action were systematized into three categories, according to clientes characteristics: neutral adviser, counselor or co-creator of dispute design system. In order to investigate how these practices could be operationalized, especially in relation to consensual procedures and instruments, we assessed: the possible analytical approaches of conflict, focusing on perceiving them as a natural and neutral fact, positive or negative; the tendency towards the judicialization of conflicts; and some consensual procedures and instruments, by way of example, which can be used for the resolution of controversy. These subjects were studied so that proposals could be made, at the end of this research, on professional up-skill, forms of action and the advisability of creating specific sectors in law firms so that lawyers can use consensuality in a strategic way, benefiting their image and favoring the proper and effective resolution of the conflicts presented for their analysis. Among these proposals there are an academic and professional up-skill with more focus on the procedures\' adequacy - replacing the automatic use of adjudicatory procedures, personalizations of the legal services offered to the clients and the careful analysis of the factual aspects - due to to the possible impacts on the loyalty of the contractor and the financial gains earned by the professional.

Recent years have witnessed many significant changes in the global technology landscape. An interesting change we have observed is that some traditional technology late-coming countries such as China and Korea have started to emerge as influential players in the international arena of technology innovation. Historically, developed countries, holding incomparable advantages in financial markets and technologically intensive industries, have naturally taken the lead in technology innovation; while severe deficiencies and challenges are normally faced for developing, or late-coming countries, in innovation. In the literature, strong support from the government has been proven to be crucial for late-coming countries to overcome the deficiencies and to catch up in technology innovation. Based on innovation system perspective, this dissertation aims to understand how the government intervention in technological innovation system (TIS) promotes technology innovation, especially that in the catching-up context. This dissertation examines two technology innovation cases in China, namely the TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE mobile system innovations. A theoretical framework is developed based on institutional theory to structure the case studies. Qualitative methods including documentary research and semi-structured interviews are applied for data collection. This research concludes that, in the stages of technology development and technology diffusion, different TIS functions need to be achieved and different challenges are faced, which require government intervention. The government could analyse how TIS functions are achieved and how challenges are formed in relation to the TIS structural components, in order to determine the intervention strategy. Government can take both direct intervention on TIS actors, and indirect intervention through impacting TIS institutional environment, with regulative, normative and cognitive instruments. In the catching-up context, government interventions contribute more to path-breaking type technology innovations than path-dependent ones in terms of ensuring the success of innovation. Practical implications for the government to effectively intervene in innovation initiatives are given.

As alterações legislativas ocorridas no ano de 2015, notadamente a promulgação do Código de Processo Civil e da Lei de Mediação, inseriram uma regulamentação mais detalhada sobre os meios consensuais e os instrumentos processuais de cunho consensual, inclusive no âmbito do processo judicial adjudicatório. Esses parâmetros de atuação profissional diferem da forma atualmente difundida e aplicada, fazendo com que os advogados precisem se adequar à nova realidade. Na presente dissertação, as formas de atuação foram sistematizadas em três categorias, de acordo com as características apresentadas pelo cliente: assessor neutro, conselheiro e cocriador do projeto de sistemas de disputas. Para investigar como essas práticas poderiam ser operacionalizadas, especialmente em relação aos meios e instrumentos consensuais, foram analisados: as possíveis abordagens analíticas de conflito, com enfoque em sua percepção como um fato natural e neutro, positivo ou negativo; a tendência à judicialização de conflitos; e alguns meios e instrumentos consensuais, a título exemplificativo, passíveis de utilização para resolução de controvérsias. Tais temas foram estudados para que pudessem ser feitas proposições, ao final desta pesquisa, sobre capacitação do profissional, formas de atuação e a conveniência de criação de setores específicos nos escritórios de advocacia para que os advogados possam utilizar a consensualidade de forma estratégica, beneficiando sua imagem e favorecendo a resolução adequada e efetiva dos conflitos que lhe são apresentados para análise. Dentre tais propostas, estão uma formação acadêmica e profissional mais voltada à adequação de meios - em substituição à busca automática pelos meios adjudicatórios a serem utilizados, à personalização dos serviços advocatícios oferecidos aos clientes e à análise cuidadosa dos mais diversos aspectos fáticos - em virtude dos possíveis impactos na fidelização do contratante e nos ganhos financeiros auferidos pelo profissional. / Legislative changes of 2015, notably the enactment of the Civil Procedure Code and Mediation Law, inserted more detailed rules about consensual dispute resolution and consensual procedural instruments, including in the context of judicial adjudicatory proceedings. These parameters of professional performance differ from the currently widespread and aplied form, making lawyers need to adadpt to the new reality. In the presente dissertation, the forms of action were systematized into three categories, according to clientes characteristics: neutral adviser, counselor or co-creator of dispute design system. In order to investigate how these practices could be operationalized, especially in relation to consensual procedures and instruments, we assessed: the possible analytical approaches of conflict, focusing on perceiving them as a natural and neutral fact, positive or negative; the tendency towards the judicialization of conflicts; and some consensual procedures and instruments, by way of example, which can be used for the resolution of controversy. These subjects were studied so that proposals could be made, at the end of this research, on professional up-skill, forms of action and the advisability of creating specific sectors in law firms so that lawyers can use consensuality in a strategic way, benefiting their image and favoring the proper and effective resolution of the conflicts presented for their analysis. Among these proposals there are an academic and professional up-skill with more focus on the procedures\' adequacy - replacing the automatic use of adjudicatory procedures, personalizations of the legal services offered to the clients and the careful analysis of the factual aspects - due to to the possible impacts on the loyalty of the contractor and the financial gains earned by the professional.

The library on the beachThe library has been awarded special funding from the government. The goal for this outreach library is to support children in their leisure time and to encourage their reading. The aim has been to investigate the relationship between the purpose of outreach library activities and actual user behavior.The main purpose of the essay is how the relation is between the purpose of outreach library and how the visitors’ behaviors corresponds to the purpose. Is it possible to create a Library on the beach? How the relation is between the purpose of the outreach library and how the visitor’s behaviors corresponds to the purposes? Is it possible through the investigation to get an indication if it is the right way for people to build relations to library on their leisure time?The investigation was conducted through interviews with library staff, rooting the results of the research in theories.The assessment of the results of this study through observations and interviews is that the Beach Library is more than just playing with children.The children use the library for reading and participating in various activities that can provide knowledge. The beach library is a contact creating activity, and as the visitors express and their visits show, it is experienced as an appreciated meeting point. Jochumsen et al (2012) and their model fills all four rooms, indicating that the visitors and especially the children are given a richer leisure time where each individual possibly can grow and achieve empowerment. The result also shows that adults gather around the library and use it for conversations in a social aspect but also look at the contents of magazines, movies, books and borrow them. The study has a weakness since it does not answer the question whether the visitors think that the library's content and activities raise needs and require a continuation, or if they are just happy that something happens on the beach.

In 2005, Alon, et al. proved that tournaments arising from majority voting scenarios have minimum dominating sets that are bounded by a constant that depends only on the notion of what is meant by a majority. Moreover, they proved that when a majority means that Candidate A beats Candidate B when Candidate A is ranked above Candidate B by at least two out of three voters, the tournament used to model this voting scenario has a minimum dominating set of size at most three. This result gives 2-majority tournaments some significance among all tournaments and motivates us to investigate when a given tournament can be considered a 2-majority tournament. In this thesis, we prove, among other things, that the presence of an upset path in a tournament allows us to conclude the tournament is realizable as a 2-majority tournament.

Patients who are unable to comply with their health care regimen are almost 3 times more likely to have an adverse health outcome and are more likely to suffer irreversible progression of a chronic disease process. Increasing patient return clinic visits is essential, not only to curtail rapidly rising costs of health care but also to improve patient outcomes. This project focused on an uninsured patient population of a clinic in a rural community in the southeastern United States. The purpose of the project was to conduct a systematic review of the literature and identify the barriers and motivating factors for chronic care return primary care visits among uninsured patients. The theoretical models supporting the project were the health belief model and the chronic care model. A search of scholarly databases resulted in 366 articles meeting the inclusion criteria of peer-reviewed English-language literature published since 2014 that focused on outpatient care among uninsured populations. All identified articles were reviewed, and several interventions emerged as options to increase patient return rates: care transition and coordination services, patient education, patient follow up, pharmacy assistance programs, food assistance programs, and integration of computer-based literacy interventions. The clinic administrators determined that the best option for the site would be implementation of an on-site food program. The findings of this project have potential to create social change in clinics for uninsured in the community by addressing food insecurity and providing patients an incentive to return for care every 6 months.

This study explored and expanded a model of community intervention that proposes researcher, practitioner, and community member unification to produce communitywide programs used to improve society. The data were obtained from the community members of Hyrum, Utah, who participated in a needs assessment and then a follow-up survey, which began an examination and refinement process of the city's community programs. Research questions addressed the impact of the community programs in the areas of community safety, cultural relations, and family involvement. The data suggested that after one year of program implementation, the follow-up study participants perceived a general trend of lowered concern and increased strength within the three areas of study. The results also indicated that although certain programs were utilized by more participants, those programs did not necessarily have the most positive impact on those in the follow-up sample. This study added components of refinement and sensitivity differences to the community intervention model explored.

Ingeniero Civil Matemático / Este trabajo consiste principalmente en dos resultados matemáticos, basados en el estudio de ecuaciones dispersivas no lineales, la estabilidad de ciertas soluciones de las mismas, como así también la posible explosión en tiempo finito. En una primera parte, Capítulo 1, presentamos una breve introducción a los tópicos tratados en esta memoria. Se hace especial énfasis en la descripción de los conceptos de ecuación dispersiva, buen colocamiento, 2-solitones, estabilidad y explosión. En el Capítulo 2 probaremos que las soluciones de tipo 2-soliton de la ecuación de sine-Gordon (SG) son orbitalmente estables en el espacio de energía, el espacio natural para resolver este problema. Las soluciones que estudiamos son los 2-kink, kink-antikink y breather de SG. Con el objetivo de probar este resultado, utilizaremos las transformaciones de Bäcklund implementadas gracias al Teorema de la Función Implícita. Estas transformaciones nos permitirán reducir el problema de estabilidad para cada una de la soluciones, al caso de la solución cero. Probaremos estos resultados siguiendo el espíritu de un paper de M. A. Alejo y C. Muñoz, que trata el caso de la ecuación de Korteweg-de Vries modificada. Sin embargo, más adelante veremos que el caso de la ecuación de SG presenta varias nuevas dificultades dado el carácter vectorial de sus soluciones. Este resultado mejora los anteriores probados por M. A. Alejo et al., y entrega una primera demostración rigurosa de la estabilidad de los 2-solitones de la ecuación de SG en el espacio de energía. En el Capítulo 3 nuestro principal objetivo será estudiar nuevas propiedades de blow-up dispersivo para el sistema de Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries. Más precisamente, probaremos explosión para datos iniciales en H^2-(R)xH^{3/2-}(R), como consecuencia de mostrar previamente una nueva propiedad de persistencia del flujo asociado al sistema, establecida sobre ciertos espacios de Sobolev con pesos fraccionarios cuidadosamente escogidos. / Este trabajo ha sido parcialmente financiado por los proyectos Fondecyt Regular 1150202 y CMM Conicyt PIA AFB170001

In this work we deal with the nonlinear o.d.e u"+ku = εu³ which represents a spring-mass system with no damping but perturbed by external force εu³. We want to know how the spring constant k and the perturbed term act on the equation. So we study this equation by the way: (I) u" + ku = 0 (II)u" = u³ (III) u" + ku = εu³ During the period of calculating, we find that k, ε and energy constant E(0) play important roles in the properties of the solutions of the equation. Finally we give the relation about them.

本研究之主旨在探討一般新創公司在創業前期及創業後期所面臨的經營管理問題與對策，給有心創業者作為參考，以降低失敗的風險，進而能一舉成功，避免傷及創業之鬥志與勇氣，減少財務的損失。 首先藉由文獻的整理，蒐集專家及學者之菁華，找出與創業有關的學理，再將學理套於個案公司之經營管理，深入暸解創業成敗之關鍵因素，從實務中發掘學理之依據，進而整理出成功的創業模式，得以印證學理之正確性，讓有志於創業者加強對文獻之信心與認同。 本研究之個案雖屬高科技公司，但經過學理之印證後，可發現其經營管理之方法也離不開文獻之範疇，主要是採用Timmons及 Shane之創業模式來加以剖析，雖然研究者將Timmons之模式運用於創業前期，而將Shane之模式運用於創業後期，或許有些牽強，但目的是為了方便敘述，好讓讀者容易理解。 針對本研究之主要問題可區分為下列兩期，將籌備到創業後三年歸納為創業前期，第四到十五年則歸納為創業後期，雖然期間有點太長，但經營者自認為規模還小，仍應秉著創業期之衝勁追求更完美： 一、 新創公司創業前期的管理作法為何? 二、 新創公司創業後期的管理作法為何? 從本研究中可獲得以下之主要結論: 一、 新創公司在創業前期會善用其核心能耐以尋找商機，同時以外部資源取用補足內部資源及能力之不足，並加強創業團隊成員之專長互補與共識，提高創業成功的機會。 二、 新創公司在創業後期之技術管理上會著重利基性及差異性之思維，在行銷管理上會以客戶需求為導向，在組織管理上則會特別重視風險管理並適時網羅人才以增強組織的陣容，並以創新來提高報酬。 / The newly start-up company will face the different management difficulties during the starting period. The study distinguished the start-up period into Earlier Period of the Start-up and the Later Period of the Start-up. The selecting company of the thesis is classified as the high-tech industry. We use the Timmons Model to analyze the Earlier Period of the Start-up, and use the Model of Scott A. Shane to analyze the Later Period of the Start-up. The main research questions of the thesis are : 1. What’s the right management method in the Earlier Period of the Start-up Company? 2. What’s the right management method in the Later Period of the Start-up Company? The conclusions of the research are： 1. In the Earlier Period, the company must (1) make a good use of its core competency to catch the good chance, (2) use the external resources to strengthen the lack of the internal resources or capability, (3) strengthen and increases the complementarity of the abilities of the start-up entrepreneurial team. 2. In the Later Period, the company must (1) focus on the niche market and attach importance to the differentiation on the Technology Management issue, (2) take the customer demand-oriented method as the principal on the Marketing Management issue, (3) pay attention to the risk management, recruit the talented person or team on the Organizational Management issue.