Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Encontrar caminhos para ensinar a concordância verbal a candidatos ao provimento de vagas no Serviço Público, a despeito de seu desconhecimento da estruturação sintática do português, tornou-se meta de trabalho e, portanto, baldrame para esta Dissertação de Mestrado em Língua Portuguesa. Consideraramse questões de provas de concursos públicos das principais bancas examinadoras cuja análise, comparada ao resultado das pesquisas com textos discentes orais e escritos, permitiu traçar as linhas de atuação didática com turmas competitivas. Com a apreciação dos dados da pesquisa, percebeu-se a necessidade de ensinar não apenas o que os alunos não sabem, mas analisar e refletir sobre aquilo que eles pensam que sabem, para que possam se interessar de fato em ser orientados a descobrir e dominar as diversas modalidades da língua e assim ampliarem seus horizontes lingüísticos e socioculturais. Esta dissertação traça planos de ação semiótico-funcionais a fim de garantir aos alunos a escolha das ferramentas certas, que lhes permitam enfrentar os múltiplos desafios, propostos pela condição de competidores, com alguma segurança. Busca-se, em última análise, propor a implantação de uma metodologia nova e especial nas aulas preparatórias, com recursos eficientes para capacitar esses sujeitos, independentemente de suas deficiências escolares pregressas. Essa é uma meta cuja consecução exige um olhar ampliado e obrigatório do docente pelos certames do concurso, para sustentar uma teoria gramatical mais produtiva ao desenvolvimento das capacidades de leitura de questões de prova e escritura de redações / Finding ways to teach verbal concordance to the candidates aiming at filling the vacancies in Public Service, despite their being unaware of the syntactic structure of Portuguese has become a goal of my work and, therefore, the basis for this Dissertation regarding the Master Degree in Portuguese Language. It has been taken into account the analysis of questions of prior examinations considering the main examining boards as compared to the results taken from researches from students essays either written or oral to elaborate ways to act didactically with competitive groups. With the analysis of the research data, it has been noticed the need to teach not only what the students dont know but also to analyze and reflect on what they think they already know, so that they can be really interested in being oriented on how to discover and master the various ways of the language and by doing this, open up their linguistic, social and cultural horizons. This dissertation outlines semiotic and functional action plans in order to give the students the choice of the right tools, the ones that will allow them to face multiple challenges offered by their condition as competitors, with a relative degree of safety. It is being searched ultimately to suggest the introduction of a new special methodology in preparatory classes with profuse resources to enable these subjects, regardless of their previous scholastic deficiencies. The success of this goal demands a magnified and mandatory look on the part of the teacher at the disputes of the contest, to give support to a grammatical theory which is more productive in relation to the development of the ability to read the questions on examinations and the writing of essays

Restricting the effects of a patent These theses are focused on issues of the legal options on the exceptions and limitations to patent rights. At first there is clarified fundamental terminology, especially relation between terms patent and innovation, patentable solution and also effects of the patent. Next chapters relate to the limitation on the patent effects that is the experimental use exception and also so- called Bolar exception; using the invention for non-commercial purposes; institute of compulsory licences; limitation to extemporaneous preparation of medicines in pharmacy, use of patent law articles on foreign vessels, aircrafts, land vehicles not permanently accessing from foreign countries and institute of prior user rights. The author discusses non-commercial use of the invention, which is closely related to the experimental use exception in some countries or the legal institute of compulsory licenses, contemplating negative and positive impacts and moral aspects of that decision. Regarding the scope of the experimental use exception, the author argues that the exception in need is rather narrow rather than broader. In case of compulsory licences, the author is emphasising on fair balance between the interest of patent owner rights and the concerns of nation and also comes with...

A l'interface du travail, de la formation des adultes, de l'orientation et de l'accompagnement des parcours socio-professionnels, les pratiques d'accompagnement en Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience reposent sur une activité, dont les contours se sont progressivement formalisés, depuis la mise en place du dispositif en 2002, grâce aux acteurs de ce champ.Alors même que des réflexions sont aujourd'hui engagées à l'université pour créer des parcours certifiants de nature à permettre l'accès au métier, nous pensons qu’une recherche approfondie sur l'activité en situation d'accompagnement VAE peut contribuer à la conception de dispositifs de formation en direction des conseillers chargés de l'accompagnement des candidats. A partir d'une observation ethnographique conduite dans un organisme de formation du Travail Social, un corpus audio d'entretiens d'accompagnement VAE a été constitué. La recherche s’est centrée d’une part, sur les discours d’expérience du candidat et du conseiller, pris isolément du contexte interactionnel dans lequel ils apparaissent. A partir d’une analyse textuelle, discursive et énonciative, nous nous sommes intéressée aux caractéristiques de ces discours pour comprendre l’activité qu’ils supposent du point de vue des acteurs, les expériences qu’ils convoquent et les espaces d’activité fictionnels qu’ils font émerger (l’espace du travail éducatif, l’espace de l’écriture du dossier VAE, l’espace du jury VAE). D’autre part, la recherche s’est centrée sur les interactions entre conseillers et candidats au cours des entretiens d'accompagnement, pour comprendre en quoi l’activité dialogale qu’elles sous-tendent, contribue au développement par le candidat d'un discours d’expérience sur son travail. Une analyse des trajectoires d’engagement des acteurs dans l’activité met en évidence que différentes configurations dialogiques (éducateur / éducateur ; accompagnateur / accompagné ; évaluateur / évalué) prennent place au cours du dialogue entre le conseiller et le candidat, qui se constituent comme une source d’étayage au développement de la pensée et du discours du candidat sur son travail. Ces configurations dialogiques sont rendues visibles par des voix mises en scène qui convoquent des expériences passées, anticipées ou imaginées, associées à des espaces d'activité distincts de la situation d'accompagnement. Parce qu'elles permettent au candidat de s'engager dans des dialogues fictifs reconfigurant les places endossées par chacun, ces configurations dialogiques permettent d’appréhender les mouvements interprétatifs en pensée et en discours du candidat sur son activité et rendent possible une transformation du point de vue porté sur l'activité professionnelle. / At the interface of the work, vocational training, and guidance for professional career paths, the guidance practices for Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) are based on an activity whose properties have been gradually formalized and developed, since the introduction of the legislative framework in 2002, thanks to the actors of the field themselves. While discussions are now committed at the university to create pathways to certification, such as to permit access to the profession, we believe that a thorough research on the work activity of guidance practices in Accreditation of Prior Learning may contribute to the design of training devices addressed to advisers in order to assist candidates in their preparation. Based on ethnographic observations conducted in a training organization in the field of Social Work, our data consists of audio recordings of guidance interviews between advisers and candidates. Firstly, the research focused on discourses of experience produced by candidates and advisers. We analyzed them separately from interactional context in which they are produced. From a textual, discursive and enunciative perspective, we are interested in the characteristics of the discourses of experience to understand the activity they involve from the point of view of the actors, the experiences they summon, and the fictional activity areas’ emergence (the space of educational work, the space of writing activity the APL file, the jury APL space). Then, the research focused on interactions between advisers and candidates in guidance interviews, in order to understand how the dialogical activity they underlie, contributes to the development of the candidate’s discourse of experience about his work. An analysis of the trajectories of the actors engaging in the activity shows that different dialogic configurations (educator / educator; adviser / candidate; appraiser / appraisee) take place during the dialogue between the adviser and the candidate, which are like a support for the development of candidate’s thought and discourse about his work. These dialogic configurations are manifested by voices staging that summon past experiences, expected or imagined, associated with fictional activity areas separated from the guidance situation. Because they allow the candidate to engage in fictitious dialogues by reconfiguring the places taken in the relationship, these dialogic configurations give access to interpretative movements in thought and speech of the candidate's activity, and they enable a transformation of the point of view focused on the professional activity.

Diaconis and Ylvisaker (1979) give necessary conditions for conjugate priors for distributions from the natural exponential family to be proper as well as to have the property of linear posterior expectation of the mean parameter of the family. Their conditions for propriety and linear posterior expectation are also sufficient if the natural parameter space is equal to the set of all d-dimensional real numbers. In this paper their results are extended to characterize when conjugate priors are proper if the natural parameter space is bounded. For the special case where the natural exponential family is through a spherical probability distribution n,we show that the proper conjugate priors can be characterized by the behavior of the moment generating function of n at the boundary of the natural parameter space, or the second-order tail behavior of n. In addition, we show that if these families are non-regular, then linear posterior expectation never holds. The results for this special case are also extended to natural exponential families through elliptical probability distributions.

Raising the qualification level for preschool staff is often seen by policymakers as a means of improving the quality of preschool. However, research examining the relation between qualifications of preschool staff and preschool quality has given inconsistent results. This suggests that one’s competence as a teacher is not necessarily reflected by one’s level of teacher qualification. The aim of this study was to contribute to knowledge about preschool teacher competence and its relation to education and practice. This was accomplished through documenting and examining perspectives on preschool teacher competence from currently enrolled Swedish preschool teacher students and recently graduated Swedish preschool teachers, who have prior work experience in early childhood education. In particular, this study focused on gaining a deeper understanding of which competences preschool teacher students and preschool teachers attribute to their education. Interviews were conducted with one preschool teacher education student and two recently graduated preschool teachers. The findings showed three competences reported as important by the participants: critical (self-)reflection, the competence to listen to the children, and the competence to care. Moreover, the participants believed that being confident in one’s profession, knowing why they are doing what they are doing, and the competence to reflect are competences gained in preschool teacher education. Lastly, the participants described a connection between theory and practice, which suggest that students with prior work experience do not experience a ‘reality gap’ between their education and the practical field. The research conducted in this study contributes to what is known about teacher competence and, more specifically, it gives more insight into the development of competence in preschool teacher education.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Encontrar caminhos para ensinar a concordância verbal a candidatos ao provimento de vagas no Serviço Público, a despeito de seu desconhecimento da estruturação sintática do português, tornou-se meta de trabalho e, portanto, baldrame para esta Dissertação de Mestrado em Língua Portuguesa. Consideraramse questões de provas de concursos públicos das principais bancas examinadoras cuja análise, comparada ao resultado das pesquisas com textos discentes orais e escritos, permitiu traçar as linhas de atuação didática com turmas competitivas. Com a apreciação dos dados da pesquisa, percebeu-se a necessidade de ensinar não apenas o que os alunos não sabem, mas analisar e refletir sobre aquilo que eles pensam que sabem, para que possam se interessar de fato em ser orientados a descobrir e dominar as diversas modalidades da língua e assim ampliarem seus horizontes lingüísticos e socioculturais. Esta dissertação traça planos de ação semiótico-funcionais a fim de garantir aos alunos a escolha das ferramentas certas, que lhes permitam enfrentar os múltiplos desafios, propostos pela condição de competidores, com alguma segurança. Busca-se, em última análise, propor a implantação de uma metodologia nova e especial nas aulas preparatórias, com recursos eficientes para capacitar esses sujeitos, independentemente de suas deficiências escolares pregressas. Essa é uma meta cuja consecução exige um olhar ampliado e obrigatório do docente pelos certames do concurso, para sustentar uma teoria gramatical mais produtiva ao desenvolvimento das capacidades de leitura de questões de prova e escritura de redações / Finding ways to teach verbal concordance to the candidates aiming at filling the vacancies in Public Service, despite their being unaware of the syntactic structure of Portuguese has become a goal of my work and, therefore, the basis for this Dissertation regarding the Master Degree in Portuguese Language. It has been taken into account the analysis of questions of prior examinations considering the main examining boards as compared to the results taken from researches from students essays either written or oral to elaborate ways to act didactically with competitive groups. With the analysis of the research data, it has been noticed the need to teach not only what the students dont know but also to analyze and reflect on what they think they already know, so that they can be really interested in being oriented on how to discover and master the various ways of the language and by doing this, open up their linguistic, social and cultural horizons. This dissertation outlines semiotic and functional action plans in order to give the students the choice of the right tools, the ones that will allow them to face multiple challenges offered by their condition as competitors, with a relative degree of safety. It is being searched ultimately to suggest the introduction of a new special methodology in preparatory classes with profuse resources to enable these subjects, regardless of their previous scholastic deficiencies. The success of this goal demands a magnified and mandatory look on the part of the teacher at the disputes of the contest, to give support to a grammatical theory which is more productive in relation to the development of the ability to read the questions on examinations and the writing of essays

Pour l’analyse de la dynamique territoriale il est fondamental une grande quantité de données et leur intégration avec des données spatiales et statistiques facilite ce processus. La thèse se propose d’analyser la dynamique de la superficie agricole des municipalités du Territoire de la Citoyenneté Região Central-RS (TCRCRS) qui fait partie d’une politique publique spatiale de territoires citoyens. Cette dynamique sera analysée à partir d’une technique de détection de changement connue par Rotation Contrôlée par Axe de Non Changement - RCEN. Ainsi, la thèse a comme objectif évaluer les altérations subies par la superficie agricole au long de la période 1985 / 2010 dans les municipalités du TCRCRS en utilisant l’algorithme RCEN. Les étapes méthodologiques suivantes ont été implémentées: utilisation d’images différentes pour l’obtention de pixeis échantillons de non changement; analyse qualitative de l’organisation de la superficie agricole pour les municipalités de Cacequi, Santiago et Tupanciretã, sélectionnés en raison de leur localisation parmi des différentes sous-unités de paysage dans l’État; définition des seuils pour la délimitation des classes thématiques de l’organisation spatiale de la superficie agricole et évaluation de la fiabilité des résultats de la technique RCEN, utilisée pour déterminer la précision de la classification supervisée des images TM Landsat 5 par une matrice de concaténation. La matrice est basée sur l’algèbre de cartes de façon à obtenir une image numérique finale qui exprime toutes les possibilités de l’espace échantillon. Les résultats ont montré que, avec 1% de signification, la technique RCEN peut être utilisée pour détecter la dynamique dans la superficie agricole en utilisant les seuils de vigueur végétatif de l’IDETEC comparés aux résultats des répertoires Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), qui a été obtenu tout en considérant le total de pluies antérieures au passage du senseur, variable qui interfère sur les valeurs moyennes de NDVI. Des images de détections de changements (IDETEC) ont été engendrées pour analyser les cultures agricoles d’hiver et d’été, s’obtenant 99% de confiance en les images choisies pour la distribution spatiale des classes définies par l’adoption des seuils de ( - 0,5σ ; – 1,5σ ; + 0,5σ ; + 1,5σ), en prenant comme point central de la classe de non changement. Les images de détection de changements ont permis d’estimer et de comparer les classes de l’IDETEC avec les estimations du total d’aire plantée de cultures temporaires et des cultures agricoles de riz, avoine, maïs, soja et blé. Les aires obtenues par l’IDETEC à Tupanciretã ont surestimé l’aire agricole présentée par l’IBGE dans les images d’été avec des variations en pourcentages entre 1,11% dans l’IDETEC 1994/2009 et 8,13% dans l’IDETEC 2004/2010 ; pour les images d’hiver l’altération a été de 9,46% dans l’IDETEC 1989/2007 et de 3,44% dans l’IDETEC 1996/2005. À la municipalité de Cacequi, les variations en pourcentages de cultures temporaires ont été surestimées dans les images d’été en 7,71% dans l’IDETEC 1986/2006 et 20,47% dans l’IDETEC 1993/2005 et sous-estimées dans les images d’hiver en 9,42% dans l’IDETEC 1985/2003 et en 18,11% dans l’IDETEC 1996/2007. À Santiago elles ont été sous-estimées pour la période d’été en 24,76% dans l’IDETEC 1984/2009, pour la période d’hiver en 10,52% dans l’IDETEC 1996/2005 et surestimées en 8,23% dans l’IDETEC 2004/2010 et en 26,12% pour l’image d’hiver IDETEC 1989/2007. La technique RCEN a prouvé être capable d’évaluer des altérations dans la superficie agricole de cultures annuelles pour les municipalités de Cacequi, Santiago et Tupanciretã. / Para análise da dinâmica territorial, é fundamental uma grande quantidade de dados e a integração com dados espaciais e estatísticos, facilita esse processo. A tese propõe analisar, a dinâmica da superfície agrícola de municípios do Território da Cidadania Região Central-RS (TCRCRS), território este que, faz parte de uma política pública de territórios da cidadania. Essa dinâmica, será analisada a partir de uma técnica de detecção de mudança, conhecida por Rotação Controlada por Eixo de Não Mudança - RCEN. Assim, a tese objetiva avaliar as alterações na superfície agrícola, no período de 1985 a 2010, em municípios do TCRCRS, utilizando o algoritmo RCEN. As seguintes etapas metodológicas, foram implementadas: utilização de imagens diferentes, para obtenção de pixeis amostrais de não mudança; análise qualitativamente da organização da superfície agrícola, para os municípios de Cacequi, Santiago e Tupanciretã, selecionados por sua localização em diferentes subunidades de paisagem no Estado; definição dos limiares, para delimitação das classes temáticas da organização espacial da superfície agrícola e, avaliação da confiabilidade dos resultados da técnica RCEN, utilizada pra determinar, a precisão da classificação supervisionada das imagens TM Landsat 5, através de uma matriz de concatenação. A matriz, é baseada em álgebra de mapas de tal maneira, a obter uma imagem numérica final que, expresse todas as possibilidades do espaço amostral. Os resultados, mostraram que, com 1% de significância, a técnica RCEN pode ser utilizada, para detectar a dinâmica na superfície agrícola, utilizando limiares de vigor vegetativo da IDETEC, comparados aos resultados dos índices Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), que foi obtido considerando, o total de chuvas antecedentes a passagem do sensor, que é uma variável que interfere, nos valores médios de NDVI. Foram geradas imagens de detecção de mudanças (IDETEC), para analisar culturas agrícolas de inverno e de verão, obtendo-se 99% de confiança nas imagens selecionadas, para a distribuição espacial das classes definidas pela adoção dos limiares de ( - 0,5σ; – 1,5σ ; + 0,5σ; + 1,5σ), utilizando a como ponto central da classe de não mudança. As imagens de detecção de mudanças, permitiram estimar e comparar as classes da IDETEC, com as estimativas do total de área plantada, de lavouras temporárias, das culturas agrícolas de arroz, aveia, milho, soja e trigo As áreas obtidas pela IDETEC em Tupanciretã, superestimaram a área agrícola, apresentada pelo IBGE, nas imagens de verão com variações percentuais entre 1,11% na IDETEC 1994/2009 e 8,13% na IDETEC 2004/2010, para as imagens de inverno, a alteração foi de 9,46% na IDETEC 1989/2007 e de 3,44% na IDETEC 1996/2005. No município de Cacequi, as variações percentuais de lavouras temporárias foram superestimadas nas imagens de verão em 7,71% na IDETEC 1986/2006 e 20,47% na IDETEC 1993/2005 e, subestimadas nas imagens de inverno em 9,42% na IDETEC 1985/2003 e em 18,11% na IDETEC 1996/2007. Em Santiago, foram subestimadas para o período de verão em 24,76% na IDETEC 1984/2009 e, para o período de inverno em 10,52%, na IDETEC 1996/2005 e superestimadas em 8,23% na IDETEC 2004/2010 e, em 26,12% para a imagem de inverno IDETEC 1989/2007. A técnica RCEN, demonstrou ser capaz de estimar alterações na superfície agrícola, de culturas anuais para os municípios de Cacequi, Santiago e Tupanciretã. / For the analysis of territorial dynamics, a great amount of data is fundamental, and the integration of spatial and statistical data facilitates this process. This thesis proposes to analyze the dynamic of the agricultural surface in the Citizenship Country in the Central Area of Rio Grande do Sul (CCCARS), a country that is part of a public policy of citizenship countries. This dynamics will be analyzed by a change detection technique, known as Rotation Controlled of Non-change Axis (RCNA).Thus, this thesis aims to evaluate the alterations in the agricultural surface, in the period from 1985 to 2010, in CCCARS cities, using the RCNA algorithm. The following methodological steps were implemented: the use of different images in order to obtain non-change sampling pixeis; qualitative analysis of the organization of the agricultural surface in the cities of Cacequi, Santiago and Tupanciretã, which were selected due to their location in different subunits of landscapes in the State; determination of thresholds for the delimitation of thematic clusters in the spatial organization of the agricultural surface; and the evaluation of the reliability of the results of RCNA technique, which was used to determine the accuracy of the supervised classification of Landsat TM 5 images through a concatenating matrix. The matrix is based on the map algebra in such manner that expresses all the possibilities of the sampling space. The results showed that with 1% of significance, the RCNA technique can be used to detect the dynamics of the agricultural surface using threshold of the vigor of the vegetative growth compared with the results of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which were obtained considering the total amount of rain previous to the sensor scanning, which is a variable that interferes in the medium values of NDVI. It was created images of changes detection (IDETEC) in order to analyze summer and winter agricultural crops, obtaining 99% of reliability on the selected images, for the special distribution of the defined clusters by the adoption of the threshold values of de ( - 0,5σ; – 1,5σ ; + 0,5σ; + 1,5σ), using the as a central point of nonchange cluster. The change detection images enabled to estimate and compare IDETEC clusters with the estimate of the total planted area of temporary farm, agricultural crop of rice, oat, corn, soybean and wheat. The areas obtained by IDETEC in Tupanciretã overestimated the agricultural area presented by IBGE, with summer images with percentage variance among 1,11% on IDETEC 1994/2009 and 8,13% on IDETEC 2004/2010, for the winter images, the alteration was of 9,46% on IDETEC 1989/2007 and of 3,44% on IDETEC 1996/2007. In the city of Cacequi, the percentage variance of the temporary farms were overestimated on the summer images in 7,71% on IDETEC 1986/2006 and 20,47% on IDETEC 1993/2005 and , and overestimated on the winter images in 9,42% on IDETEC 1985/2003 and in 18,11% on IDETEC 1996/2007. In Santiago, they were underestimated for the summer period in 24,76% on IDETEC 1984/2009 and , for the winter period in 10,52%, on IDETEC 1996/2005 e and overestimated in 8,23% on IDETEC 2004/2010 and, in 26,12% for the winter image IDETEC 1989/2007. The RCNA technique showed itself to be capable of estimating the agricultural surface alteration in annual crops in the cities of Cacequi, Santiago e Tupanciretã.

O comportamento de busca de informação é conhecido por anteceder decisões não triviais e também por ocorre após a tomada de decisão, entretanto poucos estudos focam na busca por informação nesse estágio do processo. Pesquisadores têm investigado o conhecimento prévio tido pelo indivíduo como um importante preditor da busca por informação antes da tomada de decisão. No entanto, após a decisão, a influência do conhecimento prévio na busca por informação tem sido negligenciada. Considerando que o conhecimento sobre o produto é um importante componente do processo decisório do consumidor, e tal conhecimento permanece na memória do indivíduo mesmo após ele ter feito, por exemplo, uma compra, investigar o efeito do conhecimento prévio, antes da decisão, na quantidade de informação buscada pelo consumidor após a tomada de decisão endereça uma importante lacuna na literatura sobre o comportamento de busca de informação do consumidor. Esse é o principal motivador para o presente trabalho. Adicionalmente, essa pesquisa investiga a tendência à maximização como um possível moderador da relação entre conhecimento prévio e a busca de informação após a tomada de decisão. Assim, três estudos são reportados (um experimento e duas surveys). Ao longo desses estudos, o efeito simples proposto é investigado em dois estágios da experiência pós-decisão: pre- e pós-uso. Em essência, os resultados indicam que o conhecimento do consumidor (antes da tomada de decisão) aumenta a busca de informação após a decisão. Esse efeito é potencializado para consumidores com mais tendência à maximização. O papel da dissonância cognitiva também foi explorado na relação entre conhecimento prévio e busca de informação após a decisão. Por fim, a incerteza com a escolha foi apresentada como uma possível variável supressora do efeito de conhecimento prévio na varável dependente investigada. / Information search behavior is known to antecede non-trivial decisions, but it may also occur in the post-decision timespan. Researchers have studied individuals’ prior knowledge as a predictor of information sought prior to the decision. Only a few studies have focused on post-decision information seeking, and these studies did not explore the influence of prior knowledge (i.e., decision-related knowledge accumulate prior to the event of the final decision). Because product knowledge is an important component in consumers’ decision-processes and it remains within individuals’ long-term memory after they made the purchase decision, investigating the effect of pre-decision product knowledge on post-decision amounts of information sought might fill an important gap in consumer information-search-behavior literature. This was the main motivation for the current research. Additionally, this work proposes that maximizing tendencies may moderate the relationship between knowledge and post-decision information search. The thesis reports three studies varying in their data collection approach (experimental and survey). Across these studies, the proposed effect was investigated as occurring in two stages of consumers’ post-decision experience: pre-use and post-use. In essence, results indicate that the consumers’ knowledge increases information search during the post-purchase timespan. This effect is stronger among consumers with high maximizing tendencies (individuals that feel the need to maximize their decisions). I also explored the role of cognitive dissonance as a bridging factor to the relationship between prior knowledge and information seeking. Lastly, choice-uncertainty was found to suppress effects of prior knowledge.

It’s not possible to forget the indigenous and native communities as a key element in the Peruvian  constitutional  structure.  Previous consultation is a reflection of this. However,this has not always been so. For a long time,the economic and cultural hegemonies that influenced the constitutional conceptions putaside the fundamental diversity and dialogue.In this article, the author alludes to Low- intensity Constitutionalism which marked distance between political events and social conflict. For the author, the emergence of prior consultation is a sign of historical grievance and that in this context, a constitutional theory that does not put aside cultural diversity is necessary, since political representation is legitimized when the State ensures the rightsof all citizens. / No es posible olvidar a las comunidades andinas u originarias en la estructura constitucional peruana. La consulta previa es reflejode ello. Sin embargo, esto no siempre ha sidoasí. Durante mucho tiempo, las hegemonías económicas  y culturales  que  influyeron  en las concepciones constitucionales dejaron delado la diversidad y el diálogo fundamental.En el presente artículo, el autor hace alusión al Constitucionalismo de Baja Intensidad, que marcó distancia entre los acontecimientos políticos y el conflicto social. Para el autor, la aparición de la consulta previa es un signo de reivindicación histórica y que, en dicho contexto, es necesaria una teoría constitucional que no deje de lado la diversidad cultural, puesto que la representación política se legitima cuando el Estado vela por los derechos detodos los ciudadanos.

Over the last decades the struggle for indigenous rights has accomplished great achievements within international law. In relation to development projects and resource extraction on indigenous lands, the principle of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) has gained increased recognition and is today expressed as an important instrument to realize indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination. Nevertheless, empirical evidence have identified power asymmetries as one of the major obstacles for effective and meaningful FPIC implementation. This study investigates how power asymmetries emerge and affect the right to self-determination through the four FPIC requirements. Based on field research and by applying a relational approach, the study investigates a case of mining activities in northwestern Argentina where indigenous communities currently experience an increased interest in lithium deposits on their lands from transnational corporations. The study shows how relations characterized by dependency and clientelism create a situation where actors hold unequal power positions which permeate all FPIC requirements severely undermining the principle’s potential to fulfill its purpose. Lastly, based on the findings the study argues substantial underpinnings in terms of necessary preconditions are needed if FPIC are to be able to ensure self-determination.