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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"Defending"”.
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Defending the Bodice Ripper
<p>Romance novels have always occupied a strange state of limbo in the literary world. Decried by feminists, critics, and by the general populace, what could a whole genre of books have done to be so disparaged, arguably more than any other genre? Books written by women, for women, about women …
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Defending women who kill
This dissertation undertakes a case review of South African court case judgments (between 1994 and 2021) in which women are charged with killing their abusive intimate partners. The dissertation examines how evidence of their abuse is used in respect of legal defences and mitigation of sentence. In …
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Aggressive, Assertive and Non-confrontational Forms of Defending: Differentiation of Forms and Consequences of Defending
The factor structure of the newly created Enacted Defending Scale (EDS) was investigated to better understand what strategies of defending children and adolescents enact to defend their peers from peer victimization. This investigation resulted in a 5-factor model, representative of assertive, …
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Defending Defense: Circular Arguments About Artmaking
<p>This paper is a critical look at video and performance arts intrinsic relationship to culture. Investigations of storytelling, personal mythology, fear, and image saturation. Think-pieces on the nature of art in an entertainment society. Juggling a brief overview of various works and their …
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Defending Deflationary Heuristics Against Hyperintensional Manoeuvres
`Deflationary heuristics' for deflating metaphysical disputes are prominent due to the work of Hirsch, Chalmers and Thomasson. Though these heuristics differ in detail, they work broadly on the same basis. They show that the disputants in a dispute agree on all extensional and intensional facts. …
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Defending against side-channel attacks : DynamoREA
Modern computer architectures are prone to leak information about their applications through side-channels caused by micro-architectural side-effects. Through these side-channels, attackers can launch timing attacks by observing how long an application takes to execute and using this timing …
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Defending Canada: Canadian Military Preparedness, 1867- 1902
There has been an impression created by scholars that Canadian politico-military actions were taken to benefit Great Britain and fulfill the needs of the Empire. This thesis contends that decisions surrounding military preparedness, defense spending and the militia made by the Canadian government …
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Defending Congress : the politics of defense organization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1998.
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Defending networked resources against floods of unwelcome requests
The Internet is afflicted by "unwelcome requests'" defined broadly as spurious claims on scarce resources. For example, the CPU and other resources at a server are targets of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. Another example is spam (i.e., unsolicited bulk email); here, the resource is human …
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Defending Real-Time Systems through Timing-Aware Designs
Real-time computing systems are those that are designed to achieve computing goals by certain deadlines. Real-time computing systems are present in everything from cars to airplanes, pacemakers to industrial-control systems, and other pieces of critical infrastructure. With the increasing …
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Defending Against GPS Spoofing by Analyzing Visual Cues
Massive GPS navigation services are used by billions of people in their daily lives. GPS spoofing is quite a challenging problem nowadays. Existing Anti-GPS spoofing systems primarily focus on expensive equipment and complicated algorithms, which are not practical and deployable for most of the …
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Understanding and defending against internet infrastructures supporting cybecrime operations
Today's cybercriminals must carefully manage their network resources to evade detection and maintain profitable businesses. For example, a rogue online enterprise has to have multiple technical and business components in place, to provide the necessary infrastructure to keep the business available. …
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Social Cognitive Factors Associated With Verbal Bullying And Defending
<p>The purpose of the study was to examine defending and verbal bullying and the role of social cognitive variables, including empathy, values, moral disengagement, and efficacy among middle school students. Middle school students (n=282) in grades 6 through 8 in an urban public school district in …
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The Primitive Thesis: Defending a Davidsonian Conception of Truth
In this dissertation I defend the claim, long held by Donald Davidson, that truth is a primitive concept that cannot be correctly or informatively defined in terms of more basic concepts. To this end I articulate the history of the primitive thesis in the 20th century, working through early Moore, …
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Defending the Multiple Realization Argument against the Identity Theory
<p>A classic argument in the philosophy of mind is that the identity theory is false because mental state types are multiply realized in brain state types. In this dissertation I provide a detailed elaboration of the argument and a defense of it against a few of its prominent contemporary critics. …
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DETECTING AND DEFENDING AGAINST DIFFERENT FAMILIES OF ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLE ATTACKS
Adversarial example attacks alter an image so the image appears largely unaltered to human eyes, but image-recognition models will misclassify it. This is a common type of attack, against which there is currently no good general defense. Most state-of-the-art methods of detecting adversarial …
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Understanding and Defending Against Malicious Identities in Online Social Networks
<p>Serving more than one billion users around the world, today's online </p><p>social networks (OSNs) pervade our everyday life and change the way people </p><p>connect and communicate with each other. However, the open nature of </p><p>OSNs attracts a constant interest in attacking and exploiting …
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Defending Against Trojan Attacks on Neural Network-based Language Models
Backdoor (Trojan) attacks are a major threat to the security of deep neural network (DNN) models. They are created by an attacker who adds a certain pattern to a portion of given training dataset, causing the DNN model to misclassify any inputs that contain the pattern. These infected classifiers …
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