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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Malice"”.
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Selfishness and Malice in Distributed Systems
… the performance of such systems: selfishness and malice. Selfish players can reduce social welfare of games, and malicious nodes can disrupt networks. In this dissertation, we provide algorithms to address both of these issues. One approach to ameliorating selfishness in large networks is the idea …
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With malice towards none: Six stories and a novella
A fiction collection consisting of six short stories folloby a novella. The pieces attempt to be comic, but also--with debatable success--to be more than just comic. As the title suggests, one of the collection's thematic concerns is mercy and its absence. Most of the pieces are set in Texas; …
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Malice, inequality, instability, or ignorance? Disentangling the mechanisms of LLM unfairness
Ensuring fairness in large language models (LLMs) is critical as these models are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains. Traditional fairness metrics typically report a single scalar score, which conflates distinct sources of model failure and obscures underlying biases. In this work, we …
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Making Malice Musical: Verdi’s Compositional Journey Through the Eyes of Six Villains
<p>Giuseppe Verdi is a pillar of the operatic world and had a profound impact on the evolution of the art form. From a rudimentary beginning, he developed over time from a popular creator of operas in the <em>solita forma </em>style<em> </em>of 19<sup>th</sup> century Italy into a master craftsman …
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Security in network games
… makes it possible to achieve the 'windfall of malice' even without the actual presence of malicious players. We also show the limitations of this technique for congestion games that are known to have a windfall of malice.
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God's wrathful children : toward an ethic of vengeance, retribution, and renewal for a post-apartheid nation
… manifestation of anger is devoid of hatred and malice, for in the first epistle of John, love is equated with God in such a way that it is the personification of the divine Being (1 John 4:7-12). God's grace, forming the nexus between compassion and wrath, renders any suggestion of a …
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TRANSFORMING THE IMAGE OF BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE NBA: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE NBA CARES PROGRAM
… of black masculinity as presented in the Malice in the Palace brawl between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers in 2004. The brawl violated the social contract between fans and players, necessitating the league to find a way to reestablish organizational legitimacy and redefine and …
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Towards Managing and Understanding the Risk of Underwater Terrorism
… facilitate obtaining the value of the nodes, the Malice spectrum is formally defined which provides a dimensionless, methodology independent model to determine the value of any given parameter. The methodology produces a meta-model constructed from the relationships between the parameters of the …
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… became associated with traits that included malice, anger, and sexual immorality. Women's undeniable shortcomings required that they be removed from the public sphere as a measure of protection, guarding society and themselves from their unstable nature. Popular literature, science, and …
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Rethinking Shame
… that shame is always a distorted emotion like malice or envy. I argue that both views give unsatisfactory accounts of shame because they fail to distinguish circumstances when shame is intelligible from circumstances when it is appropriate. I offer an account of shame in which the key feature …
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Re-feedback: freedom with accountability for causing congestion in a connectionless internetwork
… proposed attacks motivated by self-interest and malice. This dissertation defines the protocol and canonical examples of accountability mechanisms. Designs are all derived from carefully motivated principles. The resulting system is evaluated by analysis and simulation against the constraints and …
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Hard Luck Baby
… been told from other perspectives with venom, malice or sorrow, but the speaker takes ownership of her role in creating such emotions. As Hannah speaks, the audience may as well, be sitting crossed-legged on a front porch as she rocks in her chair recalling events from her life. She speaks …
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Payback: The Nature and Morality of Revenge
… from negative states such as hate and malice, and argue that it can provide a basis for morally appropriate and rational action. Using the notions of moral forfeiture, reciprocity, and the ""clean hands"" doctrine of equity jurisprudence, I argue in Chapter 4 ""Morality, Justice, and …
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Bird-like: five scenes for sinfonietta (or chamber orchestra)
… the perception that nature exists separate from malice. The fifth and final scene is a reprise of the introductory depiction of the flock, which rapidly proceeds to the music’s conclusion. In addition to the extra-musical imagery and content associated with this piece, I structured each scene on …
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Arresting figures: Reading and theorizing Renaissance texts
… as a reference point and by taking Iago's malice as the answer to Othello's treatment of Desdemona, this chapter treats Othello's selfhood as an object of inquiry and analyzes the tension between his selfhood and Desdemona's sexuality. The last chapter opens with a critique of Stanley …
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Adding Flesh to Sullivan’s Bones: The Legacy of St. Amant v. Thompson
… standards for the application of the “actual malice” test established in New York Times v. Sullivan. The confusion over these standards is shown by the shifting results in the St. Amant case as it progressed through the trial and appellate courts, and in the debate amongst the justices of the …
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Improving end-to-end availability using overlay networks
… by software and hardware bugs, misconfiguration, malice, or the inability of current routing systems to cope with persistent congestion.The effects of these failures are exacerbated because Internet services depend upon the proper functioning of many components-wide-area routing, access links, the …
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Clarification of management rights in regard to student suspension, expulsion, and exclusion in the state of Indiana
… must carry out discipline procedures without malice. (c) The school official must provide the minimum essentials of due process. 1. Oral and written notice of charges are provided the student. 2. The student must have the opportunity to tell what happened in the incident under investigation. …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
This study aims to examine cases of newspaper framing that have not been researched exhaustively or in a comparative manner. By using framing to compare cases that involve indicted athletes of various ages and races, this study analyzes content of how newspapers framed athletes amid allegations …