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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The Best Defense"”.
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Defending Defense: Circular Arguments About Artmaking
… fear, and image saturation. Think-pieces on the nature of art in an entertainment society. Juggling a brief overview of various works and their relation to over arching themes of game theory, dark humor, and fascination with media. An in depth look at the process of the thesis show, "Defense …
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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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Impact of Mosquito Age and Insecticide Exposure on Vector Competence of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) for Zika Virus
… interactions influencing vector competence (the ability for a mosquito to become infected with and transmit a pathogen) vary and depend on biological (e.g., mosquito age) and environmental factors (e.g., temperature). A mosquito's chronological age at time of infection may impact its immune …
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GIS Modeling of the Prominent Geohazards in Arkansas
<p>The State of Arkansas is prone to numerous geohazards. This thesis is a twofold study of prominent geohazards in Arkansas: the first fold includes a novel triggerless approach for mass wasting susceptibility modeling applied to the Boston Mountains in NW Arkansas, and the second fold is a …
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The Other Side of the Fence
I pull from what I see in my urban surroundings. There is always a sense of dread fused with optimism that prevails. Is it beautiful? Fragments of low-riders and tricked-out cars become symbols of desire and the glowing red lens of a stop light becomes a Cyclops poised to defend his garden. …