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Showing 1 to 20 of 4421 for “"Threat"”.
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Bluetooth Threat Taxonomy
… monitors, and surveillance cameras. Dozens of threats have been developed by researchers and hackers which targets these Bluetooth enabled devices. The work in this thesis provides insight into past and current Bluetooth threats along with methods of threat mitigation. The main focus of this …
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MRSA: A Global Threat
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is the cause to some of the most common infections in the world. Its molecular distribution does not show the dissemination of one global strain. Studies show that, although community-acquired MRSA is more common in the United States, …
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North Korea: Resolving the Threat
… Korea presently represents one of the gravest threats to international security and to United States national interests. North Korea has been pursuing a nuclear weapons capability and is nearing the ability to amass a militarily significant stockpile. Concurrently, North Korea has developed one …
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The internal politics of external threat
… in response to different kinds of international threat. In explaining the domestic politics of external threat, I seek to answer why states choose escalate conflicts over some issues and not others, against rivals at certain times and not others, and choose to abuse human rights during some …
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The rise of "china threat" arguments
The study seeks to explain the rise of "China threat" arguments in the United States and Japan in the 1990s by using three theories of states behavior- realism, organization theory, and democratic peace theory. The rise of "China threat" arguments occurred in the United States and Japan because of …
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Stereotype Threat and Survey Response Bias
Stereotype threat is the threat of confirming a negative stereotype about a group with which a person identifies. Researchers have found that stereotype threat can result in underperformance in multiple domains, shifts in social behavior, and shifts in assessed implicit attitudes, the likelihood of …
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Usutu Virus: An Emerging Arbovirus Threat
… virus (JEV), and West Nile virus (WNV) are major threats to global public health resulting in millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. The presence of these viruses and their increasing emergence/spread continues to escalate. Notably, Usutu virus (USUV; Genus: …
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Stereotype Threat: A Proposed Process Model on the Impact of Stereotype Threat on Self-Efficacy and Minority Performance
… gap. This document explored how stereotype threat impacts self-efficacy and minority academic performance and implications for cultural mistrust, imposter phenomenon, and self-fulfilling prophecies. All these factors have the propensity to place minority individuals at risk for low …
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Is that a Promise or a Threat?
… support paper – is that a promise or a threat? – is the foundational question and entryway into deciphering the intense, overwhelming, and contradictory states of affect that I was and, to a lesser degree, still am experiencing. In response to these circumstances, my research focuses on …
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Global Islamism: The Threat to Western Civilization
The attacks on September 11, 2001 underscored the lack of priority given to Islamic fundamentalism. While the United States and the rest of the Western countries mobilized after this attack to fight against international terrorism, not a great deal of attention was given to the fundamentalists, or …
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Serotonin and Threat: from Gene to Behaviour
Anxiety and fear are emotions provoked by threatening situations and shape adaptive behaviours, but excessive and uncontrollable anxiety and fear form core symptoms of anxiety disorders. High trait anxiety, an individual’s disposition to feel anxious, is associated with greater risk of developing …
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Testing Revonsuo's Threat simulation theory of dreaming
Revonsuo's Threat Simulation Theory of dreaming asserts that dreaming was selected during human evolution because it has the adaptive function of providing a threat-free context in which threat perception and avoidance can be rehearsed. This study aimed to test the prediction that the threat …
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Arguing Security: Rhetoric, Media Environment, and Threat Legitimation
… of gaining public consent about a security threat, or threat legitimation. Threats require legitimation because they are social facts and not objective truths or subjective perceptions. I argue rhetorical resources and strategies affect threat legitimation. Political actors deploy rhetorical …
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REAL-TIME THREAT ASSESSMENT WITH IMPERFECT SENSOR DATA
… false negatives and false positives to detect a threat. The first formulation assumes that the sensor operator has intelligence on the threat likelihood at each location, while the second formulation assumes the adversary actively chooses which location to attack to evade sensor detection. In …
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Insider Threat Reduction Model for the cloud environment
… offer to business and individuals, security threat remains one of the growing concerns that are hindering the adoption of this paradigm. Specifically, the Insider threat is of greatest concern. In the traditional systems, insiders are regarded as current employees, former employees and any …
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Alcohol and cognition: ego threat as a moderator
This study examined how ego threat (negative feedback) interacts with alcohol consumption to influence cognitive performance. We hypothesized ego threat would moderate the effects of alcohol on impulse control and attention in 30 college students (21-49 years). A 2×2 factorial design assessed …
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TRAUMA RECIDIVISM: THREAT ORIENTATIONS AND RECURRENT INJURY PERCEPTIONS
… select sociodemographic and clinical variables, threat orientations, and the perceived likelihood of recurrent injury (PLRI) of individuals deemed at risk for trauma recidivism (TR).</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> Injuries and violence are the leading cause of traumatic death among persons …
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