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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Watchdog"”.
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Transient fault detection using a watchdog processor
Microprocessors are used in many applications where a high degree of reliability is required. For instance, satellite based systems operating in space have no way being serviced if something were goes wrong. Often these systems, operating in radiation environments, are subject to random high energy …
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Do Politics Matter to this Watchdog? The Effects of Ideology on Civil Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
My goal in this dissertation is to examine whether the political ideology of the federal courts, as well as the ideology of political principals in Congress and the executive branch, affect the decision making and behavior of an independent U.S. agency. The agency's decision making pertains …
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Media as a catalyst for civic engagement and change in North Texas: The Barnett Shale case
… indicated that the media no longer upholds its watchdog responsibilities by failing to report on issues within a timely manner. Preemptive notification would allow citizens to discuss and react before harm is done in order to prevent potential crisis. Because of its value in watchdog reporting, …
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The manifestation and potential of constructive journalism in South African digital news
… a role for the form to be introduced alongside watchdog journalism. Views ranged from supporting constructive journalism as a necessary and valuable approach that would strengthen watchdog journalism, to seeing constructive journalism as a “nice to have” in the overall news cycle. In some of the …
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Analysis of CDO tranche valuation and the 2008 credit crisis
… modeling approaches used by CDO traders and the watchdog credit rating agencies. We look at how the pricing models fared before and during the financial crisis. Comparing our model prices to market synthetic CDO prices, we investigate how well these pricing models captured the underlying …
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Social responsibility in major newspapers coverage of "9/11 lapses" controversy
… pursue independent investigative journalism as a watchdog representing the people's right to know.
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Providing application-aware reliability through OS/hypervisor-level techniques
… checkpoint. Traditionally, an external hardware watchdog is used to force a system reboot whenever the watchdog is not reset within a predefined timeout interval. The detection latency might be significant because the timeout interval for resetting the watchdog timer is usually a matter of …
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Supermarket tabloid influence on mainstream daily newspaper editorial content
… press in two ways. First, the dailies serve as a watchdog by criticizing tabloids' sensational news, covering litigation against tabloids, and allowing the subjects of tabloid reports to rebut or criticize allegations tabloids make against them. Second, the dailies occasionally follow up on or …
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Enhancing democratic communication? Television and partisan politics in Palestine
… on media reliability, freedom of expression, the watchdog role of television, their opinions on the status of democracy and human rights, and other issues related to media functions and democracy in Palestine. Three functions of the media - as a forum for discussion and debate; as provider of …
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The Panopticon, the State and Non-Profit Organisations in South Africa: A Systematic Review of Literature
… - and the state. Advocacy NPOs tend to play a “watchdog” role in society and are often critical of the state, which can lead to an antagonistic relationship and repression of state critics. Monitoring relations between advocacy NPOs and the state is critically important as a barometer of the …
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Politics of pride : why do people participate in civil society in South Africa?
… through organisations that play the role of “watchdog” or through mobilisation by the poor themselves around their own concerns. However, civil society can reflect and reproduce many of the pathologies and injustices of the wider society. Sometimes it works to benefit a specific ethnic group …
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Narrative, Marketing, and Persuasion: How Storytelling Contributes to Marketing's Influence Within the Firm
… narrative competition, Theme #1, "Finance as Watchdog"; Theme # 2, "Who Is Really Managing the Brand?" and Theme #3, "How Finance is Your Marketing?"
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Fault Tolerant and Flexible CubeSat Software Architecture
… on fault tolerance with two features: a software watchdog and digital command signing capability. Lastly, a survey of related CubeSat projects and software fault tolerance papers has been conducted to determine that this new system is sufficient to meet the desired goals.</p>
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"Whiteness and news: the interlocking social construction of ""realities"""
… conventions and practices, such as the watchdog function and its emphasis on public institutions, routinely produce stories that replay and reinforce racial hegemony by portraying nonwhites as problems or people seeking “special privileges.” Also, journalistic repertoires about those …
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On the Lift-Based Privacy Measures, Their Operational Meaning, and Privacy-Utility Tradeoff
… improved utility in existing mechanisms like the watchdog mechanism and optimal random response (ORR), either by relaxing constraints on minimum lift or balancing the tradeoff more effectively. To further improve these mechanisms, we introduce two new techniques. First, we propose subset merging, …
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On the Lift-Based Privacy Measures, Their Operational Meaning, and Privacy-Utility Tradeoff
… improved utility in existing mechanisms like the watchdog mechanism and optimal random response (ORR), either by relaxing constraints on minimum lift or balancing the tradeoff more effectively. To further improve these mechanisms, we introduce two new techniques. First, we propose subset merging, …
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Network coding for robust wireless networks
… in lossy wireless networks. -- Algebraic Watchdog takes advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless networks to provide a secure global self-checking network. Algebraic Watchdog allows nodes to detect malicious behaviors probabilistically, and police their neighbors locally using …
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Decentralizing citizen participation in the planning process: a study of the community boards on Staten Island
… government and the community, and to maintain a watchdog position on local government. Procedural and structural changes were recommended. The study proposed two alternatives to the present method of appointment to broaden accountability of the boards to the people they represent and to increase …
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Concurrent detection of transient faults in microprocessors
… execution errors. To implement this scheme, a watchdog processor is designed for monitoring operation of the main processor. The effectiveness of this technique is demonstrated through computer simulations.
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Chilean muckrakers: Making investigative journalism in a post-authoritarian and neoliberal context
… so, I introduce nuances to better understand watchdog-style journalism when intertwined with visual languages in a Latin American journalistic culture. The research design mixes different methodological techniques (like interviews, archival work, and analysis of agenda) and material (such as …
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