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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"malign"”.
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Regionalisation in Southern Africa : the problem of malign South African hegemony
Includes bibliography.
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USING NETWORK MOTIFS TO SEARCH FOR INDICATORS OF MALIGN FOREIGN ACTIVITIES IN SOCIOTECHNICAL NETWORK MODELS
… way to search large networks for indications of malign influence. This work serves as a proof-of-concept that will enable the creation of automated investigative tools to identify and deter foreign and malign influence in emerging CI systems.
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Afghanistan and transnational war: Interlocking security dilemmas and strategic challenges
… and strategic challenges, involving actors with malign intent. Operationally, bilateral formulations of the security dilemma are expanded to demonstrate the occurrence of multiple interlocking security dilemmas. Thematically, a case study method is used to explore these security conditions in …
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Neopragmatism and the Dual-Use Issue: A Topology of Visions
… Convention started to discuss the potential malign application of biological research and technology. This thesis examines how this issue of dual-use has been developed, discussed, and how solutions have been proposed. In order to do so, the thesis follows a neopragmatist approach. As a …
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CARCINOMA CORTICAL DA ADRENAL NÃO FUNCIONAL COM INVASÃO DA VEIA CAVA CAUDAL EM CÃO
… the neoplasms, which the benign adenoma and malign carcinoma are the most found between adrenal gland tumors. The present work aims to describe the case of a dog diagnosed with carcinoma in the cortex of the adrenal gland with invasion of caudal vena cava. A male dog with 15 kg, mixed breed …
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A Powerful Word: On Defining and Responding Justly to Abuse
… is liable to mislead, mislabel, or even malign when it comes to identifying and responding rightly to abuse. Further, the conceptions of justice that are brought to contemporary discussions on abuse are often unhelpfully influenced by Critical Theory, which obscures or dismisses a …
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A study of the distribution of selected anthropogenic micropollutants in the seawater of Dublin bay
… organochlorine pesticides. In the 1970s the malign effect that xeno-estrogenic material could have on biological systems became apparent and the increasing incidence of such polluting material, frequently derived from sewage or other wastewater effluent, in the aquatic environment provoked …
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Do place-based interventions displace crime in cities? : an evaluation of two crime prevention strategies in Chihuahua, Mexico
… have even differentiated between benign and malign displacement, the former referring to socially acceptable redistribution of crime and the latter to producing worse outcomes than without the intervention. Existing scholarship in sociology and criminology has found that interventions more …
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Agenda Setting, Framing, and International Relations: A Thematic Analysis of RussiaToday's and Xinhua News' Coverage of the United States on Social Media
… the lengthy history of Russian and Chinese malign influence toward the United States, combined with the immediate nature of social media creates a unique opportunity for understanding the intersection between communication processes and international relations in the 21st Century. A total of …
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What's Mine is Yours: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes and Conceptions About Online Personal Privacy In the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
… dangerous individuals who seek to obtain it for malign purposes, rather than a fundamental right, an inviolable aspect of self, or a claim by individuals to be left alone and free from surveillance. Vietnamese appear unconcerned about governmental or organizational scrutiny, and seem to have …
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Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London
… them. Jonson's purpose, I shall argue, is not to malign women with his comedy; rather he comments on the general morality of society. Jonson demonstrates, through his portrayal of his characters, the artificiality and consumerism apparent in London society. Hence, Jonson is not promoting the …
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The Impact of Offspring Hashtags on Semantic Polarization in Online Social Movements: Evidence from the Indian Farmer's Protest
… on core issues - focusing on themes that malign the other side (RQ2). We then measure and track how the semantic polarization in the use of the term "farmer" by the protest vs. counter-protest communities who use offspring hashtags evolves over time in relation to key protest events (RQ3). …
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Resurgent Ethnic Violence in Post-War Societies: A Comparative Assessment of Externally Guaranteed Consociational Experiments
… an unconstructive regional environment in which malign foreign powers disrupt communal equilibrium. This thesis analyses four case studies in separate chapters, examining the power-sharing agreements within the broader context of the post-war state-building process. Following an overview of the …
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La Sociale: Welfare and Emergence in Twenty-first century Senegal
… challenge more static and culturalist, sometimes malign, conceptions of distribution. The ethnography attends to the assertion and cultivation of, and support for, morally good politics to demonstrate how legitimate distribution is highly contested. The thesis then zooms in on each of the *grands …
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Of (un)Sound Mind: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the Phenomenology of Reading and Perception
… has blackened the portrait of an already malign figure. Later chapters attempt to articulate what it might mean to read in the wake of such works. I eschew an approach that merely seeks to identify aspects of Céline’s virulent and overt racism and antisemitism. I refrain from this for two …
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Efficient, robust and uncertainty aware mobile health
… mobile health applications may encounter malign inputs that can have a catastrophic impact, we propose an attack-agnostic adversarial mitigation approach based on the previously described early exit ensemble framework. We show that this approach can guarantee robustness generalizable to …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… the American Puritan sense of evil as a huge, malign force which pervades the vast wilderness in which the Puritans had settled. It was a unique sense to the American Puritans, for in Europe, there was no such wilderness. The Puritan sense of evil was heightened by the belief that the Puritans …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… of a literary mode often, sometimes correctly, maligned as a conservative genre – horror fiction. However, I did not want to follow the template of a number of transgressive horrors, which is simply to depict reason overthrown by a dark and terrible other, but wished to reappraise the overlooked …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …