The thesis Risk Denial and Neglect: Studies in Risk Perception examines societal and individual attention to risks and focuses especially on the issue of neglect. Why do some risks get more attention than other risks and how is this difference in attention related to experts’ roles in society? What can explain people’s tendency to perceive risks as more pertinent to other people? These are some of the issues that are discussed in the thesis. The topics are of interest for, e.g., risk policies, risk management, and for designing campaigns aimed at minimizing risk-related behaviors. The dissertation is written within the field of economic psychology. The research questions are addressed in four separate papers based on three empirical studies. The Papers I and II focus on societal attention to risks. They address the issues of what risks are neglected and overemphasized in society and how the identification of risk is related to experts’ domain of expertise. Papers III and IV narrow down the discussion to individual processes of risk denial – why people tend to believe that risks are more pertinent to other people. The results show that experts in the present study tended to rate risks within their own domain as lower than other risks. They were more prone to act as promoters than protectors. In addition, the robust tendency of optimistic bias was shown to exist also for technological risks (related to the use of computers) and economic risks. Most people seem to hang on to their beliefs that risks are other people’s concerns – it simply won’t happen to them. The results of the present thesis suggest that the relevance of prior experience and the commonplaceness of the risk sources is an area that merits further investigation with respect to risk denial.

In a commercial Internet environment, the quality of service experienced by a user is critical to competitive advantage and business survivability. The availability and response time of a distributed software service are central components of the overall quality of service provided to users. Traditionally availability is a measure of service down time. Traditionally availability measures the probability that the service will be live and is expressed in terms of failure occurrence and repair or recovery time. Response time is a measure of the time taken from when the service request is made, to when service provision occurs for the user. Deteriorating response time is also a valuable indicator to denial of service attacks which continue to pose a significant threat to service availability. The concept of the service cluster is increasingly being deployed to improve service availability and response time. Cluster processor replication increases service availability. Cluster dispatching of service requests across the replicated cluster processors increases service scalability and therefore response time. This thesis commences with a review of the research and current technology in the area of distributed software service availability. The review aims to identify any deficiencies within that area and propose critical features that mitigate those deficiencies. The three critical features proposed are in relation to user wait time, cluster dispatching, and the trust-based filtering of service requests. The user wait time proposal is that the availability of a distributed service should reflect both liveness probability level and probabalistic user access time of the service. The cluster dispatching proposal is that dispatching processing overhead is a function of the number of Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams/Transport Control Protocol (TCP) segments that are received by the dispatcher in respect of each service request. Consequently the number of IP datagrams/TCP segments should be minimised ideally so that for each incoming service request there is one IP datagram/TCP segment. The trust-based filtering proposal is that the level of trust in respect of each service request should be identified by the service as this is critical in mitigating distributed denial of service attacks - and therefore maximising the availability of the service A conceptual availability model which supports the three critical features within an Internet clustered service environment is then described. The conceptual model proposes an expanded availability definition and then describes the realization of this definition via additional capabilities positioned within the Transport layer of the Internet communication environment. The additional capabilities of this model also facilitate the minimization of cluster dispatcher processing load and the identification by the cluster dispatcher of request trust level. The model is then implemented within the Linux kernel. The implementation involves the addition of several options to the existing TCP specification and also the addition of several functions to the existing Socket API. The implementation is subsequently evaluated in a dispatcher-based clustered service environment.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-126). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references (p.127-137).

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Diante do estreitamento do horizonte emancipatório para uma parcela significativa da população brasileira, procuramos, neste estudo, descrever a história real destes muitos, para não dizer milhões, que acabaram condenados à margem de formas sociais, econômicas, estilísticas, consagradas pelos aparatos ideológicos que perpetuam e justificam a reprodução da racionalidade do capital como o único e exclusivo sistema social. Na contemporaneidade, a mercantilização da vida em sociedade e seu indissociável processo de descartabilidade marcam presença constante no cenário das médias e grandes cidades brasileiras. Perscrutando o campo exploratório, presenciamos grupos humanos cada vez mais desvinculados do sistema produtivo. Destituídos de qualidades aceitáveis circunscritas à esfera econômica e moral capitalista, figuram, apenas, como paisagem, apenas, como fragmentos do universo objetivo. Vidas em sobrestado permanente, confundidas e misturadas com o descartável, sem lugar no mundo produtivo, galgam a invisibilidade social. É esta incivilidade levada ao seu paroxismo chamada invisibilidade que, aqui, identificamos e trazemos à luz. Uma invisibilidade que se constrói não pelo olhar, mas num imaginário persistente que fixa a pobreza como marca de inferioridade, potencializando um modo de ser que descredencia indivíduos para o exercício de seus direitos e da vida social, já que percebidos numa diferença incomensurável, aquém das regras da equivalência, isto é, da alteridade que a formalidade da lei e o exercício dos direitos deveriam concretizar. É neste espaço de interpelação do outro que a invisibilidade se constitui. Ela habita o registro do impensável, do conflito com a ideia de essência, de alteridade que arbitra todas as formas de ser. O invisível surge como alguém que não É, provocação que incita o estranhamento, o que o torna assediado por um forte ranço moral que preserva a depreciação de tudo que perdeu o valor de uso. É assim decretada a sua tripla negação: desistoricizado, desumanizado e dessignificado, mesclado a um universo de contravalores que imobilizam a vida, tornando-o incodificável, um personagem inefável colocando em xeque toda a lógica da representação. Nossa proposta, com este trabalho, foi o de ir além de um trabalho documental, mas de constatação e denúncia, procurando ultrapassar visões reducionistas que naturalizam a pobreza e a miséria, reencontrando assim, nas mediações e contrapontos, as contradições fundas que conduzem muitos a invalidação social, cujas violações e mutilações, de toda ordem, prosperam a favor de uma ordem econômica que se apresenta desvinculada e independente de limites e de justificações morais / Given the narrowing of the emancipatory horizon for a significant portion of the Brazilian population, we seek in this study to describe the real story of these many, not to say millions, who ended up sentenced to the fringes of social, economic, stylistic forms enshrined by the ideological apparatuses which perpetuate and justify the reproduction of the rationality of capital as the only and exclusive social system. In contemporary times, the commodification of social life and its indissociable disposability process are constantly present in the scenario of medium and large Brazilian cities. By scrutinizing the exploratory field, we witness human groups being increasingly disconnected from the productive system. Devoid of acceptable qualities that are confined to the economic and moral capitalist sphere, they appear only as a landscape, just as fragments of the objective universe. Lives permanently halted, confused and mixed with the disposable, with no place in the productive world, reaching "social invisibility". It is this incivility taken to its paroxysm called "invisibility" that here we identify and bring to light. An "invisibility" which is built not by the look, but by a persistent imagery that sets poverty as a mark of inferiority, reinforcing a way of being that disqualifies individuals to exercise their rights and social life, perceived as an immeasurable difference below the rules of equivalence, i.e. the otherness that the formality of the law and the exercise of rights should achieve. It is through questioning each other that the "invisibility" is constituted. It abides in the records of the unthinkable, of the conflict with the idea of essence, of otherness that arbitrates all forms of "being". The invisible emerges as someone who ISNT, a provocation which encourages strangeness, which makes him harassed by a strong moral rancidity that preserves the depreciation of everything that has lost value. It is thus declared his triple denial: dishistoricized, dehumanized and insignificant, blended to a universe of countervalues which immobilize life, making him uncodifiable, an unfathomable character jeopardizing the entire logic of representation. Our proposal in this paper, was to go beyond a documentary work, but to verify and report, seeking to overcome reductionist views that naturalize poverty and misery, thus rediscovering, in mediations and counterpoints, the deep contradictions which lead many to social invalidation, whose violation and mutilation of all kinds thrive in favor of an economic order that appears detached and independent from limits and moral grounds

Immigration is one of the effects, one of the symptoms of the ill-functioning and outdated machine that is the elite. Immigration and asylum-seeking have been frequent topics in public debates for years. The number of refugees making their way from war-torn regions of the world to Sweden makes the citizen versus asylum-seeker dichotomy highly relevant for social psychology research about discursively constituted identities. That is to say: how social-categorizations, emotions and attitudes are created in text and talk. Today, public opinion is largely produced online, this makes it possible to explore the motivations, strategies and goals of “the nonracist racist” on Facebook. This study utilizes a dual-edged approach in that coding is done both from an inductive- and a deductive direction. It adheres to a discursive psychology approach and follows Potter and Edward’s (2001) situated, action-oriented and constructed features of discourse. These theoretical features inform the deductive coding and are contextualized using Sakki and Pettersson’s (2016) three representation of otherness with subsequent six discourses produced by the populist radical right. Findings indicate that cultural comparison constructing cultural incompatibility is the main rhetorical resource for constructing the citizen versus asylum-seeker dichotomy. However, this dichotomy is not the most dominant “us and them” construction by the “nonracist racist”. “The elite versus the people” is the most common “us and them” construction. It carries significant weight that the seemingly unfiltered expressions of hatred on anti-immigration pages on Facebook are more concerned with what “we” are doing wrong rather than what is wrong with any “deviant others”. It is more about an internal clash of moral compasses than it is about a supposed clash of civilizations. Along with the occasioned feature of discourse, this partly explains why anti-immigration advocates for example position themselves as victims or defenders.

L’objectif de cette recherche a été de montrer comment l’impensé institutionnel de la maltraitance dérive d’une modalité spécifique du pacte dénégatif nommée pacte de désaveu, mettant en échec la déontologie et précipitant ainsi les sujets de l’institution dans une mise en acte répétitive du phénomène.Notre thèse s’articula autour de deux axes majeurs : un axe central autour du désaveu et un axe transversal centré sur la répétition. Celle-ci envisagée comme le corrélat du désaveu. L’examen de l’action de cet opérateur, à travers l’inquiétante étrangeté et la construction métaphoro-métonymique du Double, a permis de démontrer l’existence d’un pacte de désaveu, et l’enjeu de son utilisation lorsque son objet est la maltraitance dans une institution gériatrique : dissimuler l’existence de la maltraitance ; écarter la responsabilité de l’acte ; couvrir la participation des soignants à la maltraitance institutionnelle.L’existence d’un double désaveu a pu être mise en évidence : un désaveu de la parole du résident lié par circularité à un désaveu de l’acte de maltraitance. Ces deux désaveux se sont révélés comme secondaires, dans le sens de témoins d’un désaveu originel : le désaveu de la loi. Ce désaveu originel se basant sur une réalité fondamentale : la perte d’autonomie pouvant aller jusqu’à la grande dépendance.Ce premier axe de notre thèse a conduit nécessairement à prendre en compte un champ supplémentaire : la déontologie professionnelle en évaluant les effets et conséquences de ce désaveu dont nous avons fait mention. L’examen de la déontologie a conduit à formuler l’hypothèse d’une mise en échec de celle-ci, corrélée à cette opération de désaveu. Le second axe de recherche, transversal quand à notre problématique et dont le phénomène de répétition de l’acte de maltraitance constitue le corrélat, a permis de mettre en évidence avec quelle force contraignante, l’institution précipite ses sujets dans la répétition sous l’action du désaveu qui, en entravant la construction du souvenir, entraîne une impossible mise au passé de la maltraitance. / The objective of this research was to show how the institutional’s unthought of elder abuse derives from a specific modality of the pact of denial called pact of disavowal, by defeating ethics and precipitating the subjects of the institution in a formal act repetitive phenomenon.Our argument revolved around two major themes: around a central axis on disavowal and a transverse axis centered on repetition. It considered as the correlate of the disavowal.Examination of the action of this operator through the uncanny and the construction of metonymic-metaphorical of Double, has shown the existence of a pact of disavowal, and the issue of its use when the object is abuse in a geriatric institution: conceal the existence of abuse; exclude liability of the act; cover the participation of caregivers in institutional abuse.The existence of a double disavowal could be highlighted: a denial of the word of resident bound by circularity to a disavowal of the act of abuse. Both disavowals proved to be secondary in the sense of witnessing a repudiation original: the disavowal of the law. The original disavowal based on a fundamental reality: the loss of autonomy up to the high dependency.The first axis of our thesis necessarily leads to consider an additional field: professional ethics in evaluating the effects and consequences of this disavowal we mentioned. The Ethics Review has led to the hypothesis of a hit of this, correlated with the operation of disavowal.The second line of research cross with our problem and that the phenomenon of repetition of the act of abuse is the correlate, helped highlight how binding the institution rushes his subjects in the repetition in the action of disavowal which inhibited the construction of memory, resulting in not putting elder abuse in the past.

This dissertation analyzes the case of organized climate change denial in the United States as a manifestation of the power of the policy planning and opinion shaping networks in the US. It uses a variety of power structure research techniques to put together a topographical study of a fossil fuels network sitting at the core of a wider conservative network which sits at the core of the policy planning and opinion shaping processes. The connections between the core fossil fuels network and wider conservative policy network are examined at length. Using climate change denial as the case allows for the study of how a distinct industry— fossil fuels—can organize a faction which can help set the ideological agenda of the wider corporate and conservative networks. A power elite theoretical approach outlined by Domhoff is used, and the conclusions that may be drawn from this case study support the usefulness of that approach. I also find that the case at hand illustrates how Domhoff’s model may be extended and augmented in light of the strategic and tactical innovations employed by those in the climate change denial faction. Although elites have often tried—with varying levels of success—to employ at least a veneer of populist support in formulating policy, climate change denial employs a new level of sophistication in then fossil fuels’ faction’s long-term strategic planning and investment. This faction’s ability to wrest ideological control of much of the tea party movement and bring that party's policy aims into lie with its own allowed for the addition of a powerful populist element to the climate change denial tactical repertoire. Similarly, new secrecy techniques go far beyond those used by elites in the past, reflecting a new set of needs on the part of the individuals and groups involved in the policy network and necessitating the augmentation of the existing network with specialized entities.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Diante do estreitamento do horizonte emancipatório para uma parcela significativa da população brasileira, procuramos, neste estudo, descrever a história real destes muitos, para não dizer milhões, que acabaram condenados à margem de formas sociais, econômicas, estilísticas, consagradas pelos aparatos ideológicos que perpetuam e justificam a reprodução da racionalidade do capital como o único e exclusivo sistema social. Na contemporaneidade, a mercantilização da vida em sociedade e seu indissociável processo de descartabilidade marcam presença constante no cenário das médias e grandes cidades brasileiras. Perscrutando o campo exploratório, presenciamos grupos humanos cada vez mais desvinculados do sistema produtivo. Destituídos de qualidades aceitáveis circunscritas à esfera econômica e moral capitalista, figuram, apenas, como paisagem, apenas, como fragmentos do universo objetivo. Vidas em sobrestado permanente, confundidas e misturadas com o descartável, sem lugar no mundo produtivo, galgam a invisibilidade social. É esta incivilidade levada ao seu paroxismo chamada invisibilidade que, aqui, identificamos e trazemos à luz. Uma invisibilidade que se constrói não pelo olhar, mas num imaginário persistente que fixa a pobreza como marca de inferioridade, potencializando um modo de ser que descredencia indivíduos para o exercício de seus direitos e da vida social, já que percebidos numa diferença incomensurável, aquém das regras da equivalência, isto é, da alteridade que a formalidade da lei e o exercício dos direitos deveriam concretizar. É neste espaço de interpelação do outro que a invisibilidade se constitui. Ela habita o registro do impensável, do conflito com a ideia de essência, de alteridade que arbitra todas as formas de ser. O invisível surge como alguém que não É, provocação que incita o estranhamento, o que o torna assediado por um forte ranço moral que preserva a depreciação de tudo que perdeu o valor de uso. É assim decretada a sua tripla negação: desistoricizado, desumanizado e dessignificado, mesclado a um universo de contravalores que imobilizam a vida, tornando-o incodificável, um personagem inefável colocando em xeque toda a lógica da representação. Nossa proposta, com este trabalho, foi o de ir além de um trabalho documental, mas de constatação e denúncia, procurando ultrapassar visões reducionistas que naturalizam a pobreza e a miséria, reencontrando assim, nas mediações e contrapontos, as contradições fundas que conduzem muitos a invalidação social, cujas violações e mutilações, de toda ordem, prosperam a favor de uma ordem econômica que se apresenta desvinculada e independente de limites e de justificações morais / Given the narrowing of the emancipatory horizon for a significant portion of the Brazilian population, we seek in this study to describe the real story of these many, not to say millions, who ended up sentenced to the fringes of social, economic, stylistic forms enshrined by the ideological apparatuses which perpetuate and justify the reproduction of the rationality of capital as the only and exclusive social system. In contemporary times, the commodification of social life and its indissociable disposability process are constantly present in the scenario of medium and large Brazilian cities. By scrutinizing the exploratory field, we witness human groups being increasingly disconnected from the productive system. Devoid of acceptable qualities that are confined to the economic and moral capitalist sphere, they appear only as a landscape, just as fragments of the objective universe. Lives permanently halted, confused and mixed with the disposable, with no place in the productive world, reaching "social invisibility". It is this incivility taken to its paroxysm called "invisibility" that here we identify and bring to light. An "invisibility" which is built not by the look, but by a persistent imagery that sets poverty as a mark of inferiority, reinforcing a way of being that disqualifies individuals to exercise their rights and social life, perceived as an immeasurable difference below the rules of equivalence, i.e. the otherness that the formality of the law and the exercise of rights should achieve. It is through questioning each other that the "invisibility" is constituted. It abides in the records of the unthinkable, of the conflict with the idea of essence, of otherness that arbitrates all forms of "being". The invisible emerges as someone who ISNT, a provocation which encourages strangeness, which makes him harassed by a strong moral rancidity that preserves the depreciation of everything that has lost value. It is thus declared his triple denial: dishistoricized, dehumanized and insignificant, blended to a universe of countervalues which immobilize life, making him uncodifiable, an unfathomable character jeopardizing the entire logic of representation. Our proposal in this paper, was to go beyond a documentary work, but to verify and report, seeking to overcome reductionist views that naturalize poverty and misery, thus rediscovering, in mediations and counterpoints, the deep contradictions which lead many to social invalidation, whose violation and mutilation of all kinds thrive in favor of an economic order that appears detached and independent from limits and moral grounds

This thesis examines whether traditional air power theory complements counterinsurgency air power theory in kinetic counterinsurgency operations. The reason being that there is some discrepancy in the theories of how air power can be used in counterinsurgency. Winning a revolutionary war requires a graduated spectrum of violence; whereas, traditionally air power is characterized as only using the kinetic, hard power, end of that spectrum. The purpose is to test Robert Pape’s air power theory of military coercion by denial, motivated by the theory’s agreement with current research of air power in counterinsurgency. This thesis is a comparative case study examining two, similar and successful counterinsurgency operations, Operation Anaconda and Operation Medusa. Findings show that denial is quite prominent when direct support of ground forces occurs; whereas operational and strategic interdiction indicate low or no occurrence. This study strengthens the theory’s applicatory power in a counterinsurgency context, and suggests it can complement current research on counterinsurgency air power in kinetic usage. / <p><strong>Uppsatsen skriven VT 2017 under Termin 4 Officersprogrammet 15-18 med inriktning</strong><strong>mot flyg. Examen genomförs VT 2018.</strong></p>