The aim of the Thesis is to turn the debate about UAVs and compliance with the LOAC back and to suggest that we need to reconsider UAV warfare and the law at a more fundamental level. Placing the discussion within a larger understanding of the LOAC as a regime that has its own logic and dynamic, the Thesis looks at how the law conceives of war in its attempt to regulate the conduct of hostilities and how it articulates its ethical vision thereof. The Thesis articulates compliance with the LOAC on the basis of the inherent normativity of the law, as this emanates from the ethical assumptions of an armed confrontation and the humanity of the adversary. It examines the factual and normative space of war/armed conflict in the law and suggests that this is premised on the element of confrontation and permeated by notions of fairness as a component of its normativity, thus capturing the adversaries' opportunity to fight back in response or in defence. Understanding the LOAC as an 'other-directed' normative regime, the Thesis examines the constraints and limitations relating to the conduct of hostilities, and the choice of means and methods of warfare, are laid down as obligations or duties owed to one's human adversary. The above provides the theoretical framework within which the Thesis considers the 'extraordinary situation' where UAV warfare disrupts the implicit assumptions within which the law is embedded while UAVs' technical capabilities for surveillance and precision targeting continue to be recruited in defence of the drone under the LOAC. The Thesis demonstrates that humanity is the irreducible core of the LOAC, which means that the 'relevance' of the law as weapon technology evolves and introduces new patterns of wartime behaviour is bound up with the understanding that the human adversary is to retain and 'benefit' from the law's protection.

Il y a une forte demande économique et citoyenne pour l’ouverture des données individuelles. Cependant, la publication de telles données représente un risque pour les individus qui y sont représentés. Cette thèse s’intéresse à la problématique de l’anonymisation de tables de données multidimensionnelles contenant des données individuelles dans un objectif de publication. On se concentrera plus particulièrement sur deux familles d’approches pour l’anonymisation: la première vise à fondre chaque individu dans un groupe d’individus, la deuxième est basée sur l’ajout d’un bruit perturbateur aux données originales. Deux nouvelles approches sont développées dans le cadre de l’anonymisation par groupe, elles consistent à agréger les données à l’aide d’une technique de coclustering puis à utiliser le modèle produit, pour générer des enregistrements synthétiques, dans le cas de la première solution. La deuxième proposition quant à elle, cherche à atteindre le formalisme du k-anonymat. Enfin, nous présentons DPCocGen un nouvel algorithme d’anonymisation respectueux de la confidentialité différentielle. Tout d'abord, un partitionnement sur les domaines est utilisé pour générer un histogramme multidimensionnel bruité, un co-clustering multidimensionnel est ensuite effectué sur l'histogramme bruité résultant en un schéma de partitionnement. Enfin, le schéma obtenu est utilisé pour partitionner les données originales de manière différentiellement privée. Des individus synthétiques peuvent alors être tirés des partitions. / There is a strong economic and civic demand for the opening of individual data. However, the publication of such data poses a risk to the individuals represented in it. This thesis focuses on the problem of anonymizing multidimensional data tables containing individual data for publishing purposes. In particular, two data anonymization approaches families will be focused on: the first aims to merge each individual into a group of individuals, the second is based on the addition of disruptive noise to the original data. Two new approaches are developed in the context of group anonymization. They aggregate the data using a co-clustering technique and then use the produced model, to generate synthetic records, in the case of the first solution. While the second proposal seeks to achieve the formalism of k-anonymity. Finally, we present a new anonymization algorithm “DPCocGen” that ensures differential privacy. First, a data-independent partitioning on the domains is used to generate a perturbed multidimensional histogram, a multidimensional co-clustering is then performed on the noisy histogram resulting in a partitioning scheme. Finally, the resulting schema is used to partition the original data in a differentially private way. Synthetic individuals can then be drawn from the partitions.

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As IC technology moves into the deep submicrometer regime in high performance ULSI circuits, it is required to decrease the metal pitch and to increase the number of metal layers for interconnect to accommodate the increased packing density and functional complexity. But the signal propagation delay in the interconnect becomes an appreciable fraction of the total time delay. Use of low dielectric constant material (low-k) as the intermetal dielectric (IMD) results in low inter-line capacitance and therefore high performance in speed, low power dissipation, and low cross-talk noise. During various low dielectric materials, porous silica film is one of the possible candidates with an inherent low dielectric constant. In this thesis, the intrinsic properties such as fundamental physical, electrical, thermal stability of the spin on glass (SOG) have been investigated. We also study the properties of the SOG film with various plasma and treatments. An inherent low dielectric constant of 1.9 is achieved for high porosity of the porous silica film and the leakage current density keep at a level of ~10-9 A/cm2 at 1MV/cm electric field strength. After O2 plasma treatment, the Si-C and C-H bonds of the film are almost eliminated, thus the dielectric constant and leakage current are rapid increase than that of those untreated films. We find that H2 plasma can passivate the porous silica surface so that the leakage current can be kept at acceptable range, however, the dielectric constant increase slightly. Moreover, the etching issues were also investigated in this study. The mask undercutting on sidewall was observed due to the spontaneous reaction between the porous silca film and fluorocarnbon plasma. Therefore, H2 plasma treatment was provided to suppress this phenomenon. In this study, the intrinsic properties such as fundamental physical, electrical, and thermal properties of the porous silica have been investigated. The compatibility of the porous silica with integration processes also has been studied comprehensively. We have proposed H2 plasma treatments to improve the dielectric properties of porous silica after photoresist removal. Material and electrical analyses were used to interpret these improvements.

Following Hopkins and Singer, we give a definition for the differential equivariant K-theory of a smooth manifold acted upon by a finite group. The ring structure for differential equivariant K-theory is developed explicitly. We also construct a pushforward map which parallels the topological pushforward in equivariant K-theory. An analytic formula for the pushforward to the differential equivariant K-theory of a point is conjectured, and proved in the boundary case and for ordinary differential K-theory in general. The latter proof is due to K. Klonoff. / text

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (University of Texas Digital Repository, viewed on Sept. 17, 2009). Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Diss. no. 13441 techn. sc. SFIT Zurich, 1999. / Im Buchh.: Aachen : Shaker. Literaturverz.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-198).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1980. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-164).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-168).