京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第21742号 / 工博第4559号 / 新制||工||1711(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科都市社会工学専攻 / (主査)教授 CRUZ Ana Maria , 教授 矢守 克也, 准教授 松島 格也, 教授 山田 忠史 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DGAM

The problem that this dissertation engages with is how the self achieves moral status or worth. I aim to show that recognition, beginning with Hegel’s dialectical treatment of recognition, is necessary to the modern conception of the value status of the individual, and therefore that the latter must be understood, first, as the value status of the self. That is to say, there is no normative standing of the individual without the self experiencing itself as a being of intrinsic worth. Second, this experience is fully dependent upon others’ acknowledgment of our intrinsic worth. In sum, recognition is constitutive of the value status of the self. To show this requires an exposition of the full significance of the Hegelian conception of recognition that includes a demonstration of the radical meaning of “dependence” in this concept. The basic premise of the dissertation is that there is a problem in how modern subjects have come to interpret their value in accordance with its codification in the reigning legal and political documents of our time, in which the value of the person is stated as a fact, an immediate possession of the self. The supposed validity of this premise is further evidenced in dominant philosophical conceptions of dignity that go back to Kant. The central problem is the commitment to the seemingly factual or given nature of the normative standing of the individual, whatever the vicissitudes in the fate of groups and individuals, which are viewed as secondary phenomena. In arguing against this premise, the dissertation is divided into two broad parts. First, because of the complexity of the ingredients of recognition in a Hegelian viewpoint—where the status of selfhood and the normative standing of the self are entwined, and where both are dependent upon experiences of recognition and misrecognition—the major part of the dissertation is a step-by-step elaboration of what is involved in the constitution of the modern value status of the individual through recognition. Second, this step-by-step elaboration will reveal the ethical meaning of recognition in Hegel. In this, we draw on recent work by J.M. Bernstein in Critical Theory, which emphasizes the ethics in Hegelian thought. The dissertation will then turn to a discussion of a phenomenon today that not only exemplifies the problem of recognition in the modern concept of intrinsic value but also fully reveals the depth and meaning of dependence in the constitution of the self’s value status. This will be a discussion of disability. Our argument is therefore that Hegel’s conception of recognition provides a critical perspective on the apparent assurances and securities of modern subjects by bringing into question and bringing to light: (1) our dependence on others in the “possession” of our individual value status; (2) the normative vulnerability that is central to the possibility of our normative standing; and (3) the need to ground philosophical ethics in experiences of vulnerability. The project will not only argue for these three theses in detailed elaborations of their conceptual components. It will also consider the phenomenon of disability as a contemporary exemplar that reveals their importance.

Mobile device security presents a unique challenge in the realm of cyber security, one which is difficult to assess and ultimately defend. Mobile devices, like other computing devices, should possess a secure environment by which a mobile user may operate safely and securely. However, insecure coding when developing applications, incomplete assessment tools to determine platform/application security, and security shortcomings in the Android platform and mobile communications standards result in an insecure environment. This thesis presents an analysis of aspects of a Mobile Station to identify components that contribute to the attack surface. An investigation is conducted to highlight vulnerabilities at the Application, Communications, and Resource Layers. The thesis also identifies current efforts to assess and identify mobile vulnerabilities and weaknesses in application and system settings. Finally, an automated vulnerability assessment solution is developed and introduced in this thesis that can aid in combating potential threats to mobile security.

Much of southern Ontario relies on groundwater in fractured rock aquifers as a municipal drinking water source, thus the vulnerability of these sources is of importance from public health, economic, and environmental perspectives. Aquifer vulnerability assessments serve as visual communication tools useful in efficiently allocating resources for the establishment of new drinking water sources, hydrogeological characterization, and source water protection planning decisions. Examples of current vulnerability assessments include: DRASTIC, GOD, EPIK, AVI, COP and ISI. These vulnerability assessment methods either fail to quantitatively incorporate characteristics of fractured rock and preferential pathways, or they account for only heavily karstified areas; none are suited to the fractured rock formations in Ontario. The goal of this work is to incorporate fractured rock characteristics in a new aquifer vulnerability assessment method using readily attainable quantitative data to produce an inexpensive and straightforward regional aquifer vulnerability map highlighting hydrogeological areas that are more fundamentally prone to contamination than others. This proposed method is applied to the Acton-Georgetown study area in southern Ontario, along with the AVI and DRASTIC methods for comparison. The AVI and DRASTIC vulnerability assessments yield very different results from each other, and the proposed method demonstrates the heavy influence that fractured rock has on the vulnerability of the study area. The heterogeneity of variables used in some of the methods created difficulty in the interpolation of point data, rendering the use of generalized spatial data more valuable. These results and the corresponding limitations and recommendations for future improvements are discussed in light of these conclusions. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

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The current study explores the social construction of natural hazards vulnerability by examining the perceptions of emergency management personnel, homeless service providers and homeless men living in Central Florida. The matrix of vulnerability is proposed as a framework for studying disaster vulnerability, wherein vulnerability is viewed as a complex process consisting of social and physical risk, human agency and time. Using the matrix as a guiding framework, this study examines the risks that natural hazards present to the homeless living in Central Florida and the strategies used by the homeless to manage these risks. This study argues that because the homeless experience increased exposure to natural hazards coupled with potential chronic medical conditions, economic hardship, and social stigma, they are more vulnerable to natural hazards than the general population. However, this study finds that homeless men in Central Florida utilize a variety of strategies that help them manage their risks to severe and inclement weather in Central Florida.

This thesis is a biocultural analysis of the 1918 influenza pandemic among soldiers in the Polish army and the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) training in Canada. Using an ethnographic epidemiological method and a variety of archival sources, I explore the 1918 influenza pandemic and focus on the first two pandemic waves which occurred between 1 January and 31 December 1918. This research examines the impact of influenza at the Polish army camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, on soldiers treated in military hospitals across Ontario, and among recruits on troopships bound for Europe. The primary questions behind this thesis are: in what ways did the war effort intersect with pandemic influenza to affect soldiers in the Polish army camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, across Ontario, and on troopships bound for Europe? What patterns of morbidity and mortality characterize the first two waves of the pandemic in Ontario’s military hospitals? Were all soldiers equally vulnerable to infection and death from influenza? These questions are addressed in this ‘sandwich thesis’ in three papers which are either published or have been submitted for publication. Pandemic influenza and the war effort in Canada were intimately linked. At the Polish army camp, crowding was prevalent in all aspects of the soldiers’ lives and facilitated the spread of airborne infectious diseases, including influenza. Soldiers continued to be sent to Canada from infected cities in the U.S. throughout the fall wave of the pandemic. Similar events played out on troopships bound for Europe in the summer of 1918 where epidemics of influenza occurred on board, in spite of regulations established in the summer of 1918 to prevent troopships from transporting soldiers sick with influenza. These findings support Humphries’s (2005, 2012) assertion that the war effort took precedence over the health of individual soldiers and the surrounding community. On the other hand, military authorities put the Polish army camp under quarantine in the fall of 1918 and great efforts were made to ensure that sick soldiers were cared for during the epidemic. This close examination of the epidemic in a particular location suggests that military management of the influenza pandemic was complicated and was mediated by a variety of local factors. Previous experience with the influenza virus, and the overarching social perceptions of the disease, also tempered the way in which military authorities managed the pandemic. I compare the way in which military doctors treated CEF soldiers hospitalized with influenza to those hospitalized with venereal disease. I argue that whereas influenza was understood to be a ‘normal’ or ‘everyday’ infection that rarely killed young people in the prime of life (being most deadly to the very young and old), other infectious diseases, such as venereal diseases, were treated with lengthy stays in hospital in spite of the need for soldiers overseas. This highlights the way the social perception of disease affected the ways in which the military handled sick soldiers. This research also confirms the presence of the first wave of influenza among soldiers of the CEF in the spring and summer of 1918. The Admission and Discharge (A&D) records for military hospitals confirm that the first wave of pandemic influenza circulated among soldiers training in Ontario’s military camps between March and May of 1918. The second wave occurred between September and December that year. Mortality during the second wave was more severe, with a case fatality rate of 4.7% among hospitalized soldiers, more than double the rate of 2.3% from March to May. However, not all soldiers were equally vulnerable to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Morbidity and mortality were concentrated in the military district headquarters, and during the second wave, new recruits were more vulnerable to both infection and death than seasoned soldiers. I hypothesize that this is the result of cross-protection between successive waves of the pandemic, whereby seasoned soldiers were less vulnerable during the fall wave by virtue of exposure to the first wave of the pandemic in the military. Since new recruits were most likely conscripts, this is another way in which the war effort in Canada was linked to soldier morbidity and mortality. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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"Same Shit, Different Day" is a collection of three VR installations portraying short, looping animations. I am exploring routines and patterns I find myself and the people around me in to draw attention to the ways in which we mindlessly go through motions in our everyday life. / Master of Fine Arts / "Same Shit, Different Day" is a collection of three VR installations portraying short, looping animations. I am exploring routines and patterns I find myself and the people around me in to draw attention to the ways in which we mindlessly go through motions in our everyday life.

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