Ghost, Animal, Android: Trauma, Posthuman Ethics, and Radical Vulnerability in American Literature, 1940-2010 The dissertation argues that the literary topoi of the ghost, animal, and android function as ethical categories offering access to traces of trauma that operate beyond the boundaries of the human. The study revises the traditional argument that the literatures of trauma work to heal the victims of personal and cultural catastrophes by emphasizing work by William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, William Heyen, and Philip K. Dick that resists an oversimplified notion of healing and instead experiments with nonhuman models of subjectivity as means through which to manage open wounds. Able to register traumatic events at the very edge of understanding, canonical and popular depictions of the ghost, animal, and android disturb readers into an ethics of radical vulnerability, encouraging them to cross subjective and cultural thresholds and become vulnerable to the present but elusive pain of others.

O aumento da população em grandes centros urbanos, dos problemas ambientais, e as mudanças climáticas globais são alguns dos fatores que têm influenciado numa maior intensidade e a frequência de eventos extremos e de desastres naturais em todo o globo. A região sul do Brasil aparece como uma das mais afetadas, sofrendo com estiagens e inundações recorrentes. O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar o risco de inundação da bacia hidrográfica do arroio Feijó que sofre frequentemente com inundações. Baseia-se na abordagem metodológica do Índice de Vulnerabilidade, que contempla dados demográficos e sociais dos setores censitários (IBGE). Abrange áreas dos municípios de Porto Alegre, Alvorada e Viamão, no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Ao longo do período analisado, de 1980 a 2015, foram registradas 36 inundações em 19 anos, com a probabilidade de 53% ocorrência de um novo evento danoso a cada ano. Os meses com maior frequência são fevereiro setembro e outubro. Ainda que 63% dos anos com inundações tenham apontado atuação do fenômeno El Niño – Oscilação Sul, não é possível apontar influência direta dos mesmos nesses processos. Entendendo o risco como a relação do perigo ou ameaça de ocorrência de eventos adversos com a vulnerabilidade dos elementos expostos gerou-se a espacialização desses fatores e o mapa de risco de inundação. O perigo expressa a probabilidade quantitativa ou qualitativa de recorrência, abrangência, intensidade que ocorre o processo. Por meio da mancha de inundação de tempo de retorno de 100 anos, obteve-se o mapa de perigo. Os setores apontados com alto a muito alto perigo localizam-se nos bairros de Alvorada (Passo do Feijó, Umbu, Jardim Algarve e Americana) e Porto Alegre (Rubem Berta), apresentando de 50% a 80% das suas áreas com possibilidade de serem inundadas. O levantamento por meio do índice de vulnerabilidade proposto apontou os setores mais vulneráveis de toda a bacia em geral, bem como os que indicam qual população está mais exposta aos eventos adversos. Os municípios de Alvorada e Viamão foram os que apontaram mais setores com índice de elevado de vulnerabilidade. Setores que apontam baixo desenvolvimento social e baixa capacidade de enfretamento aos desastres. Por meio do mapa de risco, foram identificadas as áreas com baixo a muito alto riscos de inundação da BHAF, os setores censitários mais críticos, encontram-se nos bairros Passo do Feijó e Americana em Alvorada. A análise de risco demostra ser importante ferramenta para identificar áreas que necessitem maior atenção do poder público e investimentos em ações de proteção, prevenção e mitigação. A metodologia demonstrou ser eficaz, sendo de fácil execução, implementação e baixo custo. Pretende-se dessa forma, contribuir através desse estudo para uma gestão de riscos e desastres mais eficiente na área. / The increase in population in large urban centers, enviromental issues and global climate changes, among others factors, have increased the frequency and the intensity of extreme events and natural disasters across the globe and in this country. The south appears to be the most affected region, suffering from droughts and floods. This study aims to analyze the risks of flooding at the Feijo stream basin which often suffers from floods. The study is based on the methodological approach of the vulnerability index, which includes demographic and social data from the census tracts (IBGE). It covers areas of the municipalities of Porto Alegre, Alvorada e Viamão, at the Rio Grande do Sul state. Over the period analyzed, from 1980 to 2015, 36 floods were recorded in 19 years, with the probability of a 53% occurrence of a new damaging event each year. The most frequent months are February, September and October. Although 63% of the years with the occurrence of floods have also shown the occurrence of El Niño - South Oscillation phenomenon, it is not possible to indicate direct influence. Recognizing risk as the relation of danger or threat of adverse occurring events with the vulnerability of the elements exposed is how the spatialization of these factors and the flood risk map were generated. The hazard expresses the quantitative or qualitative probability of recurrence, extent, intensity in which the process occurs. By means of the 100-year return time flood spot the hazard map was obtained. The high-risk areas are located in the Alvorada (Passo do Feijó, Umbu, Jardim Algarve and Americana) and Porto Alegre (Rubem Berta) neighborhoods, pointing to 50% to 80% of these areas with the possibility of being flooded. The survey using the proposed Vulnerability index showed the most vulnerable sectors of the entire basin, as well as which population groups are most exposed to adverse events. The municipalities of Alvorada and Viamão were those that indicated more sectors with a high index of vulnerability. These are sectors that show low social development and low ability to cope with disasters. By means of the risk map, the areas with low to very high flood risks of BHAF (the most critical census tracts) were identified in the Passo do Feijó and Americana neighborhoods in Alvorada. The risk analysis proves to be an important tool to identify areas that need greater public attention and investments in protection, prevention and mitigation actions. The methodology proved to be effective, being to put into effect and implement, and at a low cost. The aim is to contribute through this study to a more efficient risk and disaster management in the area.

A presente tese buscou cartografar o plano de composição do projeto TOCCA-Terapia Ocupacional, Corpo, Cultura e as Artes, analisando como o mesmo é atravessado pelas forças das políticas sociais contemporâneas e suas relações com a produção de subjetividades cercadas pelos signos da vulnerabilidade. Desse modo, procurou visibilizar os discursos e imagens que se engendram pelo exercício singular de uma terapia ocupacional, apontando, criticamente, ações de intervenção que pudessem ainda estar ao lado do controle biopolítico, da adequação dos corpos e das condutas, enfim, dos microfacismos da inclusão, a fim de fortalecer práticas clínicas voltadas à afirmação de modos outros de viver, que deslocam o mundo das formas instituídas hegemonicamente e agenciam “mais vida”, biopoder. Este trabalho, assim, trata de um recorte nos processos de produção do TOCCA, procurando testemunhar seus encontros e, com isso, inaugurar outras narrativas possíveis. Constitui-se de uma cartografia que busca desenhar as diferentes experimentações que se fizeram e se fazem no desenho desta paisagem, sempre em movimento. E, ainda, fazer ver e dizer os agenciamentos do desejo e suas efetuações em ações, discussões e incursões do pensamento. Desse modo, seus trajetos dizem de um modo de proceder em terapia ocupacional junto a pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade e isolamento social e de suas problemáticas imanentes, mas também, dos limites de uma prática clínica e política vinculada a ações de ensino e às dinâmicas de ensino-aprendizagem, no que tange à profissionalização de terapeutas ocupacionais em práticas territoriais. Aponta, ainda, as dificuldades de sustentação de ações dentro de um projeto de extensão universitário com escassos recursos materiais e humanos, em um curso de graduação, ainda em estado de implantação. / The present thesis aimed to map the plan of composition of the Project TOCCA – Occupational Therapy, Body, Culture and Arts, analyzing how this project is transpassed by the forces of contemporary social politics and their relations with the production of the subjectivities surrounded by the signs of vulnerability. In this sense, we tried to highlight the discourses and images that engender themselves by the singular exercise of an occupational therapy, pointing out, in a critical way, actions of intervention that could be still by the side of the biopolitical control, by the adequation of bodies and behaviours. Finally, by microfacisms of the inclusion, with the purpose of strenghing clinical practices focused on the affirmation of different ways of living, which deslocate the world of forms established hegemonically and conduct “more life”, biopower. This work, thus, is about a cut in the processes of production of TOCCA, trying to testify its meetings and, with that, starting other possible narratives. It is a mapping that aims to draw the different experimentations that were present and are still present in the draw of this landscape, always in moviment. And, yet, making possible to see and say the conductions of desire and its effects in actions, discussions and incursions of thought. Thereby, its paths indicate a way of proceeding in occupational therapy together to people in situations of vulnerability and social isolation and of their immanent issues, but also, the limits of a clinical practice and politics related to teaching actions and the dynamics of teaching-learning, referring to the professionalisation of occupational therapists in territorial practices. It shows, moreover, the difficulties of supporting the actions inside a project of extension in the university with rare material and human resources, in an undergratuate course, in a state of implantation still.

Black-box web application vulnerability scanners are automated tools that are used to crawl a web application to look for vulnerabilities. These tools are often used in one of two ways. In the first approach, scanners are used as Point-and-Shoot tools where a scanner is only given the root URL of an application and asked to scan the site. Whereas, in the second approach, scanners are first configured to maximize the crawling coverage and vulnerability detection accuracy. Although the performance of leading commercial scanners has been thoroughly studied, very little research has been done to evaluate open-source scanners. This paper presents a feature and performance evaluation of five open-source scanners. We analyze the crawling coverage, vulnerability detection accuracy, scanning speed, report- ing and usability features. The scanners are tested against two well known benchmarks: WIVET and WAVSEP. Additionally, the scanners are tested against a realistic web application called WackoPicko. The chosen benchmarks are composed of a wide range of vulnerabilities and crawling challenges. Each scanner is tested in two modes: default and configured. Lastly, the scanners are compared with the state of the art commercial scanner Burp Suite Professional. Our results show that being able to properly crawl a web application is a critical task in detecting vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, the majority of the scanners evaluated had difficulty crawling through common web technologies such as dynamically generated JavaScript content and Flash applications. We also identified several classes of vulnerabilities that are not being detected by the scanners. Furthermore, our results show that scanners displayed considerable improvement when run in configured mode.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-03-16Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:23:43Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bovolato_le_dr_prud.pdf: 1892227 bytes, checksum: a9aeb196221c260182c29cb5bbb47456 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A água subterrânea é de grande importância em termos econômicos e de saúde pública, tanto em áreas urbanas como em zonas rurais. A expansão urbana e as atividades associadas, principalmente para aquelas cidades cujo abastecimento é feito exclusivamente a partir da captação subterrânea, têm provocado transformações físicas e químicas nas reservas de água subterrânea, principalmente porque os efeitos da ocupação territorial estão diretamente ligados ao suprimento de água potável e à prática de disposição de efluentes no solo. A variabilidade e a intensidade da poluição das águas subterrâneas guarda relação com a vulnerabilidade do aqüífero, com as características dos esgotos e do arranjo dos sistemas de saneamento. A degradação da qualidade da água subterrânea por sua vez impacta a disponibilidade de suprimento de água. Este trabalho permitiu analisar a qualidade das águas subterrâneas na cidade de Araguaína frente ao processo de expansão urbana, cidade esta desprovida de um sistema de esgotamento sanitário. Utilizando uma metodologia já consagrada na literatura para a estimativa da vulnerabilidade à contaminaçào de aquíferos, produziu-se uma carta de vulnerabilidade para a área urbana de Araguaína e seu entorno. Esta carta de vulnerabilidade à contaminação poderá ser utilizada como ferramenta auxiliar em estudos de ordenamento territorial e planejamento urbano. / Groundwater is a matter of great concern with regard to economic issues and public health such in urban areas as in agricultural zones. The urban expansion and the related activities, mainly for those cities whose supply is made exclusively from the underground withdrawal, have raised physical and chemical transformations in the underground water wells, mainly because the territorial occupation effects are directly related to drinkable water supply and the practice that discharge effluent into the ground. The groundwater pollution variability and intensity is related to the aquifer vulnerability, sewers features and sanitation systems arrangement. Consequently, the degradation of underground water quality impacts the water supply availability. In this paper was possible to analyze the underground water quality in Araguaína city according to the urban expansion process. Beside, this city doesn't have a sewage system. Using a well-known literature methodology to estimate the aquifer contamination wear point, it was developed a vulnerability chart to Araguaina urban area and its around. This chart of vulnerability to contamination could be used as an auxiliary tool in studies of territorial ordering and urban planning.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:46:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pereira_al_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1796366 bytes, checksum: 150d6f832bb26729e02d5ae71c78385a (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A pesquisa na Comunidade Mumbuca, situada na cidade de Mateiros no Estado do Tocantins tem como objetivo compreender a dinâmica das relações entre Estado (políticas públicas) e sociedade (Comunidade Mumbuca), no que se refere à identidade étnico-racial da comunidade, sua situação de vulnerabilidade social e insegurança alimentar e nutricional, bem como as políticas públicas desenvolvidas no período de 2003 a 2010. Verifica-se através da metodologia da pesquisa etnográfica, com a utilização dos instrumentos de coleta de dados baseados em entrevistas semiestruturadas, observação direta e formulário de investigação social que a comunidade habita esta localidade há mais de um século. Historicamente praticava uma economia de subsistência baseada na agricultura, na criação de animais e no extrativismo. O estudo verifica também que, no que se refere à insegurança alimentar e nutricional, a utilização da escala EBIA – Escala Brasileira de Insegurança Alimentar e Nutricional, permitiu averiguar o grau de insegurança alimentar leve, moderada e grave nos domicílios, atestando a não existência de um único domicílio em situação de segurança alimentar. As políticas públicas recentes, tais como a criação do Parque Estadual do Jalapão; o reconhecimento da comunidade como remanescente de quilombo e a potencialização da reorganização produtiva local em torno do capim dourado e do turismo vem impactando a cultura e organização da comunidade sem necessariamente melhorar a qualidade de vida da maioria desta população. A demora na titulação definitiva do território e a falta de equacionamento do conflito entre a área de preservação ambiental do Parque Estadual e da produção efetiva de alimentos das famílias, conforme a tradição e organização produtiva local têm agravado a situação de vulnerabilidade social dos moradores da comunidade / This research was made in Mumbuca Community, in the city of Mateiros in the State of Tocantins; we need to understand what the dynamics of relationships between state (public policy) and society (Mumbuca Community) in relation toethno-racial community, their situation social vulnerability and food insecurity and nutrition, as well as public policies developed in the period 2003 to 2010. It is through the methodology of ethnographic research with the use of instruments to collect some information based on semi-structured interviews, direct observation and form social research that the community this locality has a century more than. Historically practiced a subsistence economy based on agriculture, animal husbandry and harvesting.The study also notes that, in relation to food and nutrition insecurity, using the scale EBIA-Brazilian Scale of Food Insecurity and Nutrition, allowed to as certain the degree of food insecurity, moderate and severe inhouse holds, confirming the absence of in a singlehouseholdfood security situation. Recent publicpolicies, suchas the creation ofthe JalapãoState Park, the community's recognition as aremnant of Quilombo reorganization and enhancement of local production around the Capim Dourado and tourism is impacting the culture and organization of the community without necessarily improving the quality life of the majority of this population. The delay indefinitive titling of the territory and the lack of addressing the conflict between environmental preservation area of the State Park and the effective production of food by families, according to local tradition and organization of production have exacerbated the situation of socially vulnerable community residents

É objeto deste estudo a busca das pautas interpretativas a serem utilizadas para análise do contrato por adesão celebrado entre empresários. Habitualmente, os contratos celebrados por adesão são estudados na relação entre fornecedor e consumidor, havendo uma preocupação em evitar a abusividade. Contudo, tanto a adesividade quanto a abusividade podem estar presentes nas relações de direito privado comum e empresarial. Diante deste fato, busca-se, aqui, esclarecer as especificidades e diretrizes hermenêuticas do contrato formado por adesão entre estas duas partes que têm mesmo status jurídico, não havendo presunção legal de vulnerabilidade entre elas. / It is object of this study the search for interpretative guidelines to be used for analysis of the contract by adherence celebrated amongst business people. Usually, contracts celebrated by adherence are studied in the relation between supplier and consumer, having concern about avoiding abusiveness. However, both adherence and abusiveness may be present in the relations of common private law and corporate law. Before this fact, it is aimed here to clarify the specificities and hermeneutic guidelines of the contract formed by adherence between these two parts that have the same juridical status, not having legal presumption of vulnerability between them.

abstract: The electric power system is one of the largest, most complicated, and most important cyber-physical systems in the world. The link between the cyber and physical level is the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and Energy Management Systems (EMS). Their functions include monitoring the real-time system operation through state estimation (SE), controlling the system to operate reliably, and optimizing the system operation efficiency. The SCADA acquires the noisy measurements, such as voltage angle and magnitude, line power flows, and line current magnitude, from the remote terminal units (RTUs). These raw data are firstly sent to the SE, which filters all the noisy data and derives the best estimate of the system state. Then the estimated states are used for other EMS functions, such as contingency analysis, optimal power flow, etc. In the existing state estimation process, there is no defense mechanism for any malicious attacks. Once the communication channel between the SCADA and RTUs is hijacked by the attacker, the attacker can perform a man-in-middle attack and send data of its choice. The only step that can possibly detect the attack during the state estimation process is the bad data detector. Unfortunately, even the bad data detector is unable to detect a certain type of attack, known as the false data injection (FDI) attacks. Diagnosing the physical consequences of such attacks, therefore, is very important to understand system stability. In this thesis, theoretical general attack models for AC and DC attacks are given and an optimization problem for the worst-case overload attack is formulated. Furthermore, physical consequences of FDI attacks, based on both DC and AC model, are addressed. Various scenarios with different attack targets and system configurations are simulated. The details of the research, results obtained and conclusions drawn are presented in this document. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2015

abstract: In the American Southwest, an area which already experiences a significant number of cooling degree days, anthropogenic climate change is expected to result in higher average temperatures and the increasing frequency, duration, and severity of heat waves. Climatological forecasts predict heat waves will increase by 150-840% in Los Angeles County, California and 340-1800% in Maricopa County, Arizona. Heat exposure is known to increase both morbidity and mortality and rising temperatures represent a threat to public health. As a result there has been a significant amount of research into understanding existing socio-economic vulnerabilities to extreme heat which has identified population subgroups at greater risk of adverse health outcomes. Additionally, research has shown that man-made infrastructure can mitigate or exacerbate these health risks. However, while recent socio-economic heat vulnerability research has developed geospatially explicit results, research which links it directly with infrastructure characteristics is limited. Understanding how socio-economic vulnerabilities interact with infrastructure systems is a critical component to developing climate adaptation policies and programs which efficiently and effectively mitigate health risks associated with rising temperatures. The availability of cooled space, whether public or private, has been shown to greatly reduce health risks associated with extreme heat. However, a lack of fine-scale knowledge of which households have access to this infrastructure results in an incomplete understanding of the health risks associated with heat. This knowledge gap could result in the misallocation of resources intended to mitigate negative health impacts associated with heat exposure. Additionally, when discussing accessibility to public cooled space there are underlying questions of mobility and mode choice. In addition to captive riders, a growing emphasis on walking, biking and public transit will likely expose additional choice riders to extreme temperatures and compound existing vulnerabilities to heat. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Civil Engineering 2016

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