Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-13T13:53:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberta Dias Tarpinian de Castro.pdf: 1693367 bytes, checksum: 3691b326ea1d54e5410c06cccc605fe5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-13T13:53:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberta Dias Tarpinian de Castro.pdf: 1693367 bytes, checksum: 3691b326ea1d54e5410c06cccc605fe5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-08 / The present paper has the purpose of analyzing the reasons why the incident of disregard doctrine established in the cognizance phase has a preventive function. In order to reach the aimed conclusion, the paper will analyze the disregard doctrine by the material aspect, studying why an institute of procedural law, which seeks to eliminate the autonomy of assets existing between a legal entity and its members, preventing third parties from receiving credits for which they are entitled (financial loss), can be set up at a procedural moment where there is still no credit (cognizance phase) / O presente trabalho tem a finalidade de analisar as razões pelas quais o incidente de desconsideração da personalidade jurídica instaurado na fase de conhecimento tem função cautelar. Para chegar à almejada conclusão, o trabalho analisará a desconsideração da personalidade jurídica pelo prisma material, estudando porque um instituto de direito processual, que visa afastar a autonomia patrimonial existente entre pessoa jurídica e seus integrantes, evitando que terceiros deixem de receber créditos aos quais tem direito (prejuízo financeiro), pode ser instauração em um momento processual em que ainda não há crédito (fase de conhecimento)

Consumers acquire products to enhance their lives, but the happiness from these acquisitions generally decreases with the passage of time. This process of hedonic adaptation plays an integral role in post-acquisition consumer satisfaction, product disposal and replacement behavior, and the "hedonic treadmill" that partially drives the relationship between consumption and happiness. Humans are social animals, however, and we know little about the relationship between the social environment and hedonic adaptation. My dissertation addresses this gap by exploring the moderating role of social presence (Essay 1) and self-concepts (Essay 2) on hedonic adaptation to products. Essay 1 explores how social presence affects hedonic adaptation to products. Research on general happiness has shown that significantly positive life events tend to maintain their positivity for longer periods of time when they involve active social interactions. I examine a more common situation in the domain of product consumption, i.e., the presence of others during consumption, and test whether hedonic adaptation to products is moderated by public contexts. By tracking happiness with products over time, I show that a "social audience" (i.e., the presence of others and the perception that those others notice the consumer) moderates hedonic adaptation through a consumer's inference of the social audience perspective. Inferring that the social audience is admiring one's product slows down adaptation, and inferring that the social audience is negatively viewing one's product accelerates adaptation. Essay 2 explores the role the identity-relevance of a product plays in hedonic adaptation. Extant research illustrates that consumers avoid consuming identity-inconsistent products in order to avoid dissonance arising from product choices conflicting with important self-concepts. I show that dissonance can also arise from consuming identity-consistent products because of the force of hedonic adaptation. I provide evidence that consumers feel uncomfortable experiencing declining happiness with identity-consistent products and thus resist hedonic adaptation to such products in order to resolve the dissonance. / text

<p>Can a critical industrial system, such as a nuclear reactor, be made self-aware and cognizant of its operational history? Can it alert authorities covertly to malicious intrusion without exposing its  defense  mechanisms?  What  if  the  intruders  are  highly  knowledgeable  adversaries,  or  even  insiders that may have designed the system? This thesis addresses these research questions through a novel physical process defense called Covert Cognizance (C2). </p> <p>C2  serves  as  a  last  line  of  defense  to  industrial  systems  when  existing  information  and  operational technology defenses have been breached by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors or insiders. It is an active form of defense that may be embedded in an existing system to induce intelligence,  i.e.,  self-awareness,  and  make  various subsystems  aware  of  each  other.  It  interacts with the system at the process level and provides an additional layer of security to the process data therein without the need of a human in the loop. </p> <p>The C2 paradigm is  founded on two core requirements – zero-impact and zero-observability. Departing from contemporary active defenses, zero-impact requires a successful implementationto leave no footprint on the system ensuring identical operation while zero-observability requires that the embedding is immune to pattern-discovery algorithms.  In other words, a third-party such as  a  malicious  intruder  must  be  unable  to  detect  the  presence  of  the  C2  defense  based  on  observation of the process data, even when augmented by machine learning tools that are adept at pattern discovery. </p> <p>In the present work, nuclear reactor simulations are embedded with the C2 defense to induce awareness across subsystems and defend them against highly knowledgeable adversaries that have bypassed existing safeguards such as model-based defenses.  Specifically, the subsystems are made aware  of  each  other  by  embedding  critical information from  the  process  variables  of  one sub-module  along  the  noise of  the  process  variables  of  another,  thus  rendering  the  implementation  covert and  immune  to  pattern  discovery.   The  implementation  is  validated  using  generative adversarial  nets,  representing  a  state-of-the-art  machine  learning  tool,  and  statistical  analysis  of  the  reactor  states,  control  inputs,  outputs  etc. The  work  is  also  extended  to  data  masking  applications  via  the  deceptive  infusion  of  data  (DIOD)  paradigm.  Future  work  focuses  on  the  development of automated C2 modules for “plug ‘n’ play” deployment onto critical infrastructure and/or their digital twins.</p>

Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-16T18:23:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas Oliveira.pdf: 365301 bytes, checksum: d1e2ec1453276f564fcbb9f188c6744f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Meirelles(rodrigomei@ufba.br) on 2013-05-09T17:31:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas Oliveira.pdf: 365301 bytes, checksum: d1e2ec1453276f564fcbb9f188c6744f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-09T17:31:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lucas Oliveira.pdf: 365301 bytes, checksum: d1e2ec1453276f564fcbb9f188c6744f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo principal examinar os reflexos, no Direito Processual do Trabalho, das mudanças pelas quais tem passado o ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, no que concerne ao princípio do duplo grau de jurisdição. Para tanto, será feito uma explanação sobre os componentes epistemológicos do direito processual, com influxos metodológicos, ideológicos e constitucionais. Em seguida, estuda-se sobre a teoria do Processo do Trabalho, observando-se sua autonomia e os princípios processuais. Ato contínuo, investiga-se o princípio do duplo grau de jurisdição de maneira geral, trabalhando-se suas características em sentido amplo. Na seqüência, serão feitas considerações com enfoque dogmático sobre o objetivo de conhecimento pelo tribunal, para tanto serão necessários compreender os conceitos de causa de pedir, pedidos questões, efeito devolutivo e juízo de admissibilidade aplicados a demanda e aos recursos. O ponto nuclear, todavia, está ao final, consubstanciando-se no estudo do princípio do duplo grau de jurisdição no Processo do Trabalho com respectivas conseqüências como o julgamento imediato do mérito pelo tribunal e os reflexos deste nos ritos sumário e sumaríssimo. / Salvador

This thesis specifically focuses on the professional practices and training of Western industrial designers using postcolonial theory to inform working practices in a complex global ecology. It investigates the culturally hegemonic construction of design solutions in man-made products. By adopting key ideas from postcolonial and cultural studies as a lens to evaluate fields of industrial design discourse, practice and pedagogy, the work proceeds from the premise that design is not intrinsic to a product but the result of a myriad different forces and factors acting on it externally including hegemonic potencies. By reinterpreting technological formations in light of research emerging from post-colonial studies, it attempts to broaden our intellectual understanding of how product design in theory, practice and education can often rely upon western [hegemonic] aesthetic and deep cultural archetypes. The purpose of this enquiry is to highlight the potentials that exist to explore a synergy between east and west in industrial design with a prospective vision for global, trans-cultural design. The research claims that current design practice often leads to culturally determined - rather than universal - conceptions in design and it attempts to re-conceptualise design as practice within a necessarily hegemonic culture. This hegemony needs to be acknowledged and redressed via increased awareness and changes to the intellectual heritage and autonomy of West European and American industrial design, in its dialogue, practice and education. As an epistemological project to identify knowledge within this discourse, it suggests new methodological and strategic approaches to engage with the crisis the discipline faces in light of globalisation so as to open up future discussions in design discourse and give a voice to the many silences that make up the noise of the world. It attempts to: • Further understand the trajectory of hegemony and globalisation in relation to design, technology and culture. • Critically engage with cross- and trans-cultural, global and social design implications. • Address the discrepancies between designers’ culture and users’ culture, to expose the necessity for more culturally-cognizant design practice and pedagogic provision. The research was initiated by identifying a number of questions that designers and users may consciously or subconsciously confront when faced with products that problematise the imagined universal values of designed products in terms of gender and culture. It explores how certain design solutions produced and developed in the west and their diffusion into global, international markets and foreign cultures could affect those cultures by asking in what ways the usability, aesthetic and symbolic characteristics of these artefacts often unwittingly contribute to the privilege or marginalisation of people from particular socio-cultural backgrounds. The thesis intervention is that product designers are neither explicitly trained to comprehend nor surmount their respective cultural constraints and design education both nationally and internationally is not sufficiently equipped with the tools to acknowledge and confront this. The key arguments presented in this thesis are: 1. Products can often be deconstructed to identify cultural connotations or omissions in their design. 2. Global, a-cultural design and universal usability are fallacies that frequently deny the existence of an underlying cultural hegemony at play. 3. Mass-produced products can gradually homogenise and eradicate cultural diversity contributing to the negative effects of colonialist attitudes and/or globalisation. 4. Academia and educational institutions have the potential to extend awareness in this field to inform and train future designers and graduates to better advance design obligations in global, trans-cultural, cross-cultural and multicultural contexts.