HTML clipboardThis study is about Homeowner’s architectural responses to crime in Dar es Salaam Tanzania: its impacts and implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management. The study explores and examines the processes through which homeowners respond to crimes of burglary, home robbery and fear of it using architectural or physical elements. The processes are explored and examined using case study methodology in three cases in Dar es Salaam. The cases are residential areas of Mikocheni B, Ilala Kasulu and Chang’ombe Housing. The findings from the three cases are compared and the common findings are illuminated and discussed using criminology, economic and social theories and concepts. The results of the study show that, homeowners physically and architecturally modify their home environments for many reasons. Homeowners do so by building or erecting wall fences around their houses and install or barricade doors and windows using metal bars. From the study, the notable main reasons are security and protection from burglary, thefts, home robbery and visual and physical privacy. Others include property marking, disputes and misunderstandings between neighbours and property encroachment by neighbours. In the study, it has been established that, the actions by the homeowners in responding to crime of burglary, thievery and home robberies have impacts and implications on the built environment. The impacts are: affects the visual experience of the built form by limiting view to houses; keeps neighbours apart thus limiting social interaction among residents; segregating public spaces and thus making them empty without people; encroaching on the streets; reducing surveilability of streets and neighbouring dwellings; create the impression of ‘private appearance’ therefore stigmataizing the residential neighbourhoods, all of which increase the vulnerability of areas as well as enhancing the ‘subjective’ feeling of fear in the areas. Furthermore, the responses pose risks to residents when fire evacuation from homes is required, including the effects that affect the environmental comfort conditions of homes and the overall built environment. Despite of the impacts to the built environment as summarised in the foregoing, the study has shown that, homeowners still erect wall fences and barricade their homes due to fear arising from previous crimes. On the basis of the impacts, a new approach to planning of residential housing areas is recommended in which the question of security against crime is included as design factor particularly in urban design. Either an approach to architectural design of houses and the layout of houses that considers crime as an important factor in addition to ‘target hardening’ approach is recommended to increase visibility and surveilability of built environments. The study concludes by highlighting five implications to urban architecture, urban design and urban management at planning and architectural design, considerations which may be of impacts towards improving built environment and management of the urban residential arena. The study ends by outlining and recommending areas of further research. / QC 20100706

<p>It is not unusual that software systems are redeveloped when the systems environment changes or new requirements to functionality are found. The reason for this is that system evolution is usually not considered during the initial development of a system.</p><p>In this report we propose a development process focusing on modifiability in security-safety critical systems. The process is based on the standard IEC 61508 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems and the CORAS framework for model-based risk assessment. We focus on integrating modifiability as a non-functionality and extend the development process with an architecture and design phase. Modifiability is addressed using Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) and Attribute Driven Design (ADD). An evaluation of this process is given by redeveloping a prototype for an already existing security-critical system using the approaches given by the process. The main result from the evaluation showed that we where able to obtain a higher level of modifiability than the original prototype, without compromising the functionality and safety level required.</p>

It is not unusual that software systems are redeveloped when the systems environment changes or new requirements to functionality are found. The reason for this is that system evolution is usually not considered during the initial development of a system. In this report we propose a development process focusing on modifiability in security-safety critical systems. The process is based on the standard IEC 61508 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems and the CORAS framework for model-based risk assessment. We focus on integrating modifiability as a non-functionality and extend the development process with an architecture and design phase. Modifiability is addressed using Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) and Attribute Driven Design (ADD). An evaluation of this process is given by redeveloping a prototype for an already existing security-critical system using the approaches given by the process. The main result from the evaluation showed that we where able to obtain a higher level of modifiability than the original prototype, without compromising the functionality and safety level required.

My essay is about the importance of attachment during the introduction to the preschool. In my story I take a closer look at three children’s different reactions during and after the introduction. To start preschool is a big step in life where the child is exposed to a new environment and needs to adapt to new, unknown adults. Therefor it is in my interest to explore how this new environment affects the child during its first time in preschool. Each introduction and experience thereof are individual, but why is that? The purpose of my bachelor thesis is to find out the significance of the attachment as a basis for a good base for the children when they start preschool. In my essay I reflect on the attachment theory and what it means. I will focus on how parents affect the child and how we can cooperate with the parents to make the induction as good as possible for the child. I will also examine how the preschool organization and environment affects the pedagogue’s possibilities to create a safe environment for the children and their parents. In my exploration I have gathered information from other sources and literature, for instance John Bowlby, the author of A secure base. John Bowlby is considered the founder of attachment theory and has done research on the topic and written several books. The method I have used is process writing, which means I reflect on my story as a way to develop and improve continuously as I write my essay. I have read Essäskrivande som utforskning by Lotte Alsterdal where she explains reflection as a method to explore your experiences on a deeper level and this way learn more about a specific situation. The meetings with my tutor and students in my class are also a great access and support on the journey that is my master thesis. Together we reflect on our process writing and I get to hear the interpretation of others in regard to my work, helping me develop the way I think and write and reflect on the matter. During my work I have concluded that attachment is of significant importance. The new environment in preschool and the way it affects the pedagogue’s way of treating the child will create the foundation for the child’s continued time in preschool.

The diploma thesis deals with an application of information security management system in the organization of public administration and local government. It defines important terms and describes the best practices which are compliant with the ISO/IEC 27000. It contains draft of security manual that can be used as an organization tool for human resources security, IT and physical and environmental security of the organization.

La problématique de cette thèse se centre sur la manière dont plusieurs textes de fiction, évoquant des événements emblématiques des années 1976-2001, représentent la loi à travers ses effets discursifs. Lors de l’analyse des effets discursifs de la représentation de la loi dans les textes de fiction certaines questions s’imposent : de quelle manière le discours littéraire configure-t-il les frontières entre l’espace public et l’espace privé, caractérise les espaces rendus visibles ou invisibles, fait apparaître les énoncés refoulés, décrit les individus auxquels il confère la légitimité d'exercer le pouvoir et ceux qui s'y trouvent marginalisés ou définis en tant que criminels. Tous ces éléments sont les effets discursifs de la loi qui non seulement la représentent mais dénotent les intérêts qui l'ont dictée. Nous centrons notre étude sur la représentation de la loi qui dicte la limite interne de l’État évoquée par Michel Foucault dans son concept de biopolitique. Nous analysons différents romans qui abordent les moments les plus représentatifs de la période de notre recherche : la répression militaire, la guerre des Malouines, le retour à la démocratie, l’instauration du néolibéralisme et enfin la crise de 2001. Les romans de Daniel Moyano, El vuelo del tigre, de Rodolfo Fogwill, Los pichiciegos, de Juan Martini, El fantasma imperfecto, de Claudia Piñeiro, Las viudas de los jueves, de Juan Martini, Colonia, et de Pedro Mairal, El año del desierto, guident notre recherche car ils représentent, à travers ses effets discursifs, l’exception de la loi en place. Sur le plan théorique, les conceptualisations de Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben et Andrea Cavalletti sur la violence, la biopolitique, l’état d’exception et la sécurité nous permettent d’analyser le lien entre le texte littéraire et le moment historique. / The central issue of this dissertation focuses on the manner in which several fictional texts, evoking events emblematic of the years 1976-2001, represent the law through their discursive effects. In the process of analyzing the discursive effects of the representation of the law in these fictional texts, certain questions must be posed: in which way does literary discourse configure the borders between public and private space, how does it characterize the spaces made visible or invisible, bring repressed statements to the surface, describe the individuals to whom it bestows the right to exercise power and those who there find themselves marginalized or defined as criminals. All of these elements are the discursive effects of the law that not only represent the law, but also denote the interests that have dictated it. We are centering our study on the representation of the law that dictates the internal boundary of the State evoked by Michel Foucault in his concept of biopolitics. We will analyze different novels that address the most representative moments of the period of our research: the military repression, the Falklands War, the return to democracy, the establishment of neoliberalism and finally the crisis of 2001. The novels of Daniel Moyano, El vuelo del tigre, Rodolfo Fogwill, Los pichiciegos, Juan Martini, El fantasma imperfect, Claudia Piñeiro, Las viudas de los jueves, Juan Martini, Colonia, and Pedro Mairal, El año del desierto, will guide our research since they represent, through their discursive effects, the exception to the law in place. The theoretical ideas of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Andrea Cavalletti regarding violence, biopolitics, the state of exception, and security will allow us to analyze the relationship between literary text and historical moment.