321,317 research outputs found
Investigating the ‘empire of secrecy’ — three decades of reporting on the secret state
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University LondonIt has often been argued that journalism has been the most effective means of holding the intelligence services to account in western democracies. This thesis examines whether that proposition holds true in the United Kingdom and if so, whether such oversight has been consistent. Accountability by the news media is compared with the expanding range of UK official oversight mechanisms. The author utilises a body or work from over three decades of reporting on the intelligence services and further research on accountability to examine these questions. The author suggests this work is timely, given the controversy prompted by the former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, who leaked a substantial archive of secret intelligence documents. This thesis concludes that the news media were often effective, if not consistent, in bringing intelligence to account in the second half of the 20th century. Since the start of the 21st century monitoring the secret state has become more challenging as a result of a changing economic, global and national political environment. Government legislation and technology makes it increasingly difficult for journalists to obtain confidential sources and then undertake their Fourth Estate role. Finding new methodologies is an urgent task for journalists, as history reveals that if intelligence agencies operate without scrutiny from outside government, abuses take place. Never before has government and its intelligence services had such powers and techniques of invasive mass surveillance available, and thus the potential to control the population and particularly those who dissent
Effects of the dominant in Secret Window.
No full textThis paper seeks to identify and examine 'problematic' aesthetic strategies in David Koepp's Secret Window (2004). Arguing that the film fits into a specific 'puzzle film' category favouring self-deceiving protagonists and surprise twists, the paper seeks to account for the negative critical reaction accrued by the film's denouement. Most centrally, I invoke the Russian Formalist's concept of the 'dominant' in order to suggest how Secret Window subordinates textual elements to the film's narrative revelation. It is this prioritising of the main plot twist that accounts for many of the film's dramaturgically contentious tactics. The paper demonstrates the means by which Secret Window cuts against the grain of Hollywood storytelling norms; it suggests that the film manipulates character engagement in a way that exceeds the puzzle film's traditional reshuffling of sympathies; and it indicates how the film deploys generic convention and allusion to engender a highly self-conscious and repressive narration. These arguments aim to show that the film displays bold and sophisticated aesthetic strategies. More broadly, the paper argues that by analysing problematic examples of a film genre, we can usefully disclose the aesthetic principles that underpin the genre's more successful films
New Design for Friendly Visual Secret Sharing
No full textNSC101-2221-E-032-047Different from conventional cryptography, visual cryptography is an image cryptographic technique proposed by Naor and Shamir. It encodes a secret image into n pieces of noise-like shares. When k or more than k pieces of shares are gathered from participants, human visual system will disclose the secret image on the stacked image easily. Neither complicated mathematical computation nor any knowledge of cryptography is needed are the main advantages of visual secret sharing. In this paper, we propose a new design for friendly visual secret sharing. The secret will be hiding into two meaningful shares. The black-appearing ratio in each block of the shares for the corresponding black (rep. white) secret pixel is the same. Therefore, it is impossible for one to disclose any information related to the secret image on each share, which achieves the goal of improving security. When shares are superimposed, the contours of the cover image will disappear on the stacked image, which will only reveal the secret image. According to our experimental results, the contrasts of the shares or the stacked images are good which can reveal the contents of the cover images and the secret image clearly.國際20140402~20140404電子版YNagoya, Japa
Cusano e Galileo
No full textSecret François. Cusano e Galileo. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 170, n°1, 1966. pp. 101-102
E. Droz. Chemins de l'hérésie, t. III
No full textSecret François. E. Droz. Chemins de l'hérésie, t. III. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 190, n°2, 1976. pp. 206-207
Tamper-proof secret image-sharing scheme for identifying cheated secret keys and shared images
No full textA (t,n) secret image-sharing scheme shares a secret image to n participants, and the t users recover the image. During the recovery procedure of a conventional secret image-sharing scheme, cheaters may use counterfeit secret keys or modified shared images to cheat other users’ secret keys and shared images. A cheated secret key or shared image leads to an incorrect secret image. Unfortunately, the cheater cannot be identified. We present an exponent and modulus-based scheme to provide a tamper-proof secret image-sharing scheme for identifying cheaters on secret keys or shared images. The proposed scheme allows users to securely select their secret key. This assignment can be performed over networks. Modulus results of each shared image is calculated to recognize cheaters of a shared image. Experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme is excellent at identifying cheated secret keys and shared images.國外SCIY紙本電子版US
What is Othello’s Secret?
No full textExplicitly written from the perspective of a second-generation British Cypriot, this article examines the relevance of Shakespeare’s Othello to the modern troubles of Cyprus. Drawing on the recurrent imperialist and nationalist struggles to control Cyprus, in Shakespeare’s day and our own, the article explains how the author’s upcoming book, Othello’s Secret: The Cyprus Problem, radically reinterprets the domestic and military tensions of Othello as precursors to the island’s more recent wars and divisions. Insight into the way an English writer in the early modern period understood Cyprus can contribute to the way scholars in the British academy understand the bard both in his context and in ours. Consequently, the article challenges the conventional Anglophone scholarly focus on Venice, highlighting a surprising academic blindspot given Britain’s historical and ongoing colonial presence on Cyprus. In so doing, it reframes Othello as a play about Cyprus, offering a more personal account of how research on Shakespeare can purposefully contribute to geopolitical debates
From Exclusivity to Inclusivity: The Victoria's Secret Rebranding
No full textopenNel panorama contemporaneo, i brand non sono più entità statiche, ma devono adattarsi costantemente ai cambiamenti culturali, sociali ed economici per rimanere competitivi.
Come si vedrà nel primo capitolo, il rebranding rappresenta una delle strategie più efficaci per rispondere a queste sfide, consentendo alle aziende di ridefinire la propria identità e riconquistare il pubblico. A partire da questo contesto, la pubblicità gioca un ruolo cruciale: promuove i prodotti, comunica i valori del brand e ne influenza la percezione da parte dei consumatori. Si vedrà ancora che il modo in cui le aziende comunicano è in continua evoluzione, influenzato dall’opinione pubblica e dai nuovi mezzi di comunicazione, compresi i social network.
Il caso emblematico di riferimento in questo elaborato è il fenomeno Victoria’s Secret, uno dei brand di lingerie più celebri al mondo, che per anni ha costruito il suo successo su un modello di comunicazione tradizionale, basato su un’estetica iperfemminile, ipersessualizzata e su ideali di bellezza esclusivi, come sarà evidente del secondo capitolo. Negli ultimi anni, il marchio ha affrontato una profonda crisi, sia per le critiche sulla sua mancanza di inclusività, sia per la sua incapacità di adattarsi ai nuovi valori promossi dal pubblico. Inevitabile, dunque, per Victoria’s Secret avviare un processo di rebranding, volto a ridefinire la sua immagine e a recuperare il consenso delle consumatrici.
Tale cambiamento però potrebbe non essere stato autentico, realmente vicino al pubblico, ma semplicemente una strategia di marketing. Il concetto di woke washing, ovvero l’adozione superficiale di tematiche sociali per fini commerciali, è oggi al centro del dibattito sulle nuove strategie comunicative, come si capirà nel terzo capitolo.
Questa tesi analizza il caso di Victoria’s Secret per comprendere come il rebranding possa influenzare la percezione di un marchio, esaminando le strategie adottate, le reazioni del pubblico e le implicazioni etiche della comunicazione aziendale nell’era dell’inclusività
E. Droz. Chemins de l'hérésie, t. III
No full textSecret François. E. Droz. Chemins de l'hérésie, t. III. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 190, n°2, 1976. pp. 206-207
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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