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A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality, with every city centre a potential shooting gallery; every metro system a potential bomb alley. Killing Strangers explores how acts of political violence have changed over time, becoming 'unchained' from inter-personal relationships.

Detecting attacks targeted against military and commercial computer networks is a crucial element in the domain of cyberwarfare. The traditional method of signature-based intrusion detection is a primary mechanism to alert administrators to malicious activity. However, signature-based methods are not capable of detecting new or novel attacks. This research continues the development of a novel simulated, multiagent, flow-based intrusion detection system called MFIRE. Agents in the network are trained to recognize common attacks, and they share data with other agents to improve the overall effectiveness of the system. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) is the primary classifier with which agents determine an attack is occurring. Agents are prompted to move to different locations within the network to find better vantage points, and two methods for achieving this are developed. One uses a centralized reputation-based model, and the other uses a decentralized model optimized with stochastic search. The latter is tested for basic functionality. The reputation model is extensively tested in two configurations and results show that it is significantly superior to a system with non-moving agents. The resulting system, MFIRE-2, demonstrates exciting new network defense capabilities, and should be considered for implementation in future cyberwarfare applications.

AbstractWe compare the realised impact of terrorism and disasters linked to natural hazards. Using 50 years of data from two databases covering most of the global population, we find that natural hazard disasters were more than 20 times more impactful than terrorism. The former had a larger realised impact in all regions in both gross and per capita terms. The largest cross‐peril difference was in Asia, where natural hazard disasters took 324 million lifeyears, while terrorism took 10. Similar results were found across countries grouped by income status and development status. Low‐ and lower‐middle‐income countries bore the vast majority of the impact of both terrorism and natural hazard disasters. Given the multitude of prevalent global threats, our findings are relevant in the allocation of scarce public resources to mitigate and adapt. Our results suggest that significantly greater public spending should be applied to natural hazard disasters than terrorism.

AbstractIntelligent design is a pseudoscientific concept conceived in an attempt to bring religion-based teaching into the classroom. As such, it is involved in a constant struggle for dialogic space with the dominant scientific discourse of the theory of evolution. Here, we use a corpus linguistic approach to study how intelligent design discourse uses engagement to forward its creationistic propositions and at the same time limit the propositions of the theory of evolution. The results suggest that intelligent design discourse employs engagement far more frequently than evolutionary biology discourse, mainly to counter opposing propositions and to entertain its own proposition in their stead. The underdog position of ID obligates it to highly modulated engagement in order forward its position, which is ultimately aimed at changing the political decision-making related to the teaching of science.

In this study, we shall analyze the monolithic and idealized discourse of the ser nacional, which the regime imposed, in contrast to themore realistic and polyphonic vision of national identity as seen in the lyrics of Charly García's songs. Whereas the regime bombarded Argentines with rhetoric about obedient wives and daughters, in La Máquina songs, women are protagonists: heroines, goddesses, and dancers. García replaces the nineteenth-century "Angel of the home" proposed by the regime with his own angels: the independent women of the twentieth century. ; En este trabajo se analiza el discurso del ser nacional ideal, que el régimen militar intentaba imponer por la fuerza, en contraste con el ser nacional real que contraponían las letras de las canciones de Charly García. En contra del rol tradicional de esposas e hijas obedientes que se bombardeaba desde el discurso oficial, en las canciones de La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, las mujeres eran protagonistas: heroínas, diosas, y bailarinas. En lugar del "ángel del hogar" que proponía el Proceso, los "ángeles" en las canciones de García son las mujeres independientes del siglo XX. ; Este trabalho analisa o discurso do ser nacional ideal, que o regime militar argentino tentou impor pela força, em contraste com o ser nacional real que eles o verdadeiro ser nacional com o qual a letra das canções de Charly García contrastava. contra o papel tradicional das esposas obedientes e e filhas bombardeadas pelo discurso oficial, nas canções de La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, as mulheres foram protagonistas: heroínas, heroínas, deusas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas, heroínas. foram protagonistas: heroínas, deusas e dançarinas. Em vez do "anjo do lar" proposto pelo Processo, os "anjos" nas canções de García são as mulheres independentes do lar. As canções de García são as mulheres independentes do século 20.