Search for dissertations about: "secrecy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 45 swedish dissertations containing the word secrecy.

  2. 1. The Mediated Representation of the Super-Rich : Secrecy, Wealth Taxation and the Tensions of Neoliberal Capitalism

    Author : Axel Vikström; Göran Eriksson; Åsa Kroon; Fredrik Stiernstedt; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; The super-rich; capitalism; neoliberalism; wealth inequality; critical discourse analysis; ideology; media; secrecy; wealth taxation;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the wealthiest apex of the capitalist class, a segment commonly referred to as ‘the super-rich’, is represented in Swedish legacy newspapers. As decades of neoliberal reforms have paved the way for increasing wealth concentration at the very top, the super-rich has emerged as both a material and discursive phenomenon. READ MORE

  4. 2. Information-theoretic Privacy and Secrecy in Biometric Identification and Authentication

    Author : Linghui Zhou; Tobias J. Oechtering; Mikael Skoglund; Hideki Yagi; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Information theory; identification; authentication; privacy; secrecy; Informationsteori; identifiering; autentisering; integritet; sekretess; Electrical Engineering; Elektro- och systemteknik;

    Abstract : Nowadays, biometrics are more and more deployed to reinforce traditional authentication or identification that uses keys, passwords, etc. Biometric identification and authentication have been studied from various information-theoretic perspectives, where privacy and secrecy are two important aspects. READ MORE

  5. 3. Secrecy in Cognitive Radio Networks

    Author : Frederic Gabry; Mikael Skoglund; Merouane Debbah; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Electrical Engineering; Elektro- och systemteknik;

    Abstract : With the considerable growth of wireless networks in recent years, the issue of network security has taken an important role in the design of communication devices and protocols. Indeed, due to the broadcast nature of these networks, communications can potentially be attacked by malicious parties, and therefore, the protection of transmitted data has become a main concern in today's communications. READ MORE

  6. 4. MAKING ACQUISITIONS

    Author : Michael Grant; Fredrik Nilsson; Lars Frimanson; Riikka Sarala; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; acquisition-making; acquisition organization; capital investment; decision; decision-making; intuitive expertise; management control systems; merger and acquisition; secrecy; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis examines acquisition-making, that is, activities and events leading up to the completion or cancellation of an acquisition. Acquisition-making involves people, from various areas of expertise, who are managed by and organized in what in this thesis is called a professional acquisition organization (PAO). READ MORE

  7. 5. Laboring Through Uncertainty : an ethnography of the Chinese state, labor NGOs, and development

    Author : Darcy Pan; Johan Lindquist; Anette Nyqvist; Stephan Feuchtwang; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; uncertainty; intimacy; complicity; mingan; secrecy; state; NGO; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : This study sets out to understand how international development projects supporting labor activism work in contemporary China. It focuses on the lived experiences of and relationships among a group of grassroots⁠ labor NGOs in the province of Guangdong, South China; intermediary NGOs in Hong Kong; and Western funding agencies that try to bring about social change in postsocialist China where the political climate is still highly restrictive and the limits of the state’s tolerance for activism are ambiguous and uncertain. READ MORE