The Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire

This research set out to investigate the nature and extent of prehistoric human activity in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, a relatively poorly understood area located between the Marlborough Downs and Salisbury Plain. This was to be achieved through a combination of archival reassessment, aerial photographic interpretation and non-intrusive fieldwork. It became obvious that the Vale was the location for a considerable density of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age sites, many of which were so called "midden" or "black-earth "sites, and this dissertation concentrates on this period. A survey of some 240 square km of the Vale was undertaken and the results analysed in the context of the few blackearth sites in the area that had previously been investigated. A number of well preserved sites dating from this period were identified and surveyed for the first time and fragments of the late prehistoric landscape defined and discussed.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Proactively Defending Computing Infrastructures through the Implementation of Live Forensics and Capture in Corporate Network Security

The wide development of the mobile and virtualised technologies in the past decade has further destabilised the already fragile balance between the defenders and the attackers of computing infrastructures. Coupled with the fact that risk is not controlled by the defenders but by the attackers, it makes no sense to try and re-actively defend computing infrastructures. Apropos, in this new socially driven knowledge-based computing era that corporations are asked to operate in, there is a need to pro-actively defend computing infrastructures by attempting to control the source of the threats that they face. In this paper we discuss forensic readiness issues of such a system and we examine how we could ensure and assure evidential integrity and chain of custody of the near real time intelligence that the system would be collecting

The celluloid front line: Case studies in Western Front memorialisation from British, Canadian, and Australian national cinema 1999-2019

This thesis is concerned with the national cinemas of Britain, Canada, and Australia’s continuing involvement in the process of Western Front memorialisation and what role remembrance plays in the shaping of the perceived contemporary national self. Through Pierre Nora’s concept of lieux de mémoire and other theorists’ work on cultural memory, such as Jan Assmann, Maurice Halbwachs, and, more recently, Jay Winter, it examines three case studies from each of these Commonwealth nations to reveal how they articulate aspects of their dominant narratives framing the memory of the Great War. These case studies, taken from the period of 1999 to 2019, are: The Trench (William Boyd, 1999), Passchendaele (Paul Gross, 2008), and Beneath Hill 60 (Jeremy Sims, 2010). By approaching these works through a comparative, ethnological style of analysis, each is shown to demonstrate an exploration of their unique dominant narrative traditions, as well as a sense of contemporaneity in the way they choose to represent these, with the British sense of disenchantment related to the Great War, of Canadian exceptionalism embodied in the soldiery, and Australia’s Anzac myth.It begins by laying out the cultural and production context, studying first how these dominant narratives developed before delving into how the films themselves came to production. With this context in place, it undertakes a three part textual analysis, first looking at how the films reconstruct the Western Front on-screen, then comparing it to the contrasting landscapes of home, before finally examining how the climatic events that the films centre around – the first day of the Somme, Canadian victory at Passchendaele, and the detonation of the mines beneath the Messines Ridge – are rendered cinematically as events worth remembering for a contemporary national audience. Before concluding it surveys the reception of the case studies in their nations of origin to discover to what extent they were viewed as successful in bringing aspects of the cultural memory to life onscreen.As this thesis will examine, cinematic representations of the Western Front hold a vital place in the continuing legacy of the Great War in Britain, Canada, and Australia through memorialising specific sites and poignant events for contemporary audiences. Although these films are objects of remembrance, gazing back on a war that took place almost a century previous, they reveal a great deal about the national perception of the experiences that occurred on the Western Front, as well as how this relates to the present national identity, as they narratively mould the cultural memory into a contemporarily pertinent form of commemoration

Ultrasonic scattering from finite targets using the BEM and UTD

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Bridging Semantics with Ontologies

Stilianos Vidalis, and Olga Angelopoulou, ‘Assessing Identity Theft in the Internet of Things’, journal of IT Governance Practice, Vol. 2 (1): 15-21, March 2014. Published by Innovative Information Science & Technology Research Group (ISYOU).Semantic metadata enables contextual and relevant data to be identified for a particular entity. The use of ontologies creates a bridging mechanism, whereby semantic metadata can be referenced and validated to ensure that relevant and useful information is collected. This also ensures trust and logic can be attained in search functionality. The paper explores the foundations of the research for the design of an Information Gathering tool for the Business Intelligence Domain. The aim of the project is to effectively present next to real-time knowledgeable answers to runtime user generated queries for extracting business intelligence. The tool will collect information from disparate sources and requires the implementation of semantics to safeguard the future of knowledge discovery and reuse. This paper summaries the research and conceptualisation for our Information Gathering tool using semantic metadata to be utilised in the area of Business Intelligence.Peer reviewe

Bridging Semantics Through Ontologies

Semantic metadata enables contextual and relevant data to be identified for a particular entity and ensures trust can be attained in search functionality. The use of ontologies creates a bridging mechanism, whereby semantic metadata can be referenced and validated to ensure that relevant and useful information is collected. The paper explores the foundations of the research for the design of an Information Gathering tool based on the Intelligence Domain; The IGUSMON project. The aim of the project is to effectively present next to real-time knowledgeable answers to runtime user generated queries, from disparate sources and requires the implementation of semantics to safeguard the future of knowledge discovery and reuse