‘Campaigns’ and ‘Denial Workfiles’

Negation, Denial, and Rejection

At least since Frege (1960) and Geach (1965), there has been some consensus about the relation between negation, the speech act of denial, and the attitude of rejection: a denial, the consensus has had it, is the assertion of a negation, and a rejection is a belief in a negation. Recently, though, there have been notable deviations from this orthodox view. Rejectivists have maintained that nega...

Do Campaigns Really Change Behavior? New Understanding of the Behavioral Effects of Advertising, Political Campaigns and Health Communication Campaigns

Denial-of-Service & Distributed Denial-of-Service on The Internet

Denial-of-Service and Distributed Denial-of-Service is costing the economy world-wide billions of dollars. The economy is the cornerstone of our society and its collapse will certainly change the way in which humanity exists today. The three main goals of computer security are availability, confidentiality and integrity. The focus of this paper is on attacks that compromise the availability of ...

Uncertainty - Denial

The uncertainty which has characterised the financial crisis has encouraged renewed attention to uncertainty in economics. Yet, not only is uncertainty seen as unpalatable in financial markets and economic life more generally, it also poses challenges for economists to the extent that uncertainty is absent from most of mainstream theory. The purpose of this paper is to consider the reasons for ...

Malaria and Anti-ddt Campaigns

Donald R. Roberts, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA describes the successful history of the use of DDT for the eradication of malaria and how single issue anti-DDT campaigners have compromised the success of this programme. Email:[email protected] Contact information:118 First St, Clifton Forge, VA 2...