Uncertainty and Resilience

Environmental Terror : Uncertainty , Resilience

Total war is usually understood as the blurring of erstwhile political distinctions among people, armies, and government. It is more than this. Total war is a modus operandi involving the destruction—from the cellular to the planetary—of an enemy’s environmental life-world. Working through uncertainty and surprise, total war presents itself as environmental terror. Through the concept of resili...

Understanding uncertainty and reducing vulnerability: lessons from resilience thinking

Vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone; it also resides in the resilience of the system experiencing the hazard. Resilience (the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances, such as natural disasters, so as to retain essential structures, processes and feedbacks) is important for the discussion of vulnerability for three reasons: (1) it helps evaluate hazards hol...

Leveraging Uncertainty for Effective Malware Mitigation and Software Resilience Improvement

Malware has become sophisticated and organizations don’t have a Plan B when standard lines of defense fail. These failures have devastating consequences for organizations, such as sensitive information being exfiltrated. A promising avenue for improving the effectiveness of behavioral-based malware detectors is to combine fast (usually not highly accurate) traditional machine learning (ML) dete...

Uncertainty and Uncertainty Management in EFL Translators

This study tried to examine EFL translators’ uncertainty and uncertainty management strategies through employing think aloud procedures. The participants of this study were some MA andBA translators selected from several universities in Iran. To this aim, a proficiency test was firstly administered among the volunteers. Then, think aloud protocol and retrospective interview were used to collect...

The changing nature of risk and risk management: the challenge of borders, uncertainty and resilience