Securitizing e-Waste: Framing Environmental Issue as a Threat to Human Security

Differential Power Analysis: A Serious Threat to FPGA Security

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) implies measuring the supply current of a cipher-circuit in an attempt to uncover part of a cipher key. Cryptographic security gets compromised if the current waveforms obtained correlate with those from a hypothetical power model of the circuit. As FPGAs are becoming integral parts of embedded systems and increasingly popular for cryptographic applications and...

Issue Framing as a Generalizable Phenomenon

Framing—portraying an issue from one perspective to the necessary exclusion of alternative perspectives—is a central concept in political communication. It is also a powerful political tool, as evidenced through experiments and single-issue studies beyond the lab. Yet compared to its significance, we know very little about framing as a generalizable phenomenon. Do framing dynamics, such as the ...

Environmental mycobacteria: a threat to human health?

In many cases, bacterial pathogens are close relatives to nonpathogens. Pathogens seem to be limited lineages within nonpathogenic bacteria. Nonpathogenic isolates are generally more diverse and widespread in the environment and it is generally considered that environmental bacteria do not pose a risk to human health as clinical isolates do; this may not be the case with mycobacteria, but envir...

The framing of pandemic influenza as a security threat and its impact on public policy

Issue Importance as a Moderator of Framing Effects

Framing effects research addresses how frames in the news media affect cognitions, attitudes, and preferences. A growing amount of research is devoted to the question which individual and contextual variables can enhance, limit or obliterate framing effects. However, the fundamental question whether framing effects may vary depending on the particular issue at stake has not been addressed. Base...