The IMPL Policy Language for Managing Inconsistency in Multi-Context Systems

Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0012 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Bethan Evans ◽

Charlotte Cooper

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Weight Loss ◽

Michel Foucault ◽

Overweight And Obesity ◽

Health Concern ◽

Public Health Concern ◽

Policy Language ◽

Religious Imagery ◽

Fat Bodies

Over the last twenty years or so, fatness, pathologised as overweight and obesity, has been a core public health concern around which has grown a lucrative international weight loss industry. Referred to as a ‘time bomb’ and ‘the terror within’, analogies of ‘war’ circulate around obesity, framing fatness as enemy.2 Religious imagery and cultural and moral ideologies inform medical, popular and policy language with the ‘sins’ of ‘gluttony’ and ‘sloth’, evoked to frame fat people as immoral at worst and unknowledgeable victims at best, and understandings of fatness intersect with gender, class, age, sexuality, disability and race to make some fat bodies more problematically fat than others. As Evans and Colls argue, drawing on Michel Foucault, a combination of medical and moral knowledges produces the powerful ‘obesity truths’ through which fatness is framed as universally abject and pathological. Dominant and medicalised discourses of fatness (as obesity) leave little room for alternative understandings.

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Cognitive Radio Policy Language and Policy Engine

Cognitive Radio Technology ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-374535-4.00017-5 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 557-592 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Grit Denker ◽

Daniel Elenius ◽

David Wilkins

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Radio ◽

Policy Language

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An Ecological Discourse Analysis to the Chinese Slogans during the Major Economic Stages since the Foundation of PRC

10.31219/osf.io/g5qy6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dali Ning

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Policy Language ◽

Republic Of China ◽

Ecological Philosophy ◽

The Government ◽

Civic Practice ◽

The Relationship ◽

Insight Into ◽

Shed Light

Slogan has a sound mass base in China for thousands of years，functioning as guidelines for civic practice. Even today, Chinese slogans are often employed by the government to promote policies and socio-cultural values. This paper, adopting an ecolinguistic approach, explores the development of Chinese slogans during the four economic stages since the foundation of PRC (People’s Republic of China) to find out how slogans influence the relationship between men, and man and the ecosystem. It is discovered that Chinese slogans in the recent decades have experienced great changes in terms of discourse type, the beneficial degree of discourse and the ecosophy they carry. They changed gradually from destructive discourse to harmonious discourse and they reflect the transition of Chinese ecological philosophy—from ‘anthropocentrism’, ‘growthism’, and ‘classism’ to ‘harmonism’. It is hoped that this study can shed light on the eco-discourse analysis to policy language and will bring insight into its future creation.

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Giving Customers Control Over Their Data: Integrating a Policy Language into the Cloud

2018 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) ◽

10.1109/ic2e.2018.00050 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jens Hiller ◽

Mael Kimmerlin ◽

Max Plauth ◽

Seppo Heikkila ◽

Stefan Klauck ◽

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Keyword(s):

Policy Language

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Mapping Policies to Web Rules

Web Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-982-3.ch115 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 2175-2205

Author(s):

Nima Kaviani ◽

Dragan Gaševic ◽

Marek Hatala

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Markup Language ◽

Business Rules ◽

Policy Language ◽

Policy Languages ◽

Autonomous Computing ◽

Knowing That ◽

Other Hand ◽

Rule Languages ◽

Internal Code

Web rule languages have recently emerged to enable different parties with different business rules and policy languages to exchange their rules and policies. Describing the concepts of a domain through using vocabularies is another feature supported by Web rule languages. Combination of these two properties makes web rule languages appropriate mediums to make a hybrid representation of both context and rules of a policy-aware system. On the other hand, policies in the domain of autonomous computing are enablers to dynamically regulate the behaviour of a system without any need to interfere with the internal code of the system. Knowing that policies are also defined through rules and facts, Web rules and policy languages come to a point of agreement, where policies can be defined through using web rules. This chapter focuses on analyzing some of the most known policy languages (especially, KAoS policy language) and describes the mappings from the concepts for KAoS policy language to those of REWERSE Rule Markup Language (R2ML), one of the two proposals to Web rule languages.

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The Music Educator as a Policy Analyst

Policy as Practice ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190227029.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 127-150

Author(s):

Patrick Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Music Educators ◽

Entry Point ◽

Policy Analyst ◽

Music Educator ◽

Policy Language ◽

Policy Engagement

This chapter is the most practical and instructive of the book’s chapters. It aims to delineate very concrete ways of looking at accepted tools, spaces, and practices in policy. The chapter presents music educators with an entry point to this policy vocabulary. The chapter admonishes the reader that these are only tools, however, and as such their yield is dependent on our capacity to discern, contextualize, and frame. While the chapter describes policy language, instruments, and tools, it avoids the misperception that technical acuity is a necessary first step, one that allows one to enter the realm of policy. Such a view inevitably delays policy participation and discourages policy thinking. Knowing the context is the only prerequisite for policy engagement.

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Authorization Service for Web Services and its Application in a Health Care Domain

Information Security and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch191 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 2865-2891

Author(s):

Sarath Indrakanti ◽

Vijay Varadharajan ◽

Michael Hitchens

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Web Services ◽

Access Control ◽

Health Care System ◽

Design Issues ◽

Policy Language ◽

Control Language ◽

Authorization Model ◽

Authorization Policy ◽

Authorization Policies

In this paper, we discuss the design issues for an authorization framework for Web Services. In particular, we describe the features required for an authorization policy language for Web Services. We briefly introduce the authorization service provided by Microsoft .NET MyServices and describe our extended authorization model that proposes extensions to the .NET MyServices authorization service to support a range of authorization policies required in commercial systems. We discuss the application of the extended authorization model to a health care system built using Web Services. We use the XML Access Control Language (XACL) in our implementation to demonstrate our extended authorization model. This also enables us to evaluate the range of authorization policies that XACL supports.

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