The Spirit of Ghost Code

Extended version of https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00873187International audienceIn the context of deductive program verification, ghost code is a part of the program that is added for the purpose of specification. Ghost code must not interfere with regular code, in the sense that it can be erased without observable difference in the program outcome. In particular, ghost data cannot participate in regular computations and ghost code cannot mutate regular data or diverge. The idea exists in the folklore since the early notion of auxiliary variables and is implemented in many state-of-the-art program verification tools. However, ghost code deserves rigorous definition and treatment, and few formalizations exist. In this article, we describe a simple ML-style programming language with muta-ble state and ghost code. Non-interference is ensured by a type system with effects, which allows, notably, the same data types and functions to be used in both regular and ghost code. We define the procedure of ghost code erasure and we prove its safety using bisimulation. A similar type system, with numerous extensions which we briefly discuss, is implemented in the program verification environment Why3

Shin, Cin, and Jinn in far east Asian, central east Asian, and middle eastern cultures : case studies in transethnic communication by exchange of terminology for elementary spiritual concepts of ethic groups

Methodology and Objects: Methodologically, from a diachronic linguistics perspective regarding the concept of the shin, spirits in folk belief in China and neighbouring cultures, we compare texts that comprise meanings a) historically in the local language and b) compared to the meanings of equivalent terms in languages of other cultures. Comparing sources of this belief, we examine if and how the shin belief can serve as an example of communication across cultural borders including practical forms of worshipping. Argumentation: We argue that the concept of the shin is across cultural and national borders a result from folk culture transcending political or cultural borders transmitted via migration of ethnic groups. Although similar, mind concepts of different cultures and groups never melted; evidence for this independence gives the Islamic distinctive separation between shin and jinn in this area in the Chinese Quran and other spiritual Chinese writings. On the other hand, the practice of worshipping is similar. Conclusions: A spiritual concept like shin varies in practice in different areas. Central Asia as the melting pot of Chinese and Middle East culture shows the cultural practice of Shamanism with shin belief, complex mind concepts like in Daoism, and religions incorporating shin belief (Islam). Observed changes in the particular local languages show the continuity of the local set of meanings. Multilingual and multicultural areas such as Central Asia rather integrate new words to increase their thesaurus with new meanings than to change the set of previous existing meanings in the languages. Arabic as a language of conquerors in Central Asia is a typical example for such a language that serves as a tool to set up new meanings

The days of the human may be numbered : theorizing cyberfeminist metaphors ; rereading Kleist’s "Gliedermann" as Cyborg ; as "Ghost in the Shell"

A lot has already been written on Heinrich von Kleist's "Über das Marionettentheater" ("On the Marionette Theater"). I will engage in a reading that is based on deconstructivist approaches as well as on queer- and cyberfeminist-thoughtboth of which reform concepts of the subject by taking into question bodily and gender coherence and gender identity. Queer Studies provoke a thinking of the multiplication of difference as well as a thinking of difference within ('entities') rather than of difference between ('entities'). Cyberfeminism explores the possibilities of manipulating and changing the physical body and provides metaphors for thinking 'posthuman' identities. Donna Harawayin allusion to the hybridization of gender relations and gender conceptionsposits the cyborg as a leading figure/figuration of feminist politics

Dickens\u27s Hamlet Burlesque

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner considers what an interlude in Great Expectations involving a spectacularly bad production of Hamlet can do for Hamlet. Specifically, Pollack-Pelzner looks at what Dickens\u27s rendering of Mr. Wopsle\u27s travesty reveals about Hamlet\u27s openness to an audience\u27s derisive laughter. Wopsle’s production may be a travesty, but Dickens’s narrative of that production is a burlesque, with Hamlet as much its target as Wopsle

Filming Bronte's Moorish soundscape : an aural analysis of five Wuthering Heights film adaptations

This paper dissects the sound-effects codes of the Wuthering Heights film versions directed by Wyler, Bunuel, Fuest, Yoshida and Kosminsky in order to determine to what extent these film adaptors succeed in echoing thematically the novel's essential 'wuthering'. What such an analysis reveals is that, while Kosminsky 's soundtrack is more consistently analogous to Bronte's moorish soundscape in its recreation of such crucial aural motifs as canine baying, avian trilling and gusty wind, even the soundtracks devised by Wyer, Yoshida, Fuest and Bunuel have their enviable moments of undoubted Brontean significance.peer-reviewe

An Analysis of Code in The Novel The Twilight Saga Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

This thesis is a research about an analysis of code in the novel “the Twilight Saga Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer” by using Roland Barthes theory. The aim of the novel “the Twilight Saga Eclipse” is to represented about all of culture or tradition that always do by human. The objectives of this research are to know how the culture codes are represented in the novel “the Twilight Saga Eclipse”. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The sources of data are the novel “the Twilight Saga Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer which published in 2007 and the books related to the topic of this research. In collecting the reasearch data, the writer used note taking as its istrument to get the data. In this novel, the writer found that there is gnomic or culture code which represented in the novel of the twilight Saga Eclipse, the gnomic or culture codes are: An Ultimatum as warning, demand and command or order. La Push such as civilization or culture, development of technology, modern society and educational centre. Imprint like destiny, love and match. Spirit warrior such as custom or tradition, belief and power. Vampire as Dracula, ghost, legend or folklore. Ethics like norm, role, habit, custom, and attitude or behavior