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Sushi in the United States, 1945-1970
Sushi first achieved widespread popularity in the United States in
the mid-1960s. Many accounts of sushi’s US establishment foreground
the role of a small number of key actors, yet underplay
the role of a complex web of large-scale factors that provided the
context in which sushi was able to flourish. This article critically
reviews existing literature, arguing that sushi’s US popularity
arose from contingent, long-term, and gradual processes. It examines
US newspaper accounts of sushi during 1945–1970, which
suggest the discursive context for US acceptance of sushi was
considerably more propitious than generally acknowledged.
Using California as a case study, the analysis also explains
conducive social and material factors, and directs attention to
the interplay of supply- and demand-side forces in the favorable
positioning of this “new” food. The article argues that the US
establishment of sushi can be understood as part of broader
public acceptance of Japanese cuisine
Using off-the-shelf formal methods to verify attribute grammar properties
Attribute Grammars are the specification language of many tools that automatically generate programming language implementations. We consider the problem of verifying properties of attribute grammar specifications, particularly properties that are not well supported by existing tools. Rather than propose methods for extending existing tool implementation techniques, we propose the use of off-the-shelf formal methods tools as the basis for attribute grammar verification. Off-the-shelf tools can provide significant expressive power at a much lower cost than extending an existing evaluator generator. As a specific example, we describe how to use the Alloy model finding and checking tool to verify properties of remote attribution constructs in the LIDO attribute grammar specification language. A naive application of this approach has significant performance overheads; we discuss techniques for limiting the scope of the problems that are solved to make the approach tractable.22 page(s
Abstract Using Off-the-Shelf Formal Methods to Verify Attribute Grammar Properties
Attribute Grammars are the specification language of many tools that automatically generate programming language implementations. We consider the problem of verifying properties of attribute grammar specifications, particularly properties that are not well supported by existing tools. Rather than propose methods for extending existing tool implementation techniques, we propose the use of off-the-shelf formal methods tools as the basis for attribute grammar verification. Off-the-shelf tools can provide significant expressive power at a much lower cost than extending an existing evaluator generator. As a specific example, we describe how to use the Alloy model finding and checking tool to verify properties of remote attribution constructs in the LIDO attribute grammar specification language. A naive application of this approach has significant performance overheads; we discuss techniques for limiting the scope of the problems that are solved to make the approach tractable