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Abd Rahman, Ain Nur Iman, and Zainor Izat Zainal. "HUMAN AND GHOST ATTACHMENT IN HANNA ALKAF’S THE GIRL AND THE GHOST." Platform : A Journal of Management and Humanities 5, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.61762/pjmhvol5iss1art17206.
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For centuries, authors of literary works have sought to bewitch and enchant readers with accounts of supernatural elements such as monsters, spirits and ghosts. Ghosts especially are often depicted as representations of evil and the polar opposite of mankind. In Hanna Alkaf’s The Girl and The Ghost (2020) the adolescent protagonist, Suraya, develops an unusual bond with a ghost, Pink. This is indeed refreshing, considering the human-ghost relationship in the local literary scene is often represented as antagonistic, opposing forces, resulting in ghosts being portrayed as evil, vengeful creatures set to taunt, haunt and wreck humans’ lives. Critical examination of the human-ghost bond in the local literary-critical practice is lacking. This research aims to fill this gap by examining the human-ghost bond in The Girl and The Ghost and how this bond contributes to the (human) protagonist’s personal development. In this paper, The Girl and The Ghost is read using John Bowlby’s theory of attachment due to its robust approach to understanding human beings' emotional bond, or attachment, with their attachment figures. We argue the human-ghost bond in The Girl and The Ghost sets the novel apart from other local ghost stories filled with wicked, destructive ghosts. The findings suggest other possibilities of attachment figures when the relationship between a mother and child grows apart. The unusual but enduring relationship between Suraya and Pink demonstrates that a child’s secure attachment need not be limited to motherly figures.
Keywords: Malaysian literature in english, the girl and the ghost, hanna alkaf, ghost tales, attachment theory
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Rui, Congshan, Le Zhang, Jiaojiao Liang, Yining Li, Tianwen Hou, Shunli Zang, Chaohao Wang, and Lei Zhao. "P‐8.6: Methods of Ghost Measurement and Mitigation in Virtual Reality Pancake Optical System." SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 55, S1 (April 2024): 1145–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sdtp.17305.
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In the VR optical system, the pancake optics faces the problem of ghost, which is more serious than the conventional aspherical/Fresnel optics. The causes of pancake ghosts are different, thus the performance of pancake ghosts in the image is also different. Some of them can be clearly imaged, but some exist in the form of light spots. The presence of these ghosts seriously affects the image contrast. In this paper, ghost measurement and simulation methods are proposed, which obtains the Virtual image distance, position and brightness of the ghost image, and the cause of the ghost image is obtained by combining the simulation and measurement. Finally, ghost intensity was reduced from 4.68% to 2.39% using the ghost image mitigation methods. A pancake optical system was optimized and prototype was demonstrated, with a field of view of 108°, an exit pupil diameter of 10mm, and a ghost image intensity of less than 2.39%.
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Tjong, Cendrawaty, Raina Ophelia Sunggiardi, and Vania Vania. "Similarities and Disparities of Ghosts in Eastern and Western Literature Based the Novels Liaozhai Zhiyi, Dracula, dan a Christamas Carol." Lingua Cultura 4, no. 2 (November 30, 2010): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v4i2.363.
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Ghosts is one of life unexplained phenomena also interesting theme for entertainment and literature materials. Every nation have their own ghost literature that reflects the nation’s view on ghost itself. This article compares China’s Liaozhai Zhiyi, Western’s Dracula and A Christmas Carol as representations of both culture. The writer through desktop study method found that culture influenced and shaped ghost image in the mind of novel writer. This leads to different image of ghost in the two cultures. The results is: ghost in two cultures appear mostly in the night time, have different types and classifications, different physical images, different way of thinking and how to handle ghosts.
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Xue, Wanli, Zhe Zhang, and Shengyong Chen. "Ghost Elimination via Multi-Component Collaboration for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing Image Stitching." Remote Sensing 13, no. 7 (April 4, 2021): 1388. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13071388.
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Ghosts are a common phenomenon widely present in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing image stitching that seriously affect the naturalness of stitching results. In order to effectively remove ghosts and produce visually natural stitching results, we propose a novel image stitching method that can identify and eliminate ghosts through multi-component collaboration without object distortion, segmentation or repetition. Specifically, our main contributions are as follows: first, we propose a ghost identification component to locate a potential ghost in the stitching area; and detect significantly moving objects in the two stitched images. In particular, due to the characteristics of UAV shooting, the objects in UAV remote sensing images are small and the image quality is poor. We propose a mesh-based image difference comparison method to identify ghosts; and use an object tracking algorithm to accurately correspond to each ghost pair. Second, we design an image information source selection strategy to generate the ghost replacement region, which can replace the located ghost and avoid object distortion, segmentation and repetition. Third, we find that the process of ghost elimination can produce natural mosaic images by eliminating the ghost caused by initial blending with selected image information source. We validate the proposed method on VIVID data set and compare our method with Homo, ELA, SPW and APAP using the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) evaluation indicator.
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Oh, Jeongmi. "Research on world “Water ghost stories”: Focusing on the types of water ghosts and the functions of ‘Seizer’." Institute of Humanities at Soonchunhyang University 42, no. 4 (December 31, 2023): 39–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.35222/ihsu.2023.42.4.39.
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Water demons are beings that have an inseparable relationship with water, seducing people through their voices and eventually leading them to death. Water demons are dual beings, both human and ghost, and the mechanism of seduction and death through their voices is emphasized. Even to this day, ''‘Water ghost’ stories'' stands out among ''modern ghost stories'' more than any other story, and is actively handed down. In addition to beings called ''Water ghosts'', there are also monster-like water fairies, feminine beings with ''恨'' who seduce and eat people. It is found all over the world, including Germanic mythology, Slavic mythology, and Indonesian legends. They are people and ghosts, and monsters and fairies. Until now, this linguistic gap could not be resolved because the standards and foundations for storytelling had not been established. Now these Water ghost types need to be sorted out and redefined.
We have experienced various symbolic dimensions of nature through the presence of water ghosts in the story. The archetype of the Water ghost changes over time, from the Water ghost who tempts people to death with voices from the past to the mermaid princess who sacrifices herself for love. In this paper, I have newly introduced the “Water ghost' stories” and have attempted to establish the types and prototype meanings of new theory of “Water ghost' stories” around the world. In addition to comparing stories from Korea and abroad, focusing on stories in which water ghost appear, we will also consider women's ‘Seizure’ and death through their voices. I would also like to classify the types and clarify the meaning of the original form of the World Water ghost.
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Ye, Hanwen. "An Analysis of the Female Ghost Images in Ancient Chinese Novels on the Theme of Romantic Relationship Between Man and Ghost." Communications in Humanities Research 28, no. 1 (April 19, 2024): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/28/20230005.
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From Jin to Qing Dynasty of China, there are a large number of novels depicting human-ghost romance. In this literature, female images, femininity and gender relationship patterns reflect the patriarchal values of a specific historical period. Previous research on ancient Chinese female ghost novels often focused on their romantic story with a male human and the awakening consciousness of female, but the research on Character depiction of female ghost was very few. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between the image shaping of female ghosts and the values of contemporary Chinese ancient patriarchal society, existing in the stories of the ancient Chinese romances novels of Song, Yuan and Ming dynasty. Studies have suggested that the female ghosts in ancient Chinese "human-ghost romance" novels are essentially projections of the male author's ideals, reflecting the phallocentrism of ancient Chinese ghost fiction.
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Carrillo, Paul, Dave Donaldson, Dina Pomeranz, and Monica Singhal. "Ghosting the Tax Authority: Fake Firms and Tax Fraud in Ecuador." American Economic Review: Insights 5, no. 4 (December 1, 2023): 427–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20220321.
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An important but poorly understood form of firm tax evasion arises from “ghost firms”—fake firms that issue fraudulent receipts so that their clients can claim false deductions. We provide a unique window into this global phenomenon using transaction-level tax data from Ecuador. Five percent of firms use ghost invoices annually. Among these firms, ghost transactions comprise 14 percent of purchases. Ghost transactions are prevalent among large firms and firms with high-income owners and exhibit suspicious patterns, such as bunching below financial system thresholds. An innovative enforcement intervention targeting ghost clients rather than ghosts themselves led to substantial tax recovery. (JEL D22, H25, H26, K34, L25, O14)
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Carlson, Jon F., Sunil K. Chebolu, and Ján Mináč. "Ghosts and Strong Ghosts in the Stable Category." Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 59, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 682–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4153/cmb-2016-038-4.
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AbstractSuppose that G is a finite group and k is a field of characteristic p > 0. A ghost map is a map in the stable category of finitely generated kG-modules which induces the zero map in Tate cohomology in all degrees. In an earlier paper we showed that the thick subcategory generated by the trivial module has no nonzero ghost maps if and only if the Sylow p-subgroup of G is cyclic of order 2 or 3. In this paper we introduce and study variations of ghost maps. In particular, we consider the behavior of ghost maps under restriction and induction functors. We find all groups satisfying a strong form of Freyd’s generating hypothesis and show that ghosts can be detected on a finite range of degrees of Tate cohomology. We also consider maps that mimic ghosts in high degrees.
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Halimah, Umi. "HANTU PEREMPUAN JAWA DALAM ALAMING LELEMBUT SEBAGAI REPRESENTASI FEMME FATALE." Sabda : Jurnal Kajian Kebudayaan 10, no. 1 (February 3, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/sabda.v10i1.13302.
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This research entitled “The Javanese Female Ghost in “Panjebar Semangat” as a Representation of Femme Fatale”aims to show the feminist value in Javanese horror stories with female ghost as a villain and men as most of their victims. This research uses feminism as a main approach and femme fatale theory as the specific approach theory. This research shows that there are three kinds of of female ghost, they are female ghosts who experienced a miserable life before her death, sensual women and women whose background is not known. For the three kinds of women it can be revealed the causes of the female spirits to become evil spirits, the modes of female ghosts to ensnare and trap victims, the female ghost‟s harmful effects to men, and the solutions as the anti-climac in the story
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Krebs, Paula M. "Folklore, Fear, and the Feminine: Ghosts and Old Wives' Tales in Wuthering Heights." Victorian Literature and Culture 26, no. 1 (1998): 41–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300002266.
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Wuthering heights is haunted, of course. But not only by the ghost of Catherine, who harries Heathcliff and terrifies Lockwood. Not only by the shades of Heathcliff and Catherine (or Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon) who set off toward Penistone Crag. The ghosts in Wuthering Heights are not Gothic ghosts nor the ghosts from Victorian magazine ghost stories. They represent a different kind of haunting altogether — the haunting of the Victorian middle classes by fear of the people they designated as “the folk.”
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Adinkrah, Mensah. "Beliefs about ghosts among the Akan of Ghana." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 9, no. 4 (June 1, 2023): 121–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v9n4.2278.
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As a thanatologist who specializes in mortuary beliefs and rites in Ghana, I frequently come across information on Akan cultural beliefs about ghosts, as well as individual or personal stories of ghost encounters. Yet, there has been virtually no academic inquiry into the topic. Between January and February 2015, I listened to four consecutive weekly radio programs focusing primarily on ghosts on a commercial radio station in Ghana. The programs were broadcast in Twi, the Akan lingua franca, which the author is fluent in. Following extensive discussions about Akan cultural beliefs regarding ghosts and other superhuman entities by the host and co-hosts of the program, listeners were invited to share their personal stories about ghost sightings and other encounters with ghosts. The current article presents a narrative of the discussion that occurred on the four featured programs. The data show that Akans of Ghana maintain a strong cultural belief in ghosts. Several listeners shared with the host and listeners their personal encounters with ghosts and ghost activities.
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Hengsuwan, Manasikarn, and Amara Prasithrathsint. "A Folk Taxonomy of Terms for Ghosts and Spirits in Thai." MANUSYA 17, no. 2 (2014): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01702003.
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Previous studies show that Thai people’s ways of life and traditions from birth to death are related to ghosts. Most of the studies deal with the role of ghosts in Thai society but there has been no study on ghost terms in Thai, which would reflect the ghost system in Thai thoughts. Thus, this study aims to analyze the system and categorization of terms for ghosts and spirits in Thai. Folk taxonomy, which is a method in the ethnosemantic approach, has been adopted for the analysis.
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Raho, Bernardus, Dr Alexander Jebadu, and Kletus Hekong, Drs.,Lic. "Studi Kritis atas Kepercayaan Orang Manggarai – Flores tentang Komunikasi antara Arwah dengan Orang-orang Hidup." Jurnal Ledalero 22, no. 1 (June 22, 2023): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.31385/jl.v22i1.328.72-87.
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<p>This article aims to investigate the communication between the ghosts of the dead and the living. It is quite common<br />that the living talk to the ghosts of the dead through different rituals in the tradional religions. On the contrary, the study<br />about communication between the ghost of the dead with the living is not very common. Therefore, a question in this<br />research is: “Is there any experience that the ghost of the dead talks to the living?” The assumption is that: there is<br />communication between the ghost of the dead and the living. Using descriptive-qualitative method of research, the result of<br />this study shows that there is communication between the ghosts of the dead and the living. The communication takes place<br />through the medium of the paranormal in which the paranormal man or woman invites the ghost of the dead to talk to his or<br />her family through paranormal man or woman or simply to get the message from the ghost. The communication also takes<br />place through dreams, and later on the message or messages that iare delivered in the dream become real or really<br />happened. Then, the communication of the ghost of the dead and the living is analyzed using postmodernism, fenomenology,<br />and ethnometodology perspectives. Each perspective argues that the communication between the dead and the living is<br />understandable and academically acceptable.</p><p><br />Keywords: communication, dead, living, dream, paranormal, post modernism, fenomenolgy, and ethnomethodology.</p>
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Nurcombe, Madeline. "The ghost algebra and the dilute ghost algebra." Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2024, no. 2 (February 13, 2024): 023102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/ad1be6.
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Abstract We introduce the ghost algebra, a two-boundary generalisation of the Temperley–Lieb (TL) algebra, using a diagrammatic presentation. The existing two-boundary TL algebra has a basis of string diagrams with two boundaries, and the number of strings connected to each boundary must be even; in the ghost algebra, this number may be odd. To preserve associativity while allowing boundary-to-boundary strings to have distinct parameters according to the parity of their endpoints, as seen in the one-boundary TL algebra, we decorate the boundaries with bookkeeping dots called ghosts. We also introduce the dilute ghost algebra, an analogous two-boundary generalisation of the dilute TL algebra. We then present loop models associated with these algebras, and classify solutions to their boundary Yang–Baxter equations, given existing solutions to the Yang–Baxter equations for the TL and dilute TL models. This facilitates the construction of a one-parameter family of commuting transfer tangles, making these models Yang–Baxter integrable.
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SARDANYÉS, JOSEP, and RICARD V. SOLÉ. "GHOSTS IN THE ORIGINS OF LIFE?" International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 16, no. 09 (September 2006): 2761–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218127406016446.
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The so-called bottleneck or ghost can appear after a saddle-node bifurcation, leaving a region in phase space by which the flow is attracted although no fixed points are present. Such ghosts, displayed by some dynamical systems, actually cause a delay of the flow. In this paper, we analyze a saddle-node ghost found in a biological model for the two-member hypercycle dynamics. The model predicts a scaling law of the dynamic delay caused by the ghost near the threshold: τ ~ ϕ-1/2, consistent with previous results in physical systems. Possible biological meanings for such a dynamical phenomenon are outlined.
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Méndez, Susan C. "Ghosts in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints and Angie Cruz’s Soledad." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 26, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 16–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724023.
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Recent texts in Latinx literature have ghosts that demonstrate new knowledge about history, culture, and subjectivity. In Song of the Water Saints and Soledad, the first novels of authors Nelly Rosario and Angie Cruz, respectively, the figure of the ghost is a trope that imaginatively reconnects communities of women that are fractured by the corruptive influence of the United States and other Western nations in the Latin Caribbean. The ghost of Graciela in Song of the Water Saints and the “living ghost” of Olivia in Soledad allow readers to see how matrilineal bonds in families can be restored. These ties are cut by the prolonged and detrimental exploitation of the Dominican Republic by the United States and more generally the West. With a focus on women, the use of ghosts in these novels attends to the material, historical, and cultural practices between people and the geographies they inhabit.
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Karkazis, Katrina, and Rebecca Jordan-Young. "Sensing Race as a Ghost Variable in Science, Technology, and Medicine." Science, Technology, & Human Values 45, no. 5 (July 27, 2020): 763–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243920939306.
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Ghost variables are variables in program languages that do not correspond to physical entities. This special issue, based on a panel on “Race as a Ghost Variable” at the 2017 Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, traces ideas of “race” in particular niches of science, technology, and medicine where it is submerged and disavowed, yet wields power. Each paper is a case study exploring ghosts that emerge through the resonance among things as heterogeneous as hair patterns, hormone levels, food tastes, drug use, clinic locations, proximity to disaster, job classifications, and social belonging and suspicion, all of which vibrate with meanings accumulated over long racial histories. Together, the papers further elaborate methods and analytic models for identifying the operations of race—the relations and processes that make it, the effects that it has. A chief appeal of the metaphor of the ghost is that it brings the importance of history to the fore. Ghosts are simultaneously history and the present, not just an accretion of earlier experiences, but the palimpsest left when one tries to erase them. Sometimes faint and hard to discern, sometimes rambunctious and disruptive, ghosts refuse our attempts to simply move on.
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Wijaya, Elizabeth. "To Learn to Live with Spectral Justice: Derrida–Levinas." Derrida Today 5, no. 2 (November 2012): 232–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drt.2012.0042.
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Early on in Specters of Marx, the first sentence in Exordium reads: ‘Someone, you or me, comes forward and says: I would like to learn to live finally’. In the last paragraph of the last chapter, Derrida gives the injunction: ‘If he loves justice at least, the “scholar” of the future, the “intellectual” of tomorrow should learn it and from the ghost’. The ghost is the gift Derrida leaves us, yet, what can ghosts teach us about justice and how may we (dare we) learn from them? Derrida invokes Levinas's name for the only time in Specters of Marx, with the line ‘The relation to others – that is to say, justice, writes Levinas’. From ‘Violence and Metaphysics’ to ‘At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am’, the spectral relation between Derrida and Levinas already performs spectral justice. How do we say ‘J'accepte’ to spectral justice – justice that we cannot rightly possess? The figure and logic of the ghost serve not merely rhetorical purposes but, in its non-presence and presence, the ghost becomes the trace of the justice that we can neither own nor disown, but need to learn to live with, even if, in politics and in life, the fear of ghosts remains.
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Jawale, Chetan V., Nithiphonh Somsanith, Seong Kug Eo, Sang-Youel Park, and John Hwa Lee. "Evaluation of Salmonella Gallinarum ghost formulated with Montanide™ ISA 70 VG adjuvant as a vaccine against fowl typhoid." Acta Veterinaria Hungarica 63, no. 4 (December 2015): 401–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/004.2015.038.
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Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (LTB) protein is a potent adjuvant. Salmonella Gallinarum ghosts carrying LTB (S. Gallinarum-LTB ghosts) were genetically constructed using a plasmid, pJHL187-LTB, designed for the co-expression of the LTB and E lysis proteins. This study evaluates the immunopotentiating effects of Montanide™ ISA 70 VG on S. Gallinarum-LTB ghost vaccination against fowl typhoid. Five-week-old layer chickens were injected intramuscularly with sterile PBS (non-immunised control, Group A), S. Gallinarum-LTB ghost (Group B) or S. Gallinarum-LTB ghost emulsified with Montanide™ ISA 70 VG adjuvant (Group C). Chickens from both Groups B and C showed significant induction of antigen-specific systemic IgG response compared to controls; in addition, Group C showed enhanced induction of systemic IgG response compared to Group B. We observed significant induction of antigen-specific lymphocyte proliferative response and increased mRNA levels of Th1 cytokines (IFN-γ and IL2) in both Groups B and C. Furthermore, in the challenge experiment with a virulent strain of S. Gallinarum, Group C showed higher survival rates compared with other groups. These results indicate that vaccination with the S. Gallinarum-LTB ghost in combination with Montanide™ ISA 70 VG may enhance the protective immunity against fowl typhoid.
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Saeed, Manaar Kamil. "Ghost in T. S. Eliot's Poetry." Bulletin of Advanced English Studies 9, no. 1 (June 2024): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.31559/baes2024.9.1.2.
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As a poet, Eliot interacted with the spirits of the eminent dead. He is always calling up ghosts in his literary practice because of how heavily he uses the echoes of deceased writers. Eliot sees Dante and Donne as live ghosts, but he attempts to cast off additional historical figures as dead weight. There are good and bad ghosts, and early Eliot saw Milton - whose subtle influence seeps into English poetic diction - as a bad ghost. In addition, Eliot wrote ritual poetry designed to elicit spiritual encounters, frequently represented by spectral beings. Dante provides a wide range of ideas for stand-alone ritual pieces, such as the ones found in the haunting sequences of "Little Gidding" and "Burnt Norton." The presence of ghosts in Eliot's writing is not directly connected to his belief in the Communion of Saints, even though he was a devoted Christian. Eliot creates a quasi-pagan faith akin to spiritualism to connect with a secular society. Ghosts are powerful symbols in T.S. Eliot's poetry that represent the poet's concern with the breakdown of contemporary society, the vanishing of spiritual principles, and the unrelenting march of time. Through the use of the ghost motif, Eliot gives a profound contemplation on the fractured nature of existence while capturing the haunting spirit of the human predicament.
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Tamura, Kenji, and Takashi Torii. "Development of Ghost Controller for Ms Pac-Man Versus Ghost Team with Grammatical Evolution." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 17, no. 6 (November 20, 2013): 904–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2013.p0904.
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These days, artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in game AI. Additionally, video game AI is studied actively in late years, for example, application of commercial game or competition etc. In many video games of recent years, real-time action and non-player characters have been required to attract players. This paper describes how to develop a ghost team controller using evolutionary system to play the video game, Ms Pac-Man. Ms Pac-Man has been used as a testbed of AI, especially multi-agent system. We propose a method to generate the ghost team controller with Grammatical Evolution. In case of developingMs Pacman agent with Evolutionary Computation using fitness function, the criterion of the fitness is used its obtained high score in many cases. In contrast, ghost team has to prevent Ms Pac-man to get high score, namely hold score in check. However, if Ms Pacman is captured in low score by accident, its ghost strategy have a possibility to survive next generation, and if the ghosts pursue Ms Pac-man in a line, agent isn’t captured for all time. Therefore developing ghost team agent is required to avoid these issues, and we introduced a penalty to the fitness, grammar like instinct and to attack Ms Pac-Man on both sides. This paper introduces experimental data about the ghost team controller for Ms Pac-Man versus ghost team, we used ghost team agents and tested them Ms Pac-Man agents. The experimental results showed that proposed system could catchMs Pac-Man agent compare with simple hand-coded ghost teams, and the evolved controller we made worked effectively. These results are concluded that proposed method works effectively for generating ghost controller.
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DERHAM, Barry K., and John J. HARDING. "Enzyme activity after resealing within ghost erythrocyte cells, and protection by α-crystallin against fructose-induced inactivation." Biochemical Journal 368, no. 3 (December 15, 2002): 865–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bj20020924.
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The role of α-crystallin as a molecular chaperone has been shown in many in vitro studies. In the present paper, we report on the chaperone function of α-crystallin within resealed erythrocyte ghosts. Eight enzymes were individually resealed within erythrocyte ghosts and assayed at zero time and at 24h. The ghost cell suspension was separated into soluble and membrane fractions. Five of the enzymes had significantly greater enzyme activity after 24h than the control within the soluble fractions. Fructation caused a decrease in enzyme activity (relative to the control). Resealing of α-crystallin within the ghost cell alongside the enzymes protected against inactivation by fructose within the soluble fraction.
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Chen, Jack W. "Poetry, Ghosts, Mediation." Qui Parle 31, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 7–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10418385-9669459.
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Abstract This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What the essay demonstrates is how both the ghost and the poem are informed by logics of analog mediation (rather than representation): how the ghost finds purchase in the world only through bodily possession, spatial haunting, material displacement, and psychic transference and how the poem effects the transmission of mind through the channels of linguistic form, meter, and rhyme. Neither the ghost nor the poem exists except in or as its mediations, yet through these mediations, both the ghost and the poem become present and are communicated into the world. While contemporary media theory has identified the intertwined discourses of technology and spiritualism, the focus has almost solely been on the nineteenth century and later, on the age of electric and electronic telecommunications. The medieval ghost poem, as an exemplary case, complicates this account, showing how poetry has long served as a necrotechnology that mediates the dead and returns ghosts to presence.
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Ali, Randa H., Mohamed E. Ali, and Reham Samir. "Production and Characterization of Bacterial Ghost Vaccine against Neisseria meningitidis." Vaccines 11, no. 1 (December 23, 2022): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11010037.
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Bacterial ghosts (BGS) are empty non-living envelopes produced either genetically or chemically. This study investigated a novel chemical protocol for the production of Neisseria meningitidis ghost vaccine using tween 80 followed by a pH reduction with lactic acid. For our vaccine candidate, both safety and immunogenicity aspects were evaluated. The ghost pellets showed no sign of growth upon cultivation. BGS were visualized by scanning electron microscopy, illustrating the formation of trans-membrane tunnels with maintained cell morphology. Gel electrophoresis showed no distinctive bands of the cytoplasmic proteins and DNA, assuring the formation of ghost cells. In animal model, humoral immune response significantly increased when compared to commercial vaccine (p < 0.01). Moreover, serum bactericidal assay (SBA) recorded 94.67% inhibition compared to 64% only for the commercial vaccine after three vaccination doses. In conclusion, this is the first N. meningitidis ghost vaccine candidate, proven to be effective, economic, and with significant humoral response and efficient SBA values; however, clinical studies should be performed.
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SANGHA, LAURA. "THE SOCIAL, PERSONAL, AND SPIRITUAL DYNAMICS OF GHOST STORIES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND." Historical Journal 63, no. 2 (January 16, 2019): 339–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x1800047x.
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AbstractIn early modern England, spectral figures were regular visitors to the world of the living and a vibrant variety of beliefs and expectations clustered around these questionable shapes. Yet whilst historians have established the importance of ghosts as cultural resources that were used to articulate a range of contemporary concerns about worldly life, we know less about the social and personal dynamics that underpinned the telling, recording, and circulation of ghost stories at the time. This article therefore focuses on a unique set of manuscript sources relating to apparitions in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England to uncover a different vantage point. Drawing on the life-writing and correspondence of the antiquarian who collected the narratives, it lays bare concerns about familial relations and gender that ghost stories were bound up with. Tracing the way that belief in ghosts functioned at an individual level also allows the recovery of the personal religious sensibilities and spiritual imperatives that sustained and nourished continuing belief in ghosts. This subjective angle demonstrates that ghost stories were closely intertwined with processes of grieving and remembering the dead, and they continued to be associated with theological understandings of the afterlife and the fate of the soul.
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Robertsson, Johan O. A., Dirk-Jan van Manen, Fredrik Andersson, Lasse Amundsen, and Kurt Eggenberger. "Source deghosting by depth apparition." GEOPHYSICS 82, no. 6 (November 1, 2017): P89—P107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/geo2016-0686.1.
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Marine seismic data are distorted by ghosts as waves propagating upward reflect downward from the sea surface. Ghosts appear on the source side and the receiver side. However, whereas the receiver-side ghost problem has been studied in detail, and many different solutions have been proposed and implemented commercially, the source-side ghost problem has remained largely unsolved with few satisfactory solutions available. We have developed a new and simple method to remove sea-surface ghosts that is related to the recently introduced concept of signal apparition. As opposed to the temporal/spatial source signature modulation functions used in the original signal apparition theory, our source deghosting method relies on using sources at different depths but not at the same lateral positions. The new method promises to be particularly suitable for 3D applications on sparse or incomplete acquisition geometries.
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Janeček, Petr. "Prague ghostlore of the late 19th century. Suburban ghosts between moral panic and vernacular spectacle." Estudis de Literatura Oral Popular / Studies in Oral Folk Literature, no. 11 (January 9, 2023): 11–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17345/elop202211-29.
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In the mid-1870s, a wave of popular urban hauntings in public spaces swept across Europe. These included sightings of the Park Ghost in Sheffield in 1873 and the Westminster Christ Church Ghost in London in 1874. In early December 1874, probably the most famous Czech ghost, the Podskalí Apparition (Podskalské strašidlo), was born. This haunting was followed by that of similar but less popular ghosts that appeared in industrial, working-class Prague neighborhoods in 1876 and 1907, respectively. This paper analyzes newspaper articles from this period about these apparitions and their later depictions in Czech popular culture, and interprets these phenomena as local variants of the so-called “prowling ghosts”, a particular type of suburban phantom documented by current historiographical research on 19th-century ghostlore in England. The paper then describes how these Prague ghosts were utilized socially by two completely different cultural practices. On one hand, these hauntings were used by working-class people as vernacular spectacles and improvised festivities related to pranks, the symbolic occupation of public space, and Czech nationalism. For the middle classes and period newspapers loyal to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on the other hand, unruly mobs converging on the sites of supposed hauntings were a threat to established social norms and triggered both moral panics and public scorn of these “ghost hunters”. However, this attitude changed quickly when these events entered popular culture in the form of popular songs and, later, memoirs and literature. Between the Belle Époque at the First World War, these famous Prague hauntings were the staple for nostalgic longing in the last few decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Xu, Yiping, Hongbing Ji, and Wenbo Zhang. "Ghost Detection and Removal Based on Two-Layer Background Model and Histogram Similarity." Sensors 20, no. 16 (August 14, 2020): 4558. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20164558.
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Detecting and removing ghosts is an important challenge for moving object detection because ghosts will remain forever once formed, leading to the overall detection performance degradation. To deal with this issue, we first classified the ghosts into two categories according to the way they were formed. Then, the sample-based two-layer background model and histogram similarity of ghost areas were proposed to detect and remove the two types of ghosts, respectively. Furthermore, three important parameters in the two-layer model, i.e., the distance threshold, similarity threshold of local binary similarity pattern (LBSP), and time sub-sampling factor, were automatically determined by the spatial-temporal information of each pixel for adapting to the scene change rapidly. The experimental results on the CDnet 2014 dataset demonstrated that our proposed algorithm not only effectively eliminated ghost areas, but was also superior to the state-of-the-art approaches in terms of the overall performance.
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Sinnott, Megan. "Baby Ghosts: Child Spirits and Contemporary Conceptions of Childhood in Thailand." TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 2, no. 2 (June 26, 2014): 293–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/trn.2014.8.
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AbstractThe currently popular practice of propitiating, or ‘adopting’, child spirits in Thailand reveals an ambivalent attitude towards childhood. According to Buddhist scholars on childhood, Buddhist conceptions of children do not differentiate children in significant ways from adults in terms of their relative purity or innocence, as both children and adults possess countless lifetimes of karma; children are thus agentive beings, although not yet fully realised as adults. The child ghosts reflect the complex, competing conceptions of childhood, where they are both valuable resources to be deployed in the assistance of their families, and vulnerable beings in need of adult caretaking. Child ghosts are markers of both material and sentimental resources for their adoptive parents, or ‘guardians’. This article explores representations of child ghosts in popular media, and investigates child ghost propitiation practices through interviews with child ghost guardians. In addition, an overview is provided of the various categories of child ghosts, including kumanthong, kuman-thep, kuman-phrai, luk-krok, and rak-yom.
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Novriadi Novriadi. "Halusinasi Terhadap Hantu Dalam Karya Lukis Surealisme." Jurnal Riset Rumpun Seni, Desain dan Media 3, no. 1 (January 20, 2024): 90–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.55606/jurrsendem.v3i1.2532.
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Based on the scientific consensus, ghosts are not a scientifically valid concept. Their existence cannot be explained. Even though it has been investigated for centuries, there is not a single piece of scientific evidence that shows that a place can be inhabited by the spirits of the dead. In Islam there is no such thing as a ghost, Islam calls them jinn, devils and demons. Of the many types of ghosts, the one most feared by people is the ghost of the dead. Some ordinary people think that ghosts are the spirits of dead people who wander around, especially curious dead people whose spirits are trapped in the natural world. The fact that ghosts are the incarnations of dead people cannot be justified. Islam does not reject the existence of spirits, in fact supernatural matters such as the existence of spirits must be believed because the Pillars of Faith themselves consist of supernatural things that must be believed in.
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Wicher, Andrzej. "Wawel Meets Elsinore. The National and Universal Aspects of Stanisław Wyspiański’s Vision of Shakespeare’s Hamlet." Text Matters, no. 7 (October 16, 2017): 214–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/texmat-2017-0012.
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The aim of this paper is to show the role, the possibilities and the limits of Wyspiański’s national thinking through Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Of particular importance, in this context, is the role the Ghost takes in Wyspiański’s celebrated interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. By the Ghost we mean the spirit of history, the ghost of a father, the spirit of the fatherland, the voice of the ancestors, and particularly that of the Polish king Casimir the Great, as well as the Holy Ghost and the Evil Spirit because all these aspects of the Ghost belong to Wyspiański’s vision. The play in question bears witness to what the Polish poet calls “the truth of other worlds,” as well as the truth of the theatre, which Wyspiański calls the labyrinth. The poet manages to reduce, to some extent, this difficult truth to the truth of the world he cared most about, that is the present and historical reality of Poland, more specifically the city of Cracow, known as Poland’s spiritual, that is “ghostly,” and only virtual, capital. It is also remarkable that Wyspiański saw the Ghost in Hamlet in the context of other Shakespearean ghosts, apparitions and magicians, such as those that appear in Macbeth, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Richard III. At the same time, Wyspiański realizes that the Ghost, with its irrationalism, offends the spirit of post-medieval times, and as such, is understandably neglected by Hamlet, who for Wyspiański, in anticipation of Harold Bloom, stands for modernity.
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Putra, Ricky Widyananda. "Manga matrix's approach to creating Indonesian ghost game visual characters on Dreadeye VR." International Journal of Visual and Performing Arts 4, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31763/viperarts.v4i1.655.
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Visual imagery is the most important part of game design. Game designers should pay particular attention so that the visual character of the game can be effectively realized and able to convey the depth of its visual meanings. Taking use of the widespread fear of the Indonesian Ghost's appearance, the game is able to present challenges to its players. This study aims to develop the creation of character designs, especially by elevating visual images of Indonesian ghosts into visual characters' in-game media. The method for designing Indonesian ghost characters is to dismantle the visual image of Indonesian ghost characters in the Dreadeye VR game. The strategy is to consider the following three components: (1) the matrix of shapes, (2) the costume matrix, and (3) the matrix of traits. All three were analyzed with the approach of manga matrix theory. This research has led to the emergence of relatively distinct ghost figures that are frequently feared by Indonesians, such as pocong, kuntilanak, and tuyul. By examining the matrices of the shape, costume, and nature of each character of the three Indonesian ghosts, it is possible to conclude that to create visual characters of Indonesian ghosts, game designers must identify these three components, while the contribution of this research is to provide a visual image analysis model including shape imagery, costume imagery, and traits imagery of Indonesian ghosts used in the Dreadeye VR Game in Indonesia.
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Bastian, Misty. "What do Ghosts (and Ghost Hunters) Want?" Anthropology News 57, no. 10 (October 2016): e10-e15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/an.177.
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Woodworth, Max D., and Jeremy L. Wallace. "Seeing ghosts: parsing China’s “ghost city” controversy." Urban Geography 38, no. 8 (February 14, 2017): 1270–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1288009.
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Cecconello, Elsa, Endrias G. Asgedom, Okwudili C. Orji, Morten W. Pedersen, and Walter Söllner. "Modeling scattering effects from time-varying sea surface based on acoustic reciprocity." GEOPHYSICS 83, no. 2 (March 1, 2018): T49—T68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0410.1.
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In marine seismic processing, the sea surface is often considered a flat mirror; hence, the effects of different weather conditions during the acquisition are largely ignored. However, studies have shown that rough sea-surface ghosts can severely damage the 4D signal, if not handled properly in data processing. To account for realistic sea-surface effects in processing, the impact of time-varying rough sea surfaces needs to be studied. We derive a method for modeling source and receiver ghosts from the time-varying rough sea surface and their interaction with subsurface reflections. This method is based on acoustic reciprocity and leads to integral equations of nonstationary wavefields. These modeling equations can also serve as a basis for investigating source and receiver deghosting methods for time-varying rough sea surfaces. Our developed modeling algorithm is validated against a frequency-domain approach for a “frozen” rough sea surface. For a moving simple sea surface, the Doppler shift produced by our method is in very good agreement with the analytical solution. Using a Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum, we derive a time-varying rough sea surface and model the receiver ghost, the source ghost, and the source-receiver ghost for the subsurface primary reflections of a heterogeneous geologic model. The results highlight that the source and receiver ghost interactions with a time-varying sea surface differently affect the subsurface reflections, and these effects can significantly impact the seismic repeatability of 4D studies.
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GREEN, MICHAEL B., and CHRISTOPHER M. HULL. "THE QUANTUM MECHANICS OF AN N=1 SUPERPARTICLE IN AN EXTENDED SUPERSPACE." Modern Physics Letters A 05, no. 18 (July 30, 1990): 1399–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217732390001591.
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A new ten-dimensional superparticle action with local symmetries implemented via gauge fields is formulated in a superspace with an extra anticommuting space-time spinor coordinate. Light-cone quantization gives the spectrum of N=1 super-Yang-Mills. Covariant gauge choices in which the gauge fields are set to constants lead to free BRST-invariant quantum actions. Possible ghost systems include one with only a finite number of ghosts and several with an infinite number. In each case, the BRST cohomology class of zero ghost number gives the spectrum of N=1 super-Yang-Mills.
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D’yakov, Aleksandr V. "Ghosts of Derrida: Between the Discourse of Memory and the History of Philosophy." Vestnik of Northern (Arctic) Federal University. Series Humanitarian and Social Sciences 22, no. 5 (November 20, 2022): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37482/2687-1505-v208.
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The paper turns to a well-known philosophical experiment of J. Derrida, who introduced hauntology, an imaginary science of ghosts orientated towards the texts of K. Marx. Based on Derrida’s productive idea , the author of this article suggests considering the figure of the ghost as being essential for the practice of memory and as constituting self-attitude of collective consciousness. The paper demonstrates the practical aspects of Derrida’s thesis about the need to address the ghost, which is a figure necessary for the formation of collective memory. The ghost is viewed as an actor constituting the space and the internal structure of collective memory, at the same time being an initiator of and a catalyst for the development of relations introjected by collective consciousness. Oftentimes, the most significant are those ghosts that have no real referent in the historical past and constitute collective memories by themselves. Thus, the ghosts inhabiting the collective memory of humankind are always constructs of human consciousness, entities from the register of the imaginary. The author demonstrates how the mechanisms of fixing ghosts as points of crystallization of collective memory can be described in terms of political economy as paradoxical objects irreducible to universal equivalence, but supporting it. Taking Derrida’s discourse about ghosts as a starting point, the author shows in what directions the sociological, political, aesthetic and philosophical aspects of this topic can be further developed. Moreover, according to the author, philosophy should retain in this process the function of integral discourse, which allows us to stay away from pure essayism and always remember our own goals and objectives.
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Nengsih, Sri Wahyu. "FORMULA DAN STRUKTUR MANTRA BANJAR: SUMPAH SERAPAH MAMBURU HANTU KUYANG." UNDAS: Jurnal Hasil Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra 16, no. 1 (June 28, 2020): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/und.v16i1.2215.
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This study aims to describe the structure and formula of mantra 'The Oath To Hunt Kuyang Ghosts'. Mantra is an old literary poetry that contains a unique arrangement of words and certain magical power to achieve a goal. This study analyzes the Banjar mantra to exorcize Kuyang ghosts (SSMHK). Mantra SSMHK is usually used by midwives or traditional birth attendants in Banjar a long time ago so that they wouldn't be disturbed by Kuyang ghosts when they are helping people to give birth. Kuyang is believed as a bloodsucking female ghost who uses Kuyang oil to find her prey. Kuyang oil is used as a means to make a woman's face look beautiful. This study uses a structural approach that emphasizes on textual analysis. The results of the analysis provide a brief description of the oral aspects in the form of mantra structures, repetition formulas, parallelism formulas, syntactic formulas, and formulaic expressions on Banjar mantra 'The Oath To Hunt Kuyang Ghost'.
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Dinu, Cristina. "The Narrative Motif of the Ghost in Classical Chinese Literature." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture 9, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/llc.v9no1a1.
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The first part of this paper presents a brief history of the ghost narrative motif in classical Chinese literature, arguing that this motif first appears in Chinese culture during the Shang Dynasty (16 c. - 1066 BC), and it is a recurring concept defined in the Book of Liezi and it is also present in the Daoist principle yin - yang. Despite the Confucian tradition of rejecting the belief in ghosts and any other metaphysical elements, ever since the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907) the literary motif of the ghost appears in the so-called fantastic stories chuanqi which will later influence the strange stories zhiguai written by Pu Songling (1640 - 1715), and will serve as inspiration for Guan Hanqing (1225 - 1302) when he writes the famous zaju play Snow in Midsummer. This paper is an aesthetic, hermeneutic and anthropological analysis of the concept of the wandering ghost or spirit in classical Chinese literature, starting from the evolution of the character gui 鬼 which means ghost in Chinese. I will observe the narrative role of the ghost in classical Chinese literature, using as representative examples literary works such as the chuanqi play The Peony Pavillion written by Tang Xianzu (1550 –1616), the strange story zhiguai, “Gongsun Jiuniang” by Pu Songling, and the zaju play, Snow in Midsummer, written by Guan Hanqing.
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Lipinskaya, A. A. "Ghost hunt: Elliot O’Donnell’s non-fiction." Philology and Culture, no. 3 (October 4, 2023): 131–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-73-3-131-137.
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The article deals with the author’s strategies, used by E. O’Donnell in his Twenty Years’ Experience as a Ghost Hunter, and compares this peculiar text with ghost stories – a genre of fiction very popular those days. O’Donnell’s book is a part of a long tradition of occult ‘non-fiction’, but it is positioned as the author’s memoirs, a true story of his own life (his other books are basically collections of ‘real’ ghostly appearances in various regions of England), and begins with his (or his alter ego’s) youth and his first traumatic encounter with a ghost that influenced his career choice, but then this traditional life story turns into a set of cases, not necessarily witnessed by the narrator himself. Some stories are structured exactly like fictional ghost stories but their perception is preconditioned by the ‘rules of reading’ established by the author (the book is supposed to be his memoirs) and by the character of information – what the narrator knows about ghosts from various sources. Thus, the text is very uneven – its aesthetic characteristics are regarded as secondary in comparison with the ‘facts’ retold.
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Permatasari, Shita Dewi Ratih, and Ni Made Widisanti. "Hantu Perempuan sebagai “Produk Gagal” dalam dua Film Horor Indonesia: Pengabdi Setan (2017) dan Asih (2018)." Media Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Wahana 25, no. 1 (July 22, 2019): 86–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.33751/wahana.v25i1.1220.
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AbstractAs a product of popular culture, films are mostly utilized as propaganda to convey certain ideologies. Therefore, the cultural phenomena and reality portrayed in films cannot be separated from the dominant ideology. “Pengabdi Setan” 2017 (Satan’s Slave) and “Asih” 2018 are two Indonesian horror films serving as media to represent the cultural phenomena through female ghost characters. In many Indonesian horror movies, women are mostly represented as ghosts associated with negative social attributes. The purpose of this research is to dismantle the hidden ideologies behind the representation of female ghosts in these two films. The qualitative method and cultural studies perspective are utilized to reveal and unearth the dominant ideology inserted in a film as a cultural text. The research findings posit that the characters of female ghosts are represented as a ‘failed product” excluded from the constructions of “ideal” female in patriarchal sense. The image of mother as a ghost in Pengabdi Setan implies that to become ‘ideal”, women must be able to give birth and raise children, while in Asih a woman is claimed to keep their virginity until she officially gets married. In this context, marriage and procreative sexuality are acknowledged by the state. Both female characters in these films have failed to meet these qualifications. Through these two Indonesian horror films, patriarchy as a dominant view in Indonesia is again conformed and exercised in the society to define the female ‘ideal’ construction.Keywords: horror films, representation, female ghost, patriarchy.
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Delijani, Clare Finburgh. "The Afterlives of Enslavement: Histories of Racial Injustice in Contemporary Black British Theatre." Modern Drama 65, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 471–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md-65-4-1239.
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Over the past five years, a number of Black British women authors have written what might be called postcolonial ghost plays. This article focuses, to varying degrees, on four: ear for eye (2018), debbie tucker green’s dissection of enslavement and its afterlives; Rockets and Blue Lights (2020), Winsome Pinnock’s historical film-within-a-play about the Middle Passage; The Gift (2020), Janice Okoh’s semi-biography of an African girl who became Queen Victoria’s ward; and Selina Thompson’s salt. (2018), an autobiographical performance piece tracing her ancestors’ enslavement. Ghosts and haunting, which I examine from multiple perspectives, appear across this range of theatrical genres. With their multiple, doubled, spectral, interpenetrating stories, tucker green, Pinnock, Okoh, and Thompson’s postcolonial ghost plays reactivate the past of enslavement that has not passed, that is still active in the form of racial and social injustices today. Ghosts, prevalent across the plays, represent the dead who, plumbing the depths of the Middle Passage, are denied a resting place. The ghost, the figure of the living dead par excellence, reflects the dehumanization of trafficked Africans, from whom their enslavers sought to subtract all subjectivity. Ghosts, too, reveal the work of mourning performed by the living for those who were never properly buried. This mourning exposes and disrupts enduring structures of injustice, and searches for reparation. Ghosts, or revenants, returning and refusing to rest, represent the resilient resistance to injustice. Finally, ghosts, neither fully past nor present, absent or present, symbolize indeterminacy and instability, illustrated in the plays by subjects determined to take control of their own identities and destinies. Together, these plays demonstrate how we must look back to the roots of historical racism in order to look forward to its eradication.
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Kelleher, R. S., E. F. Murray, and S. W. Peterson. "Insulin causes insulin-receptor internalization in human erythrocyte ghosts." Biochemical Journal 241, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 93–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bj2410093.
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The effect of incubation with insulin on insulin-receptor internalization by erythrocyte ghosts was investigated. The number of surface insulin receptors decreased by 30-40% after incubation of ghosts with insulin. Total insulin-receptor binding to solubilized ghosts was the same in insulin-incubated and control ghosts, whereas insulin binding to an internal vesicular fraction was substantially increased in insulin-incubated ghosts. Our findings suggest that erythrocyte-ghost insulin receptors are internalized to a vesicular compartment in response to incubation with insulin.
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Albin-Clark, Jo. "Becoming Haunted by a Data-Ghost in Early Childhood Education Documentation Practices." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (December 17, 2022): 35–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29648.
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In telling a ghost story, the author notices what (her) ghosts are doing in a study of early childhood education documentation practices; she uses hauntology, affect and sticky data to help her imagine the documentation as ghostly matters.
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ABE, MITSUO, and NOBORU NAKANISHI. "UNITARY THEORY OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM GRAVITY AND ITS EXACT COVARIANT OPERATOR SOLUTION." International Journal of Modern Physics A 06, no. 22 (September 20, 1991): 3955–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x91001921.
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The manifestly covariant canonical operator formalism of two-dimensional quantum gravity is formulated on the basis of Sato’s gauge-fixing of the Weyl invariance. The unitarity problem, due to ghost-counting mismatch, is resolved by making the gravitational FP ghosts also play the role of the Weyl FP ghosts. All two-dimensional (anti)commutators between fundamental fields are explicitly obtained.
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POSPELOV, MAXIM. "GHOSTS AND TACHYONS IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION." International Journal of Modern Physics A 23, no. 06 (March 10, 2008): 881–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x08039384.
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We present several solutions for the five-dimensional gravity models in the presence of bulk ghosts and tachyons to argue that these "troublesome" fields can be a useful model-building tool. The ghost-like signature of the kinetic term for a bulk scalar creates a minimum in the scale factor, removing the necessity for a negative tension brane in models with the compactified fifth dimension. It is shown that the model with the positive tension branes and a ghost field in the bulk leads to the radion stabilization. The bulk scalar with the variable sign kinetic term can be used to model both positive and negative tension branes of a finite width in the compact dimension. Finally, we present several ghost and tachyon field configurations in the bulk that lead to the localization of gravity in four dimensions, including one solution with the Gaussian profile for the metric, gμν(y) = ημν exp {-αy2}, which leads to a stronger localization of gravity than the Randall–Sundrum model.
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Muqaibel, Ali Hussein, Abdi Talib Abdalla, Mohammad Tamim Alkhodary, and Suhail Al-Dharrab. "Aspect-dependent efficient multipath ghost suppression in TWRI with sparse reconstruction." International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies 9, no. 9 (June 19, 2017): 1839–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1759078717000666.
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In through-the-wall radar imaging, multipath propagation can create ghost targets, which can adversely affect the image reconstruction process. However, unlike genuine targets, ghost positions are aspect-dependent, which means their position changes with the transceiver location. This paper proposes efficient ghost suppression methods exploiting aspect dependence feature under compressive sensing framework. This paper proposes a generalized signal model that accommodates for the reflections of the front-wall and target-to-target interactions, making the scheme more practical, yet the knowledge of the location of reflecting geometry is not a requirement as in most of the recent literatures. In addition, the sensing matrix is greatly reduced making the methods more attractive. Moreover, this paper investigates the influence of array configurations by examining two antenna array configurations: multimonostatic, and single-view bistatic configurations. Results based on synthesized data and real experiment show that the proposed method can greatly suppress multipath ghosts and hence increase signal-to-clutter ratio.
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POLYAKOV, DIMITRI. "CONFORMAL MODULI AND b-c PICTURES FOR NSR STRINGS." International Journal of Modern Physics A 20, no. 17 (July 10, 2005): 4001–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x05024274.
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We explore the geometry of superconformal moduli of the NSR superstring theory in order to construct the consistent sigma-model for NSR strings, free of picture-changing complications. The sigma-model generating functional is constructed by the integration over the bosonic and fermionic moduli, corresponding to insertions of the vertex operators in scattering amplitudes. While the integration over the supermoduli leads to the standard picture-changing insertions, the integration over the bosonic moduli results in the appearance of picture-changing operators for the b-c fermionic ghosts with the ghost number -1. Important example of the b-c ghost pictures involves the vertex operators in integrated and unintegrated forms. We obtain the BRST-invariant expressions for the b-c picture-changing operators for open and closed strings and study some of their properties. We also show that the superconformal moduli spaces of the NSR theory contain the global singularities, leading to the phenomenon of ghost-matter mixing and the appearance of nonperturbative D-brane creation operators.
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Nunes-Correia, Isabel, João Ramalho-Santos, and Maria C. Pedroso de Lima. "Sendai Virus Fusion Activity as Modulated by Target Membrane Components." Bioscience Reports 18, no. 2 (April 1, 1998): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1020180109275.
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We have studied the differences between erythrocytes and erythrocyte ghosts as target membranes for the study of Sendai virus fusion activity. Fusion was monitored continuously by fluorescence dequenching of R18-labeled virus. Experiments were carried out either with or without virus/target membrane prebinding. When Sendai virus was added directly to a erythrocyte/erythrocyte ghost suspension, fusion was always lower than that obtained when experiments were carried out with virus already bound to the erythrocyte/erythrocyte ghost in the cold, since with virus prebinding fusion can be triggered more rapidly. Although virus binding to both erythrocytes and erythrocyte ghosts was similar, fusion activity was much more pronounced when erythrocyte ghosts were used as target membranes. These observations indicate that intact erythrocytes and erythrocyte ghosts are not equivalent as target membranes for the study of Sendai virus fusion activity. Fusion of Sendai virus with both target membranes was inhibited when erythrocytes or erythrocyte ghosts were pretreated with proteinase K, suggesting a role of target membrane proteins in this process. Treatment of both target membranes with neuraminidase, which removes sialic acid residues (the biological receptors for Sendai virus) greatly reduced viral binding. Interestingly, this treatment had no significant effect on the fusion reaction itself.
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Caiati, Carlo, Giovanni Luzzi, Paolo Pollice, Stefano Favale, and Mario Erminio Lepera. "A Novel Clinical Perspective on New Masses after Lead Extraction (Ghosts) by Means of Intracardiac Echocardiography." Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 8 (August 8, 2020): 2571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm9082571.
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Background: A lead-reactive fibrous capsule (FC) identified by ultrasounds as an atrial or ventricular lead thickness of more than 1 mm above the vendor-declared lead diameter (TL) and its local fibrotic attachment to the cardiac wall (FAC) have never been investigated in vivo, so their relationship with post-extraction masses (ghost) is not known. Methods: Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) was performed twice during the same extraction procedure in 40 consecutive patients: before and immediately after infected lead extraction Results: The ghost detection rate was high: 60% (24/40 patients); ICE could identify both TL and FAC, TL being noted in 25/40 (62%) patients and FAC in 12/40 patients (30%). Both TL and FAC were significantly associated with ghosts (p < 0.001 and p = 0.002, respectively), but TL had a higher prediction power. The specificity was similar: 94% (15/16) and 100% (16/16), respectively, but TL showed a much higher sensitivity: 100%, (24/24) vs 50% (12/24) (p = 0.016). The ghost group did not show a higher event rate in the follow-up (mean follow-up time = 20 ± 17 months). Conclusion: ICE is able to evaluate both TL and FAC in vivo; ghosts are mostly benign remnants of fibrotic lead capsule cut off during extraction and retained inside the heart by FAC.