In conversation with Janet Thornton

Elliott Thornton Glenny

Pygmalion in Conversation with Pierre Bourdieu:A Sociological Perspective

George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that Linguistic Competence is one of the markers of social status. It presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. This work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as Freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...

The Gray-Thornton Model of Granular Segregation

In this paper, we explore properties of the Gray-Thornton model for particle size segregation in granular avalanches. The model equation is a single conservation law expressing conservation of mass under shear for the concentration of the smaller of two types of particle in a bidisperse mixture. Sharp interfaces across which the concentration jumps are shock wave solutions of the partial differ...

Janet-Like Monomial Division

In this paper we introduce a new type of monomial division called Janet-like, since its properties are similar to those of Janet division. We show that the former division improves the latter one. This means that a Janet divisor is always a Janet-like divisor but the converse is generally not true. Though Janet-like division is not involutive, it preserves all algorithmic merits of Janet divisi...

Convenient use of legacy software in Java with Janet package

This paper describes Janet package — highly expressive Java language extension that enables convenient creation of powerful native methods and efficient Java-to-native code interfaces. Java native interface (JNI) is a low-level API that is rather inconvenient if used directly. Therefore Janet, as the higher-level tool, combines flexibility of JNI with Java’s ease-of-use. Performance results of ...