the headless bride

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

This paper provides an economic analysis of the practice of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan based on a Beckerian model of family fertility and consumption. Bride kidnapping is considered to be a way of marrying a wife at lower cost. In our settings, bride kidnapping is rational behavior for an elder generation that values offspring more than does the younger generation. In existence of bride kid...

Headless Chickens IV

The Headless Chickens IV (HCIV) were developed using a prototype end-user agent development environment called EASE (End-user Actor Speci cation Environment). The experience provided a great deal of data about general and domain speci c properties of the system. A secondary research goal was to generalize the strategy editor used to specify the team strategies of last years team to specify team...

Headless Chickens III

Packaged Glamour: Constructing the Modern Bride in China’s Bridal Media

This essay examines the images of the bride constructed by China’s burgeoning bridal media that sell lavish wedding products and services. Through the lens of semiotics, the author focuses on analyzing bridal magazines widely circulated in China’s consumer culture. The analysis shows that China’s evolving wedding industry adapts the trite, oppressive trope of “romantic” Western wedding rituals ...

Of Headless User Accounts and Restricted Shells

UNIX system accounts not bound to a particular user, so-called “headless user accounts,” are frequently used to allow for automation of certain tasks . For security reasons, such headless accounts usually have a very restricted shell, allowing only a few select commands . At the same time, system administrators and service engineers frequently have a need to let such accounts execute additional...